By Chidi Odinkalu
Supreme Courts are places where lawyers and judges regularly encounter one another. On 17 November 2023, one of such encounters occurred, not in the regular halls of Nigeria’s Supreme Court in Abuja but in its Mosque.
There, Abdulaziz Waziri, a
Justice of Appeal wedded Zaynab Bashir, a Judge of Nigeria’s National
Industrial Court. The wedding reception followed thereafter at a well-appointed
venue in up-market Maitama, in Abuja.
Justice Waziri has been nothing if not busy this season. For his duty station in this election petition appeal season, Justice Waziri was stationed in Jos, Plateau State, where the Justices of Appeal, in the state from which the President of the Court of Appeal hails, have been busy re-writing the results of the elections, taking seats from one party and generously handing them to another party on the bases of jurisprudence that can most charitably be described as extraordinarily specious.
