A public affairs commentator, Dr Omotosho Oluyemi of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, has cautioned Nigerian politicians against taking numerous cases to court.
Omotosho assumed that such action was subjecting the judicial system in Nigeria to ridicule.
He made this known during an interview on a radio programme in Osogbo on Tuesday
While commenting on the February 25 general elections, he said, “those who won this last election are not magnanimous enough.
“Their body language, their utterances is heating up the polity and some elders in the federation are assisting them to do so.”
He explained that because people were pressurizing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, he said they should go to court.
He said: “The temperament of saying that was not genuine enough. It was because people were worrying him and pressurising him that he said, ‘please just go to court’.
“This is why the narrative in politics now is that we must go to court.
“Must the court be our final habitant in our election? After all, the decider of our election should be the electorate.
“It was because of the hyperbolic way they are talking about the courts that was why we have the narrative.
“And some people started saying they don’t have confidence in the court.
“They are almost ridiculing the judiciary. That is why somebody will say if you disagree with this point, go to court.
“They are messing up the judiciary and it is not good and that was because those who won the election have not been magnanimous enough.”
