Presidential Election Tribunal Upholds Yar'adua's Election

I understand where you are coming from and I do agree with you on the whole myopic view people have sometimes when it comes to what constitutes justice especially when they are personally involved but I believe it is clear in this case that the petition should have not been thrown out but the situation investigated and evidence supporting their move be presented the Nigerian people. From the much I have read of the case, as of 11:12 am my time, I do not believe any information is going to be provided the people on why and how they, the judges, arrived at such a decision,  I shall continue to read on ,

 A judicial malpractice by the tribunal. I am totally shocked and dumbfounded. After spending billions of naira on elections that were rigged, all the judges could say was that there was not enough evidence to nullify the election.
Buhari and Atiku should go to the supreme court for a redress.

Sometimes one doesn't understand what people want. They want demlcracy but they can't settle down with court rulings! OK the election was FLAWED, even the president acknowledged that much. But the law as democracy practises it is not about reality, rather it's about what can be proved! That's why it's said that the Law is an Ass!
Even if the judges know for certain thta the elections were rigged, if the challengers counsels cannot provide good enough evidence, then too bad, the judges have to rule on evidence, not their own wishes or YOUR wishes or The PUBLIC wishes for that matter!

Have you not heard of cases where everybody knows someone has committed murder but because the prosecuting counsel aren' smart enough OR the defence counsel is too shrewd for the prosecutor, the murderer is let loose, even when the judge hates to let him go. THAT'S WHAT YOUR LAW IS ALL ABOUT! and by extension THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT!
We should just be consoled that at least the beneficiary here is a decent man and one that has good intent and maybe hopefully the strongwill and ability to better Nigeria's lot.  Peace.

Crude Oil: What a name.

I have said it times without number that the only solution to the problem of our beloved country Nigeria is to peacefully devide the country.

I was only able to watch the concluding part of the judgement on NTA. And was shocked when the judge made coment about evidence. He was saying the evidence brought before the court was not enough to Nulify the election, but while interviewing the councel to Buhari he made mention of the court not allowing him to bring in witnesses into the courtroom for he was ready to bring in about a hundred of them.

Now my question is How can one have up to a hundred witnesses he was not allowed to bring into the courtroom, yet he loosed the same case on the ground that he had not enough evidence?

 Jungle justice  

Short live Nigera

Long live Nigerians

wayo people it is very obvious the decision was going to be victorious for the cheaters,
talking about moving nigeria forward when some people would die because of bribe and when some people can't even stand up and be counted
nigeria is decaying and rotting away,
even an imbecile knows the elections were flawed and doesnt even need to be taken to a so called court before it gets quashed but the people that claim to be leaders turn a blind eye and stuff their own mouth full of kickbacks!

I, as a person was disappointed with the Appeal Court verdict, not that i expected Gen. Buhari or Atiku to win and i am sure that is not their expectation, but to throw more light on the farse called 2007 general elections, with a view to making corrections for future elections. But according to the Appeal court, we should hand Prof. Iwu and all INEC commisioners national awards for a job well done and more grease to their elbows come 2011.
I wonder how Gen. Buhari and Atiku can proove that the elections were rigged to the satisfaction of the Appeal Court. Even if Prof Iwu, INEC,s Comissioners and OBJ sit at a beer palour and write (allocate) the election results it would not be easy to prove the elections were rigged, because, the onus is on them to provide evidence.
As I said, I expected the tribunal to highlight the deficiencies in INEC,s preparations and the conduct of the elections, But instead it said it is alright for INEC not to have numbered the ballot papers as it complied with the provisions of the Law.

Also it is strange that other elections were annulled ( local, senitorial and governorship) but the presidential passed with flying colours. A typical example is benue state where most of the elections were annulled.

So we can only wait for the supreme court verdict.

One Question: Will the outgoing court of appeal president be a member of the supreme court justices that will determine the final judgement?

NAIRALANDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this topic has just been posted and e don reach 4pages
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Yar'adua has provided an atmosphere where Nigerians believe in the law courts this is a plus for us. During OB J's regime everybody would have known the tribunal is a waste of time.

The fact that OBJ rigged elections in Yaradua's favor was just to cage the man and use it as a pun against him. The man said earlier said he not bothered if he is removed from office.

This is a man that is not ambitious (this in my humble opinion, is the quality of a good leader). Do you think Atiku would av made a better president. God bless Nigeria.

NO! I SAY NO TO THE JUDGMENT,  YARADUA HIMSELF ADMIT TO THE A FACT THAT THE ELECTION WAS NOT FREE AND FARE,   SO YARADUA DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION ON A PLANE LEVEL

 
 
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Buhari's, for insufficient evidence.
Atiku's, that he did actually participated in the election,

I always had the inkling that justice will not be served on Nigerians.

Shame, shame, shame

'It is all over the net now, we are watching live on the net, and both Atiku's case and Buhari's were thrown out, shame on us!!!'


Ibitoye, not shame on us but you alone. Buhari and Atiku have cases based on popular opinion without substantive proofs. Cases are not won anywhere in the world on popular opinion without evidence to substatiate the claims.
How could lawyers be asking for nullification of election on the argument that the:
 
 
   Election did not hold.
   Election held but at irregular time or till late in the evening.
   That the Picture of Atiku was ommitted.
   That the colour of the logo was not correct

Without any sentiment or bias, please ask yourself how did all these affect the result of the election in favour of the respondents?
If you have a good case but incapable lawyers, you should be able to predict the outcome without consulting a soothsayer.

I will like to ask now, If the tribunal has ordered a fresh election, and we spend  hundreds of billions of naira again,  which of the two petitioners has enough credibility to unseat Yar,adua.?  
 Abeg let pepper rest
 


 
 
 
 

I Feel justice was served. the opposition were not able to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt. The core of their aguement was fundamentally flawed. if you talk about rigging show me a politician who did not rig?

PDP may not be the darling of all, but Yar'Adua is fresh, Buhari has been there Atiku Well he was there with one leg in. I only hope yar Adua will have the  courage to leave when his tenure is over and not try to amend the constitution like our "friend" abi na enemy  once attempted to.

Arggggggggggghhhhhhhh, some Nigerians make my blood  boil. Did the judges say the election was not flawed? I believe they said there was not enough evidence to cancel the elections. What is so hard for you to understand there? Some people say it should have been cancelled especially as the public and everyone else knew it was flawed. As someone said earlier, even if the judge knows it was flawed. He has to make a decision based on what  evidence was presented to him in court. Or do you guys not even read. In some cases that are high profile, they seclude the jurors from public so they are not influenced by the outside media. Why is simple logic not easy to understand? I'm sorry to say but they is no way Nigeria can move forward when its citizens have this warped reasoning. I personally think that the judges should have upheld the elction because if they didn't then Mark should have been the acting president. Where is Mark? His own election has been annuled so who would have taken over? Maybe Bankole but for me that whole uncertainty is too much for a young democracy. We are learning, we will get there. We can't start running without crawling. This democracy thing is step by step, we shall get it right in the end but to suggest that elections should be redone to get a  more credible proces is plain ridiculous. I don't like Iwu but I agree with him when he says they've leant lessons for the next election.  Even as humans we make mistakes and learn from them to be better people.

Anyway aside from that, I truly weep for Nigeria oh because these youths (our so called future leaders) haven't got a clue. Imagine someone saying Buhari saying he had up to 100 witnesses who were not allowed to testify. And so who are the witnesses? All Buhari has to do is pay 100 people a sum of money to say whatever. How is the judge able to verify their claims? In this day and age, Nigerians could not use their mobile phones, camcorders, cameras, etc to get hard evidence of malpractice in the polling centres. Instead they want the judges to rule on sentiment. I ask again, where is the evidence?

it might be over with the presidency but not over with the governorship,

I don't know how people can't see this as not about Yaradua. Some people have been asking for proof about those more witnesses Buhari had, have you not been following the news? This tribunal had been on for months and everyday Buhari was there with even more witnesses and most of all, more evidence. They stopped him from bringing in more because they said they needed to speed things up, Doctored ballots signed by INEC officials, and much more, even with the whole Iwu perjury. It is not about Yaradua or Buhari or Atiku, i don't want to keep on repeating what i had been saying on the first two pages.  This is just deja vu all over again.

Well guys, i guess most Nigerians are willing to settle with the status quo. The professor at INEC will get national awards for a job well done, an event that would be graced with all manner of "important" people (he'll probably give a speech). He will continue to run his special brand of elections. Next three years or so from now, there will be another election and the winner will be chosen before hand by party touts. People who are foolish enough to go and vote will be abused and beaten up or even worse killed at the polling station by party touts, while INEC officials join hands and rig the elections in front of everyone. The funny thing in a very sad way would be that people will now come online  and complain that the election was rigged and that PDP or whatever parties are killing Nigeria, it is not democracy bla bla bla. When that happens, i don't think many people here should feel they have a right to complain. It has just been announced that election rigging in Nigeria is ok, i mean come on, let us be reasonable what is the worse that could happen to people rigged into power, another election tribunal? Those who claim to stand for truth and reality I have said it earlier, let all money that is meant to be used for elections next time be used to build the much lauded imaginary infrastructure instead of putting people through the farce called elections, let election in Nigeria stop because it is a waste of resources, and simply just a waste of time to be honest so let us stop living in denial and start accepting it, Nigeria is not a democracy.
Maybe people might become outraged when this thing happens again in four years or maybe the next 4 years after that, you never know.

@Kobojunkie, but you see, this is more than that. Why on earth will the Freedom of Information bill be passed when it goes against the status quo? Why will there be electoral reforms when it will go against the status quo (i.e people choosing their leaders)? Why would this one and the next one (God forbid) want to act in the real interest of the people when they know it is not the people that got them into power? Why on earth would all these happen? Is it not just wishful thinking? PDP's precedense was set and instead of destroying it, it was maintained. Do or die politics have been maintained (it is now a matter of who can rig or kill more) and the status quo continues and yet we expect real change? How disheartening. Well, you never know, he might build a few roads and half complete a power station before he leaves office right?