According to section 77 of the INEC Electoral Act 2022, each political party SHALL make their register available within 30 days before primaries, but SHALL in this legislative intent does not have fixed or inflexible meaning.

Its statutory provision here directs a manner of conduct to guide officials, and hence, maybe given a permissive or directory interpretation.

Distinctively, SHALL is never "mandatory" in this context. On this bases, APC's defence/response to Obi's petition is flawed.

The Constitution requires a candidate to be SPONSORED by a party, but there's no prescription as to the age of your membership for you to be validly sponsored. Once the candidate is duly designated (primaries or concensus), s/he's good. PO could have joined LP the day of primary.

On his relationship with PDP and LP, I'm just sitting here laughing like Lafia. 😂🤣

The meticulous man he is, PO had everything planned & sceneriazed to perfection, as even APC acknowledged in their response:

1. Resigned from PDP 20/05;
2. Joined LP 27/05;
3. LP primaries 30/05.

Summarily, APC don't have the locus standi on the issue of how long Peter Obi had been or should have been in LP before his nomination.

APC is a very funny party.

Interesting times ahead

It is clear that tinubu and lawyers have no answers to the prayers of PODATTI.

Stop twisting, allow the courts to interpret,

Power South2023,

Obi the peoples Choice,

BAT emilokan

SadiqBabaSani:
Stop twisting, allow the courts to interpret,

Power South2023,

Obi the peoples Choice,

BAT emilokan

Twisting what?

APC asked the court to dismiss the suit on the ground that Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, lacked requisite “locus standi” to institute the petition because he was not a member of LP at least 30 days to the party’s presidential primary to be validly sponsored by the party.

It said: “The 1st petitioner (Obi) was a member of PDP until May 24, 2022.

“1st petitioner was screened as a presidential aspirant of the PDP in April 2022.

“1st petitioner participated and was cleared to contest the presidential election while being a member of the PDP.

“1st petitioner purportedly resigned his membership of PDP on May 24, 2022 to purportedly join the 2nd petitioner (Labour Party) on May 27, 2022.

“2nd petitioner conducted its presidential primary on May 30, 2022 which purportedly produced 1st petitioner as its candidate, which time contravened Section 77(3) of the Electoral Act for him to contest the primary election as a member of the 2nd petitioner

This is were obi case will end, he was not qualified to contests in the first place, I love the fact that APC has taken Obi back to PDP where he belongs.

When Labour Party finally get a true presidential candidate, they can then come back to challenge Tinubu.

Shall in law means must. Mandatory.

There are Supreme Court references for this.

Hahahaha terrorists criminals are now interpreting Nigeria laws to Nigerians

AcuraZDX:
According to section 77 of the INEC Electoral Act 2022, each political party SHALL make their register available within 30 days before primaries, but SHALL in this legislative intent does not have fixed or inflexible meaning.

Its statutory provision here directs a manner of conduct to guide officials, and hence, maybe given a permissive or directory interpretation.



The Constitution requires a candidate to be SPONSORED by a party, but there's no prescription as to the age of your membership for you to be validly sponsored. Once the candidate is duly designated (primaries or concensus), s/he's good. PO could have joined LP the day of primary.

On his relationship with PDP and LP, I'm just sitting here laughing like Lafia. 😂🤣

The meticulous man he is, PO had everything planned & sceneriazed to perfection, as even APC acknowledged in their response:

1. Resigned from PDP 20/05;
2. Joined LP 27/05;
3. LP primaries 30/05.

Summarily, APC don't have the locus standi on the issue of how long Peter Obi had been or should have been in LP before his nomination.

To your mind APC don't have locus standi on how a party choses his candidate (even when such process is against the electoral act), you can say that before the election but post
- election they have a say , since both parties are now direct competitors.
So many instances abound.

To me the letters in the electoral act are clear. Its says 'not leads than 30 days' and not 'at least 30days as petitioned and interpreted by the APC lawyers. Let's see court interpretation, because the two sentences are not the same

AcuraZDX:
According to section 77 of the INEC Electoral Act 2022, each political party SHALL make their register available within 30 days before primaries, but SHALL in this legislative intent does not have fixed or inflexible meaning.

Its statutory provision here directs a manner of conduct to guide officials, and hence, maybe given a permissive or directory interpretation.



The Constitution requires a candidate to be SPONSORED by a party, but there's no prescription as to the age of your membership for you to be validly sponsored. Once the candidate is duly designated (primaries or concensus), s/he's good. PO could have joined LP the day of primary.

On his relationship with PDP and LP, I'm just sitting here laughing like Lafia. 😂🤣

The meticulous man he is, PO had everything planned & sceneriazed to perfection, as even APC acknowledged in their response:

1. Resigned from PDP 20/05;
2. Joined LP 27/05;
3. LP primaries 30/05.

Summarily, APC don't have the locus standi on the issue of how long Peter Obi had been or should have been in LP before his nomination.

If Obi was not a confirmed and shameless political prostitute, we wont be talking about dates he jumped bed from one party to the other. He should bear the brunt of his political prostitution in court.

Confusion in the enemy camp.

INEC claims Electoral Act does not make upload of result mandatory.

INEC claims Electoral Act makes upload of results mandatory

AcuraZDX:
APC is a very funny party.

they are more of childish and foolish set of old men

AcuraZDX:
According to section 77 of the INEC Electoral Act 2022, each political party SHALL make their register available within 30 days before primaries, but SHALL in this legislative intent does not have fixed or inflexible meaning.

Its statutory provision here directs a manner of conduct to guide officials, and hence, maybe given a permissive or directory interpretation.



The Constitution requires a candidate to be SPONSORED by a party, but there's no prescription as to the age of your membership for you to be validly sponsored. Once the candidate is duly designated (primaries or concensus), s/he's good. PO could have joined LP the day of primary.

On his relationship with PDP and LP, I'm just sitting here laughing like Lafia. 😂🤣

The meticulous man he is, PO had everything planned & sceneriazed to perfection, as even APC acknowledged in their response:

1. Resigned from PDP 20/05;
2. Joined LP 27/05;
3. LP primaries 30/05.

Summarily, APC don't have the locus standi on the issue of how long Peter Obi had been or should have been in LP before his nomination.

In legal use "SHALL" carry a demand to oblige or comply.

Yes, Obi could join in morning and party hold primary in evening, no problem. The moment it is contested, then the rule of compliance must be adhered to.

APC is not contesting it, even though they have locus standi to do so.