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fammo:
Hmmmm, are they sure?
Some Nigerians just hoarded and sold subsidized fuel to fellow Nigerians at N400 per litres and the regulating bodies looked away. That to me is the Height of corruption at various levels.

That is an unfair criticism of the DPR. They have been sanctioning erring stations via free fuel distribution and seal up.

It's just that they don't have the manpower to be covering every inch of the country at everytime.

It is our people that are just being greedy and wicked to their fellow citizens.

This is where the regulator should come in actually, but the greed and wickedness is so widespread that it is beyond the workforce capacity of the regulator to tame.

It is also in this country that PMB tried to use the DSS to curtail the activities of this economic saboteurs when he first came in and he was abused and tongue lashed for using DSS after erring fuel marketers.

The CJN dey vex oh. He said

"No political will to prosecute high-profile corruption cases"


The CJN will likely use Saraki as a scape goat as regards the statement above.

Saraki's legal team has already boxed themselves by asking for a full panel of the supreme court. And it is most likely it is the CJN that will head the panel.

hedonistic:
Of course he came in with his own deputy, Tele Ikuru. But that is even beside the point. The fact is, he took his party hierarchy to court and fought them to a standstill until the courts proclaimed him governor.

Tnx for the info. I've been wondering.

Respecting party hierarchy does not mean one should keep quiet like a dullard when one's right is being trampled on.

I like Amaechi a lot for that. I also support Faleke on this. The case will even help strengthen our democracy and the legal aspects of it.

hedonistic:
Following your argument, Rotimi Amaechi would never have been governor if he had meekly towed the party line instead of vigorously pursuing his ambition in 2007.

Pls about that Rotimi Amaechi case. When he came in, did he come in with his own Deputy Governor, I mean did he nominate a fresh deputy on assumption of office? Or he carried on with the Deputy to Celestine Omehia?

The Government is actually trying to curtail the activities of these marketers. And all hands must be on deck to make this work.

The DPR needs to deploy more of their staff for monitoring and enforcement.

God bless Mr. President! Keep making Nigeria proud.

starG7:
Let me make one point clear here, tinubu should be politically wise enough to understand tha igala is majority and if they pullout of apc the party will crumble into a quagmire of its own making...as simple as dat

The major contender, this Bello guy is not Igala for your information he is Ebira.

Pavarottii:
My brother 49k can vote. Get ur info right b4 coming here.

The 49k cannot vote, only 35k has PVCs among them. It is you that needs to get your facts right and not the guy.

seunmsg:
You really need to understand the Taraba case before referring to it. PDP have no valid candidate in that election. They never participated at all in the election. And please note, winning a primary does not make an aspirant a valid candidate before the law, he must also choose a running mate and both of them must be presented to INEC within a stipulated period before their candidacy can be valid before the law.

As regards Kogi, the issue of having a valid primary before the law is to determine the candidate. In this case, Audu is the candidate and that is not in dispute. The law also provides for the candidate to choose his own deputy who will contest jointly with him. Without the deputy, his candidature is invalid irrespective of whether he wins the primary or not. So therefore, whoever he so chooses as his deputy is assumed to have jointly emerged from the primaries with him and will automatically step into his shoes when situations like this arises.


That Yahaya Bello participated in the primaries as no legal significance since he was not the winner. Faleke was validly nominated and he should legally step up and inherit the mandate since the election process as commenced already.

God bless you. This is so on point. I didnt even realise you have replied that person before writing my own response. Exactly my thought to this same poster.

felalegend:
Wrong analysis there. A deputy never participated in primaries thereby making him ineligible to stand in the run off. Had the election been conclusive then Faleke would have simply mounted the saddle. PDP will oust Faleke legally based on the Taraba case.

By the virtue of being the running mate of Audu, the prerequisite of participating in primaries does not count. The constitution has mandated the person who won the primaries to nominate a running mate.

There is a reason the constitution mandated the person to nominate a running mate before his candidacy can be deemed to be valid. A running mate is a spare per adventure anything happens to the principal.

The Taraba case you are citing as an example is still before the Appeal Court and may even go to the supreme court for judicial pronouncement, so you cant use that as a justification just yet. Moreover, you are not looking at the core details of that judgment, but just picking the peripheral.

One thing you supporters of the 1st runner up in the primaries fail to realize is the constitutional provision I stated above which will be very difficult for the Bello guy to meet.

According to the 1999 constitution as amended, the candidacy of a party flagbearer to contest can ONLY be valid if the person nominates a running mate.

There is no way the guy can nominate another person for that position, his hands are already tied by circumstances.

Although, he may later claim in court that he nominated Faleke after he was pushed forward by the party, but that will be too cosmetic and cannot stand any legal scrutiny as Faleke was already constitutionally nominated by Audu and his nomination to contest as Deputy Governor still subsists and as such, another individual cannot claim he nominated HE whose nomination is still standing and very much valid!

This Faleke guy has a good case.

Correct! The man is already battle weary. I'm sure he may not pursue the election again to the letter.

JuanDeDios:
I don’t think she wrote any of those for public consumption. Yes, there is statutory rape essentially.

I guess u didn't read her tweets? She used that word to describe when he had sex with her.

This guy that talks northerners down, now wants to use IDP camp for political birthday jamboree.

God is watching u oh

Hmmmm I thought u re a political analyst.

Well from my own opinion, they had a relationship, a very steamy one that ended at the detriment of the girl.

And she is still very bitter and angry.

Sometimes some ladies especially those ones u took their virginity can be crazily in love with someone.

They can also be obsessively in love, which I think is what happened in this case.

The lady obviously was obsessively in love with the guy and threw everything at him.

TonyeBarcanista she may be right that she was gang banged, but I can validly assume that she must have willingly participated in at least one o*rgy before the guy will be forcing her to participate in others.

Youths having access to cool cash and liberty can be extremely wild.

The guy and the lady obviously had a wild intimate relationship, which resulted in the lady being in emotional bondage to the guy. The guy, as usual with most spoilt brats then took advantage of her and started treating her like dirt.

The lady being an obsessive lover, took the dirt thinking "if that pleases the man I love, then I can take it".

At the end of the day, the guy jilted her in a way that left her emotionally devastated. Jilting an obsessive lover can be traumatic, infact they may kill in anger sef or commit suicide.

She is angry and bitter and unable to get back at the Audus due to their influence in the society.

This must have made her even more bitter.

She now lives in the US, land of equity and justice. And her eyes are fully opened with realisations that she was abused!

This is with respect to her age then, but had the guy not jilted her, this would never had come up.

She wants her own pound of flesh and has fired the first shots.

But I must let her know that this is Nigeria, except she has all her facts intact, Nigerian guys cannot be easily intimidated.

When the Audus decide to fight back and open their own can of worms, I hope her family will not suffer greater embarrassments.

Of course the show has just began, she fired the first shots at the Audus using their real name while she used an alias that sounds even somehow. The Audus are now prepared to take on her back and has revealed her real name.

One thing is sure, the Audu guy may be guilty on some fronts, but this lady equally played along until the relationship was broken. Imagine a lady trying to describe sexual encounter with a guy to the public using a phrase like "he fvck.d me". Her usage of that word alone will make a lot of people in this our society to doubt the 'young innocent me personality' she is trying to sell to the public.

I'm not a lawyer. Someone pls tell me if we have anything like 'statutory rape' in the Nigerian criminal laws. No bashing pls. Just want to know if for sure we also have it in our laws.

TonyeBarcanista:
Wow, so many judicial manipulations behind the scene

I tell you Bro. Things dey happen for this country.

The youths go just dey internet dey rake for themselves.

Hmmmmm.....I dont even know what to believe. But the fact that you met with the man and the supreme court retired justice is suspect.

This guy must be really lucky to be made chairman of CCT at age 36.

Naturespearlz:
Na only one boat and one helicopters dem buy?!??!?!?!!!!!!

Two boats and 2 helicopters.

Though not sufficient, but its a good start.

hush15:
Greed and selfishness can destroy much. Presently, Faleke is a current serving member of house of rep but that's not enough.

I still maintain that the easiest solution to all these quagmire is to declare the next candidate with the second highest number of votes the winner. To many issues will suffice and by the time all the court process serves everyone, Wada would have almost finish his second tenure if not the entire second term sef.

Wada can never be sworn in for an election he lost. Whoever person APC presents will be sworn in while all other parties continues their court case.

After the plethora of court cases has been resolved by the supreme court, if the verdict is not in favour of the siting governor, it is then the person can step aside in accordance with the supreme court ruling.

The Trent is a PDP propaganda blog.

PDP is evil. They are trying to incite a tribal crisis in Kogi between the Igalas and the Yorubas there.

This tribal politics that is the hallmark of the PDP; we thought they would have changed from the embarrassing defeat they suffered in the last general elections.

Despite all the tribal inclinations they threw into the 2015 general elections, they lost woefully.

They have started again, never learning.

martinsoche:
so INEC want a new primaries but don't want a new election, this APC govt are really showing that their have federal power to manipulate everything now , pls oooo this is not the promise u guys promise us.....

You guys need to comprehend properly before talking. INEC never told APC to organize another primaries. They only told them they have the right of substituting their dead candidate.

There is nothing like primaries in the statement issued by INEC.

INEC is also very smart and deliberately remained silent on that. They only told APC to substitute their candidate, it is left for APC to do so in accordance with extant laws.

phrancys001:
Bet you the bello guy wouldn't become Governor,it's simple arithmetic bello is from central senatorial and faleke is from west senatorial just wondering those making those impossible permutation have not consider what happens to east senatorial which hold 65% electorate votes ? #fearigalao! Or else another corpse is in the making very soon.

Oga APC has already technically won the election. This supplementary election is just an academic exercise just like the one that happened in Imo state during the general elections.

The total number of registered voters where the supplementary election is to take place is 49,000 while those with PVCs are just 25,000.

while APC is already leading with 41,000 votes.

So you see.... APC has already technically won.

Sundaypyro247:
Heard about the latest F-35 currently used by U.S Airforce? About the Lockheed martin and NASA's scram jets currently under development ? Check them out and see their capabilities

NOTE THEY ARE ONE OF FEW COOL NEXT GENERATION WEAPONRY U.S IS DEVELOPING SECRETLY CUS THERE ARE PROBABLY A 100 ADVANCED STUFF THE U.S KEPT SECRET

UNLIKE THE RUSSIAN CONSTANT SHOW OFF

US does more show off than Russia and China. US ultimately lacks the power of secrecy.

No need to reply him, he'll soon put himself in trouble.

makzeze:
my boss approved a memo for me to travel for an assignment in order to compensate me for my hard and extra work. but the memo is approved as a backup to enable me claim the money but not to travel out.

is this religiously allowed?

Be careful oh. It can still be used against you later. Anything that makes you collect that money, ensure you travel pls.

Stoical:
This is my humble reasoning on this issue and please do not attempt to insult me, as I have a right to reason and I ain't quoting you.

The AGF might say what he said because he has to be in the good book of his masters...however, in doing this, he may have misled INEC who is supposed to be independent both in its decision making and actions.
What I see here is that after this unfortunate event, INEC should have made a pronouncement but they remained silence until the AGF spoke. Meaning, they were not sure of what to do, as such need the guidance of AGF and not necessarily their legal team(I might be wrong). As such, they are now seen to be partisan. I felt they should have gone to the court for immediate interpretation cum judicial pronouncement on a matter as this'd which the 2 constitution they are guided with had not envisaged and as such never spoke on.

This case should not be compared with Amaechi's even though it looks so close. The 2 events here are very different. What might make them seem close is the fact that the party is often accepted to be the one that wins and not the individual. But, I'll say that different strokes shouldn't be use for different folks on similar/almost similar scenarios; a case at hand is Gombe election petition tribunal which gave PDP victory to APC on account that PDP primary was not witness by INEC, rather than give PDP a chance to conduct a fresh primary, just as the are giving APC now in Kogi. Smh for Nigeria shaa.
I will want to ask some of us, if they would have voted for APC if Tinubu was its flagbearer (no pun intended). I believe party is a platform, but it is the individual that we all voted for, as such I believe also we will never vote for a party who doesn't present a candidate, even if INEC allows them to stand in for election, reason being that we may not like who they will bring up later...

As for Kogi, with the inconclusive result thus announced, APC/late Audu led and it is understandable when APC insist on substituting its dead candidate. But, would that person be who the Kogians actually would have voted for? A question that begs an answer from Kogians. Well, however it turns out, I feel APC will still win even with a re-run, because the citizens are tired of Wada's method of governance

I just feel that the supreme court may overturn this case or probably uphold it, as they are judges that know better than I do, especially if they are nonpartisan.

Sorry for the long writeup, but I couldn't have summari summarized my point earlier...comprehend and give me your own view...

Well you have some points. Relying on the opinion on the Attorney General is not as bad as you painted it. It is the fault inherent in our system that is making it seem so.

The AGF is that of the federation and not of the APC and the legal opinion of that office on matters is quite very reliable. The major issue here is just that it is the government of the day that selects the Attorney General of the Federation.

The last senate tried to separate the Attorney General of the Federation from the Minister of Justice but GEJ would have none of it, infact he filed a suit against the National Assembly before the supreme court on the matter.

Now going to the supreme court as you said, INEC cannot just approach the apex court for interpretation on a matter. It is an abuse of court process. Parties to a matter cannot just jump at the Supreme court that they need an interpretation.

The person that can approach the supreme court is the AGF and he stated that in his capacity as the AGF the issue is straight forward and does not require any special judicial interpretation.

The next line of action for any dissenting opinion is to go to court. simple

ShowYourCertificate:
But are you also aware that fresh primaries cannot be conducted to select a candidate while elections are still ongoing? Audu and Faleke shared a joint ticket, why didn't INEC allow Faleke (the legitimate ticket holder in the ongoing elections) conclude the race?

That is not my point and what I looked at.

This issue has to be taken step by step in order to identify where there is lacuna of the law.

As of now, there can not be a fresh poll according to the provisions of the constitution. There is no lacuna or ambiguity in that. INEC according to the constitution cannot cancel the result of a poll it has already announced. That is the position of the law. Death or no death, it stands! All the local government results announced so far stands! The constitution has already bound the hands of INEC in this regard.

So for certain, INEC has to conclude the process. Otherwise any fresh poll conducted will be a nullity.


This brings us to the 2nd issue on who now flies the APC card as it has been established that INEC has no option but to conclude the process.

You may be right on your assertion that a fresh primary conducted at this time may be an illegality. That is why INEC in its wisdom did not tell the party how to go about substituting its candidate. INEC merely told the party that the right of substitution belongs to them as they MUST conclude the election process given the provisions of the law.

The ball is now in APC's court on how to take an action that will be in tandem of the law.

In your own opinion as you said, a fresh primary is an illegality, I lean my argument in your direction in this regard as well.

My own opinion is that the Deputy should fly the flag while the party fields the person that emerged runner up in the election as the Deputy.

This will be a win-win situation for the party.

If the court later rules Faleke out of order, he will simply revert to his Deputy Position while the runner up who went in as Deputy takes over as Governor.

baralatie:
Inec and the agf will have to explain the constitutional powers they have to substitute a candidate name in an ongoing election of which the same inec said it is unconclusive

Didnt you see the relevant laws quoted by the AGF? How come you are not quoting an opposing law?

The power to substitute a candidate rest with the party according to the electoral act.

The power to conduct election rest with INEC according to the constitution.

The power to cancel an election result already released rest with the Election Petition Tribunal according to the constitution as well.

gare:
If you have a brain and you are not baised, you would understand what Metuh is saying, you can't at this substitute another person half way into the election, either it is done before the election. You can't have two governorship candidates for one elections, are you now saying PDP can change its governorship candidates?

What INEC ought to do is to cancel and call for a fresh elections or give it to pdp, this are the lapses in our constitution we ought to look at, not insulting ourselves every now and then

You guys are incredible! Go and study the constitution and the electoral Act, INEC CANNOT cancel the result of an election already released!

The power to cancel any result released rest only with an election petition tribunal. Once INEC announces a result, INEC cannot do anything or take any action on such a result again.

All the local government results announced so far by INEC stands. INEC cannot cancel them or even say they want to correct a mistake. INEC has no right whatsoever on those local government results. It is only an Election Petition Tribunal that can take action on those results earlier announced by INEC.

ODUBEZE:
Truly, it is absurd!
Many voted for the candidate not the party. Now that the candidate voted for is gone, a fresh election or the next candidate with the higher score should be ushered in!
AUDU should not be usurped!

Many may actually vote for the candidate as you said, but the law is not sentimental nor is it emotional. It has clearly stated that the party is the owner of the votes. This position of the constitution has been emphasized by the Supreme Court on many cases.

You also fail to realise one point when you said a fresh poll should be conducted.

The point is that INEC under the constitution does not have the right to cancel an election it has already released the result!

It is only an Election Petition Tribunal that can cancel the result of an election that has been released by INEC.

End of story

Barcanista I thought you are a blind PDP follower.

adadadon:
don you understand English
1 Faleke is not qualified because he did not participate in the primaries
2 A Primaries was held and a second position emerged
3 Audu/faleke ticket is not yet elected

1. The mandate Audu got at the primaries has been handed both to him and the Deputy by the virtue of him selecting Faleke as his Deputy.

Looking at it at another angle. After emerging the party's candidate, authority has been imposed on him by the party to make certain important decisions. One of such decision is the selection of who succeeds him per adventure he is unable to discharge the duties of the party's candidate (As a governor) and he selected Faleke.

That decision is binding on the party. Take it to any court.


It is not only through primaries that a party can present a candidate.

A candidate can emerge by General consensus of the party as was the case in Benue state, which PDP challenged at the tribunal and lost, and even challenged at the appeal court and still lost.

2. There is no where it is written in all of our laws, that if anything happens to the flagbearer, that the person that emerged 2nd during the primaries should be handed the mandate.