The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suffered another setback in its legal battle to get the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Governorship candidate, Patrick Tonye Cole disqualified from the 2023 gubernatorial election in Rivers State.


Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed PDP’s suit instituted against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC and Cole for want of diligent prosecution.

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1902/2022, PDP had asked the Federal High Court for an order setting aside the October 4, 2022 publication of names of Cole and APC from the list of eligible candidates for Rivers State gubernatorial election.


The party also sought another order prohibiting Cole and APC from parading or holding themselves out as eligible candidates for the March 11 Governorship election.


PDP claimed in the suit that the APC breached sections 285 (9) of the 1999 Constitution and 30, 32 and 73 of the Electoral Act 2022 by submitting the nomination form of Tonye Cole manually as against uploading through the online Nomination Portal of INEC as prescribed by law.

On the grounds of the alleged infraction of the Constitution and the Electoral Act, PDP demanded that both APC and its Governorship candidate be kicked out of the election in the interest of justice and fairness.


However, when the suit was called, neither the PDP nor its counsel was in court to argue the case and no information or excuse was offered for the absence.

Justice Ekwo while checking the case file discovered that PDP and its team of lawyers have been absent from court three times without any explanation.

The Judge said he deemed that PDP has opted to abandon the matter and that there was no compelling reason to allow the suit to drag any further.

Justice Ekwo subsequently dismissed the suit in its entirety.

Honjoshy4u:
Wike think say na 2019
Vote wisely by not voting anything APC

WelcomeToBiafra:
Nigerians are yet to identifying their true problems as Nigerians. Look at how their politicians are using them to catch funs during elections, after election, their politicians will just disappears till the next election year.

EnglishUsa:
I want tinubu to take over this country and create his own hardship so that yoruba people will continue selling their lands to us. if you create hardship for us we don't have any choice then to make the place will live comfortable and reduce our expenses. we have 30% of their land in lagos and from now till 30 years time we will turn them tenants. if house rent in lagos is 50,000 igbo man will not think of buying land but, if they create hardship and house rent starts increasing igbo man will buy land and build house to make him/ herself comfortable and they can never retrieve the lands we bought. just be smart let tinubu enter you will benefit from their stupidity.

Zulum500:


Fake news 🤣😁🤣
Thooonndeeer faya alaigbo piglets

ecolime:
However, when the suit was called, neither the PDP nor its counsel was in court to argue the case and no information or excuse was offered for the absence.

Justice Ekwo while checking the case file discovered that PDP and its team of lawyers have been absent from court three times without any explanation.

The Judge said he deemed that PDP has opted to abandon the matter and that there was no compelling reason to allow the suit to drag any further.

Justice Ekwo subsequently dismissed the suit in its entirety.





Wike now supporting APC full throttle. What a shame!

EnglishUsa:
I want tinubu to take over this country and create his own hardship so that yoruba people will continue selling their lands to us. if you create hardship for us we don't have any choice then to make the place will live comfortable and reduce our expenses. we have 30% of their land in lagos and from now till 30 years time we will turn them tenants. if house rent in lagos is 50,000 igbo man will not think of buying land but, if they create hardship and house rent starts increasing igbo man will buy land and build house to make him/ herself comfortable and they can never retrieve the lands we bought. just be smart let tinubu enter you will benefit from their stupidity.

ecolime:
However, when the suit was called, neither the PDP nor its counsel was in court to argue the case and no information or excuse was offered for the absence.

Justice Ekwo while checking the case file discovered that PDP and its team of lawyers have been absent from court three times without any explanation.

The Judge said he deemed that PDP has opted to abandon the matter and that there was no compelling reason to allow the suit to drag any further.

Justice Ekwo subsequently dismissed the suit in its entirety.





Wike now supporting APC full throttle. What a shame!

Hendrixky:
The daily things alone we see every seconds in the streets is more than enough for tinubu and Apc not to get a single vote in the entire country
A friend of mine in Zimbabwe said the whole Africa is watching us and this is the time they are going to know if we are educated the way we really claim to be

That the situation is very clear and obvious that we are not in-between the devil(tinubu) and deep blue sea( atiku)
That what we have on ground now is a situation of in-between the devil and redemption( obi)

And this is the time for us to vote wisely and show to the world that we are smart people
The world is going to see Nigerians as fools if we allow Apc and old, sick and unfit tinubu to rule us again

Because as at the time Buhari was sick and travelling for medical attention we all was clamouring for him to hand over to a healthy and vibrant Osinbajo. We regretted our action of being stupid to elect a sick old man

But now we have a vibrant and healthy Peter obi contesting but why some people because of tribalism wants us to install tinubu again knowing fully well that the world will mock us. The world knows that Buhari is even more healthier than tinubu

The worse part of it is that the pain and memory of the incessant travel for medical check up by Buhari is still very fresh in our mind. not like it happened 20 years ago. It just happened yesterday..

pansophist:
Of course, I know. I have always said earlier that what Africans considered independence was a transition of the old method of exploitation (colonialism), to a new, self-sustaining, sophisticated method of permanent subjugation (imperialism). They replace the white colonial faces with black faces, whom they promise all the support and will ignore all their crimes if they continue sustaining all their exploitative structures that were built in the colonial era. So as countries were getting their so-called independence, they were ushered into western imperialistic ecosystems. So they became a member of the UN, and ICC, must use the dollar, imposed educational systems, their corporations coming in to control their resources, (eg Shell and Nigeria oil), and so on. In simple terms, think of how a butcher moves the cows from the farm to the slaughterhouse. In the cow's mind, he is free from the enclosed farm, but the slaughterhouse though modern and shiny with machines is worse than where they were coming from. You see the way the US froze billions of dollars of Afghanistan's foreign reserves, and as they did with Russia as well, that's exactly the fate that awaits any country that tries to pull off their imperialistic eco-system. While we are busy fighting each other like idiots, they are up there designing sophisticated systems to keep others down, and themselves on top. And this world order must go, or else, the global south will never develop. China refused to be part of that system, now look at them. Iran refused and was sanctioned to death, but they still thrive and built their own planes and so forth. Until we leave western dependence and walk our own part, no magic Peter Obi will perform. It's like putting a pilot in a ship, it can't do anything with it. How can the world be democratic when less than 15% of the world population (the west) controls everything? if this is not authoritarianism, then what is authoritarianism? But I always take responsibility, so I won't blame them much, I blame our ancestors for letting this degrade this badly, and makes it harder for current and future generation to solve. The rot is too much.

pansophist:
Josep Borell is a racist piece of shit. Sadly, this scum is a top EU politician, and calling the non-western countries jungle is a reincarnation of the mindset that led to colonialism and slavery pro-max. He still sees the world from a colonial lens, but his arrogance is needed since that's how he can cope in a changing world that is increasingly becoming multi-polar and catching up. From 1991 to 2022, something that has never happened before in the history of the world happened, that thing is called unipolarism. After the collapse of the soviet union in 1991, China was dirt poor, imperial Japan has been defeated and occupied, the same with nazi Germany, India still recovering from British colonialism, Iran was in deep soup, and Africa was too backward to even be noticed. The west, especially the US was the largest economy, and the strongest military power holds the world's reserved currency and enjoys an unparalleled political, economical, military, and soft power globally. The US was so strong that when it coughs, the world shivered. And then they showed themselves. Then the global bombing tour started, from Iraq to Syria, Venezuela to Yugoslavia, and Libya to Iran, to name a few. Meanwhile, the Chinese who have suffered what they called a ''century of humiliation'' was in the background bidding their time, getting stronger, and building themselves up. The Chinese who lost territories the size of Nigeria x4, an empire nation that was torn apart by foreign powers, and saw what awaits you when you are weak, said to themselves, NEVER AGAIN. Putin was then a KGB agent in Germany, young and smart, but silent and working his way up into the Kremlin. He witnessed how countries that used to be part of Russia have now become sworn enemies of Russia, and he dreamt of a stronger, independent, and sovereign Russia that occupies its rightful place on the international stage. And February, 24th of 2022 will be remembered as the date when the world becomes clearly multipolar, after thirty years of failed unipolarism. The world has clearly understood the kind of monster the west is, and how they dream of a world where everyone is down, and only them up. Now, the way the international stage is set up, other stronger countries are now a deterrent, and they will never allow themselves to be weak again. NEVER. It will not happen very fast, but the complete breakdown of western hegemony will happen faster than the time it took to build it. Destruction is faster than building, and destroying evil is even faster, especially when the destroyers are the victims of the very evil. I know the Russia-China alliances are cooking something, I suspect that they have set traps that will render all western imperialistic ecosystems useless. From my calculations, the more the west throws out a country from its imperialistic systems, an alternative will be invented that will make that system useless. So for example, they threw Russia out of swift, but Russia created SPFS which they used to carry financial transactions between themselves and other countries. If they threw China out of the UN for example, then a new UN that is fair will be invented, rendering the western controlled system useless. If you refuse to sell your tech, buy our oil, or ban us from visiting your countries (as they did with Russians), you will kill your industry and other regions will benefit financially from your market loss. One thing that kills a monopoly is competition, especially competent competition. We live in very interesting times. Brace up, shit might get really bad before it gets better. Sha have proper wealth, not fiat money only, which can collapse. Have farmland, a water well, and livestock/poultry, these will keep you alive, not chains, iPhones, and paper money. Your survival is in your hands, not the government. Be vigilant, and use the internet to learn real stuff and how the world works, not just for social media and entertainment.

ajimo54:


Poor man! So there is hardship in Lagos? You are only creating enemies out of your friends! Why did Peter Obi not fix Anambra so u people can go back home? You people have created more enemies more than friends thinking your tribe is the wisest in Africa!