₦airaland Forum

press9jatv:
and if it happened, what will happen? Nothing happens joor. Tinubu should forget both the Senate and The house of Reps in the 10th Assembly

Tntsi:
The truth is that the senators are afraid and are being cautious on whom gets the Senate presidency and house of rep . They no tinubu is very likely not going to be president.

No matter how they plan, they have it at the back of their mind that constitutionally Nigeria has no president elect.

Will the CJN damn the consequences and swear in an unconstitutional president? I don't think so. I don't see that happening.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and keep watching. Events kicks off on monday.
But one certain sure fact I know is PODATTI is coming.
The new OBIDIENT Nigeria is at hand.

Dikegodspower:
President SW
Deputy NE
Senate SS
DSP NW
Speaker NW
SGF NC

Is ok we are watching

pennyland:
Allocating position when the real winner has not been declared by court?

Tallesty1:
While it is indisputable that Tinubu would excel more than Buhari as a leader, due to buhari's planless, visionless and directionlessness, I am certain that he will get no where near Yarudua, considering all corruption allegations and other unfavorable circumstances associated with him.

dondodo:
Like if you think Obi will reclaim his mandate

ednut1:
90% of them are teaching due to unemployment . But are their students no passing WAEC and NECO

dondodo:
Like if you want her to perform at Peter Obi Coronation

Houseontherock1:
There's a possibility that if Atiku and Obi worked together in PDP, Atiku could have won because the northerners' vote combined with the SE and SS vote for PDP would have given Atiku an edge. However, an Obi with a Northern vice presidential candidate, even in PDP, can't defeat Tinubu!

PerfectStranger:
You spitting fact bro. Bunch of selfish gender. A rich man can marry a broke biich and uplift her with her family but rarely see a rich girl marry a broke man.

Them no born otedola or dangote daughter well make she come marry me

001Lagos:
God abi INEC chairman selected him?

Zaphnath1:
Today's is my birthday my Christian family celebrate me

70 811 81 2 97 opay


God bless


SHALOM

001Lagos:
All this ceremony untop evacuation ?

Go and rescue Nigerians immediately and stop the unnecessary show off

simfrost90210:
my fear is not about BAT being sworn in as the President come May 29th as nothing good is expected from him.. What's mind boggling is the fact that his vice is a terrorist and his death (BAT death) is by the corner and when he passes, it's automatically a terrorist that'll be acting in his place and sworn in later on..
Start envisioning what Nigeria will become from that very moment of BAT's demise, it'll be like the great tribulation the Bible has talked about which many will be sunk in its ocean..

Think, Oh ye Nairalanders!!!

ORIAYO70:
That rejection occurs only in Ur dream, u r wailing that Biden did not congratulate him, yet he did what else do u want

If u like wail till tomorrow...

Saul tried his best several times trying to bring David down yet he was unable until he pays with his dear life.. keep wailing.

BloomingDale:
Resource Control for South South, please. Hope the South South Governors take note. We have to take control of our resources to develop our region.

Any oil company not paying taxes to South South should be booted out of the region. Let them go drill their oil wherever they are paying their taxes to.

Any banks, companies etc operating in your region and not paying taxes should be booted out too. Priorities should be given to regional companies, banks etc etc. let’s all develop all region.

I ❤️ restructuring.

Shedrack777:
we believe the court will pass judgement in favour of obi on or before 15th may, 2023

Tntsi:
Are u sure there will be an inauguration?

Corridon:
I haven't seen a woman so uncouth, crass and mannerless than this Abike of a woman! Her parents failed to instill discipline on her right from childhood. One can only but imagine how mannerless her children will be. I really weep for her husband that's if she has any. I give up on her.

infofta:
We all know the kind of rest he went for.

An old fragile, corrupt man who should be resting permanently in his house or in prison if Nigeria is a sane country wants to be President by fire by force.

We all know where Nigeria is heading for: Disintegration, civil war or bloody revolution. It's just a matter of time

IgOga:
Even the bible said of God in Genesis 2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."


Obi o gentle...Obi o dull

Charly68:
Tinubu's own na final certificate he don collect ..no man can take that one back except you show me where somebody has won an election petition at the tribunal over presidential election. The onus of proof is an onerous task that can't be done in one year considering the data base. Nigeria is a large country

aariwa:
Tinubu the mandate thief drug dealer will return his.In a fee and fair elections Kwakwanso will beat tinubu hands now and tinubu knows he lacks legitimacy and doesn’t have mandate of Nigerians but that of Mahmoud

manutdrichie:
Tinubu in my mind

Built2last:
Nigerians in Sudan are mostly Northerners studying Islamic courses

There are many airlines owned by Northerners

The president is a Northerner.

The African richest man is a Northern.

But,

It is the chairman of Airpeace, Allen Onyema, AN IGBO MAN, who has AGAIN, in his characteristic manner, volunteered to use his planes to bring back Nigerians trapped in war-torn Sudan.

Nigerians from North and South are praising him to high havens, calling him a patriot.

Ironically, IF the same Allen Onyema decides to run for president of Nigeria tomorrow, these same Nigerians praising him today will tell him that he is IPOB and cannot rule Nigeria. Even the people he brought back will tell him that they rather vote one of their own even if he's on wheelchair.

Whatever you do as an Igbo man in today's Nigeria, always remember that IGBOPHOBIA is alive and well. In fact, there is a sense in which it can be argued that that is the major oxygen sustaining the Nigerian state.

The late literary god Chinualumogu Albert Achebe was right;

"Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo."

AdolfHitlerxXx:


Very funny how SE hates Tinubu and he blatantly cheated them out of their turn.

1. Ohaneze begged him not to contest, yet said nothing to Atiku whose PDP enslaved them for 24 years.

2. Sponsored Obi to run against him, under the table without even Obi knowing. Started Obidient movement to insult him while putting him in Aso Rock.

3. Released Yes Daddy audio and Guinea dual citizenship to cause distraction.

4. It is so amusing when I see Obi supporters still on his case here not knowing their 5 States were his puppets.

Imagine your chained dog that you feed daily, flog when you want, barking and calling itself the master of your house.

Tinubu is just a Grandmaster. A colonial Master. Effortlessly leading SW and SE by proxy.

Malory:
Then show us his current picture.

NaijaCowFarm:
This is a response to the topic that made the front page with the title “Prof Osunbor: No Place In Constitution That Says You Must Score 25% In FCT” with the link below: https://www.nairaland.com/7653249/prof-osunbor-no-place-constitution.

I am therefore hoping that the Nairaland moderators would be magnanimous enough to push this rejoinder or correction to the front page as well.

Firstly, let me make this clear When a lie is repeated so many times, people tend to believe it as the truth. This we have seen in APC in the past and they have not changed.

The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (section 134 subsections 1 & 2) states as follows:
“Section 134
1. A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election a. he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and b. he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
2. A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election a. he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and b. he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja”

Now, let me educate the professor and some of his few fans that FCT is conferred a special status by the Nigeria constitution.
I will treat this topic with the following subheads. I could merge some of these into one subhead to reduce the length of the discourse

i. The President is the Governor of FCT while the National Assembly is the legislative assembly (Section 301) and the president governs the t by proxy (Section 302) and appoints the Chief Judge of the FCT (Section 256:1 &2)

ii. The FCT is deemed a mini or little Nigeria (Section 2: 2)

iii. The FCT is NOT a federating state (Section 3:1)

iv. FCT has one Senator, other federating states have three senators each (Section 48)

v. All Federating states have a Governor, a legislative assembly, and a judiciary, with the Chief Judge appointed by the governor

1. The President is the "Governor of FCT" while the National Assembly is the legislative assembly (Section 301) and he governs the FCT by proxy (Section 302) and appoints the Chief Judge of the FCT (Section 256:1 &2)

For anyone to be governor of a state, you MUST be elected by a majority of votes cast and score ¼ of at least 2/3 of the LGAs in the state. This is the provision of Section 179 of the Nigerian Constitution. Taken in the same context, the president CANNOT be elected without having 1/4 of FCT votes, Take note that by the provisions of Sections 256 (1&2), 301 and 302, state that the President is deemed to be governor of the FCT. He appoints a minister to govern on his behalf. So, just like a governor cannot be elected unless he fulfills the requirements of sections 178 and 179, the president MUST fulfill the requirement of ¼ of the votes in the FCT to be elected as its governor. This is the context with which Section 134 (2) was written and it is not ambiguous and does not need a professor to teach us what the constitution means by adding a conjunction[b] AND[/b]

The FCT as a mini-Nigeria and Not a Federating state (Sections2 &3). The Constitution states "Nigeria shall be a Federation consisting of States and [b]a Federal Capital Territory". [/b]

The constitution envisaged a situation where a presidential candidate may win in his region tribe or zone but only pick some votes in other regions due to tribal and religious inclination, hence to be a president of Nigeria, you MUST have been voted for by ¼ of miniature Nigeria, the FCT. The fact here is that whereas some states are ethnically dominated, the FCT is assumed to provide equal representations of each of the Federating States of Nigeria, This confers to the voters of FCT a SPECIAL STATUS. Quite unlike the professor tried to "teach" us.

The FCT is NOT a federating state but rather deemed a State ONLY for the purposes of GOVERNANCE.
Hence Nigeria DOES NOT have 37 states as being wrongfully portrayed for selfish reasons

All the federating states are listed in Section 3:1, but the FCT is not listed there. So, to understand the provisions of Section 299, you need to read in context the section and the subsequent subsections. You cannot just pick and chose, but read to understand the intent of the section.
Unlike the FCT, which is the capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, each state has a capital. Section 3:3 states “The headquarters of the Governor of each State shall be known as the Capital City of that State as shown in the third column of the said Part I of the First Schedule opposite the State named in the first column thereof”. Here is the catch, to be elected as governor, you need to score 25% in 2/3 of the LGAs of the state. The constitution does not recognize the State Capital as it recognized the FCT for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This clearly confers on the FCT voter a SPECIAL STATUS

The misconception of Section 299 shows that some of our lawyers need to be re-educated. With all due respect, let us examine Section 299. It states as follows:
299. The provisions of this Constitution shall apply to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as if it were one of the States of the Federation; and accordingly –
a. all the legislative powers, the executive powers and the judicial powers vested in the House of Assembly, the Governor of a State and in the courts of a State shall, respectively, vest in the National Assembly, the President of the Federation and in the courts which by virtue of the foregoing provisions are courts established for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;
b. all the powers referred to in paragraph (a) of this section shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution; and
c. the provisions of this Constitution pertaining to the matters aforesaid shall be read with such modifications and adaptations as may be reasonably necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this section.
Even a not too educated person would know that the above provision DOES NO[/b]T confer on FCT the status of a federating state. Hence the argument that Nigeria has 37 states is clearly [b]FALSE.

F[b]CT has one Senator, other federating states have three senators each (Section 48) and 2HOR members. [/b]
No need to belabor this topic, it simply shows that FCT has a SPECIAL STATUS because all other states have 3 senators.

So, with all due respect, someone needs to tell Professor Osunbor that he was wrong, because, if his student had put up this argument in an exam, he would probably have failed him/her.

NaijaMutant:
Mandate thief

Freethinker87:
If you were a PO, EO, RO or any other INEC designator in the last election, just make sure you didn't partake in the fraud cos you're going to experience first-hand what it means to be persecuted by the state when Obi reclaim his mandate.

ganisucks:
All the election riggers have united in support of Baba blue, the father of election rigging.

This guy's interpretation is really funny.

Make APC dey play. Let them not go and start preparing for rerun, like their internal memos have suggested. Let them continue petting Baba blue.
When Tribunal sacks them, them go dey alright.