lexy2014: But APC in d first tenure of this administration, had said buhari had brought ajaokuta back to life. Y d need for another $1.5b?
Secondly, d topic doesn't say ajaokuta has been completed. It is a promise similar to when they said in 2015 that d refineries will b ready in 2016, then 2017, then 2018 and finally in 2019. Here we are in 2020. Refineries are still not ready
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Already installed equipment was being tested then as part of the work assessment while plans for completion were in top gear.
The commitments by Russia and Nexim have already been put in writing and endorsed so the next stage is work completion.
This one is 100% reality much like most of Buharis projects unlike one Òtuòke drunkard we know and one Papa deceiving pikin party we used to know
Moikiitos: Our biggest problem in this democracy is INEC. It will still remain INEC until the system is cleaned and made transparent.
Meanwhile, what's going to happen to the already collected salaries plus other benefits allocated to him? - Is he entitled to ex-governor's pension or allowances? - Yet, another waste to our electoral system and democracy... swindling public wealth. INEC is a failure, shikina!
He is not entitled to pensions or allowances because technically he was never governor.
jasmine1600: The supreme Court judgement today did not come to me as a surprise. The game plan to declare Hope the winner was ochestrated. Though seems impossible. It would have been a disaster to announce such game plan without first preparing people's minds. Knowing fully well the role Religion, Christianity, Catholic, priests and Fr Mbaka play in the life of the south eastners and Imolites, Fr Mbaka was chosen and briefed of the game plan. His role is just to prepare the poor people's minds for the big game. Now to the people's minds, it is prophecy comes true. And then the jackpot!!!! Fr Mbaka, the people using you today, making you a super human will definitely attack and try to disgrace you before the year runs out. Pls save this post. Nigeria's political game has become very predictable. Copied.
Thunder fire PDP iseee Thunder scatter their spokes person Kola Ologbondiyan isee Thunder dismember secondus Isee Thunder erase the party logo and emblem Isee
jasmine1600: The supreme Court judgement today did not come to me as a surprise. The game plan to declare Hope the winner was ochestrated. Though seems impossible. It would have been a disaster to announce such game plan without first preparing people's minds. Knowing fully well the role Religion, Christianity, Catholic, priests and Fr Mbaka play in the life of the south eastners and Imolites, Fr Mbaka was chosen and briefed of the game plan. His role is just to prepare the poor people's minds for the big game. Now to the people's minds, it is prophecy comes true. And then the jackpot!!!! Fr Mbaka, the people using you today, making you a super human will definitely attack and try to disgrace you before the year runs out. Pls save this post. Nigeria's political game has become very predictable. Copied.
Ezmans: a supreme court judge leaked the info to mbaka since December 29 . don't allow politicians use ur brain in Nigeria politics
Will you shut up. Name the supreme Court Judge. You wasted generation who think PDP is your alpha and Omega will just concoct any lies to satisfy your bruised hearts.
No way a 4th position man could have attained Governor's level skipping every one above
APC be singing in DJ khaled voice, we taking over one city at a time
I think military regime is way better to this demo-cracy
Imagine how developed world view this zoo of a nation
Zoba isi onwe gi, government na scam!!
Nwokem it was not partial. A previously cancelled collection of voted from 318 polling units was declared valid by the Supreme court and the votes added to that of Uzodinma and this placed him first on the list and Ihedioha second.
The Supreme Court on Monday nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Imo State.
The apex court declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 9 governorship election in the state.
In the unanimous judgement of the seven-member panel, read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the apex court agreed that results in 388 polling units were unlawfully excluded during the collation of the final governorship election result in Imo State.
Justice Kekere-Ekun said with the results from the 388 polling units added, Mr Uzodinma polled a majority of the lawful votes and ought to have been declared the winner of the election by the independent national electoral commission, INEC.
Consequently, she voided and set aside the declaration of Mr lhedioha as the winner of the 2019 governorship election.
The court ordered that the certificate of return wrongly or unlawfully issued to Mr lhedioha be immediately withdrawn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a fresh one be issued to Mr Uzodinma as the elected governor.
“Vote due to the appellant Senator Hope Uzodinma and the APC from 388 Polling Units were wrongly excluded from scores ascribed to the appellant(to them).
“It is thereby ordered that the appellant votes from 388 Polling Units unlawfully excluded from the appellant vote declared shall be added and that the first respondent, Emeka Ihedioha, was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the said election.”
“His return as the elected governor of Imo State is hereby declared null and void and accordingly set aside
“It is hereby declared that the first appellant (Mr Uzodinma) holds the majority of lawful votes cast at the governorship election held in Imo State on March 9, 2019.”
The judge said Mr Uzodinma has satisfied the mandatory constitutional requirement.
“It is hereby declared that first appellant, Senator Hope Uzodinma is the winner of the governorship of Imo State held on March 9, 2019.
“The certificate issued to the first defendant (Mr Ihedioha) is hereby withdrawn.
“It is hereby ordered that the certificate of return shall be issued to the first appellant, Senator Hope Uzodinma, forthwith and he should be sworn in as the governor of Imo State,” she ruled.
Lower court’s earlier decision The Court of Appeal on November 19 had affirmed the victory of Mr Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State.
A five-member panel of the court led by Oyebisi Omoleye delivered the judgement following the appeals filed by the Action Alliance, All Progressive Grand Alliance and the All Progressives Congress challenging the election of the governor.
The appellants had argued that Mr Ihedioha did not obtain the constitutionally required one-quarter of the votes cast in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, as provided under Section 179 of the Constitution.
The appellants, therefore, asked the court to set aside the decision of the election petition tribunal and declare them the winner of the election or in the alternative order a rerun.
The Three Appeals The three appeals filed against the judgment of the Imo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Mr Ihedioha, include that of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and its candidate, Ifeanyi Ararume; Action Alliance (AA) and its candidate, Uche Nwosu and that of the APC and its candidate, Mr Uzodinma.
The different appellants asked the Court of Appeal to void the election of Mr Ihedioha on grounds that he did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, in line with Section 179 of the Constitution.
In their various submissions by their counsel, they asked the court to set aside the decision of the tribunal and declare them the winner of the March 9 governorship election or in the alternative order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election into the office of Governor of Imo State.
The three-member panel of the tribunal had in a unanimous decision delivered on September 21 held that Mr Ihedioha was lawfully declared the winner of the governorship election by INEC.
The panel led by Justice Malami Dongondaji had in the judgment dismissed Messrs Ararume, Nwosu and Uzodinma’s petitions for lacking in merit on the grounds that they failed to prove the allegations made in their petitions.
Apart from claims that Mr Ihedioha did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state, in line with the provisions of the law, the petitioners had also alleged substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act and Guidelines, including other irregularities.
But the tribunal in its judgement held that the case of the petitioners was unmeritorious because they failed to call relevant witnesses and that evidence of witnesses called were based on hearsay.
The tribunal, in addition, rejected documents tendered by the petitioners in support of their claims on the grounds that those who led evidence in the documents were not the makers of the documents.
In his appeal, Mr Ararume urged the appellate court to upturn the decision of the tribunal on the grounds that the lower court erred in law when it arrived at the decision that his case and that of his party lacked merit and accordingly dismissed it.
The appeal which was predicated on 22 grounds was argued by his lead lawyer, Awal Kalu, while that of Mr Nwosu and AA, was argued by Niyi Akintola. That of Mr Uzodinma and APC was argued by Damian Dodo.
They all urged the panel to allow the appeal and grant all the relief sought by the appellants.
However, lead counsel to Mr Ihedioha and the PDP, Onyechi Ikpeazu and Kaham Ejelam respectively, urged the court to dismiss the appeals for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
In a U-turn on Tuesday, Mr Nwosu withdrew his appeal, through his lawyer, Solomon Umoh.
He withdrew the appeal based on a December 20 Supreme Court ruling that Mr Nwosu was not a validly nominated candidate for the election.
The respondents in the matter, including Mr Ihedioha and the PDP, did not object to the application of Mr Nwosu to withdraw his appeal before the apex court.
Consequently, the court dismissed Mr Nwosu’s appeal.
Someone that came a distant 4th . How did they do the plus and minus ?
Are you blind? The apex court declared that the votes due to Senator Uzodinma was unlawfully excluded from the 318 polling units and be added to his votes.
When those votes from the previously cancelled 318 polling units were added, Uzodinma won.
KingAzubuike: Those dogs aren't well trained. Riot control dogs always appear fierce, ready for battle and restless. These ones are the opposite.
Wrong. Well trained dogs always act on command and are normally not always aggressive. You cannot tell anything about the temperament of the dogs from mere picture stills. A video would have helped your assessment. However, a good police dog is trained to be calm and only aggressive on command
These are slant backs while the one in the picture is a straight back. Same German shepherd breed but different genetic composition. One is meant to be more furry while the other is not meant to be so
JayPeeOham: I'm not impressed with the dogs am seeing
The German shepherd in the picture is a straight back breed and it is a working dog specifically. It is not meant to be fat or chubby but to be lean enough so you can just barely feel the ribs through the fur. It is a breed meant to be light enough to work as it enjoys being active. So it looks very good to me
Declaration of Alh. Salmat Badru, former Dep. Governor of Ogun State Gboyega N. Isiaka, ADC Gubernatorial Candidate during the 2019 General Election, Elder Joju Fadairo, former Chairman of PDP in Ogun State and other top politicians from PDP and ADC into the APC
2nd, I agree they have a history, but who doesn't?
Learning from the past doesn't mean remaining tied to the past. I bo people have the ability to work hard and deliver result, why don't we devise a way as a nation to exploit it for our good?
First of all ask for the abolishment of state of origin from data collection and simply have a column that says NIGERIAN.
Racoon: [s][/s] Be it Kanuri or north, the nepotic and clannishness of this man is unparallel in the history of this nation.It's totally wrong.
Kindly shut up if you have nothing sensible to say. The era of placing tribe above qualification is long gone and this is why someone like El Rufai can employ people from the SE, SS, SW to work with him in his government as long as they are well qualified for the position and not focusing on those from the north.
Racoon: Maj.Gen.M.Buhari(Rtd) is full of shameless Nepotism! Nepotism!! Nepotism!!! Does this means that southerners are never competent to serve under this regime? This is a,more reason why Nigeria needs to seriously renegotiate is nationhood.Nonsense!
This noisemaker has resumed his duty. Any thread that hints on Buhari you will see all the veins in his neck flexing hard.
In the foolishness of his post he could not see the man is Kanuri and not from the core north plus he is impressively qualified for the position given.
My prayer for you this 2020 is, "that high blood pressure that is about to kill you because of anything Buhari, may it not succeed in Jesus Name".
Laslaslala: No region of the country has good leadership only greedy unintelligent elements that rigged themselves into power that is why I love ipobs We have already declared beat at site for them their Fulani soldiers can guard their greedy ass here but not abroad,we lie in wait for more people to set example with except they hide come
Fvck ipobs and like I already said, you people should beat yourselves first because you are all already worshipping Nnamdi Kanu that puppet master of yours
Politics › Re: Charly Boy Reacts As Supreme Court Sacks Ihedioha, Says "Imo State Is Gone" by Blindersoff: 8:43am On Jan 15, 2020
