EBERE WABARA
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DON Ubani, a brief Ngwa man, was the Information Commissioner in the immediate-past administration in Abia State. His main task while in government service was unprecedented multi-media propaganda and illimitable disinformation about the most disastrous and brutal regime in democratic Nigeria.
I am not astonished by his brazen interjection in the on-going battle to redeem the state from cancerous debility because the current leadership surrogacy in Abia is indisputably a perpetuation of the last misgovernance experienced by Abians from 2007 to 2015.
The only departure is that virtually all the commissioners, the Secretary to the State Government, and other top bureaucrats in the state are insensitively and unsurprisingly from Ngwa. Last week, Ubani wrote an article published in THISDAY of January 23, 2016, Page 47, frivolously entitled “Bazaar in the Temple of Justice”.
After acknowledging the fact that the Returning Officer in the April 11, 2015, Governorship Election in Abia State and VC of the UNN, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, had declared the poll inconclusive on technical grounds, Ubani goes ahead, typical of his tenure as commissioner, to calumniate the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the awaiting governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti of APGA, with this scathing and asinine comment: “Before Dr. Otti approached the Appeal court (sic) Tribunal at Owerri, the news had hit the streets of Abia that Dr. Otti had, through the over-bearing (sic) influence of a prominent leader of the APC and a one-time Governor of Lagos State penetrated the judges that would preside over the Appeal Tribunal at Owerri. It was also learnt that Dr. Otti had pledged to defect to APC as soon as he is (sic) sworn-in (sic) as Governor.
“The accord eventually gave rise to the composition of the Owerri Tribunal with four out of the five judges being drawn from the Lagos Division of the Appeal Court. Billions exchanged hands and the judges, having collapsed morally, wrote and read a judgment that directly amounts to a travesty of justice,” pint-sized Ubani snidely stated in sheer naivety.
If Ubani were not bunkum, he would not make these kinds of uncharitable, specious, scurrilous and grossly irresponsible statements. This type of idiocy arises from inebriacy.
How can anyone even of mere bovine intelligence declare, audaciously, that Asiwaju Tinubu penetrated—an imbecilic euphemism for “compromised”—the five-man panel of Appeal Court justices? Perhaps, Ubani forgot to add that Prof. Ozumba may also have been “penetrated” before his professorial affirmation of electoral inconclusion and apparent suspicion of electoral fraud.
Because four of the five justices, according to Ubani in his deviancy, came from Lagos, then Asiwaju Tinubu must have “penetrated” them to favour a prospective political client/ recruit! What kind of numbskull thinking is this? Must a political mercantilist-cum-hack advertise his blissful ignorance on the pages of a reputable newspaper?
Does this ignoramus know what it takes to become a justice of the Appeal Court? Is it so mechanistically possible to “penetrate” justices? If it were so simplistic, networth institutions, state governments, corporate citizens and opulent individuals would not have been losing cases at all! There may be exceptional and infinitesimal cases of judicial corruption because of marginal environmental factors or circumstantial exigencies.
When dunderheads make a fuss of defection, I pity them. Defection is a global democratic process that can take place anytime and in any circumstance the defector deems fit. There is a stupid tendency by some senile persons to criminalize the exercise of that fundamental right. The fact that Dr. Otti moved from the PDP to APGA or plans, according to Ubani, to defect to the APC, ultimately, is irrelevant. Who says he cannot return to the PDP, as others had done in the past? There is no room for clownishness in public spheres by charlatanistic hacks.
How can a buffoon and serial blackmailer declare that our justices lack integrity and, therefore, compromiseable? This is a slap indeed on the Nigerian judiciary in its entirety. If I were empowered, a disrespectful brat like this should have been incarcerated.
What came over this information mercantilist and bureaucracy mercenary to do a damning condemnation of a noble profession and its upper echelon practitioners? Does he have any evidence that the Appeal Court justices were “penetrated”? Did he parley with Asiwaju Tinubu before the alleged “penetration” as to be an accessory to the fact? Was Ubani’s diatribe a function of cerebral palsy or just pub idiocy?
Again, Ubani vacuously mumbles viterpuratively: “Billions exchanged hands and the Judges, having collapsed morally, wrote and read a judgmentthat dirtly (sic) amounts to a travesty of justice.” What is wrong with this fellow?
This short man should have been behind bars by now for this kind of caustic assault on our Lordships. In plain language, Ubani is saying that the justices were bribed hence the outcome of the appeal. I am sure the judiciary has never been so embarrassed by anyone or group.
Vitriolic Ubani and his shallow benefactors will also attack the Supreme Court justices when they, hopefully, uphold the ruling of their colleagues at the Appeal Court. These virulent mites may blame God eventually for their electoral misfortunes nurtured by gangsterism, incumbency-engineered violence, vicious and fatalistic attacks on opponents and mutilation of election results.
Finally from obviously moronic Ubani: “Apart from pecuniary inducement, leading to the moral bankruptcy and judicial summersault, is there any legal basis and justification for the Appeal Tribunal, headed by Mr. Justice Oyebisi Omoleye, a wesfomer (sic) with surreptitious interest in the APC, to declare Dr. Otti Winner (sic) of an election. Does unanimity in this weird judgment not confirm the truth that the five Justices of the Appeal Court were corruptly compromised (sic)?”
I do not need to add anything to Ubani’s interminable stupidities. I believe that at the opportune time, a brief bloke like him will face the full wrath of his unprecedented insolence against our Lordships, Asiwaju Tinubu and Dr. Otti because of peanuts. Someone should call the attention of the Supreme and Appeal Court justices to Ubani’s idiocies for his swift gaoling. An aside: some readers accuse me of using intemperate, inflammable, bombastic and uncouth language occasionally in my writings. When dealing with the Ubanis and other baboons, as I often do, elevated collocation inevitably becomes worthless!
Overall, if the Appeal Court ruling on Abia State governorship poll is upturned, it means God is blasphemously asleep!