The slippery slope fallacies of YPP’s tales of lies
The Young Progressive Party, Akwa Ibom State chapter has continuously indulged in telling fat lies that are not only false but untrue, fallacious and are capable of ruining their vegetable Party.
The party lies akin to inan aged woman who knows she can’t walk down independably on her own to the stream down a slippery hill but bluntly lied to herself that she can descend the slippery hill, but ended up breaking her limbs in the process.
As an analogy, there are doubts in the field of ethics as to why the YPP in Akwa Ibom State should be addicted to lying to the public, not minding that their leadership is headed by a clergy man.
And these their perennial lies have made many Akwa Ibom people to doubt the authenticity of the Priesthood ordination of Pastor Andy,and why he should allow such level of mindless lies to be told to the masses by his subordinates.
As a man of God, He is supposed to protect and preserve the tenets of God’s holiness, but Andy has sold his conscience out to bad politicking.
The Bible had in Proverbs 3, 3-4 admonished us not to let kindness and truth leave us but for us to bind them around our neck, write them on the tablet of our hearts. So that, one will find favour and good repute in the sight of God and man.
So, may I ask our beloved Pastor, why he should choose to allow the propagation of lies by his team mates to stain his priesthood ordination robe and turban?
Firstly, the YPP without conscience lied to Akwa Ibom people that their Candidate was granted post conviction bail by the Appeal Court, even when the whole world knew that Appeal Courts were on vacation and has only one functional Vacation Appeal Court, sitting in the Federal Capital Tertiary, Abuja.
Sen Bassey Albert motion for Bail was filed on the 21st of December 2022 at the Federal High court in Port Harcourt,
where two of his Aides swore affidavit that their boss, Sen Bassey Albert had a health history of being hypertensive and diabetic of over ten years.
In the case of post conviction bails, the burden is on the applicant to prove why he should be granted bail and not on the prosecution as in the case of an application before conviction.
It is thus squarely on the applicant to show that he is entitled to post conviction bail, given that, the right of the presumption of innocence no longer avails him or her
And the court has few exceptions that can provide grounds for the bail to be granted.
What Constitutes Exceptional Circumstances are.
In the case of Ogindimu Munir v. Federal Republic of Nigeria (2009) ALL FWLR (Pt.500) 775 per Jauro JCA the court held among other things that:
“ in the determining exceptional or special circumstances, the Court will take into consideration the following:
1. If the applicant being a first-time offender had previously been of good behaviour;
2. If substantial grounds of law are involved in the appeal, it is useful to see if there is any prospect of success on appeal or where a sentence is manifestly contestable as to whether or not it is a sentence known to law, bail should be granted; Obi v. The State (1992) 8 NWLR (Pt. 227)
3 Where having regard to the very heavy congestion of appeals pending in the Courts, a refusal of bail to the Appellant will have the result of the whole or a considerable potion of the sentence imposed on the Appellant being served before the Applicant’s appeal is heard.?
4. Where the Applicant will be of assistance for the preparation of his appeal and where the appeal is so complex that there is obvious need for close consultation between the Applicant and his counsel. In determining the complex nature of the appeal, regards must also be given to the nature of the offense, number of witnesses taken and the quantum of documents admitted in the course of the trial…
5. Where the application is based on ill health and the Applicant cannot get the necessary treatment in prison or where the machine used in treating the applicant is not moveable thus cannot be moved to the prison, in such circumstances and in order not to put the applicant’s health in serious jeopardy bail can also be granted: Fawehinmi v. The state (aforementioned)”
What constitute special exceptional circumstances in bail application depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of each and every application.
So, the legal team of Senator Bassey Albert capitalized on health grounds to secure him bail, but they never advised on why he must not violate the terms and conditions of bail on health grounds.
My honest question therefore is, why must YPP lie that he was granted bail by the Appeal Court? What are the gains of these grave lies?
It is very transparent that YPP as a party wanted to hide behind the veil of bail and deceive Akwa Ibom people that Sen Bassey Albert has been acquitted from his earlier conviction and 42 years imprisonment sentence.
For now, their Candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Remains non-ELECTABLE pending his appeal, trying to hookwink the entire Akwa Ibom people to believe in their senseless lies which is yet another crime
On Akan Okon Vs Umo Eno ,they made themselves administration officers of the court of Appeal vacation Court ,they fixed judgement dates and published it on social media with an intension to mock Pastor Umo Eno.
They forgot that the case is dead forthwith,once an issuance authority appeared in court and declared that the document tendered was not forged ,that they issued the said certificate .
The case is buried and cannot be resurrected by any legal ascended master .
As if that was not enough ,on the 7th of January, YPP choose to present themselves for public ridicule, when they choose to forge an arrest warrant with Magistrate Court letter head sitting in Abuja.
In this fabricated document, they assumed that Pastor Umo Bassey Eno was convicted and have been declared wanted.
These senseless legal illiterates are not aware that according to the Act that created Magistrate Courts, that an Abuja Magistrate Court has no jurisdiction to hear a case that took place in Akwa Ibom State.
And on arrest warrant, the name of appellant cannot be written on it, but that of commissioner of police, Umo Eno cannot arrest himself.
Pursuant to section 6(4) of the 1999 Constitution, the Magistrate Court in a state is created by the state house of assembly in that state, while the Magistrate Court in the Federal Capital Territory is established by the National Assembly.
The, Magistrate Court in the Federal capital has no constitutional powers to ever preside over such s matter.
In most cases, the complainant is always the police and not individuals, so those who forged the warrant should be arrested and prosecuted for forgery.
YPP media hirelings, also spread that Pastor Umo Eno has been convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison, but they don’t know that no Magistrate Court can sentence or convict a criminal above fourteen years, but can be lesser than fourteen years as the case may be.
And with the Act that Magistrate Court was created, it cannot hear cases that are above 10 million Naira but can hear matter involving lesser amount.
In terms of fraud and indebtedness.
YPP are peddling this fabrication with an intention to also discredit Pastor Umo Eno before the masses in Akwa Ibom State, but they should know that conviction is not contagious as COVID-19.
Pastor Umo Eno is a man of dignity and his integrity stands him out, so trying to blackmail his image by faking documents to show his conviction is criminal and punishable under the Nigerian Criminal penal code.
Last week I took out time to caution the members of the leaf party, that they should concentrate on prayers and fasting, asking for God’s mercy for Sen Bassey Albert, so that the Court of Appeal may look away from his trespasses and acquit him of his earlier conviction.
But instead of them to read with understanding and learn from the legal education I had hitherto provided for them, they ran after the blackmail Mr. Ephraim Inyang-eyen meted on me in 2020.
Sen Bassey Albert is not a Candidate in the forth- coming gubernatorial elections, if he stands convicted until the election takes place, this is a law that is in common place for all Nigerians to know.
The Nigerian 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, section 137, states that “No person shall be qualified for the elections as a President or Governor if within a period of less than ten years before the date of an election to the Governorship or Presidential election, he has been convicted and sentenced for an offense involving dishonesty, or he has been found guilty of a contravention of the Code of Conduct law.
YPP should henceforth stop
their indulgence in slippery lies that are capable of destroying their party.
But I want them to know that Come May 29, 2023, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno will be sworn-in as the elected Governor of Akwa Ibom State and no false fabrication will be able to stop him.
No man is greater than God
