The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), the foremost
independent citizen election observers group in Nigeria with over 400 members
has observed with utter consternation, a slew of verdicts on state governorship
elections recently handed down by the Supreme Court.
The Chairman of
TMG, Com. Ibrahim Zikirullahi in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said that they
were worried by the verdict as it had given blank cheque to election riggers in
the country.
According to him,
“The disturbing trend in these judicial pronouncements is in the fact that the
apex court has elected to give judgments, and not justice. In the face of
unrepentant attempts to subvert the will of the people in a good number of the
cases, the court has curiously turned a blind eye.’’