Aggrieved Nigerians on the way to bury their dead in Benue In August 2018, legal practitioners faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s position that the rule of law would promptly be relegated to the backburner whenever national security was threatened. While delivering a keynote address at the beginning of the 58th annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), on August 26, 2018, Buhari irritated many lawyers, and indeed Nigerians with his government’s view of the rule of law and its application. “The rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and n...