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Friday, November 20, 2015
The King is Naked.....Nigeria as a case study!
A foolish king, who was trying to be smart, was approached by certain business men who proposed to sow him a Royal robe to be worn on a special day. The dress was to be sown in a special room within the Palace, where no man except the Chiefs, the King and the wise men in the Kingdom could enter.
While sowing the robe, the King and his Chiefs could not see any material or anything that was being used in sowing the robe but each time they complained, the businessmen would tell the King and the Chiefs that look at the robe now, it's only wise men that can see it, as it is very special. Funny enough, the King and the Chiefs trying to avoid being tagged foolish, would pretend to see the robe while foolishly rejoicing they were wise.
The d-day finally arrived for the King to put on the Royal robe, go round the town and market square, yet there was no robe seen. The King asked the businessmen that where is the robe, and they answered here sir, as only wise men could see the robe. The King still pretending to be wise quickly agreed he saw the invisible robe, and was then asked to put on the Royal robe, being instructed to remove everything he had on, as the robe has everything needed, including under wears.
The King agreed and removed everything he had on, put on the Royal, invisible robe and began to walk to the market square. The Chiefs who were the first to see the King before moving out, saw the State of the King but pretended all was well in order not to be tagged foolish and allowed the King to step out in the Royal invisible robe.
Everyone that saw the state of the King refused to acknowledge the reality as it stared them in the face, but pretended all was well with the King in a bid to be seen as being wise, until the King walked into the market square.
At the market square, a little boy who was amazed at the State of a whole King of his kingdom, was the only one who could not pretend to be wise but shouted...... The King is naked, the King is naked, the king is naked. At this time, the King ran frantically back to the Palace, trying to use his hands to cover his nakedness but it was too late, as the King and the Chiefs could no longer continue to pretend all was well.
Hmmmmmm, Nigeria my Country, our King is naked, our leaders pretending to be wise are as foolish as these Chiefs, the Youths pretending all is well are too brainwashed to speak out, the adults are too preoccupied with their complacency that they see nothing wrong in shouting and condemning the trend, this change is taking.
We are eagerly waiting for the children to shout the King is naked before we take actions.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
APC As Judiciary’s New Friend ~ Lere Olayinka
While growing up in Okemesi-Ekiti, one of the stories my grandfather told me was that of a certain bird. This bird, according to grandfather will sing “hun o kuo ngbo yi” (I must leave this forest) whenever it was hungry and could not find anything to eat. However, the moment it was able to feed sufficiently, it will sing “Igbo yi dun pupo” (this forest is very sweet).
The story of this double-speak bird came to my mind when I read a statement by the APC, accusing the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of launching out on large-scale smear campaign on the Nigerian judiciary. The APC went on to say that the PDP was “casting aspersions on the integrity of respected members of the bench whose only offence is that their meticulous and balanced judgments have exposed PDP’s fraudulent and violent escapades during the 2015 general elections.” This, coming from a party that once accused judges of collecting N3 billion bribe to give judgment in favour of PDP cannot but be laughable.
On December 19, 2014, the APC in Ekiti State, while rejecting the tribunal judgment validating the election of Governor Ayodele Fayose and casting aspersion on the integrity of the judiciary, said; "It is worrisome that the judiciary appears not ready to tackle the flagrant abuse of the courts by desperate politicians.” In the double-faced political dictionary of the APC, saying that the judiciary was not ready to tackle flagrant abuse of the courts would be complimentary while the PDP complaints about miscarriage of justice on Rivers and Akwa Ibom States would be derogatory.
In the past, APC in its desperation for power, did not only threaten war against the judiciary, the party also threatened to turn Nigerians to refugees in their own country with possible return of Operation wetie witnessed in the Western Region in the mid-sixties. A day to the June 21, 2014 Ekiti State Governorship election, APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at a press conference in Lagos threatened war if the election was rigged and of course, the only election that is not rigged is the one in which the APC emerges the winner.
At the press conference attended by APC chieftains such as Rotimi Amaechi, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Senator Osita Izunaso (National Organising Secretary), Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Chief (Mrs.) Kemi Nelson (APC Women Leader), Alhaji Lai Mohammed (the party’s spokesperson), among others, the party openly called for war against the people of Ekiti State. Chief Oyegun warned that the road being charted by the Federal Government in handling today’s Ekiti State governorship poll, among others, can lead to a repeat of Operation wetie in the Western Region and would make every Nigerian a refugee if care is not taken.
When APC was known as Action Congress (AC) and later Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the judiciary was openly blackmailed, ridiculed and some cases compromised by the party in the Southwest. For instance, when the Justice Hamma Barka-led tribunal in Ekiti State gave its majority judgment in favour of the PDP in 2010, the ACN used one of its agents of media terrorism, Sahara Reporters to accuse the judges of receiving N3 billion bribe. The N3 billion cash was claimed to have been transported to Ogere Toll Gate, Lagos-Ibadan expressway where it was changed to dollars!
On May 5, 2010, Prof Itse Sagay, a notable apologist of the APC described the judgment of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as a disgrace. He said; “The verdict is a disgrace. I watched part of the tribunal’s proceedings on television, when I saw the way the judge was going, puncturing the case of the petitioner, it was clear to me that the Action Congress would not get justice.”
In June 2010, Sunday Akere, who was then the Osun State ACN Director of Research and Strategy reacted to the State governorship election tribunal judgment saying; “We, the Osun AC, came to seek equity at the tribunal with clean hands. But what we got is a shame and a blot on the integrity of the Nigerian judiciary. It is shameful that a panel of five judges could sit down and write such an incoherent judgment.” In his own reaction to the judgment, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who was the ACN governorship candidate said; “The judgment is dubious,” meaning that the tribunal judges were themselves dubious because only dubious judges could give dubious judgments.
Instead of robbing themselves in the garment of sainthood and presenting themselves as defenders of the judiciary, the APC and its multiple-mouth leaders should rather concentrate on their dubious use of a section of the judiciary to manipulate themselves to power as they have done before; and leave posterity to judge who the real friend of our judiciary is.
Olayinka is the Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Ekiti State Governor.
While growing up in Okemesi-Ekiti, one of the stories my grandfather told me was that of a certain bird. This bird, according to grandfather will sing “hun o kuo ngbo yi” (I must leave this forest) whenever it was hungry and could not find anything to eat. However, the moment it was able to feed sufficiently, it will sing “Igbo yi dun pupo” (this forest is very sweet).
The story of this double-speak bird came to my mind when I read a statement by the APC, accusing the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of launching out on large-scale smear campaign on the Nigerian judiciary. The APC went on to say that the PDP was “casting aspersions on the integrity of respected members of the bench whose only offence is that their meticulous and balanced judgments have exposed PDP’s fraudulent and violent escapades during the 2015 general elections.” This, coming from a party that once accused judges of collecting N3 billion bribe to give judgment in favour of PDP cannot but be laughable.
On December 19, 2014, the APC in Ekiti State, while rejecting the tribunal judgment validating the election of Governor Ayodele Fayose and casting aspersion on the integrity of the judiciary, said; "It is worrisome that the judiciary appears not ready to tackle the flagrant abuse of the courts by desperate politicians.” In the double-faced political dictionary of the APC, saying that the judiciary was not ready to tackle flagrant abuse of the courts would be complimentary while the PDP complaints about miscarriage of justice on Rivers and Akwa Ibom States would be derogatory.
In the past, APC in its desperation for power, did not only threaten war against the judiciary, the party also threatened to turn Nigerians to refugees in their own country with possible return of Operation wetie witnessed in the Western Region in the mid-sixties. A day to the June 21, 2014 Ekiti State Governorship election, APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at a press conference in Lagos threatened war if the election was rigged and of course, the only election that is not rigged is the one in which the APC emerges the winner.
At the press conference attended by APC chieftains such as Rotimi Amaechi, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Senator Osita Izunaso (National Organising Secretary), Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Chief (Mrs.) Kemi Nelson (APC Women Leader), Alhaji Lai Mohammed (the party’s spokesperson), among others, the party openly called for war against the people of Ekiti State. Chief Oyegun warned that the road being charted by the Federal Government in handling today’s Ekiti State governorship poll, among others, can lead to a repeat of Operation wetie in the Western Region and would make every Nigerian a refugee if care is not taken.
When APC was known as Action Congress (AC) and later Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the judiciary was openly blackmailed, ridiculed and some cases compromised by the party in the Southwest. For instance, when the Justice Hamma Barka-led tribunal in Ekiti State gave its majority judgment in favour of the PDP in 2010, the ACN used one of its agents of media terrorism, Sahara Reporters to accuse the judges of receiving N3 billion bribe. The N3 billion cash was claimed to have been transported to Ogere Toll Gate, Lagos-Ibadan expressway where it was changed to dollars!
On May 5, 2010, Prof Itse Sagay, a notable apologist of the APC described the judgment of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as a disgrace. He said; “The verdict is a disgrace. I watched part of the tribunal’s proceedings on television, when I saw the way the judge was going, puncturing the case of the petitioner, it was clear to me that the Action Congress would not get justice.”
In June 2010, Sunday Akere, who was then the Osun State ACN Director of Research and Strategy reacted to the State governorship election tribunal judgment saying; “We, the Osun AC, came to seek equity at the tribunal with clean hands. But what we got is a shame and a blot on the integrity of the Nigerian judiciary. It is shameful that a panel of five judges could sit down and write such an incoherent judgment.” In his own reaction to the judgment, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who was the ACN governorship candidate said; “The judgment is dubious,” meaning that the tribunal judges were themselves dubious because only dubious judges could give dubious judgments.
Instead of robbing themselves in the garment of sainthood and presenting themselves as defenders of the judiciary, the APC and its multiple-mouth leaders should rather concentrate on their dubious use of a section of the judiciary to manipulate themselves to power as they have done before; and leave posterity to judge who the real friend of our judiciary is.
Olayinka is the Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Ekiti State Governor.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
REVEALED.......... .
Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal Chairman Justice Ambrosa is President Muhammadu Buhari’s inlaw
Facts are beginning to unveil on how the kicking out of Mr Nyesom Wike as Governor of Rivers State by the election tribunal was perfected by the Presidency.
According to highly placed sources, one of the strategies used was to move the tribunal from Rivers State to Abuja where they can be ‘remote controlled’ by the centre power and watched closely.
Prior to this, a source confided in this medium that Justice Pindigi who was the first tribunal judge was hurriedly kicked out, after he was alleged to have been compromised financially by Wike, which set the pace for the onslaught that removed Wike.
As Pindigi was shown the way out, we gathered that a judge close to President Muhammadu Buhari was shopped for, to be the Chairman of the Rivers State Election Tribunal.
The dice fell on Justice Suleiman Ambrosa, from Kaduna State to perform the complete job of nullifying the election completely instead of the partial nullification that some members of the judges agreed to, stated a source. Ambrosa we gathered reliably is married to the sister of Aisha Buhari, the Wife of the APC Leader in Nigeria.
Do the rest calculation yourselves.
May God safe Nigeria from political instability and truncation.
The People must unite and rise up to save The JUDICIARY....
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Election Tribunal: A mockery of Equity before the Law
LAGOS STATE vs RIVER STATE: Judiciary commedy
Same Election
Same PDP vs APC
Same Card Reader Issue
Same Electoral Act 2010
Different Judgement! a mess of the Judiciary..........
IN Lagos: Akinwumi Ambode (APC) vs Jimi Agbaje (PDP)
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos upheld the election of Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode stating that the non-use of the card readers or the dysfunctional nature of the card readers cannot invalidate the Lagos State Governorship Election. The court held that the Electoral Act (2010) as amended does not recognise the malfunctioning of a card reader as one of the factors that can lead to the nullification of an election.
This, the appellate court held, is because the Electoral Act predates the introduction of the card reader.
IN Rivers: Nyesome Wike (PDP) vs Dakuku Peterside (APC)
The tribunal says card readers were introduced by INEC to ensure credibility and transparency and that there is no conflict between the introduction of card readers and the provisions of the Electoral Act.
According to the tribunal, there is s directive by INEC on the exclusive use of card readers for accreditation and that INEC had directed that if the card reader failed the election should be postponed to the next day.
The tribunal said the fact that the presiding officers resorted to manual accreditation because the card reader failed and did not follow INEC directive to postpone the poll under such circumstances showed that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the Electoral Act, and thereby nullify the election and order a fresh election
Conclusion:
Equity before the law is a mirrage in Nigerian Judiciary under the influence of Political subterfuge. ...........
To sustain our Democracy Nigerians should riseup and clamour for an Independent, Reformulated and uncompromisable Judiciary where equity will count without recorse to Age, Gender, Class, Tribe, Religion or Political Affiliations
Augustdotun Writes from Ado Ekiti
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