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Right Of Reply: Some Readers’ Reactions To My Writes-Up, Trial By Instalment, Superb Write-Up – By Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN

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Sir your piece “Trial by installment” in Sunday Telegraph of 24th January, 2016, is superb. It has illuminated the dark   areas of this administrations recalcitrant disposition to the rule of law, deceit & abuse of human rights. Nigeria needs brave men like you. Livingstone B. Kazwala, a Yola, Adamawa state based journalist – 08065696113.

 

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Please my brother, stop deceiving your fans. You ought to speak out on the disappointing role respected learned colleagues like Prof. Sagay is playing in the APC led government against rule of law in democratic era. We’re watching. Have a pleasant day. Thanks. Anonymous, 08034338077.

 

ABIA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION JUDGMENT

 

 

Chief, good morning sir. I pray for you always. I so much love you and believe in your idealogy and views. At the last Constitutional Conference, you were too active. Thanks for views in Sunday Telegraph. Thanks for your frank and expertise views on the judgment of the Owerri Appeal Court on Abia State Governorship election. Please, sir, publish your position on the errors of Abia Appeal Court Judges ruling. Dr Alex Oti of APGA, labeled you as a hatchet man. Yet, you remain an authority. Please, write next Sunday on Abia Appeal Court Governorship verdict. The Supreme Court Judgment in favour of Wike Vindicates you. It can’t just contradict or out rule itself nor abandon, deny itself. Alex Oti is going nowhere. Card reader is not part of our laws. Over voting must be proved by eye witnesses from the polling units, with eye witnesses, voters registered and not with one report of a party agent who can’t be everywhere in the 3 Local Government Areas Obingwa, Osisioma and Isingwa.

 

Blanket cancellation even of areas having no records of malpractice can’t just be DESENFRANCISED. May my God keep, protect you always in Jesus Christ name amen. Congrats also on your newly published book. Be sure am your friend, although you have not consented. May my God Jehovah, keep, bless, protect and heal you always in Jesus Christ’s holy name, amen. Pst. Obasi. C. Sam. Lecturer, counseling psychologist, Michael Okpara (Fed) university of Agric., Umudike, Umuahia, God’s Own State. 08033455244.

 

KOGI GOVERNORSHIP VERDICT

 

Did Faleke participate in all stages of election, whether primaries or nominations, including Muhammed  Abubakar Audu, Faleke’s running mate? Anonymous, 08136583755.

 

THE ANTI-CORRUPTION WAR VS. RULE OF LAW

 

Ozekhome, President Buhari, simply cannot suspend the Constitution, but operating it illogically. The Bench must be courageous to defend themselves against executive’s encroachment. Buhari must not be allowed to destroy the country under the pretext of fight against corruption. He is destroying the economy with his useless or clueless policy if any. The situation in Kogi exposed emptiness of the change APC and Buhari promised Nigerians. He is not the Messiah he is mistaken to be. Ex-Zamfara State Government, Ahmed Sani who is accused stealing #1billion is granted bail of #1,000,000 and was never taken to court in hand-cuff, but look at all Ibo accused of one offence or the other. Mr. Metuh accused of #400million granted bail at the same amount always appears in court in hand-cuff.

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I smell either Buhari or his government runs into trouble soon, except he retraces his steps. Please don’t drop your pen. Ogbadu, 08039206612.

 

 

NOW THIS

DONALD TRUMP AND HIS VERBAL DIARRHEA

 

Donald Trump is best known as a property czar. But, he has tried again and again to be American president. In this mission, nothing is too obscene or vulgar to say, if it can attract attention. He is sheer narcissism. Surprisingly, he rides pretty high on the American presidential polls. If he wins, he may take America to an island of isolation from the rest of the world. He has done and said everything to alienate America from minorities, blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, Caucasians, Native Americans, Europeans, etc. So incensed is the United Kingdom, which has also received the odium and vituperations of his caustic verbal diarrhea or dysentery of the mouth, that the United Kingdom is now debating a law in Parliament to ban the stormy petrel and combative iconoclast from ever stepping on the soil of England.

 

Trump had among others, derided Nigerians: “We need to get the Africans out (of the USA). Not the blacks, the Africans especially the Nigerians. They’re everywhere. I went for a rally in Alaska and met just one African in the entire state. Where was he from? Nigeria! He’s in Alaska taking our jobs. They’re in Houston taking our jobs. Why can’t they stay in their own country? Why? I’ll tell you why. Because they are corrupt. Their Governments are so corrupt; they rob the people blind and bring it all here to spend. And their people run away and come down here and take our job! We can’t have that! If I become president, we’ll send them all home. We’ll build a wall at the Atlantic Shore. Then may be we’ll re-colonise them because obviously they did not learn a damn thing from the British”.

 

 

Earlier in a vitriolic and acerbic speech at Indianapolis, when he commenced his vile campaign, Trump had cursed, “Some Africans are lazy fools only good at eating, love making and stealing the best they can do is gallivanting around ghettoes… Look at African countries like Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries”.

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Does Trump know how many Americans, who by nature, are very gregarious, work and live in Nigeria and in other parts of this wide world? Can he now atomise the present world which has since become a global village? Is this the kind of character that the Republican party hopes to invest the future of America, and the rest of the world in, since America still remains the sole global policeman of the world? Does the Democratic party have an answer to this rampaging bully who hugs media limelight like NewCastle hugs coal?

 

 

 

AND THIS

BELLO SWORN IN AS KOGI STATE GOVERNOR WITHOUT A DEPUTY

 

The political and legal landscapes are becoming more and more interesting, having regard to the swearing in of Yahaya Bello, as Governor of Kogi State without a Deputy. This has given Ebiras the opportunity, for the first time, to produce a governor. They are happy. I am also happy for them. The numerically superior Igallas have always dominated, like the TIVs in Benue State against the Idomas, the Urhobos against the Itsekiri, Aniomas and Ikas, etc. but, like I noted in this column last week, the next few weeks will be quite interesting as to whom the cap fits, legally and constitutionally speaking- Wada, Bello or Faleke.

 

The story cannot be complete without hearing out my friend and brother, Patrick Obahiagbon, alias, Igodomigodo, the flamboyant, colourful Chief of Staff to Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, whose highfalutin and grandiloquent grammar can break a plasma television set. Hear him:

“The tragic passing of Prince Abubakar Audu has polarized the Nation into political jingoism. Death is bugaboo and life terminus. May his soul rest in unblemished peace. This quagmire and triviality have further obfuscated the scantiness and paraplegic crinkum crankum of our Constitution . Our knowledge centura is enveloped in Einstein cubbyhole. The optate of Mr Bello is Godwin’s law and this has adjudicated the social disequilibrium and political phantasmagoria among the indignant of kogites. It is my emblem pleasure to congratulate the governor elect; this is saucier to our youth agitation for power. I am manically bewildered, overgassted and flabberwhelmed at the causal rejectal dismal of Mr Bello. This should be buried in a bermuda triangle instantaneously. The modus operandi of the young man is gargantuan and sui-generis. Kogi people should rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps to avoid further bureaucratic scramble.” I hear you.

 

LAST LINE

Are Kogites and other Nigerians reading and digesting this Sunday sermon on the mount of the Nigerian Project, by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, OFR?

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