₦airaland Forum

IconicR:
This political hushpuppy still ranting. Obi is just her cash cow, she couldn't have her way with our amiable president and she quickly ran to Obi to share in the looted Anambra state money

Omoawoke:
Your brothers are in Malaysian cells on death row for drug pushing

We know which tribe is notorious for drug pushing, human trafficking and baby factory

chidiokay:
Small of you just talk shit, why your own papa no work hard make e buy Nigeria for you

SweetCunt97:
That was how one of my great aunt was against having kids out of wedlock and well, marriage didn't come either. She lived a lonely life that drove her insane sha, she died last month with no kids.

Jennyclay:
I can never date a guy earning 60k salary.

God forbid it!!

ezenwaez:
According to Npower news, nasims dashboard for Npower batch c under stream 2 has been updated, Npower batch c should kindly login into their Npower portal to access if the update has reflected on their nasims dashboard.

Lotanna2:
Atiku failed to bring CSU to testify during the case,he failed

MASTAkiLLAh:
At this stage, I implore president Tinubu to shame all his haters by allowing his University release his records once and for all so he can focus on governance

seunmsg:
It was widely reported so what’s there to argue about?

The academic records from the Chicago State University, 12 documents in all, were certified on June 28, 2023 by Jamar C. Orr, the Associate General Counsel, Office of the Legal Affairs, Chicago State University.

Also tendered are six copies of documents relating to immigration and visa records of trips made to the US by Tinubu between 2011 and 2021, among other documents.

drlateef:
Very senseless statement coming from nkpurum mirin brain. If you don’t know anything, keep quiet. Or go back to your oshodi under bridge to sell your gala.,

limeta:
Yoruba APC propaganda has become an instrument of self hate and self harm .

seunmsg:
A sensible person should know by now that Tinubu has nothing to hide. The same school wrote to the presidential election tribunal confirming that Bola Tinubu actually attended the university and graduated with honors. They even released the certified true copy of his academic records signed by their legal officer to the tribunal including a new certificate that was reissued. So, what exactly are you sore losers still looking for?

Warldbest:
APClite, just to lure the youths.
2days to next election they will still merge with APC

Penguin2:
Prof Niyi Osundare boldly lampoons and ridicules Judges And NJC in an illustrative poetry entitled:

*My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe*

https://twitter.com/justsociety4all/status/1681248190618583040?s=46&t=2AB_wrBea-oBYJf5ZCFV-A[/quote]The title should be Nigeria and "The Temple of inJustice” By Prof Niyi Osundare. The judiciary is as corrupt as the executive arm of government. Who will save NIGERIA

Mr Seun, if you are not benefiting from Nigeria democracy kleptocracy, this thread have to hit front page.

Cc Mynd44 OAM4J nlfpmod lalasticlala

kettykings:
If this is the problem you have with igbos then believe me the problem is not igbos but your insecurities. We have had many non igbos come out on the public media and make noise , nobody told them anything, oba of Lagos. Mc oluomo Asari Dokubo, wike, elrufai, tunde bakare , FFK etc , no body dragged them and it is igbos you want drag

DeadCountry:
Ohhh yes, because you have no more reason to call our lad barren, right? Ntoooorrr!!!

qwertyuioplm:
Atiku and kwankwaso did why is tinubu having pride to wish his biggest rival , thought he doesn't play politics of hate ?

OyemiA:
All I know us that God Almighty will remember this country one day

“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.

Sharpsharp00123:
judiciary don’t need your trust

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 presidential election and now President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmedu Tinubu, stirred the hornet’s nest recently when he cautioned the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, against attempting to remove him from office on the grounds that he did not get 25 percent of the total votes cast during the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

He warned that such action could lead to chaos and anarchy in the country.

President Tinubu asked the election tribunal to dismiss the petition seeking the nullification of his election for not securing 25 percent of the lawful votes cast in the FCT, arguing that having scored 25 percent in about 30 states of the federation, his failure to obtain 25 percent in the FCT would not be strong enough to deny him of his hard-earned victory.

Tinubu contested the February 25 presidential elections on the platform of the APC and was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after polling 8,794,726 votes to beat his closest rivals, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 6, 984, 520 votes to place second, and Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, who came third with 6,101,533 votes.

However, Atiku and Obi had approached the election tribunal seeking to upturn Tinubu’s victory on the grounds that the elections were characterised by massive rigging as evidenced in the alleged widespread voters’ intimidation and suppression, ballot box snatching and destruction, over-voting, results manipulations, thuggery, vote buying, INEC’s failure to abide by its own rules and procedures, physical assault on voters, among others.

Apart from these, Atiku and Obi also want Tinubu’s victory to be nullified because he did not score 25 percent of the total valid votes cast in the FCT, which according to them, is a constitutional requirement before anybody can be declared president of Nigeria.

Since Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of that election, political discussion has been swinging like a pendulum. Nigerians, who prior to the elections were passive politically, had suddenly become active, discussing and analysing political developments from the election tribunal.

Analysts are united in agreement that never in the history of Nigerian politics has there been the kind of political awareness and participation that were witnessed during the 2023 general elections.

They also agreed that the country’s political firmament has never been as charged and ominous as it was between the period when Tinubu was declared the winner of the presidential election and May 29, when he was actually sworn in as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

However, Atiku and Obi have pursued their case at the election petition tribunal with each presenting before the tribunal pictures, videos and documentary evidence to prove that Tinubu should not have been declared as president in the first place, not to talk of swearing him into the office.

The issue around Tinubu’s failure to get 25 percent of the votes cast in the FCT appears to be the strongest point against the president since it is a constitutional issue and does not require presenting any witness by the petitioners.

But Tinubu, through his legal counsel, Wole Olanipekun, in a final written address to the tribunal against the petition, argued that the FCT is the 37th state for electoral purposes. He stressed that any other interpretation would “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.”

Stressing that the petition is novel but not familiar with the electoral law, Olanipekun said: “The issue in this address is very novel in the sense that it is not a petition stricto senso, familiar to our electoral jurisprudence, as the petitioners are not, this time around, complaining about election rigging, ballot box snatching, ballot box stuffing, violence, thuggery, vote buying, voters’ intimidation, disenfranchisement, interference by the military or the police, and such other electoral vices.”

The lawyer was specifically addressing a section of the Nigerian Constitution, which provides that a presidential candidate must score 25 per cent of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Since Tinubu was declared as the winner of the presidential election without scoring 25 percent in the FCT, several opinions have been expressed on the matter by Nigerians of all classes, including those that are not lawyers.

There are those who have kept on insisting that the constitution considers Abuja as one of the states in the country. Those on this divide are saying that the word, ‘and’ as used in the constitution, ‘36 states of the federation and the FCT,’ does not really mean that the FCT is different from the 36 states of the federation. To them, the FCT is just the same as any other state of the federation.

They, therefore, posited that Tinubu, having scored 25 percent of the votes cast in about 30 states, is eminently qualified to be declared president since the constitution said a candidate must secure 25 percent in two-third of the 36 states and the FCT, which is 24 states.

MiztaDynameek:
I saw a news on front page were Atiku stated that Peter Obi inspires him and I was reading the comments with so much joy until I realized something.

How many people noticed that Peter Obi has only been inspiring failures all along?

Check all those that are hailing in that post, they are all failures.

Look at Atiku himself, failure all round.

Now look at the celebrant himself, ALFA FAILURE trying to claim manhood from third position.

TemplarLandry:
PDP & LP's petitions will be dismissed. Take note of this.