₦airaland Forum

ogaemma:
No matter what, she should have known such behavior is against the ethics of her profession.
No sentiment and no emotions.
You must abide by the ethics.

....and you're probably one of those against godfatherism in Nigerian politics!!!!!!

Do you not know that the one who comes through the processes of godfatherism has to honor the terms of that agreement which is their own trade of ethics or probably you don't reason it that way before making up your statement ad posting same?

OLAADEGBU:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15479489/Donald-Trump-lambasts-Starmer-great-stupidity-Chagos-Islands-labels-deal-Mauritius-act-total-weakness.html?utm_sf_post_ref=655448557&utm_sf_cserv_ref=164305410295882&ito=social-facebook

In this modern day and age Trump is ensuring he makes slave out of would be weak European nations and we have some Nigerians who agree with him and this same people are shouting against godfatherism in Nigeria......
Such manner of thinking is very skewed.

jmoore:
https://www.facebook.com/100050467990818/posts/pfbid0FUDcvJudAaGRZgPBzfvs2Ddu1AyrXMZ7xpi2iSwGHisRjbW9ggvYgeLrwgGkvVykl/?app=fbl

What can be said of the Nigerian government sending empowering a lobbyist firm with $9Million to do what exactly?

AwkaFinest:
How many civil servants got such promotion? He promised him because he wants him to do his dirty deeds. Tell me who in the ministry of finance was promoted like that?

Therefore to whom much is given,a greater much is expected.

dederocs:
Courts can intervene in anything, if it feels it's not following rule of law!

When you have Nigeria as a country such nonsense happens.
It's only in Rivers State that the Court placed a perpetual injunction on a corruption case against a former governor and all others have been hiding under such...
Till quarrel started and we heard the lid was removed or said to be.!!¡

press9jatv:
Can a Court stop the impeachment of Governor Fubara?

The ongoing impeachment moves against Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State have once again brought to the fore a recurring constitutional question in Nigeria’s democratic practice: Can the courts stop an impeachment process once the House of Assembly has invited the Chief Judge to constitute a panel to investigate allegations against a governor?

The simple answer is yes.

Impeachment in Nigeria is a constitutional process governed strictly by Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). While it is often described as a political tool in the hands of legislators, the law is settled that impeachment is not beyond judicial scrutiny. What courts may not interrogate are the political reasons for impeachment; what they can and do examine is whether the procedure laid down by the Constitution has been faithfully followed.

Under Section 188, impeachment follows a sequence: a notice of allegation signed by not less than one-third of the members of the House, service of the notice on the governor, a resolution supported by two-thirds of members, and a request to the Chief Judge to constitute a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations. Only after the panel submits its report can the House take the final step of removal.

Once the House writes to the Chief Judge to set up a panel, the process has certainly advanced. However, it has not crossed the point of no return.

Nigerian courts have consistently held that they can intervene at any stage of impeachment proceedings where there is evidence of constitutional breach. This position was firmly established in landmark cases such as Inakoju v. Adeleke and Dapialong v. Dariye. The courts made it clear that while impeachment is political in nature, compliance with constitutional procedure is a legal obligation enforceable by the judiciary.

Therefore, a court order can lawfully stop impeachment proceedings, even after the request to the Chief Judge, if certain conditions exist. These include situations where the House of Assembly is not properly constituted, where there is no valid quorum, where lawmakers involved are themselves under legal dispute, or where the steps taken violate the clear provisions of Section 188. Similarly, denial of fair hearing, rushed timelines, or actions driven by bad faith can attract judicial intervention.

In such cases, courts may issue restraining orders, injunctions, or orders maintaining the status quo. These orders may prevent the Chief Judge from constituting a panel or halt the panel from continuing its work. Contrary to popular opinion, this does not amount to judicial interference in legislative affairs; rather, it is the enforcement of constitutional supremacy.

However, it must also be stated clearly that courts are generally reluctant to interfere with impeachment where due process is strictly followed. If the House of Assembly is lawfully constituted, the required numbers are met, and every procedural step is complied with, the judiciary will likely allow the process to run its course.

Applied to the Rivers State situation, the decisive factor is not the political tension or the personalities involved, but the legality of the process. If Governor Fubara can demonstrate that the House’s actions are constitutionally defective, illegitimate, procedurally flawed, or done in bad faith, the courts are empowered to intervene. If not, the impeachment process may proceed unhindered.

This distinction is critical for Nigeria’s democracy. Allowing courts to enforce due process prevents impeachment from becoming a tool of vendetta or political ambush.

In the final analysis, impeachment is neither above the law nor immune from abuse. The Constitution remains the ultimate referee, and the courts remain its faithful guardians. Whether the impeachment of Governor Fubara proceeds or stalls will depend, not on political noise, but on strict adherence to constitutional discipline.

That, ultimately, is the true test of democratic maturity.

Christian U. Abu, PhD, MNIM, MAAPS

In all that you have written what is that requirement that has not been met that gives the Court that legal right to place an injunction or that the injunction should remain?

Arostar2023:
I don't know what you are arguing about...We earlier were arguing about race, now you are talking about nationalities. A black in Europe and USA is still a black. If you guys get your politics right, create the enabling environment and invest in science, you guys can have good scientific breakthroughs to boast about.

Are you white?
Who are you guys?

AwkaFinest:
Good question. Fubara got to that post by appointment, not actual promotion. Wike needed him to handle finances while he's governor. Besides his political cronies show me 1 civil servant in Rivers State that got promotion while Wike was governor?

Do you know what level in civil service Fubara was when Wike was State governor and at what time did Wike make that appointment?

AwkaFinest:
In his 8 years he never did any massive employment. It's Fubara that has done that so far in the health sector.

What do you mean by massive?

Do you know how many persons that got employed in the Rivers State Civil Service Commission during his 8 years ?

Which section of the health sector?

ddippset:
Something he never did in Rivers State..

Abi is it because of the LGA elections?

Cus the Wike I know doesn't care about human capital development and the welfare of human beings..

When I see such question I begin to wonder how did Fubara get to the post and office of accountant general of Rivers State?

Arostar2023:
My point is that science is not racist.

Really....

Why then has Europe and USA ensured that any promising black African becomea one of them and is given a new nationality?

Arostar2023:
I disagree with you. Giving the right opportunities blacks would achieve as much as other races in terms of scientific and any other breakthroughs.

Who will create that opportunity for the blacks?

Liveair:
What proof do you need that is not already documented in History books and ancient manuscripts in Libraries?
Like I said, seek knowledge, then you'll know.

What have those proof documented in history and ancient manuscript in libraieis done for and in Africa if Africa is still referred to as developing nations and third world countries?

The one who first saw civilization is the one seeking relevance and validation from the one who was later civilized years after them!!!!!

sweetjohn:
Then why are we deceiving ourselves in Africa as the continent with the most mineral resources??

Because we are not yet even mining them for commercial purposes.

PHIPEX:
US is the largest producer of Beef. Yet dey no get "Fulani" wahala

They wan kill our farmers in Nigeria because of the little drop of beef we dey chop

There are no Fulani's in the US....

Liveair:
Wrong.
All great men of Religion and Science were Black. Ancient civilization started here in Africa. You just have problem with reading.

What is the proof of that in this modern day Africa?

Samsam141619:
It can also be true! Have you heard of grapevine rumours before? If not true Wike that we know can never keep quiet for two days o

Did we not hear that PBAT banned him from doing media shows as well!!!

Nteogwuija:
Eh be like say if Wike no win this war you no go see garri chop again, the way u carry this Wike matter for head.

E be like say if Fubara no win, you no go see meat chop again, the way you dey talk

richmond500:
Odili, Mbata, Goodluck and every chairman he appointed in PDP and later said he didn't want them.

He used Rivers state and dumped them, he used PDP and dumped them too

Do you know how much in momentary gains ans contracts all these persons have benefited from his benevolence and generosity when he occupied government positions and more when they were eating with him?

Do you know where Odili was when Amaechi was State governor of Rivers State?

Do you know what Wike as a Minister recommended by Gov. Amaechi did for Goodluck when he fought Gov. Amaechi in Rivers State?

Do you know what Gov. Wike did for Goodluck and Rivers State people when as a State governor he fought Minister Amaechi in Rivers State?


I am even surprised in all this talk, you an your likes have refused to menrion that Wike used Amaechi and dumped him as well!??!!!

Kalulu44:
But in every rumor there's an iota of truth in it. No smoke without fire

Sometimes it is just something to keep those of us on different sides busy...

Fiscus105:
Abi oooo, u must hear every behind the scenes, you are far from reality. So, many behind the scenes that won't be heard, but manifestations would be seen at play.

Anyway, you cannot reason beyond your intelligence.

Just because something is written on a paper doesn't make it a true story.

Even international media outlets dey report here say and unverified news till they apologize to Trump.

anonimi:
Do you know about Modu Sheriff?

What of Secondus?

And all the PDP politicians who raised him from LGA chairman to minister and governor


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2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

Did any one of them come out to say that Wike betrayed them?

Do you know what Wike has done for them and how much of a value he has made them when they occupied those juicy positions?

richiemcgold:
Fubara does not need the full backing of the whole house, he only needs a certain percentage. This should not be too difficult for a serving governor.

Well, in this situation it takes more than money......

Fiscus105:
Wike is finished, he will find no one behind him before January 2027.

Unverified source said, Tinubu ordered lawmakers to stop impeachment and ask them to meet APC chairman for further directives.

Learn wen to stop silly fight!

An unverified story is as good as no story.

Dreal1247:
The pressure from the people is surpassing the pressure from Wike. And they equally know that Wike is only concerned about himself and his family and NO OTHER PERSON. The man Wike will use and dump most of them. The wise will unite with Fubara who has formed a new alliance with the ruling political party for safety

Please mention the names of the politicians Wike has used and dumped ?

Truthissupreme:
you think the so called bat doesn't know fubara can't win primary against wike.

Even fubara knows he can't, his confidence is that automatic ticket or wayo primaries be done for him

There is no way tinubbu won't clash with his party structure, govs that want their colleagues before he pleases wike

This one isn't Yoruba politics where egos submit to him again

We will all watch it out.
This year and the next is going to be an interesting one.

yemmit90:
Fubara has every right to go for the second term, no individual is bigger than the state, only people of Rivers State can say he should not go for the second term and not Wike. Wike shouldn't have signed such agreement in the first place if he is a smart politician. He should've pretended to be fine with all his steps and strike him hard toward the tale end of his term.

However, a serial betrayal like Fubara shouldn't have been fighting with at all. If I was to be Wike, I won't even argue with him, all I will do is to use option A4 primary like they did to Ambode in Lagos and denied him the ticket. By using option A4, he can't even bribe or entice Wike loyalists who are the majority, because everyone will openly queue behind his/her candidates. He seem to learn nothing from his boss Tinubu.

But now that he has scattered everything and insulted APC NWC, Fabura may even be giving automatic ticket withiout having to pass through party primary.

They can't give him automatic ticket exxept they are willing to take that chance of Fubara ensuring that he can appeal to Rivers State people to vote for PBAT.....
That is the hard part because Wike might just tell his people to fold hands and watch how the votes in Rivers State will go and how will Fubara go about it!!!!!


I see very very low turn out in Rivers State if ADC fields Atiku as their candidate.

9jatriot:
At some point, Wike's work with Tinubu will be over but it will not be to discard Wike for a deceitful person like Fubara.

Most sensible persons are very wary of treacherous persons. When peace was brokered, Fubara is believed to have agreed to a one-term deal, only for him to want to play a fast one and go to join APC, thinking he can deceive the president. He thinks he is wise.

He is welcome to join APC, but when the time for primaries reach he will be reminded of the agreement, if he pretends not to remember, he will then have to go to the primaries to test his popularity.

He must really think low of Tinubu to think that he can deceive him very easily by decamping to his party.

You have it there.
The best bet for him which PBAT may likely grant is to test his popularity at the APC governorship primaries and I wonder how many delegates are on his side assuming that is the actual place he is planning to do such.....

All of not majority of the LGA chairmen, Councillors, and State Assembly members are on Wike's side to do his biding and tag along his preferred candidate.

lovediehatelive:
Just seeing this now...


They dig but couldn't get water at all.

The only place they managed to dig deeper with triple cost, they water they got was kind of Milky.

Is it hard water that they even call it.

If a good and proper geo survey is done by a professional specialist technician or engineer, and a proper report done, it would tell where to actually dig for water and if it's necessary to continue and worthwhile.

Lekby25:
My friend, non of them is a saint. Odili is even better, he didn't throw away River's money here and there.

If Odili didn't throw Rivers State money here and there why did POBJ by passed him and gave Goodluck Jonathan the VP slot?

Are you telling novices about a former State governor where his corruption case, they had to use the court to place a perpetual injunction on any thing that concerns investigating his corruption and mismanagement of funds....

Kaliningrad:

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I support Russia 200%.

If u like support the people wey colonize ur papa.

It's like trusting your rapist to not rape you again. Once a colonizer, always a colonizer.

Russia is the only White nation to NEVER colonize Africa. Instead they armed and trained us to free ourselves from the colonizers.

This is why the West hates Russia.

So how many Africans and African nations have they equipped, trained and who are free to govern themselves?

dre11:
https://dailytrust.com/fayose-queries-fubaras-001-stance-says-sanwo-olu-cant-try-such-in-lagos/?noamp=available

Nlfpmod

Its as simple as it is and just a small thing and many are throwing insult....

Well, just as Fayose said, let Sanwo Olu come on live camera and say he is the 001 of Lagos State as the State governor and lets see what will happen afterwards!!!!!!!


Politics is not just been redefined but its been redefined to what it should be except the issue of godfatherism..