Hon. Edward David Onoja, Chief of Staff to the Executive Governor, Kogi state
As a boxer, I dared being boxed into a corner by any powerful and more experienced opponent, for the obvious reason, it would be the end of the bout, because somebody would get knocked down! Simply put, escaping from a ring corner, in front of an experienced opponent takes a boxer, intelligence and common sense.
“For all men being equal before God does not mean all men have common sense to prevail in tight corners. Common sense in an uncommon degree, it is what the world calls wisdom and not common afteral.
It was a brilliant display of intelligence and most especially, common sense today at the Kogi state election petition tribunal sitting at the Jabi High Court Abuja, when , Hon. Edward Onoja, Chief of Staff to the Executive Governor, stood as star witness in the Faleke petition. The young advocate of change withstood close to an hour of gruesome, torturous and deliberate amour-propre attitude of insolence and superciliousness from the revered counsel of James Faleke in person of Chief Wale Olanipekun (Ofr, SAN). Indeed, a parent wouldn’t have been more proud today of their son for a superlative presentation. He was calm, cool and calculated with penance, he took it all to the admiration of the Faleke’s counsel.
Case adjourned to the 6th of April 2016, let’s keep our fingers crossed .
Umar Muhammed
Writes from
Abuja
