Court ruling on the Rivers State Governorship Tribunal

Akwa Ibom State GovernmentEnoidem sheds light on the Supreme Court ruling on the Rivers State  Governorship TribunalEven for the man in the street including the keke riders, it is obvious that the issues between the two states (Akwa Ibom and Rivers State) and in deed most, if not all the states involved in theelection petitions turned out the be the same or almost the same.They are either the validity of the
electronic voting, the constitutionality or otherwise of the smart card reader, the in-applicability or otherwise of manual accreditation which in themselves threw up the issues of overvoting, conclusiveness or otherwise of the data base returns and of course the issue of disenfranchisement and the burden of proof thereof.....when I was in the law school, I learnt that predictability and universal application were two essential attributes of the law. So I can therefore I assure you that the Supreme Court of Nigeria, as an apex court, will never shy away from the solemn and sacred responsibility of invoking the age long doctrine of judicial precedent (stare decisis), to settle the confusion which the two lower courts inexplicably precipitated throughout the election petitions in recent times.So let's stay on the  side of the law for the sake of all.I congratulate the learned
Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria for living above board and for preserving the sanctity of the bench which serves as the bulwark against political tyranny.Barrister Emmanuel Enoidem - Akwa Ibom State
Commissioner for Investment, Commerce and Industry