Law and Politics of impeachment in Nigeria: interrogating the basis of judicial control of a political process

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dc.contributor.authorImam, Ibrahim
dc.contributor.authorAlabi, Abdulmajeed O A
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-03T13:45:57Z
dc.date.available2021-06-03T13:45:57Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionthe paper examines the constitutional power of the legislature to impeach an executive and the ground on which judiciary can intervene. this because of the principle of separation of power which disallow an arm of government interfering the business of the other.en_US
dc.description.abstractContrary to the widespread perception, the widely-acclaimed change in attitudes of the Nigerian courts towards the political process of impeachment is not a product of any material differences in the texts of the provisions of the 1979 and the current 1999 Constitutions. Rather, the shift from complete detachment to measured intervention in the legislature's exercise of its constitutional powers to remove chief executives of government was a policy somersault by a judiciary that risks being consigned to irrelevance in the face of growing and wanton disregard for due process by the political organs of government in the discharge of their constitutional duties. While the paper canvasses judicial enforcement of constitutionally sanctioned obligations for sustenance of a democratic system under the rule of law, the authors concluded that the political character of impeachment proceedings necessarily foists on the judiciary the need to exercise caution and ensure that it's interventionist policy does not draw it into an arena it is least fit to operate.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCJLHen_US
dc.identifier.issn2141-3827
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/5875
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCenterpoint Journal of Humanity Edition, Unilorin Library Publicationen_US
dc.subjectimpeachmenten_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjectjudiciaryen_US
dc.subjectinterventionen_US
dc.subjectlegislatureen_US
dc.subjectdemocracyen_US
dc.subjectconstitutionen_US
dc.titleLaw and Politics of impeachment in Nigeria: interrogating the basis of judicial control of a political processen_US
dc.title.alternativeImpeachment and judicial interventionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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