Now that I am in the court of Lord Justice Moses Ebe Ochonu I plead not guilty to the accusation of character assassination by maliciously associating your Lordship's pal with SURE-P patronage because of his blood relation to a PDP candidate. As part of my defence, I hereby reproduce part of your Lordship pal's submission to this forum on February 7, 2015. "What has my brother contesting for the PDP gubernatorial ticket got to do with anything? Why are you talking here as though you've made some damaging discovery about me when I was the one that publicized my brother's campaign on my Facebook wall and elsewhere and used his picture, so what has that got to do with anything?"
"Yes, he (your Lordship pal's brother) was Commissioner of Energy in Delta State, chosen by my people to contest for the governorship in the course of which he and other contestants reached an agreement to collapse their structures and present one main candidate from Delta North in order to win the ticket."
"He was the first public official cleared by the Security Services to contest that election and the only one, without a blot in his file. I DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN AND HELPED AS MUCH AS I COULD."
If your Lordship's pal publicized his brother's campaign on his Facebook and elsewhere using his picture; and if your Lordship's pal donated to his brother's campaign and helped him as much as he could to win the governorship ticket of the PDP in Delta State, how could your Lordship reduce and attribute the activities of your Lordship's pal to that of ordinary blood relation to a PDP candidate? Can that not explain to your Lordship why your pal is all over cyber space castigating and defaming politicians opposed to his brothers party? I have not accused your pal of stealing as he has done without evidence against the political opponents of his brother's party, but asserted that he is being rewarded for his untrue and unfair attacks against members of the opposition. Your Lordship has come out to say that your pal has forcefully debunked and denied being a political mercenary for the power that be as if to say mere denial and debunk confer innocence in law. I draw your Lordship's attention to paragraph two above, where you will discover that your pal forcefully denied and debunked the news that his brother contested in the PDP Delta State gubernatorial primary election last December. Yet your pal's brother was among the seventeen candidates that contested the said gubernatorial primary, even though he scored only four votes. Thus, your pal's denial and debunk of any issue cannot be used as a measure of his truthfulness and trustworthiness. Does your Lordship believe that your pal's brother would buy a non refundable PDP application form of interest to contest a gubernatorial primary election for N10 million and work away from it, especially when your pal donated to it?
"Yes, he (your Lordship pal's brother) was Commissioner of Energy in Delta State, chosen by my people to contest for the governorship in the course of which he and other contestants reached an agreement to collapse their structures and present one main candidate from Delta North in order to win the ticket."
"He was the first public official cleared by the Security Services to contest that election and the only one, without a blot in his file. I DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN AND HELPED AS MUCH AS I COULD."
If your Lordship's pal publicized his brother's campaign on his Facebook and elsewhere using his picture; and if your Lordship's pal donated to his brother's campaign and helped him as much as he could to win the governorship ticket of the PDP in Delta State, how could your Lordship reduce and attribute the activities of your Lordship's pal to that of ordinary blood relation to a PDP candidate? Can that not explain to your Lordship why your pal is all over cyber space castigating and defaming politicians opposed to his brothers party? I have not accused your pal of stealing as he has done without evidence against the political opponents of his brother's party, but asserted that he is being rewarded for his untrue and unfair attacks against members of the opposition. Your Lordship has come out to say that your pal has forcefully debunked and denied being a political mercenary for the power that be as if to say mere denial and debunk confer innocence in law. I draw your Lordship's attention to paragraph two above, where you will discover that your pal forcefully denied and debunked the news that his brother contested in the PDP Delta State gubernatorial primary election last December. Yet your pal's brother was among the seventeen candidates that contested the said gubernatorial primary, even though he scored only four votes. Thus, your pal's denial and debunk of any issue cannot be used as a measure of his truthfulness and trustworthiness. Does your Lordship believe that your pal's brother would buy a non refundable PDP application form of interest to contest a gubernatorial primary election for N10 million and work away from it, especially when your pal donated to it?
Your Lordship is asking me to produce evidence of political mercenary against your pal, yet in all the years you've sat on the bench, hundreds of people have been sentenced by you on what you called CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE as I have produced against your pal. I have always believed that in spite of your position that we have the same mother/fatherland and that we share the same fate and destiny. On reading the your message below I made a sad reflection to Lord Lugard's observation in 1922, "THE EUROPEANISED AFRICAN IS INDEED SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE PEOPLE BY A GULF WHICH NO RACIAL AFINITY CAN BRIDGE. HE MUST BE TREATED - AND SEEMS DESIRED BE TREATED - AS THOUGH HE WERE OF DIFFERENT RACE." Nevertheless, I'm not naïve to believe that your pal led some red-light ladies to Chatham House to shout *THIEF* at Buhari for nothing. In a time of universal deceit, George Orwell wrote, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Those who do not like the truth can continue to Read Only Mode!!
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:12:16 -0600
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BUHARI'S CHATHAM HOUSE CHARADE: NOT A STATESMANLIKE PRESENTATION AND NOT A STATESMANLIKE EXIT!
From: meochonu@gmail.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
"The simple answer is, Kennedy Emetulu's brother is = PDP which is= Jonathan who is= SURE-P which is= Kennedy Emetulu."
So this is the basis of the recycled and unproven allegation that Kennedy Emetulu is a paid SURE-P commentator? I know the exchanges in this forum can sometimes degenerate into cyber fisticuffs but I've never seen such a deliberate and unfounded character assassination of a fellow forum member. Is it okay now on this forum to recklessly throw out innuendoes and allegations that impugn the honor and character of another forum member? If Kennedy had not come out forcefully to debunk this extremely malicious and wild allegation, his honor and name would have been associated with a fake SURE-P patronage constructed solely on the basis of his blood relation to a PDP candidate.
Even without any proof being offered and in spite of Kennedy's denial, another forum member has gone ahead to repeat the allegation as though there was something to it, in a deliberate effort to keep the insinuation going and in order to discredit Kennedy. I don't agree with most of Kennedy's positions on the imminent election and he knows it since he and I have basically agreed to disagree on another forum, but why can't those who similarly disagree with him outline their objections and counter-arguments as Shola and a few others have done without trying to intimidate him with attacks on his integrity? When did guilt by association or kinship and a far-fetched logical fallacy of connections become the basis for attacking the character of an interlocutor? This is why a lot of people have chosen to remain in ROM (Read Only Mode) and contribute only sporadically.
It is not only Kennedy that has been a target of this strange tactic of character assassination. Both Ikhide and Toyin Adepoju have, at different times, had their integrity questioned and have been accused without a shred of evidence of being paid by Jonathan to attack Buhari's supporters or to sell their alleged paymaster--just because they are expressing contrarian, controversial views considered unpopular by their accusers.
People have been called "tribalists" and their positions ascribed to "tribal" political calculations as though the accusers can read minds and discern motives.
For goodness sake, why can't we disagree with people without questioning their motive or their honor, without suspecting that their views have been bought for money or other pecuniary patronage? If we all thought alike, would it not be boring? I've come to the conclusion that many of our people cannot deal with difference, especially when that difference is loud, robust, and brash.
I taya for my country and its people.
Anyway, back to ROM.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:16 PM, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
My Sister, What if Buhari loses the election come March 30 or April 1when the results must all have come in, who get to scratch the head?I don't think anyone, not you and certainly not Kennedy, should come out on a limb on this issue. It is certain that the election will be very interesting. My own political adrenalin is already fired. But the most we can epistemically say is: at least someone will win (and even that isn't sacrosanct because anything--ANYTHING--can still happen).So?Adeshina Afolayan
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Date:Tue, 3 Mar, 2015 at 3:23 am
Subject:USA Africa Dialogue Series - BUHARI'S CHATHAM HOUSE CHARADE: NOT A STATESMANLIKE PRESENTATION AND NOT A STATESMANLIKE EXIT!Dear Kennedy,
Note how calmly I called you. You need to simmer. You are getting too hot headed that I begin to wonder if, what someone called your 'e-bullets' energy should not be aimed at Bokoharam. You have gone over the lid. My suggestion to the group is that we allow him to take a break from his 'psychobabble'. It is countdown to March 28. One last thing though, Kennedy tell Jonathan the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.... Beware of the month of march...
I am done with you. My next chit chat with you is March 28, when you will nervously scratch your head for want of what to say.
Ofure
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