APPLYING ELEMENTARY LOGIC TO THE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT OF THE CASE OF GOV. EMEKA IHEDIOHA AND GOV. HOPE UZODINMA. ON THE SCALE OF THE LAWS OF THOUGHT: LAW OF IDENTITY AND THE LAW OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

KEMKA S. IBEJI 

I was attracted to this discourse by the words "using the common sense approach to common law" as used by my brother Endy Ezenwata somewhere while he adduced reason to what he thinks should happen at the Supreme Court on the review of Ihedioha and Uzodinma case.

One will be right like him in arguing that the Supreme Court judgment on Uche Nwosu's matter on dual nomination has little or nothing to do with Sen. Hope Uzodinma but not totally. Such argument will be right to the extent of advising the PDP not to have that as their only point when approaching the Supreme Court for a review but I will also assure my readers that if it were a place where justice is the crux and concern, the point is mature enough to disqualify Sen. Hope Uzodinma.

Of course, the PDP wouldn't have argued that at the Tribunal and Appeal courts because the judgement hasn't come by then. The Supreme Court ruled on that few days or weeks before the Ihedioha judgment and so could have only been brought up at the Supreme Court only. It will however be dying minutes addition which might enjoy belatedness.

It's valid to pontificate that if the Supreme Court in its wisdom saw Uche Nwosu as having the flag of both the APC and AA at the same time and for that singular reason was disqualified, it simply implies that both political parties would have also been disqualified. Remember that if his disqualification happened prior to INEC closures, the political parties would have had the option of substitution of their candidates. But when belated, they lose their nomination. This is the law.

Furthermore, in concert with that penultimate judgment of the Supreme Court, Uche Nwosu is the candidate of the APC in the eyes of the law (as well as the AA candidate). Also we are knowledgeable of the fact that the Imo State APC at no point substituted Sen. Hope Uzodinma for Uche Nwosu.

If that temple of justice ala our Supreme Court has justice as her sole and exclusive stock in trade, they know what to do.

However, with the Supreme Court judgment of Ihedioha and Uzodinma, I think Uche Nwosu and his counsels can and should approach the Supreme Court for a review of her judgment. It is impossible for those acclaimed oracles of the law (Justices of the Supreme Court) to speak from the four cardinal points of their mouth. The laws of thought may law of Identity and the law of Excluded Middle will always hold thus;
1. "A" is "A"
2. "A" is either "A" or "Not A"
3. "A" cannot be both "A" and "Not A" at the same time.

Upon this above, it is contingent (both necessarily and sufficiently) on the Supreme Court to wake up to the nexus of their beingness. Imo State may therefore visit the Supreme Court a thousand more times for an army of reviews if they hold on the position that Sen. Hope Uzodinma was and is the candidate of the APC in that election as no political party can field two (2) candidates in an election. It also will be foolhardy and unwise for the Supreme Court to discard and bluntly refuse to entertain further reviews upon that. This will put the Supreme Court in a series of  serious mess and public ridicule. 

A stitch in time, they say, saves nine! 

I am, 

KEMKA S. IBEJI 

The Philosopher King