Game Over for Atikulators; a Journey Down the Memory Lane

By Charles Opanwa | Biafra Writers
October 31, 2019

Before it all began, the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, sounded the whistle of caution. They warned that in black Africa it is futile attempting to remove a despot from office through an election. Yes, they sounded it clear, offering the sure option of election boycott. Sentiment however, interlacing self with hatred, kept the people from reason. Those who thought Atiku Abubakar a Messiah, took to social media shouting "Atikulated! Atikulated!" Like a swarm of bees, they polluted the cyberspace with "Get Nigeria Working Again" as if Nigeria has ever worked. The mantra itself was stolen from Donald Trump's campaign team. Of course in Nigeria nothing ever is original; everything is copied.

Even before the INEC umpire could say "on your mark," Atikulators have started to blame IPOB, alleging that the freedom-seeking group is the only obstacle on their way to Aso rock (Nigeria's seat of power). The fact that IPOB has remained unpolitical, holding on only to its quest for freedom from the British mammy market called Nigeria, didn't mean much to them.

They accused IPOB of working for the ruling party,  with the bias and anaemic argument that the reason the group called for election boycott is to slice the votes from Biafraland, thereby giving the ruling party an advantage over them in Arewa north. They sent emissaries to IPOB, pressuring the group to call off the election boycott.

Applying wisdom, the leadership of IPOB granted their request, warning them however that their PVC won't save them. Like a hunter's dog destined for destruction, they ignored the voice of reason and went on with the polls. The outcome of the exercise vindicated IPOB squarely. PVC, everyone came to see, is no more useful than toilet tissue.

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Their slang changed from "Atikulated" to "Atiku is coming," as they went to court. As expected, the sharia groomed chief justice of the federation, Muhammad Tanko, subverted justice, tilting it to favour the ruling party. A puppet, Tanko's travesty of justice didn't come as a surprise, the APC government having broken all legal norms in his installation - an overhead preparation for what was to come.

Now the card game is over and the Atikulators, roundly defeated, are nursing their sore wound. Not even the supreme court was able to restore the said stolen mandate. The appeal has been struck out and the curtain drawn.

When shall we learn from history? "Atiku is coming" has hit the red light. Atiku is no more coming. It's game over.

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Nnamdi Kanu shreds the judiciary, highlights the incompetence of the CJN

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad

• As CJN defines legal technicality, says Nigeria inherited same from the British

July 20, 2019

By Chikwas Onu Ikpe | For Biafra Writers

Leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has reacted to Wednesday's endorsement of the head of the National Judicial Council, otherwise the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, on the floor of the National Assembly; describing it as “a judicial maze”.

Kanu who spoke on Radio Biafra (yesterday) Friday evening stated that the passage of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad to administering the judicial arm of government, notwithstanding the mal-representation of the legal principles, justifies Nigeria as a “shithole”.

Bring to mind that Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia South in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, during cross-examination extended microphone to the Chief justice, Tanko Muhammad, to spell out the philosophy of the supreme court (under him); whether or not its discretion should rest on legal technicalities.

In defence of the probe, the presiding judge of the supreme court defined technicality as “something which is technical”. He went further to say that if something is technical, “it is in a way given leeway (sic) for double interpretation; such that it may be interpreted this way by Mr. A or that way by Mr. B.

“We have technicality in our rules; and this is because these rules we have inherited, we inherited them from the British. The British people have quite (some centuries ago) introduced what is known as technicality in their rules.

"If something technical comes before the court, what we normally do at the trial court is, we ask people who are expert in that field to come and testify. We rely on their testimony because they are expert in that field. Ask me anything on aeroplane, I don't know. Ask me to ‘drive’ an aeroplane; I'm sure if you were a passenger, and they told you ‘that flight is going to be driven by Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko,’ you would get out of there.”

Consequently, the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu berated Justice Tanko for his ineptitude in legal philosophy; saying he [Tanko] lacks what jurisprudence is all about.

According to Nnamdi Kanu: “A very simple question unraveled the hopelessness and grand stupidity of the entire judicial structure of Nigeria.

“No other episode properly encapsulates the dire state of Nigeria than the so-called, shambolic Senate confirmation of Tanko Muhammad, the new Chief Justice of Nigeria. Anybody who endured watching that programme (as it was streamed live) should feel ashamed of themselves; to have watched a wretched and pathetic display from somebody they claim should be at the helm of the judicial system of Nigeria.

"Anybody that complained, or had any word to say against President Donald Trump because he referred to some States in Africa, especially Nigeria as a shithole, after watching that very programme (of confirming the CJN) should go and apologise to Donald Trump. He was being too kind.

“The incapability of Tanko Muhammad to have understood what legal technicality implies shows that he is poorly educated and unfit to be judge. Somebody who is not qualified to be a palm-wine tapper, but today he is the Chief justice.

“It dawned on Tanko to have absorbed that there is something called precedent in law. There is something also called rules of engagement and/or code of conduct; something that the administration of justice and law is predicated upon. You find precedent always playing a key part or role in common law (which Nigeria practice); not civil law. Alas! The supreme court of Nigeria does not obey their own precedent; but the legislature that should be cleaning up all these mess (when there are conflict interpretation of the law by the apex court) are impotent, weak, and useless.“

"When the law says that if you arrest a suspect, you must arraign them before a magistrate within 48 hours. On the contrary (if you do not), regardless of the gravity of that very offense or crime, the suspect should be set free because you have broken the law as recognised in the constitution; that casts as technicality. The latter is because, the substance of the matter, or its criminality is no longer under consideration but the circumstances surrounding that very case.

“But, Tanko Muhammad, the Fulani Sharia judge now confirmed Chief justice (he was a Fulani magistrate) went ahead to comparing legal technicality with the inability of a judge such as himself to effectively 'drive' an aeroplane. Unbelievable!”

Reacting to the ethnic nepotism of the powers that be in the government, he said: "Onnoghen was alleged, and suspended because of the same ethnic bigotry that bounds within the Islamic government of Nigeria. There are learned judges that could have occupied the position of the CJN; but due to the despotic nature of the zoo called Nigeria, it must be Fulani man (why) because Buhari - before he died - came with this very agenda of Fulanization. It doesn't matter what you say, every arm of government must be occupied by a Fulani.”

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Muhammed Tanko: IPOB leader to disembowel the stinking Nigerian judiciary and X-ray Fulanization, in a live broadcast today

From The Office Of Our Indefatigable Supreme Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

July 19, 2019 || The Biafra Times

Following the disgraceful and utterly prejudicial display of unbridled primitive Fulani arrogance by the grammaticall'y challenged Sharia Judge Muhammed Tanko before the Zoo Senate earlier today, in the matter of his rubber stamp confirmation hearing, I will be presenting a broadcast of seismic proportions on Radio Biafra to critically examine and analyse the decaying state of Nigerian courts and impotence of its legislature. I will not only x-ray the concerted Fulanisation of all arms of government by this rogue regime and their unconstitutional appointment of the Fulani Sharia Judge Muhammed Tanko, I will disembowel the stinking Zoo judiciary in a manner that will leave the world in no doubt that President Trump's description of Nigeria as a shit-hole is actually a compliment.

If the intention of the cabal and their slave Tinubu is to use this cringe worthy incoherent rant by Tanko to deflect attention away from their failed murderous Fulani incursion into the south, through deliberate news management and false agenda setting, then Muhammed Tanko, the Fulani cabal along with their lick-spittle Bola Ahmed Tinubu have all failed spectacularly.

People are now wiser than these buffoons think. The hope that Lagos-Abuja media houses will lead with this story for the sole purpose of diverting the public's attention away from rampaging Fulani terrorists across Nigeria is dead on arrival. The public won't buy it. Our honourable and principled resistance against murderous Fulani terrorists and their banditry across our regions will continue unabated until they are all silenced and this satanic British created colonial contraption called Nigeria dismembered for eternity.

As long as IPOB lives, there will be no RUGA.

Venue: Radio Biafra (on air, online, on satellite)

Date: Friday July 19, 2019

Time: 7 pm Biafraland Time

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