Vanguard newspaper reported that "The unchallengeability of the supreme court ruling pre-supposes that it meets the standards of near-infallibility, conclusiveness and finality expected from a court of last resort, and that it is informed by the compelling need to ensure that decisions of the Court, as a court of last resort, are consistent with each other, and, above all, with the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, as well as with laws validly enacted by the legislature, all in the interest of the need, also imperative, for certainty and symmetry in the law and for its orderly development. The paper went further to state that, "The Nigerian Constitution 1999 provides in section 36(12) that “a person shall not be convicted of a criminal offence unless that offence is defined and the penalty thereof is prescribed in a written law, and in this subsection, a written law refers to an Act of the National Assembly or a Law of a State, any subsidiary legislation or instrument under the provisions of a law” (emphasis supplied)".
Whether meeting was organized without the president's consent is something I don't think the vice prsident and Tinubu would do. We can recall that the president had avoided meeting Saraki owing to the later's defiance against his party's choice for NASS positions. The brouhaha surrounding the budget seem like another subtle means to malign the presidency. Saraki would have quietly reached out to the president on the discrepancies relating to the budget. But no, he went to the media.
Yesterday, some citizens ran a protest against Saraki at the National Assembly. Saraki has a history of doggedness and staging a comeback after a seeming political defeat. It is yet to be known if he would come out of this clean or go down in history as a one time senator who was convicted of criminal conducts and subsequently jailed.
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