By Nura Jibo
Nigeria is full of legal arrogance! Festus Keyamo, the self-acclaimed and so-called human rights lawyer, goofed big time!
Two days before the APC handed over its affairs to an incoming president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Keyamo exposed his legal naivety about his party’s (APC) politics and its glaring failure and unconstitutionality.
Keyamo, of all people, never mind collecting his ministerial appointment from the onset. But today, this lawyer shamelessly said that the position that President Buhari has given him is unconstitutional!
This is a lawyer telling Nigerians he presided over illegality for a few years! Somebody is supposed to be a custodian of the law—a so-called legal luminary, for that matter! The drama in all these APC guys’ lives is that they know they failed woefully in leading Nigeria. And given that they must leave the scene in a day or two, it’s time to start trading blame before most of them are called to face the law because most of them presided over the affairs of Nigeria with impunity!
For Festus, please return all the largesse you enjoyed in that office on May 29, 2023, to the incoming government. Only then will we prove your illegality claim, and we will all thumb it up to you for cutting across your legal eye teeth!
Nura Jibo is a Lifetime Member of the West African Research Association (WARA), African Studies Centre, Boston University, United States. He can be reached via jibonura@yahoo.com.