Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, said Nigerian judiciary is now for the highest bidder.
Obi remarked this at the fifth memorial of late Justice Anthony Aniagolu in Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, where he asserted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, poses no problem to Nigerian democracy, saying, “Whenever democracy is discussed, fingers point to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the problem.
“But INEC is not the problem. Instead, the judiciary is. The judiciary is the biggest threat to Nigeria. If our judiciary is effective, our businesses will thrive.”
He said further, “Nigeria has become a country where anything goes. There is no rule of law and almost no judiciary. Everybody could be pushed down because there is no rule of law.
“Because the judiciary has become commercialised and depends on how much one pays, it has become difficult to get true justice in the judiciary. At any point in time where the judiciary is not working, the society suffers.”
