Nigeria, Aug. 28 -- Recently, a former head-of state and president at two different times in our contemporary political history made public statements in the media about why the courts should not be the decider in electoral matters, especially in elections. He labelled verdicts that come from courts on such matters as "Cathedral judgements." And also, so many people make such claims lately, as if this trend is entirely new and strange to our polity. In our country today, where the majority of people suffer from "collective amnesia", it is imperative to examine whether the courts of law have overreached themselves as arbiters in election matters, by probing whether the trend is a new phenomenon in our electoral-judicial issues.
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