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The 1999 Constitution makes elaborate provisions for settlement of disputes between persons, between government and citizens and between States as well as between State(s) and Federal Government.

Because of its importance, and to ensure credibility and integrity of the electoral process, section 285 thereof specifically provide for election tribunals to adjudicate in election petitions disputes from the State legislative positions to the presidential contests.

In any given situation, electoral integrity is decipherable from statutory and constitutional framework that govern conduct of elections and whether the system tolerates or condones the brigandage that characterize election seasons during the times of movement of election materials, voting, collation and announcement of results.

All failed states harbor some form of violent internal strife, such as civil war or insurgency. Nigeria now confronts six or more internal insurrections and the inability of the Nigerian state to provide peace and stability to its people has tipped a hitherto very weak state into failure. Ghana was the world’s fastest growing economy in 2018 with her real GDP growth at market prices at 8.3 per cent. Cote d’ Ivoire with 7.2 per cent and Senegal with 6.9 per cent are two other countries from West Africa in the first ten fastest growing economies in the world. Ghana’s economy represents a rising digital-based hybrid economy, driven by manufacturing and export of various digital tech goodies as well as assembly and export of ships and automobiles.

Nigerians were cooking with LPG gas stored in gas cylinders produced at NGC Factory in Ibadan while electricity that powered the industries and homes of Nigerians was flowing through cables produced by the Nigerian Wire and Cable Co. Ibadan, NOCACO in Kaduna and Kablemetal in Lagos and Port Harcourt. Then too, leather tanned in Kaduna was used by Bata and Lennards to produce shoes worn by Nigerians.

It is worthy of note that the richest countries of the OECD are characterized by high intangible capital and low natural capital, while the poorest countries of sub-Sahara Africa are characterized by high natural capital and lower intangible capital. The study underlined human capital development, strong institutions and rule of law as the driving tools for optimizing access to intangible capital.

With regards to the evidence of PW60, it is clear that he was not on the field to gather the data he used to compute the results he intended the lower court to use to enter judgment for the 1st appellant. In the case of Atiku Abubakar & ors v Umaru Musa Yar’adua & ors [2008] All FWLR 1409, [2008] 19 NWLR 1 at 173, paras E-G, this court per Niki Tobi JSC held as follows:

 

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