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By DOYIN OKUPE via Facebook


The recent call by Chief John Oyegun the chairman of the APC asking for the probe of the Supreme Court Judges is a very sad development in our Political History. All men of virtue and goodwill should rise and condemn this extreme partisanship and flagrant display of political recklessness. The supreme court is the highest organ of the judiciary in the country and we all, including the president of the country, are duty bound as patriotic citizens of sound minds to hold their views sacred and inviolable. Their judgments cannot be favorable always and they can indeed be wrong sometimes because they are not infallible, since they are mortal men and women and not God Almighty who is the ONLY ALL WISE GOD.


I do not speak as a PDP stalwart but as a patriotic citizen of this country and a stakeholder in the Nigerian project. Politicians will come and go,just as my party the PDP and the Governments it established have come and gone, after holding sway for 16years.But our country has remained and shall continue to remain .Hence we cannot and should not standby and allow transient office holders desecrate our hallowed institutions by bringing them to disrepute and public ridicle. Chief Oyegun had lamented that "All the highly resourceful States have gone to the PDP" and he subsequently threatened to take the matter up on behalf of his APC members from Rivers state With the president. While Chief Oyegun in his parochial and mercantile political effusion is beclouded by financial considerations ,the respected Judges of the Supreme Court must adjudicate on the principles of Law, Equity and Justice.


Chief Oyegun and indeed all of us politicians are to be blamed for undermining the credibility of the electoral processed leading to a situation where virtually nearly all elections are not only contested but frivolously pursued to the Supreme Court. Instead of educating our supporters and voters on appropriate civil,honest and disciplined behaviour on election days,we use money, thuggery and security forces to wantonly perverse and undermine the electoral process. By so doing we directly, and inadvertently, transfer the power to choose political leaders, from the people, to the Law Courts.


It is instructive to note that in the recently concluded presidential primaries in the United States of America, scarcely was any police officer or security agents noticed at the caucuses,neither did any act of violence occur at any point.Nigerians with or without their political leaders must unite and stand up for the support of Justice and Rule of Law in our society and in all facets of our National life. There is no doubt that there are elements of corruption within the Judiciary. But people in Government have all it takes to address the situation discreetly and appropriately without bringing down this great institution and the very last hope of the common man. Desecration and defamation of our judicial institutions in the public can only lead to hopelessness, unlawful self help and anarchy. Government is never run on the pages of Newspapers or in murky arena of the social media.



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Zombie!

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By DOYIN OKUPE via Facebook


The recent call by Chief John Oyegun the chairman of the APC asking for the probe of the Supreme Court Judges is a very sad development in our Political History. All men of virtue and goodwill should rise and condemn this extreme partisanship and flagrant display of political recklessness. The supreme court is the highest organ of the judiciary in the country and we all, including the president of the country, are duty bound as patriotic citizens of sound minds to hold their views sacred and inviolable. Their judgments cannot be favorable always and they can indeed be wrong sometimes because they are not infallible, since they are mortal men and women and not God Almighty who is the ONLY ALL WISE GOD.


I do not speak as a PDP stalwart but as a patriotic citizen of this country and a stakeholder in the Nigerian project. Politicians will come and go,just as my party the PDP and the Governments it established have come and gone, after holding sway for 16years.But our country has remained and shall continue to remain .Hence we cannot and should not standby and allow transient office holders desecrate our hallowed institutions by bringing them to disrepute and public ridicle. Chief Oyegun had lamented that "All the highly resourceful States have gone to the PDP" and he subsequently threatened to take the matter up on behalf of his APC members from Rivers state With the president. While Chief Oyegun in his parochial and mercantile political effusion is beclouded by financial considerations ,the respected Judges of the Supreme Court must adjudicate on the principles of Law, Equity and Justice.


Chief Oyegun and indeed all of us politicians are to be blamed for undermining the credibility of the electoral processed leading to a situation where virtually nearly all elections are not only contested but frivolously pursued to the Supreme Court. Instead of educating our supporters and voters on appropriate civil,honest and disciplined behaviour on election days,we use money, thuggery and security forces to wantonly perverse and undermine the electoral process. By so doing we directly, and inadvertently, transfer the power to choose political leaders, from the people, to the Law Courts.


It is instructive to note that in the recently concluded presidential primaries in the United States of America, scarcely was any police officer or security agents noticed at the caucuses,neither did any act of violence occur at any point.Nigerians with or without their political leaders must unite and stand up for the support of Justice and Rule of Law in our society and in all facets of our National life. There is no doubt that there are elements of corruption within the Judiciary. But people in Government have all it takes to address the situation discreetly and appropriately without bringing down this great institution and the very last hope of the common man. Desecration and defamation of our judicial institutions in the public can only lead to hopelessness, unlawful self help and anarchy. Government is never run on the pages of Newspapers or in murky arena of the social media.



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I do not speak as a PDP stalwart but as a patriotic citizen of this country and a stakeholder in the Nigerian project.

abi YAM holder...


You know wahala dey when thieves, looters and yam consumers begin yarn patriotism...

Ahhhh. this okupe of a man still exist? i thought he committed suicide o after we successfully returned his otueke jesus back to his village with our votes.

mariamadenle:
Mr Bastard Okupe EFCC boyz are coming for you

That's all the pig head bastard president can do. That's why his killing the economy.

A good piece from Dr Okupe.
I think the parties in the dispute got judgment but not justice because the perprators of the violence and election manipulation have always escaped unpunished.

I see the judgement of the Supreme Court as a commonsense solution to the already bad situation in the affected states. I can only imagine the waste of human and material resources that the states and the country would have the subjected to in the event that the elections were cancelled.

The political class would have depleted the already empty treasury in their bid to return or get elected. The loss would have been the common citizens of these states because both agitators are not so different from each other...

tuniski:
Zombie!

Gidin uwarka Arne.