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Duke of Abuja
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OUR LAWS AND DEMOCRACY MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL TIMES The Nigerian Bar Association has closely monitored recent political and legal developments as the nation gradually approaches the 2027 General Elections. These developments, particularly those arising from the interpretation and potential application of provisions of the Electoral Act 2026, raise serious constitutional, democratic, and rule-of-law concerns that require immediate intervention. We particularly deprecate the disturbing involvement by lawyers and courts in the internal affairs of political parties despite the clear provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026, which stipulates in Section 83 of the Act that “No court in Nigeria shall entertain jurisdiction over any suit or matter pertaining to the internal affairs of a political party.” Not only are courts denied jurisdiction to entertain any matter pertaining to the internal affairs of a political party, but they are also precluded from granting any interim or interlocutory injunction even where any action has been brought in violation of the Act. The section further provides that “Where such an action is brought in negation of this provision, no interim or interlocutory injunction shall be entertained by the Court, but the Court shall suspend its ruling and deliver it at the stage of final judgment and shall give accelerated hearing to the matter”. What we now see are situations where actions are not only instituted in Courts by lawyers in clear violation of the Act, but Courts purportedly grant interim and/or interlocutory injunctions in clear contempt of statutory provisions of the law. This does not augur well for our democracy. Democracy will not thrive in a situation where lawyers and courts take actions and decisions that not only negate our laws but also do violence to them. This emerging trend of subverting the clear letters of the Electoral Act and dragging courts into the internal affairs of political parties through disingenuous litigation, forum shopping, and malafide applications designed to secure undemocratic political advantage, bodes no good for our democracy. Such practices, if not immediately curbed, would directly contradict the clear intendment of the Electoral Act and risk transforming the judicial processes into avenues for political score-settling or electoral manipulation. We must reiterate that these provisions were clearly designed to curb abuse of court processes and discourage forum shopping in political disputes. This is therefore why the NBA is concerned that the abuse, misapplication, or selective deployment of these provisions may create opportunities for manipulation capable of undermining democratic competition and shrinking the political space. Members of the Bar are reminded that they are Ministers in the Temple of Justice and not political agents seeking judicial endorsement of partisan objectives. The filing of actions intended to draw courts into internal political party disputes, particularly where jurisdiction is expressly excluded, constitutes an abuse of court process and a violation of professional responsibility. The NBA will take firm steps to deter such conduct. Lawyers who deliberately file actions aimed at procuring judicial interference in intra-party affairs, or who seek ex parte or interlocutory orders in clear violation of statutory provisions, risk facing disciplinary proceedings. We will not hesitate to present petitions before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) against any Legal Practitioner found to be engaging in such conduct. This will be pursued decisively to serve as a deterrent and to preserve the sanctity of the judicial process. The Nigerian judiciary must stay vigilant and resist being drawn into political theatrics. Courts should firmly decline invitations, no matter how artfully crafted, to intervene in matters the law explicitly bars them from.










BREAKING: The missing American weapons systems officer is alive and out of Iran. Fox News, citing two senior US officials, reports that US special operations forces extracted the downed F-15E crew member after a massive firefight with IRGC and Basij forces in the mountains of southwestern Iran. The Pentagon has not officially confirmed. If the reports hold, the United States just pulled off the first successful combat rescue from inside Iranian territory in American military history. Desert One failed in 1980. Dehdasht did not. The WSO ejected over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province on Friday when Iranian air defences shot down his F-15E Strike Eagle, the first manned American aircraft lost to enemy fire since 2003. He spent approximately 24 hours evading capture on the ground while Iranian state television broadcast a bounty for his capture alive, Basij militia flooded the mountains, and armed civilians fired automatic rifles at American rescue helicopters overhead. NBC News verified the footage. The IRGC warned residents to stay away. Tasnim, the semi-official news agency, said Iran would “not announce whether the pilot is in our custody.” Then the operators came. Reports describe a JSOC-led night extraction supported by A-10 Warthog gun runs on IRGC convoys and a telecommunications tower in Dehdasht to suppress the Iranian response. Iranian local officials reported at least four killed and several wounded. Unverified social media reports described “large numbers” of IRGC and Basij casualties transferred from Black Mountain to Dehdasht Hospital. Crowds gathered outside. The US struck Basij convoys advancing on the WSO’s position with close air support while ground teams moved in for the extraction. Fox News reported that the WSO “and the members of the rescue team are all safely out of Iran.” This happened 48 hours after the President told the nation that Iran’s radar was “100 percent annihilated” and that there was “not a thing” Iran could do. Iran shot down the jet. Iran mobilised thousands to hunt the crew. Iran offered a bounty on state television. And America sent its most classified soldiers into the Iranian mountains, fought the IRGC on the ground, and brought their man home. The gap between the political narrative and the operational reality has never been wider or more consequential. The rescue, if confirmed, changes the war’s trajectory in ways that transcend the survival of one airman. It demonstrates that American special operations forces can insert into, fight inside, and extract from Iran. It proves that the IRGC’s ground control in its own provinces is penetrable. It removes the immediate hostage leverage that would have paralysed American decision-making heading into the April 6 deadline. And it shifts the psychological balance: the country that was hunting the pilot is now absorbing the fact that the hunters were outfought by a force that came and left before dawn. But it also confirms what the shootdown already proved. Iran is not finished. A country with “no anti-aircraft equipment” brought down a $100 million fighter. A country whose radar was “annihilated” forced the most expensive rescue operation of the war. A country that was supposed to be “decimated” mobilised fast enough to require A-10 gun runs and a ground battle to recover one man. The WSO is alive because the operators were extraordinary. The operators were needed because the war is not what the President says it is. The man is out. The war is not over. And the 48-hour clock is still running. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…


















At this point I am convinced that the North will vote anything against Tinubu, even if it is Mallam Imran Wakili.





The United Arab Emirates, supported by Bahrain and Kuwait, is pushing hard for U.S. President Donald J. Trump to order a ground invasion of Iran, as officials from many Gulf allies of the United States, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE, have conveyed in private conversations that they do not want the ongoing military operation to end until there are significant changes in the Iranian leadership or there’s a dramatic shift in Iran’s behavior, diplomatic officials tell the Associated Press.






