Goddex:
Just six months and the
APC/Buhari govt is already far worst than PDP.

INEC and the judiciary which the GEJ govt strengthened are now compromised
and turned to political tools.

Nigeria is being returned to the pre-Yar'Adua/GEJ era.
This is obviously going to be the longest 4yrs ever.

macfarland:
The government of Buhari is really a bad one. In d last election campaigns, GEJ spoke in Lagos about three things this last presidential election was about. One of them was a choice between going back to d old sorry days of military autocracy and a future filled with great possibilities. For just hating GEJ from a minority, the Yorubas joined Hausa Fulani people to enthrone a bigot like Buhari in power. What u are seeing today is just part of the result of having such a man there.... From Biafra things to all these agitation here and there. Tribunal upturn elections to favour Buhari and all worth not. But a day of reckoning must certainly come. Buhari keep implanting ur Muslim and Northern brothers in power as it was d case during d military. The middle belt are ur puppets and errand boys. The southeast must remain ur conquered people... South South ur downtrodden but be sure it won't last forever. Buhari is a big disgrace to Democracy

hinwazaka:

Did any PDP candidate in Taraba drag Ishiaku and the PDP to court. No, so why should this tribunal sack him. The judgement surprised you, because you know it is illegal and unjust.

dustmalik:

You are wrong on the emboldened. What the tribunal has established is that, one, PDP conducted its primaries outside of the state capital, which is contrary to the electoral laws. Two, the primaries were also conducted outside of the timeline stipulated by the electoral laws. Either way, PDP automatically didn't have a candidate in the last election. So, the issue of granting another PDP the mandate doesn't come up at all. They are completely out of the race.

What PDP should was to endorses a preferred candidate within stipulated time and follow all due process. That would have saved them from all this brouhaha.

In the case of Benue, Otorm was unanimously endorsed within the stipulated time, so no issue there.

hinwazaka:

The APC lawyers did not request for the judge to award the mandate of the election to their client, Alhassan. All they requested, was for the elections to be nullified, but the tribunal judges helped them with a bonus, by cancelling the election and awarding the mandate to the APC candidate.

hinwazaka:

No region of the country can rule the country by itself alone. Sooner than later arguments and indifferences will erupt and then before you say jack, Buhari's circle of influence and friends will shrink to a few fools. The North can not repeat the past. In a military era, maybe, but in a democratic system, they can not. Especially in this modern day and age. The days of the North are over. Either they play ball, or we will bury them with their wives and children.

nedu666:
. Quote me it will happen as long as the north is united in their quest and the south are at each other's throat. Am sure u have heard of northern gov forum, have u heard of southern gov forum? Even in arewa forum, middle belt as always produced the chairman. My brother once again quote me the decimation of pdp is not about right or wrong but about power. Who ever Is the northerner buhari will hand over to will not go down well with apc members in the south west. One way to counter their reaction is by ensuring a one dominant party that will leave any region that refuses to go along out in the cold

docadams:


Are you just waking up? Before you state charging like a bull, I advise, you clarify from tonyebarca.

SenseiX:
Actually the Tribunal has dismissed the case. If the Taraba case holds then PDP has very strong grounds for appeal. I think the Supreme Court needs to be clear on whether primaries are grounds for declaring an opponent victory rather than fresh primaries and elections as specified by the electoral act. It amounts to outright robbery, Taraba is a strong PDP state and even GEJ floored Buhari here. This will only exacerbate the tensions between the mainly Christian and animist Jukun( the largest tribe in Taraba) who back the PDP and the large Hausa minority who lean towards the APC. There were already reports of tensions in Wukari yesterday.

Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State yesterday dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Terhemen Tarzoor against Governor Samuel Ortom of All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tarzoor had challenged the emergency of Ortom as governor and prayed that the governor was not qualified to contest the 2015 governorship election because the APC did not conduct the governorship primaries
http://www.leadership.ng/news/462233/tribunal-dismisses-pdps-petition-upholds-ortoms-election
Cc TonyeBarcanista the tribunal has ruled already. Double standards I guess .

Justice Karatu ruled that Ortom was duly qualified to contest the April 2015 governorship election in accordance with section 138 (1a) and section 177 (c) of the 1999 constitution. She held that the petition did not provide evidence to convincingly uphold that the governor was not nominated by the APC.

According to Karatu, “the APC membership register was not provided by the petitioner as evidence and the discrepancy in the serial number as questioned by the petitioner is immaterial in the petition.”

“The tribunal however hold that the petition is therefore dismissed and the certificate of return of the first respondent is hereby restored,”she stated.

hinwazaka:

What was the prayer of the APC lawyers in the Taraba tribunal. Nullification or Nullification + mandate. If father Christmas is in this tribunal, why shouldn't he be in the Benue tribunal as well.

dustmalik:
What the tribunal has established is that, one, PDP conducted its primaries outside of the state capital, which is contrary to the electoral laws. Two, the primaries were also conducted outside of the timeline stipulated by the electoral laws. Either way, PDP automatically didn't have a candidate in the last election. So, the issue of granting another PDP the mandate doesn't come up at all. They are completely out of the race.

What PDP should have done was to endorse a preferred candidate within stipulated time and follow all due process. That would have saved them from all this brouhaha.

TonyeBarcanista:
Lal,asticlala, Se.un, Obino.scopy your attention is needed to do the needful before the food goes cold.



Cc: Tosyn.e2much

hinwazaka:

Are you dull. Was it included in their prayer

TonyeBarcanista:
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nigerianvenom:


Same reason for nullifying rivers state governship election was d same reason lagos state tribunal refused to annulled ambodes election. We are watching.
I pray we dont turn into libya or Egypt

jstbeinhonest:
Did PDP go to court on such grounds?.

modath:


Please remove that word, is there any GIFT up for grabs.

Law does not give anyone anything, the onus is on the Petitioner to prove wrongdoing beyond any reasonable doubt & also establish any BIAS therein...

PDP should try to prove their cases in both instances if they have strong legal grounds & let the rule of law reign supreme..


Either way it goes, the good in all this is that better primaries & internal democracy will be the NORM!

INTROVERT:
As usual Barcanista doesn't disappoint ... I expect a rejoinder on this issue from the other political party...

Goddex:
Just six months and the
APC/Buhari govt is already far worst than PDP.

INEC and the judiciary which the GEJ govt strengthened are now compromised
and turned to political tools.

Nigeria is being returned to the pre-Yar'Adua/GEJ era.
This is obviously going to be the longest 4yrs ever.

Franklyly:
I stopped taking the op serious wen he did wat he did few weeks back,ure no diff from our thiefy politicians............and yes I didn't bother reading Wat u hav up dia!

Truckpusher:
No doubt that the r@pe of democracy prior to the run up of APC primaries in Benue State would be decided in court.
Orthom is going down unless the APC as usual will shamelessly do what they know how to do best - Which is to ignore sharp practices by their party members and associates while trying to arm twist opposition at the slightest electoral matters that seem not to favour the APC.

And I still maintain that Buhari is a disgrace to democracy.

Franklyly:
I stopped taking the op serious wen he did wat he did few weeks back,ure no diff from our thiefy politicians............and yes I didn't bother reading Wat u hav up dia!

dridowu:
This issue should be taken up by the PDP to reclaim Benue state to the people. I believe that the court will do the needful should PDP raise this issue before it.



That is if PDP can proof that beyond reasonable doubt @ the tribunal/COA/Supreme

Okobaba1:
The way Nigeria is going I won't be surprised if we break up.

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us
All and Bless Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

Truckpusher:
It is unfortunate that Nigerian youths of the APC supporters do not understand the implications of allowing impunity to reign as such manoeuvres becomes the order of the day and whatever gain made Which was pioneered by Jonathan's administration either by his actions or inaction will simply crumble thereby returning us back to 2009 to 2011 demo-crazy by Obasanjo where oppositions never existed in almost all the states .
Buhari led Govt . need to understand that in trying to be in charge he should not use his executive influence to undemocratically subject our hard earned democracy to mockery because of his personal aggrandizement .
This was one of the reasons why I rejected this man - This was a man who truncated our first democracy and subjected citizens to all sort of inhuman treatment and denial of their basic rights as citizens ,destroyed the economy with his hardline policies that isn't in tandem with the realities on ground yet some bunch of people fell for his 'change' and 'I will fight corruption' mantra of deceit and self serving.
The truth is that if he continues to chase rats while the house burns, the ensuing chaos is something that we can only imagine.

dustmalik:

So, because the impunity of PDP isn't being tolerated any longer therefore, Nigeria should break up?

Young03:
The truth z dat am tired of this country

buhari has done more harm than good

quote me wrong if am sayin lies