From David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi
The Chairman of MOBIN and Governing Council of Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Emeka Emekesiri, has advised Mr Peter Obi, to leave Nigeria alone and go back to his village and stop trying to save the country.
Mr Emekesiri, in release made available to journalists, described Nigeria as a dead country. He advised Obi to continue with his private life as a trader who knows how to create wealth and channel his energy, wealth and resources towards helping his people and not Nigeria.
He said that the injustice perpetrated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the judiciary and the World Powers who he alleged put Bola Tinubu in power over Nigeria despite all the evidence of criminality, according to him, and the fact that Tinubu did not score twenty five percent of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as required by the Nigerian Constitution showed that nobody could save Nigeria from death.
Emekesiri, who is a practising lawyer both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom said that he knew that those he described as dubious and criminal Nigerian politicians and leaders at all levels and the countries in the international community benefitting from the corruption in Nigeria would not allow any patriotic citizen to deliver Nigeria from corruption and death.
He further said that the refusal of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to accept the evidence of criminality against Bola Tinubu on the ground that the evidence was not tendered at the lower court was very foolish on the part of those Supreme Court Justices.
He maintained that the Supreme Court erred in law, adding that the rule of law is that technicalities shall not defeat the course of justice based on the jurisprudence of the law that the spirit of the law operates with the substance of the matter and not with the shadow of technicalities.
“What is stolen is what is stolen no matter when the evidence is discovered and what is stolen should be returned. This is restorative justice. If the thief has already eaten what he has stolen, he will pay compensation. This is reparative justice.
“In this case, Tinubu has not yet wasted the eight years of the Nigerian life. What is required now is restorative justice so that the mandate shall be restored to the rightful owner.
“Nobody rejoiced when INEC declared Tinubu the winner. Nobody rejoiced when the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court confirmed Tinubu as the winner and President of Nigeria. This shows that the people did not vote for him. He bribed his way to be declared the President of Nigeria, “the lawyer alleged.
He compared the technicalities introduced by the Supreme Court with the facts of a case where a person accused of murder was sentenced to death by hanging.
“The matter went from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and reached to the Supreme Court. Fortunately, evidence of CCTV footage emerged showing that the accused person is innocent but the Supreme Court of Nigeria said the evidence was not produced at the lower Courts and therefore the innocent accused person should be hanged. This is the result of rejecting evidence by the current Supreme Court of Nigeria under the APC government, “he analysed.
Emekesiri said that the judiciary has lost its independence in Nigeria. He argued that this was capable of making the people to take the laws into their hands because of the failure of the judiciary.
“History teaches us that the rule of impunity does not stand for a long time because the people shall take the laws into their hands and save themselves from the slavery. Surely, the people shall save themselves from Nigeria,” he concluded.