PinDipin should face reality of a sinking party because of unfaithful and corrupt leaders..

When APC won Bornu State hands-down and the Supreme Court made it a xmas gift to PDP...they hailed supreme court!

Now that the judgment is not in the favour in imo state ...they are sheding crocodile tears as usual

Going!...going!!...gone!....pindinpin...2023...zero level....their Atifkuku will be 80yrs and hes already confuse and running heltersketer

Kola or what ever you call yourself stop be having like a lunatic the same you that praised SC for Rivers and zamfafa States decision now your complained

Senatorbng:
Uzodinma is a smart and audacious guy.
For someone who came a distant 4th to wake up and challenge the outcome of the election and even prayed the court to upturn it in his favour is AUDACIOUS. it is now clear that there is something he saw that we were not seeing.

The supreme court has spoken sha

Yes,he's very intelligent.he has never lost any election.he calculated and planned well.he noticed that almost all election cases predicated on malpractices are impossible to prove at the apex court and that it is easier to prove using wrong collation.he did this and even the lower courts didnt understand his case,they applied the wrong formula.at first,i never understood his case until the minority judgment by Fred oho of the appeal court.i knew that if the apex court considered his case on merit,he will win

na imo people wahala thank God makinde is performing well in my oyo state period and he won in supreme court

Humphrizy:

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/01/14/supreme-court-judgement-the-destiny-of-imo-state-has-been-taken-away-says-pdp/

. The table turned suddenly..The governor became an ordinary citizen suddenly.

again any time d ipob zombies start to support u ur destiny will b paused.its called d curse of ipob strikes again.the neerdowells nd moronic hatefull ipob have cursed imo state with their badluck.all hail the idiotic nd senseless ipobians

Welldone for this analysis.

okofians:
The apex court said it was satisfied that the lower tribunal wrongly evaluated Uzodinma’s case, when it failed to countenance a proof of evidence that was brought before it by a police officer that testified before it as the PW-54.
It held that records before it proved that election results from 388 polling units were unlawfully excluded from the overall collated results.
It noted that results from the cancelled polling units amounted to 213, 295 votes, adding that Ihedioha was returned elected, based on wrong computation of results.
Therefore Uzordinma total votes as at today are 96,458 INEC allotment 213,295 Supreme Court restored INEC cancelled votes
Total votes as at Supreme Court judgement is 309,753 greater than any other candidates votes in IMO State.

Humphrizy:

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/01/14/supreme-court-judgement-the-destiny-of-imo-state-has-been-taken-away-says-pdp/

the real reason


Many people in Imo state and across Nigeria genuinely believe that Sen. Hope Uzodinma did not win the election in Imo state. And therefore it makes sense to them that what happend at the Supreme court on Tuesday, 14 January, 2020 was a miscarriage of justice. But it is not.

Sen. Hope Uzodimma went to court for one purpose and one purpose only: to challenge and win his argument against the foolishness of INEC, in the hope that Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's legal team will not "catch the joke" until the judgement is over. And it worked.

Like during the APC's governorship primaries, Gullak came with his own results with the name of Sen. Hope Uzodimma boldly written on the results sheets as the winner. It was written on the original result sheets and were therefore acceptable to the party leadership and INEC admitted it; ara agba Uche na Papa ya. They battled it, but finally yielded and Uche moved to AA.

Likewise, on the day of the governorship election in Imo State, results, a lot of result sheets from about 380 (possibly more at the time) on original INEC papers duely and correctly signed by INEC presiding Officers showing Sen. Hope Uzodinma a clear lead in those result sheets were transmitted to the Collation Centres at the wards to be certified.
Recklessly, the INEC collation officers, who were probably not taught by INEC that they had no legal power to cancel or reject such results, rejected and refused to collate the polling units results in their own rights. Once it was on record that the COLLATION OFFICERS excluded them from the final result of the governorship elections declared by the Returning Officer, "Gullak's second coming" was concluded.

It didn't matter that INEC declared Governor Ihedioha the winner of the election. The legal loophole was there and Sen. Hope Uzodimma waited to see if Rt.Hon. Ihedioha's legal team will "catch the joke." And they didn't.

Those "legal" but excluded results from.the polling units was the foundation of the petition that Sen. Hope Uzodimma filed at the election tribunal.
Under the law, "No (CO) collation officers, No (RO) returning officer, will have any legal authority to exclude a polling unit result already signed by the (PO) presiding officer at the polling unit.
The only legal authority with the power to exclude or cancel results or even admit results is the election tribunal.

Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's team did not challenge that the rejected results submitted by Sen. Hope Uzodimma at the Polling Units were fake. In the absence of such counter argument, the Court presumed those results to be correct based on the existing electoral law regarding results signed by a (PO) presiding officer.
It was the failure of Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's talented legal team to "catch the joke" by not attacking the "Gullak like polling Unit results" as fake, that left the Apex court with no choice but to follow the law. Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's team, knowing that the election tribunal has power to nullify those "fake results" failed and never prayed to the tribunal to declare those results as null and void. Instead, what the team of the sacked governor appear to have done was to raise arguments to support the reasons why the Collation Officers rejected the duly and legally signed results submitted by Sen. Hope Uzodimma.
Rt. Hon Ihedioha's team did NOT pray against the petition of Sen. Hope Uzodimma on the FACTs. His team did not show reason to the court that those results were fake. Instead they tried to tell the court that "they were correctly rejected and cancelled by those who were not authorised to cancel such results."

Thus, the APEX court reasoned that although the Queen may have gotten pregnant by adultery, but since the law says that any male child born by the Queen would be King, and given that nobody has provided any DNA to support their argument that the boy born by the Queen is of a strange blood, the court was left with no other choice but to declare the young man King.

Thus, while Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's defence was unable to show that the Collation Officers had the legal authority to exclude a candidates results, they also failed to argue and show evidence that indeed those results were fake and therefore invalid.
As a result, The Supreme Court refused to admit the behaviour of the Collation officers, admitted the rejected results, which put Sen. Hope Uzodimma in first place and thus declared him the winner in an election that he didn't even campaign.

The questions now are:

1) Under Gullak 101, were the Collation Officers paid to take powers into their hands by rejecting election results duly signed by the presiding officers as their own part in the scheme?
2) If they were paid, then who failed to pay Rt. Hon. Ihedioha's legal team for such a botched job and their strategy to not challenge the integrity of the rejected results?

This is because, if they had challenged the intergrity of the results from the over 380 units and its ruled in their favour, despite the error of the Collation officers in rejecting the results, the results would still be considered as fake and therefore inadmissible.
The final question therefore is: did Rt. Hon. Ihedioha chop alone? God bless.

nams77:

It is my state. I will prefer ihedioha to hope. It is not about party issue. I don't belong or support both parties. I am looking at character of both candidates.
This is a case of a one eyed man in the midst of the blind. Ihedioha is not the best but he is better than hope.
I weep for my stste

what are the threats of Hope uzodinma?

IloveToMess:


Shut up afonja don't try to squeeze in Tinubu to make the useless man appear useful and powerful, he's a nobody in the scheme of things.

Tinubu I'm happy for you ooo...


This Igbos statement just confirm you are the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

DEHVEHLOP:


Tinubu I'm happy for you ooo...


This Igbos statement just confirm you are the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Next President of Amotekun illegal republic you mean

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Edusouls:
Chai were did hope get 213,000 votes? They should show us the local governments? And the first 3 candidates didn’t get any vote in those areas but only hope, and now how many people voted in the election overall? Is now clear to everyone that APC is daylight corruption, and the Supreme Court is a complete calamity, headed by a very corrupt Fulani justice this country is doomed

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Just look at you now!

You are now talking like someone whose "Dest!ny has been taking away"

Dennis Nwanokwia

Still on Imo.

And taking the focus away from Rev. Fr. Mbaka, let's talk a little technically on the legal issues in this case.

There were initially three matters before the Supreme Court against Ihedioha and the PDP.

These were their scores:

PDP: Ihedioha Emeka 273,404

AA: Uche Nwosu 190,364

APGA: Ifeanyi Ararume 114,676

APC: Hope Uzodinma 96,458

YPP: Ikedi Ohakim 527

Uche Nwosu was earlier disqualified as the candidate of the AA by the Supreme Court for not having been validly nominated. He did not effectively resign from the APC where he also purchased nomination forms and participated in the gubernatorial primaries.

He lost the locus standi to maintain further action challenging the election of Ihedioha and the PDP by reason of his disqualification.

That leaves us with two pending matters.

Ararume's contention was that Ihedioha did not score the Constitutional spread of votes across the LGAs of the State, hence he asked for a rerun.

Ararume's contention is hinged on Section 179 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

The section provides thus:

(2) A candidate for an election to the office of Governor of a State shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being two or more candidates -

(a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and
(b) he has not less than one-quarter of all the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local government areas in the State.

It was clear from the onset that Ihedioha and the PDP fell short of this requirement. INEC however proceeded to declare Ihedioha winner on the strength of the total votes scored. This is clearly within INEC's powers whether rightly or wrongly. From that point on, its hands off for INEC as the judiciary reviews to uphold or nullify INEC's decisions.

On the other hand, Hope Uzodinma's contention was that his lawful votes scored in 388 polling units were excluded in the final computation of results by INEC. The total number of the suppressed votes was above 200,000 or something in that neighbourhood (the actual figures will be available soon). He prayed to be declared winner. The result sheets for the 388 polling units were tendered at the tribunal but were not recognised and upheld. The Court of Appeal did not equally uphold them.

Now at the Supreme Court, the competing actions were considered holistically. If Ararume's contention was upheld, it would have meant a rerun which would have been appropriate if Uzodinma's votes were not admitted.

However, the Supreme Court did not see any reason why valid votes scored by a candidate were excluded from the final computation of results. In the view of the apex court, the votes were unlawfully suppressed. The votes were thus added. The resultant effect was that Uzondinma's initial 96, 458 votes now toppled Ihedioha's 273, 404.

The Supreme Court noted that with the result from the 388 polling units, the APC governorship candidate polled the majority of the lawful votes and ought to have been declared winner of the election by INEC. It therefore proceeded to declare him winner and ordered his immediate swearing in as governor thus bringing to an end all that pertains to the gubernatorial elections in Imo State.

It will be recalled that this same Supreme Court invalidated all the votes polled by the APC in Zamfara. The APC had won all the elective offices, State Assembly, National Assembly and gubernatorial positions in the State but were made to vacate these positions to the PDP they had earlier decimated at the polls.

The decisions of Courts are not usually sentimental. The Imo case is not different. After all, of the three senators representing Imo State at the National Assembly seats, two are APC.

Let's hear your well informed views on this.
#SWA

PDP is a useless opposition.

9jayes:
Will Emeka Ihedioha be able to sleep yesterday?

I hope he would not develop B.P immediately

kgr8mike:
Am honestly dumbfounded.

Is it that Emeka Ihedioha did not get any vote in the claimed 318 'abi' 388 wards?

How in the world could this happen?

Only in the animal world; only in a zoo; only in the story of the tortoise and the rest of the animals - Yes the story of how the tortoise eventually out-ran the dog in a long range race.

When someone said Nigeria is a zoo, some of us could not come to terms with it, but now we know why. What happens here can only be true in the land of the lower animals.

Emeka couldn't get 25% in all the local government as required by the law .

tribalmall:
Bro wailing to death is beta than wailing for nothing, my 2cent.

If you beat a child, allow the child the right to cry. Please don't take away both.

[quote author=ledaman post=85822056] Emeka couldn't get 25% in all the local government as required by the law

Did Supreme court say so?

[quote author=kgr8mike post=85822415][/quote]Go through it

Destiny of destruction of imo state abi?