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CyberWolf:
This shows the level of damage the north and their slaves in SW has done to this country. Imagine a Judge behaving like an ignorant morron before the whole world. Nigeria is doomed with these kind of imbecciles heading our judiciary..Though I don't give a Bleep about Saraki, but his lawyer is just exposing how incompetent the Judge is...SMH ...A case as simple as this?...The ediot that calls himself CCT chairman don't even know his left & right regarding the law..

Dont be carried away by sweet talking and seemingly compelling arguments from Lawyers. They are paid to do that. Some of them have been doing that for ages.

That lawyer despite his smooth talk was wrong on the issue of quorum. Check the CCB and CCT Act.

Victor Mathias ‏@victor_mbidi 10m10 minutes ago
Lawyers will always be lawyers. They only interpret the law to suit he who pays them. #Saraki #CCT #AssetsDeclaration

FreeGlobe:
Justice Danladi Usman of the CCT should be arrested asap for contempt of court. Justice for Saraki

Why not wait for details of the ruling before spewing trash?

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So sorry people, this news seem to be false. Its a propanganda sent out to pre-empt the decision of the Appeal court.

@Bukola Saraki has just made this request to the Appeal court. The Appeal court has not yet ruled on the matter.

Breaking News: Appeal Court stops Saraki’s arrest


The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has stopped the proposed arrest of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The Tribunal had on Friday issued the order for Saraki’s arrest for failing to honour its invitation.
The Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, had directed the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to effect the arrest of Saraki and produce him before the Tribunal on Monday (today).

As at Sunday, the police said it was yet to receive official communication from the Tribunal for Saraki’s arrest.
Details of the ruling of the Court of Appeal would be available on this news website soon.

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/breaking-news-appeal-court-stops-sarakis-arrest/

urchmanx:
From your comment you talk like a kid with tantrums and bipolar. We are talking about the current SP which constitutionally he is not wanting in his legality as a senator. So who is being a clown. All this jambites that has opportunity to access internet. Just the fate that we are on the same forum doesn't make you talk to people like that. You can make your argument without insulting one. While I didn't respond to kids like you.

Try and read what u wrote again and tell me if it makes sense. Your construction is terrible. You this Boy grow up and learn, before u start dabbling into political issues.

urchmanx:
That's for the correction away but calling me kids it's just out of line, because you didn't know anything about me. Probably when I stated using internet you were still in primary school. Back to the topic. The only constitutional means of removing the SP is through impeachment except you know other means which amount to witch hunting and blackmail to force him to resign.

Being a kid is not only a function of age. Your utterances, thought pattern and actions can depict you as a kid.

You talk like a clown. When did u start using the internet? From the womb I guess.

Impeachment is not the only way to remove a speaker. Consult the constitution, you'll find grounds in which a SP can vacate office. The court of law can also vacate the election of a SP that was not constitutionally carried out.

Rexology:
There is no judgment from both court yet. Since you did not see any conflict, I rest my case.

Correction, there is no final judgement of the substantive issue yet. But both has issued judgement on different sundry issues.

Rexology:
Cant you see the comflict between the Tribunal and the Federal high court? what happens to the order earlier given by the federal high court before the tribunal 'hurriedly' issued that order? why would the Tribunal Chairman still go ahead to issue that order when Saraki's councel ( Joseph Daudu, a well respected SAN )promised to stake all his reputations to provide Saraki on Monday?.
That order cannot subsist because there is already a comflicting order between the court of equal jurisdiction,therefore its only the Appeal court that can settle this comflict and that is why uptil this moment the IG of Police has not received such order officially to that effect. That Tribunal order is inside a trash bin. I am rather an advocate of Justice, equity, fairness and rule of law not a fan of Saraki.Many people on this forum comment out of hatred for Saraki for reasons best known to ALL.

There is no conflict whatsoever. The judgement of the high court is very different from that of the Tribunal. You may refer to my earlier post on same issue.

Write the judgement of the high court and write that of the tribunal and tell me where the conflict is.

neocortex:
What "swing" population made Buhari won ?
You must be living in Jupiter, if you believed Tinubu's 600,000 votes
got Buhari the Aso villa.

There is no point asking questions you already have an answer to.
Even many blacks that were staunch pro-republican switched their
allegiance to democrats just for Obama's sake.

I simply asked what percentage are American blacks and Latinos, u could not provide a answer but delving into ambiguities.

The votes were not Tinubu's. They were Buhari's.

Buhari got massive support in the NW and NE.

Jonathan got massive support in the SS and SE.

The swing votes came from the SW and NC, which Buhari won.

Those are the votes that got him to Aso Rock and also ensured he got the constitutional 1/3 votes in at least 24 states.

He never won these regions in the previous elections and that was why he never won.

No matter how u spin it, that is the cold truth. Buhari himself knows this, including Jona.

Jona realised this quite late into the elections and that was why he wanted to buy the SW votes through the Obas he was dishing dollars to. The attempt failed woefully.

youngeagle:
and him buhari didn't do the same.....that took him months to arrange his false declaration of assets.....why is saraki the only politicians among all that declared the only prson d want 2 bring down....gullible sets of people

Let me educate u a little. There is difference btw declaring ur assets to the CCB and the public.

Public officials are to declare their assets before assuming office. What PMB just did is to release the content to the public. He has declared it way back before assuming office.
Kindly take note.

Actionleap:
Most people are even missing the main point. The CCB CANNOT institute a case against anyone without an attorney-general.
APC desperation is to remove Saraki before presenting their ministerial list to the senate for confirmation. In fact, I think it is part of the delay tactics of Buhari not able to appoint his cabinets 4months after being sworn in as president. The lynch mob won't listen to voice of reason now. All they want is bailing for blood. I am beginning to feel we are back to the days of militocracy...

You are still behind. A supreme Court case law of 1983 has been used to settle this. If I see it later I'll cite it for u.

neocortex:
Stop pretending to be a saint, because the poster said the obvious truth,
there is a reason why people support their own and it happens everywhere in
the world. Even Obama will never have reached the white house if the blacks and
the Latinos weren't sentimental.
You only accuse people of being sentimental when you are not in any way affected.

Tell me the population and percentage of black/latino Americans that got Obama there??

The baseline is that there is a population that has a swing advantage and is only concerned with competence. It is this same swing population that made Buhari win the presidential election.

seunmsg:
There is quite a lot of confusion about this CCB and CCT of a thing and the media people reporting this matter are also creating lots of confusion. All the same, by Monday, we will see clearly the parties that will appear before the FHC. But I very much doubt if the CCT chairman will appear as a party before the FHC. It is just like asking the chairman of an electoral tribunal to appear before an high court to defend why he wants to hear an election case brought before him.

Yes na. The action of the high court is quite laughable.

chukwudi44:
Bros i already did or cant you read again? Naptu first posted it and i had to repaste it here again because of you

I'm still reading, will get back to u shortly.

chukwudi44:
This is not about what a lawyer said but rather what the constitution says!!! The CCT is not a superior court of record and cannot claim equal jurisdiction with a superior court of record

Then show us the section of the constitution that says it!!!

Is this so difficult??

The 1999 constitution is readily available on the internet. Even your Agbakogba and Adeboruwa found it very convenient not to quote the relevant section of the constitution /statute/case law their argument relied on

chukwudi44:
Go back to page 1 and read the section of the constitution naptu posted. Agbakoba is right, the CCT is an inferior court to the FHC

I said u should give us the legal document/constitutional provisions for us to read and digest ourselves.

We are not illiterates, we can read and understand. You are not an illiterate as well, so you don't have to rely on what another person said to argue your point. Give us the real legal document.

How come the only two lawyers Thisday interviewed argued in favour of this. How come it's only this two lawyers whose interpretation of the law is usually skewed towards the PDP that was asked for their opinions. Are they the only constitutional lawyers in Nigeria?? If Thisday wants to be balanced, they should have interviewed at least 4 renowned constitutional lawyers.

seunmsg:
The FHC actually asked all the parties involved to appear before it on Monday. The parties in this case are the office of the Attorney General of the federation and Code of conduct bureau (prosecutors) and Bukola Saraki (accused). The CCT will not appear before the FHC as they are not a party in the matter. We should be mindful of the distinction.

I get your point. But pls read the submissions of the high court properly. The CCT chairman is among those it summoned.

This is an excerpt of the Thisday newspaper report

The CCT commenced the trial of Saraki despite a Federal High Court ordering the chairmen of CCB, CCT and a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Musiliu Hassan to appear before it on Monday to show cause why Saraki's ex-parte application should not be granted.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/facing-arrest-saraki-cites-politics-in-ccb-prosecution/220612/

chukwudi44:
The CCT chairman made reference to the high court's judgement and claimed coordinate jurisdiction which is wrong since the CCT is an inferior court of record to the FHC
I can bet you that the arrest warrant issued by the CCT would definitely be quashed by the FHC

Tell us where u got the information that the CCT is an inferior court?? Pls don't quote some charge and bail lawyers, give us documents that we can all see and digest with our senses.

jlinkd78:
Real reason why legal practice is really a professional course, one interpretation by an authority like Agbakoba is about giving Saraki a lifeline. I wont be surprised if Saraki survives this banana peel and probably have d last laugh n d cct chairman who is probably smiling now begging. Am yet to hear Ekweremmadu input being a revered constitutional lawyer. If it is established dat d FHC is superior to d cct in anyway, then d Saraki team can argue contempt charge against d cct chairman for not respecting d FHC decision to wait till Monday n u know d FHC case can drag up to d supreme court. Though I wud v loved Saraki to go to prison cos of his stupendous acquisition of wealth but d brazen manner a comatose CCB suddenly became over-lively shows there is more to this than meets d eyes.

They don't interpret court pronouncements the way you are doing. You are making assumptions for the High court judgement.

The high court never told the CCT to quit it's proceedings till Monday. They simply told the CCT to appear before it and give explanations why they should not grant Saraki's Exparte application.

It is not a difficult thing for the High court to grant the Exparte injuction Saraki sought for, stopping the entire proceedings of the CCT.

The high court wisely did not grant this injection, but simply asked the CCT to appear before it. These orders are very different in the legal world.

Asking the CCT to appear before it to make clarifications can never be interpreted legally as ordering the proceedings of the CCT to stop. The legal team of Saraki really goofed on this one.

Rexology:
It has started... Saraki had already approached the Appeal court to set aside the order of the tribunal.

The order is still subsisting and he'll be arrested if he tries to evade the tribunal on Monday. He is trying to abuse the court process, and the appeal court will embarrassingly put him in his place. But before then, he has to appear before the CCT, or he risks being arrested.

Rexology:
PMB is neither the head of Judiciary nor a Military ruler to just give "nods"as it pleases him.
Just watch as the events unfolds, then you can either prove me right or wrong. I rest my case.

If the Inspector General of Police has reason to arrest a High Profile Individual, he will definitely want to know the disposition of the president to this.

Rexology:
This can be likened to someone that is stil live and some persons are planning his burial. Saraki will not be arrested, on Monday his team of Lawyers will go to appeal court to vacate the 'bench warrant' on Saraki citing the case he had earlier instituted against CCB and others.
You can take this to the bank.

How can you go to the Appeal court on a case yet to be concluded? If he doesnt appear in person at the Tribunal, he may be arrested. Especialy if PMB gives the nod. He will be promptly arrested, and there is nothing anyone will do about it.

From the look of things, Senator David Mark may have to prepare for another election. This Onjeh guy seems to have pursued his case to a very logical conclusion



Afam4eva, OAM4J, Lalasticlala, your attention is needed

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He looks cool and may turn out to be a very responsible senator. But that is left to Benue peeps to decide, if indeed a re-run is ordered.

[size=13pt]Petitioner asks court to nullify former Senate President’s election[/size]

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/petitioner-asks-court-to-nullify-former-senate-presidents-election/

Makurdi – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 28 senatorial election for Benue South, Mr Daniel Onjeh, has asked the Justice Mosumola Dipeolu-led National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi to nullify the election and order a fresh election.

Onjeh said this on Thursday during the adoption of the final addresses of all the parties in his petition challenging the election of Sen. David Mark of the PDP in the election.

He said that the result forms produced by INEC did not reflect the actual votes cast during the senatorial election in the zone.


The petitioner tendered several relevant documents, including his written statement, on oath and certified true copies of result sheets from the nine LGAs to prove his case.

In his submission, counsel to Onjeh, Mr Tunji Oso, alleged that Mark was prophetically declared the winner by INEC while collation of results were still ongoing in seven local government areas of the zone on March 29.

Oso further alleged that there was no evidence of holding of election or collation in 107 polling units across the senatorial zone as form EC8A (1) for the said polling units were not produced by INEC.

He submitted that the results of seven local government areas, Agatu, Obi, Okpokwu, APA, Ado, Ogbadibo and Oju which were proved to be collated on March 29 could not be part of the votes upon which Mark was returned since he was declared winner on March 28.

He urged the tribunal to expunge the votes of the identified local government areas from the total votes of parties where Mark supposedly polled 99,538 votes while Onjeh polled 50,115.

Oso pointed out that votes were only validly collated in Ohimini and Otukpo local government areas where Onjeh polled a total number of 16,033 votes while Mark polled a total of 27,137 votes.

The Petitioner’s counsel insisted that more than half of the votes cast and more than half of the polling units where elections were supposed to have been held were vitiated and invalidated.

He, therefore, urged the tribunal to nullify the election and order for fresh poll.

Oso noted that it was a settled law that where more than half of total votes cast or half of total polling units is vitiated, the tribunal ought to nullify the entire election.

However, counsel for Mark, Mr Kenneth Ikonne, urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition, arguing that all the allegations in the petition were criminal in nature and the onus rested on the petitioner to prove it.

Ikonne said the petitioner alleged irregularities, malpractices, allocation of votes, multiplication of figures, over-voting, over accreditation, concoction of results but failed to prove his case.

Counsel for PDP, Mr Chris Alechenu, aligned himself with the submissions of Ikonne and also urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition.

The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Mosumola Dipeolu, commended the parties in the matter and informed them that judgment date would be communicated to them through the tribunal Secretariat.(NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/petitioner-asks-court-to-nullify-former-senate-presidents-election/

Flets:
Before the noise, let's clarify somethings

This project started early engineering in 2012 and progressed into proper r execution in 2013 by three major EPC contractors

This project will add 65KBD only at ppeak production envisaged for 2016. Early wells are producing 10KBD as at today

Thanks to GEJ who insisted that all major fabrication be done in-country despite efforts by the contractors to move it in their home countries. Nigerdock, Aveon, Globestar etc were key beneficiaries.

The local content is a major achievement of the GEJ era that I cannot fault. It is of immense benefit to the country.

disloman:
Bro!U know shit.U want to compare d current running thru high tension wire to d one supplied into d house?Do u know d amount of current ur body can tolerate?Bro!stop lying.

It is you that actually don't have knowledge about this. Why not make your findings before spewing trash.

This one you are screaming stop lying portrays you as an unintelligent person. An intelligent person when confronted with facts will counter it wt valid points. Moreso when even given a similar case study.

How come u fail to pick where I said an electric current can only shock when it flows from a body to the earth.

Exercise your brain Kid.

disloman:
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Bro!u can lie oooooo.Devil sef go dey fear u ooo.

That u don't have knowledge of something does not mean u should be accusing another person of lying.

I have done a lesser one myself as demonstration during my undergraduate days to show that electric current can only run through a person that is earthed.

I placed a blanket on a plastic chair, I then stood on the blanket on the plastic chair and touched a live wire. I didn't feel any electric shock despite the current in me. I asked my spectators to use a tester on my body and the tester showed light, even though I didn't feel any electric shock.

What made this happen? It is simply because I was not connected to the earth, a person feels electric shock just becos the current flows through the body to the ground. When the connection to the ground is taken a way and the current is not extremely high to the point of arcing, the person will not feel an electric shock.

Although I have never tried that of the mains homes and shops connects to. But as I mentioned earlier, I have seen an electrician that touched it with his bare hands and there was light, and he was not electrocuted. You can make your independent findings about this, and the come back and apologise to me.

Based on my background I didn't attribute what the electrician did to superstition or funny assertions that he held his breath. It was simply because he was well disconnected from the earth. He was midair resting on a perfect non-conductor.

disloman:
B4 any work bn carried out on high tension wires,Power will have to bn switch off.With ten gloves,U will still b electrocuted.

I have seen an electrician touch a high tension wire with current flowing through it with my own eyes and he was not electrocuted.

TonyeBarcanista:
This article was written to justify PMB's stoppage/suspension of the 2nd Niger Bridge project. We have serious challenge in this country. Since coming to power PMB made sure that he set aside some funds for the rebuilding of the North East. But he was quick to cancel/suspend the 2nd Niger Bridge project after N10billion has been released as part of the FG obligations all in the guise of 'the project was overpriced'. How can one compare the 2nd Niger Bridge project that with the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge that wasn't built to carry heavy-duty trucks? Since time immemorial the eastern people have been advocating for this project but someone just wake up to reverse/suspend it. We are all aware of the Lagos Rail project reversal by Buhari during his military regime.

Anyway, we shall watch to see whether the FG will reproduce a better deal and get the contractors back to site.

Typical PDP supporter, putting a little bit of ethnic sentiments in your response to garner support from the tribalists.

Typical Barcanista, already making wild allegations in write-up, but now trying to somewhat portray a balanced opinion in the closing to fool superficial readers.

I have been wondering if it was actually you that was back, but your pathetic writing patterns of mixing half truths, making wild baseless allegations and then asking rhetorical question to seem unpartisan has convinced me you are one.

In some instances to justify your highly biased opinion, u put some references containing only part of the entire picture. Chai, keep wallowing in the exhortation of 'only' your gullible party members.

Your writings show u intend to do only one thing, sway opinions in any way possible. You already have the xters of the Nigerian politicians our generation will do away with. A typical political jobber. If you have a political ambition which I guess is your ultimate aim, you have to stick to justice and equity and mother nature will favour u at the right time.

But trying to play on the intelligence of people will not get u anywhere.

Back to d matter, it is a silent truth that the bridge is too expensive and skewed to the detriment of the Country in the way the contract and concession was packaged. Any patriotic citizen will support the review being carried out by PMB on the concession.

And why should it be the second major bridge that connects the SE to the rest of the country that should be tolled??

Is any other major highway tolled in the country??

Are we saying given the strategic and economic potential of the SE, the FGN under Jona cannot afford to build d bridge for the total amount of 117 billion??

Have u even tried to think it out, that the excess money on the subsidy fraud of 2012 can easily pay off this bridge??

I'm sure if it is PMB that plans to build an entry bridge into the SE with the mindset of tolling it, the whole news media will be bubbling with criticisms upon criticisms on why PMB is doing that out of hatred and wanting to hold d SE region down, and that this is non-existent in any other part of the country.

But what do we have from u guys as regards this project, silence, silence and even unreasonable support for it.

May God open your eyes.

There was no election in Rivers. Let everyone go and prepare for a fresh election.

Well, bigotry and chronic political partisanship seems to be a better motivator than sound reasoning.

No matter the points and valid reasons brought forward, they will never listen, they will never agree.

I'm afraid because they are also kind of passing this across to some hardcore PMB supporters thru their hate of him.

Since they have decided not to see reasons, they constantly attack and vomit virtuperations on PMB based on false info, silly info, half-truths and real truths in some instances.

Supporters of PMB wants to have his back, and provide him with the moral support to succeed, and are also gradually being radicalised supporters of PMB who doesn't want to see any mistake done by him.

This negative chain may continue this way. Only God can break Nigeria from this vicious cycle.

Why is Wike releasing press statements about a case in court? This man is just too crude. Who does he think he is, declaring that a witness is lying. This is highly extrajudicial and he should be called to order.

The people that even wrote the release for him are as dumb as he is, trying to use a fact-finding mission embarked upon by the INEC Commissioners sent by Jega during the presidential election to justify a gubernatorial election conducted a week after.

Just go to Court and defend yourself. Simple.