APC Supreme Court Will Confirm Buhari By Odilim Enwegbara

Without urgent reform of the judiciary which is engulfed in corruption, which this government is further promoting, foreign investors will always avoid investing in Nigeria.

Or who should be those stupid foreign investors to invest in a country where the judiciary is for the highest bidders and where business disputes taken to court could last in our courts for decades, making justice delayed the same thing as justice denied?

All foreign investors I am in touch with have always told me that as far as they are concerned, Nigeria is today the worst fascist state, where the president can just remove the head of the country’s judiciary and get away with it.


And they are right; the day President Muhammadu Buhari removed Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen as the Chief Judge of Nigeria was the day Buhari and APC committed the biggest judicial coup in Nigeria.


I will assure Nigerians that we can make all the noise in the world as we wish but at the end of the day, Buhari’s Justice Muhammad Tanko is going to appoint only those justices who will go ahead to confirm the judgment of the appeal court.


I was thinking otherwise until a friend who is Supreme Court told me that because the Saudi King is interested in Buhari’s government the Tanko-led Supreme Court cannot do anything that will jeopardize Saudi’s position in Nigeria.


So, will have no problem unless the US calls Saudi King to order to stay away from Nigerian politics. But of course that will never happen unless powerful Republicans are forced to listen to their powerful Evangelical Christian base.


Or are we believing that Onnoghen was removed for nothing at such an important time of the election?


Because Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress [APC], believe that they will get away with their judicial coup, they are going to impose the supreme Court justices who will confirm him the winner and Nigerians can go to hell, who cares?

The elixir of success

When some people succeed and others do not, it’s simply, simply hard work and determination to get it done at all costs.


Albert Einstein said it all when said that he who spends more and more time on solving a particular problem will eventually succeed more that he who spends less time on the same problem.


The reason being that there is no way one can spend a lot of time on solving a problem that does not excite one.


Of course it’s out of excitement and inquisitiveness that one could spend a lot of time on solving a particular problem.


One of the gifts of entrepreneurship — the Igbo and Jews have it in abundance — is the ability to compete. When all you want is to defeat others in a race and the same others wake up without your same determination, over time, you will be more prepared than them.


I grew up seeing my father leaving house by 6am and returning 7pm. And he told us that what separates the rich and the poor is hard work and education.


He told his children to compete in everything you do in life to be the best — the first position not second position. He spent all his resources on his children’s education. He became my role model.


So there are so many role models in Igbo land. You go to Nnewi there are billionaire role models that many young Nnewi look up.


And because the list is so endless I can only mention a few such as Ibeto, Chikason, Chukwuma — owner of Innoson Motors, Cosmas Maduka—Coscharis, Febian Nwaora owner of Efab Properties and Efabpalm soon to revolutionise the palm oil industry.


You go to Ihiala there are so many role models young Ihiala look up, including ABC Ojiako, Obi Jackson, Joe Anyigbo, Cas Maduafokwa, Onyema—owner of Peace Airline, Edwin Enwegbara, and the list is endless.


These men are extreme hard workers. They hardly sleep or go to on vacation and indulge in social lifestyles. Their businesses are all the think about every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, and every year.


In education, there is nowhere to start with because most of the big boys and girls are all over the world competing in virtually the world’s most competitive knowledge-based industries.


So I’m not surprised that a young man from Anambra could score 9As. Whether JAMB Registrar likes it or not, he must release his result or he will be taken to court.


Let me also use this opportunity to seek from anyone to know if anyone knows how to contact this whiz-kid.


Besides doing everything possible to hand him over to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admissions office and follow it up, I’ll also do everything to get him the same Institution Scholarship I enjoyed at MIT.


Odilim Enwegbara