Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria, voiced his worry on Friday that the country’s court has been “deeply compromised.”
According to Obasanjo, Nigerian courts have become “courts of corruption rather than courts of justice” as a result of judge corruption.
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The ex-President noted this in his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’, published by the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.
The former Nigerian leader lamented what he described as the “steady decline of the judiciary’s integrity”.
“The reputation of the Nigerian judiciary has steadily gone down from the four eras up till today. The rapidity of the precipitous fall, particularly in the Fourth Republic, is lamentable,” he wrote.
According to the former military head of state, Nigerian justice has turned into a commodity, which could have detrimental effects on the stability of the country.
“The great fear of most well-meaning Nigerians and good friends of Nigeria is that where ‘justice’ is only available to the highest bidder, despair, anarchy, and violence would substitute justice, order, and hope.
“I went to a state in the North about ten years after I left public office. Next to the government guest house was a line of six duplex buildings.
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“The governor pointed to the buildings and stated that they belonged to a judge who put them up from the money he made from being the chairman of election tribunals,” Obasanjo said.
Obasanjo further accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, of undermining the electoral process since 2015.
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