garfield1:


[b]POWERS OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL: By virtue and pursuant to section 23 of the Code of Conduct and Tribunal Act, CAP 15, Laws of the Federation, 2010, the Tribunal have to impose punishment as follows:– (i) Where the Tribunal finds a public officer guilty of contravening any of the provisions of this Act, is shall impose upon that officer any of the punishments specified under subsection (2) of this section.(ii) The punishment which the Tribunal may impose shall include any of the following – a. Vacation of office or any elective or nominated office, as the case may be; b. Disqualification from holding any public office (whether elective or not) for a period not exceeding ten years; and c. Seizure and forfeiture to the State of any property acquired in abuse or corruption of office.

(iii) The punishments mentioned in subsection (2) of this section shall be without prejudice to the penalties that may be imposed by any law where the breach of conduct is also a criminal offence under the Criminal Code or any other enactment or law,

(iv) Where the Tribunal gives a decision as to whether or not a person is guilty of a contravention of any of the provision of this Act, an appeal shall lie as of right from such decision or from any punishment imposed on such person to the Court of Appeal at the instance of any party to the proceedings.[/b]




From the above,if cct has powers to remove any public officer,they can suspend too

Bros, you can't add what is not in a law to it. All the above powers are after the tribunal has found the person guilty.
There's no prescription of suspension for failure to appear before it in the laws.

Ojuntana:

Bros, you can't add what is not in a law to it. All the above powers are after the tribunal has found the person guilty.
There's no prescription of suspension for failure to appear before it in the laws.

It was an exparte order pending the conclusion of trial

garfield1:
Agim would still retire without being cjn.what of lord festus ogbuinya and Fred oho

Agim (26/04)1960) is likely not to get it because of his friend, Tijjani Abubakar (15/04/1960). I call him his friend because they were both sworn-in as Appeal Court Judges (5/11/2012) and as Supreme Court Judges the same day. Something might still happen sha.

Ogbuinya, a man I like. His wife is a Reader (maybe a Prof now) at Ikwo. He was born in the 60s, his birthday was last week but can't remember his age. He went to the Appeal Court in 2010. He should be knocked out jareh, he is from Ebonyi. The Enugu/Ebonyi axis has Nweze, the only SE SC Judge there. So Abia/Imo will fight Anambra for two slots. Their strongest persons there are females. Asides Agbo (No 1), the next four are women, then Ogbuinya, then the next three are women.

Oho was born around 1965, he went to the Appeal Court in 2014. He is in strong running for SC with the death of Oseji. The AKS/CRS axis has Inyang, Agim.

So Edo/Delta will fight that last slot with Riv/Bayelsa. Anybody but Oho is fine by me.

All these things are subject to how the Govs play their politics but Abia MUST have ONE.

fergie001:

Tbh, I don't see that happening. The problem is that people contesting Senate & HoR are the people who will do the most damage to the ambitions of the 3rd Force. That's my thinking.


Akpabuyo is in the same Senatorial Zone we have UNICAL.
-We are trying, God is faithful.
-We don't have many rich men like Anambra.
-We don't have an Ngige/Obi that opened up governance.
-Abia, the only State in the whole of South with one FG higher Institution.
-The institution is specialised, strictly for Engineering/Agric Courses, meaning any other Course, you pay high at the State Univ or leave the State. You now see the exit of good brains.
-Even the State Institution don't offer many of the usual Courses & they are not all that "you know."
-The Fed Institution has more VCs from outside the State than from the State, so as is expected, they flood their people in there, in terms of manpower, etc. The man there now is the second Abian in the Institution's 30-year history. It took heavy protests for him to get it at the expense of another Imolite. The present Imo Dep-Gov was the pioneer VC.
-The State hasn't gotten a Governor. They are just there on paper.
-Sincerely, Ebonyi has benefitted the most through Anyim and now Umahi. THERE IS NO FEDERAL PRESENCE IN ABIA STATE. The ones they send to Abuja, well, let me stop there.

So, it is the brains God gave to us that pushes us up there, we do have some good number of rural areas in the State.

This is not true. They don't want to stay....If you know the Yorubas very well, they don't leave their domain, there is this sort of discomfort when they are not in their zone. I know a few that got Federal jobs after NYSC in Abia, and couldn't even wait before they started throwing in transfer letters.

The man's fbk bio Says he has been there since 1991. He is just too significant to be overlooked.

Crs has one federal institution discounting FCE...

From my experience in anambra,Yoruba's are the largest settlers followed by kogi and akwa cross.most of the yorubas are tailors and unskilled labourers.a lot of the Yoruba corpers were ready to stay back after service.I saw a lot of ex corpers(yoru) in anambra...

Useless ignoramus president

garfield1:


It was an exparte order pending the conclusion of trial

He has no power to grant such orders. Maybe one day he'll grant such order against the president. Nonsense

garfield1:
Crs has one federal institution discounting FCE...

I know the one in Obudu. It's a Fed Higher Institution. They are also constructing a Fed Pooy at Eket. Abia doesn't have any...No Fed Poly, No FCE.

From my experience in anambra,Yoruba's are the largest settlers followed by kogi and akwa cross.most of the yorubas are tailors and unskilled labourers.a lot of the Yoruba corpers were ready to stay back after service.I saw a lot of ex corpers(yoru) in anambra...

It's not like that in Abia. You find more Northerners in Umuahia, security, block industry, menial jobs sha. Yorubas I see there are mainly in Banks, and they are very few.

Ojuntana:


Bros, a court order to suspend a sitting CJN is not "every judgment". I can boldly claim such judgment has never been given anywhere in the world until 2018 in Nigeria.
What i'm pointing out is that if the FG receives a court order, the right procedure is for them to first seek the legal advice of the AGF/Minister of Justice on the order before deciding whether to execute or appeal. Within our laws, it is easy to see CCT does not have the powers to give such order. Thus, the order is meant to be appealed first for stay of execution and then, total nullification. Buhari simply ignored to do all that because the judgment is what he wanted.
Let me turn it round. Imagine a drunk judge who just got beaten by his wife giving an order for the FG to arrest the Vice President and put him in a cell. Do you still think the FG should give speedy effect to that order?

I did not deny the fact that Buhari did not want the judge but my stand still remains that he obeyed court judgement. Onnoghe not Buhari should seek redress or stay of execution. Imagine a high court telling Buhari to immediately release Nnamdi Kanu. Do you think that Buhari will keep him and seek redress or go and get a stay of execution. I know even u will call him a tyrant, telling us how democracy has been bastardized under Buhari. If that happens, Buhari has to release Nnamdi Kanu fiest n seek redress in a higher court. That's how democracy works. Once again I can't deny d fact that Onneghe is already in Buhari's black list especially acquitting Saraki of all charges against him when he was on sick bed in London. He played the politics, he got the chance he acted immediately, that's it. That's one of the 48 laws of power for u_crush ur enemy completely. Don't give him chance to fight back.

Peacecore:
I did not deny the fact that Buhari did not want the judge but my stand still remains that he obeyed court judgement. Onnoghe not Buhari should seek redress or stay of execution. Imagine a high court telling Buhari to immediately release Nnamdi Kanu. Do you think that Buhari will keep him and seek redress or go and get a stay of execution. I know even u will call him a tyrant, telling us how democracy has been bastardized under Buhari. If that happens, Buhari has to release Nnamdi Kanu fiest n seek redress in a higher court. That's how democracy works. Once again I can't deny d fact that Onneghe is already in Buhari's black list especially acquitting Saraki of all charges against him when he was on sick bed in London. He played the politics, he got the chance he acted immediately, that's it. That's one of the 48 laws of power for u_crush ur enemy completely. Don't give him chance to fight back.

I already gave you a vivid example. Let's move closer. When that high court removed umahi as governor for defecting, why didn't Buhari order the DSS and the police to bundle him out of Ebonyi govt house and advise him to approach the appeal court to get a stay of execution before he can be reinstated?
Buhari can keep Nnamdi Kanu while seeking a stay of execution in the scenario you painted. El-zakzaky was ordered to be released by the court but the kaduna state govt held on to him while appealing that judgement.

iiifedimma:
Please support our honourable Peter obi for the president's of federal Republic of Nigeria, we are tired of those thief's now,

Without a tribalism and nepotism any sane Nigerian know it's only someone like Peter obi that can now rescue Nigeria from total collapsing, but seriously some ethnic bigot people will just still prefer to hav their own man at the affairs of the country either he is capable or not than to go for what could have been the best solution to all nigerian's current problems, Peter obi2023 is certain

Bros get your pvc. Election can only be won at polling Station not social media.

Ojuntana:

I already gave you a vivid example. Let's move closer. When that high court removed umahi as governor for defecting, why didn't Buhari order the DSS and the police to bundle him out of Ebonyi govt house and advise him to approach the appeal court to get a stay of execution before he can be reinstated?
Buhari can keep Nnamdi Kanu while seeking a stay of execution in the scenario you painted. El-zakzaky was ordered to be released by the court but the kaduna state govt held on to him while appealing that judgement.

In Dave's case u mentioned, it's d main routine in that type of case. U don't remove a sitting governor, install n wait for him to get justice before reintation. This will alter the running of governance. What if he's removed by Tribunal, and he is replaced by the person that won in d court then appeal void the judgement n he's reinstalled again and after about two months supreme court removes him again n probably brings in d oda person. How do u think governance is going to be affected in dat state ? Brother man reason am. In this vein, I want to tell u that all cases aren't the same. There's no stay of execution when court others u to release anyone held in custody. If any govt holds d person back, it means that d person is flaunting d rule of law as in d case of El-zazaky as u stated. And mind u Buhari didn't order d DSS to remove Wike after 2015 election when Tribunal sacked him bcoz that's d normal course of justice. Wike got stay of execution until when Supreme court brought d whole case to an end. Now look at d case when high court tells one to pay damages to someone. What if the person pays d damages n finally wins d case in appeal court or supreme court. Should d person be paid back. In that case of Onneghe, I still maintain that Onneghe not Buhari should apply for stay of execution or redress bcoz d ruling favoured Buhari, d plaintiff.

Peacecore:
In Dave's case u mentioned, it's d main routine in that type of case. U don't remove a sitting governor, install n wait for him to get justice before reintation. This will alter the running of governance. What if he's removed by Tribunal, and he is replaced by the person that won in d court then appeal void the judgement n he's reinstalled again and after about two months supreme court removes him again n probably brings in d oda person. How do u think governance is going to be affected in dat state ? Brother man reason am. In this vein, I want to tell u that all cases aren't the same. There's no stay of execution when court others u to release anyone held in custody. If any govt holds d person back, it means that d person is flaunting d rule of law as in d case of El-zazaky as u stated. And mind u Buhari didn't order d DSS to remove Wike after 2015 election when Tribunal sacked him bcoz that's d normal course of justice. Wike got stay of execution until when Supreme court brought d whole case to an end. Now look at d case when high court tells one to pay damages to someone. What if the person pays d damages n finally wins d case in appeal court or supreme court. Should d person be paid back. In that case of Onneghe, I still maintain that Onneghe not Buhari should apply for stay of execution or redress bcoz d ruling favoured Buhari, d plaintiff.

Your scenario for Umahi can also be applied to the CJN. What if he appealed and the Appeal Court reinstated him after Buhari swore Tanko in. We automatically have two CJNs!!
If you don't remove a governor anyhow, how much more a CJN who is the head of the third arm of govt in the country?
First of all, be aware Buhari is not the plaintiff in Onnoghen's case. Only the CCB is empowered to take a case to CCT. No one else. The judgment was procured in the dead of the night and acted on with unusual alacrity by the normally sentient Buhari.
The fact is, for such a matter, if Buhari did not have any ulterior motive, he should have acted with restraint just he did in the matter of Wike and Umahi. His swiftness is ultimately suspect just as the court judgement is illegal.

Ojuntana:

Your scenario for Umahi can also be applied to the CJN. What if he appealed and the Appeal Court reinstated him after Buhari swore Tanko in. We automatically have two CJNs!!
If you don't remove a governor anyhow, how much more a CJN who is the head of the third arm of govt in the country?
First of all, be aware Buhari is not the plaintiff in Onnoghen's case. Only the CCB is empowered to take a case to CCT. No one else. The judgment was procured in the dead of the night and acted on with unusual alacrity by the normally sentient Buhari.
The fact is, for such a matter, if Buhari did not have any ulterior motive, he should have acted with restraint just he did in the matter of Wike and Umahi. His swiftness is ultimately suspect just as the court judgement is illegal.

It was not in his power to remove a governor sacked by d court, it's INEC's. Note in dat case, Tanko was on da seat on acting capacity until Onneghe went for that compulsory retirement. That's when his name was sent to NASS for confirmation. So there wouldn't have been confirmation if Onneghe had carried d case further but not so in d case of state governor. U should understand my stance. I didn't say that d judgement wasn't procured but Buhari made it look legally done. Any oda thing done behind d scene or he has in his heart against d CJN is what we don't know bcoz he can defend his action dat he acted on court judgement (enforcer of d law) transmitted to him.

Peacecore:
It was not in his power to remove a governor sacked by d court, it's INEC's. Note in dat case, Tanko was on da seat on acting capacity until Onneghe went for that compulsory retirement. That's when his name was sent to NASS for confirmation. So there wouldn't have been confirmation if Onneghe had carried d case further but not so in d case of state governor. U should understand my stance. I didn't say that d judgement wasn't procured but Buhari made it look legally done. Any oda thing done behind d scene or he has in his heart against d CJN is what we don't know bcoz he can defend his action dat he acted on court judgement (enforcer of d law) transmitted to him.

The court order already removed the governor. Inec's mandate is to give the new governor a certificate of return. But what would have given fillip to that judgement is if the security apparatus which the president controls immediately withdraws from the governor and the DSS informs him of the need to vacate the govt house by virtue of that court order. I hope to know the security of all government houses is under DSS.
You think if onnoghen is reinstated by the court, that automatically quashes Tanko's swearing in as Acting CJN? The position of CJN has to be declared vacant first before an acting CJN or new one can be sworn in. The CJN position was not vacant as at the time the the president sworn in Tanko.
The position of CJN is not so trivial that a situation that "looks legal" will warrant his removal.
The CJN is even higher in constitutional hierarchy to a governor, yet, you think it was ok to exercise restraint I'm the removal of a gov.
Bros, no matter how you try to paint it, what Buhari did was clearly illegal. He only scaled through because of Nigeria's broken system.
In a saner clime, he'll have a lot of explaining to do to the public and NASS.

U kept saying that Buhari should've order withdrawal of DSS n police attached to d governor. It's not done so bro. Was it Buhari that sworn in d governor (s) in d first place? Buhari can't oust a governor even from opposition bcoz he's sacked by high court or appeal court bcoz he lacks d power to do so. All d cases u see in d court does not take d same course that's y electoral litigation in Tribunal can last for maximum of 180days but u can't say that for other cases, say criminal case. So bro chill that's politics, and I d case of politics there's no mercy hence u can cling around d rule of law.

fergie001:
Electronic? NO, but some technology has been added to it.

thanks my man! But I sincerely hope this tech would not affect result tampering? Cos I don taya for this ancestor/landlord

HakiimAlvista:
thanks my man! But I sincerely hope this tech would not affect result tampering? Cos I don taya for this ancestor/landlord

Hahaha.....Rigging is very successful when people don't come out to vote.

Once there is very readiness to vote, rigging is minimal. So the questions is: Are we going to come out to vote?