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Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by fergie001: 11:51am On Feb 18, 2020
The Supreme Court has adjourned till March hearing in the application by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a review of a judgment that barred the party’s candidate from participating in the governorship election in the state.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko, adjourned the matter after observing that some of the respondents in the case had not been served with the hearing notices.

Specifically, respondents 140-178 were not represented in court by counsel.

When the matter was called, Chief Robert Clarke announced appearance for the APC, while Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Taminu Inuwa (SAN) and Dr Adekunle Otituju announced appearance for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 140th and 180th respondents, respectively.

The 141st to 178 respondents were not represented in court as a result of service. Meanwhile, the court has ordered that hearing notices be issued to them before the next adjourned date.

This is the second time the application by the APC for a review will be coming before the court.

When the matter first came up on July 29, 2019, the apex court rejected the application.

A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, in a ruling early on Monday, struck out the application marked: SC/377/2019 filed by the APC, seeking a review of the judgment.

The court rejected an effort by the counsel to the APC, Robert Clarke (SAN), to take a second look at the decision given earlier this year.

The decision was handed down by the apex court on July 29, 2019.

Reacting to the ruling, the lead counsel to the appellant, Robert Clarke, said the decision of the court was based on technicalities, stressing that the merits of his application were not looked into.

He added that he would tighten the loose ends that the judgment pointed out and submit his application again.

Chief Clarke had approached the Supreme Court to review its earlier judgment on the Zamfara governorship election.

On May 24, Justice Adamu Galunje of the Supreme Court held that the APC never conducted its primaries, a judgment that made the election of all the candidates who took part in the exercise null and void.

The court held that the Court of Appeal in Sokoto was right when it agreed with the respondents that the APC did not conduct primaries in Zamfara.

It added that the party that has no candidate cannot be said to have won an election, hence the votes cast for the APC in the election were wasted votes
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/zamfara-apc-supreme-court-adjourns-application-for-review-of-judgment-march-2/

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by fergie001: 12:00pm On Feb 18, 2020
ZAMFARA REVIEW PANEL
CJN Tanko Muhammad

Olukayode Ariwoola

Adamu Galinje

Inyang Okoro

Uwani Abba-Aji.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Kiddinpoh(m): 12:09pm On Feb 18, 2020
I just hate anything politics in Nigeria..
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Elslim: 12:09pm On Feb 18, 2020
Apparently we are still on inconclusive.....

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by ainas247: 12:10pm On Feb 18, 2020
cool With the increments of court cases on Election, please educate me,
can INEC be trusted again?

Meanwhile, if you have a business website,
let's rank it to Google page 1
see client result

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Bolacarpainter: 12:11pm On Feb 18, 2020
These guber elections is turning out too bloody
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Slimdaddy2: 12:11pm On Feb 18, 2020
Everywhere post election cases

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Zubydeangelo(m): 12:14pm On Feb 18, 2020
Under this government, our apex court don turn to court of appeal. I weep for Nigeria my country...

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by BUSINESSARENAA(m): 12:20pm On Feb 18, 2020
Just look at Nigeria, confusion everywhere, no progress is being made.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Yankee101: 12:22pm On Feb 18, 2020
All these reviews are money making schemes for the supreme court
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by References: 12:23pm On Feb 18, 2020
ainas247:
cool With the increments of court cases on Election, please educate me,
can INEC be trusted again?

Meanwhile, if you have a business website,
let's rank it to Google page 1
see client result

Don't blame INEC, blame the politicians....

INEC did their job, and said there were no primaries.

Courts started giving conflicting judgements.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by sammychimex(m): 12:23pm On Feb 18, 2020
Even supreme Court judges under this current CJ no dey believe their judgment again.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Abbycite(m): 12:24pm On Feb 18, 2020
Zubydeangelo:
Under this government, our apex court don turn to court of appeal. I weep for Nigeria my country...

Is not really an appeal.....the supreme court will review the judgement and whatever their decision will be, it won't affect the execution of the previous judgment.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Kingpele(m): 12:28pm On Feb 18, 2020
cool
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Iyiataata92: 12:29pm On Feb 18, 2020
Kiddinpoh:
I just hate anything politics in Nigeria..
then stay away from the politics section of Nairaland . go to football, celebrities, romance or comedy

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by ENGINEERG(m): 12:35pm On Feb 18, 2020
I don't know how APC can win , without any Primary election,
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Sunnycliff(m): 12:40pm On Feb 18, 2020
Today na adjournment day. E remain Bayelsa own
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Sunnycliff(m): 12:42pm On Feb 18, 2020
Abbycite:


Is not really an appeal.....the supreme court will review the judgement and whatever their decision will be, it won't affect the execution of the previous judgment.


Is that so? They are then trying to forestall a precedence
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by TradingBinary(m): 12:42pm On Feb 18, 2020
Na wa oooo.....

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by CanadaOrBust: 12:47pm On Feb 18, 2020
References:


Don't blame INEC, blame the politicians....

Not even the politicians, in the case of Imo state blame the TANKO SUPREME COURT!!
They are the ones that relied on clearly fraudulent documents to overrule all lower courts plus INEC in order to replace an 8-month gov with a 4th place finisher!

Below is an article from YESTERDAY’S paper. It typifies the attitude of most non-partisan, non-political Nigerians like me.
Note 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...

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.
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Abbycite(m): 12:52pm On Feb 18, 2020
Sunnycliff:


Is that so? They are then trying to forestall a precedence

Exactly
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Nobody: 1:09pm On Feb 18, 2020
Is it me or i just noticed that ozekhome is either soliciting for inec or apc nowadays
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by CyberWolf: 1:09pm On Feb 18, 2020
Abbycite:


Is not really an appeal.....the supreme court will review the judgement and whatever their decision will be, it won't affect the execution of the previous judgment.

Can you throw more light on that?
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Deepthoughts: 1:12pm On Feb 18, 2020
fergie001:
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/zamfara-apc-supreme-court-adjourns-application-for-review-of-judgment-march-2/
The only request for supreme Court judgement review known to the public all along was the pdp case in IMO then all of a sudden the media is full of numerous Apc requests,I hope the Apc is not about to unleash the fraud they are known for through the use of federal might, with a character like oshiomole n the tendency of buhari to look away when it benefits his cause,Apc should never be underrated.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by DIKEnaWAR: 1:12pm On Feb 18, 2020
Tanko has finally finished the Supreme Court. No one has confidence in the courts again. Even the Judgements emanating from motor parks administered by MC Oluomo have more credibility and integrity than Tanko's judgement.

Maybe we should create a supreme court of review. One higher than the present supreme Court which will be made up of men of integrity and very sound legal minds. Their job would be to review all the nonsense that Tanko and his goons read as judgement. We can't let Tanko drag our nation into the mud and make mockery and mess of all of us.

Imagine even Oshiomhole that no one knows if he finished ọta akara now interprete the law for educated men.
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by masseratti: 1:18pm On Feb 18, 2020
This review of Supreme Court judgments is getting ridiculous, Nigerian legal institutions will soon be a mockery in the global society. Let's make sure we get competent hands in the judiciary and discard the nonsense quota system, this is 2020,not 1960 anymore.
Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by seunmsg(m): 1:34pm On Feb 18, 2020
Deepthoughts:
The only request for supreme Court judgement review known to the public all along was the pdp case in IMO then all of a sudden the media is full of numerous Apc requests,I hope the Apc is not about to unleash the fraud they are known for through the use of federal might, with a character like oshiomole n the tendency of buhari to look away when it benefits his cause,Apc should never be underrated.

What is wrong in APC requesting for review of judgement there were fraudulently procured by PDP? If PDP is seeking review of Imo state judgement despite not winning the state, APC should also seek review of Zamfara and Bayelsa states since they won those states overwhelmingly.

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Re: Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Adjourns Application For Review Of Judgment by Bhol28: 1:39pm On Feb 18, 2020
They should just have nullified all these Imo,Zamfara,Bayelsa etc elections and call for reruns rather than all these their decisions of allocating electorates votes to candidates they never voted for.

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