Respected lawyer and head of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), has disagreed with some of the recent rulings of the Supreme Court, especially concerning elections in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.
Sagay, while speaking with journalists on Saturday at the palace of the Olu of Warri in Delta State, said that the apex court rulings on the elections could cause a regression in the electoral process.
He said the court disregarded vital evidence before it in arriving at its decision, especially in the Rivers case, The Nation reports.
He explained: “The judgements are very perverse, particularly relating to Akwa Ibom and Rivers. Everybody knows that there were no elections in those two states.
“Everybody knows that people like (Rivers State Governor, Nyesom) Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over bloods of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there.
“What the Supreme Court has done is to set the clock of electoral excellence and fairness and credibility back by, I do not want to say a thousand years, but certainly it is taking us back to where we were before Jega came in and sanitize the system.
“We are going to have primitive and barbaric electoral culture; ‘kill as much as you can, destroy as much as you can, create as much catastrophe, but if you can find yourself on that seat, you are confirmed, regardless of the means by which you got there’.
“That is a very major setback to democracy and the rule of law.”
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