Nigeria, May 28 -- In a scathing criticism against the shameful conduct of a professor jailed for rigging an election for Nigeria's Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, the Court of Appeal, Calabar, has said that the rank of a university professor is not meant for fools.

"The rank of (a) university professor is not one easily attainable and is certainly not a rank attained by fools," the court said in its judgement affirming the 25 March 2021 conviction and three years' imprisonment of the professor, Peter Ogban, by the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot Ekpene.

Meanwhile, the professor is walking free, instead of serving his prison terms, because of Nigeria's broken criminal justice system.

PREMIUM TIMES reported the Appeal Court judgeme...