NaijaRoyalty:
The supreme court governor must Go!

babaolofin:

I always appreciate your contributions and that of Fergie001 on legal matters on nairaland, but in reality, based on my personal opinion, the arguments, submissions and deep reasonings and even technicalties are mere academic exercise under the present Judiciary and it seems NJC and NBA cannot do anything. Intelligent Lawyers can be fined and silenced. The matter of Uche Nwosu being recognized by SC as the authentic APC candidate is a valid judgement that would have been considered when Ihedioha team pointed to it, but was ignored.

There are several cases that contradict themselves beginning from Amaechi and Celestine Omeliha to the present IMO case and many are still coming. Edo is on awaiting result until after election. The final governor in Edo State would be by Supreme Court. After IMO and Bayelsa Supreme Court judgements, It now dawn on me that Ganduje and Wike exchange of words is a preparatory seminars for after election tussle.

fergie001:

This NJC has issues.
We all know how Tanko became CJN...
The NBA President (himself a member of the NJC), is enmeshed in deep corruption waters.
Now you know...


Permit me as this might be long........
The APC Primaries was held on October 01, 2018.
Uche Nwosu CLAIMED he won the elections announced by his faction on October 06, 2018.
On October 09 2018, he sought an interim injunction compelling the Party to submit his name to INEC as the flagbearer for the 2019 elections. This plea was granted by Justice Valentine Ashi (now deceased) of the FCT High Court, Apo Division.
NOTE: Interim Injunctions aren't life-long.

Prince Madumere (Deputy Governor of Imo State), one of the Aspirants in the said Primaries had taken the case to Court in Suit No HOW/756/2018 at the Imo State High Court.
On Nov 21, 2018..Justice Kemakolam Ojiako upheld all prayers....
A. That the Party should send the name of the winner of the Primaries, Hope Uzodinma, as announced.

B. That the Primary elections was fair and free and barred the Party from submitting the name of any other candidate.
This case wasn't appealed by Nwosu till date.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/madumere-floors-okorocha-again-in-court/amp/

FACTS
Due to the stiff opposition, he was offered the AA ticket, which he took.
Leonard Okolienta, an AA Chieftain had taken him to Court that he was the authentic flagbearer for AA, and not Nwosu.
He failed to show substantial proofs and rightly lost at the High, Appellate and Supreme Courts respectively, who upheld that Nwosu was the authentic candidate of the AA for the 2019 elections.

February 27, 2019....the APP and its Deputy National Chairman, Nnadi, had asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to interprete Section 37 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Section 37 surrounds penalties involved with multiple nominations when the person involved "knowingly" avails himself. (APC & Uzodinma weren't parties to the suit)

Justice Ekwo ruled that based on the order of October 9 wherein Nwosu CLAIMED he won the Primaries, Nwosu also took the AA ticket, without first showing cause for resignation from his former party, the APC.

WHAT WAS EKWO'S JUDGEMENT;

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made directing the 1st defendant (INEC) to remove the name of the 2nd defendant (Nwosu) as the governorship of the 3rd defendant (AA) in the 2019 Imo State governorship election for multiple nomination in violation of the provision of section 37 of the Electoral Act 2018 (as amended).

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made restraining the 1st defendant (INEC) from recognising the 2nd defendant (Nwosu) as the governorship of the 3rd defendant (AA) and/or any other political party for the 2019 Imo State governorship election.

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made restraining the 1st defendant (INEC) from giving value to any act done in pursuance of the 2nd defendant purported candidature of the 3rd defendant (AA) and/or any other political party in the 2019 Imo State governorship election”, the judge held.
https://businessday.ng/politics/article/court-sets-aside-nomination-of-uche-nwosu-as-governorship-candidate/amp/
The Appellate and Supreme Courts agreed with Ekwo's judgement.

This judgement didn't compel APC on anything. There was never a prayer wrt the APC or its candidate.
The SC in SC.1384/2019 didn't decide on who won the Primaries, neither did it authenticate NWOSU as flagbeàr but decided on the "double nomination" of Nwosu.

EVERY CASE IS A MERIT ON ITS OWN.

It based its judgement on Nwosu's CLAIM and not the "meat" involved with the authentic candidate(s) which had been decided on Nov 21, 2018 which wasn't appealed against.



Amaechi/Omehia case was correct at the time...2007.
Our Electoral Act at the time, saw the position as owned by the Party.

The amendment that came on in 2010 changed all of that.
Now you must go through all stages of the election or your Party loses out.

CONTRADICTIONS:
Section 285(9) of the 199) Constitution as amended was very clear that all pre-election cases should have a life span of 14 days after the cause of action (Party Primaries).
However, APP filed close to 4 months after Primaries had ended, yet, Justice Ekwo, dwelt on the legality and illegality of it.
His sentiments was also shared by the Appellate and Supreme Courts.

MY OWN THOUGHTS;
I just think the Courts, SC inclusive, were ambushed in this Imo case.


dansuqi ejimatic kahal29 agborojietoye

seunmsg:


Don’t be deceived, there is absolutely nothing in the case. It is time barred so the court will throw it out without looking at the merit.

BeijinDossier:
[s]Where's the cursed useless old man called abagworo? Your supreme court governor is about to go down.

Okoroawusa and Ihedioha looted and left, Hopeless Uzodimma is now looting his own.

Imo state is in deep trouble with over 153 billion naira internal debt, borrowed and looted with nothing to show in the state.

Good job to Okoroawusa, Ihedioha and Hopeless Uzodimma for making sure that Imo state remained down with endless political crisis that ensured backwardness [/s]

proeast:
How would all these distractions help Imo state?! Nigeria's judicial system is as failed as the Nigerian state itself.

Tufiakwa!

NaijaRoyalty:
The supreme court governor must Go!

osusuallstars:
Anything that will remove the chief YahooMan is highly welcomed

dre11:


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/imo-state-court-fresh-legal-moves-to-sack-gov-uzodinma-commences-in-abuja/

Agboriotejoye:
I always felt his legitimacy as candidate of APC ought to be contested given the SC's affirmation of Uche Nwosu as valid APC candidate for the election. Note that the primaries that produced Uzodinma was different from the one that produced Nwosu. Which means it's illegal
cc: fergie001, Dansuqi

SmartProf:
Lol...this man got a black market judgement from the Supreme Court. He feels to me like a non-eligible player captaining a football team in a world cup tournament.

Racoon:

The supreme court abracadabra masked all these observations you have raised just to created this unprecedented judicial robbery of installing the supreme court governor.The illegality of that judgement will continue to reverberate.

Dansuqi:


You like contradicting and making things hard for yourself. you made brilliant points and presentations and went into an anti climax by spoiling it.where was the judicial ambush?

Again,don't forget that even though the case filed by app was out of time,the defendants needed to remind the court that it was filed out of time and I don't think they did

fergie001:

That is because you did not bother to read the link I attached.
It is no contradiction, that is my personal thoughts.

They made that point across the Courts, HC, CoA, & SC.
It failed.

What the Courts said was that "pre-election time limits shouldn't be used to perpetrate illegality".

“It must be said that an illegal or prohibited act does not become legal by virtue of being time-barred,” the judge added.
This was Ekwo's reply, and this was upheld up till the SC.

Would this same barrister be wrong to file same case away from the pre-election window and quote this judgement?
That's the Contradiction, this time from the Courts, not from me.

fergie001:

This NJC has issues.
We all know how Tanko became CJN...
The NBA President (himself a member of the NJC), is enmeshed in deep corruption waters.
Now you know...


Permit me as this might be long........
The APC Primaries was held on October 01, 2018.
Uche Nwosu CLAIMED he won the elections announced by his faction on October 06, 2018.
On October 09 2018, he sought an interim injunction compelling the Party to submit his name to INEC as the flagbearer for the 2019 elections. This plea was granted by Justice Valentine Ashi (now deceased) of the FCT High Court, Apo Division.
NOTE: Interim Injunctions aren't life-long.

Prince Madumere (Deputy Governor of Imo State), one of the Aspirants in the said Primaries had taken the case to Court in Suit No HOW/756/2018 at the Imo State High Court.
On Nov 21, 2018..Justice Kemakolam Ojiako upheld all prayers....
A. That the Party should send the name of the winner of the Primaries, Hope Uzodinma, as announced.

B. That the Primary elections was fair and free and barred the Party from submitting the name of any other candidate.
This case wasn't appealed by Nwosu till date.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/madumere-floors-okorocha-again-in-court/amp/

FACTS
Due to the stiff opposition, he was offered the AA ticket, which he took.
Leonard Okolienta, an AA Chieftain had taken him to Court that he was the authentic flagbearer for AA, and not Nwosu.
He failed to show substantial proofs and rightly lost at the High, Appellate and Supreme Courts respectively, who upheld that Nwosu was the authentic candidate of the AA for the 2019 elections.

February 27, 2019....the APP and its Deputy National Chairman, Nnadi, had asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to interprete Section 37 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Section 37 surrounds penalties involved with multiple nominations when the person involved "knowingly" avails himself. (APC & Uzodinma weren't parties to the suit)

Justice Ekwo ruled that based on the order of October 9 wherein Nwosu CLAIMED he won the Primaries, Nwosu also took the AA ticket, without first showing cause for resignation from his former party, the APC.

WHAT WAS EKWO'S JUDGEMENT;

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made directing the 1st defendant (INEC) to remove the name of the 2nd defendant (Nwosu) as the governorship of the 3rd defendant (AA) in the 2019 Imo State governorship election for multiple nomination in violation of the provision of section 37 of the Electoral Act 2018 (as amended).

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made restraining the 1st defendant (INEC) from recognising the 2nd defendant (Nwosu) as the governorship of the 3rd defendant (AA) and/or any other political party for the 2019 Imo State governorship election.

“An order of this honourable court is hereby made restraining the 1st defendant (INEC) from giving value to any act done in pursuance of the 2nd defendant purported candidature of the 3rd defendant (AA) and/or any other political party in the 2019 Imo State governorship election”, the judge held.
https://businessday.ng/politics/article/court-sets-aside-nomination-of-uche-nwosu-as-governorship-candidate/amp/
The Appellate and Supreme Courts agreed with Ekwo's judgement.

This judgement didn't compel APC on anything. There was never a prayer wrt the APC or its candidate.
The SC in SC.1384/2019 didn't decide on who won the Primaries, neither did it authenticate NWOSU as flagbeàr but decided on the "double nomination" of Nwosu.

EVERY CASE IS A MERIT ON ITS OWN.

It based its judgement on Nwosu's CLAIM and not the "meat" involved with the authentic candidate(s) which had been decided on Nov 21, 2018 which wasn't appealed against.



Amaechi/Omehia case was correct at the time...2007.
Our Electoral Act at the time, saw the position as owned by the Party.

The amendment that came on in 2010 changed all of that.
Now you must go through all stages of the election or your Party loses out.

CONTRADICTIONS:
Section 285(9) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) was very clear that all pre-election cases should commence within 14 days after the cause of action (Party Primaries).
However, APP filed close to 4 months after Primaries had ended, yet, Justice Ekwo, dwelt on the legality and illegality of it.
His sentiments was also shared by the Appellate and Supreme Courts.

MY OWN THOUGHTS;
I just think the Courts, SC inclusive, were ambushed in this Imo case.


dansuqi ejimatic kahal29 agborojietoye

AllTheWayUp:
This is the cabal moving against Hope Uzodimma who seems to be pro Tinubu n Pro Oshiomole