I know of a political solution being packaged to help President Muhammadu Buhari resolve the Walter Onnoghen logjam. It’s being packaged by a political establishment in the Southern part of the country and all its wings; political, legal, et al, are already involved, pushing vigorously the deal of getting both the suspended CJN and the gluttonous acting fellow to quit, for Onnoghen, in return, to earn a clean bill of accountability after he had been reparably damaged globally over his asset declaration saga.
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Well, I said reparably because with God nothing shall be impossible. Tanko too, with his unenviable sojourn on the Bench, would also go home with a bounty enough not to moan his imminent eventually inability to be CJN at what should be his own time; between 2020 and 2023. By suddenly becoming a part of the problem to be resolved because of his alleged greed, instead of paying Onnoghen sympathy visit at home if he hadn’t been over-ambitious from the word “go” in 2016, his own home may soon be receiving mourners. The next time he sees the ubiquitous danger-signal called “God’s time is the best”, he would wink twice. If I may ask, what would become of his son, working in the Supreme Court, who moves around, wetting appetite about his father’s coming CJN-ship? In fairness to him, the day he approached me at the apex court, to peddle the anticipated influence, he was actually talking about 2020. So much for Dad and son.
It would be Onnoghen’s choice to accept the deal, though I guess one is being offered him, on a lighter note, for being a Niger-Deltan and a judicial terrorist. If I could advise him, he should, if he actually had those contrabands he allegedly packed in his luggage. I learnt, reliably so, that his erstwhile buddies or more like younger brothers, who had allegedly done “things” (not necessarily criminal in nature but compromising enough) together with him in the past, but who now have new anti-Onnoghen friends, are the canaries singing what could be the nunc dimittis of his career.
But if his hands had never been and still not soiled, he would be doing his unborn generations a lot of harm, settling for such a cheap deal. If he would be worthy of the years he has spent practising law, he should see this through, even if he would not function in office again, until his official retirement, which is a possible game-plan by his traducers. The argument has been, if a PDP government could keep Isa Ayo Salami out of office till official retirement once suspended, why not an APC government. You say, but the latter promised change. Yes and that is why it chose an unconstitutional path, unlike the former, which acted on NJC’s recommendation as required by the law.
Without doubt, even the youngest of the Onnoghens worldwide must be mourning the fate that has befallen what should end a glorious career, but the one who made the name famous worldwide should also be man enough to save what is left of it, for his kindred and children. That is if he is clean, I repeat.
For Danladi Umar, an inquest would be necessary into the blood that really sired him, before a conclusion could be drawn on his decision to bear disgrace as a fore-running identity. How low can a man sink, even if being blackmailed by a government that prides itself as cruelly-omnipotent.
Since late President Umaru Yar’Adua struck gold with amnesty for Niger-Delta militants, successive governments, including the ones yet unmade, have found a masterstroke in it. Yoruba will call it “gbafun Gbada nile,” (give and take). The nonsense being packaged right now is nothing near Plea Bargain. Nobody is admitting anything yet and a political establishment which sees itself as the Solution Provider is pushing a crooked deal as a way out of a purely alleged criminal, legal and constitutional conundrum, to deepen a rub-my-back now, I rub-yours in 2023 Master-Plan. Hey, gentlemen, God is the Master Planner and it is not even too late for Him to get the 2019 game come crashing few weeks to the poll, let alone 2023. Why must men get crooked all the time, for times and seasons beyond their control?
Father Kukaaah!
Have you met dazzling clergyman, Bishop Hassan Matthew Kukah? What! The Holy Spirit has truly given His Eminence, a Word and Authority to back it up. At Tribune’s 70th anniversary lecture last Tuesday, Kukah, as the “lecturer”, “taught” all. Beyond helping government after government to clean up, when their fart is about sinking everything, Nigeria ought to find more constitutional roles for this gem and his ilk. Excessively-brilliant, outrageously-witty, expressively-bold and immaculate in delivery, the man of God, best explains why the nation is where it is today; because the best are always repulsive to the men of power and since the Kukahs won’t contend power with them, the nation leaves its best behind, while wandering in the wilderness. And Kukah’s kind, they stroll through time, saving treasure for a nation that would never dig. Shame.
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The suspended thief justice is determined to destroy the battered image of the judiciary. His name personifies a corrupt judiciary.