The purported protest staged by women supporters of the NNPP in. Kano against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the election petition of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and All Progressives Congress is not but a blustery and precious waste of time.
When a law has prescribed a procedure or method for doing something, you are only entitled to follow the method or procedure prescribed by that law, no more no less.
The Electoral Act 2022 prescribed the filling of an election petition by a candidate in an election who is aggrieved before an election Tribunal.
It also provides the procedure for the filing of an appeal against a judgment of an Election Tribunal by an aggrieved party to the election petition.
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has accordingly filed an appeal to the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
The Supreme Court has 60 days to hear and deliver judgment from the day when the judgment was delivered by the Court of Appeal.
Those who are instigating and sponsoring protests in Kano are mischievous and their time.
I tell you protest would not change anything change anything?
Protest and such extra-judicial outbursts of emotionalism do not influence judges when they are writing their judgments.
Judges are not required to take into account or consider extraneous things that happen outside the crucible of the courtroom but only on the evidence by both parties to the case.
Both parties to this case are Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and the All Progressives Congress, period.
The protesting women do not have a locus stand in the matter.
They are simply meddlesome interlopers, who babble into what doesn't concern them.