Edo Guber Appeal: A Dance With Decomposing Carcass

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By John Osakue Aiyevbekpen

EDO Governorship Petition Tribunal sat for some 180 days in Benin City, most of which were committed to the monotonous routine of looking at whether the voters register was ticked to the right or to the left. On good Friday April 14, 2017, the Tribunal delivered judgment that sparked wild jubilation across the State.

The Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Ahmed Badamosi, in an extraordinary display of excellent judicial reflexes, perspicacity and erudition, delivered an exhautively well researched judgement, in which the testimony of every single witness was examined and classified and every single legal argument was subjected to the acid test on points of law in the best tradition of judicial practice.

Those who painstakingly followed the Tribunal’s proceedings would readily agree that the decision of the Tribunal was consistent with the flow and perception of the case from the onset. The case underscored the point that politicians should eschew frivolous and fabricated petitions as the burden of proof of allegations lie squarely on the petitioners. Put differently, the judiciary cannot be likened to ‘Mama Akara’ who is in the business of either selling or giving akara way as gift!

Edo State Makarfi led PDP and their factional candidate, Pastor Osagie Andrew Ize -Iyamu expectedly rejected the Tribunal’s verdict even before delivery. And against the wise counsel of one of the most reverred traditional monarchies in the Southern part of Nigeria proceeded to the Appeal Court praying for a review of the Tribunal’s judgment on forty one unwieldy and laughable grounds.

During an interview session before the Tribunal judgment, the PDP and its candidate had expressed full confidence in the capacity of the Tribunal to do justice to the case. But as soon as the judgment failed the bent of their hollow calculations, their writers and spin doctors went to town to unleash venoms and invectives on the eminent and erudite judges for daring to do their jobs to the best of their

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