₦airaland Forum

cheruv:
Of course we've a country and its there that the sun rises...like the reemergence of the lotus flower
We call it Ala owuwa anyānwu

Bros the sun rises in Yola first before Biafra. Look at your map very well.

Kestolovee95:
My aboooki shoe maker came out from his hiding place and thanked allah when he heard Kanu is alive today. Na dangote trailer them for take load their mallam corpses from Igweocha and Aba today reach funtua.

If you blackmail me with stuborn igbos wey dey north dey live with animals, e nor concern me, my own be say we for show abookina pepper today.

Really? That was what happened in 1969 but your people complained of pogrom. Please don't endanger the life of hard working Igbo people in Funtua.

sonnie10:
Why did Bubu escape to Iran when he heard that Biafran's were bringing the protest to Aso Rock?

Because Bubu has it in his schedule to go to Iran and Nnamdi goes to prison. Bubu no get time; slowly the Zoo will teach lesser animal the law of Zoology bubu's way.

onatisi:
by the time they finish with him he will be the first to wake up every morning shouting and singing the national anthem and the pledge all at the same time. Most free men don't know the importance and value of having freedom and many therefore abuse it

He will also be very disappointed that the IPOB gang did not attempt to rescue him and allow his return to prison unchallenged and uneventful.

sonnie10:
And you think this is the first time he has been detained by the Nigerian govt. for the same struggle?

When was the first time? Did you know he was bald the last time? Do you know how common you are when you are prosecuted before a Magistrate? Did he ran out of bleaching cream like this time resulting in his new complexion?

onatisi:
I wish you can see me laughing and rolling .guy you know you are very very correct.by the time he comes out he may become a pastor or even start telling ppl to eschew violence. He will become more intelligent and clever

He may start a business selling the Nigeria flag and the National anthem with PEACE AND UNITY is BOLD.

onatisi:
by the 3rd time he appears in court,all those crowd that came today will no longer be coming ,it is then he will understand how Nigerians are. Then he will start claiming British citizenship.

One common thing with the courts is after they fix you case for hearing, the judge will be transferred and trial will commence de-novo with new bail conditions. Meanwhile the surety for the initial bail would have retired from the civil service or in jail for some money he stole from government.

onatisi:
this guy will only be released from jail when an Ibo man becomes Nigeria president. He will even try to renounce his citizenship of Nigeria ,but it wont help. Naija prison na die

One thing about Prison or detention is that while you are there, you will be smart. When you come out you will need to acclimatize before you talk freely or boldly.

onatisi:
ehya ok oooo. I no go argue

You will soon hear that he has become a born again Christian. Just wait and see.

Kai you wicked. So he will come to court next time with King James Version of the Bible?

onatisi:
bros,the guy just go find trouble that was sleeping in a locked room ,the guy knocked and banged the door,trouble didn't answer ,trouble pretended as if he didn't hear,na so the guy go pull down the doors and windows of trouble room,now see kanu see trouble.he looks pitiful,why is he not shouting Biafra now

He can't shout Biafra now because he was trying to defraud gullible ones to pay money to his cause and then disappear.
You are on point, he does not know that some of his comments were treasonable or he underestimated the Nigerian Igbos love for Their country. The biafrans will try to make noise but he will be the guest of Igbos in the DSS and they will bring him back to his senses.

onatisi:
Kanu must be having some regrets now .

True talk, when some is bald he should not look for Government trouble. The low cut will be bushy and you will not look Handsome again.

silibaba:
O BOY THIS GREAT MAN DONGAIN POPULARITYOOO


JUST SEE OR LOOK DOWN AT VIEWINGTHISSSSSSSTOPICCC

It is not up to some of the Abubakar Audu threads.

mapet:
......so the certificate of return handed over to Amaechi back then was based on whose name in the Form EC8e?

Ameachi has a suit challenging the appearance of Omehia's name on the ballot. His name was already on Form EC4b(ii) the foundation of EC8e. The EC8e has Omehia's name Pendente lite Ameachi's case that INEC should not recognize anyone as PDP's candidate for Governorship. The rest is history, Ameachi moved from that bold act to another one when he could not stomach's PDP's impunity anymore. He lead to the ouster of another President that wants to mess up with his mandate again.

modath:
PDP folks are just hoping against hope..

If the death announcement had come before the announcement of a partial result, they would have had a reason to be hopeful..

A supplementary election is all that is in the offing, anyone believing what the lawyers sympathetic to PDP are positing is just living in delusion..

APC hs two choices, allow Faleke to go on & become the governor or choose from one of the guber primary contestants...

Sentiments is flying all over Keyamo's postulations. You last paragraph summerised the matter 75% percent. The other 25% is the possibility of an election, because the certificate of return of is issued based on a Form EC8e that has the name of the Governorship candidate not his running mate and his party. Faleke was not the Governorship candidate but the runing mate.
PDP will still not win Kogi anyday anytime= my hope and view.

ichidodo:
[color=#1986BC] We rather let the Supreme justices decide rather than money grubbing lawyers who are keen to let this imbroglio stretch further especially when you consider the hefty legal fees involved in the stretching exercise... Or since Audu is deceased and the deadline of submitting names of fresh candidates has elapsed then it behooves on INEC to remove and annul APC's candidature inaddition to declaring votes casted for the APC as wasted votes by virtue of their candidate's diqualification by death before proceeding to announce Runners up Wada as the Winner of Kogi Gubernatorial 2015[/color]

That is a PDP jaundiced view of the situation. Unfortunately for PDP it is either another APC candidate, Faleke or another election.

Ayodee2:
STOP MISLEADING PEOPLE.
BELOW IS THE DETAILS OF THE CASE, BONI HARUNA VS INEC

By Chris Agbiti
Only a few Nigerians can still, perhaps,
retain in their memories the event of July 16,
1999, no thanks to our collective malady of
amnesia. So, what happened on July 16,
1999? A brief narration of the chain of
events culminating in the said event of 16th
July, 1999 under review may be necessary
for a proper grasp of the lesson. The locale
was in Adamawa State of Nigeria.
The dramatis personae consisted of Atiku
Abubakar, Boni Haruna and two other
gentlemen. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his
running mate had just won the governorship
election of Adamawa State under the
platform of PDP in an election conducted by
INEC.
However, before their swearing in, the then
PDP Presidential candidate, Chief Obasanjo,
just out of prison and desperately in need of
a strong political machinery to realize his
presidential ambition saw the usefulness of
Atiku Abubakar as head of the political
structure of late Yar’Adua and thus,
persuaded him to renounce his mandate and
be appointed his running mate.
Upon his acceptance of the offer of
Obasanjo’s running mate by Atiku, INEC
as the electoral umpire officially wrote to
Atiku of its decision to conduct a
Bye_Election to fill the governorship vacancy
he had left behind. However, Boni Haruna,
the Deputy governor Elect, and the PDP,
would have non of the INEC decision to
conduct another election, as according to
them, the fact of Boni Haruna’s victory at
the poll had already conferred on him
certain constitutional rights that entitled him
to be automatically sworn in as the Governor
following Atiku’s abandonment of his
mandate.
And so, to the court they all went to
ventilate their grievances. The matter
commenced at the Federal High court and
raged on until it finally berthed at the apex
court. At the Supreme Court, it became
necessary for the court to interpret Section
45 of the then Decree 3 of 1999 (now the
1999 constitution) which provides for the
conditions under which a Deputy Governor
may be sworn in as Governor. According to
the said Section, a Deputy Governor shall
only be sworn in on the occurrence of such
eventualities as “death, resignation,
impeachment, permanent incapacity or
removal for any other reason”.
It never contemplated such abandonment as
happened in Atiku’s instance. However,
finding itself in such a challenge demanding
the assertion of its role of social
engineering, the Supreme Court, in a split
decision, felt a need to advance a remedy,
albeit uncanny, to the strange constitutional
ailment, and, EUREKA, came the ultimate
remedy that became the commencement of
a political terminal disease for Atiku.
The Learned Justices of the Supreme Court,
per UWAIS CJN (as he then was) found
succor in the dictionary definition of the
word, “ DIE” which according to him
finds synonyms in, “ breath one’s
last, deceased, depart, expire, finish, decay,
decay, decline, disappear, dwindle, ebb, end,
fade, lapse, vanish, wane, wilt, wither, fizzle
out” and finally decided that even though
Atiku was biologically alive, his renunciation
of his mandate as Governor-Elect to run with
Chief Obasanjo as Vice President, in
effect, had the same consequence as â
€œdie” within the contextual meaning of
the dictionary definition of death given
above.
And thus, Atiku was, in effect, pronounced
judicially dead, thereby clearing the coast for
Boni Haruna to be sworn in as the Governor.
While the above Supreme Court judgment
might, probably, have been treated with the
usual exchange of banter by Atiku and his
acolytes, it is doubtful whether he ever took
time to reflect soberly on the spiritual
implication of such weighty pronouncement
handed down from the sacred temple of
justice. Ever thought of why court is
regarded as a “Temple of justice”?

You are the one who misleading yourself. Is there a Judge of the Supreme Court by the name of Agbiti? Did he consider the judgement of the Court of Appeal? Did he consider the argument of Chike Chigbue, A B Mahmud or Akpamgbo? Does what you have above appears to you like a decision of the Supreme Court?
I repeat the name of the case is PDP and Boni Haruna as Appellant and INEC, APP, Bala Takaya and Abdulrahman as Respondent. Expand your research to Supreme Court appeal no SC. 66/1999 the views of Uwais.
You should not mislead yourself.
WAS ANYONE DECLARED AS THE WINNER OF THE KOGI ELECTIONS? If no was how can anyone be declared as Governor? The views of Uwais is "there are three stages in the process of the person contesting election to become governor or deputy governor the first stage is up to the holding of election. The second is after being elected but pending the assumption of office.....During the first stage if th gubernatorial candidate dies or withdrew from the elections it seems that there has to be fresh nomination of a gubernatorial candidate and his running mate.....it again appears if the running mate suffers the same disabilities the gubernatorial candidate must nominate another running mate."
Stop the sentiment let's face reality.

NgeneUkwenu:
INEC gave the Certificate of Return to Atiku and not Haruna!

Next! What happens to the constitutional time limit by which parties must nominate their candidates before an election?

An Act of God has tampered with that The major headache now is the constitutional time limit for a Governor to vacate his seat.

NgeneUkwenu:
How? By INEC?

Yap, it is a 1999 affair.

NgeneUkwenu:
Why are you dodging me?

That was not a response to you? is it? check again.

Alphaoscar:
Are they not still at the stage of the contest? The man died towards the point of declaration and the main election has been conducted already what remain is just the conclusion of the election in a selected part of the state which constitute less than 10%.

100% minus ten is = 90%elelction not Election. It is sad that Audu died and APC's victory is delayed, fortunately some Lawyer may find employment from the views we take of the matter.

lummyguy:
Please educate us on d rulings... we are laymen in our little wisdom our sabi Learned bros

I am Lay too. Summery- INEC wrote to Atiku that they will conduct a bye-election for Governorship election of Adamawa State which he won with Boni Haruna as running mate before they were sworn in. The decision of INEC was because Atiku had accepted to be running-mate to Obasanjo. PDP and Boni Haruna went to court up to the Supreme Court.
The Law- The big Court said that where a Governor or deputy dies before conclusion of election there should be nomination of new candidates to be presented to INEC.
Nairaland comment- the position above will be subject of being referred to as an obiter-dictum and a new interpretation provided on the facts. Some lawyers may earns millions from the misfortune of PRINCE AUDU's FAMILY in the processes.

Alphaoscar:
the section you are quoting clearly says before the commencement of the poll but the candidate voted and his vote was counted . the rescheduled election is not a fresh election but the continuation of the one already conducted.

Haba bros, you want INEC to conclude the election with a dead man on their nomination forms. what will the FORM EC8e reflect?

NgeneUkwenu:
Was the Certificate of Return given to the Deputy?

Yap.

lummyguy:
In the case u sighted, here is an excerpt i got here on nairaland:

According to what I read/was told by my
Uncle [cus I was not that matured politically
then], Boni Haruna was Atiku's running mate
during the 1999 Guber. polls in Adamawa.
And Atiku had already won the election when
OBJ asked him to be his running mate. So,
Boni Haruna being his running mate was
called upon to take over from him. Note that
he [Atiku] had neither been sworn-in nor
taken an oath of office. It can also be said
that Boni Haruna governed Adamawa for the
stipulated period of 4yrs,

That is note from the case. The Judges who decided the case at the Supreme Court Uwais CJN with whom Wali, Kutigi, and Ayoola justices of the Supreme Court were not informed by their uncles. Ogundare, Uwaifo and Muhammed who dissented were judicially and politically matured when they all delivered that judgement.

kel4soft:
Election has already been held. But in the Haruna's case it was prior to the election.

Nope, the reverse is the case. Here election is inconclusive, while in Haruna their was a declaration and Certificate of Return issued to Atiku Abubakar and Boni Haruna as Governor and Deputy Governor respectively.

Alphaoscar:
@ op, I beg to disagree because the part of the constitution you quoted clearly state that before the commencement of the election but in kogi state's case

1. There is a legally conducted election

2. Even the dead candidate voted and his vote was counted


3. More than 90% of the election is conducted already


4. And don't forget the candidate and his deputy contested on a joint ticket and thank God the other partner on the ticket ( faleke) is alive and well

5. The votes were voted and recorded for the party and not in the candidate's name.

6. The election to be conducted is just a supplementary election which can never void the main election.


7. election been inconclusive is not same as been invalid.

cc: adaweezy , tonyebarcanista , gbawe , Ngeneukwenu .

Unfortunately on the decision of PDP vs INEC a 1999 decision of the Supreme Court where the court held that they swim or sink together at the stage of contesting the election. They however have different right after a declaration. Unfortunately at this point there is no declaration and Nigeria will have to spend more money to conduct another election.
This matter is however a novel area of Law that may produce a pronouncement from the courts.

Bern1992:
I dont even see any law in Nigeria

Ayodee2:
The questions are :
1) was election conducted? YES
2) Was results announced? YES (inconclusive)
3) can he validly contest for election without a deputy? NO
Since election was conducted and results announced though inconclusive, and going by supreme Court judgement in Amaechi case that people vote for party and not individuals, also going by section 181 as stated above, d deputy we take over and he shall be swear in as the governor, given Apc eventually wins d supplementary election.

Nope, there is a Law. The decision of the Supreme Court in PDP VS INEC in 1999 regarding Atiku Abubakar and Boni Haruna, their must be fresh nomination. Falake stands disqualified

9jatatafo:
Now our constitutional lawyers have a big task of interpreting the significance of what happens after the death of Audu Ogbeh

Ojix85:
I'm confused. You make 60% return off your investment (if that's even true), yet you still follow the treasury bills thread on Nairaland?

Even billionaires often show their investment hand/picks once in a while. We all know the saying.. "If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is".

Anyone with current rates abeg?

Yes, every investment has its level of risk and attraction. The treasury bill rate is not up to 5%, hurry while the stock last and enjoy TB.

kahal29:
Audu Defeats Wada in Tunde Ogbeha's Unit:

It was victory for the All progressive Congress defeating PDP 200 to 158 votes at Lokoja Club, the unit of Former Senator Tunde Ogbeha.
Ogbeha incidentally is the Director General of Idris Wada Campaign Organisation.

Signs that are not wonders.

Bamz:
Na beans

Nope, beans was 35% last year.

dantori:
But they said assassination? no where was it mentioned that the said assassin tried to shoot and doesn't the DSP have an orderly with a gun? why he no shoot the assassin this is logical and simple this idiot should know if they are spreading falsehood it May still come after them, foolish set of Pdthieves

The DSP went after the guys sweet babe. The guy rattled DSP case closed.

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