The development of public interest litigation as an integral part of democracy and the functioning of a municipal legal system is perhaps one of the fundamental gains of democratization process that swept through Africa in the beginning of the twentieth century. There is marked increase in judicial activism and a corresponding rise in public interest litigation as issues of social justice and public accountability continue to engage the Courts. Human rights lawyers, particularly, those who tackled the collapsed military dictatorships and non-governmental organizations frequently seek judicial review of executive actions and wrongs committed by public officials or government agencies with a…

There is no doubt that the conduct of the April 2007, general election was a complete and unmitigated disaster. The elections were marred by substantial irregularities of unimaginable proportion never seen or experienced in the chequered history of the conduct of elections in the country. This led to the nullification of Governorship elections in Cross River, Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Adamawa, Enugu, and Bayelsa State, to mention but a few. In the case of Cross River, Sokoto, Kogi and Adamawa States, the Governors were booted out of office after the Courts declared that the elections that brought them into office were…