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Tell them.
Thank Gawd for people like you.
We shall get there one day.

na wa ohhhhhh

Peter the great, Peter the rock.
Na your own i hear.
Tell me something my boda.

'I Have No Deal With Anybody''- Peter Obi . [THIS DAY NEWSPAPER 08.19.2005]


''But wait, weren’t Obi and Uba laughing it up at Odabro over ishiewu and Moët during the WIC Convention? Who is to say that Obi would not bow to Uba? (b) Compromise and give in to Uba’s original plans, albeit modified to recognize his strong show of some spine. Thus, he would prove conclusively that there is indeed honor among thieves.''
      -Gospel of the Godfather , @ www.kwenu.com. [Tuesday 7, DEC. 2004.]

Na siddon look we dey now, Abi I lie?

Gawd dey sha

Angel , i no call your name jare.
Fear no fit let me call your name....
or abi is it the story of the old woman feeling uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.....
...we shall soon see the yansh of fowl when wind blow hard.

my i go get site. see as babes dey fall for Seun like craze

Kool.

Jamo?

hot-angel:
Ehnnnn!!!!!!! 3 of them? Nnna, i bow for u oo. Infact i withdraw!

Before nko?

...........no way.

you just wake from sleep?
.

''only a mad man stands in front of a moving trailer'
.

No thanks

thank you.

. You are too young

Revenge ke?

Alas! .

Who is the referee or Police in this matter?
Nike are you ready to serve as one?
By the powers conferred on me.................I hereby pronounce Nike the house Police on bad communication, with powers to arrest and prosecute all offenders accordingly, without fear or favour.

Dablessed,
if you really love him, be proud of your Bobo.
Stand by your man.
Abi na Dokita?
I send my fatherly blessings.

I do know that English is not our mama tongue...........
but for gawdsake make una dey communicate properly,
if grammar finish for your mouth........then use broken English or your language sef,
as I do.
What about the spelling check seun put here?
I beg use am and save us from your numerous misspelled words.
It shows how disorganized we dey.
Plenty people dey read this forum.
What should we do to poor communicators on this forum? You decide!

What a  combination
Dablessed and Calabarman.
May you live happily from today and forever more

Dablessed, tell us about your own first.
Abi you dey interested in Calabarman?
Una match well well.......i saw it in a vision today.

Dablessed you open the way.......who made you a Matchmaker sef?

Congratulations to all soccer loving Nigerians.
If to say una be ENGLAND nko? Denmark 4 ENGLAND 1 in a friendly few days ago.
Atall atall na him bad pass.

Greatpeter:
Wish I could be lucky like his

You call it luck?

drbigdaddyg ,
Please tell me the truth......... ..How much Nda Orji Kalu pay you?
If You no tell me the truth now, You go naked baff [bath] for bathroom very soon.

Greatpeter:
Thank you pinto you understand our judicial politics well enough.

But Ngige might not win second time in Anambra.

Enemy don pass friend for Ngige, but he will surely finish this tenure.

Old Boy,
I don talk say , i ready to defend Ngige free of charge make we disgrace all those old foolish men for PDP.
Na case of thiefman thief thiefman.
If some governors commit murder, some forge certificate, some go prison before and PDP use Uncle T.Balogun weh dem dey call IG-thief now take steal ballot boxes, still dey there, how much less Ngige were siddon for him house, money he no get, PDP and INEC do abracadabra make am governor.

PDP want to be relevant in Anambra State.
I can bet my plate of 'Akpu' alias Santana or White and White,
that Ngige go negotiate and Obi go hear different story.
No matter the accelerated hearing given to it by the Court of Appeal,
because of the issues arising as grounds of Appeal, the matter go last for not less than 24months.
You want try Nigerian Lawyers for this kind matter?
The Court of Appeal go see all kinds of Frivolous applications in inform of interlocutory prayers...before we go come to the real appeal grounds,
I even hear say Ngige dey come with more than 1,000,000.00 Lawyers. Infact before his lawyers go finish to announce their appearances finish, Court don adjourn for more than 250 times/days and how many days be that?
Ngige go done enter second term before Appeal finish and PDP go don Die then.
Watch out

Ngige's endgame
By Reuben Abati
"Your friend Chris Ngige, His Excellency the Governor of Anambra State, is out." "Down, not out, please. The ruling of the election petition tribunal is not the end of the matter. He has the right of appeal. He says he will go to the Appeal Court and if he loses there, he will go to the ECOWAS court. The man is a fighter. If I were you, I will keep my fingers crossed. In this country, anything can happen."

"If I were Ngige I will pack my things, issue a n earth-shaking historic statement and leave now when the ovation is loudest. I think he has made his point. But the thing about politicians is that they are incurable optimists. Even when a politician sees that there is no road ahead, he would still want to try his luck. That is what Ngige is trying to do. I don't think he will win the appeal. And what is this thing about the ECOWAS Court? These days, every politician that has a case in court is heading towards the ECOWAS Court."

"But it is an interesting development in our legal system. Where you can prove for example that your basic human rights have been trampled upon and justice has been miscarried, the ECOWAS Court will grant you audience."

"A judicial ECOMOG. That is what it is. And I am not surprised that it is only Nigerian politicians that are exploiting it. So, if the Court of Appeal upholds the ruling of the election petition tribunal in Anambra, and the ECOWAS Court rules otherwise, then Ngige will remain in office? I don't see that happening."

"So are you saying that justice has been done in the Ngige case?"

"What is justice, please?"

"I should ask you"

"Justice is what the court of law says it is"

"Justice is what the people think it is. Justice must be seen to have been done."

"But justice is the rule of law"

"It is more than that. It is about the social order and the common good."

"More like the command of the sovereign. Once the state rules, that is justice. It is what the law-givers say it is"

"No. But how about truth?"

"What is truth? Who knows what the truth is? And what has that got to do with the Ngige case? This is not about the truth if I may say so."

"In my own opinion, we should be interested in the truth. So you see, truth is relative. And in the Ngige case, what has been advertised is that justice is also relative"

"How?"

"Okay, if you insist. The tribunal has ruled that Ngige did not win the election and that Peter Obi was the rightful winner of the Gubernatorial election in Anambra state in 2003. I believe that to be true. Afterall, we all know that there was no true election in 2003 in many states of the Federation. What the PDP did in 2003 was to organise a Tsunami against other political parties, they discounted the electorate and declared pre-determined results in many places. But it is not only Ngige that benefitted from that fraudulent process. Why is he the only one that will now be punished? Why is he the only Governor that is being removed? Could it be because certain persons do not like his face? Could it be that he is paying the price for offending some powerful people? These are questions that should be asked beyond the judgement."

"I am sorry, you are moralising. You cannot disagree with the election petition tribunal on moral grounds. A court of law deals with facts not moral sentiments."

"But it was the same election that brought Ngige to power that also gave the President victory in Anambra. I think we have to also go a step further and declare that President Obasanjo did not win in Anambra state."

"Again, you are wrong. The election petition tribunal was looking at Ngige's election, not the President's. A court of law cannot grant a prayer that is not presented before it. It is not a Father Christmas."

"But the tribunal should be interested in how its ruling will be perceived"

"Sorry, we are discussing a judicial process not a public opinion poll. Judges do not arrive at their rulings through public opinion polls."

"Thank you, bathroom lawyer. That is why people always say that the law is an ass, a silly ass. What I am saying is that we have to place the ruling in the Ngige case in context. You cannot quote the law and all those funny legal cliches to hide the fact that the Ngige matter is more political than legal. If it is about law, then most of these other Governors should not be in office today."

"If nobody challenges the legitimacy of their mandate; if their opponents sleep on their rights, then there is nothing anyone can do about that."

"How about conscience?"

" Conscience. What conscience? In Nigerian politics, conscience is dead. Even Ngige cannot talk about conscience. He knows for example, that he did not win the election. You and I also know that. Those who helped him to rig the election have confessed publicly. Even the PDP has declared that Ngige is no longer a member of the party, and that he is on his own. The man himself once confessed that he swore to an oath in a shrine so that he could become Governor. If he loses out in the struggle for power , I would say that he is the architect of his own fortunes and other politicians now and in the future ought to learn from his fall from high office."

"That is just one side of the story. This is a man whom certain forces in the PDP vowed to get out of power. On more than one occasion, they attacked the government house and chased him out of town and burnt down public buildings. Till date, nothing has been done to bring those hoodlums to justice. The impression I get is that the law has now been used to accomplish what the gangsters of Anambra could not achieve. When you give the common man the impression that the judicial process can be used to achieve pre-determined outcomes, you put a question mark on justice itself".

"But the law is the law. You cannot use the folklore surrounding a case to intimidate the judiciary".

"I am just curious that the members of the tribunal that ruled against Ngige left town immediately after delivering their judgement. Why didn't they wait?"

"Why should they wait? Once their assignment was over, they had no business hanging around? And in any case, who told you they ran out of Anambra state?"

"I heard"

"You are always hearing things. And what does it matter whether they stayed back or left town?"

"There could have been violent protests. And they could have been caught in a cross-fire. Ngige is a very popular Governor. The people of Anambra are saying that he is an action Governor who has brought development to the state."

"But there was no violence. And if there was, the Federal Government could have declared a state of emergency. And what is this thing about being a good Governor? That was not the issue before the tribunal. If the man did not win the election, then it does not matter what he has done while in office. Nothing can stand on nothing."

" I still feel that the situation with Ngige may change. Let's watch and see. What if the Court of Appeal drags the case till 2007."

"But the Court of Appeal is not going to do that. In fact, by December everything will be over. You will be surprised that the Court of Appeal will treat this case very quickly."

"And the ECOWAS court?"

"Is it the same ECOWAS court that is controlled by Nigeria?"

"I see the enemies of Ngige have everything well thought-out. It is a lose-lose situation when you are the victim in the crocodile-infested terrain of Nigerian politics."

"Forget it. All those PDP loudmouths who once said that the Anambra situation is a family affair, have you heard anybody saying anything? Ngige is the big orphan of Nigerian politics. When Boni Haruna was removed by the election petition tribunal as Governor of Adamawa state, he was reinstated by the Court of Appeal. When the Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom was removed by the state legislature, PDP bigwigs went there and changed his dismissal to resignation. But Ngige is on his own. He is being taught a lesson about power. For him, it is end game. And the substance of that endgame can be found in the reaffirmation of the power of the godfather in Nigerian politics. Once you fall out with the godfather, you are out."

"It is sad"

"But that is the level of Nigerian politics"

"But suppose Ngige wins at the Court of Appeal."

"An appeal is based on substance not mere wishes."

"But suppose he wins..."

"Until then. When that happens, let's talk again."

"You are definitely a Peter Obi man".

"No, you are mistaken. This is not about Ngige and Peter Obi. Even Peter Obi must know that if he eventually becomes Governor, he would have a burden of his own to carry."

"I hear he is now being addressed as His Excellency."

"What do you expect?"

"Political jobbers are already taking applications to him. People who want to be commissioners, special advisers and board members; they are not bothered that the man may be Governor for less than two years. They just want to get close to power."

"That is Nigerian politics for you. It is turn-by-turn politics."

"But what can anybody do in less than two years."

"In government, you can do a lot in six months."

"That is what Obi says, he says in six or twelve months he will transform Anambra state."

"But for him really, what matters is that justice has been done. He won an election. The PDP Tsunami that robbed him of victory has been reversed. I think we cannot start assessing him before he gets into office. For now, he and Ngige are both men of history"

"Fine. But I keep insisting that the big issues in the Anambra crisis are as follows: the integrity of the electoral process, the rights of the electorate, and the failure of the PDP as a political party. We still have to work out a programme for ensuring the credibility of our elections. That is very important as we move towards 2007"

"You have left out one other thing"

"And that is?"

"It is Ngige who is carrying the can for the electoral fraud in Anambra in 2003. I think for us to strengthen the electoral process, there must be special sanctions for anybody who organises fraud in anyway. It is not enough that Ngige is losing his seat. How about the INEC Commissioner for Anambra state in 2003. Who is he? He should be exposed and his failure thrown in his face. The persons who collated the results: they should be arrested and made to answer certain questions. The moment electoral officers begin to go to jail for allowing and facilitating electoral malpractice, you'd be surprised that we will make progress."

"One other thing. Ngige is being removed as Governor two years after he was sworn in. I think for future purposes, election petitions should be determined before anybody is sworn into office. When you remove a Governor or the President mid-way into his tenure, you destabilise the system. You create undue tension. This must be an issue for the National Assembly to worry about in composing the electoral law for the 2007 elections."

"Yeah, you are right."

"Chris Uba must be having a good laugh. Even Mbadinuju, the former Governor of Anambra must be so happy. After he was forced out by the PDP, that state has not known any peace."

"Well... maybe it is Mbadinuju's witchcraft at work"

"What do you mean witchcraft? Don't let Mbadinuju sue you oh, and then use you to gain public attention"

"You mean you do not know that there is witchcraft in Nigerian politics? In fact, it is 70 per cent witchcraft, 20 per cent thuggery and 10 per cent politics."

"You are saying that there is nearly no politics in Nigerian politics."

"Well, do you have a different opinion?"

".Ngige should know that he is playing an end-game. And the game is up. He's been checkmated."


 © 2003 - 2005 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).

I am flattered.

Chxta:
Governor Bola Tinubu must be trying very hard not to laugh. When Chris Ngige was expelled from the People’s Democratic Party, and Tinubu rushed to Awka to offer him sanctuary in the Alliance for Democracy, his response was that, having just escaped from a pool infested with sharks, he was not about to jump into one that was full of crocodiles – or words to that effect. Now see what has happened.

Chxta, that is a good one.