JUDGMENT
TANKO AMADU JSC:-
INTRODUCTION
1. My Lords, Chapter Eleven of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic provides an elaborate frame work for the judiciary under Articles 125 to 161. Inherent in the provisions of the Articles is the security of tenure of Justices of the Superior Courts of Judicature and the independence of the judiciary. However construed, those provisions are not intended for the comfort of the justices who constitute the judiciary, but their security of tenure. The provisions are also intended for the protection of the people, the governed in whom the sovereignty of the State resides and on whose behalf the judiciary administers justice.
2. Implicit in the provisions is also a solemn covenant that, the judiciary will adjudicate without fear or favour to all persons, it being the people’s ultimate guarantee that the law, and not the will of the public office holder ultimately governs the Republic. It is therefore a matter of the gravest moment for the citizenry and t…