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Okpebholo1:
APC will not win because? Can't you see the handwriting? Please rest abeg

If APC win, I can only but pity the good people of Edo state

Rebelutionary:
Anytime you come online chestbeating on who won't win I remember Uzodinma...remember that name? That's enough for the hubris! Primate Ayodele is now your sure game? All this kids on Nairaland sef!

Please don't take it personal

I was only re-echoing the words of primate Ayodele

membranus:
Has Tinubu been president for the past 12 years? Your obsession with Tinubu has become an obsession. Check yourself.

So why did Tinubu refused to fund NWF for the past 15 months he has been in office?

Okpebholo1:
And if APC wins, will you deactivate

I didn't make such a promise

APC will not win. But if they rig their way in, I can only pity the good people of Edo state because they will see shege. As was confirmed by Primate Elijah Ayodele

Sharpsharp00123:
yes

Sanwo olu tenure is modern n during tinubu time things haven't developed to this level

Tinubu did his best but sanwo olu is taking it to greater heights

In that case Soludo is doing his best as well. It's just his first tenure

Okpebholo1 tomorrow will soon be here and I assure you that you will deactivate your account after you must have been dealt with at the polls

Sharpsharp00123:
mekuturu so your soludo is better than sanwo olu,zulum right?

If Sanwo Olu is better than Tinubu, than your assertions might be right

You don't trust the words of a notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certificate forger, buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture. Doing so is at your own peril. 

Tinubu lacks honour and integrity. His words cannot be trusted.

…To meet FG on how Nigerians, workers can cope

…Insists Tinubu betrayed Labour


The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said Thursday it would meet with the federal government on how workers could survive the recent hike in the pump price of petrol.

According to the labour movement, the current price of petrol has eroded the gains of the yet-to-be implemented N70,000 new national minimum wage. President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a two day workshop on “Minimum Wage Implementation Workshop, Southern Zone, with the theme ‘Strategies for Effective Implementation of the 2024 National Minimum Wage Act, in Lagos,” insisted that organised labour was deceived by President Bola Tinubu into accepting the N70,000 minimum wage to forestall petrol price increase .

He advised the government to address the excruciating hunger, poverty and frustration of Nigerians before things go out of hand, lamenting that Nigerians were really suffering.

While giving insight into the conversations with President Tinubu before the N70,000 minimum wage was agreed, the NLC president lamented that Nigerians appeared to have started adjusting to the situation on ground because the government had been distracting organized labour.

“There is a tactic to distract our attention, to call us names, level allegations against us over cybercrime, financing terrorism, sponsoring terrorism and the rest.

”Those things have paid off because while we are facing those allegations, this issue of pump price has remained.

“I repeat, we were betrayed by Mr President, That statement we issued over our being betrayed is being denied by officials of the government. I am repeating it that we were betrayed. Some of you here were at the meeting when Mr President said, Ajaero you are the problem.

”Since we said subsidy is gone. You don’t want to allow us to increase again. If you allow me to increase we will pay you that N250, 000. Immediately I came out that day I was on Arise Television I repeated what Mr President told us.

”The president said I am giving you one hour to decide on this and get back to me. He said he was goig back to his office and we should decide over this (between N250, 000 minimum wage and petrol pump price hike).

“We said no sir, Mr President; we can’t be holding our meeting here in your office. Let us take one week break and come back and report back to you. He said okay, I am traveling but I will cancel my trip for one week. That was how we adjourned for one week.

”If you followed the trend of those negotiations, we adjourned for one week. And when we came back after consultations, we said to Mr President, no, we can’t allow you to increase to any length because that will affect all Nigerians and we will be seen to be selfish. ”Even the N250,000 will not be useful to us. If we continue to increase salary, it will make a mess of our economy and then you continue to increase pump price. In fact, that N250,000 may not be enough to even buy fuel.

“Mr President equally offered to fund our trip to tour some West African countries, where the least price of petrol is selling at N1,700. He even said in Cameroon, they are selling N2000 and that none of them has a refinery but they are getting their products from Nigeria.

”We responded by telling him to check the borders because that is why they are smuggling those products to those countries. ”We equally said no because Nigerians will say they have given us money; they won’t say it’s money for us to visit those West African states.

“On the adjourned date, we went there and told Mr President, we are not here for increase in pump price or negotiation. So let’s concentrate on the minimum wage. Some of these things informed the acceptance of N70,000 minimum wage which some of us here were saying was not enough. But some people are still saying they cannot pay that N70, 000. ”This is the dilemma all of us are facing. In fact, the private sector employers in our meeting gave us tough time. They refused to shift and they wanted to vote with state government, federal government and the private sector on one side, all against labour on the other side. These were some of the things that necessitated all those walkouts you saw.”

naptu2:
For 12 years! We are in 2024 and 12 years ago was 2012.

This is funny.

Tinubu have been president for more than fifteen months now, Why didn't he fund NWF

adedayoa2:
how can he do that successfully without funds?

Tinubu refused to fund the NWF

chyeexcel:
Oga Sadiq,do you live in Anambra? I guess you've not been there too.So just shot up. In as much as I don't like soludo,he is 3x better than all Apshit governors combined.

It's an undisputable fact that Soludo is better than all APC governors combined

robosky02:
Get sense

This man is an Olympic gold medalist with Canada, as a Canadian citizen


He only came to Nigeria to replicate what he did in Canada


And he has done well

Did he successfully replicate what he did in Canada

Tinubu is not paying subsidy but has borrowed more money in the last 15 months than what Buhari borrowed throughout his eight-year tenure, despite paying subsidy and making sure that the price of petrol remained below #200 per litre. 

Tinubu has blatantly refused to tell Nigerians how much has been saved so far from subsidy removal.

You didn't receive a dime and you remained president for 12 years

Fifteen months later, Nigerians are still looking for the 'egg heads' and 'best brains' Tinubu paid agents, and BATerians told us that Tinubu was going to appoint ministers.

Senator Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday governorship election in Edo State has cried foul of a criminal summons against him that he said was intentionally fixed for September 20 (Friday), the eve of the election, as a ploy to prevent him from presenting himself as a candidate in the polls.


NewsDirect (NG) reports an FCT High Court sitting in Maitama on Thursday, however, granted leave for the judicial review of Magistrate Abubakar Mukhtar’s criminal summons against Senator Okpebholo. Justice O. C. Agbaza, who granted the motion ex-parte moved by Okpebholo’s lawyer, Adaze Emwanta, held that the reliefs sought succeeded on the whole.


The judge, in the ruling on the motion marked: M/12340/2024 on Wednesday and the certified true copy of the order made available to journalists on Thursday, adjourned the matter until October 28 for hearing. Mukhtar, the presiding magistrate at Wuse Zone 2, had, on September 12, summoned Okpebholo for allegedly making a false statement on his date of birth.

The APC candidate was asked to appear before the court at 12 noon tomorrow, Sept. 20, by Mukhtar. He was accused of claiming conflicting dates of birth in his nomination forms submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to contest the election. The case, with suit no CR/W22/816/2024 before the magistrate, was instituted by an indigene of Edo, Honesty Aginbatse.


Against this order, Okpebholo, through his lawyer, Emwanta, filed a suit before Justice Agbaza of FCT High Court. The applicant listed Mr Aginbatse and Mukhtar, who is Magistrate Grade 1 in the FCT, as 1st and 2nd respondents.

The motion, dated and filed on Sept. 17 sought two orders pursuant to Section 6(6)(b) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended); Orders 44 Rule 3 and 43 Rule 1 of FCT High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2018 anf under the inherent jurisdiction of the court.

The prayers included “an order granting the applicant leave to file an application for judicial review involving an Order of Certiorari against the order of the 2nd respondent; in issuing criminal summons against the applicant, upon the charge/request of the 1st respondent herein.

“An order granting leave for the applicant to file an application for judicial review involving an Order of Prohibition against the order of the 2nd respondent; in issuing criminal summons against the applicant, upon the charge/request of the 1st respondent herein.”


In the 11-ground of arguments filed by his lawyer, the APC candidate said the order issuing criminal summons against him over alleged date of birth forgery was made by Mukhtar without caution and due diligence.

He averred that the charge was contrived by Aginbatse as a ploy to scandalise his image ahead of the Saturday’s poll and to prevent him from presenting himself a d a candidate in the election. He said the allegations made on the face of the charge before the Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 2 presided over by Mukhtar had earlier been resolved at the registry of the Supreme Court by virtue of a Deed Pool and gazetted in the official gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Aug. 1.

“On the 1st of August, 2024, the Deed of Regularisation of Personal particulars of Okpebholo Monday, the applicant herein was published on Page 272 No 131, Vol. 111 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette.

“A copy of the official gazette containing applicant’s Deed of Regularisation of personal particulars is attached to the affidavit of facts and marked “Exhibit AP 3,” he said.

However, Okpebholo said on Sept. 12 at about 5pm, his attention was drawn to a criminal summons against him and signed by the magistrate which was flying on the social meda.

He said he observed that the magistrate ordered the summons in respect of an allegation of making false statement concerning his date of birth for which he had already done a Deed of Regularisation.

Besides, he said the aforesaid document bearing his name as accused person was not served on him, but was immediately posted on the social media to scandalise his public image ahead of the gubernatorial polls.

Okpebholo said the hearing of the criminal summons was intentionally fixed on September 20 (Friday), the eve of the election, as a ploy to prevent him from presenting himself as a candidate in the polls.

“The applicant is now desirous of bringing an application for an Order of Certiorari and an Order of Prohibition against the acts of the respondents herein in publishing Exhibits AP 4A and AP 4B, when he has not been served as required by law, just to frustrate his bid to participate in the election being the leading candidate,” he said.

In another development, Justice Peter Lifu of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, reserved ruling on a motion on notice filed by the APC seeking to amend its originating summons in the suit against INEC, Asue Ighodalo and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Justice Lifu also reserved ruling on Ighodalo and PDP’s notice of preliminary objection seeking the dismissal of the suit for lack of jurisdiction.

APC’s motion sought an order removing Ighodalo’s name from the suit, because the party sponsoring was already a party in the suit.

The APC’s lawyer, Andrew Emwanta, argued that the amendment was to remove irrelevant references and to meet the purpose of the suit, which is to seek the determination of INEC’s statutory powers to disqualify an erring political party under Section 84(13) of the Electoral Act, 2022, and in pursuance of the plaintiff’s right of action as guaranteed by Section 285(14)(c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

But, in separate preliminary objections adopted and argued by Ighodalo’s counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, and PDP’s lawyer, Bashir Folorunsho, they urged the court to strike out APC’s motion on notice.

After listening to the parties’ submissions, Justice Lifu reserved ruling on the matter and said a date would be communicated to the parties.

https://newsdirect.ng/okpebholo-cries-foul-they-dont-want-me-to-participate-in-saturdays-election/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

Sharpsharp00123:
we will slap u igbos in edo n your king will cry in alaigbo

Why are you stalking me

What is the problem

APC come to kill, steal and destroy

yarimo:
The agulu fraudster is looking for an excuse to claim rigging

You have lost it all, yarimo

chrisxxx:
If you know a police office even at the constable level ask him.

You are a clown

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has issued a strong warning to the Independent Electoral Commission against glitches or hitches that could lead to rigging in the upcoming governorship election on September 21.

Obi made this statement during the grand finale of the party’s campaign in Benin, where he expressed his full support for the Labour Party’s flag bearer, Olumide Akpata.

He said, “We don’t want excuses again, we are tired of excuses. Let me use this (opportunity) to warn INEC. They said they would use BVAS and iRev. No glitches, no hitches. We want this election to be free and fair.

“We are not looking for anybody’s vote. Time of rigging must come to an end in this country; time of rigging is coming to an end in this country. We are coming to a time where anybody that rigs an election we will rig him.

“We cannot continue that way, that’s what Labour Party wants to change and that change is what we are preaching – Olu Akpata, he’s not just our guy, he’s our governor.”

This he said, in reference to the alleged glitch that the Independent National Electoral Commission encountered during the 2023 general elections.

https://premiumpolitics.com/edo-2024-no-glitch-no-hitches-obi-warns-inec/?amp=1?utm_source=punch&utm_medium=punch_backlink

chrisxxx:
See the write up and belief of someone who believes that Obi would win Nigeria presidency with no dpo supporting him. You people were allowed to waste your time.

What is the role of DPO in an election

Christistruth02:
Ijele speaks was trying to save his people from being dragged into another mass destruction by the
descendants of those who abandoned you at the Warfront after they fled

So why is he thrown into a dungeon since he was trying to save his people