By Lanre Adewole

In 2010, then Director General of the Nigerian Law School, a professor of Law, Tahir Mamman cancelled the special awards ceremony for best graduating students, following allegations of compromise in the conduct of the examination.

The allegations were raised by some students who failed. Mamman had to set up a panel to probe the allegations, but that was after he had denied the outstanding graduating students their moment of glory, not because they were complicit in any wrongdoing but because the examination process had been tainted, by his men, tasked with the conduct of the assignment.

Today, Mamman is Nigeria’s Minister of Education.

Last Thursday, a panel of the Supreme Court, held that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) robbed the presidential poll that produced President Tinubu of street credibility, yet the outcome of the tainted exercise was upheld.

Maybe not all, but most of the justices of the apex court that sat on the final adjudication of the election dispute, are Life members of the Body of Benchers and certainly aware of the event of 13 years ago. Reasonable members of the public will also stay in Mamman’s corner if a choice is to be made of the two situations.