As the Ondo State Guber poll draw nearer, and the latest judgement delivered by Justice Abang on the PDP candidate is still hanging in balance, different position has been trailing the media as to who flag for the PDP among the two aspirants. Tope Tomeku wrote on the controversier issue.
Tope Tomeku
Lawyers have argued about Jegede appealing Justice Abang’s judgment and filing stay of execution straight away and thereby tying INEC’s hands from publishing Jimoh Ibrahim’s name before the November 26 election in Ondo. What a very beautiful argument. But it goes beyond this simplification of a multiplicated problem.
It is important to note that Justice Abang’s October 14 judgement was an enforcement judgment of the earlier judgment he gave on the 29th of June, 2016, whereby he ordered INEC to only accept the names of the candidate sent by the Biyi Poroye and Ademola Genty-led Executive Committee of the PDP in the state i.e. state executive of the PDP of Sheriff faction. So appealing the October 14th judgment while the June 29th judgment is unappealed is like pouring cold water on the body of a child to cure him of malaria temperature.
Jegede can appeal the October 14 judgment with the leave of court and proceed to stay the execution of that judgment. However the October 14 judgment that has now badly shaken the ground off the very root of his candidature is an offshoot of the first judgment which was not appealed within the stipulated three months as a final judgment. Three months have lapsed since Abang gave his first main judgment, since June 29. So Jegede being out of time to even appeal the first judgment as an interested party will have a long road to travel, by way of some legal jargons the lawyers call trinity prayer.
Jegede has hit the ground running today, with his flag-off, while the heavy yoke of Ibrahim’s judgment still dangles on his head like Damocles’ sword. But what is this running about? What is the essence of running with this great speed, when you are not sure whether you are running in the right direction?
Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday, served the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) his court order, declaring him the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State and equally mandating INEC to accept him (Ibrahim) as the candidate of the PDP in the November 26 governorship election. INEC has said it would take decision within the week on who is the rightful candidate.
INEC on its own had already signed out to the public the time-table for Ondo election, through its secretary, Mrs Augusta Ogakwu, even before the Jimoh Ibrahim’s victory judgment and the date for the publication of the names of nominated candidates for political parties is October 27, 2016, in line with Section 34 of the Electoral Act 2010 which provides that the names of nominated candidates for political parties must be published at least 30 days before the election day.
But Ibrahim is a shrewd businessman. Jegede has been in town for weeks now selling himself to the Ondo electorates. Ibrahim had been sleeping. Who knew Ibrahim could spring a surprise on a Friday when the week had already ended, a time when those counting time in week working days would have concluded the week had gone; yet he sprang a surprise. He could do it again.
I see it coming. A shrewd businessman may also be a shrewd politician. A shrewd businessman is a reaper, sometimes where he did not sow. That is Jimoh Ibrahim’s destiny.
Born by a village bricklayer father and petty trader mother, he has obviously reaped with surprises sometimes and oftentimes where he did not sow a seed to become a billionaire businessman in this country. He is not the swiftest or the smartest in Ikale.
It is a confirmation of his kind of destiny, which finds confirmation in the bible, in Ecclesiastes. The preacher said in the book of Ecclesiastes (9:11), that “I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…nor riches to men of understanding…but time and chance happen to them all”.
Thursday, October 27 is almost here, the deadline for the publication of the PDP candidate for Ondo election. I see another surprise coming. This time, some blood will develop pressure!
TOPE TOMEKU
Tope Tomeku
Lawyers have argued about Jegede appealing Justice Abang’s judgment and filing stay of execution straight away and thereby tying INEC’s hands from publishing Jimoh Ibrahim’s name before the November 26 election in Ondo. What a very beautiful argument. But it goes beyond this simplification of a multiplicated problem.
It is important to note that Justice Abang’s October 14 judgement was an enforcement judgment of the earlier judgment he gave on the 29th of June, 2016, whereby he ordered INEC to only accept the names of the candidate sent by the Biyi Poroye and Ademola Genty-led Executive Committee of the PDP in the state i.e. state executive of the PDP of Sheriff faction. So appealing the October 14th judgment while the June 29th judgment is unappealed is like pouring cold water on the body of a child to cure him of malaria temperature.
Jegede can appeal the October 14 judgment with the leave of court and proceed to stay the execution of that judgment. However the October 14 judgment that has now badly shaken the ground off the very root of his candidature is an offshoot of the first judgment which was not appealed within the stipulated three months as a final judgment. Three months have lapsed since Abang gave his first main judgment, since June 29. So Jegede being out of time to even appeal the first judgment as an interested party will have a long road to travel, by way of some legal jargons the lawyers call trinity prayer.
Jegede has hit the ground running today, with his flag-off, while the heavy yoke of Ibrahim’s judgment still dangles on his head like Damocles’ sword. But what is this running about? What is the essence of running with this great speed, when you are not sure whether you are running in the right direction?
Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday, served the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) his court order, declaring him the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State and equally mandating INEC to accept him (Ibrahim) as the candidate of the PDP in the November 26 governorship election. INEC has said it would take decision within the week on who is the rightful candidate.
INEC on its own had already signed out to the public the time-table for Ondo election, through its secretary, Mrs Augusta Ogakwu, even before the Jimoh Ibrahim’s victory judgment and the date for the publication of the names of nominated candidates for political parties is October 27, 2016, in line with Section 34 of the Electoral Act 2010 which provides that the names of nominated candidates for political parties must be published at least 30 days before the election day.
But Ibrahim is a shrewd businessman. Jegede has been in town for weeks now selling himself to the Ondo electorates. Ibrahim had been sleeping. Who knew Ibrahim could spring a surprise on a Friday when the week had already ended, a time when those counting time in week working days would have concluded the week had gone; yet he sprang a surprise. He could do it again.
I see it coming. A shrewd businessman may also be a shrewd politician. A shrewd businessman is a reaper, sometimes where he did not sow. That is Jimoh Ibrahim’s destiny.
Born by a village bricklayer father and petty trader mother, he has obviously reaped with surprises sometimes and oftentimes where he did not sow a seed to become a billionaire businessman in this country. He is not the swiftest or the smartest in Ikale.
It is a confirmation of his kind of destiny, which finds confirmation in the bible, in Ecclesiastes. The preacher said in the book of Ecclesiastes (9:11), that “I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…nor riches to men of understanding…but time and chance happen to them all”.
Thursday, October 27 is almost here, the deadline for the publication of the PDP candidate for Ondo election. I see another surprise coming. This time, some blood will develop pressure!
TOPE TOMEKU
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