Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagemi (SAN) has said that judges are not immuned from indiscretion.
Fagbemi stated this in his home-town, Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area, Kwara State on the sidelines of a prayer organised in his honour.
He made the remark against the backdrop of backlash heaped on the judiciary arising from court and tribunal decisions on election matters.
Weighing in on the matter, the minister said, “You lost at the tribunal, you lost at the Appeal Court and at the Supreme Court yet you are insinuating foul play. I think even apart from law, morality also demands that you take the outcome as it is.
“I am not saying that judges cannot be wrong, because they are human beings. Where anybody sees or feels that the course of justice has been perverted, they should feel free to bring it forth rather than making unfounded insinuations.
“Unless you are able to bring forth concrete evidence, I will not succumb to blackmail. Nobody will shield an erring judge.
“One thing about justice is that the man who wins will praise the judgment, the person who loses will never agree that he has lost fairly unless you give him the judgment.
“Don’t forget, when you make unfounded insinuations, you are dragging the name of the nation in the mud.”
