{"id":163231,"date":"2025-05-20T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/you-are-ruling-according-to-wishes-of-executive-el-rufai-tells-judges"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:47:00","slug":"you-are-ruling-according-to-wishes-of-executive-el-rufai-tells-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/you-are-ruling-according-to-wishes-of-executive-el-rufai-tells-judges","title":{"rendered":"You are ruling according to wishes of executive \u2013 El-Rufai tells judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused a significant portion of Nigeria\u2019s judiciary of corruption, claiming that many judges and lawyers have compromised their roles in the delivery of justice.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday, 19 May 2025, during the Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari Branch, in Abuja, El-Rufai said the Nigerian public no longer trusts the judiciary due to frequent delays in justice and decisions perceived to be influenced by bias or external interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn parallel, our judiciary\u2014meant to be the bedrock of fairness and order\u2014is under intense scrutiny. Concerns about delayed justice, procedural inefficiencies, and in some cases, judicial compromise (to put the matter delicately), erode public confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The former governor lamented the increasing use of ex parte orders in political matters, accusing some legal practitioners of manipulating the court system for political advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rise in \u2018forum shopping,\u2019 the weaponisation of ex parte orders in political matters, and the growing perception that justice is for sale and available only to the rich and the powerful would cause the perceptive observer to conclude that what Nigerian courts do is the administration of law and not the administration of justice,\u201d El-Rufai added.<\/p>\n

He also argued that there is a stark disconnect between legal processes and actual justice in the country, stressing that the judiciary has become subservient to the executive arm of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Nigeria, there is a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between law and justice. Not only is justice wanting, but the law that is administered seems to be according to the wishes of the Executive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

El-Rufai called on legal practitioners to reflect critically on their roles and recommit themselves to upholding impartial justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demand on you, as practitioners in the Temple of Justice, is a sober introspection as you contemplate whether indeed Justitia is blind and whether she holds the scales of justice in fine balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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