TheGoodJoe:


Farah said, screen me virtually. Screen me and put my name on the Primary election list.

Simple.

You said it earlier that someone won election in prison.

fergie001:

The Party defines its rules. It can even decide to just clear you without screening. That one is at the discretion of the Party.

No Court in Nigeria can tamper with their decision on that.

fergie001:

The Party defines its rules. It can even decide to just clear you without screening. That one is at the discretion of the Party.

No Court in Nigeria can tamper with their decision on that.

TheGoodJoe:


In this case, the party gave him a primary form and clearned him to be screened. So the court wants to know, why are you not screening him.

fergie001:

Obaseki was a sitting Gov and bought his form for APC then. He went for screening and was still screened out.

Screening is the exclusive preserve of the Party. They said everyone should come so and so place for screening. They can decide to change the game because of you or decide otherwise. The Supreme Court has ruled many times that it's not their business, it's the Party's to decide.

I sympathise with Dagogo...have never been a fan of Mr. Flyover.

TheGoodJoe:
Wike of all people knows the court can come down hard on a party.

TheGoodJoe:


What you are missing is that, Farah was not screened out. That is the point of contention. He was denied a legitimate screening process due to interference.

fergie001:


This is a case I followed religiously. Mind you, the Court did not stop the Primaries, it nullified it. No Court can stop the Primaries, that's number one.

Number two, these cases are VERY different. The APC was told not to conduct their Congresses but alas, they went on. That's why I told you that the PDP will try to force adjournment till after May 26 within which everything becomes academic.

fergie001:

Then he should focus on the interference.

See, I am not from Rivers...he should just defect or ask his handlers to push for defection! That's it/

fergie001:

Then he should focus on the interference.

See, I am not from Rivers...he should just defect or ask his handlers to push for defection! That's it/

TheGoodJoe:

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Farah wants an injunction halting the process until they follow due process. The court is not changing the rules of the party but making the party abide by its own rules.

If they try to force the primaries, then the nullification will take place.

Farah is playing Wike's cards against him.

TheGoodJoe:


Farah is not interested in defecting. He has already prepared his political aparatus for this primary in PDP.

TheGoodJoe:


Farah is not playing here. There is a reason Wike is scared of him. Wike knows something we do not and does not want Farah's name on the Primary election list.

That is why Wike is interfering and Farah is using it against him.

TheGoodJoe:


Ah ah. You were arguing. Now proven wrong you are changing mouth. I did not say I want to sue him. I said he is a scammer.

fergie001:

Actually, it is S84(15)... The Primaries is not under threat.

Regrettably, nothing will come out from the case. The case is pre-primary and is non-justiceable. INEC has no business with it because the Commission is non-partisan and not responsible for how Political Parties conduct their Screening exercises.

The Court has no Jurisdiction because it is the internal affairs of a political party, Dagogo will be there for a very long time.

AnonPoet:


https://thenetwork.ng/breaking-rivers-2023-pdp-governorship-primaries-under-threat/

fergie001:
Ikonne is going to be Gov ~

@garfield1

garfield1:
He night not.the ohuhu will have the last laugh.fhc rivers has restrained pdp from conducting primary

fergie001:

That's not true. No Court can restrain any Party from holding Primaries.

The Court said they should show cause why he shouldn't be screened.

Ohuhu won't say anything.......It's done.

garfield1:
A restraining order has been procured. Was APC not restrained in 2019!?

Ohuhu will massively support the Apc flagbearer

fergie001:

This was the application he filed nah, Check the date stamp.

The Court didn't restrain APC in 2019, it invalidated the Congresses that produced those who participated in the Primaries. So everything was null and void ab initio.

No Court can stop the Primaries or restrain a Party from conducting Primaries. The worse that will happen is take a decision that will make the Party move the Primaries.


No way....

APC is going Abia North, then maybe pick an Abia South Deputy. Abia Central gets nothing, what's the vote of Ohuhu?

garfield1:
Yes,it was not a restraining order but they can later get an order now that wike has told them who he wants..

In 2018 in rivers,the magnus case wasn't about the congress.the fhc stopped the primaries and Amaechi moved it forward and the court still stopped and nullified it...assuming congress was nullified,it shows that pre primary matters are not completely an internal matter of the parties,there is a limit as far as parties obey their own laws.that line has been crossed in dagogo's case and his fundamental rights has been breached and luckily,he has gone to court early...

When I mean ohuhu,I am referring to all non ngwas in abia whether umuahia or abia north and even ukwa

Like I said, I cannot support Wike in this rascality but I am just laying bare what the Supreme Court has said in cases like this. The Court has no rights to mandate PDP to take Dagogo....No way.

The case I also understand is before the PDP Appeals Committee and I don't know their answer. That also means, he has not exhausted the internal mechanisms of the Party if indeed they haven't given a verdict.

I have explained this before: Maihaja was blocked from submitting his EoI form. The State Party Chairman, locked the gates of the Secretariat and directed the Police not to let him in. He went to Court;

Hear the SC: Maihaja v Geidam (2017), per Sidi Bage, JSC as he then was:

By his own admission, the Appellant did well in stating correctly what transpired before the primary election conducted by the 2nd Respondent on 4th December, 2014 while I sympathise with the Appellant, I am unable to close my eyes to the resonating facts of non-participation in the primaries. Assuming he was wrongly or unlawfully excluded, his remedies would be elsewhere in other forms of civil claims in damages for the refund of political expenses and sundry remedies. Section 87(9) of Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) appears to me to fall within the category of ‘closed rights’. It is not open-ended. I am of the considered view that it does not capture (wrongful) exclusion, prevention or obstruction orchestrated by or through the instrumentality of third parties or agencies.


The simple questions is:
Has Dagogo been cleared? NO.

Hear The Supreme Court in Daniel v INEC (2005), per Rhodes-Vivour, JSC as he then was;

....before a candidate for the primaries can have a locus standi to sue on the conduct of the primaries, he must be screened, cleared by his political party and participate at the said primaries. Anything short of that, the candidate who did not participate in the primaries could be conveniently classified as a meddlesome interloper with no real interest in the primaries.

fergie001:



I quoted someone yesternight...

garfield1

garfield1:




His faction isn't recognized plus he hasn't gone to court.time for that has elapsed

fergie001:

Who will give them?

An order that Wike has selected a candidate hence the Court should restrain them or what? The Courts don't work on hearsays.

You seem not to understand it. Dagogo was waiting for his screening when the Police came to pick him up. They purposely placed him last in the list so that they will perfect what they intended. Immediately, it was remaining him, they swooped in.

The case is between Rivers COMPOL v Dagogo. He was denied bail by the Magistrate Court so how will PDP screen him? Will the High Court mandate PDP or INEC to screen him? Is Screening not the domestic affairs of a Party? His case is even more difficult because even the Rivers COMPOL is not even a Party to the suit.


Any Court order no matter how perverse stands until upturned. Again, I tell you 100% the FHC never stopped it. The Primaries was even completed before the matter went to the FHC.

Again, Dagogo is not filing for his fundamental rights suit, is he? The Police is who he will be sueing if he intends to. Neither INEC nor PDP arrested him.

This is the Wike you want to see on the ballot. I don't want to just describe him.



The Stakeholders yesterday backed Ikonne. The Gov has given them all what they want. The Speaker has won his Reps ticket.

The Deputy Speaker as well.. Everybody is collecting and the Gov is telling them that OUK has fully colonised Abia-N so it will be risky there since no politician in that Zone can outmuscle him.

I don't support the decision but na one vote I get moreover I am transferring to Lagos.

Sonoyom:

Una no dey ever learn

garfield1:
I already saw that but maihaja acted belatedly while Farah acted timeously.no primary is being stopped,the court is saying tarry a while

fergie001:

No way. The Court cannot tell a Party when to conduct Primaries. See, even if the Court today says Dagogo should be included, it is PDP 's choice to move or not to move.

See, Dagogo should defect and contest.... It's a dead end. You are beginning to make me look like a Wike lawyer

garfield1:
://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/304544-breaking-court-nullifies-all-apc-primaries-in-rivers-stops-party-from-2019-elections.html&ved=2ahUKEwiDq9usgPj3AhULi_0HHcKwBC4QFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0hbWMUh6DG1VdcHXAmQdIS

The rivers high court restrained apc from conducting primaries.they disobeyed and went ahead to conduct.justice omotosho of fhc scattered everything.the court is not stopping any primaries,it is simply saying hold on to we clear Farah's matter just like in 2019.this is a trap.if they go ahead,they will collect