Bukola Saraki Why Saraki Deserves the Presidential Mandate, By Auwal Nasir NEWS DIGEST – ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei’ is Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” This phrase was used as the title of a Whig tract of 1709, which was expanded in 1710. Ever since then, it has become a cult phrase in all parlance of semantic, linguistic and grammatical inter-relationship. What better threshold exists to this phrase if not the area of politics of representation?