@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu I’ll ignore the personal commentary. On the substance, Double jeopardy has a settled legal meaning in criminal law and does not apply to post conviction social or ethical situations. If you disagree, quote a contrary legal authority. If not, be thankful for learning something new
I am getting multiple & credible reports that a senior cabinet adviser with responsibility for security matters in Anambra State, who supervised the enforcement action against Chukwudozie Nwangwu - better known as Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki - has been intensely canoodling with Akwa Okuko's young spouse while the ex-Native Doctor serves time in prison.
If this is true, it gives new meaning to #DoubleJeopardy & is the kind of impunity & #SelfDealing that brings government into disrepute.
#AkwaOkuko may justly be serving time for violations of criminal law but interference with his domestic & marital arrangements is not part of the stipulated punishment, & surely not for the benefit or at the instigation of the person in government who oversaw proceedings against him.
I am confident that Gov. @CCSoludo will investigate this & ensure that the responsible officer of his government is called to order fortwith.
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu You actually embody mundane charlatanism. Your references are strictly to basement legal education: definition of Double Jeopardy/Law School experience. You have no capacity to call to the deep. I apply my energies to profounder, more contentious, unresolved, frontier matters...
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu That’s a lot of theatrics, but no substance. If you have a legal point, make it. I used to have alot of your type back then in law school. Thinking vocabulary dictates intelligence. You’re nothing but a Charlatan and a pseudo-intellectual.
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu Homunculus Imbecile! My earlier self - introduction was an invitation to treat. But your horrendous poverty of discernment was such that you couldn't discern it. Do you even have a name to speak nothing of an intellectual reference? You are immersed in pedestrianness/ mediocrity.
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu You lack the capacity to argue law with me let alone. educating me. You have no idea my academic qualifications but still jump to display stupidity. At least do some research before coming here to display ignorance. It’s not that hard to find out what Double Jeopardy means ffs!!
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu Your delusion has scampered to the very summit that is raving psychosis. The sole humanistic intervention that your circumstance invites is a reference for psychiatric management.
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu It’ll be a disgrace for your so called students to see you on here displaying your ignorance so loudly. How do you teach when you’re so obstinate and willfully ignorant. Your kind are a plague to society. I put it to you that you cannot stand against me to debate on any topic!!
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu Shut up! I've over - indulged you already with my wasted time investment (in you). You are neither teachable nor educable.
@aonanuga1956 Bayo Onanuga's vile energy overflows to such a degree that he can't differentiate between being a Spokesman for Bola Tinubu's Rogue Regime and constituting a propagandist for the APC. The hottest part of hell is reserved for the likes of Bayo Onanuga, who justify iniquity.
"The so-called Ibadan summit is a ruse. It was an assemblage of individuals, not ten political parties. For parties to meet, there must be prior authorisation from their NWC or NEC. Without that, it is simply a gathering of individuals.
"If they now claim that ten political parties met to gang up against one party, it contradicts their earlier narrative. It shows that the political space remains open, but they lack the strength to compete individually"---APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru in an interview with TheNation
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu The Chidi Odinkalu that you are attempting to disparage using the anonymity of social media is a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is a recognised international scholar and activist who has made significant contribution to the literature.
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu What law school did you go to you fool? You think using big words you don’t know d meaning will make you seem smart, and i’m sure it wofks for your gullible circle of friends. dual-pronged liability” arising from the “aftermath” of justice is not how double jeopardy works in law.
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu You're dumb/imbecilic in your rude patronage. The dual-pronged liability of Double Jeopardy need not emanate from court pronouncement; the process of criminal justice administration and its aftermath can (un)wittingly bequeath Double Jeopardy as may have happened to Akwa Okuko.
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu Funny thing is you’re so clueless and arrogant about it….how can someone be this loud and wrong? Did the court try him for same offenses and pass judgment that his wife should be slept with? Ten minutes research could’ve saved you all this embarrassment. do better Obi
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu It's damnable to pair illiteracy with presumption. Rather than speculate on what I know or don't know, you should work on developing your own cognitive capacity. Only then can you recognise the Double Jeopardy in sending AkwaOkuku to jail while sleeping with his wife. Illiterate
@OAdindu@ChidiOdinkalu Titles and reputation don’t change definitions. Double jeopardy doesn’t apply here, full stop. If there’s misconduct, call it misconduct. no need to force a legal concept where it doesn’t fit. I’m sure you don’t even know what the term means but here you are 🤦🏾…Typical Nigerian
@SaintlyExtrove1@ChidiOdinkalu So Chidi Odinkalu does not know the meaning of Double Jeopardy? And you are the knowledgeable, diligent, and accomplished researcher? Hmm. Social media does confer wings on idiocy that is asinine, presumptuous, and mounted on stilts.
@ChidiOdinkalu Do you even know the meaning of double jeopardy? Y’all just be ignorantly throwing words around and gullible Nigerians believe you’re intelligent because they’re too lazy to research
@SundayDareSD All these two-a-penny Special Advisers who huff and puff, issuing utter garbage in support of their kleptomaniacal and drug - infested paymaster, Bola Tinubu. Tinubu is running a Rogue Regime. His minions, who try to justify him, are hell - bound scoundrels, despicable vermins,
PAT UTOMI : AN ECONOMIC BUCCANEER FLIRTING WITH INTELLECTUALISM
Professor Pat Utomi has once again chosen to dance naked in the public square, playing to the gallery with a familiar cocktail of grandstanding and gloom. This time, he has come to dismiss the reform programme of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as “ridiculous,” “poorly structured,” and, in a flourish of intellectual overreach, a “Ponzi scheme.”
At this point, the issue is no longer what Utomi is saying. The issue is why his interventions consistently collapse under the weight of their own exaggeration, under the slightest scrutiny or interrogation.
Any reflective — indeed, discerning — mind would note that, after all these long years of sophistry and vacuous pontifications, all Utomi can possibly point to as his bonafides or bragging rights in the civic space today are the ruins of Volkswagen Automobile Ltd and BankPHB where his much touted “academic wizardry” was exposed as “Ponzi scheme”.
An Economy of Words, Not Results
Utomi’s public persona has long rested on the alarmist aura of a “political economist.” But strip away the titles, the panels, and the endless commentary, and a more uncomfortable question emerges: where is the evidence of all his posturings in the public space?
Nigeria’s economic distortions did not emerge in a vacuum. They were sustained over decades by a rotating class of commentators and advisers who:
* theorized dysfunction instead of dismantling it
* intellectualized failure instead of correcting it
and, crucially, found relevance within a broken system.
Utomi was not outside that ecosystem. He was part of it. Contrast this with measurable shifts under the current reform cycle:
* Fuel subsidy removal (May 2023): eliminated a multi-trillion-naira fiscal drain, freeing up revenues for subnational allocations and deficit reduction.
* Exchange rate unification: collapsed multiple FX windows into a single market-reflective rate—an essential step flagged for years by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. (The actual “Ponzi scheme” that benefited a few with privileged access through arbitrage.)
* FAAC disbursements have risen materially post-subsidy removal, improving state-level fiscal liquidity.
These are not theoretical positions. They are structural actions with verifiable fiscal impact.
From Insider Comfort to Outsider Outrage
There is a pattern here that is too glaring to ignore. For years, the rent-seeking architecture of Nigeria’s economy—subsidy leakages, FX arbitrage, policy opacity—created space for a certain kind of “expert”: visible, vocal, and perpetually adjacent to power, yet rarely accountable for outcomes.
Now, that architecture is being disrupted. And suddenly, the volume of outrage has gone up. This is not a coincidence. It is a reaction.
When a system that once rewarded commentary begins to prioritize structural correction, those who thrived in the old order often rebrand themselves as its fiercest critics. Not out of principle—but out of displacement.
Meanwhile, early macro signals are adjusting:
* Oil revenue remittances have improved post-subsidy removal and reforms in NNPCL transparency frameworks.
* External reserves stability has strengthened relative to pre-reform volatility cycles.
* Debt service-to-revenue pressure has begun easing marginally as fiscal leakages are curtailed.
The “Ponzi Scheme” Claim: A Collapse of Serious Thinking
Let’s be blunt. Calling a national reform programme a “Ponzi scheme” is not provocative—it is intellectually hollow.
A Ponzi scheme is built on deception and zero value creation. Nigeria’s reforms—however painful—are attempting to:
* eliminate fiscal leakages
* restore price discovery in the FX market
* rebuild macroeconomic credibility
If anything resembled a Ponzi structure, it was the previous regime o
* borrowing to sustain consumption.
* subsidizing inefficiency at scale.
* masking structural weakness with artificial stability. 1/2 @officialABAT
@HighChiefOkoro You provoke the severest possible contempt on account of your unrivalled stupidity and the sheer passion with which you champion falsehood. You are filth, scum and vermin, yourself and your enablers who are stealing Nigeria to barrenness while purporting to offer her leadership.