Political parties should comply with their own rules and regulations, argues CHUKS OKOCHA
Nigeria is a country of laws. And Samuel Adams, one of the founding fathers of America noted that the rule of laws means “There shall be one rule of justice for rich and poor, for the favourite in court, and the countryman at the plough.” The Nigerian Supreme Court recently ruled on some political issues which raised some furore. But as a country of laws every court judgment is expected to be obeyed, not selectively, but whole and entire. irrespective of status as stated in the 1999 Constitution (as amended.)
It is an understatement that two recent Supreme Court rulings on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) over their national leadership have been subjected to various interpretations in media spaces and elsewhere, of what it means for a matter to be under the “Internal affairs of the Party”.