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The Head of Presidential Anti-corruption Committee, Prof Itse Sagay, has again voiced his concern over some recent rulings of the Supreme Court on election petitions, particularly those held in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states.

Sagay, who spoke with newsmen at the Olu Palace, Warri on Saturday, warned that the rulings, which allow people who were declared winners without elections in spite of copious evidences of irregularities and heavy human and material casualties, set a dangerous precedent in the history of elections.

“The judgements are very perverse, particularly relating to Akwa Ibom and Rivers. Everybody knows that there were no elections in those two states.
“Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over bloods of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there,” he said.
According to Sagay, what the Supreme Court has done is to set the clock of electoral excellence and fairness and credibility back by, ” I do not want to say a thousand years, but certainly it is taking us back to where we were before Jega came in and sanitize the system.”

“We are going to have primitive and barbaric electoral culture; ‘kill as much as you can, destroy as much as you can, create as much catastrophe, but if you can find yourself on that seat, you are confirmed, regardless of the means by which you got there’.
“That is a very major setback to democracy and the rule of law,” he said.

Similarly, the erudite constitutional lawyer also flayed the present crop of Supreme Court judges, insisting that they have degraded the court from decades ago when the Nigerian Supreme Court was ranked among the best in the world.

“I 15, 20 years ago, we had a Supreme Court that is the best in the world – better than the one you have in the US. That was when you had Justices (Kayode) Eso, (Andrew) Obaseki, Anyagolou, (Adolphous) Karibe-Whyte, Bello and so on. Those people brought a culture to the Supreme Court and most of us thought when they left the culture would remain but it hasn’t.

“New people have come, much younger people, and they have different approach to life because I don’t understand why you would have law, which is in conflict with justice and you prefer to apply that law – technical law, which is in conflict with justice. As we have seen in the case of Akwa Ibom and Rivers and a few other cases.

“So I think their orientations are different. I think the older ones who are gone believed that justice was number one. In such a case, you ask where does the justice lies? They now interpreted the law in line with justice.

“But now what we have is a group of people in the Supreme Court, who do not care where their legal interpretation is leading them. Once you have a divorce between law and justice, the whole legal system will break down and that is what has happened,” he added.

Prof Sagay has also called for disciplinary actions against Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) and other senior lawyers who are seen to be encouraging corrupt politicians and looters of the nation’s treasury.

He said, “There are a group of senior lawyers who have totally departed from anything that the calling of the law profession requires; they have thrown in their lots with the looters and have become, I won’t call them fellow looters, but definitely, they have started enjoying and sharing in the proceeds of crimes of these looters and because of that they are absolutely now against the anti-corruption law.

“There is need to have these Senior Advocates thoroughly disciplined and if they would not accept discipline, they need to be removed from the profession before they bring more disgrace to the profession and at the same time drag this country down economically.”

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So is this Prof. also a zombie? Meanwhile this is the state of Government House in Rivers State. Dakuku and Amaechi, the lizard of Ubime you better escape for your life.

PMB need to probe those supreme court judges asap.

Anumanu, keep wailing over Wike victory

Was he in Rivers State during the elections

So if the ruling had gone in favor of APC it means the supreme court judges have set a gud precedence & we will fast forward 15-20 years ahead...
u are heading just a committee & u are referring to ur colleagues in such a manner.,
have u 4goten so soon hw pmb has been flaunting court orders & disrespecting the constitution of the country..,,y didn't u wail then...
u better tell ur oga at the top to perform or else we will be sending him back to daura in 2019

Well said, prof Sagay.
I salute the courage of the transition monitoring group and now prof Sagay who have come out openly to lampoon this set of justices of the Supreme Court.
I said it here,that the supreme Court tried to justify their clearly fraudulent ruling by convenienting choosing a technicality that suited its aim.
But u cannot seperate justice from the law as Sagay said.
Where justice is not served,anarchy reigns and that's what these crop of sc judges did in Rivers.
They wud be held responsible for foisting anarchy in rivers because when shi t hits the fan,everyone wud have to for their part in what caused the shi t to escape from the bowel in the first place.
That they are judges of the SC wud not cow right thinking people from calling a spade by its crooked shape.

APC still pained.

Prof Sagay GnD.

prof you can wail all you like till 2019, no one send you. Wike has been declared the gov so accept it... imagine the height of his hypocrisy that wike climbed the governorship seat over dead bodies, so its only when dakuku wins thats when there are no dead bodies.. Yeye dey ooze!

sirGay
Forms are finished

doctokwus:
Well said, prof Sagay.
I salute the courage of the transition monitoring group and now prof Sagay who have come out openly to lampoon this set of justices of the Supreme Court.
I said it here,that the supreme Court tried to justify their clearly fraudulent ruling by convenienting choosing a technicality that suited its aim.
But u cannot seperate justice from the law as Sagay said.
Where justice is not served,anarchy reigns and that's what these crop of sc judges did in Rivers.
They wud be held responsible for foisting anarchy in rivers because when shi t hits the fan,everyone wud have to for their part in what caused the shi t to escape from the bowel in the first place.
That they are judges of the SC wud not cow right thinking people from calling a spade by its crooked shape.

Lamentation chapter 1 vs 1.

Why do you guys hail the judiciary when the ruling is in your favour but cry blue murder when its against you? Pfft.

First-class E-rat!

LoremIpsum:

Lamentation chapter 1 vs 1.

Why do you guys hail the judiciary when the ruling is in your favour but cry blue murder when its against you? Pfft.

There was no election in Rivers state and what the SC judges did was to have their wigs,body and soul tainted with the blood of innocents killed and others maimed in order to prevent any election from holding.
Karma is alive and u all just watch what wud happen in Rivers state before this year ends.
Ekitigate wud pale in comparison when souls of those that think they have benefitted from the atrocity in Rivers start to hunt them daily and they are left with the only option of ditching Wike and confessing all what transpired from the no election to the SC court stage.
It's just a matter of time.

doctokwus:

There was no election in Rivers state and what the SC judges did was to have their wigs,body and soul tainted with the blood of innocents killed and others maimed in order to prevent any election from holding.
Karma is alive and u all just watch what wud happen in Rivers state before this year ends.
Ekitigate wud pale in comparison when souls of those that think they have benefitted from the atrocity in Rivers start to hunt them daily and they are left with the only option of ditching Wike and confessing all what transpired from the no election to the SC court stage.
It's just a matter of time.

In other words, all the killings were done by PDPians?
You see, that's the issue I have with your ilks. Always painting yourselves as saints!!

Again, I ask: If after the "bloody" election and Dakuku won, would you guys have clamored for a cancellation?

doctokwus:

There was no election in Rivers state and what the SC judges did was to have their wigs,body and soul tainted with the blood of innocents killed and others maimed in order to prevent any election from holding.
Karma is alive and u all just watch what wud happen in Rivers state before this year ends.
Ekitigate wud pale in comparison when souls of those that think they have benefitted from the atrocity in Rivers start to hunt them daily and they are left with the only option of ditching Wike and confessing all what transpired from the no election to the SC court stage.
It's just a matter of time.

Keep wailing over Wike and Udom SC victory, Ntorrrrrr...

They did not ditch woke when he was loosing from Federal high court to court of apeall...
is it now tht the supreme court has upheld his victory tht they will now ditch him...
There is no election under jega tht was peaceful,it was all flawed by one problem or the other in all states of the federation,,,
so nobody should be blame for anyone tht the ruling favours..
Afterall,when rulings were favouring APC states ppl were calm & watching...
so hold jega responsible for anythng u feel was wrong with elections & not the supreme court

Thank God it is not over my dead body.

Itse Shegey!

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cry cry baby you want to see your mummy shame shame! shame shame!!!

It is understandable that Wike could still win if there was a rerun but I still don't know how he won @the supreme Court fa, we all know that Rivers State election was far from credible. Well, thanks to the judges for averting a lot of deaths that could have resulted from the rerun.

flokii:
leave them..

bubu will soon deal with those judges and we'll re-visit d cases.... TRUTH will surely prevail

Wike is evil

Nairaland orubebe spotted,

Infact he shld probe all of their judgements frm 1999. Am sure d economy will improve. Ode .

mynd1:
PMB need to probe those supreme court judges asap.

doctokwus:
Well said, prof Sagay.
I salute the courage of the transition monitoring group and now prof Sagay who have come out openly to lampoon this set of justices of the Supreme Court.
I said it here,that the supreme Court tried to justify their clearly fraudulent ruling by convenienting choosing a technicality that suited its aim.
But u cannot seperate justice from the law as Sagay said.
Where justice is not served,anarchy reigns and that's what these crop of sc judges did in Rivers.
They wud be held responsible for foisting anarchy in rivers because when shi t hits the fan,everyone wud have to for their part in what caused the shi t to escape from the bowel in the first place.
That they are judges of the SC wud not cow right thinking people from calling a spade by its crooked shape.

Cry me a lagoon.

Pls Prof. Can u say u ve not sacrificed a soul since u ed Ogbo** brotherhood.

Prof. Take out the wood from ur eyez before removing the dust on another.

Prof. onye Uwa Mmebi

Why is Apc still crying over a lost cause? This verdict really pained them. Like wike said let my enemies continue to have high bp. All apc Zombies may your bp over rivers state,akwa ibom and abia supreme court verdict continue to be high. GOD has given pdp victory, deal with it!

We shld move on by now... Wike will be thr for 4yrs...gbam

truthspeaks:
Infact he shld probe all of their judgements frm 1999. Am sure d economy will improve. Ode .

Y d insult Are u okay? If u can't be civil,hold ur respect and never quote me again.

Whether the elections were flawed or not is irrelevant.

Proper lawyers follow the law in the strictest manner. That is why thieves and rogues can escape justice if they have good lawyers. The art of law is like the art of war. You win when you have the smarter strategy, not when you are fighting the more righteous cause. The Supreme Court is duty-bound to follow the law strictly and it has declared that the Card Reader has no legal basis to supersede the Voter's . The proper thing for Sagay to do is to advocate for legal backing for the Card-Reader.

Let him stop wailing . . . the deadline to buy the forms has lapsed and we will not reprint.

leave them..

bubu will soon deal with those judges and we'll re-visit d cases.... TRUTH will surely prevail

Wike is evil

waka sheagay..barawo bansa!