The ruling by the Supreme Court a few days ago regarding the election petition filed by the People’s Mandate Party (PMP) and its Presidential Candidate against the declaration by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as the elected president of Nigeria in the 2007 presidential election is both instructive and indicative. The ruling which ordered the retrial of the petition by a fresh panel indicates that somewhere in the seamy labyrinths of our judicial system there still exists some hope that the hallowed chambers of the legal profession may yet be reclaimed in this country. In ordering for a fresh retrial, the Supreme Court held that the lower court erred in law and did not take into consideration the hard facts adduced by the petitioner. That the Supreme Court would have the will and courage to make such pronouncement even in the twilight of an administration that its mandate has always been suspect is cheering news for a system that has become notorious for its judicial sommersaults.