By Henry Oduah
Investment banker and economist Atedo Peterside has said that judicial rascality can be stopped, not just by relying on appeal courts to overturn “obnoxious judgements” but through disciplinary action.
Mr Peterside said on Saturday in an X post that reliance on appellate courts alone to do right would encourage judges to plunge into delivering “procurable obnoxious judgements”.
The banker’s statement was in reaction to Senator Sola Akinyede’s X post on the ruling by the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja which set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) as a political party.
The NDC has picked former Anambra State governor Peter Obi and ex-governor of Kano State Rabiu Kwankwaso as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively to challenge President Bola Tinubu at the 2027 polls.
