₦airaland Forum

zendy:
It is not possible to jail a person for what they say in a democratic country, doesn't matter if the person called for arms or a nuclear bomb. It falls under freedom of speech

If that speech kill you or is likely to kill you it is not subject to freedom of speech.

@Op, Kanu is on a long thing. He choose the wrong time for his stunts.

Professional Lesson 101. Never defend your father in the media if your are a practitioner or the court if you are a lawyer. Your judgment will be blurred by emotions. Dokpesi's gufffed, he just convicted his father by a media trial.

Handiwork of Biafrans

obinnashady:
If ApC wins 2day's election,I'll bring out one of my balls and break it..

Noted and expected. Please do not bring artificial balls when it happens, make sure that your stick is working also.

At the rate Dasuki is going he will the Emmy, Grammy and all the signing awards.

These SPIRITS thick well well.

Lanrexoyin:
The embattled former national security Sambo Dasuki has made another stunning revelation in $2bn arms procurement scandal.

According to Sahara Reporters Dasuki reportedly said that former president Goodluck Jonathan asked him to convert N10bn to dollars then share to delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The PDP had earlier criticised Dokpesi’s arrest and said it has been made aware that “more notable PDP leaders have similarly been listed for arrest over unproven allegations” as a plan by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government silence opposition in Nigeria.

Operatives of the Department of State Services ended the nearly one-month old siege to the residence of former National Security and he was re-arrested shortly after.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested the former chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, in connection with current investigations into the arms deal trial of Dasuki.

A source at the anti-graft commission has linked former Governor Peter Odili of Rivers state and once convicted top member of the PDP Bode George with receiving N100 million each from Dasuki.

Dasuki had earlier been charged to court on a four count charge bothering on illegal possession of firearms and money laundering.

The canary is singing. His name is Dasuki.

luvinhubby:
Have not and will never support Mr. Kanu's quest for violence till tomorrow, but the youngman has not done or said anything different from what most politicians and political jobbers like you in Nigeria had said before in this country and nobody had bothered to arrest them thereby rendering their utterances irrelevant.

Nnamdi Kanu has become a major issue today because of Buhari's poor sense of judgement.

-Jail Kanu, he becomes an inspiration and battle cry for IPOB members.
-Release him, he comes out hero with more people conscious of his ideaology and willing to become his disciples, politicians will seek his favour for acceptance among his followers.

Either in jail or a freeman, Kanu has scuttled Roachas ambition for 2019

He will remain in jail, he scuttles ROCHAS is Rochas business. He will have his day in court and then jail.

luvinhubby:
And someone threatened that 'Nigeria will burn if they don't win 2015 poll'. - El-Rufai
Another said 'Monkeys and baboons will be soaked with blood' if 2015 polls do not go their way - Buhari

If your brain is not knocked, you should know that there is no difference between Kanu's threat and the ones made by those fellows.

You have admitted his statement is wrong. None of them asked that Nigerians should buy guns, bullets and bombs to attack the Nigerian government. If the government of that day did not deal with them it doe not mean that Kanu should be condoned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPQOPEH-0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI95DOvNb8Y
Which this videos and truthfully answer if Kanu does not deserve to be in jail and have the same rejection he had at IWC. You answer will determine if you have a brain at all.

luvinhubby:
op the stupidity behind this your thread is linking IPOB protest to a political party and the politicizing of this protests by the government in Abuja is the reason that led to the poorly thought out arrest of Mr. Kanu which triggered the response.

Is the Kanu you mentioned the Idiot who said Igbo people in diaspora should give him money to buy guns, bullets and bombs to destroy Nigeria. Is Kanu the Idiot who said that Somalia will be a joke if he does not succeed with his IPOB? If you say he does not deserve to be in jail then you need examination somewhere around your head.
Kanu deserves to be in jail. The guys who are killing northerners should know that the East stands to loss the more in their desire to have Nigeria be a Somalia.

Adaowerri111:
Kanu was tried for terrorism and not corruption

Suit yourself.

chukwudi44:
I hope you will bury your heads in shame when these charges are thrown out!The charges are just plain ridiculous!! No Government agency just pays money to anyone without any clear reason,If you tell me the contract sum was inflated then it might be somehow reasonable

Oga, you thinking has no space when it is the work of the PDP. They believed they will rule Nigeria for the next 60 years. their sweet sixteen ended at 16 not the 60 they envisaged. The charges will not be thrown out, but Dokpesi will be thrown into a deserved jail term.

Adaowerri111:
He will be let off the hook in less that 6hours, toothless bulldogs

Ask Kanu whether this Government is a tootheless bulldog.

Amack:
PMB can't win this war. Biafra is coming out more stronger. When the struggle gets tougher the end is near

Why you put green and white for that flag? Just small DSS cell don make una change flag?

blesseddivah:
Lmao.
See me o.
Was I given any X to keep?
I can't find something I don't know where it was kept Biko

Why you disappoint nah? I thought you will do one- X over something plus another thing minus anything = to everything. It is like that girl with teacher handwriting will do better than some people in looking for X- so long as X is not money.

blesseddivah:
How stuffs like this make front page tho

It is on the front page so that blessed people like you can help others find x. Ok find X let see how how much of a travail matter this thread is.

OlujobaSamuel:
they can't again because it's before another court so there is no room for such except on appeal.

They also do not have powers to hear such cases from the beginning at all.

OlujobaSamuel:
the AGF goofed on this issue, he should have requested for a judicial interpretation from Supreme court, this would have prevented series of litigation that will cost the nation more.

The Supreme cannot hear this case now.

rusher14:
Something took me to Monaiya, Mbube, Gakem, Okuku, Obanliku,...

Ok, something took me to 34 states in Nigeria

backtosender:
Slaves and parasites let my people go is not by force to stay with u don't you have shame tufiakwa dis people

Watch this is it a call to let my people go or to fight war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XU2JtlUF6M

backtosender:
Slaves and parasites let my people go is not by force to stay with u don't you have shame tufiakwa dis people

Call it by constitutional means. When some people started in Scotland the ayes and the nays have their say. Here one fool was trying to defraud Nigerians with hate and treasonable comment.
Call a referendum and win.

rusher14:
How you take know ishibori?

How you take know Ishibori? It is not copy and pest.

demielvis:
No more ruling on dec 1?

Yes, the Mallam has been push aside by the jurisdiction of the Yoruba man. The Ijaw, Igala, Nupe, Birom, Kanuri, Fulani will take turns on his Liberty for his dumbness.
An Igbo man will convict him to twenty years imprisonment, an Ngas, Yoruba and Efik will overrule the Igbo man with a death sentence, then Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Ishibori, Ichen, Fulani and Annang Justices will make it life imprisonment.
That December was to test what Biafrans will do. They did nada.

realsammy:
what happens to the three orders given by court to grant him bail,

wat happens to the rule of law,

wat happens to his freedom of speech and association?

no wonder he calls Nigeria a ZOO.

but in the end BIAFRA will come because Chukwu Okike Abiama is our GOD.

Question threes is an order or a superior court.
Q 2= Rule of law is followed because a terrorist is in detention.
Q3= Freedoms are subject to laws and must be justifiable.
Q Yes Nigeria is a Zoo for animals, when they don't reason they will be in a cage like the Kanu specie.

mirabel001:
with or without kanu, biafra is moving 2 d promise land.....we ar on d move...d zoo must fall..kanu my hero we ar winning

Good now that you agree that he is going to be pregnant in jail, please attach a name and address to those you know have ever worn Biafra military uniform in the Zoo for further zoo treatment.

meforyou1:
only correcting the wrong statement that he is a judge. Whether he is right or wrong will be debated in court later

Of course!

meforyou1:
he's a minister, not a judge

You have a point, but is his opinion that counts for now.

mapet:
Bros,

at the risk of not wanting to pick bits and pieces, I am still of the opinion that the premise on which Amaechi won still suffices. The Supreme courts had declared that it is the parties that contests elections, hence in this case APC.

Bros at the risk of sound boring, all cases are decided on their peculiar facts. Was Ameachi dead before announcement of result? Ameachi Vs INEC was decided on the fact that the PDP unlawfuly substitute Ameachi that was validly nominated at a primaries and his name sent to INEC by an Omehia that did not buy the nomination for that elections. Read the supreme court summery to understand the difference of the two cases.

Between

RT. HON. ROTIMI CHIBUIKE AMAECHIAppellant(s)

AND

INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & ORSRespondent(s)

Other Citations

Amaechi v. I.N.E.C. (No.3) (2007) 18 NWLR (Pt.1065) 105

(2007) 7-10 S.C. 172

RATIO DECIDENDI


A. I. KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Let me start by thanking all the senior counsel for the parties for the adroit and impressive manner in which they have put across their arguments both in their different briefs and the oral arguments canvassed in support.
The issues in this appeal fall within a narrow compass. The starting point is the decision made by this court in Ugwu v.Ararume (2007) 12 NWLR (Pt. 1048) 367. The simple issue decided in that case is that a political party wishing to substitute a candidate for another within 60 days to the election must give cogent and verifiable reasons to INEC for the substitution sought. In the said ARARUME case, this court decided that to offer the reason framed as 'error' for a change of candidate is not in compliance with s.34(2) of the Electoral Act. 2006. In this case. the same reason relied upon by the respondent in substituting the appellant with the 2nd respondent is the word 'error' without more. Clearly in my view the cases are similar and the same principle applies. In the arguments of respondents counsel, it was submitted that the fact that there was an indictment against the appellant constituted a reason for INEC to disqualify the appellant. My reaction is that the submission is untenable because there was no indictment known to law against the appellant. No court of law pronounced the appellant guilty of any criminal offence justifying his exclusion from the election. Indeed, he was never charged before any court. It is my finding that the appellant was not substituted in accordance with the law and therefore remained the 3rd respondent's nominated candidate for the Rivers State Governorship election held on 14/4/01.
The submission of the respondents that section 308 enures to the benefit of 2nd respondent is untenable. The wrong upon which the appellant premised his claim had been in existence before the election. The court below correctly decided that the section 308 did not avail the 2nd respondent. I am unable to accept that 2nd respondent enjoys any immunity in this matter.
The claim of the plaintiff/appellant at pages 68-70 of the record are declaratory and injunctive. He brought the claims so that he would not be substituted.
It is my view that the candidate for P.D.P. at the election was the appellant. His name was unlawfully removed. In the eyes of the law, he remained the candidate and this court must treat him as such. My view is that it was the appellant and not the 2nd respondent who must be deemed to have won the elections. The argument that the appellant must be held to his claims overlooks the fact that this court has the wide jurisdiction to give consequential orders and to grant reliefs which the circumstances and the justice of a case dictate. Wherever justice demands it, this court shall rise to do justice without regard to technicality.
I ought not to make an order which does not address the grievance of a party before this court. The only way to accord recognition to his rights unlawfully trampled upon is to declare that the appellant and not the 2nd respondent must be deemed to have won the April 14 Gubematorial Election.
The cross-appeals by 2nd and 3rd respondents fail. The appeal succeeds. The decision of the Court of Appeal is hereby set aside. I declare the appellant the one entitled to be in the Govenorship seat in Rivers State since he was the lawful candidate of the P.D.P. at the election. It is ordered that the 2nd respondent Celestine Omehia vacate the seat of Govenor of Rivers State immediately and that the appellant be forthwith sworn in, in his place. I will give my fuller reasons for the judgment on 18/1/2008.
I make no order as to costs.

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cheruv:
That the sun first rises in Micronesia before Japan doesn't take away the title of land of the rising sun from Japan

Are you guys also going to wage war on Japan? Hmmm they don't have an army but.....

Francis5:
Time to go and strategize, even from prison

With his handcuffs intact.