WHY HOLDING BRIEF FOR SUPREME COURT?

According to Coretta Scott King that “Freedom and justice cannot be parcelled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for group of people and deny it to others.”

It is on the above premise we will be standing to address judicial ignorance of many people denigrating verdict of Supreme Court on Rivers Governorship election.

We were surprised that a verdict that its statement has not been made public will gather such condemnation. In fact, we are still wondering where on earth will a court of public opinion be greater than Supreme Court. Why should our patriotism to a party be greater than to our nation?

To make it worse, some quarters posited that the verdict was made to prevent crisis that might occur if a rerun election should be conducted. Why should people be holding brief for the highest court of law in the land? If it is to avert crisis then any politician can be getting votes by all means to win election without electoral guidelines.

To be candid, It seems all these commentators are aliens to politics in Rivers State. Here is the gospel truth, Amaechi lost his relevance in the State when he joined APC. The Riverians saw him as a betrayal trying to plant his stooge as Governor after spent 8years as Speaker and 8years as Governor.

Amaechi left governance for over a year to pursue APC project, he locked up Judiciary for same period.
If Amaechi had his people in mind he wouldn't have exhausted N1bn monthly savings he gathered for 8 years, just to punish his successor.

For those who failed to follow previous judgements on Rivers State election, the 1st instance was rejection of incident forms and acceptance of only ECR's output. But in Lagos both components were joyfully accepted by tribunal.

You were told it was violence all through the State but only witnesses from 12 polling units out of 4,442 came to court. To further cover up rejection of Amaechi by the people of Rivers State, some arranged observers claimed it was violence all through but failed to give percentage of the affected areas.

It will be wrong for anyone to claim the judgement was to make peace reign in the canals.
If we can recall that the CJN, made it known to the public his reservation about outcomes of Election Tribunals and Appeal Courts.

We hereby congratulate the Judiciary for repairing its tainted image.
In the same vein, we appreciate Mr President for the bills sent to NASS in the quest of taming the monster called corruption. Although we should have these in the 1st 6months before commencing the ongoing prosecutions. In addition to these bills, we will suggest a bill that will make looters return same amount looted.

Also, to those boasting to use impeachment as their next tool in Rivers State, must we force ourselves on the innocent public to exercise power drunkenness.

When anyone replies to a matter before he hears the facts, it is foolish and humiliating says Prov. 18:13. So is it to those querying verdicts of Supreme Court.

We are hoping for better days in our democracy when elections will end at the polling booth not court of law or court of public opinion.

Once again congratulation to our Judicial system.


Ifedayo Obi,
Good Governance Advocates

Wicked Wike is a murderer who has made many women widows and several children orphans. He has bought the judiciary, supreme court but God who hates blood sheding shall surely address this.

Forget what supreme court heard or did not hear. Forget whether the apc proved it's case or not. Maybe the supreme court was justified in returning wike. What this teaches us is that life is actually a b1tch! Justice is not always served in a court of law. That's why several murderers have gone scot free even from the so called supreme court. And there are many many innocent people languishing in jails having been condemned by the so called supreme court yet they never did the crime. Forget apc or pdp a sincere rivers person who was on ground and fears his or her Almighty God would feel hard done by, by that supreme court Verdict. Maybe it's not the supreme court judges' fault but as long as those judges continue to be humans not Gods, some of the guilty would continue to get away and some of the innocent would continue to be locked away!
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