Lagos- based member of the inner bar, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) yesterday applauded the verdict of the Court of Appeal which truncated the ambition of Dr Andy Uba to become governor of Anambra State from March 17, 2010.
According to him, the position of the court served the justice of the case.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, Friday, has dismissed the application filed by the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the 2007 election in Anambra state, Dr Emmanuel Andy Uba seeking to be automatically sworn in upon the expiration of the tenure of Governor Peter Obi on March 17, 2010 without any election.

The venue of the meeting was packed full on that day with ex-militants and you could see them in various shapes and sizes and character. Saturday Vanguard overheard a policeman telling his colleague, “So, it’s this small boys that are causing fear for everybody in this country, look at that small one there, you won’t even know that he can carry gun, see how innocent he looks like, but, when you see him in the creek, he is a war lord as you are seeing him”.

He said in spite of his compassionate position in the matter, Justice Mustapha confessed that he received the greatest insults of his life on the MKO Abiola’s case and urged his colleagues in service to develop a thick skin for such a situation being the price they must pay as judicial officers of Nigeria.

The relations between the two countries cannot be anything other than cordial. The occasional rough edges are there but I want to confirm to you that when these cases have been reported, we have found and verily so, that it is not policy of the South African government