ON THE SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY AND THE BITTERNESS OF MR. JAMES IBORI: A LOGICAL PICK AND PUNCTURE. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

I took a little time out to read the so long a tweet by Mr. James Ibori on X. Beautiful as it may have seemed in his mind before he threw it at the courts of the citizens, they wear every coat of angered respondent who has premeditated to courts while waiting to spank them. Like a man in an ambush, Mr. James Ibori surfaced with such alacrity of a man who has caught his enemy on acts of mortal sin and wishes to believe that his (enemy's) life now rests restive in his (Ibori's) own palms.

Mr. Ibori's argument took off from a woeful footing and may sway discussions especially for the unsuspecting and scarcely logically mindful number. 

His (Mr. Ibori's) postulation reminds us of the logical difference between validity and soundness. Arguments with false promises can be valid but false. An example will help the understanding of most readers especially those who may not have had the privileges of elementary logic or what logicians will refer to as ordinary language logic. An example of the difference between validity and soundness is in this statement;

All stars shine bright at night 

Tinubu is a star

Tinubu shines bright at night.

Of course, the above argument is valid but untrue or unsound. Validity deals with scheme and form while soundness deals with truth value - true or false. So while an argument can have a valid form, it might be untrue at the same time. 

Dangerous argumentators utilise some of these tools to drive falsehoods home horning them on all fours with the exclamations of forceful and imposed beliefs. However, we shall help Nigerians to stop Mr. James Ibori from misleading the populace in just a few words. To carefully puncture his high-flown and colourfully decorated misguidance is to weigh the foundation of his argument on the scale of logic and to see if it stands the taste of time.

The major premise upon which the entire argument of Mr. James Ibori rests upon is the pretence that there are only two tiers of government in the Nigerian Federal System of Government. The Nigerian Constitution recognizes three tiers of government: the federal government, the state governments, and the local governments. This is outlined in Section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The assumption or hypothesis of Mr. Ibori that there are two tiers of govt is a fallacy and renders the totality of his argument incomprehensible, ineffable, unfounded, deceitful and false. This man has come to muddle ponds so as to convince Nigerians of his contrived abbys. Mr. James Ibori is therefore at best a suspect of conscience and a man in the wilderness of lies whose adequate and most appropriate wage must be total disregard and unbelief by all an sundry.