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By Osuolale Alalade The struggle of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to entrench itself in power or engineer the takeover of an interim administration has a historical context. Notwithstanding the many paradoxes thrown up by the sad state of affairs, the dilemma that Nigerians face represent an encouraging turn of democratic advancement of the country. In 1993, the Nigeria Army, as the guarantor of northern hegemonic pretension with a very deceptive “maradona” General Ibrahim Babaginda at the helm of affairs, nullified what remain the fairest and most transparent democratic elections in the country. By this treasonable act, the northern dominated military brought the country close to the very edge of the precipice. Accordingly, 12 June, the anniversary of those elections, in the minds of the true progressive nationalists, has since remained the watershed for democratic entry into the Nigerian political firmament. The final outcome of June 12 saga was the emergen

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Background of Study The term justice is increasingly becoming a fascinating issue on the front burner in our age. This is as a result of the many injustices that have becoming endemic and perennial, and whose brute impact we are experiencing in our contemporary age. This odious phenomenon has inevitable from recorded history has informed or drawn.It is in so, many philosophers and scholars into thought provoking reflections on the meaning, nature and essence of justice in human social intercourse. It is significant to assert that amongst the verse array of treatises on justice that of Thomas Aquinas is widely held as the most plausible and incisive. According to him, ‘justice is giving each one his due (Gratsch, 173). Moreover, Plato, the great philosopher is renowned for his brilliant pragmatic notion of justice. Plato’s justice was centered on the poor and deplorable political conditions in Athens. He sought the possible ways of restoring the sens