Okon Efut, SAN

Okon Efut, SAN A legal practitioner with over 3 decades of experience.

Empowering The Local Government Councils In Nigeria- (Why President Tinubu Must Walk the Talk on Local Government Autono...
05/02/2026

Empowering The Local Government Councils In Nigeria
- (Why President Tinubu Must Walk the Talk on Local Government Autonomy)

UNDERSTANDING THE POWERS OF A NIGERIAN MINISTER - Why Wike was wrongly right
09/12/2025

UNDERSTANDING THE POWERS OF A NIGERIAN MINISTER - Why Wike was wrongly right

IMPRISONMENT IS NOT ENOUGH - a search light on restitution for victims of crime
04/12/2025

IMPRISONMENT IS NOT ENOUGH - a search light on restitution for victims of crime

SANitizing INEC: Any Renewed Hope?
06/11/2025

SANitizing INEC: Any Renewed Hope?

THE NEED FOR ORIGINALITY IN LEGAL WRITE-UPS
08/10/2025

THE NEED FOR ORIGINALITY IN LEGAL WRITE-UPS

Is a law firm eligible to sign a court process?
02/10/2025

Is a law firm eligible to sign a court process?

RIVERS STATE AND THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
18/09/2025

RIVERS STATE AND THE STATE OF EMERGENCY

Witches and Wizards are also protected by the Law.
17/09/2025

Witches and Wizards are also protected by the Law.

04/09/2023

It takes a lot of guts to transmute from candidate Tinubu to President Tinubu, yet this has happened, and this possibility provides some huge lessons for any discerning mind.

To learn from Candidate Tinubu is to identify your turn or create your turn, insist on your turn, and resolve that when it does and if it ever comes, you swoop on it and maximize the opportunity. There is nothing wrong with that. Indeed, it takes a lot of courage and determination to appropriate the right to the presidency of Nigeria at the time and in the manner candidate Tinubu did. It is easy to condemn the approach as arrogant and lacking in decency.

However, we can extract some moral lessons thrown up by the ultimate victory of President Bola Tinubu at the 2023 presidential election. At the beginning, it seemed so far-fetched yet he remained self-assured and undaunted by the forces and antics which somehow beclouded any chance of his victory.

Convinced that someone or a particular region of the country had exhausted their turn to rule the country, Candidate Tinubu raised the tempo of political discourse in Nigeria to a high-pitch crescendo of demonizing those he felt had inordinately held onto political power with no thought of relinquishing power to anyone outside their geopolitical radar on a platter of gold. This main thrust of his campaign (Emi lokan) resonated perfectly with the general feeling of a majority of the Nigerian citizenry who felt that power must be equally and fairly allocated and timed in a manner that engenders a sense of belonging to every citizen or geopolitical region. This worked.

Read more here: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/09/learning-from-candidate-tinubus-emi-lokan/

Okon N. Efut, SAN
Abuja.

In Nigeria, most of the electoral contests have ended in the tribunals or courts because the electoral body (INEC) has n...
03/07/2023

In Nigeria, most of the electoral contests have ended in the tribunals or courts because the electoral body (INEC) has not been able to guarantee credible and acceptable electoral process and outcomes on many occasions. This has been a serious setback to our democracy and the legitimacy of successive governments since 1999. It is therefore not surprising that citizens participation in the electoral process has remained abysmally low despite sustained efforts at sensitization and mobilisation of citizens by local and international pro-democracy organisations. This must change, and INEC must take responsibility to bring about the desired change.

HAPPY NEW MONTH“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”– J.P. Mor...
01/07/2023

HAPPY NEW MONTH

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
– J.P. Morgan

May this new month of July bring you abundant opportunities to flourish and succeed. In Jesus name, Amen.

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