Nigeria is fast drifting into a state of arnachy and complete lawlessness. What is breeding in this country presently is like a timebomb which Nigerians might not be able to contend with when it explodes. Were they just empty rhetorics of politicians that we were fed with during the campaigns? Were we deceived to vote the wrongs minds into power? Where are we really heading? The atmosphere is misty and the coast from here is bleak.
Let me not delve much into the bogus promises of (1) THE FIVE THOUSND NAIRRA STIPENDS TO THE UNEMPLOYED, or (2) THE ONE MEAL A DAY TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. A'm equally not here to talk about THE 3MILLION ANUAL JOB CREATION that rather seems the opposite of what was meant. For if companies and establishments like MTN and our leading Banks are finned without minding its direct effect on the labour force of such establishments; I wonder what economic plans there are towards the fulfilment of that promise. I have noticed for the past six months, the rate at which jobs are lost than secured.
However, the main straw that broke the camells back about this write_up is the undo influence on the judiciary which has lost its integrity and confidence of the masses.
Starting from the Benue state gorvernoship election. It is crystal clear that there was no primaries in the Apc party, and its flag bearer who came victorious at the general pools was hand-picked. What provissions of the electoral act sustained his mandate at the tribunals?
But that notwithstanding,the rivers state election tribunal which sat immidiately after the elections, in response to the suit filled before it by the APC candidate, Peterside, challenging the result. Upheld Wike's victory with the aid of the elecoral umpire's testimonies. What justification do we have in the removal of the rational judge who was maliciously acused of an uncertained 200million naira bribery but could not be sued nor made to face any collection of bribery charge as alleged, but was only removed and replaced with a pupet, hand-picked to deliver his employer's decree? No doubts, concidering the facts and evidences besseting the judgement. (1) the tribunal used testimonies of witnesses who were not at the pooling units To cancel the Rivers governoship election. But it's obvious that evidence of reports at an election by persons who did not make nor observe them, can not substitute for evidence of witnesses at the pooling units. INEC stood the best position to provide evidences but the court rather than stick to normal legal proceedures of validating the evidences provided by the electoral umpire's witnesses who were at the pooling centers, rejected them for eveidences provided on hearsay. Moreover, the petioners even failled to prove their case on a pooling unit to pooling unit basis as required by law. Yet the tribunal rulled in their favour.
We are yet to comprehend what went amis in Rivers state. The Taraba drama began. Lets just assume there was no primaries in PDP in Taraba state. But how then does it become an issue with the judiciary that ignored a facet pf same allegations in Benue state which had an APC governor as the culprit. However, it is obvious that the PDP flag bearer in Taraba state had better credibility than his APC counterpart in Benue state. In that there was PDP primaries in Taraba, only that it was done in Abuja, outside the teritories of Taraba due to thesame insecurity purposes for which the tribunal that nulified the victory also sat in same Abuja, outside Taraba state to deliver its judgement. In Benue state, there was outright no primary election that provided the APC flag bearer but his mandate subsists. What else can we refer to as miscriage and rape of justices and total lawlessnes, arnachy, on the regime of a leader whose assention to power was ochestrated by a change mantra hinged on "FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION?" I am utterly left with an ambigious conception of the true meaning of corruption fight, if the legacies of our face for change are to be upheld. My question is, " are we fighting corruption or fighting perceived enemies in our jointly owned enterprise? Thought Buhari promised never to interfer with the activities of the both the Legislature and Judiciary? Why is our judiciary now acting like pupet? Almost just like a medium for actualization of the executive's aim. At the detriment of serenity and peace of the society. Be we APC, PDP or none. It's hight time we realised that the destinies of our great nation lie in the hands of our leaders but our hopes lie in our mouths. Shall we sit back and watch this ship steered to wreckage? Our voices must be heard. Lets demand our rights from our leaders.