Sv: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Profile of Law Firm Handling Atiku's Election Petition

​The academic qualifications of Nigerians are always stronger than the  economic, industrial and medical ailments afflicting our dear country. Our academic officials have not been able to treat or cure our nation of any of her ailments even when the main reason for their being employed and overpaid is to demonstrate the expertise they claim possession of. Ours is a nation where a hood does not actually make a Monk!​

​According to Chidi Anthony Okapa, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu LL.B, LL.M & LL.D, commenced practice in 1988 with the firm Livy Uzoukwu and Co. On 3 October 2002, the firm was registered as Livy Uzoukwu, SAN and Co., having been conferred with SAN honour three years earlier, in 1999. As it is publicly known, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu is the leading counsel for Atiku Abubakar in his presidential election petition against Muhammadu Buhari and INEC, which had declared the latter winner of the 2019 presidential election. In response to the petition, INEC averred, among other things, that Atiku Abubakar's leading counsel is not entitled to practise law in Nigeria because he has never been registered at the Supreme Court of Nigeria for that purpose as required by law and as such the petition should be dismissed for being incompetent. I suspect that it was this part of INEC's submission that has jaded Chidi Anthony Opara to post the profile of Dr. Livy Uzoukwu on this forum. But the profile is somehow deficient and incomplete as it does not contain when and where Dr. Livy Uzoukwu became a qualified lawyer and if he is licensed to practise law in Nigeria. It should be interesting to know which court cases Dr. Livy Uzoukwu have handled since 1988, when Mr. Opara claimed he commenced practising law, presumably in Nigeria, and up to date.

S. Kadiri   

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Zilch!  He will lose this one also.  A cassock does not make a Monk! 

Cheers.

IBK

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AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from off the goose

 

The law demands that we atone

When we take things that we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

 

The poor and wretched don't escape

If they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law

 

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back

 -        Anonymous (circa 1764)

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 15:04, segun ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:

The important issues are: How many election petitions and constitutional cases has he  won in Nigeria? 

Segun Ogungbemi. 

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 14:56 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"The firm commenced practice in 1988 as Livy Uzoukwu and Co. On 3 October 2002, it was registered as Livy Uzoukwu, SAN and Co. The firm is one of the leading law firms in Nigeria. The firm operates from its own purpose built modern law office known as Eliza House, located in Owerri, Nigeria. 

The firm is headed by Dr Livy Uzoukwu, LL.B, LL.M, LLD, SAN, OON. He was a former Honourable Attorney General of Imo State, Nigeria. Dr Uzoukwu is also an author and a publisher. He was in 1999 conferred with the highest distinction in the legal profession, the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The firm's relationship with its clients is based on experience, knowledge and professionalism.

The firm appreciates that legal practice is carried out in a continuously changing environment and that it is becoming increasingly a multi-jurisdictional and cross-border matter. The firm therefore has relationships and linkages with international law firms."

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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