Chief Robert Clarke, a senior advocate is a lawyer who does not hide his feelings whenever there is a legal issue generating controversies.
He is at it again on the arguments surrounding the widely discussed security votes. He said pointedly that there is no law, however small, that sanctions the payment of security votes to the state governors
YOUR recent campaign was for the abrogation of the security votes enjoyed by the state governors and the president because according to you, it lacks legal backing. What is the reasoning behind your argument?
I still maintained my stand that the question of security vote has no basis in law. When you look at the history of security vote in Nigeria, you will not find anywhere in the 1999 constitution that allows security vote to be enjoyed by anybody. However, you need to look at the history of this nation to see how security vote crept into the governance of the country.
