What, if the heavens fall? By Ikechukwu Amaechi

What, if the heavens fall? By Ikechukwu Amaechi. By Ikechukwu Amaechi Following the November 5, ruling of Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which nullified the Senator David Mark leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and invalidated all decisions taken under his watch, including the primary elections that produced the party’s candidates for the 2027 elections, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, […] The post What, if the heavens fall? By Ikechukwu Amaechi appeared first on Vanguard News . Following the November 5, ruling of Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which nullified the Senator David Mark leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and invalidated all decisions taken under his watch, including the primary elections that produced the party’s candidates for the 2027 elections, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, is behaving like the overfed little bird Nza in Igbo folklore that challenged his Chi (personal god) to a bout. Many Nigerians were aghast at the judge’s indiscretion and absolute lack of emotional intelligence when he voided not only the candidacy of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar but also every other ticket of the party simply because of the contrived grievance of one Nafiu Bala Gombe, a former official of the party. But Keyamo is over the moon with the consequential judgement, which import according to one of Gombe’s counsel, Luka Musa Haruna, a learned silk, is that, “As it stands today, the ADC has no candidate from the presidential level to the House of Assembly, governorship, Senate and all other elective positions for the 2027 election,” because apparently he sees in the defanging of the ADC even before the first ballot is cast the only pathway to the All Progressives Congress (APC) victory. It didn’t bother Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) that the judgement was delivered only 72 days to the polls, a brazen and rascally act of judicial mischief by a judge whose actions were recently described by a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice A. Mohammed as rendering him “unfit for the bench.” To every discerning observer of the unfolding political drama, the fact that the judgement ousting ADC, the main opposition party, from the 2027 ballot, was delivered barely 24 hours after Atiku, commenced his nation-wide campaigns with a hugely successful rally in Sokoto State, is telling both in reality and optics. It was a panic move by a ruling party afraid of competition. MSEApp News is publishing an original.