Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Director-General of the Labour Party’s Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has said that contradictory court rulings and the internal political wranglings in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are fueling democratic decline in Nigeria.
Speaking in an interview on Arise Television monitored on Friday, Osuntokun warned that such issues are a threat that deepen the country’s drift toward a one-party dictatorship.
His comment is coming as the PDP pushes ahead with its disputed national convention in Ibadan despite restraining court orders, factional fights and spiraling legal battles.
According to Osuntokun, the biggest danger to the political system was not only the PDP’s internal fractures but a judiciary issuing conflicting orders without regard for their impact on democratic stability.
“Apart from the legal validity of what they are doing, I think an individual at the level of a court judge holds the responsibility of contributing to the stability and development of society. You have to take into consideration the implication of the judgement you are giving.”
“You see people giving contradictory judgments, and you ask yourself: how would they? Those judges are now robots. You can’t say you are insensitive, you don’t know what is going on. Quite a number of them will be found errant in the judgements they are giving,” he said.
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