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KEMKA S. IBEJI  If justice enjoys safety in the hands of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will stake my most treasured asset for this; Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has a good case, very valid and sound argument and so the judgment will tilt to his side on Monday 2nd March, 2020. Two (2) factors grant Emeka Ihedioha's case the desired and requires merits; A. The issue of spread was overlooked and omitted in the judgment. When the Supreme Court in her judgment asserted that Sen. Hope Uzodinma having polled the highest number of votes cast and having met the statutory requirement of spread is therefore returned as the winner, it failed to consider the veracity of her premises granting the conclusion. In logic however, only true premises can give true conclusions. For every valid statement therefore, the premises and conclusion must be either true (through and through) or false all through. No valid argument has false premises and true concl...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  It won't be difficult to remove Sen. Hope Uzodinma but it will be difficult to return Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha. No one among them has won the election. Though Rt. Hon Emeka Ihedioha would have been said to be nearer to victory than Sen. Hope Uzodinma, there is no nearness to reality. The proclamation of the law in the instance operates exclusively within two-valued Logic. So it is either true or false and no middle ground. None of the two had won yet and the Supreme Court knows this, at least now if they never knew so. The points are very clear; 1. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha did not win according to the statutory requirement of the spread being the 25% of ⅔ of the 27 LGAs of Imo State. His announcement was a farce. It was a full case of *runoff* 2. It may have not been reasoned or imagined by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that there can be 70 candidates in an election as such even while they were creating political parties like sands. Nob...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  For those who think the Imo Supreme Court is done and dusted upon the debacle of the APC outing today should read the lines below. The following snippets from the trashing of the APC/Lyon's call for review today is worthy of consideration ; ...the applicants failed to point out errors, stating that the judgment is final for all ages. #JSC ...vexatious, frivolous, and constituted a gross abuse of court process. #JSC ...granting the applications would open a floodgate for the review of decisions of the Supreme Court. #JSC ...the applications amount to an invitation for the apex court to sit in appeal on its earlier judgment in violation of the Constitution. #PDP Counsel The common take home from the proclamation of the Supreme Court today are; 1. Approaching the Supreme Court for review of her judgment is not unlawful and unconstitutional 2. There are conditions under which the Supreme Court can be prayed for a reconsideration of her own judgment ...

Supreme Court of Nigeria should save herself the huge embarrassment by reversing the Imo State Governorship Election judgement to something else between a supplementary election in the 388 polling units/ a rerun in the 388 polling units and cancelled polling units/ or a full runoff between the top 2 candidates. The bigger embarrassment will come when there is filing for a review the 2nd time. Trust Gov. Emeka Ihedioha he will go it infinitely. He knows the truth and he will pure it to the end of this earth. He will bring his case to the world stage for all to see. He has the language, the knowledge, the wisdom, the courage, the zeal, the support of his people and most of all the legitimacy to push on. He will bring the judiciary to the muds and make it an object to laughter to clowns. This will crumble the judiciary and put the entire Nigeria in grave mess. Don't dare him! I bet you, Gov. Emeka Ihedioha will ask for more reviews if the Supreme Court fails to do justice in this...

The losses of desperation; Uche Nwosu (Rochas Okorocha) and Sen. Godwin Ararume. Let me begin by reenacting the moral maxim that "anyone who has nothing to die for, has no reason to live". The above is all about character. It is a virtue of inestimable value. This is strongly lacking in Nigerian political class and especially as seen in Imo State in the recent experience. In the last general election of 2019, Imo State witnessed a large number of aspirants turnout. While many political analysts and commentators may wish to condemn that, I very sincerely commend it. My reason is that it shows a very growing level of political awareness, education, involvement and concern. This also implies that the number of citizenship is heightening in Imo State. One will recall that the cradle of the state system is the Greek political experience through City States and the polis. For the Greek political thinkers, to be a citizen is to be involved in the leadership of the land. It is...

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 judgmen...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  Just like I honestly told all Imo State electorate that fateful night that the result of that day was a runoff, while Uche Nwosu was still in the race, and not declaration of a winner yet, I'm also saying that the Supreme Court's decision on reviewing their judgment should be a rerun in the 388 polling units as the number of registered voters in those polling units can impact on who emerges winner of that election. Any other judgement order different from the above will be a wrong and bad judgement and definitely unjust. Time ticks off, and the land awaits peace in Imo State. However, the crying being in all this experience is posterity. For this brazen aberration to form part of our national statute through judicial precedence is a nightmare and the Supreme Court is under obligation to wake us from such. Justice will grant peace and harmony in the state and ultimately guarantee security for all citizens of the state - Imo. It was an injustice decla...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  Yes! Why 18? Why must people be 18 years before they are eligible to vote or be voted for in an election? The answer has always been that at such age, one is or will be rational enough to make informed choice. He or she should be able to weigh options available and choose appropriately. But now I ask again, WHY 18 when rationality is no longer the point but the ability to receive higher amount of money? Every child in the primary school is acquainted with the figures and can always distinguish between greater numbers. So WHY 18? WHY 18 when the judiciary is a lonesome supermarket where justice is murdered and judgements bought and sold? If after the wrongs and unlawful actions at the polls, the judiciary validates the illegal and everyone will chorus "as the court pleases". So WHY 18? WHY 18 when the Electoral Umpire goes blind on her duty and allow the rule to be "everything goes"? When they are paid not to do their legitimate jobs for ...

KEMKA S. IBEJI at Orphanage Home  Men and brethren, if we as leaders look at what our people are and what they do, we will all become devils. Sometimes it pains to say that our people don't seem to deserve anything good by their actions. However, as leaders our morality should be hinged on courage and strong will. This will only stand out when faced with challenges. Just like Socrates on Philosophy of Education, extricating the people from ignorance doesn't go without the violence of the beneficiaries. The people you fight to save from destruction will be fighting to destroy you at the same time. Ignorance is a big fat disease. Be that as it may, we who have passed through the crucibles of leadership have come to wear a different but far strengthened morality. This has a lot to do with knowledge to laugh at your intended killer who does not know your impregnable immunity against his finite imagination. In the main, we should be able to defend the common will no matte...

Prof. N. Obiaraeri  Recent developments in the polity, especially the wave of defections or change of political parties by elected and serving members of the Federal and State legislatures, have made it imperative to be reiterated that wilful disobedience to the national constitutional provisions remains the greatest albatross to our democracy. Our constitution is an imperfect work no doubt but there is no gainsaying that our democracy will thrive robustly and the needed dividends of democracy delivered faster in quantum leaps and bounds if, and only if, the salient provisions of the constitution are strictly obeyed and not disobeyed with reckless abandon. Change of political party or what we call "political mobility" is both legit and constitutional for every citizen of Nigeria as the right to freedom of association, which includes freedom to dissociate, is inalienable and fundamental. Put differently and simply, a Nigerian citizen is at liberty to change or wit...

It is no longer a breaking news that the Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha as declared by INEC on the 2019 election has been deposed by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is no longer new to the ears. It is no longer news that both political parties and their candidates in that election rigged in one way or the other. It is also not new to discerning minds that right from the Tribunal through the Supreme Court, the judiciary has been a supermarket where justice is muzzled while judgement are wares. But there may be something new from all the oldies. These two (PDP and APC) are the same with different names. They are friends and family teamed up for same purpose. They are also like father and son or mother and daughter living without trust for each other. An old woman in my village usually exclaimed; "that there's a should while mother and child were eating in the dark that light should quickly be brought" she continued ...

Man came, saw and is awed He has been overwhelmed by wonders There's confusion as to the reason The reason for man's existence How did man come alive? Why is man here in life? Where will he go when he leaves here? Nothingness! Man seeks to find himself He doesn't know the reality of himself Man's nature eludes man's knowledge This worries as wonders set in Why am I man and not woman? Who made the choice for me? Why can't I be otherwise? What of this reason for my being man? Why are some poor and others rich? Who made it so and why? How could a merciful creator create wickedness? And why death after all? Why why why! Man is empty He lacks meaning Man is elusive His understanding and knowledge They are all imaginations Man is nothing, live for nothing He dies for nothing And exist in nothingness His knowledge of himself The meaning of his existence His reason to be They may be in what is not Perhaps in the opposite of all kno...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  I have read a few snippets from the new year prophecy of the Catholic priest - Rev. Fr. Ejije Mbaka. I have also read responses from other Nigerians especially Imo State citizens. I have read all of them with a smile of great understanding from cradle experience. Let me state that there is no point for the quarrels from the prophecy except for a little lack of understanding of the language of prophecy. Our dearly beloved Fr. Ejike Mbaka is both right and wrong at the same time but we can excuse him only if we know how prophecy works or comes. As a child born in a spiritual home that are in a spiritual church, I grew up knowing prophets, prophecy, the language of prophecies, the character of prophecy and the mistakes of prophets as well. The Bible said that some are giving the spirit of effective prayers, some dreams, some vision, some prophecy, some evangelism, some are imbued with the spirit of speaking in tongues etc. Most importantly, some are also giv...

Don't begrudge my rise; my pains from the falls are so excruciating that you will abhor the gift of my rising if offered with the pains of my fall. I'm an Eagle with feathers strengthened and stiffened by the burns from the fiercest furnace even more biting than the imagery of hades. I get renewed by the heat of gnashing teeth, the deadly pinpains of closing claws, and the showers of tears from the groans of dreadful experience. I stand so tall and dazzling in the midst of warriors. The love me, they cherish me, they honor me, they value me and they worship my gaze. I am the lion that spares no foe. My strength lies in that weakness you are so convinced of. I am immortal. And my immorality sprouts on my being; I am a Thinker. I am in the world of the greatest Philosophers that trudged, trudge and will trudge on this great surface. Stand aloof if you can't soak it. Get to bed eternally if you are incapable of absorbing it. I am the greatest giant in the firmament of...

Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish between leader and leadership. Just like a certain school of jurisprudence could define justice as "what the lawyers do in the court", one could simply say that leadership is what leaders do. While I disagree with the definition of justice in that way and manner, I will agree with the same kind of definition for leadership. My ground for this rejection and acceptance is because whereas there cannot be good or bad justice but justice, there is good leadership and there is bad leadership. For this reason, we can without fault assert that leadership is what leaders do. This simply implies that to gain the meaning of leadership, one should know what and who a leader is. But the leader has no other distinguishing personality than his act which is leadership. This is to say that there is and cannot be a leader without leadership. It therefore means that leadership also defines the leader. Put differently, when we see two men or women...

Yesterday on my Twitter handle, I announced that my response on the disengagement from Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) shall be the subject of discussion in my column today. So, where we are! Tuesday, December 10, 2019, my tenure as the chairman of AMCON would seem to have expired upon the nomination of Mr. Edward Adamu as the new chairman of the bad loan vehicle. News about this development came to me while in London in the middle of a crash education programme. The negatively interesting aspect of it is the lamentations that trailed the announcement by some friends and associates who, in my view, had a disconnect between purpose of service and the relief that naturally accompanies the disengagement of an appointee with an alternative contact address. Barely 24 hours before the presidential nomination of a new chairman for AMCON over which I presided, Mr. Tunde Fowler was replaced in his chairmanship of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) office by ano...

A friend of mine got my attention to this and it is important I give you my professional thoughts as a business participant in the real estate market as both investor, developer and arbitrage dealer. If only your interest is return on investment and no other sentiment, you can be sure of your investment giving you returns in certain specific locations in Nigeria. As far as it is for investment, the following cities in Nigeria are outlined according to their degree of importance in being lucrative and viable in the real estate business; 1. LAGOS: Is a stable market with flowing turnover. Purchases and sales are constant and as fast as the economy permits. The Lagos state market remains at the top because it is reliable and rests on facts and accurate figures. It might not be too big but it remains constant and consistent. Both residential, commercial, religious, Oil and Gas, industrial, hospitality and even research aspects of real estate are active and operational in Lagos ...

Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe  KEMKA S. IBEJI  I woke to the social media being agog with the name of the refined and gentle lawmaker - Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe. As soon as I was so greeted, I knew that the Ngwa born, calm and soft spoken, parliamentarian would have tickled the fabric of the national political engineering for a provoking and witty attention as characteristic of him. I went through the Facebook searching for what has actually happened. I could get some snippets of his submissions but they were not as detailed as I thought they should be. I made further foray of inquisition into Twitter. The issue was not trending on Twitter as I thought it should. I began to wonder if it was worth considering and if it is not one of those social media fake news. But a step further, I searched the name of the gentleman senator and I got an army of information. From the Twitter I got the full video of his interview with the Channels TV presenter Mr. Ladi. I took a seat to relish...