₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
The case against the Deputy Governor was dual citizenship. It is a Constitutional matter and can exist as pre-election and post-election matter.

For Bola Tinubu's educational issue, it was also a Constitutional matter but Atiku's evidence came late, outside of the 21-day post-election limit.

Nadingo:
If the Supreme Court is saying that Lagos Deputy Governor was duly qualified to contest, it means the court has jurisdiction to entertain matters of candidates' qualifications. As such, Plateau and Kano State Governors are as good as gone.

Tension has gripped Lagos, Kano, Bauchi, Cross River, Ebonyi, Plateau and Zamfara states ahead of the Supreme Court judgment on the 2023 governorship disputes today. Already hearing notices from the Supreme Court have been issued and served on parties.

Meanwhile, the apex court has reserved judgments on the appeals involving the governorship election in Abia, Delta, Ogun and Nasarawa states.

Security has been beefed up in and around the Supreme Court premises and across the affected states ahead of the judgment.

Kano

The Supreme Court had last December reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Governor Abba Yusuf challenging the verdict of the Court of Appeal and the state Election Petitions Tribunal, which removed him from office.

The five-member panel led by Justice John Okoro reserved judgment after the parties adopted their brief of arguments canvassed for and against the appeal.

In September, the Kano Governorship Election Tribunal had nullified the victory of Yusuf, candidate of the New Nigeria’s Peoples Party (NNPP) and affirmed Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected governor.

On November 13, the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the tribunal. In its ruling, it agreed with the judgment of the tribunal, ruling that the fielding of Yusuf was in breach of the Electoral Law as he was not qualified to contest the election. But the governor proceeded to the Supreme Court to seek redress.

Lagos

In November, the Lagos division of the Court of Appeal, affirmed the judgment of the tribunal that confirmed the return of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat as governor and deputy.

In a unanimous judgment, the Justices of the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) for lack of merit.

In March, INEC declared Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the Lagos governorship election. He polled 762,134 votes to defeat his challengers, LP’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who scored 312,329 votes and PDP’s Abdulazeez Adediran popular with 62,449 votes.

Not satisfied, the LP and PDP candidates approached the Lagos State Election Petitions Tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s victory.

In its ruling on September 25, the tribunal dismissed Adediran and Rhodes-Vivour’s suit seeking.

Displeased with the verdict, the duo approached the appellate court but the higher court dismissed their suits. Both men subsequently approached the apex court.

Plateau

The Supreme Court on January 9, 2024, reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Governor Caleb Mutfwang urging it to uphold his election.

The governor had alleged that he was not given a fair hearing by the Court of Appeal, therefore its decision to nullify his election was manifestly flawed.

The Court of Appeal on November 19 sacked the governor and declared the governorship candidate of the APC, Nentawe Yilwatda, winner. Mutfwang faulted this and asked the Supreme Court to restore his mandate.

In his eight issues distilled before the Court of Appeal, Governor Mutfwang argued through his legal team led by Kanu Agabi that only one of them was determined as others were untouched. He said the decision of the Court of Appeal was contrary to the directive of the Supreme Court that intermediate courts should pronounce on all issues placed before it.

The appellant told the Supreme Court that when he presented eight issues before the Court of Appeal, only one was considered to invalidate his election. During the hearing of the appeal on Tuesday, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court led by John Okoro took arguments from lawyers to parties in the case.

After a fierce session of arguments between Mr. Mutfwang’s counsel, Kanu Agabi, and Mr. Yilwatda’s counsel, J.O Olatoke, the Supreme Court said a date for judgment would be communicated to parties in the suit.

But before reserving judgment in the appeal, the Supreme Court raised two fundamental questions as to whether the tribunal had jurisdiction to listen to issues of party congresses. And also whether given its judgments in several cases, issues of nomination and sponsorship which are pre-election matters can be entertained by the Tribunal.

Bauchi

In November 2023, the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal affirmed the victory of Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State in the March 18 governorship election.

The appeal was filed by the APC candidate, Sadique Abubakar, following the tribunal judgment that affirmed Mohammed’s victory.

The panel of three justices was unanimous, awarding no cost as the court ruled that each party to the matter should bear their costs. The presiding judge, Justice Chidi Nwaoma Uwa, read the judgment in the order of the appellant’s plea before the appeal court.

On plea number one, the appellant pleaded that the election be nullified because the forms and booklets used in the election were not properly filled. The court ruled that the appellant failed to prove the allegation with the needed evidence.

Zamfara

In November last year, the Appeal Court nullified the election of Governor Dauda Lawal.

Lawal, candidate of the PDP, was declared winner to unseat the then incumbent, Bello Matawalle of the APC. According to INEC, Lawal polled 377,726 votes while Matawalle scored 311,976 votes.

The PDP candidate, now serving as Minister of State for Defence, had accused INEC of subverting his victory at the poll by failing to include the results of some ward areas.

In an earlier ruling on September 18, the Zamfara Election Petitions Tribunal held that the petition was devoid of merit. While upholding Lawal’s victory, the tribunal awarded a N500,000 fine against the petitioners.

An unsatisfied Matawalle, as observers expected, took the matter to the Court of Appeal, to challenge the decision of the lower court. Respite came for Matawalle as the three-member panel led by Justice Oyebisi Folayemi, nullified the return of Governor Lawal.

Justice Sybil Nwaka ordered INEC to conduct a fresh election in three local government areas where elections were not held previously or where results from various polling units were not counted. But the governor proceeded to the apex court to seek redress.

Ebonyi

Last November, the Court of Appeal in Lagos affirmed the election of APC’s Fran-cis Nwifuru as the duly elected governor.

The three-member panel presided over by Justice Jummai Sankey, in its unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal filed by PDP’s Chukwuma Odii and upheld the earlier verdict of the tribunal but the PDP candidate approached the apex court to seek redress.

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday reserved judgment in the Ebonyi State governorship election appeal.

Cross River

The Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu of the APC would know whether he would continue in office or not today. The Court of Appeal, Calabar Judicial Division, had dismissed the appeal filed against him by the PDP governorship candidate, Senator Sandy Onor

Senator Onor had approached both the tribunal and the Court of Appeal, insisting that Otu must be disqualified from the race for allegedly holding dual citizenship, certificate forgery, and not being a member of the APC as of the time of the election.

But the two lower courts dismissed the PDP case and agreed with the governor’s counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome, that the PDP cannot challenge the governor on the grounds of party sponsorship and nomination because they were not aspirants during the APC governorship primaries.

At the hearing on Thursday, Dr. Joshua Musa, asked the apex court to set aside subsisting judgments of the courts below for being perverse.

He said the major complaint of his client was that the governor did not vacate his seat as a lawmaker before running for governor.

But K.O. Balogun, counsel for INEC, urged the court to dismiss the appeal because the APC membership register tendered as evidence at the two lower courts showed that the governor was the party’s member.

The governor’s lawyer asked the apex court to dismiss the matter with punitive costs.

ShySteady:
The President is already doing away with people who are denting his public image in both internal and international communities. A President who is still dealing with his “past life” and giving signs of genuine repentance. Is that the same person you want to attach an uncouth politician to himself? A politician who follows the smell of food?

There are a lot better people and FFK has done his role leading to the elections; I’m sure he was settled handsomely.

Odogwuzack:
Replace the "swegbe" with Obidients abeg.

Na dem wan die because of another fraudulent politician.

inforesource:
Are they tired already? It is just barely 8 months or so na.

wale8486:
U better wake up,obi rigged,atiku rigged and tinubu rigged.

The truth of d matter is dat u cannot rig anywhere u are not popular so tinubu is more popular than the other 2 animals combine

azzima:
3rd place loser claiming "Stolen Mandate"??


GBAJUE BABA!!!!!!!!!!!!

The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure, has said the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi and Enugu state governorship candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, are the two biggest casualties of Nigeria’s flawed Electoral Act.

He said this while receiving in audience the Enugu State Governorship Candidate of the party in the 2023 elections, Chijioke Edeoga, at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja, on Wednesday.

Abure also announced Edeoga’s appointment into the team of the party’s committee that will work for the reformation of the nation’s electoral act.

The LP National Chairman said, “It is very clear that they robbed us of that election. It was done in collusion with INEC officials and PDP government in Enugu state.

“ The whole world is aware of it. Even before you spoke about electoral reforms the party has decided since last year that we are going to pursue electoral reforms in Nigeria. And that what happened to us in the general election will never happen to us again.

“We believe that the starting point is to begin early enough with the pursuit of electoral reform because we saw all the antics that played out between the national assembly and the presidency in the past electoral reform.

“And as I speak with you, we are already constituting the committee that will give us the framework for the review. We also decided that Labour Party will not be a spectator and that we will be the drivers of that processes.”


He argued that the only people that can pursue electoral reforms are those who are victims of the process

According to him, “I have made it clear that the major victim of the 2023 general election is the Labour Party. And therefore we cannot be seen to take back seat in the pursuit of electoral reform and in defence of our votes. And since you are a major victim, one major victim after Peter Obi of electoral fraud in Nigeria, you will be in the best position to help the party and the Nigeria generally to resolve this crisis in our hand.”

Earlier, the Enugu state governorship candidate who was on a ‘Thank You’ visit to the national headquarters of the Party, gave account of how he contested but was rigged out in the March 18th 2023 election by the collusion of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and Enugu

Edeoga rebealed that he is yet to come to terms with the final judgement against him even with the obvious evidences that supports his victory. He, however, pleaded with the Party to support electoral act reform.

He said, “The electoral brigandage and vote rigging are the most dangerous things that can happen in a democracy.


“ Because the people who vote are voting on the basis of their prayers, based on their frustrations, based on their expectations but as soon as they cast their votes, the votes disappeared.

“So, anything we can do to protect the sanctity of votes, we should do it. The votes means someone’s approval for a candidate. It is more than a physical act. It is not just a symbolic act, it has a spiritual dimension.

“After the Supreme Court judgement, many people have not come to terms with it. A lot of people are facing one ill health or the other. The judgement threw Enugu into a mourning condition. I have not come to terms with it and I will never come to terms with it.

“But I have to come here to tell you that the ticket you gave me, I did not play with it, I did not trade with it, I did not bargain with it. I knew that my people entrusted their mandate to me but it was not my fault, I tried my best. I came to say thank you. I came to say, I am here send me to continue the work of national redemption.”

garfield1:
I have it but Fergie is the originator.it is better you get it from him

garfield1:
Ask Fergie,he will show you

garfield1:
Go and re read the judgment and see the judgment against pdp.a court judgment is not an internal matter but a general matter.pdp is barred from sponsoring candidates,it is a judgment in rem

Roving1:
In one week, President Tinubu Did What Buhari Administration Can't Achieve In 8 Years – Reno Omokri Says And Listed

Nigerian influencer and host of popular TV Show Reno Omokri took to his Media page X has he listed must achieve things Tinubu does in a week.

Follow the Money scandal and Suspension of the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Dismissal of Some CEO.

Reno tweeted: In one week, President Tinubu;

•Suspended an errant minister
•Summoned another minister over a controversial contract
•Reduced his travel entourage and dramatically cut costs
•Dismissed two CEOs of federal parastatals for gross negligence
•Acted on the six weeks degree for cash program by blocklisting Benin and other nations
•Announced plans to build a new Chinese-built steel plant in Nigeria
•Launched the automated passport portal
•Cleared the ₦12 billion outstanding for the Super Eagles and other national teams
•Began paying the wage support benefits to civil servants
•Disbursed ₦105.5 billion for 266 road repairs


Click Below Link To Read Full Details

https://rovingupdates.com/in-one-week-president-tinubu-did-what-buhari-administration-cant-achieve-in-8-years-reno-omokri-says-and-listed/

garfield1:
Not true.it is not a pre election matter.pdp did Congress in just 5 lgas and the court barred them from sponsoring any candidate

UpaIweka:
As many of your tribesmen roaming NL.

Odogwuzack:
Lol no be myd44 be that na

But 99.9% of those that carry Obi on the head are bigots like him.

That Anambrafirst son has so many monikers on Nairaland including Beautifulmind 2, Lagos firstson, timiofede etc.

Odogwuzack:
Lol what about your Messiah that invested $30M state money in family business?

https://saharareporters.com/2019/01/30/peter-obi-questioned-why-he-invested-30m-state-funds-company-where-his-family-owns-shares