THE FEAR OF DECLARING THE SEATS OF DEFECTED HOUSE MEMBERS VACANT AS MAGAJI (SAN)’S APPLICATION STALL JUDGMENT TILL FRIDAY. DOES THIS CREATE ROOM FOR THEM TO SHAMEFULLY RETURN TO STATUS QUO? THEY BETTER DO BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE OTHERWISE, JEGA WILL HASTILY CONDUCT ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES THAT MAY BE CREATED. A BIG BLOW FOR APC IF PDP IS FAVOURED…HMM THE FAVOUR ENJOYED BY PDP IN THE DECAMPING LOGIC Madam Chief Justice of Nigeria warned recently that lawyers that engage in stalling judgment should have their days numbered in the administration of justice in Nigeria. How far can that go? Magaji is a SAN but his today’s action not part of the delay of dispensing justice as frown against by the CJN? Why is it that today when the judgment was being expected that he has to come up with the usual logic of delaying justice? May be SANs are excluded from the sanctions that may befall on those that deliberately delay justice. Time shall tell…I have always complained that those that have majorly compounded our problems in Nigeria are our lawyers and journalists. It is no news that, some layers and journalists are in the perpetual habits of respectively defending fraudsters and giving positive reportage to those that have illegally acquire wealth from our dear Nation thereby making the indigents remaining unheard. Today, Peter Odili of Rivers State could not be tried of alleged corruption. My former Governor, Lucky was made to payback peanut against the huge embezzlements carried out during his reign as governor of Edo State. The most recent ones still begging for actions are Farouk Lawal, the onetime outspoken member of House of Representative, Senator Bukola Saraki (on loans imbroglios) and even that of Sanusi and many others. I feel pain for Nigeria each time I see the stalling of dispensation of justice by most senior lawyers. Very painful it becomes when the man that steals a goat or those alleged stolen just around five millions are sent to jails while those that placed millions of Nigerians in a state of comatose by stealing billions of naira are flying private jets around the world and are being provided with security by Nigeria Police. Surprisingly, these capitalists that have caused our nation great pains by their fraudulent acts are being defended by renown lawyers when charged to court for obvious and very visible accusations. Attend their marriages or that of their children or any social gathering organized by them; check out the reportage by journalists. With a brown envelope, the whole world is told stories of their sainthood making the poor regret their continuous existence in this world by singing one of the songs of Jim Reeves as consolation (This world is not my home heavenly open door)…A fraudster (419) or (yahoo…yahoo guy) or government workers whose salary is less that the donation donates money to even the church or mosque, no one ask for the source of the money. No one border to know where he works. No one is concerned about psychological effect to others unable to meet the donation challenge. When such person is charge to court next time, all you see are SANs lined up to defend such a charlatan. Yes, they are out to take their share of the money to enhance the sustainability of their chambers. Please, I should not be misunderstood that innocent people could be framed up. If I were a lawyer, I will back out of a case as soon as I know the truth is legally not acceptable. Please, no one should tell me that lawyers do not know the truth during the investigation. What we see, they assist the hoaxer to utilize the loopholes in law to defend their clients. Again, if a lawyer is not told the truth by his client, he cannot effectively defend them. So, do not tell me, they are not aware of the real story. How will these politicians be loyal to their party leadership when they can defect whenever they are not in agreement with the leadership of their party that brought them to power for selfish reasons? Today, an elected APC member into the House of Representative is about contesting for the governorship position of Ekiti State under the Labour Party, yet he is still in the House of Representative for which he was elected via ACN now APC. Anyway, that is understandable and arguable because, ACN is no longer in existence. Those that decamped from PDP may not enjoy the benefit from the intending judgment if their seats are declared vacant because; there is already a court judgment that PDP is not divided. However, same from APC may smile home with their decisions because, they all were elected under ACN or CPC or ANPP for which those party are by now history. Again, no documents signed by them that, their elections to their respective positions at the moment must automatically be taken to be APC. Unfortunately, the last APC nationwide registration does not guarantee APC the argument as most have already decamped before the registration. I am not a lawyer but, the law does favour APC on this. I am sure, that it was because of this argument, they their party registration was well publicized to rope those yet to decamp. I therefore say, the logic of decamping favoured the PDP at the moment if the court eventually ruled their seats vacant…What happened next? Time and events shall tell again
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:52:16 +0000
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