| Degrees of Impeachment |
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| Written by Phil Tam-Al Alalibo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 19 October 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Degrees of Impeachment By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo Once again, the scabrous hands of the political vampires in the nation have come to bear in the on-going political washout in Ekiti State. For all practical purposes, this should not be surprising even to the casual observer that the Nigerian state is reeking progressively knee-deep into the political waters of ruination and wanton wreckage. Today, President Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in that state owing to the alleged wrongful impeachment of the governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose and his deputy. Noting that the Nigerian constitution was violated in the process, the president suspended the state's legislature and appointed a sole administrator to run the state for the next six months with hopes of restoring to office the same impeached governor after the expiration of the state of emergency. Let us note well the president's abrupt sense of allegiance to the Nigerian constitution in this particular instance when under his watch one can cite a plethora of examples of contemptible violations of the same constitution that have attracted a mute response from the highest office. This recent action belies the president's selective sense of justice, his jaundiced disposition to certain elements in the polity and this is a far more venturous toleration than his duplicitous wont for constitutional rectification in the Ekiti fiasco. The event is not far removed from our collective memories when on October 27, 1999, President Obasanjo watched as the Nigerian constitution was violated by a renegade governor in Zamfara with the declaration of Sharia Law in that state that subsequently blossomed to eleven other states. On this score, the president noted that Sharia will die a natural death and should be allowed to take its course. Today, seven years after that declaration with thousands of deaths and billions of naira in property damage, Sharia is still in full force in the twelve states with no signs of decrement. As it is, here is a nation with two constitutions, one for Moslems and the other for the rest of society and Obasanjo cannot see the immoral and illegal implication of this setup. When the occasion presented itself, the president watched from the comfort of his kingdom as the satanic forces of Chris Uba upended Anambra State and turned it into a theater of ferocious entanglements with blackmail, thuggery and brazen pilfering of public funds becoming the order of the day. In this instance, Obasanjo did not see it fit to call to order the terrorist and his tribe of hooligans, he did not see it fit to declare a state of emergency to flush out the agents of infernal damnation oppressing the state; this was a case where the president's closest adviser, Andy Uba, brother of the thug, Chris Uba, held sway over the rare sense of justice of a confused arbiter. Now, we are to understand that Obasanjo's grand plan is to install Andy Uba as the next executive governor of Anambra in continuation of the enslavement of the state and its people. Even as the addled and higgledy-piggledy president pretend to care about the constitution he has violated with his personal conduct with allegations of corruption, blackmail and dereliction of duty, a state governor in Oyo, not far from the new Ekiti theater of colossal shame was impeached with only eighteen out of thirty-two members of the House of Assembly accenting. Barely a two-thirds majority, in direct contradiction of the state's and nation's constitution, the president again mounted the pulpit of muteness and preached the sermon of silence as legislators loyal to another thug manipulated and raped due process in their rush to remove the governor. Where was Obasanjo's sense of indignation and need to walk the constitutional path? Need we talk about the
mockery of democracy that issued out in Bayelsa with the so-called impeachment
of DSP Alamieyeseigha, highlighted by intimidation, detention, violence and
duress of members of the House of Assembly by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) as it sought to oust the governor. Where was Obasanjo's sense
of indignation and need to walk the constitutional path? Here is a president
who unilaterally signed away a territory (Bakassi) of the country without
seeking rectification from the National Assembly as mandated by law talking
about respect for the constitution and declaring as illegal the removal of a
corrupt and slipshod governor simply because he is more favorably disposed to
the filth in Ado-Ekiti.
In the final analysis the
wheels of impeachment ought to turn against the president who in the last seven
years has committed every impeachable offense in the books. The wheels of
impeachment ought to decimate the duo of Obasanjo and Atiku, who have been
nothing but a distraction, a cancerous growth needing extrication, poisonous
serpents whose heads need to be crushed by the will of the people and their cry
for justice. Even as Obasanjo plays the role of a vanguard of the constitution
in the Ekiti case, the irreducible minimum becomes clear; that Nigeria will
only be better when the jokers, the Pharisees, the leeches and the vampires are
exterminated like filthy bugs, never to return to continue their reign of
libertinism and licentiousness. ________________________ The author can be reached
at alalibo@gmail.com
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Posted by Robot| 19.10.2006 14:22