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WorldRichest:
This WorldRichest one is not mentally unstable.

With the Labour Party closing its case against President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential election Tribunal, one of the spokespersons for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Tanko Yunusa in this interview with MAYOWA SAMUEL, expressed hope that the justices will give their judgement based on facts, rather than technicalities. Excerpts:

The Labour Party has closed its case against President Bola Tinubu at the Tribunal. What’s your perception of the proceedings since it started?

We’ve been able to substantially prove that the election wasn’t conducted according to standard. We put the premises of our challenge on two grounds which were his non-qualification and double nomination.

We also submitted 102 pages of statements on oath. We also presented boxes and tons of proof that the election wasn’t done based on standard and it negated every normal rules and regulations stipulated by INEC.

The judges have taken all of our evidence as presented to them. We’ve brought knowledgeable people, statisticians, including Amazon whose representative came in to give testimony as regards how the election was wrongly conducted.

In fact, we concluded by saying that there were no glitches and there were 18,088 blurred results that were transmitted on the IREV.

I can also tell you authoritatively that in Unit 020105003, in Adamawa State, Demsa Local Government, Dong Ward, in Ngbekendewe Primary School, what you’ll see there as I speak to you, is a passport picture of somebody we don’t know.

There was no result uploaded, only a picture. Those are the things they said were allocated to Nigerians.

As far as we’re concerned, we’ve been able to prove our case beyond reasonable doubt and we’re expecting that the judges will take a critical look at all our submissions and not base it on technicalities or frivolities but look at the substance of what’s germane which are facts, for us to annul this election or declare us the winner.

Talking about Amazon, remember the INEC Chairman, Professor Yusuf Mahmood, after the February 25 presidential election, defended his decision not to adopt the electronic transmission of results, saying there were glitches. But at the tribunal, an Amazon representative dispelled that claim. How do you react to this? Do you think Mahmood was lying to favour a particular candidate?

The truth about it is that, when you know you’ve missed the goal post the way it was supposed to be, you try to shift it, so that it can meet where you’ve kicked your ball.

That’s the way I can explain this because they are the ones that made the rules and publicized the rules, they told every Nigerian that they’ll go by the rule according to what they stipulated, they made it clear, only for them to, after the election, change the rules.

No, it doesn’t work like that. Not anywhere in this world does it work like that. So, for us as we speak today, it’s our judiciary that we hope and believe will do justice to this case and ensure that the mandate of the people is returned to them.

How do you react to the counsel of the respondents always opposing evidence presented in court?

“We’ve been able to substantially prove that the election wasn’t conducted according to standard. We put the premises of our challenge on two grounds which were his non-qualification and double nomination”

You could see that they were saying that they should be allowed to do their job, which is what they are being paid to do. What they are being paid to do is everything that they have to do to justify their payment. That’s the way I can see it, as regards to what we saw. They are lawyers, and that’s what they are paid to do.

The respondents will start their defence on July 3. What are your expectations regarding the outcome of the tribunal?

I expect that they’ll bring out facts of the matter, if they have, for us to cross examine and fire back. If they are true with what they present, we’ll look at them. I’m sure our lawyers are equal to the task to deal with all that they submit.

Bearing in mind that the courts have made controversial judgements in the cases of Ahmad Lawan and Godswill Akpabio, who is now Senate President, what’s your level of confidence in the justices at the tribunal?

My confidence is in God, that He’ll breathe into the judges for them to save this country. Because the danger of taking a wrong decision on this matter has far reaching negative effects on our democracy, and it will send a wrong signal to the younger ones that they don’t need to follow rules and regulations for them to contest elections. Anyhow they can get any position; they should just go and get it. That’s what this may end up, but God forbid.

We hope that the rules of laws of engagement, law and order as enthroned by the preaching of democracy, will be in the minds of our judges to do the right thing for the interest of our country and our democracy.

What’s the mood of Peter Obi right now, in your own perspective?

I’ve never seen a man that sounds so pumped up despite all the negative attacks that they’ve sent to him.

He still remains resolute and determined to continue in his quest to have an egalitarian society and a better Nigeria than what we’ve been having.

I’m so proud to work with him and I’m very proud that he’s working for the interest of the Nigerian people. I feel content that we have a man in him that’s ready to face all the odds.

Gani Fawehinmi used to say stand for the truth, even when you’re standing alone. In this case, Peter Obi is not standing alone because he’s leading as one soldier that believes that Nigeria must change for the betterment of the Nigerian people.

Calls have intensified urging your principal and Atiku to withdraw their petitions against Tinubu at the tribunal. How do you react to that?

That’s because they know things weren’t done rightly. They know they came to take this presidency from the back door, that’s why they’re looking for alternative dispute resolution. But they say he who seeks for equity must come with clean hands.

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign in the February 25, 2023 election, has raised alarm over attempts to alter the original results of the Federal Capital Territory to satisfy sinister motives.

Manager of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze subsequently warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC against tempering with IRev as it concerns the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

He said this in a tweet on Saturday. Obaze said that intelligence reaching the Campaign office shows that INEC is trying to yield to pressure to tinker with the results of some states including the FCT to enable the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to be in good standing.

A statement from the Obi-Datti Media Office signed by its Head, Diran Onifade, quoted Obaze as saying, “According to our source, INEC is tempering with the machines used in the election to adjust FCT results to give the APC candidate, the much-needed 25%, which he did not get as per the initial INEC declaration and for which he is being challenged at the Presidential election tribunal.

“It’s not clear how the Electoral Commission can brazenly carry out such bizarre action but given the abracadabra they did to announce the APC Candidate winner by 4 a.m., there is nothing to be taken for granted.

“Mr. Obaze warns that INEC and the ruling APC may be taking the adherence to the rule of law and due process disposition of Nigerians in general and the Obidient Movement in particular for granted, but it would be courting catastrophe for them to want to pour salt into an open wound inflicted on Nigeria’s electorate.”

Obaze, a retired United Nations diplomat reminded INEC that what they are trying to do is tantamount to raising a dead horse and that whether reports were fake or real, the commission should know the level of public confidence in them has long been eroded

Mayeldah:
Ndi 'men are scum' crew are now rushing a Lagos scum just because he has small change

Just get money, some yoruba women are just very cheap

Felabrity:
The only guy standing with atiku

The rest have left him behind especially the lousy omockery

The Peoples Democratic Party on Friday fielded Senator Dino Melaye as one of its star witnesses before the Presidential Election Petitions Court sitting in Abuja.

Melaye testified against the Independent National Electoral Commission, President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The PDP and Atiku Abubakar’s lead counsel, Chris Uche SAN announced his portfolio as National Collation Agent for the party, businessman and politician.

Adopting his statement on oath, Melaye said the final results declared by INEC Chairman, Yakubu Mahmood, was wrongly computed and announced at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, adding that he refused to endorse the results.

Under cross-examination by INEC’s lawyer, A.B, Mahmoud SAN, he said most of the PDP agents did not sign the polling unit Form EC8As across the country.

Mahmoud asked him to tell the court all he knows about electoral procedure of the 2023 presidential election.

Melaye said he knows the electoral procedure based on the fact that he was one of the lawmakers who put together the Electoral Act at the National Assembly.

He noted that the sequence of 2023 election involves sorting, collating and announcement of results after which it is uploaded to the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IREV, before the presiding officer can proceed to the Ward collation centre.

“You stormed out of the National Collation Centre Abuja before the end of the collation process,” Mahmoud asked him.

“In protest of the fraudulent activities at the National Collation Centre, I left,” Melaye responded.

Tinubu and Shettima’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi SAN, asked the senator if the failure to transmit results to IREV can change the results already recorded on Form EC8A, to which, he said, “It will not, in an ideal situation.”

Melaye admitted that he did not state what he found to be the actual scores of Atiku in his statement on oath, saying he briefed the party’s statisticians.

“Which law designates IREV as a collation centre?,” Olujimi asked him.

The senator replied saying IREV is not a collation centre but it is part of the process for the conduct of the 2023 election.

He was asked by the legal team of APC if he mentioned the areas in Kano, Borno and Lagos states where he claimed in his statement that there was alleged malpractice and violence.

The senator, however, said he did not mention the places categorically.

The senator was eventually discharged from the witness box by the five-man panel of the court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani.

After that, the PDP lawyer, Uche, disclosed that he received some electoral documents from the INEC Chairman following a subpoena against him.

Some of them were Form EC8As in respect of Nasarawa state (13 LGAs).

helinues:
Go to Court

jadajada:
remove Ganduje out of the list, he is more Liberal than the rest

gidgiddy:
Kanu is in prison for what he believes, he is a prisoner of conscience

South South and North Central are nothing but mere geographical expressions just like Nigeria

At least Kanu wants referendum so people can choose their destiny. Nigeria, North central and South South were all created without consent and people lumped into them without any referendum.

iammo:
Except Judges and District Attorney or Attorney General are elected nothing would change

I can't nominate you to bench and you mess up my case

Famous Nigerian social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has slammed the political elites for “thinking they own the judiciary just as they once thought they owned the electoral process”.

Yesufu said it was lack of participation by citizens that gave them the room to indulge in all manner of criminality.

Her statement was apparently in response to a section of speech in President Bola Tinubu’s “Democracy Day” address to the nation.

Tinubu said, “It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary illegal orders used to truncate or abridge democracy will no longer be tolerated.”

But in a post via her verified Twitter handle on Monday, the good governance advocate said the situation had changed because the citizens were now participating in politics.

She wrote, “They think they own the judiciary just as they once thought they owned the electoral process.

“Lack of participation by citizens is what allowed them to have the chance to indulge in all manner of criminality. This time, citizens are participating.
Just focus! ALL EYES ON THE JUDICIARY!”

gidgiddy:
And it is to the shame of Yoruba Nation agitators to abandon their kith and kin, no matter where they are

Kanu is not going to do that

gidgiddy:
Why wouldn't he reject tgat when there are over 1 million indigenous Igbos carved into Benue? Millions of indigenous Igbos in Delta State and Rivers State

A lot of people dont know that Igbos are indigenous to at least 12 States in Nigeria

Quintopia:
Biafran terrorist leader Kanu was in 2017 as he sat in jail, offered his Biafra on a platter of gold by the FG.

He was offered the 5 Igbo states to form his Biafra but rejected it, saying he must have Rivers state, Benue state etc.

That’s the ONLY reason there’s no Biafra today,

The terrorists leading the agitation have their greedy eyes on non-Igbo territory and natural resources.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/237582-i-rejected-offer-biafra-five-igbo-states-nnamdi-kanu.html?tztc=1

a4cube:
Is that not what people over there want to hear? Religious bigots. He will gain more supporters now on.

This blurr results is what Yakubu mamhood used in announcing the drug Lord who is parading himself as president

abc115:
National Association of Nigerian Student Executives led by its President, Mr Usman Bamrambu; National Association of University Students (NAUS) President, Mr Obaji Marshal, National Association of Colleges of Education Students (NACES) President, Mr Aminu Habibu alongside Mr Dotun Omoleye of the National Youth council of Nigeria visited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu today to declare total support for the Student Loan Act Signed by the President yesterday and also Fuel Subsidy Removal

successfulaboki:
You have to understand that these guys know the truth but have just chosen not to tell it as it is. Why? For most of them, it is ignorance, pure hatred and above all, most of them are paid to say the things they say.