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Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by DickDastardly(m): 8:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
An online petition calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for disobeying court orders to release some high-profile detainees has gathered over 600 signatories in just over 48 hours of being created.
The petition, created by lawyer, Carol Ajie, followed comment by Mr. Buhari that a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is being prosecuted in relation to an alleged misappropriation of $2.1 billion; and the leader of separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, despite court orders that they should be freed during last Wednesday Presidential media chat.
So far, the petition has collected 680 signatures out of its 1,000 person target.
“On May 29th 2015, a former Military Dictator, Muhammadu Buhari, sequel to a contested election in March 2015 against a sitting President in Nigeria, the first time in Africa, an incumbent handed power peaceably, smoothly, heroically to a political rival,” the petition posted on Change.org read.
“Whereupon Mr Buhari then took the Oath of Allegiance to protect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and the President’s Oath of office to discharge his duties faithfully, in accordance with the Constitution and the Laws of Nigeria.
“Within President Buhari’s first year in office, too soon after he took the revered Oaths, he and state agents acting under his supervision, now demonstrate total lack of respect for Court Orders and at his maiden media chat on Wednesday 30th Dec., instant, Mr President made puerile attempts to justify these breaches, he said inter alia that some persons his regime locked up in cells dehumanized against court orders, Nnamdi Kanu had travelled without his passports.
The petitioner argued that the government should have deported Mr. Kanu or release him after detaining him for a period of not more than seven days instead of holding him indefinitely as stipulated by the Immigration Act or the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.


“But under the Immigration Act, the President or the Minister may deport anyone who travels without a valid travel document or detain for a period not exceeding 7 days. In holding Mr. Kanu beyond the required period they have infracted on the Immigration Act, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and subsisting court orders.”
She further stated that Mr. Kanu’s agitation for the emergence of a breakaway country called the Republic of Biafra is in line with the right of self-determination as stipulated by the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Nigeria is a signatory to.
“With regard to issues of “self determination”, the crux of Nnamdi Kanu’s campaign of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, having communicated IPOB’s intent to all and the United Nations as required by UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ratified by Nigeria, that people of any community or group may wish to exercise the right of self-determination with a view to pursuing their economic, social and cultural development; aware that their dignity as human persons had deteriorated and been consciously degraded under the present dispensation, sadly appearing power inebriate.”
She, therefore, called on Mr. Buhari to resign as President if he is not prepared to obey court orders or risk being impeached from office.
The Presidency declined to respond to the petition.
An official said it would be inappropriate for the presidency to dignify such a petition with a response.
He however said, “The truth is there are fresh charges against the detainees,” the official said.
“They were simply rearrested after they were released folowing the filing of fresh charges against them. So we don’t know what people are talking about when they talk about the government disobeying court order.”

Source:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/196078-online-petition-asking-buhari-to-resign-gathers-momentum.html

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by DickDastardly(m): 8:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
cheesy kenekingg sef! tongue
Lalasticlala, mynd44, seun.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by PentiumPro(f): 8:20pm On Jan 02, 2016
Joblessness

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by mymadam(m): 8:20pm On Jan 02, 2016
...“They were simply rearrested after they were released folowing the filing of fresh charges against them...” QED

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Aristotle96(m): 8:21pm On Jan 02, 2016
PentiumPro:
Joblessness
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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by TheFreeOne: 8:28pm On Jan 02, 2016
A Nigerian president to resign via petition is like asking a camel to pass through the eye of a niddle.

Though I will gladly sign any petition to put a strong leash on him from turning a full blown tyrant.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by pacino26(m): 8:31pm On Jan 02, 2016
I keep learning everyday in NL, hmmm so the charge of illegal entry is DOA before any competent court of law. These my brothers in DSS eh, what are they paying their legal team for.

That aside the Public Prosecution office in Nigeria needs total overhauling.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Splashme: 8:32pm On Jan 02, 2016
[size=15pt]This is the worst Nigerian president so far.
Nigeria has never been this worse off
[/size]

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by fearNORTH: 8:38pm On Jan 02, 2016
Please any link to the online voting?...Me and my family need to start voting so as to send the drunken Daura mallam to jail.
Its our civic responsibility to oust this despotic and undemocratic gambari traveller.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Clerverly: 8:41pm On Jan 02, 2016
Eyaa! Just 600...But they need at least 170 Million Nigerian Signatures, before they will be taken Seriously..

Bunch Of Idiotuus!

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Nobody: 8:45pm On Jan 02, 2016
DickDastardly:
An online petition calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for disobeying court orders to release some high-profile detainees has gathered over 600 signatories in just over 48 hours of being created.
The petition, created by lawyer, Carol Ajie, followed comment by Mr. Buhari that a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is being prosecuted in relation to an alleged misappropriation of $2.1 billion; and the leader of separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, despite court orders that they should be freed during last Wednesday Presidential media chat.
So far, the petition has collected 680 signatures out of its 1,000 person target.
“On May 29th 2015, a former Military Dictator, Muhammadu Buhari, sequel to a contested election in March 2015 against a sitting President in Nigeria, the first time in Africa, an incumbent handed power peaceably, smoothly, heroically to a political rival,” the petition posted on Change.org read.
“Whereupon Mr Buhari then took the Oath of Allegiance to protect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and the President’s Oath of office to discharge his duties faithfully, in accordance with the Constitution and the Laws of Nigeria.
“Within President Buhari’s first year in office, too soon after he took the revered Oaths, he and state agents acting under his supervision, now demonstrate total lack of respect for Court Orders and at his maiden media chat on Wednesday 30th Dec., instant, Mr President made puerile attempts to justify these breaches, he said inter alia that some persons his regime locked up in cells dehumanized against court orders, Nnamdi Kanu had travelled without his passports.
The petitioner argued that the government should have deported Mr. Kanu or release him after detaining him for a period of not more than seven days instead of holding him indefinitely as stipulated by the Immigration Act or the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.


“But under the Immigration Act, the President or the Minister may deport anyone who travels without a valid travel document or detain for a period not exceeding 7 days. In holding Mr. Kanu beyond the required period they have infracted on the Immigration Act, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and subsisting court orders.”
She further stated that Mr. Kanu’s agitation for the emergence of a breakaway country called the Republic of Biafra is in line with the right of self-determination as stipulated by the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Nigeria is a signatory to.
“With regard to issues of “self determination”, the crux of Nnamdi Kanu’s campaign of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, having communicated IPOB’s intent to all and the United Nations as required by UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ratified by Nigeria, that people of any community or group may wish to exercise the right of self-determination with a view to pursuing their economic, social and cultural development; aware that their dignity as human persons had deteriorated and been consciously degraded under the present dispensation, sadly appearing power inebriate.”
She, therefore, called on Mr. Buhari to resign as President if he is not prepared to obey court orders or risk being impeached from office.
The Presidency declined to respond to the petition.
An official said it would be inappropriate for the presidency to dignify such a petition with a response.
He however said, “The truth is there are fresh charges against the detainees,” the official said.
“They were simply rearrested after they were released folowing the filing of fresh charges against them. So we don’t know what people are talking about when they talk about the government disobeying court order.”

Source:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/196078-online-petition-asking-buhari-to-resign-gathers-momentum.html
kanu and dasuki should sitin their cells

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by RockMaxi: 8:48pm On Jan 02, 2016

PMB may not be as articulate as we all want but he is presently the president. Let all those that are looking for his resignation keep on signing, it will be on record that they hid their hatred for a corrupt free Nigeria under the animosity for PMB.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Amein(m): 8:49pm On Jan 02, 2016
Even if the entire Igbo land will vote against him,nothing will shake his pen.Bunch of nobody's.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by steph2sweet(f): 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
In as much as I want this to happen, I know it will be difficult.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Whizkeey(m): 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2016

Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by looseweight: 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
PDP tinz

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by mrborntodoit: 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
Bubu ooooooooo

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Greenbullet(m): 9:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
this is just too obvious @ PDP,an act of a frustrated party.no doubt.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Nobody: 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
Pls where are they signing

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by lekjons(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
Dreamers!

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by kachnov(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
Since when did we start making our presidents resign via online petitions??
They should allow this man work,its too early for the BS.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by BarryX(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
Where are they signing this thing? I need to append my signature before time runs out

The fellas against it should rest ! Don't feel threatened

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Oildichotomy(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
#Buhari own don be for this 4years --- !

He is making more critics on per second billing !

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Demmocrats(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
“Within President Buhari’s first year in office, too soon after he took the revered Oaths, he and state agents acting under his supervision, now demonstrate total lack of respect for Court Orders and at his maiden media chat on Wednesday 30th Dec.,


The same Nigerian legal system that cleared former Governor of Delta State James Ibori 170 corruption charges.


"On December 17, 2009, A Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, discharged and acquitted Ibori of all 170 charges of corruption brought against him by EFCC"

The same Ibori that was cleared by Nigerian court was convicted by UK court on charges less than ten, Nigerian legal system that has gone to the grounds.

Nigerian legal system that has been designed for the poor to go to the prison but the rich to loot and impoverish the poor.


My Sai Buhari gives no fvck what they say.


Sai Buhari!!!

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by oldtopics(f): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
go suck d

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by aariwa(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
surely they shall gather....

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by gen2briz(m): 9:18pm On Jan 02, 2016
When them reach the total numbers of rivers vote make them inform me.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by HopeAtHand: 9:19pm On Jan 02, 2016
I see.

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by bettercreature(m): 9:19pm On Jan 02, 2016
Splashme:
[size=15pt]This is the worst Nigerian president so far.
Nigeria has never been this worse off
[/size]
E pain am! you go cry till 2023 tongue tongue tongue

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Pavore9: 9:20pm On Jan 02, 2016
Hmm...resign because of petition? That would be in a malaria-induced dream! cheesy

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by smsshola(m): 9:20pm On Jan 02, 2016
Som1 pls tell them to leave trash for Lawma..

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Re: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by Nobody: 9:20pm On Jan 02, 2016
kropotkin2:
kanu and dasuki should sitin their cells
Lol bruh, i concur. Even if Buhari is a tyrant, those niggaz have bitten more than they can chew. Dasuki should list out all involved in the bloody deal resulting into death of thousands of people. I just so much despise both APC and PDP sef. Bloody liars and thiefs. I just pray they don't infect Buhari with their dirty ways infection. Corrupt bastards

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