InibeheOkori VS Akpabio! Solomon Johnny's Letter to @MBuhari NOTHING HAS CHANGED AND I DID NOT EXPECT MUCH

NOTHING HAS CHANGED AND I DID NOT EXPECT MUCH Mr President: I never had any confidence on the Tribunal panel members hearing the case between Akpabio and Inibehe Okoro, in that nothing serious and different has happened in the judiciary since your emergence as President to restore my confidence on Nigeria's justice delivery system. Cases are still being bought and sold. Judgement are celebrated by the guilty before they are delivered, I mean lawyers still write judgement for justices to be delivered for a fee. Nothing has changed in our courts. I had expected Mr President to declare a state of emergency in the Nigerian judiciary and assume the office of "Minister of Justice and Attorney general of the federation" instead of your planned heading of the Petroleum Ministry. I had expected you to cause the review of some past judgements which were obviously traded and punish corrupt judges who adore our courts and answer "Your Lordships". In my estimation, the problems of Nigeria will be half-solved if we have a judiciary that Nigerians are confident about. So it was totally a faulty hope to think that the old justices, sitting on the old structure established by the rotten corrupt PDP government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan can act different from what they are known for - trading judgement to the highest bidder. It does not make sense to me that Their Lordships could hold that the number of accredited voters is inconsequential to the number of final number of votes cast and that the constituency that is filled out in a candidates nomination form is irrelevant in election contest. It is ridiculous that a judge could hold that, discrepancies in election results, irregularities and violence during election are not enough grounds to cancel election. And l ask them, have you read the Electoral Act 2010 as amended? They want me to agree with them, hold them in high esteem? They want me not to believe that they are compromised? Haba, what shall l not see from Nigeria's temple of justice! To be modest, these justices are a shame to their profession because law to them is not for justice but for fraud. Do l blame them? Not at all. I blame you Mr President, who is falling our hands even after you have been a victim of electoral fraud severally and have gone through our court system three times without having justice. After being elected in a manner that exudes miracle, I had expected that Mr President will go all out of the way, whatever that means to ensure that those who seek justice after electoral crisis have it or seen to have been given same. Your Excellency, you have left a lot of things undone and the fat rats are back again eating our fish. I believe in a better Akwa lbom State and Nigeria. I believe that someday that our votes will count. I believe that the planned e-voting system in 2019 would compliment the successes of the card reader technology that some tribunal panel members are setting aside, and that those who win through terror will be shove aside. I believe that we shall once again have a man like Attahiru Jega and that through divine intervention we shall win the race. I believe in Nigeria. Mr President you fall our hands, trivialise governance, toil with the blood we sweated under Akpabio's oppressive regime, ignore party interest, politics and rubbish the goodwill of Nigerians on your presidency. I believe God will yet, raised another man who will be more vociferous and aggressive about restructuring key sectors of our national life including the Judiciary to a point that criminals and election riggers will dread arraignment. Mr President can sleep, relish the comfort of Aso Rock and globetrot for all l care. Akpabios, Bassey Albert can pop their champagnes. Mockers can continue to deride the change project in Akwa lbom State. It does not change the fact that PDP never won a free and fair election in the state. What they hold in their palm ready to pass on to their children is the blood of the slain voters ready to speak against them at the right time. I urge Rt Hon Emmanuel Obot, Chief Inibehe Okorie to move on and still explore the remaining option of Appeal Court in defense of the masses and democracy. They shall secure Justice, God willing. I commend Chief Assam Assam, SAN for a good job done. It is heart warming that we have one of our own whose articulation of the issues could not have been punctured by a corrupt panel. Let's see these developments as temporary setbacks and push on. Mr President, nothing has really changed, Inibehe Okori versus Akpabio is a case in study. Solomon Johnny Writes from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State SHARE THIS POST