An American-Nigerian Professor and Social commentator, Farook Kperogi has responded to a statement by the Supreme Court criticising his assessment of recent judgements of the Apex Court.
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Kperogi had earlier published an article viciously lambasting the decision of the Supreme Court recognizing Senator Ahmed Lawan as the legitimate flagbearer of the All Progressives for the Yobe East Senatorial election despite not participating in the primary election.
However, in a statement released yesterday by the Supreme Court Director of Press and Information, Dr Akande Aweneri Festus, Kperogi’s comments were described as infantile and irresponsible, and cautioned against unwarranted attacks on judicial officers.
In a direct reply to the Supreme Court, Kperogi, today published an article titled “A Reply to Supreme Court Of Illiterates”.
In the article, he described the Supreme Court’s press release as uneducated and riotously written, and wondered if it was written for comic purposes.
He said, “When I opened my WhatsApp on Saturday, I saw a higher than usual volume of messages and forwards from friends. The first one I opened was a riotously uneducated, sidesplittingly error-ridden, indefensibly malapropistic press statement attacking me for calling out the Supreme Court’s bizarre perversion of justice in recognizing Senate President Ahmed Lawan as Yobe North’s APC senatorial candidate when he didn’t participate in a primary election.
The statement was such an uproariously juvenile drivel that I sincerely thought it was written by someone who was trying his hand at textual comedy—following the wild success of online video comic skits.
I laughed hysterically as I read the statement. Who won’t laugh after reading of “abysmal pit of irredeemable ignorance,” “convoluted anger,” “caution-gate of self-control,” “pen-happy Kperogi,” “mood of bellicose jingoism,” “ineptly scripted toxic article,” and several other hilariously sophomoric howlers?”
According to Kperogi, he has never heard of where a country’s Supreme Court responds to judgement criticisms by singling out an individual for criticism. He stated that such approach by the Apex Court is well belittling of its status.
“I’d never heard of the Supreme Court of any country responding to the criticism of its judgment by singling out a private individual who called them out. This is a world record of supreme infantilism.”
Kperogi further accused the current Chief Justice of Nigeria of being politically biased, and insisted that he has repeatedly violated the code of conduct of judicial officers.
“The current Chief Justice of Nigeria, in fact, makes no pretenses about where his financially induced political biases lie. The other day, he was invited by Governor Nyesom Wike to commission projects during which he made openly partisan political statements and turned himself into Wike’s pitiful praise poet.
When I called him out, he issued a statement to deny making the politically compromising statements he made in Port Harcourt that I’d quoted. But after I shared the video clip of him saying exactly what he denied saying–and more–he shut up but bottled up the anger and bile that welled up in him, which he ventilated yesterday using the opportunity that my biting censure of the Supreme Court provided.
The truth is that he violated Rule 1(5) of the Judicial Code of Conduct, which says that “a judge must avoid social relationships that are improper…. or that may cast doubt on the ability of a Judicial Officer to decide cases impartially.”
So, it is either that Justice Olukayode Ariwoola is a fundamentally dishonest person who lies blatantly, or he was so helplessly inebriated by Wike’s treats that he didn’t know what he was saying in Port Harcourt, which is frankly a distinction without a difference.”
He continued,
“The cockamamie judgments that have been emanating from the Supreme Court lately reflect the character—or lack thereof—of the man who leads it. Of course, he is not alone in this brazen-faced, in-your-face moral depravity. Most of his colleagues are also purchasable judicial mountebanks with zero self-worth. Thank God for the few honest ones among them.”
He also alleged deep-seated corruption in the Supreme Court, and worried that the Supreme Court might give us a “Supreme Court President” one day.
“A senior lawyer who followed my articles on the Ahmed Lawan case had told me months ago that I should forget thinking I could change anything and preserve my intellectual energies for more productive causes because the Supreme Court had already been “settled” and would deliver tendentious judgements to legitimize the electoral frauds by politicians who were too busy running for president to have time to participate in the primary elections for senatorial positions.
It was hard to believe, but it happened exactly as he said it would. So, the Supreme Court already had a conclusion (i.e., that big men with money to “spoil” Supreme Court justices must get what they “ask for,” to use the statement from the Court) and were merely searching for “evidence” to support the conclusion, instead of the other way around.”
He concluded, “At this rate, this Supreme Court of judicial bandits may give us a “Supreme Court president,” that is, a person who comes fourth (a la Hope Uzodinma of Imo State) in the presidential election but who has enough money to “ask for” a favorable judgement from the two-bit mercenary charlatans at the Supreme Court.”
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