EagleNest:
I hardly would believe this logical masterpiece will come from a reverend father. It is a truth!

The way we blindly practice religion in Nigeria supports Karl Max's assertion that religion is the opium of the masses. It takes away independent critical thinking and Pastors, Imams and politicians are taking full advantage of it.

Think Nigerian!

lucky4west:
when Karl Max made the dictum "religion is the opium of the people" he felt so because in his opinion religion admonishes people to focus on eternal life rather than the things happening around them because this world is not their home( which is correct) but nonetheless Christians and other adherents of other faiths are behind most of the ground breaking discoveries recorded in science and technology till date, again Karl Max made that assertion because he believed that because of the oppression of the workers that they will be a revolution by the workers to overthrow the bourgeois...the dictator and he actually felt such revolution was imminent and that it will happen in his own time but alas he was disappointed such a revolution never came albeit there were pockets of revolts and riots across the world..secondly it should be noted that Marx was an atheist so religion was bound to have a lashing from him...Karl Marx relied heavily on his friend Engels for financial support be cause he was very poor ( though he was against material possessions but who like to suffer?) -that in itself is an opium! opium of poverty denouncing riches or wealth but needing money to survive and perpetually hanging unto a friend for financial support is the worst opium any body can take and Karl Marx drank it to the fullest!
...now bringing this nearer home, people tend to focus on their personal lives and endeavors because confronting the government on issues does not always and in some cases does not yield any positive result....Nigerians are not lethargic or laid back but why waste energy and resources on a! fruitless venture? when Sowore organised the revolutionnow campaign what came out of it? how many people participated? most of the support he got where from people sitting in a comfort zone behind their phones twitting, facebooking ,instamgramming, nairalanding and what have you

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

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hungryboy:
Mbaka don show our fake prophets the way now

I Dey wait for when our prophets go begin give correct score prediction for Naija league, go fix the match so that e go play as dem talk, make i use am blow.

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

IME1:
why is it that the first thing I saw is "motivational speaker"
As in? Oga your description should be priest or pastor not motivational speaker
There's a difference between John Maxwell and John Mason
There's a difference between Dr Phil and TD Jakes
There's a difference between Oprah Winfrey and Joyce Meyer
There's a difference between Fela Durotoye and Sam Adeyemi

Anyway we must all realise that it's the supreme court
No matter what we say, it is final
So please save yourself the stress and sadness and move on
Even Iheodia has moved on

As for religion being an opium
You can't be a Christian and not be wise, Jesus was very wise and logical. You don't loose your head when you receive Jesus Christmas as Lord and Saviour, you gain insight, revelation and light. He said whose face is on the coin? Pay your tax. He said who has not sinned? Woman go and SIN no more. He said Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Christianity is about faith so when you say my sins have been forgiven and I am a child of God and I have been justified by faith and can enter heaven for eternity - it is because we have the faith that all these statements is hinged on God's promises.

He said we are healed, we are rich, we are saved, we are free, we are shielded, we have a crown...
And so many other promises, which I believe and claim as a child of God.
But I'm also aware and I've accepted that there is no crown without a cross, there are no riches without favour in work, there is no good health without healthy lifestyle, there is no salvation without repentance and confession, there is no heaven without righteousness and sinless living that grace may not abide in sin, God forbid

Religion may be an opium but our Christian faith is Christ in us is our hope of glory
No matter the difficulties, sufferings, persecution and cares,
We dey kampe in God

sweetonugbu:
With APC 1+1=5 great mathematicians, judges we sabi book.

EagleNest:
I hardly would believe this logical masterpiece will come from a reverend father. It is a truth!

The way we blindly practice religion in Nigeria supports Karl Max's assertion that religion is the opium of the masses. It takes away independent critical thinking and Pastors, Imams and politicians are taking full advantage of it.

Think Nigerian!

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

Patrioticman007:
What an hypocrite we have here, he is envious of Father Mbaka prowess. Hear him talk with both sides of his mouth. Say it loud like an atheist Religion is the opium of the Masses, for the crisis in Catholic church today is nothing to write home about, The Celibacy of a thing has made to Popes to be fighting Royal Rumble, imagine two gods, a current god & ex god fighting public. That aside. When Supreme Court gave PDP Zamfara, there was no need for this epistles, from this man of god, Its only when supreme court declares an APC victory, that the judiciary acts funny & legislative Bills GMB is yet to sign becomes issues. Like your popes two Reverend fathers fighting, but we know Fr Mbaka na correct bet odds.

EagleNest:
I hardly would believe this logical masterpiece will come from a reverend father. It is a truth!

The way we blindly practice religion in Nigeria supports Karl Max's assertion that religion is the opium of the masses. It takes away independent critical thinking and Pastors, Imams and politicians are taking full advantage of it.

Think Nigerian!

EagleNest:
I hardly would believe this logical masterpiece will come from a reverend father. It is a truth!

The way we blindly practice religion in Nigeria supports Karl Max's assertion that religion is the opium of the masses. It takes away independent critical thinking and Pastors, Imams and politicians are taking full advantage of it.

Think Nigerian!

garfield1:
THE IMO GUBERNATORIAL JUDGMENT - A PAINFUL BUT LEGALLY CORRECT VERDICT!

It is indeed a perplexing paradox: Hope Uzodinma may not have won the 2019 Imo State gubernatorial election, yet the Supreme Court, on the facts, was right in declaring him the winner of that election in law. The error was not the Supreme Court's, but that of Governor Emeka Ihedioha's legal team; and it was a crucially fatal error.

What happened was this: During the governorship election in Imo State, apparently concocted results, perhaps not having any basis whatsoever in reality, BUT SIGNED BY INEC PRESIDING OFFICERS, were turned in from more than 350 polling units, giving Hope Uzodinma of the APC an incredibly unassailable lead. When those results were transmitted to the wards collation centres, the collation officers, who had no power in law to cancel or reject them, rejected the said polling units results, and refused to collate them, thereby effectively excluding them from the total tally of the governorship result that was eventually declared by the Returning Officer. In the aftermath of the said exclusion, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Governor Ihedioha the winner of the election.

The exclusion of the results of those polling units was the fulcrum of the petition presented at the Tribunal by Hope Uzodinma. Ever since David Mark V. ABUBAKAR USMAN, and DOMA V. INEC, the law has been settled that neither collation officers nor a returning officer, has the power in law to exclude a polling unit result duly signed by the presiding officer at the polling unit; only the election tribunal possesses the power to cancel or exclude such a result. So, at the point of its presentation, Senator Uzodinma's petition was potentially viable, in spite of the apparent dubiousness of the polling units results on which it was anchored, there being a REBUTTABLE presumption of regularity and correctness, by virtue of both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act, enuring in favour of any result declared by a presiding officer.

The backbreaking and fatal error made by Ihedioha's legal team was not filing a CROSS PETITION fiercely challenging the integrity of the suspect polling units results upon which Uzodinma was relying, and praying the election tribunal to formally nullify the said results. Without a cross petition, none of the grounds under section 138 (1) of the Electoral Act for questioning the elections conducted in those polling units in which Uzodinma "won" could have been competently raised by Governor Ihedioha in his defence to Uzodinma's petition. This was the ratio decidendi of the old Court of Appeal decision in IDRIS V. A.N.P.P.(2008)8 NWLR(PT.1088) Page 1. In the recent Court of Appeal decision in ATIKU ABUBAKAR V. BUHARI, the Court of Appeal again invoked the principle in dismissing Buhari's contention that Atiku ABUBAKAR was born in Cameroun to parents who originally were Camerounians, and thus disqualified from contesting the election. Dismissing the contention, the Court of Appeal held that the issue was incompetent, since Buhari did not file a cross petition.

Ihedioha indeed did set up facts in his Reply to the petition rehashing the serial infractions that led to the exclusion of the results of the said 300 plus polling units. But that was legally not enough, in the absence of a cross petition. Besides, such renditions by a Respondent in a mere Reply or Statement of Defence are clearly incompetent. The reason for the incompetence was was made clear by the Court of Appeal in NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL & ORS V. HON. JUSTICE JUBRIL BABAJIDE ALADEJANA & ORS(2014) LPELR - 2413 (CA) Page 31, paras C - F, at ratio 3 thus -

"The law is that it is a plaintiff who by his statement of claim primarily nominates issues to be tried in a suit and which he relies on to have the judgment of the Court. For a defendant, it is only necessary to resist the plaintiff's claim on the facts pleaded. It is not for a defendant to set up facts which would convey that it is not just setting up a defence but setting up a new case of his own. He can only do so by way of a counter claim..."

Shorn of the legalese, what the above authority is simply saying is that since the issue nominated for trial by Hope Uzodinma was the unlawfulfulness or otherwise of the exclusion of the results of the 300 plus polling units by the ward collation officers, Ihedioha's defence was therefore necessarily restricted by law to showing that those who excluded the results had the power in law to exclude them. Without a cross petition praying for the nullification of those results, the law forbids Governor Ihedioha as respondent from raising the issue of the alleged serial corrupt practices and irregularities marring the said results, in a mere statement of defence; that was a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma as petitioner. Ihedioha, being a Respondent, could only have competently raised them via a cross petition, being a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma, the petitioner.

Tragically, Ihedioha's legal team forgot to include the pivotal cross petition. And in the absence of a cross petition, the Supreme Court was right in law, painfully though it may seem, to rely on the presumption of regularity and correctness enshrined by both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act in favour of the said results, and to reckon with them and add them up to the final result, since Ihedioha's legal team had woefully failed to effectively attack the results and rebut that presumption. For the Supreme Court, this was the legally correct conclusion to come to, having found that INEC had no power in law to exclude polling units results duly affirmed by the various polling units presiding officers.