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Today I am compelled to write
directly on this site exactly the way I feel inside me without utilizing the
benefits of reviews, corrections, grammar-checks and other editorial stuffs.
The current situations in Nigeria are disgusting me and I am feeling like
puking or giving up that I will ever see a country where righteousness
prevails.
Nigerians were insulted and abused
with the ascension of Hon. Patricia Eteh. We barely pulled through with the
ugliness of that encounter when an appeal court declared that there was
"nothing wrong in the election that brought in president Yaradua. We
swallow that... we hoped Supreme Court will become more supreme when they
pronounce their own judgments on the presidential elections now this one of
David Mark in coming in as the polity remains silent and waiting for goddot.
What is happening to us as a nation? Where are the spirits of rebellion which
propelled us to aim at and insist on righteousness or the power to say no in
the face of temptations and to declare that; I will do only that which is
glorifies my conscience and exalts my God?
A friend was at my office late last
night. He brought his toy mobile with a radio inside it to me and as newscast
was on he announced to me that Senate President David Mark won his case meaning
that he was rightly and duly elected. I laughed because it was unbelievable. I
tried not to believe what I read; I cancelled my beer o’clock hour with my
friends and went off to sleep without any ceremony. I drank Kunnusaki and went
off to dreamland where I would not have to rationalize the tribunal and apeal
results. However this morning it became believable that what I heard was true.
I even heard worse; the tribunal in Oshun state declared that nothing was wrong
with the election of Oyinlola.
Those two judgments I read this
morning were huge embarrassments to me. I am ashamed of what I read and I begin
to wonder in my mind... could this be the expression of the true state of
things in this country? Does this mean the country no longer has conscience?
Could this be that these two judgments are proper analysis of our stage of
judiciary and democracy? These judges see that we no longer have NEPA, we have
no security, we have no idea what direction the country is going; nothing is
clear in this country anymore, our visions have been eroded and no longer have
meanings. These judges read newspaper and watch TV to read about how much NEPA
was defrauded and massacred and these judges still go ahead and allowed
themselves to be persuaded to read these judgments? Ah... why did I come to
this world as a Nigerian? I work so hard, I pay so much in my income taxes, I
get no electricity at home, security is not ensured for me, national
infrastructures are all messed up and to rub insult upon our wounds, I wake up
to hear about these level of reasoning by our judges....I am asking... is this
the best we can achieve in our nation in the year 2008? Abiola paid the
ultimate price to institute democracy in Nigeria. Few days ago, we wept and
grieved remembering that it is ten years since he so laid down his life for
democracy, Obasanjo and Moris Iwuruwuru murdered democracy now these judges
Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa (The two other justices on the panel, Justices
Ahmed Belgore and Abubakar Yahaya, agreed with her lead judgment), Justice
Thomas Naron finally nailed the long processes we had endured since time past.
How and when did we become a nation without a conscience? Have we lost all
shame all glow... things that made us strong as human beings things that remind
us that we are here in this world only temporarily? Have we lost all in the
quest for power?
"The returning officer at the
top of the electoral pyramid lacked the power to cancel the election. Section
69 of the Electoral Act 2006 which says that, 'declaration of scores of
candidates and the return of a candidate shall be final subject to review by a
tribunal or court in an election petition proceedings under this Act', does not
confer such power on him. The lower tribunal was therefore; wrong to have held
that he had such powers. "For all that has been said, this appeal has
merits and I hereby allow it. The decision of the lower tribunal, which was
given on February 28 is hereby set aside. The return of the appellant as
senator representing Benue State South Senatorial District is hereby affirmed.
I make no order as to costs." (Guardian)
"The judgments have gone
further to affirm our believe that the masses are the bastions of their own
last hope" (Odewale Egghead)
Ah.... these judges do this... they
pronounced these judgments so flagrantly and so unashamed... aha....
I am appealing o... I am appealing
to those who know those who are doing all these chest games on Nigerians and
Nigeria... retributions and payback will happen o. I heard as people rejoiced
over these judgments are continue to add up the piles of shame we have been
gathering. I saw them waving flags of peace and seeking reconciliations. They
laugh at us now; because we are too righteous, it is their day to laugh now so
let them laugh, when the time comes, they, their children and the children of
their sympathizers will weep.
Let me remind these judges about the
echoing words of Professor Wole Soyinka, the Kongi that refuses to retired
that:
It needs no special knowledge to
point out that Osun state is not alone but, right now, it occupies centre
stage, so, let us state it unambiguously - Osun State Electoral Tribunal -
STINKS! The minimal requirement for the lancing of this purulent boil is to
make examples, publicly and with swift deliberation. Even as the primarily
concerned bodies - the NBA, the Judicial Service Commission, the Supreme Court,
the Body of Benchers etc. take the mandatory procedural action, the people
themselves must act to ensure that the guilty among these betrayers of a
people's trust (Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, Justices Ahmed Belgore and Abubakar Yahaya, Justice
Thomas Naron) are turned into social pariahs, unable to show their
faces out of doors, are not tolerated in their social clubs, remain isolated
like vectors of infectious diseases - in effect placed under house arrest by
the sheer weight of public opprobrium. (soyinka)
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Posted by Robot| 16.07.2008 21:19