SIR: The term ‘parade’ as applied by various courts of coordinate jurisdiction, from Port-Harcourt to Kebbi and now Akwa Ibom, seems to have become the latest jurisprudential lexicon used by politicians and their legal counsel to ventilate real or perceived infractions that might be injurious to their interests.
Though the word ‘parade’ may not be the creation of the judges, as they are mere functio officio in matters before them or so it seems, It is however a matter for interrogation whether an executive office which requires an intellectual and bureaucratic capacity such as the chairman of a major political party could be so diminished to a mere parade, a synonym for rabble rousing pastime.
Most synonyms of ‘parade’ can hardly be insulated from some kind of spectacle displayed in performing a task without application of intellectual or physical rigour.
Can we then conclude that most of our political parties are being run on such imprimatur and by meddlesome interlopers with convoluted interests within their fold, which makes party leaders cannon fodders that can be sacrificed through the procurement of an ex parte order by any court irrespective of jurisdiction and tangent.
Why NJC decides to keep mum on this abuse is best known to the commission, and whenever it decides to wield the big stick, the damages incurred by injured parties are hardly reversed.
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The smokescreen put forward by PDP on adherence to rule of law becomes questionable when juxtaposed with the countervailing optics that informed the hasty decision to carry on without the elected Chairman whose constitutional duties now have to be ceded to a Deputy National Chairman not in the best frame of ‘parading’ himself optimally.
Conversely, the jury is out as to whether the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led extraordinary caretaker committee of APC has discharged itself equitably after Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was sacked in similar circumstances from the parade ground.
Mr. Secondus seems to be swimming against the tide of litigious traducers who appear well determined and hold the ace in terms of legal maneuvering and their incidental price tag.
It would be instructive to conclude on this note: whether Mr. Secondus survives this or not, the impact of his leadership trajectory would remain in the minds and hearts of both his traducers and his loyalists as Julius Caesar iconically quipped.
- Bukola Ajisola
bukymany@yahoo.com
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