By this time, the year of the half person would have passed. It took three courts to finally resolve this jurisprudential conundrum. The argument advanced to overturn the no confidence vote of 33/32 against the Government on 21 December, 2018, was that while mathematically, half of 65 members of the National Assembly is 32½, the existence of such a number of persons is an impossibility. So is adding a half person to 32½ to make 33. To arrive at the half of 65 persons, 32½ persons have to be rounded up to 33 persons and 1 whole person added. Hence, the majority of 65 is 34 and not 33. Justice Wit of the CCJ resolved the conundrum with a compelling argument – you know it when you see it, 33 is the majority of 65.
