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Another delegate to the recent PDP convention departs again?

Prof. Agbi was the chairman of the Elders Council of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State until death.

It was gathered that the late PDP chieftain was one of the delegates that attended the party’s National Convention held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State last Saturday.

chloride6:
Who writes a letter with two headings

The first one is not an heading.

TonyeBarcanista:
The Constitution is very clear, being educated up to secondary school level is enough, others are extraneous

Indeed they are extraneous. But what happens to the candidature of a person facing criminal prosecution with high probability of being convicted?

I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's a high risk. APC was smart enough to avoid this risk with Shittu in Oyo state.

globemoney:
You are indeed a blockhead. Electoral act is superior to NYSC act. INEC does not recognize NYSC.
SSCE is the educational minimum requirement required to seek election in Nigeria. Okonjo Iweala happens to be over qualified.
Pls don’t mention me again

The Electoral Act is not superior to the NYSC Act.

The Electoral Act as a law of the land does not invalidate other existing laws. Try and be informed.

If you commit a crime punishable by other laws, the existence of the Electoral Act does not preclude you from criminal prosecution.

obailala:
Being a graduate does not automatically make one a criminal simply because they don't have NYSC. I believe that is only necessary if you are vying for a position that requires your degree certificate (e.g. head of parastatals, public enterprises, civil service positions). If I dump my degree certificates and tender only my SSCE result as my highest qualification, I have no case to answer to anyone. This would be a very simple issue for the court to clarify if any so called political opponent decides to raise dust; this is very simple logic and the case would be thrown out sane day.

Kemi's case was different, she had a problem because she tendered a degree certificate and then submitted a fake NYSC document. She was simply bullied out of power. If she decided to fight it, she could have found a way out; just that the fake certificate made things a bit messy for her.

Your submission is incorrect if you put it side by side with the provisions of the NYSC Act. Reference a snippet of the Act posted below please.

0monnak0da:
13. Offences and penalties, etc.

(1) Any person—

(a) who fails to report for service in the service corps in the manner directed by the Directorate or as the case may be, prescribed pursuant to the provisions of this Act; or

(b) who refuses to make himself available for service in the service corps continuously for the period specified in subsection (2) of this section, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N2,000 or to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment

Wiseandtrue:
Kwakwanso shouldn't even be in the list of presidential aspirants in the first place!

Presidency is beyond regional politics!

The man will just turn the Presidency to a cult, where everybody has to be wearing a red cap up and down.

I think they are just trying to blackmail Atiku into ceeding the VP position to the Fayose/Wike bloc of the PDP.

TonyeBarcanista:
She only need to submit proof of being educated up to secondary school level.

obailala:
The minimum requirement to contest for elective positions or to be appointed a minister in Nigeria is WAEC result. If lack of NYSC certificate becomes an issue for those you listed above, all they need do is just present their WAEC results.

You are right. But what a smart opponent will do is just to instigate a case against them that they have committed a criminal offence by not submitting themselves for National service as demanded by Nigerian laws.

The outcome of the case is what will damage the affected person's candidacy.

TWOWAYMIRROR:
Sahara said "venue of the convention". I didn't see any poster from the venue from the ones posted above

Comprehension and herd mentality is a major problem in Nigeria.

Sahara reporters clearly mentioned "At the venue of the convention", and even gave vivid descriptions of the ones they saw, whereas, the herd members above kowtowed to the pictures of posters displayed at other places in the city.

Niyeal:
Yes.

I will explain at front page

Greatfuse:
Now this is i-pod thread, they have disappeared, all they keep searching for is post about SANWO-OLU AND AMBODE, get busy in the traffic and sell your gala jejely and leave our LAGOS alone

So many crack heads on nairaland.

pally123:
Which one is, "Rtd Hon" again, abeg

A former Speaker is referred to as Rt. (Right) Honourable, as against other members who are simply referred to as Honourable so and so.

Johnnyessence:
stop bringing God to it here, Akinwumi Ambode has even apologize unbehalf of his wife. don't you have forgiven spirit niiiii Hmmmmmmm.

Really? When?

That was a major drawback of the Ambode regime.

A lot of people condemned the action of asking the man of God to leave his official residence within 24hours. Imagine such callousness. A married man with children recently disengaged from paid service.

What an irony. It is now the turn of the Ambodes to be begging for mercy.

Boyooosa:
11 general hospitals already built by fashola and you still want to build more...why not upgrade the existing ones to sophistication and make them available / reachable while u focus on other sectors Mr Governor to be?

Bros we need more and Lagos has the capacity. The existing should also be properly maintained and upgraded as you said, but that is no reason not to build more hospitals. Each LCDA should have a big General hospital that can cater for thousands.

If you visit any of the existing hospitals, you will have pity for both the patients that are on queue for hours and for the overworked medical team.

Our Docs should not be running out when we have serious need of them here.

miqos02:
go and impeach him, na so impeachment easy? You forget he is the governor and the president is behind him. He can lock up the assembly, nothing will happen so long as the present police CP is in Lagos. Seems you don't know the power a sitting governor wields

A sitting governor has no power Oga. We were all in this country when a siting governor of a major state like Anambra was harassed and pushed here and there by some small boys.

Ordinary police commissioner, Mbu dealt with Amaechi.

Fayose was impeached and chased out of town by just one detachment of mobile police officers.

The CP of a state can be transferred by a signal from the IG of police.

The governor Does not have the right and power to lock down the state house of Assembly, this your idea is anti democratic and irritating.

Politics is local, Abuja has left Ambode to his fate, as it is obvious everybody in the local chapter of his party is against him.

Abuja can not force a candidate down the throat of an influential state chapter of a party. They can never behave like the PDP, that forces candidates on state chapters that even went to the extent of carrying out the primary election in Abuja.

Racoon:
This is an election petition tribunal for goodness sake.Oshiomole's case was reinforced by counting of the ballot during the Edo guber so what is the fuss about this
The counting would be done in court of course.Even if more evidence will be sought after or detected nothing amiss even as both sides sought to establish their cases.
The tribunal is obviously going bias in this regard.However justice will be served as when due.The higher courts are still there to adjucate on this matter. So no hiding place for anyone

The Tribunal said the PDP did not query the entire result in their petition as such they can't demand for a recount of the total number of votes.

They definitely can request for a recount of the polling units they challenged the result in their petition.

The PDP and it's legal team has made a mess of the case. Don't pass the buck to the Tribunal.

jerseyboy:
Confusion

Even though you are yet to confirm the authenticity of the news. Smh

Where is the source of this rumour?

shortgun:
Forget this useless argument...the law says you must have a minimum of SSCE to contest for the office of the president and Buhari doesn't have it. QED.
You can build mansions,buy jets for the family of a girl u r cohabiting with if u didn't pay her bride price she is not ur wife.
I don't know what u people gain by twisting facts.

...the law says you must be educated up to, not must have.

Buterflyle0:
100% confirmed . This was why I was laughing earlier.

Cc Gavelslam

Does that mean the number of PVC collections from registered voters released to the social media earlier is fake? Because this figure is higher than the alledged PVC collection.

Happy Birthday sarrki, God bless you.

Dont mind them, let them continue crying instead of preparing for the supplementary poll.

Continue running your mouth. You'll soon be humbled.

PDP supporters are hypocrites. If the reverse was the case, they would not be screaming all over the place like this.

This is a pure legal issue, I don't understand the sentiments at all.

Quidquopro:
Exactly!
The proper thing should be that a fresh election be conducted for the 2 leading candidates.

Unfortunately, that is not the position of the law.

What you are suggesting is alien to our laws. The goal post cannot be changed during the match.

Sodiq3:
But none of them won 20 local government areas out of 30. This means we will have rerun election now

No sir. A winner will emerge by:

1. Win by simple majority.
2. Have 25% votes in 2/3 local govt's (in this case, 20 local govts).

Good move!

olawalepopoola:
And they were the one to first cry foul in Ekiti. Kettle calling pot black

Don't mind them. They will soon flood the social media with cries of rigging.

See the faces of the PDP goons.