evansjeff:
Yesterday I watched with disgust PDP protesting at the US embassy in southafrca. That is the height of it. That is shameless and so demeaning to the sovereignty of Nigeria. I give up on PDP

kahal29:
No date would be given cos there is nothing else to review besides 60 days for hearing election petitions in other words reviewing the case has elapsed.

1Dray:


Are you from Imo state?

kahal29:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/no-supreme-court-date-for-review-of-judgement-yet-%e2%80%95-ihediohas-ssg/

toplinetrtrend:


They had to do that because buhari will send his Gestapo to murder anyone that dare to protest in Nigeria. You should give up on buhari and not PDP

evansjeff:
Yesterday I watched with disgust PDP protesting at the US embassy in southafrca. That is the height of it. That is shameless and so demeaning to the sovereignty of Nigeria. I give up on PDP

contigiency:


Because all those protesting on several issues have all been murdered? Many of are just a waste in this forum occupying space and constituting nuisance.

cana882:
Ihedioha is smart. He knew his fate from the onset that’s why he used his little time for two things: destroy okorocha’s projects and amass wealth for him and his friends (after all, his friends deserve to be rich according to auntyku).
Five words for him:
_{Four words for his sympathizers:}

toplinetrtrend:
They had to do that because buhari will send his Gestapo to murder anyone that dare to protest in Nigeria. You should give up on buhari and not PDP

PicLtd:
Stop deceiving yourself, Nigeria is not soverign. Foreign power gave it life and continues to keep it one.

evansjeff:
Yesterday I watched with disgust PDP protesting at the US embassy in southafrca. That is the height of it. That is shameless and so demeaning to the sovereignty of Nigeria. I give up on PDP

anonimi:


That was stewpid of PDP to do.
They should have got others to do so without associating their party to the protest.
Did you see the Alliance of Past/Present Crooks, APC associate themselves with the January 2012 #OccupyNigeria protest against fuel subsidy removal?
PDP people are learners when it comes to playing politics strategically.


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evansjeff:
Yesterday I watched with disgust PDP protesting at the US embassy in southafrca. That is the height of it. That is shameless and so demeaning to the sovereignty of Nigeria. I give up on PDP

Sultannayef:


You are silly

anonimi:


Certainly not, with barawo bubu in charge and CJN Tanko beside him.






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DenreleDave:
..Can someone pls help me track my line. I was attacked tonight by 3 armed men on bike and they took my phone..
09076705905
The numbers are switched off... see men with cutlass wanting to cut me.... aswear, i support jungle justice to any thief caught now if truly guilty. This guys want cut mi oooo

I vote jungle justife i swear to God... these guys almost cut innocent me for my own phone oooo, my own phone..

Instant death to any thief caught n he truly guilty

secpowell:
you are a greedy soul, you wait things to happen to you before you can support. A typical Nigeria mentality, if it was someone else it happen to your reason would have been different.

secpowell:
you are a greedy soul, you wait things to happen to you before you can support. A typical Nigeria mentality, if it was someone else it happen to your reason would have been different.

odiks:
*...ON SUPREME COURT AND OVERRULING ITSELF IN ELECTION PETITION CASES!*�

...Election Petitions are *suis generis*, meaning that they are unique, have a life of their own, have special character and are governed by procedures peculiar to it.

It is a time conscious trial.

Under the 1999 Constitution as amended and the extant Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the chances of the Supreme Court overruling itself in an Election Petition it has conclusively
*decided and disposed of* and in the particular case of Imo State is nil and non-existent.

We make this strong statement because among other things-

(a) there is no statutory provision for it, and

(b) the lapse of the almighty sixty days constitutional timeline within which the Supreme Court must hear and dispose of Election Petition appeals from the date of delivery of the judgement of the Court of Appeal has foreclosed any such novel window.

It is instructive that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja handed its judgement in the Imo Governorship Election Petition Appeals on 19 November 2019.

The Supreme Court in turn disposed the appeal on 14 January 2020.

Going by computation of time therefore, embarking on a street protest on 19 January 2020 and orally asking the Supreme Court to overrule itself is plain mischief calculated to embarrass and denigrate the integrity of the eminent Law Lords.

The sixty days timeline for disposing election petition appeals is a constitutional provision and a non-negotiable part of our electoral laws that must be rigidly obeyed as it is said to stand firm and unmoveable like the *Rock of Gibraltar.*

Even as the Oracle of the law, the Supreme Court is not entitled to rewrite, amend, add or subtract from constitutional provisions.

They must give effect to constitutional provisions however harsh or unsavoury the result may be.

That is what the Supreme Court held in its 2012 decision in the controversial Imo Governorship Election Petitition *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS* in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012.


It is important to further enlighten that the old case of *ADEGOKE MOTORS LTD V ADESANYA* (1989) 13 NWLR (Pt. 109) being bandied around here and there and cited as authority for the Supreme Court to overrule itself is inapplicable in the 2019 Imo Election Petition matter or any Election Petition matter.

This is because the said ADEGOKE CASE (Supra) is not an election petition matter.
It was a 1989 decision that did not have the contemplation of the mandatory requirement for conclusion of election petition appeals in the Supreme Court within 60 days as provided for in the present 1999 Constitition of Nigeria as amended.

It remains to be said that in sync with their constitutional powers and relying on clear constitutional provisions and our electoral laws, the Supreme Court has disposed of the 2019 Imo Governorship appeals and can never revisit it.

This is again supported by the decision of the Supreme Court in an Election Petition case *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012,* where Odili, JSC, held in a most profound manner and characteristic candour as follows-

*"...What is to be disposed has in a way hit the rock and can go nowhere else. That is to say the legal dispute or process has reached its final destination and is at grand finale...."*

We can then conveniently restate that when the Supreme Court finally disposes of an election petition, the legal dispute has come to a full and final stop at the last legal and judicial bus stop because of the special nature of election petitions and its time sensitive nature.

It is in public interest that there should be an end to litigation-

*Interest rei publicae ut sit finis litium* which is an alternative Latin phrase for *expedit rei publicae ut.*

Remember always that the Supreme is final but not infallible.

A new normal is possible!

*Prof Obiaraeri, N.O.*

uruba23:
I hope ihedioha's lawyers don't get debarred you don't ask the supreme court to review its judgement unless you are absolutely sure there is a miscarriage of justice.

TRUSTEDGUY:


Judgement has been passed. The former governor should humbly take a bow.

E don thief moni reach make another person chop. I wonder why dem no remove am sef.