The outcome of the primary elections held on the 8th of December 2014 which produced Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party has remained a matter of litigation almost three years after.

Not because the litigants enjoy wasting their time and resources in courts or that they harbour idiosyncratic odium for Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu PhD the beneficiary of that process, but they all have in unison echoed the injustice in the process and the irregularities in Dr. Ikpeazu’s tax papers and called for his disqualification even before the primary elections, the unfortunate scenario however is that Abia our state is and will continue to be the loser if political parties refuse to follow the standard tenets of internal democracy and moral justice in the conduct of their internal elections, if a winner emerges through a free and fair process it will save us all the energy, time and resources that would have been wasted in judicial battle.

Come April 13, 2018 Abia will once again go back to the supreme court to determine who will eventually emerge as the governor of Abia state, while many will see this as a mission in futility given the previous matters bothering on the same tax matter which the supreme court had given judgment in favour of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, Barrister F.N Nwosu and his team had insisted that the judiciary must give them justice and that he barrister F.N Nwosu is the only candidate that legally completed the primary electioneering process with Dr. Ikpeazu and that in a situation where Dr. Ikpeazu is disqualified as he is praying the court, he should have been the beneficiary of the PDP primaries of 2014.

What Barrister Nwosu is praying for is still predicated on the same subject matter that Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah went to court for and lost at the Supreme Court, does he have chances of succeeding in his journey to justice? Only the five man panel of Justices chaired by justice Bode Rhodes Vivour will determine that on April 13th, 2018?

But what has remained unequivocal is the fact that irregularities exists in the papers duly submitted on oath by Dr. Ikpeazu, but if that is enough to disqualify him as stated by the party’s guidelines can only be determined by the supreme court which on several occasions have excused him from the obvious irregularities on technical grounds.

Though our judiciary has not lived up to the best of standards in dishing out justice, and it is no longer in the sphere of rumour mongering that judgments are up for grabs by the highest bidder, but it will also be too risky to dismiss the chances of Barrister F.N Nwosu who has been unfluctuating in his quest for justice.

He has remained adamantly on track and has demanded that he be heard even when the appeal court refused to hear him, he appealed for his rights and it was granted, friends and even relations have deserted him because he has refused to let go, he has in the course of this judicial voyage disobeyed kinsmen, benefactors and even family members.

For barrister Friday Nwanozie Nwosu nothing short of hitting the final judicial destination will pacify him, but whether the case will go in his favour or will also end up as another academic exercise is left for Justice Bode Rhodes Vivour and his five man panel of Supreme Court justices to adjudicate.

Uche Aguoru
Writes from Umuahia