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NBA call for court boycott, hypocrisy  and the equal
opportunity riggers

Agbakoba opined the other time that what Atiku did why immoral, was not illegal. The Supreme Court Justices who sat on the case went to "rent" Agbakoba's words "immoral but not illegal". Agbakoba promptly proclaimed vindication! While he saw vindication, we saw a coerced and none proactive Supreme Court fumbling in apparent lack of imagination. It is our opinion that it is part of the job of the Supreme Court to rule on acceptable morals in the country, and when they do, it becomes the law and an addition to the mores of our society. However, this echo chamber Supreme court simply took the line of least resistance, perhaps with little intellectual depth and in an action devoid of meaningful and positive  contribution!!

NBA call for court boycott, hypocrisy and the equal opportunity riggers
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We highly respect Chief Gani Fawehinmi at the NigerianNews, however, if the lawyers and the Judges were to go on strike on cases that they may have to handle by taking position a priori, what is the point filing election petition either way? Is it not better that other organization but not the officers of the law be the organizers of strike? What happens to the word "sub judice" especially when the officers of the law are the ones violating the principle? Agbakoba opined the other time that what Atiku did while immoral, was not illegal. The Supreme Court Justices who sat on the case went to "rent" Agbakoba's words "immoral but not illegal". Agbakoba promptly proclaimed vindication! While he saw vindication, we saw a coerced and none proactive Supreme Court fumbling in apparent lack of imagination. It is our opinion that it is part of the job of the Supreme Court to rule on acceptable morals in the country, and when they do, it becomes the law and an addition to the mores of our society. However, this echo chamber Supreme court simply took the line of least resistance, perhaps with little intellectual depth and in an action devoid of meaningful and positive contribution!! Thanks to the Supreme Court, a Vice President is now no longer a deputy but a co-equal entity in the presidency. It is interesting to see that what Obasanjo labored but failed to achieve at the National Assembly dominated by his own party, Tinubu who did not see any thing good in what Obasanjo was trying to do, just got his own deputy impeached. We know despite the charges, Deputy Gov. Pedro was impeached for insubordination, one of the charges against Atiku, Tinubu's mentor. This poor guy Pedro legitimately resigned before he was impeached, but Tinubu feigned the reception of the letter of resignation. Such is the hypocrisy of our system. Agbakoba and his NBA have not considered putting out a word on this wrongful impeachment. You cannot impeach a guy who has already resigned. While we congratulate the honorable way Pedro resigned, we wish we can say the same thing about Atiku. However, we would like to hear from Agbakoba on the Pedro saga. Coming back to court boycott, we definitely support what Chief Gani Fawehinmi said about the actual act of election rigging, however, we think he is calling on the wrong people to go on strike. If these people do boycott the court, regardless of the legitimacy of their claims, greater injustice is done to the defendants - the equal opportunity riggers, since the outcome of litigations would have been tainted by the officers of the law seemingly taking sides before the cases are heard. It is not wrong for officers of the law to hold opinions, but they compromise themselves and the course of justice when they boycott the court in protest because they think those who are coming before them are guilty even before the judges hear the lawyers argue the cases. We believe the place to show their anger is in the vigorous prosecution and the defense of their cases depending on which side of the litigations they are. Frankly, we are very disturbed by the prejudicial emotionalism of the Agbakoba NBA. The lawyers and justices are either past or present members of the NBA and we find it odd that the first organization to pervert the course of justice in the present dispensation is the NBA. There is no doubt this NBA, because of the mood of the country seeks cheap popularity rather than the law. Some have even said that the current leadership of the NBA have there eyes on some pre arranged and long determined, veiled rewards. The people with this view also wonder why it is the job of the NBA to prevent the legislative part of our system from performing their duties as they see it, after all, if they are wrong, unrigged elections and the courts, if not impeded by unsolicited activism again by the NBA, in some cases have proven they are equal to the occasion. At the NigerianNews, we believe the greatest service the NBA can render to the Election Tribunals is to ask their members to be vigorous in the pursuit of their sides, no matter how despicable we may think those sides are. After all, a lawyer must represent both the innocent and the guilty, that is the nature of our system. We have tried here to reason with the Agbakoba NBA, unfortunately, we have failed to find a common ground, even though sometimes we may have the same subliminal concerns for so many ugly events. Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

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