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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:54am On Feb 07, 2023
[b]Delivering the judgment, three out of a five-member panel agreed with the APC that the suit at the trial court ought not to have commenced via an originating summons since it contained allegations of fraud.

In the lead judgement, Justice Centus Nweze faulted Machina’s approach, commencing the suit by way of originating summons, without adducing any oral evidence to prove allegations of fraud raised.

Nweze noted, “That the first respondent accused the APC of fraudulently substituting his name with that of Lawan. Where there is an allegation of fraud it should not be commenced by an originating summons. There was a need to call witnesses to prove allegations of fraud.”


In its majority decision, the apex court also set aside the decision of the Appeal Court, Gombe Division, which affirmed the decision of the trial court that declared Machina the senatorial candidate for Yobe North.

But in a dissenting decision by Justices Emmanuel Agim and Adamu Jauro, the apex court said Lawan never participated in the APC primary, as he withdrew voluntarily to participate in the presidential primary held on June 8, 2022.[/b]
So I've not been able to get fulls details of the Lawan-Machina case , but I got the excerpt above from Punch Newspaper's reporting of the judgement and Machina's camp reaction.

As I guessed the Supreme Court in its usual manner has used technicality deny a man who won an election(primary election in this case) what rightfully belongs to him.

Machina obtained senatorial nomination form, contested in the primary election and won. Then his party APC at the die minute submitted the name of Lawan as their candidate for the Senatorial election despite Lawan not participating in the primary election.

Machina then goes to court and claimed that APC fraudulently substituted his name for Lawan's despite the latter not participating in the primary elections. Do you know what the supreme court did?

The Supreme court in it's lead judgement knocked off Machina's case on the premise that if Machina claims his name was fraudulently substituted, then he should've called witnesses to prove the allegation of fraud instead of only filling originating summons. ( For educational purposes, this is what originating summons means: Originating Summons is one of the ways of commencing action in courts. An action commenced in this manner presupposes that the facts are not in dispute, and what is being asked for is interpretation of a document or law.)

Summary of all this is that the case was knocked off on technicality basis. The danger of this kind of precedents is that u can get away with anything in Nigeria provided ur lawyer can persuade the Supreme court to knock off a case against u on technicality basis.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:18am On Feb 07, 2023
GloriousGbola:
you work in a bank - you give your goons contract to supply toilet roll or furniture or run canteen

if they are qualified you put them in roles that can directly affect the company

there are enough cushy corner corner jobs that the man could have pushed the way of these people

it shows buhari really and truly has the mind of a village man - in spite of all the training in sandhurst, and his previous time in government

or maybe because he learnt he cannot inspire loyalty,[1985] he decided to simply put family over competence as that is the only way he can secure loyalty.

this nonsense clearly cascaded down as the same story played out with COAS and with the DG of our security mint
There's something seriously wrong with the man called Muhammadu Buhari.

They just sold dummy to us with the "Mr Integrity" tag
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:39am On Feb 07, 2023
Theflint1:
This explains why things got as bad as they did under Buhari's tenure. Nothing bad in employing your goons to positions but at least let them be qualified or near qualified for these positions, such that even if Dem dey Bleep up, there'd be some minimum levels of rot.
There's everything wrong in appointing Ur goons to positions. It leads to conflict of interest irrespective of whether they are qualified for that post or not.

Nepotism will always make u lower the bar for that family member and this will always affect the morale of others who aren't related to u but work with u. (Especiay if it's not a family business u are running)
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:32am On Feb 07, 2023
Itsrm:
The fact that Ayu is the one announcing it tells me it's lies and propaganda.

Besides, this is not the first time we are seeing something like this

https://www.nairaland.com/7354082/ortom-breaks-away-wikes-allies

The real truth as usual will come out in the coming days.
Is it propaganda too that Ikpeazu's candidate lost the rerun?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:11am On Feb 07, 2023
Itsrm:
That Ikpeazu denies been a member of G5. No credible news outlet is carrying it.

I have also once said that I don't know how Wike plans to sell Tinubu in Rivers State.

He had better continue the way he's doing. Tell his henchmen to mobilise votes for Tinubu and hope he can get him 25%.
Is it still a beer parlor gist?

Ayu said, “We have resolved problem with Governor Ikpeazu and he is coming back. Two days ago, he was in my house because his candidate lost the primary.”
https://www.nairaland.com/7557636/ayu-ortom-nowhere-go-ikpeazu

Ur guy Wike just carried these guys go place wey dem no know. Now everybody dey fight their personal political battle on their own.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick:
So this is the recently famous Tunde Sabiu that has been giving El-Rufai and his goons sleepless nights.

I did a little search on him and found out the following :

1. Tunde Sabiu is the 34 year old Buhari's nephew who works as his private secretary . He is the son of Buhari's neice; Hajia Halima who passed away in 2018.

2. Tunde Sabiu is not Yoruba like his first name suggests , rather he was named Tunde after Buhari’s late trusted deputy during military era; Tunde Idiagbon.

3. Tunde was not known to have any corporate work experience prior to Buhari winning the presidential elections in 2015. In fact , Tunde was known to be a recharge card seller in Kaduna pre-2015. He holds a degree from Bayern University

4. Buhari being his usual nepotistic self appointed Tunde Sabiu as an assistant director in the Nigeria Intelligence Agency(NIA) , a decision that attracted serous grumbling in the intelligence agency considering the fact that the post he was elevated to would at least cost u 16 years to attain if u joined NIA as a graduate without any prior work experience .

5. Tunde Sabiu has been at loggerheads with Aisha Buhari for a while as they do not see eye to eye on a lot of issues . In fact, Tunde Sabiu was at the center of the shooting incident that happened in the villa between Aisha’s aide and dem Tunde’s . During COVID-19 Tunde Sabiu travelled to Lagos in the presidential jet and when he came back he was expected to Self-isolate ; a call which Aisha made but fell on Tunde’s deaf ears thereby worsening their frosty relationship .(I guess this explains why Aisha was sharing El Rufai's video recently and Ajuri saying Buhari was wrongly advised/fed incorrect info)

6. It is believed that even service chiefs have to see Tunde before seeing the president .
Some even believe he's the one man who is privileged to see the president when he wakes first in the morning and the last to see him late at night before bed.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:28pm On Feb 06, 2023
Jodera:
I remember when we played against Leicester (in Feb 2016). They were topping the league with 5 points with us being 2nd.
We won the game 2-1 and cut it down to 2 points but the loss didn't deter them. The still went on a winning spree and eventually they won the league while our 2 points difference turned to 10points.

When we lost against Everton unfortunately, most of our prayers here was that Tottenham should beat Man city (even though we all had the faintest of hope that it might happen). Now that it has happened, instead of us to be happy that our 5points is still intact (instead of a possible 2points), instead we start wailing about the "8 points" we initially didn't have and never had.

I mean, It would have even being understood If we played after the Man city loss and not before it.

C'mon guys!!.

Let's believe in this boys and the team!
Oil dey Ur head! Of all languages, u choose to speak facts only.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 8:59pm On Feb 06, 2023
Customers dey queue, new notes dey inside vault dey collect AC.

Nothing to see here, just bankers playing their part in the artificial naira scarcity crisis.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 8:33pm On Feb 06, 2023
nihilistjnr:
I think he meant to say State House Rep.

Jude Idimogwu represents Oshodi-Isolo on APC platform
I think he was clear when he said Some LG Chairmen, hence why I asked him to mention one of them he knows.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 8:27pm On Feb 06, 2023
Nezzjnr:
Tinubu na Agbado Man truly.

Even though say I no dey support am oo....Tinubu isn't a Tribalist.

We forget so soon sha..... He had some Easterners in his Cabinet.

Some LG Chairmen in Lag are from the East.
Mention one LG chairman in Lagos that u know is from the east.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:37pm On Feb 06, 2023
A001:
SR don carry the news since last year. Buhari dey fight corruption indeed.
https://saharareporters.com/2022/09/01/buhari-appoints-first-lady-aishas-brother-managing-director-nigerian-security-printing

If Buhari could be such a hard core nepotist, imagine what Tinubu, who has Lagos State in his pockets and plans to follow Buhari's footsteps, will turn Nigeria to.
The unfortunate thing is u will always see an average Nigeria readily defending such things due to their political leanings. I remember how some people were defending Akaredolu's appointment if his own son in his cabinet. Smh
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:23pm On Feb 06, 2023
Things dey happen for this country sha

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 1:47pm On Feb 06, 2023
I'm interested in reading the facts of the case of Lawan & Machina. I will like to know on what authority the supreme premised their judgement.

I remember one of the good things that was celebrated concerning the new electoral act was that it eliminates the issue of a place holder obtaining a ticket on ur behalf while you contest another election. As it stands it appears all that has gone to the gutters now.

It appears the new electoral law will not achieve anything aferall.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 10:37am On Feb 06, 2023
Wahala wahala wahala !!!

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 5:59am On Feb 06, 2023
TrebleChamp:
I have seen videos of banks having new notes and hoarding it for days/weeks, the Bank officials are the major problem with the policy. CBN may not release much cash to them as they use to for reason best know to them, but banks should at least load the cash they have received. This week won't be funny if they don't release money to the public....
Those commercial banks are out to frustrate whatever good intentions CBN has about the whole naira redesign . Most of their oga at the top have political affiliations and they know those political patronage can be eroded if Buhari and his CBN succeed in preventing vote buying in the general elections . They are just typical Nigerians who will put their personal interests above public interests.

These are the same bankers that made available dollars to APC and PDP aspirants during their respective primaries while the common businessman/importer was finding it difficult to access FX for importation .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:16pm On Feb 05, 2023
So I read Folarin Balogun is eligible to represent Nigeria , England and USA at the international level . He was given birth to in America by Nigerian parents and was raised in England 😳
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 8:12pm On Feb 05, 2023
mostob:
I totally agree bro.
I don't really know how to put that post but it's definitely not a blame or criticism. You know that feeling of 'Could have', 'Should have'.
I understand bro.

I’m just happy that for a long time people are seeing us in Europe next season even before the league gets into half . We had fallen off for too long mehn.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 8:01pm On Feb 05, 2023
mostob:
If only we took our chance.

Everton

Southampton

Newcastle

3 matches we should have won.
We will be at least 10 points clear by now.
If anybody told u at the beginning of the season that we would only have lost 2 games and drawn 2 out of 20 games played thus far, would u believe ?

We’ve won 16 out of 20 games bro! Except u are under the illusion that we would go unbeaten this season, I think we should cut Arteta and the team some slack. The matches we lost/draw were matches our players tried their best it wasn’t enough .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 7:32pm On Feb 05, 2023
raumdeuter:
Like I said it's not accurate but used data that can easily be gotten from internet like wiki

1. The percentage of infants ex convicts and sick people is expected to be similar for most states unless there are some factors that skew e.g one state has more children or more ex convicts

3. Using Oyo instead of Lagos eliminate the excuse of Lagos is not representative of the SW cos there are many SE people who bring SE apathy to Lagos

Someone will even say Lagos is more of less a SE state

Lagos is also around 8% total votes in presidential election / Total estimated population

Like I said it won't be accurate
The problem with total population as a metric is the fact that the 2006 census figures were obviously inaccurate . A census that claimed Kano has more population than Lagos state is totally unreliable for any analysis.

I remember one of the good things Tinubu government did which I will always credit him for was arranging for the state government’s survey side by side with NPC’s back then.

The NPC’s figures claimed Lagos state had a population of 9m but Lagos state population survey that same year put Lagos’ population at around 17m. Religious factors in places like Kano allowed them cook figures up north . If a northerner claims he has 4 wives all of which have their faces covered and u as an enumerator goes to his house for counting , u just have to take his word for it cos u wouldn’t insist u want to gaze at them eye ball to eyeball .

The population figures is neither here nor there
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 7:11pm On Feb 05, 2023
This is me right now

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 6:53pm On Feb 05, 2023
Itsrm:
From the video, at most 50m for the new notes.
.

I just saw another video on IG of sterling bank Ado Ekiti. They've had 6m worth of new notes for 2 weeks now and they’ve not disbursed any since then.

These banks who have the cash have been hoarding it for reasons best known to them, hence the reason why the cash has been scarce .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 5:59pm On Feb 05, 2023
iamoyindamola:
Na when he they play arsenal he Sabi use this useless formation
I pray he try it with us again
I hope he does o. At least make we collect 3 points
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2023
This Emerson Royal useless gan.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 5:49pm On Feb 05, 2023
johnjunior39:
The way I am rooting for Spurs eh.
Me sef dey Hope say dem go dey useful just this once and their useless keeper no go give city free goal
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 5:46pm On Feb 05, 2023
Na strong head go kill Guardiola
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 5:45pm On Feb 05, 2023
City don collect cool
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 5:43pm On Feb 05, 2023
I learnt this is 278m being hoarded by a commercial bank while their customers are being denied access to cash (I don’t know how accurate the figures are tho) .

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoSXK48pabI/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 4:48pm On Feb 05, 2023
raumdeuter:
Of course which is why I told him to bring his stats for any region and let's compare

Random pick which is not accurate. Anambra most populated SE state vs Oyo most populated SW state(minus Lagos)

2019
Anambra Atiku 524,734 Buhari 33,298 total 558,036
Anambra population per 2019 estimate 5,599,910
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population

Total votes/Total population % = 558,036/5,599,910 = 9.96%

Oyo Atiku 366,690 Buhari 365,229 total 731,518
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Nigerian_general_election

Oyo population per 2019 estimate 7,512,855

Total votes/Total population % = 731,518/7,512,855 = 9.73%

I deliberately didn't choose Lagos before we hear that Lagos is a predominantly SE state

Now let's hear further victimhood of how calculator Maths and statistics deliberately marginalized some people

Also I used Buhari and Atiku alone. I know there are more contestants like Moughalu Durotoye etc who got negligible votes that's why I didn't add them to the voting totals
I think the basis of this analysis is faulty for the following reasons :

1. You used total population of each states as denominator . The total population includes minors who are not eligible to vote , ex-convicts who cannot vote or be voted for under Nigerian law , elderly people/sick people who are incapacitated, eligible voters who weren’t able to register to vote due to one reason or the other , and finally those who actually registered to vote .

2 . The number of eligible registered voters would be a good metric since those are the people who actually are allowed to vote by law and took a step by getting registered to vote and their data is available in the public space .

3. Oyo is not the most populated SW State but Lagos , hence u used convenient sampling technique (which is a non-probability sampling method ) while picking Oyo state as a against stratified sampling technique( which is a probability sampling method ) u used for Anambra state .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick:
raumdeuter:
Yes. So how do we get the population of each states in Nigeria
I think the way to go is as follows :

1. Select a particular election year ( probably 2019)

2. Get a list of registered voters in all the SE states and a list of actual voters in all the SE states.

3. Get a lot of registered voters in all the NC states and a list of actual voters in all the NC states .

4. Divide the number of actual voters by the number of accredited voters in each geopolitical zone and multiply it by 100 to get the percentage of actual voters to registered voters .

5. Compare and contrast the percentages to know who where the rate of voter apathy in each of the two zones.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 3:44pm On Feb 05, 2023
Itsrm:
That's the thing and I've not seen anyone give a satisfactory answer to this concern.
Personally I think that Osun election should be cancelled outrightly by the courts and a fresh election ordered .

An election in which 185k votes was cancelled out of about 778k polled by both APC and PDP is definitely not a credible one. Both parties are beneficiaries of a fraudulent electoral process; just that one benefited more than the other .
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 3:21pm On Feb 05, 2023
Theflint1:
The whole idea of cancelling a PU because of over-voting doesn't even make sense, you already have data of persons that got accredited for that PU, so why not match accredited voters to votes cast to get valid voters instead of simply cancelling polling units?

I don't think they did the uploading of accredited voters online before, cause before now I heard the only part of the voting process where internet access is required is the uploading of the results, and every other thing can be done offline.
I was a presiding officer in the 2015 elections and I know for a fact that the card readers then had a list of all voters accredited through the card reader . For those who had valid PVC’s but for some reasons their fingerprints weren’t read by the card readers , there was an incident report form that was filled with their details . So at the end of the day if u add the number of those accredited through the card reader and the incident report form , it must not exceed the number of registered voters for that polling unit .

Now I learnt after subsequent elections the process has been modified , incident report forms had been phased out and now only BVAS are the means of voters accreditation . It is said that the BVAS are capable of transmitting list of accredited voters and voting results in real time as per Osun election .

So what I’m saying is if that was in place in Osun and still the whole thing still got messy, INEC owes us an explanation of what what they will do differently between now and February 25 cos if the kind level wey happen for Osun happen nationwide , the election might become inconclusive and politicians of different parties who have spent good amount of money would not hesitate to unleash mayhem with the help of their political thugs o
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by BlueRayDick: 2:44pm On Feb 05, 2023
Theflint1:
INEC to now transmit accreditation and vote figures live. Would this prevent a repeat of the Osun situation?

https://twitter.com/thecableng/status/1621970982356369409?t=Yvf04wtL3iHGgglbvhKvNQ&s=19[/quote]They did same in Osun now ( I think so) . What messed them up was the human elements . Some people voted without being accredited through BVAS and this made the figures of actual voters to exceed accredited voters . That was why there was issue in Osun state .

What INEC should be telling us is what they will be doing differently that would not make the Osun issue repeat itself .

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