State of emergency and matters arising!, By Gbemiga Ogunleye

By now, it ought to be visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that if the courts haven’t made a pronouncement on an issue, any legal practitioner, no matter how well decorated, ought to be circumspect in declaring such an issue as illegal or unconstitutional.

Section 6(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) states that  “the judicial powers of the Federation shall be vested in the courts to which this section relates, being courts…