Judiciary more independent under President Buhari – Garba Pwul SAN

By Golok Nanmwa,Jos

Legal luminary, Barrister Garba Pwul has said the Judiciary thrived better in the last four years under President Muhammadu Buhari than in previous administrations.

Speaking to Journalist in Jos , the Plateau state capital , Pwul who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN said the current adminstration respects the Judiciary and is always willing to abide by its decisions at all times.

“If you compare the past regime and this current administration you would know that the judiciary has enjoyed independence .
Look at the issue of Zamfara Governorship elections , where the ruling party the All Progressive Congress APC won the whole house of assembly elections, House of representatives ,Senate and Governorship elections but the supreme court later ruled in the favour of the PDP without the executive intervening .

He also said “Lets look at the APC governorship case in Rivers state in which the ruling party candidate was disqualifed by the court and the executive did not intervene unlike previous administration .

He therefore, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for giving courts the free hand to discharge their responsibilities.

Pwul further commended the good cooperation between the legislative arm and Executive stressing that this would bring about development to the country.

” I commend the new leadership of the House of representative and senate and call on them to always put the interest of the common man at heart , and to promote national unity , i charge them to always put the interest of Nigerians first .

On tackling corruption in the judicary ,Pwul further said there is a critical issue in the discipline of judges that has not been addressed. This is on appointment of judges. It should be the beginning of the fight against corruption in the judiciary If you appoint people of integrity in the fight against corruption it would be minimal if one or two bad eggs scale through, then getting them out would be easy. But in a situation where people don’t know anything about the appointment, it is very risky to the bench.

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Judiciary more independent under President Buhari – Garba Pwul SAN