In the news: The Adamawa Election Tribunal Sacks Gov Murtala Nyako, Orders Fresh Polls in 90 days

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This is as a product of Iwu's miracle election I wish this would be true. OBJ in order to ridicule ATIKU disqualified the AC candidate despite court ruling on the election day, the number of void votes( The votes for the AC candidate were counted as void) were more than that of the PDP.

Again I ask when would Iwu and OBj be paraded like common criminals they are. next Delta state as the same scenario applied to Uduaghan vs Peter Okocha of the AC

So its possible to have justice in Nigeria?? thank God for Yar Adua

Just read it on reuters.
Not a bad development.


http://africa.reuters.com/country/NG/news/usnL15877580.html

Fifth Nigerian governor removed after flawed poll
Thu 15 Nov 2007, 13:33 GMT

[-] Text [+] ABUJA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A Nigerian state governor was removed from office on Thursday when an election tribunal ruled an opposition candidate had been wrongly disqualified, the fifth major decision to go against the ruling party since April polls.

European observers judged this year's elections for president, governors and legislators "not credible" because of what they said was widespread vote-rigging and intimidation, mostly by agents of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Hundreds of results, from Umaru Yar'Adua's election as president, down to the state house of assembly level, are being contested before election tribunals.

On Thursday, a tribunal in northeastern Adamawa state annulled the election of Murtala Nyako of the PDP as governor, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported.

The opposition Action Congress (AC) said its candidate, Ibrahim Bapatel, had been illegally disqualified from the race after his name appeared on a list of corruption suspects issued by the anti-graft police and endorsed by the government before the elections.

That list was widely denounced at the time as interference in the election process by the PDP government. Since the elections, anti-corruption police have shown no sign of investigating or prosecuting those named on the list.

"The Action Congress has again hailed the judiciary for its continued efforts to ensure the sanctity of elections in Nigeria as well as the survival of the country's democracy," the party said in reaction to the Adamawa ruling.

"We are hopeful that more of the illegalities perpetrated during the last general elections, which have been described as the worst in the nation's history, will come to the fore as other election petition tribunals decide the cases before them."

The AC's presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is one of two leading opposition figures contesting Yar'Adua's victory at a tribunal in the capital Abuja, and the AC said Thursday's ruling had encouraged it to continue.

Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999 after three decades of almost continuous army dictatorship. Olusegun Obasanjo, a former army head of state from the 1970s, returned to power as a civilian through elections in 1999 and 2003.

The 2007 elections were supposed to be a democratic landmark, the first transition from one civilian president to another through the ballot box since Nigerian independence.

Instead, fraud and violence were so widespread that international and local observers said the results were not credible. Human Rights Watch has called the polls "a farce". (Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Michael Winfrey)

Another feather to PROFESSOR (?) MAURICE IWU's cap . Afterall, he's still boasting that he organised a free and fair election. What a shameless idiot!

Now Nyako's wives can go and fight to "assist the poor" in their personal houses.

Wonders shall never end. This military men, na for politics they carry head put.

I remember Nyarko o. He was notorious for eating the salaries of the members of his fleet back in the days.

The devil usually rears its head, but trust Naija and efizi, na plural devils

dayokanu:

Again I ask when would Iwu and OBj be paraded like common criminals they are.  next Delta state as the same scenario applied to Uduaghan vs Peter Okocha of the AC
So its possible to have justice in Nigeria?? thank God for Yar Adua

Why Thank God for Yar Adua, what are the different between Idiot NYAKO and Yar Adua?.
Is Aduadua not the product of Iwuruwuru and Obasanjo

Fair Judgement.
But Whether they do the election again 100 times , Nyako will stiil win.
Bapetel is not fit to compete with Nyako. Fact!!

Imagine wat Atiku was saying concerning d judgement.
He said the judgement is not fair enough, they should have ordered the immediate swearing in of Bapetel as governor

Wawa , he thinks thats Rivers state, were supreme court have to use sentiments to make there ruling.

I like What Nyako said.

He said it was progress for democracy, since the fault wasn't from him , but from INEC

PK001,
At the april polls, the number of void votes i.e bapatel was more than thet of Ntarko which shows bapatel actually won the election

Jungle justice, jungle economics, jungle society, jungle politics, jungle education, jungle transportation, jungle healthcare, jungle behavior, jungle mentality and jungle electorate-----everything na jungle fever for nigeria.  47 year old jungle.  Jaga Jaga and scatter scatter jungle country!


Useless country that can never get anything right even the 20th time around!

@ PK01
I specifically want to reply you on AC's claim that Bapetel should have been sworn in instead of a call for new elections,

Bros, sentiments apart, lets analyze this case briefly.
1) The election tribunal ruled that the election should be canceled because Bapetel was excluded illegaly, what does this mean to you? To me, this means that his exclusion never happened according to the law because the exclusion was illegal. At least, one fact at hand is that his name appeared on the ballot papers.
2) Some votes were cast for the AC and Bapetel during the said elections, which was counted as void, if this is to be true then the tribunal's judgement only brings up the obvious that those votes cast for AC and Bapetel are indeed very valid since he was excluded unlawfully. We might refer to the Supreme court ruling on Rotimi Amaechi to understand the import of this.
3) Since the votes cast for Bapetel and the AC is indeed valid, that means a winner should normally emerge from the said election. What is right for the tribunal to do is order a recount of the votes with the votes for Bapetel declared to be valid, and a winner announced
4) Arent you surprised that Nyako and Jubril Aminu immediately supported the judgement and organized a rally claiming they (PDP) would win the elections again. This shows they know Bapetel won in the elections. I'm really happy that the AC would challenge this judgement in court.
I have always canvassed the notion that the Supreme court should not only issue declaratory judgements but also punitive ones. It is not true justice when you make pronuoncements such as cancelling an election without punishing those behind the illegal disqualifications. In Adamawa, justice can only be done by declaring a winner for the election since all contestants' names appeared in ballot, such as was Rotimi's case.