PLEA TO MR PRESIDENT

Your Excellency sir,

It is now very expedient for you to include judicial reform as one of the major targets of your administration. In as much as the judiciary is another arm of government, her performance during the span of your regime will count as your achievement. We need to feel reforms in that sector just as we all are feeling your impact on terrorism and corruption.

Judicial incoherence is very destrous and can wreck a nation the same way terrorism and corruption would. It is capable of frustrating your efforts in the fight against corruption. It can also make us a laughing stock before international community thereby rendering your foreign trips to redeem our national image useless and wasteful.

We have seen unwarranted lapses in the judicial process in the recent past. These lapses have most recently produced two people holding certificates of return to the same position in the same state. It has planted confusion in a political party by holding and annulling the merit of her leadership interchangeably. This has seen to the emergence of two gubernatorial flag bearers from the same party in the same state. All these may be political or associated to a particular party but they are proves to the possibility of impossibility. No sector is safe, nobody is safe. They are threats to justice and national stability.

I am very confident in the competency of experts in our judicial sector. The outputs of the sector most times show that the problem is not with the people but with the system which they inherited. This is why we have reoccurring indexes of contrasting injunctions by superior courts over lower courts. This makes it seem as though judges with impeccable judgments are lacking in lower courts. If this is so, it is a denial of justice especially from low and middle class who may not afford justice at higher courts.

Your Excellency sir. I am not an expert in this field but I am very concerned about the persistence of gross judicial inconsistency in our country especially in the recent past. Please sir, assemble your team and relevant stakeholders to look into this issue so as to avert misgivings, loss of confidence in our systems and confusion in our polity. Adopting it as a major standpoint of your regime will make every Nigerian especially the youths to feel safer and more confident in pursuing justice through due process.

Judicial incoherency is a critical issue that should be addressed in order for your administration to achieve a laudable result in fighting corruption, maintaining the redemption of our image abroad, stabilizing the country economically and politically.

May God continue to grant you the wisdom to stir the ship to the right course. God bless Mr President. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

ChaXmaX Dozie
Concerned citizen