Alwaysachick:



I don't think so, they gave judgment with the supposed evidence.

PDP as at then had no case in court, so they didnt fault in any way. But its let for PDP now to proof beyond reasonable doubt that Hope's numbers were falsified.

Proof what beyond reasonable doubt?

Is Supreme Court a Trial Court?

Tareq1105:
You will borrow Ihedioha #100m tomorrow. You want them to review their judgment given last month.

Haven't you heard that even where Supreme Court gave judgement in error, or judgement was given by a Lord Justice just after leaving a beer parlour, that's what the Law is.

We told Lyon he no hear.

This proves u wrong:

Olorunfemi v Asho
This is yet another case in which the Supreme Court took the bold position to set aside its earlier decision. The Supreme Court set aside its judgment delivered in January 8, 1999 on the ground that, it failed to consider the respondents’ cross–appeal before allowing the appellant’s appeal.

Johnson v Lawanson
Coker J.S.C. delivering the court’s judgment held that “when the court is faced with the alternative of perpetuating what it is satisfied is an erroneous decision which was reached per incuriam and will, if followed, inflict hardship and injustice upon the generations in the future or of causing temporary disturbances of rights acquired under such a decision, I do not think we shall hesitate to declare the law as we find it.” The court then ordered that the appeal be re-heard de novo by another panel of Justices of the Supreme Court. Nadio2019


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/precedents-when-supreme-court-is-asked-to-reverse-itself/

Staro:

Hope Uzodinma obviously obtained this
judgement by fraud.

If the Supreme Court is fair and firm, this
judgement should be reversed while Hope
Uzodinma is banned from politics for 10yrs.

This judgement must not stand !

He should be banned for life. He's a well-known forger.

ultimateprof:
Ihedioha should go and rest because he has nothing convincingly to say. Let him test defeat and feel how it looks. Nonsense!

But alas this is not about Ihedioha. I am neither from SE nor a supporter of Ihedioha. This is about YOU and every other Nigerian. This embarrassment of this judgment diminishes all of us.

How can u tell any Nigerian that lying and cheating does not pay when they can see for themselves that the highest court in the land rewards blatant cheating and forgery??

Different if Uzodinma were already the governor and they did it not want to overheat things. NO, they overruled all lower courts AND INEC itself in order to replace an already 8-month governor with a 4th place finisher, all based on clearly fraudulent documents!

kahal29:


He has no case but a HUGE FINE awaits him tomorrow.

after supreme court revised the judgment just locate nearest transformer and embrace it

Ok

Ihedioha should go and relax please.

Effort in futility.

It will be easier for Arsenal to win the English Premier League, than for Ihedioha to get reinstated.

Waste of time, energy, resource and funds.

Racoon:
The Imo case is clear case of judicial injustice hence a culdesac the supreme court must redeem itself from.

Has the Supreme Court of Nigeria ever upturned its judgement on election petition?
So how would the former Imo governor think he is going to be treated differently to destroy the Supreme Court of Nigeria? This is common election matter, not a capital punishment matter.

Nadio2019:


Has the Supreme Court of Nigeria ever upturned its judgement on election petition?
So how would the former Imo governor think he is going to be treated differently to destroy the Supreme Court of Nigeria? This is common election matter, not a capital punishment matter.

Well in Johnson v Lawanson they reversed yet it was only about deed of assignment. In Olorunfemi v Asho they also reversed yet it was only a land case

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OgunLaakaye:
Ihedioha should go and relax please.

Effort in futility.

It will be easier for Arsenal to win the English Premier League, than for Ihedioha to get reinstated.

Waste of time, energy, resource and funds.

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The SC should redeem its image

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CanadaOrBust:


All newspapers in the country are also watching and many have noted what a travesty Imo is. I don’t see how the SC can let the judgment stand and still look Nigerians in the eye:

The following is from the actual summary of trial materials as presented in a major reputable newspaper.
Pay special attention to the bolded.
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That Supreme Court Magic Judgment
This Day (Lagos) 17 FEBRUARY 2020

... According to summary of trial materials, no ward collation agent was called to show that at the collation center results were brought from the 388 polling units where the alleged exclusion took place...

The petitioner, rather called 28 polling unit agents who came to identify some of the results tendered by the petitioner from the bar. All the electoral documents were tendered from the bar and thus dumped on the court without anybody giving evidence correlating the contents of the result forms with the tabulation done by the petitioner himself.

Each of the 18 polling unit agents under cross-examination, manifested ignorance of the contents of the documents and never convinced anybody of being present in their claimed polling units...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had in their reply to the petition disowned those result sheets and averred emphatically that NO RESULTS WERE GENERATED from those polling units as elections in those polling units were cancelled by presiding officers as a result of violence, over voting, snatching of electoral materials, etc. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated that any result from those polling units presented by any of the candidates, in this case, the petitioners, must be fake.

When confronted with the purported result sheets tendered by the petitioners, each of the witnesses admitted as follows:
i. The names and signatures of the Presiding Officers are not well found on those results.
ii. The names and signatures of other party agents did not appear on the result sheets, neither could they mention even one party agent of the other political parties in those booths.
iii. The result sheets do not contain the total number of ballot papers used and number of ballot papers unused or invalid. The scores of political parties are not clear on the face of the documents.

Based on the above, it appears the Supreme Court was desperately working to an answer in favour of the ruling party... and the only opening to do that was to accept the fictitious results of the 388 polling units willy-nilly. And instead of doing substantial justice on the matter, it ended up delivering one of judiciary's greatest infamies which even a kid learning arithmetic can see through. The judgment turned logic on its head, rewrote the basic universal laws of arithmetic and did grave and substantial injury to our democracy and the power of the people to choose who governs them. With this judicial precedent, the Supreme Court has inevitably rubber-stamped political rascality and the judgment could shape our democratic future.

The court has widened the opening which politicians exploit and manipulate to get into elective offices. All one needs to do is to stay somewhere, maybe in one's room, probably with one policeman or so, write one's own results, submit to INEC for counting and if it refuses, don't worry, bid your time till you get to the court. With supreme arrogance, the final court of appeal will recognise the results as legitimate, credible and authentic and pronto, you will be declared duly elected.

...Even more perplexing was the fact that in some of the polling units, voter turnout was more than the registered voters. How is this possible?
In Uzodinma's result sheets, there was no voided vote and only two parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APC participated and were reflected in the election results of the 388 polling units. Yet, 70 political parties participated in that election and were all reflected in the INEC declared results of other polling units all over the state. ..,Does it mean that other parties such as All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Action Alliance (AA), etc., did not participate in the election in those 388 polling units contrary to INEC's results in other areas of the state?
Why did the result sheets reflect only two parties when so many parties participated in the said election? Apparently, Senator Uzodinma concocted those results that fly in the face of the basic laws of arithmetic and common sense between the PDP and the APC after the fact that the PDP had won the election and he only scored his party a vote figure higher than the PDP vote. The corollary to that is that if it was any other party that was on the cusp of victory, Uzodinma's results would have been between just the APC and that party! Yet our almighty Supreme Court glossed over all these fundamental anomalies in Uzodinma's result sheets which had been rejected by even INEC... and accepted same as authentic.
A further assessment of the result sheets of the disputed 388 polling units showed that the said units are all in the Orlu Senatorial Zone where Uzodinma and the candidate of the Action Alliance Ugwumba Uche Nwosu come from. So even if the 388 polling units were concentrated mostly in Uzodinma's ancestral home, surely, Nwosu who emerged second in the March 9, 2019 election in Imo State and was backed by the incumbent governor at the time, Rochas Okorocha, his father in-law, must have amassed some votes from the units. But these votes were curiously missing, for the simple reason that they forged the results, and very badly at that.
Furthermore, Uzodinma of the APC scored an average of 98% of the total votes cast in the 388 units, whereas he scored an average of 13% in the remaining polling units in the state. How could this be? Why was it that it was only in these 388 units throughout the state that the voter turnout was either more than the registered voters or achieved 98 to 100 percent of the registered voters? Please note that emphasis is NOT on the number of accredited voters which is usually far less than the number of registered voters. Uzodinma's fake results validated by our Supreme Court defy reason. The pattern of the results from the disputed 388 polling units clearly shows the improbability of such an occurrence. And on the basis of the testimony of one policeman, and 28 discredited polling units' agents who gave contradictory statements at trial, the Supreme Court accepted the results.

In declaring Uzodinma governor of Imo State, the Supreme Court simply annulled a valid mandate freely given to an individual and transferred it to another person who came fourth in the election.

You just don't understand, or don't want to understand the issues at stake here.

This is an election case.
Perhaps the PDP candidate must have rigged election more than the APC candidate, but the time to argue those things out was at the lower courts.

The Supreme Court does not add or subtract votes to or from any candidate once the vote counts arrive live before the Supreme Court judges.

Above all, no country would have its Supreme Court judges humiliated by desperate politicians. This is not a do-or-die affair, not judgement on capital punishment. So it's hard to see a country's Supreme Court sitting on appeal over it's judgement that is not on capital punishment..

Nadio2019:
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You just don't understand, or don't want to understand the issues at stake here.

This is an election case.
Perhaps the PDP candidate must have rigged election more than the APC candidate, but the time to argue those things out was at the lower courts.

The Supreme Court does not add or subtract votes to or from any candidate once the vote counts arrive live before the Supreme Court judges.

Above all, no country would have its Supreme Court judges humiliated by desperate politicians. This is not a do-or-die affair, not judgement on capital punishment. So it's hard to see a country's Supreme Court sitting on appeal over it's judgement that is not on capital punishment..

U r the one who doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand.
The SC was clearly wrong or compromised or both.
Notice how they carefully did not mention numbers in their judgement, in a case that’s all about numbers! For same reason they dared not mention meeting the constitutionally mandated geographical spread - because they know the numbers make no sense - the man gave himself more votes than there are voters! Same reason INEC dared not give the final tally of votes as they did in Bayelsa and all others - they’d be laughed at!

As for the rest, there is no law that says they shouldn’t see the clearly fraudulent nature of the documents right in front of them.
As for reversal, in Johnson v Lawanson they reversed yet it was only about deed of assignment. In Olorunfemi v Asho they also reversed yet it was only a land case. This is governorship of a whole state!

CanadaOrBust:


Imo is not comparable to Bayelsa and Zamfara. Disqualifications are common in politics, per those states.
But in Imo the SC in broad daylight, unabashedly and
blatantly rewarded clear cheating and forgery that even kids can tell is cheating and forgery. What does that say about us as a people? It diminishes each and everyone of us. How can u teach children about not cheating when they can see for themselves that the final court in the land rewards cheating and forgery??

Also, at the very least, it greatly reduces your ability to have a say in who governs u because it allows for any ruling party to “win” any election it wishes, (all they have to do is obtain INEC documents and write any result they wish - which the SC must accept by precedence of this case) which will inevitably lead to a one-party country.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
People can't reject you at the poll then you run to court to have the winner disqualified so victory can be given to u.

Pdp did not met the spread in both Zamfara and Imo. But the SC gave them sa leeway.
If the SC dares to review their Imo verdict (which is highly unlikely) it'll be a precedent for countless frivolous review appeals. I'm sure they don't want that

CanadaOrBust:


Read this and stop making a fool of yourself:

Olorunfemi v Asho
This is yet another case in which the Supreme Court took the bold position to set aside its earlier decision. The Supreme Court set aside its judgment delivered in January 8, 1999 on the ground that, it failed to consider the respondents’ cross–appeal before allowing the appellant’s appeal.

Johnson v Lawanson
Coker J.S.C. delivering the court’s judgment held that “when the court is faced with the alternative of perpetuating what it is satisfied is an erroneous decision which was reached per incuriam and will, if followed, inflict hardship and injustice upon the generations in the future or of causing temporary disturbances of rights acquired under such a decision, I do not think we shall hesitate to declare the law as we find it.” The court then ordered that the appeal be re-heard de novo by another panel of Justices of the Supreme Court.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/precedents-when-supreme-court-is-asked-to-reverse-itself/

Legendary reviewer of the supreme Court, how far?

Your kindred and PDP were asking for something impossible and they got it.

ntyce:


Legendary reviewer of the supreme Court, how far?

Your kindred and PDP were asking for something impossible and they got it.

The SC was clearly wrong or compromised or both.
There is no law that says they shouldn’t see the clearly fraudulent nature of the documents right in front of them.

Also notice how they carefully did not mention numbers in their judgement, in a case that’s all about numbers! For same reason they dared not mention meeting the constitutionally mandated geographical spread - because they know the numbers make no sense - the man gave himself more votes than there are voters! Same reason INEC dared not give the final tally of votes as they did in Bayelsa and all others - they’d be laughed at!

ntyce:


Legendary reviewer of the supreme Court, how far?

Your kindred and PDP were asking for something impossible and they got it.

Though it dismissed the application, the apex court refused to award cost against the Applicants.

However, a member of the apex court panel, Justice Centus Chima Nweze, disagreed with the lead verdict and gave a dissenting opinion that allowed Ihedioha’s application.

Nweze said he was satisfied that the judgement that declared Uzodinma winner was entered in error.

He held that the apex court has a duty to in the interest of justice, set-aside its decision that was given in error.

CanadaOrBust:


Imo is not comparable to Bayelsa and Zamfara. Disqualifications are common in politics, per those states.
But in Imo the SC in broad daylight, unabashedly and
blatantly rewarded clear cheating and forgery that even kids can tell is cheating and forgery. What does that say about us as a people? It diminishes each and everyone of us. How can u teach children about not cheating when they can see for themselves that the final court in the land rewards cheating and forgery??

Also, at the very least, it greatly reduces your ability to have a say in who governs u because it allows for any ruling party to “win” any election it wishes, (all they have to do is obtain INEC documents and write any result they wish - which the SC must accept by precedence of this case) which will inevitably lead to a one-party country.

There you have it

mrphysics:

No court on "Earth" will review it's judgement.

Maybe a Canada Court will

See how wrong u r? One of the justices allowed Ihedioha’s petition

The SC was clearly wrong or compromised or both.
There is no law that says they shouldn’t see the clearly fraudulent nature of the documents right in front of them.

Also notice how they carefully did not mention numbers in their judgement, in a case that’s all about numbers! For same reason they dared not mention meeting the constitutionally mandated geographical spread - because they know the numbers make no sense - the man gave himself more votes than there are voters! Same reason INEC dared not give the final tally of votes as they did in Bayelsa and all others - they’d be laughed at!

bkool7:


There you have it

And there u have it:

“Though it dismissed the application, the apex court refused to award cost against the Applicants.

However, a member of the apex court panel, Justice Centus Chima Nweze, disagreed with the lead verdict and gave a dissenting opinion that allowed Ihedioha’s application.

Nweze said he was satisfied that the judgement that declared Uzodinma winner was entered in error.

He held that the apex court has a duty to in the interest of justice, set-aside its decision that was given in error.“

CanadaOrBust:


See how wrong u r? One of the justices allowed Ihedioha’s petition

The SC was clearly wrong or compromised or both.
There is no law that says they shouldn’t see the clearly fraudulent nature of the documents right in front of them.

Also notice how they carefully did not mention numbers in their judgement, in a case that’s all about numbers! For same reason they dared not mention meeting the constitutionally mandated geographical spread - because they know the numbers make no sense - the man gave himself more votes than there are voters! Same reason INEC dared not give the final tally of votes as they did in Bayelsa and all others - they’d be laughed at!

Lol, earlier this morning when you began looking for reasons to console yourself ahead of this judgement, I was convinced within me that you know the truth but was only looking for reasons to be biased and you found alot of them.

Ihedioha and PDP were just looking for a rerun not that they won or even got the spread in the first place. Even the mistake called declaration by INEC, he (Ihedioha) didn't get the required spread but it was right to you.

Bro, just be objective for once.

CanadaOrBust:


And there u have it:

“Though it dismissed the application, the apex court refused to award cost against the Applicants.

However, a member of the apex court panel, Justice Centus Chima Nweze, disagreed with the lead verdict and gave a dissenting opinion that allowed Ihedioha’s application.

Nweze said he was satisfied that the judgement that declared Uzodinma winner was entered in error.

He held that the apex court has a duty to in the interest of justice, set-aside its decision that was given in error.“

You're incorrigible. Not because you're not smart, but because you're partisan.

If the reverse had been the case, would you be siting the position of one judge amongst others?

The SC can't approbation and reprobate .

bkool7:

You're incorrigible. Not because you're not smart, but because you're partisan.

If the reverse had been the case, would you be sitting the position of one judge amongst other?

The SC can't approbation and reprobate .

You're the one that’s incorrigible.

You’ve just been proved wrong and u r still saying the same thing:

Justice Nweze JSC wrote:
“This Court has the power to over rule itself which it has done in the past for the sake of Justice”.

The SC tacitly admitted they were in error by not levying any fines per Bayelsa. 60m is not chump change

mrphysics:


Lol, earlier this morning when you began looking for reasons to console yourself ahead of this judgement, I was convinced within me that you know the truth but was only looking for reasons to be biased and you found alot of them.

Ihedioha and PDP were just looking for a rerun not that they won or even got the spread in the first place. Even the mistake called declaration by INEC, he (Ihedioha) didn't get the required spread but it was right to you.

Bro, just be objective for once.

(Ihedioha did get the geographical spread with the 388 units discounted)

You're the one that’s been proved totally wrong.

Justice Nweze JSC wrote:
“This Court has the power to over rule itself which it has done in the past for the sake of Justice”.
Which u people said was impossible.

Also the SC tacitly admitted they were in error by not levying any fines per Bayelsa. 60m is not chump change. In fact they actually asked Akanbi: “(We know we are wrong but) what do u want us to do(at this point)?” (parentheses mine)