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ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has asked the Rivers State election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja to dismiss five petitions challenging the election of Governor Nyesom Wike.
INEC also challenged the legality of the tribunal which, it argued, ought to conduct its proceedings in Rivers State in line with section 285(2) of the 1999 constitution, as amended.
INEC, through its counsel led by Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, raised preliminary objection against the petitions which were lodged before the tribunal by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside.
Aside APC and Peterside, four other governorship aspirants who are also at the tribunal challenging the declaration of Governor Wike as the winner of the election. They are Mr. Charles Harry of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Tonye Princewill of the Labour Party, Kemka Elenwo of KOWA Party and Minaibim Harry of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
They are separately praying the tribunal to nullify Wike’s victory on the grounds that the election was not only fraught with irregularities, but was conducted with total disregard to relevant provisions of the Electoral Act.
Meanwhile, challenging the competence of the petitions, INEC insisted that by virtue of section 285(2) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), under which the tribunal was established, “a tribunal sitting in Abuja cannot qualify as a tribunal established in Rivers State.”
INEC is further asking the tribunal to strike out the APC petition on the ground that some of the persons it alleged masterminded the rigging of election in Rivers State, among whom included wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, were not joined as parties to the suit.
Respondents in the petitions are INEC, Governor Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-gov-poll-inec-asks-tribunal-to-dismiss-petitions-against-wike/

Wike is a barrister, his wife a magistrate and Odili's wife a Federal Chief Judge. Amaechi is a 3rd class graduate of English after 6 years in the university, his wife a NOBODY! Never compare brains with dullards. Watch and learn from the boss who to Omehia to court onbehalf of the Ubima loose-nut, winning a sitting governor even as a nobody!

Why south-waste dullards like any Rivers thread?

OP, you are better dead than alive! Can I have your house address please? Be a man enough to pm me. I will take care of your misery before Tuesday!

cramjones:
Even after I clearly warned that this must stop you have the effrontery to call a sitting President of the largest economy in Africa, a brainless dullard? I can get the moderators of this site to ban you forever. Again, I repeat this must stop! Freedom of speech sure has its limits! You are crossing the line because you think you are "anonymous"? Again, stop this!

-CramJones

I even believe that he's a dullard and an old skinny illiterate. Deal with it!

Na Nigerian's de suffer am. The same set of mumu wey vote old illiterate

I hope the old illiterate is reading this!

the old illiterate and his family are 'no good!

The illiterate old one busy flying forever!

jemimaa01:
why don't I believe this story??

the spell, still strong on you!

nobosaba:
Stupid he goat... . Na you and your papa.. In fact your entire family that is mad. Bunkafool

jobless slowpoke, this your shitty story will not fly! try something else! Look over there, that's Amaechi in the dust bin!

Mad OP! If you believe this, I'm sorry for your parents!

Abooki girl sef de form dictator! spits on her face!

Brainless old illiterate foool, call your dogs to order!

komek:
Common go, carry ur Igbo sense and Biafra brain go Aba go stay. If Nigeria wants to divide u think any reasonable Niger Deltan will want to align with u? Kolo mentality

I prefer my ibo neighbors to a set of cow rearers whom I have no clue of where they fell from

chai! booooohhhariiii the illiterate old one!

The old illiterate

I guess it's because he's an old illiterate!

Ifeconwaba:
I still maintain that niger deltans are fools. They dont know anything. The north please do quick and milk that oil dry fast

Yorubas are what, northern a33 lickers? Say hi to your silenced osinbajo.

blackpanda:
Useless empty threats from greedy people. All the federal allocation they've been giving them, what did they use it to do?

why do you see it as a threat? ddoes it threaten your survival? A people's freedom threatens you? Remain in your folly and watch us move on.

I hate Nigeria and everything it represents. The thought that it even has an illiterate as president among sterling people is just unfathomable! I'm a Rivers man and prefer in all definitions to knit with the Ibos in Biafra than to associate with the people who have sworn to remain perpetually backward! If nobody talks about you, then you're nobody. Do an assessment, how many times do you read about events up north, compare with the number of times Rivers State churns up online, then you understand what I'm talking about!

seunmsg:
I think it's better to consolidate all the charges and prosecute one single case instead of two. PDP should stop spinning this story to look like Sylva has been left off the hook. He still has a case to answer before the federal high court.

since when did punch become a pdp press company? you Yorubas are impossible! defending sylva just because he alligns with apc

modath:
Trust breakingtimes.com to spin the story in a negative light to besmirch the APC/PMB

A part of the six count charge was withdrawn in order to CONSOLIDATE the existing charges

Why are you people like this Buhari knows there is no difference between stealing and corruption unlike your HERO,... Yes I said it, y'all can come out of the woodworks with your usual curses and abuses.

http://coretvnews.com/efcc-withdraws-suit-to-consolidate-charges-against-timpre-sylva/

it's not only to consolidate, how about releasingdate?

the old illiterate has gone awol

See as fashola, buhari and tinubu avoid this thread! smh for their empty-headed followers

jaybee3:
A doofus

lol, damn right. Amaechi with worst taste ever!

Udmaster:
Why are yorubas always on Biafran thread?

The urchins are just unbelievable!
Yoluba face your work eeeeooooo