Opinion
By POEM
NOTHING good comes easy. Wide and straight is the road that leads to destruction, while the road to salvation is usually narrow and thorny. Our justices handling the election petitions will not find it easy toeing that path to salvation. Hence they need prayers!
The Judiciary found itself in a state of untrustworthiness simply because its members could not live in an island within a society that degenerated into total decay. A society so deteriorated in matters of corruption that even kids in kindergarten understand the meaning of bribery in practical terms. Of course, they are in their parents’ vehicles when they go through police checkpoints.
It would take God Himself to adjudicate equitably if He was in a position that He could not afford His children’s school fees when a politician threw multi millions, or sometimes billions, at Him to perfect a rigging act. But God does not operate in gown and wig, neither does He hit the gavel within the Nigerian judicial system. All we have are humans, very intelligent and articulate beings, but whose consciences would appear to have been mutilated, and often tempted, by a system destined for destruction.
It will indeed be adjudicating very unfairly when we isolate our Judiciary for lampooning. The DSS and the Correctional Service fought naked in public before a court three days ago to further expose the decay in the system. What department of the entire country of over 200 million is sparred from impunity?
However, after decades of living in a system that is completely contaminated in every facet of existence, a light emerged. Nigerian youths saw the chance to depart from the ugliness of a nation for a new Nigeria. A new Nigeria of truly One Nation, One Destiny. They suddenly understood that there is no difference between a Hausa and an Igbo, a Yoruba and a Hausa, an Ibibio and a Kanuri, an Ijaw and an Idoma, an Itshekiri and one with the Efik tongue, etc. And more, no difference between a Muslim and a Christian or one practising traditional religion. The Nigerian youths demonstrated that by their voting patterns in the true spirit of… *_Though Tribe and Tongue May Differ, In Brotherhood We Stand_*
The Nigerian youths have conquered the ethnicity and religious bigotry implanted in them by our founding fathers for their selfish ends. The youths are now ready to kickstart a new Nigeria that every square kilometre within her will be safe from terrorism, banditry, kidnap and all manner of criminal extremism. They want a country free of ethnic and religious hate. A country free of corruption! A producing country instead of a consuming country! A country where patriotism will replace bastardisation! A country that will use her enormous resources to lead the way for the entire black race!
Our Judiciary is full of learned men and women. When it comes to top echelon of justices, they are more than learned. One needs to grasp the tons of volumes of books they read through before delivering a judgement, especially of an important case. And when any case is as important as the presidential election petition, the references could be measured in trailer loads.
Therefore, any justice sits at the very zenith of learned citizens and deservedly considered some of the wisest people in societal cohesion and equity. The law of nature is hence at variance when such revered individuals abandon equity to embrace partisanship. POEM is very convinced that such individuals will rise above any financial, ethnic or religious inducement in preference to embracing free, fair and equitable justice.
Where they felt there was no need being fair and equitable in a country that did not deserve it, given the history impunity, today’s Nigeria is totally different. From the EndSARS protests of 2020 to making a party without structure become the leading party within just eight months, our leaders of tomorrow have redesigned their destiny.
The justices should do well to rekindle the lost hope, be glad that the opportunity of a lifetime has landed on their laps, and firmly stand for a new country that learned people should be proud of.
A new Nigeria is waiting to take off once they strike that gavel of affirmation!
Nigerians should be praying for our justices to be imbued with the courage to withstand the intimidation, blackmail, threats and all levels of inducements; to say NO to the members of the old order, who are insistently committing crimes and more crimes of bulkanisation, looting and disintegration.
No amount of money will be enough for a father/mother to deny their children of the honour of being referred to as children whose father/mother played a major role in berthing the new Nigeria. The reason for surnames is to be identified with who our fathers were. Any learned person would understand the huge difference between the surnames of an Obama and an Escobar.
You, our very learned justices, are now standing on the edge of bequeathing your children and grandchildren with either of the above surnames. While the nation prays, the choice is still yours.
#LetJusticePrevail
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