Politicians, Not Judiciary, Are Nigeria's Problem - Clarke

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Robert Clarke, has said that the country's problem is the political officials and not the judiciary. 

Clarke made this known during a chat with Channels Television on the Sunday Politics show. 

He said that the judiciary is not to blame, as it remains the only "force in the country today that one can still rely upon."

He said, “Judiciary is not a problem; the judiciary is an institution that we need whether we like it or not, and it is the only force in the country today that one can still rely upon.

“Politicians are our problem; as I have said before in one of my interviews here that the politicians are corrupting the court; they are corrupting the judges and there is nothing we can do.

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“It is the rascality we think should not creep into the judiciary, but I still hold it that these events have been created by politicians.

“This Constitution allows power to be given to individual governors or Mr. President to the extent that as soon as they get into the position of responsibility, their personal ego takes over and there is no instrument that can stop them except impeachment and how do you get impeachment when virtually all members of the House are under the portfolio of the governor?.

“So, it is the system that is wrong. When you spend billions of naira to get the nomination for a gubernatorial election in a party or when campaigning as a president, you have to traverse the whole of Nigeria; you don’t need such a system.

“It is too expensive; we cannot afford it. We have to change it.”