Ghen ghen ghen. Breaking now:

THE FIRST RULING FOR TODAY.

The Supreme Court after hearing Chief Akin Olujinmi has struck-out Alex Otti's Cross-Appeal (SC/35/2016) as incompetent. All SEVEN Members of the panel agree and it is UNANIMOUS

Chief Akin Olujimi resurrects his application to regularize his Cross-Appeal. Let me not bother you because the Court is taking him on. I will just post the final Ruling of the Court in the application to regularize

Alex Otti's Cross-Appeal (SC/35/2016) has now been called up and same appearances as before

INEC Appeal is fully argued & Judgment reserved to later today. Let's now see what happens to the Cross-Appeal filed by Alex Otti & APGA

Chief Akin Olujimi says that Chief Awa Kalu, SAN who is part of his team will respond to the INEC Appeal. He is doing so now

fizzile:
Bigchief wetin happen? Ur quiet.

INEC Counsel Chief Awomolo requested that one of the SANs in his team Dr. Livy Uzoukwu be allowed to orally adumbrate on the INEC Brief and he is still making his submissions urging the Court to allow the Appeal

Arguments in PDP Appeal concluded & Judgment reserved for later today.
INEC Appeal (SC/22/2016) is now called up. Same appearances as before. Chief Awomolo, SAN Counsel to INEC identifies his Brief. Same procedures as before. Counsels will make oral submissions for few minutes & urge the Court to allow the Appeal or dismiss it as the case may be

Kelechi2020:



you are being tactical with the analysis, the miscreants will always bark....

You mean the judges have already taken there decision?

what then is the essence of coming to the supreme court....

The way appellate Courts work is that the parties write down ALL the arguments they wish to canvass in support of their case. This written argument is called a Brief in the Court of Appeal & Supreme Court. Parties are supposed to come and adopt it as their submission in the case. Before the hearing, the Judges would have read it already and know what arguments the parties are making in support of their case. So when you now come for the hearing, it is only to identify your Brief, make amendments if necessary and give further explanations if necessary. If there are new cases which have been delivered or came to the attention of Counsel, they will cite it. Counsel is not allowed to make new submissions orally not already contained in the Brief but only to explain what is there. That is why is any of the parties & their Counsels do not come to Court on the day of hearing, the Court will simply DEEM his Brief as having been adopted

Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN informs the Court that Chief Chris Uche, SAN who is in his team will respond to this Appeal. Chris Uche identifies their Brief, adopts it and relies on it in urging the Court to dismiss the Appeal as lacking in merit in its entirety. He proceeds to adumbrate orally

Kelechi2020:
bigchief46. I need a brief analysis of the possible outcomes of this judgement...

If I tell you now, some miscreants will accuse me of being biased or partisan so I will not. But I will give you two pointers: just analyse all the decisions already given by the Court in these Governorship cases; what does it tell you? Also, the Court already stated when they came in that they have already read all the Briefs filed by the Parties to this dispute yesterday and also spent 2 hours this morning having a conference on it which is why they were late coming out today. They have therefore asked Counsels not to waste time in elaborate oral arguments and are giving only 3-5 minutes for adumbrating. What this tells you is that they have already made up their mind & what we are doing now is mere formalities. That is why they want to give all the Judgments today because they already know where they are going. I suspect where they will go because the Supreme Court is noted for being consistent but let us just hold on for a while

We have resumed. The PDP Appeal (SC/19/2016) is called up. Counsels announce the same appearances as before. Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Lead Counsel for the PDP introduces his Brief and adopts it as his argument in urging the Court to allow the Appeal. He is given few minutes to amplify the Brief orally

The members of the Panel are about to come in now

The Court has decided to stand down the other Appeals and has ordered a break. We will resume by 5.30pm to hear the Appeals by PDP, INEC & possibly the Cross-Appeal by Otti if it is later revisited and the regularization sought is allowed. Till 5.30pm then; but this is an opportunity to go refill your pop-corn & get more iced Coke; the real drama is coming. JUDGMENT IS TODAY

The Appeal by Ikpeazu is now fully heard & Judgment reserved to later today. Ladies and gentlemen, THE JUDGMENT IS TODAY. We are now going to the Appeal by PDP

Rudolfchris:
kingofabia Argument ongoing on the viability of Alex Otti's cross
appeal. Registrar blamed for making a mistake in the
numbering..............How come you forgot this part


The guy is being partial in his reporting, does he think he's the only one here in the Supreme Court room?

What are you people talking about?; it would be a pity if you are a Lawyer; I hope you are just a layman then it will be forgivable. Olujimi brought an application to regularize his Cross-Appeal. After much argument as to how the irregularity or error sought to be amended arose, the Court refused to allow him regularize the error "for now". It is Olujimi who is claiming that the mistake is from the Registrar but Ikpeazu, PDP & INEC's Lawyers insist that the error is from his own incompetence. The Court did not rule on who is responsible for the error but merely said they would not allow him to regularize the error "for now"; maybe they may allow him later but his application to amend was refused for now; so how am I being partisan? I can see you guys want to play the ostrich, bury your heads in the sand and be unreasonable or maybe you just want to DISTRACT me; so I will NOT RESPOND TO YOUR NONSENSE ANYMORE. Go and create your own thread and post your lies there. I may support a candidate or Political Party (AS I AM ENTITLED TO) but I am a top professional and I value my honor so I will continue to give factual reports; if they do not favor your position, I have no apologies to any of you

Rudolfchris:
Bigchief46 Court has just refused to allow Alex Otti's Lawyer, Olujimi, SAN to regularize the Cross Appeal for now and has instead instructed Chief Wole Olanipekun to argue his Appeal. Olanipekun is now identifying his Brief of Argument. He adopts his Brief and urges the Court to allow the Appeal. He is now adumbrating orally & the CJN says they will only give 5 minutes as they have already read the Briefs. Olanipekun starts and says he formulated ten issues. The submissions are ongoing now.

The regularisation you are talking about is the numbering in the cross appeal of which the mistake emanated from the court registrar. Pls be straightforward and report exactly what it is and stop confusing people. Thank u

Sorry Sir, the issue is not what the regularization is but what ever it is, did the Court allow him to regularize? Why are you people so pathetic? Why is he seeking to regularize if his papers are in order? If the Court refused to allow him regularize the Cross Appeal, what is the effect? Did I say the Court struck out or dismissed the application to regularize or the Cross Appeal? I only reported FACTUALLY that the Court refused the application to regularize "FOR NOW". Pls I am not in your league, so don't even try because you will just show yourself up. I WILL REPORT FACTUALLY & it is nothing to me that the FACTS do not favor you

Olanipekun concludes by asking the Court to allow the Appeal. Olujimi, SAN is taking his turn now. He identifies his Brief of Argument, adopts & relies on it in urging the Court to dismiss the Appeal. He is now adumbrating orally. His submissions are ongoing. He states that they took Preliminary Objection to ground 2 in the Appellant's Notice of Appeal and urges the Court to dismiss the Appeal.

Court has just refused to allow Alex Otti's Lawyer, Olujimi, SAN to regularize the Cross Appeal for now and has instead instructed Chief Wole Olanipekun to argue his Appeal. Olanipekun is now identifying his Brief of Argument. He adopts his Brief and urges the Court to allow the Appeal. He is now adumbrating orally & the CJN says they will only give 5 minutes as they have already read the Briefs. Olanipekun starts and says he formulated ten issues. The submissions are ongoing now

Mega2010:
What is happening now abeg?have they all slept?

Olujimi is still praying the Court to allow him amend "in the interest of justice" as this is the last Court and if they are not allowed to regularize, they will have no where else to go to.
Chief Awomolo is submitted that what Chief Olujimi wants to do is an abuse of Court processes

Olujimi wants to regularize his Cross Appeal and is finding it difficult to convince the Court. One of the Judges just told him that the error he wants to regularize is why he is "in okro soup"

Appearances are now over. Counsel to Alex Otti, Akin Olujimi, SAN, informs the Court that he has an application to regularize one of his processes. This application is now in issue

Appearances are now going on: Chief Wole Olanipekun leads for Okezie Ikpeazu, Chief Akin Olujimi leads for Otti & APGA, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu leads for PDP & Chief Awomolo leads for INEC

kalufelix:
haha you jus fall dat guy hand...

Bloody PDP tout forgot to be professional. Anyway na today company go fold make dem go chop the one wey reach dem in the last 6months

You call me a "TOUT"? But why should I be surprised? It's very typical of your ilk and everything you stand for. Obviously your party man telling lies is not a tout but I am for challenging him. Please create your own thread where your party people can wallow in your mud; I created this thread for people of substance. You may be on my thread but my dear, we don't belong in the same circles. Besides hiding cowardly behind your phone to type insults, you are nothing to me

All Akwa Ibom Appeals have now been heard and Judgment reserved for later today. The Court is now starting with the Abia Appeals starting with SC/18/2016: Okezie Victor Ikpeazu (Ph.D) V. Alex Otti. It is the same panel that heard the Akwa Ibom Appeals and the CJN, Mahmud Mohammed is presiding

fizzile:
In ur opening statement u stated dat u won't be biased,so why r u now being biased? Even if u r pdp supporter,u shldnt hv made such response. Not nice of u abeg.

And where exactly is the bias? Someone posted that Supreme Court has given Judgment in favor of Alex Otti and ordered the CJ to swear him in which is totally false when I am sitting right there in Court; does slapping him down for telling lies amount to bias?
And where did I say I am not partisan? Of course I am partisan and support some candidates whether in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Anambra, Abia. BUT I AM NOT BIASED IN MY REPORTING OF THE FACTS TAKING PLACE IN THE SUPREME COURT today. I hope you are intelligent enough to know the difference between partisanship in respect of the substance of issues and partisanship IN THE REPORTING of the issues. I will give you only the true facts of what is happening; where my sympathies lie is not for this thread

Submissions by Counsels in the Akwa Ibom Appeas still ongoing. Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN is still addressing the Court

phiphis:
Otii has just been declared winner by the supreme court and order the Abia State CJ to swell Him immediately. can some one confirmed this pls.........

i am waiting......

Hahahahahaha, you APGA people are just pathetic and sore losers. The Supreme Court is still hearing the six Appeals from Akwa Ibom State. Abia has not been mentioned yet until later in the day

Another appeal from Akwa Ibom State (SC/7/2016) is called up. Same appearances and proceedings as before; same arguments canvassed

Appeal No. SC/6/2016, appeal by PDP, Akwa Ibom now called up. Same appearances, procedures/proceedings and submissions by Counsels as before. Tayo Oyetibo, SAN, Lead Counsel for PDP urges the Court to allow the Appeal

The Court has started sitting again
SC/4/2016 (Akwa Ibom) now called up. It is another INEC Appeal. Appearances and procedures/proceedings are as before

The Court rises to return very shortly. They announce that Judgment in all the Appeals already heard by them will be given later today. There are still about three other Appeals from Akwa Ibom which have not been heard. They are likely to start from those when they return
Abia Appeals still loading..........

Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN for 1st & 2nd Respondents identifies his brief and orally amplifies it. He urges the Court to dismiss the Appeal. The arguments canvassed are substantially the same as before