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SpatialKing:
Tinubu has never answered any question about Tackling corruption

Corruption cannot tackle corruption


Tinubu is corruption personified

The National Economic Council, on Thursday, in Abuja, said it has agreed that petrol subsidy should “not be removed” as earlier planned for June 2023.

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after the valedictory Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Ahmed said the Council agreed on the need for continued discussions on the issue adding that the FG, together with states and representatives of the incoming administration, require more preparatory work.

She said, “Council agreed that the timing of the removal of fuel subsidy should not be now. But that we should continue with all of the preparatory works that need to be done and that this preparatory has to be done in consultation with the states and other key stakeholders including representatives of the incoming administration.

“Council agreed that the fuel subsidy must be removed earlier rather than later because it is not sustainable. We cannot afford it anymore. But we have to do it in such a way that the impact of the subsidy is as much as possible, mitigated on the lives of ordinary Nigerians.

“So, this will require looking at alternatives to the fuel subsidy that needs to be planned for and subsequently put in place. But also what needs to be done to support the people that will be most affected as a result of the removal.”

Ahmed added that the FG will be working together with representatives of the states between now and June 2023.


“We have a plan that we will start working on, putting the building blocks towards the eventual removal of the first subsidy.

“And if I may remind this forum that the budget for 2023 has a provision for fuel subsidy only up to June 2023 and also the Petroleum Industry Act has a provision that requires that all petroleum products must be deregulated 18 months after the effective date of the PMS removal and that that period is also up to June 2020,” the minister explained.


https://punchng.com/breaking-fg-suspends-fuel-subsidy-removal/?amp

The only history being made here is that the country will be handed over to a Notorious narcotic drug trafficker the city of Chicago Conakry has ever known

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday reacted to the adjournment of his hearing by the Supreme Court.


Kanu lamented that his case was over-ripe for hearing by the Supreme Court; hence it should not be adjourned again.

He disclosed this during his routine meeting with his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor at the Department of State Service, DSS, facility in Abuja.


The apex court had adjourned Kanu’s case till May 11 after allowing the Federal government to file additional nine grounds in its appeal against the IPOB leader.

Tweeting about the meeting, Ejimakor wrote: “I just exited from today’s visitation with #MNK. I informed him of the adjournment of his appeal by the Supreme Court & he was not happy about it.

“He believes (and I concur) that his case is over-ripe for hearing. He, therefore, insisted that the case must not be adjourned again.”


A five-man panel led by Justice John Okoro of the Supreme Court okayed the Federal Government’s appeal against the Court of Appeal that discharged and acquitted Kanu.

The court granted the permission while ruling on a motion for leave moved by the counsel of the Nigerian Government, Tijani Gazali


https://dailypost.ng/2023/04/27/my-case-over-ripe-for-hearing-nnamdi-kanu-reacts-to-supreme-courts-adjournment/

Legitisreal:
I don't see. Debate here

Tinubu did Muslim Muslim it means SP must be for Christian to balance it

You can't eat the religious cake and still eat ethnic cake (for northern Muslims)

Infact sp is not enough to compensate Muslim Muslim, a north Central Christian should still be speaker since first two is Muslim

Two Muslim two Christian's two south two north

The Muslim should have it, are we not a Muslim country

What will a senate President of South East extraction do differently

helinues:
Go to court

Don't cry foul, don't say anything it's witch-hunting when the court give their judgement

Antimandatethie:
“The same should just happen
in Lagos. We are tired of
Tinubu.”
“Man came out to ask us if it
was our business that there
were bullion vans in his home. Is
it your money? He asked.don't doubt Google it and see

They will come for you because of this comments

helinues:
God is not mischievous, Tinubu's victory would be upheld

This is blasphemy

You are mentioning the name of God in vain

old soldier never dies

CursedOsuPigs:
That was for the unfortunate riffraff who sired you

You are equally an unfortunate riff raff


Fuul

fredoooooo:
Obi is a lie personified

Obi got absolutely nothing to do with this thread

Atiku issued the statement not Obi


Are you afraid of Atiku and the northerners

Still patiently waiting for the first set of attacks on Atiku by Tinubu online minions

kingthreat:
My guy you're not yet governor. Let your democratic term start first. By the way, hope you have the money to pay for the works. Taxation of substandard goods won't raise the IGR of Abia.

Why are you so embittered

CursedOsuPigs:
Go collect your money back from your school. dem do carry you mugu.

You dey type for pigin English and d claim say you go school


You be serious fuul

No time

funshint:
Which Yoruba dey beat drum? No be una dey threaten fire and brimstone. If Akpabio is made SP oya come and scatter Nigeria. Awọn chestbeaters

What will a senate President of South East extraction do differently

insists on review of results uploaded from BVAS



The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of bias, insisting that it ought to maintain neutrality in electoral contests among candidates.

Obi, in a reply he filed before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, faulted the electoral body for filing a preliminary objection in support of the President-elect and candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.


He noted that both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal had in the past, cautioned INEC not to place itself “in a position where imputation of partiality in favour of one party against one will be levelled against it.”


The commission had in response prayed to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, to dismiss the petition filed by LP and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying the reliefs sought were not grantable.

The electoral body contended that Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima, who were the APC presidential and vice presidential candidates were duly declared and returned as elected and issued Certificates of Return having fulfilled the requirements of the constitution to be so declared.

INEC is the 1st respondent in the petition filed before the tribunal by Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner. They had dragged INEC, Tinubu, Shettima and the APC to the court as 1st to 4th respondents respectively.

In its reply filed by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, the INEC prayed the court to either “dismiss or strike out the petition for being grossly incompetent, abusive, vague, nebulous, generic, general, non-specific, ambiguous, equivocal, hypothetical and academic.”

‘INEC ought to be neutral’



Faulting INEC, Obi, who came third in the February 25 presidential election, recalled that the apex court had in the case of Attorney General of the Federation V. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (Pto 1041), emphasized that the electoral commission must not only embrace neutrality as its watchword but “must always remain fair and focused.”

He said: “The 1st Respondent, forgetting its role as an electoral umpire, gave a Notice of Preliminary Objection to challenge the alleged incompetence of the Petition.

“The global best practice for electoral umpires in national elections is that an electoral body must avoid creating the impression that it has no respect for neutrality in an electoral contest between candidates.

“The appellate courts have repeatedly admonished the 1st Respondent of its need to remain neutral in election proceedings. However, the 1st Respondent hereof has remained impervious to change.

‘INEC adorned garb of a contestant in poll’

“Therefore, it is not only an embarrassment but a repudiation of the duty of the 1st Respondent when it adorns the garb of a contestant in an election it conducted as an umpire to raise preliminary objection against an Election Petition as in the case hereof.

“The expectation is that INEC will maintain a neutral stance in all litigations where participants in elections are challenging the outcome of the elections and not indulge in filing objections to the petition.

“The petitioners will before or at the Pre-Hearing Session or at the hearing of the petition, urge the Honourable Court to strike out and or to dismiss the 1st Respondent’s Notice of Preliminary Objection.”

Besides, Obi described as “misconceived”, INEC’s preliminary objection against the petition he lodged against the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election.

“The 1st Respondent’s contention that the reliefs sought in the Petition are not grantable is false and made in manifest disregard for the specific and concise pleadings in the Petition.

“The pleading in the 1st Respondent’s Notice of Preliminary Objection that the allegation in paragraph 20(ii) of the Petition is defective and does not disclose a cause of action, is wishful thinking”.

Obi further contended that Tinubu was not elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the election, adding that the Appeal Court, which will sit as the tribunal for the presidential election dispute, has the requisite jurisdiction to entertain and determine the real issues in the petition.

“The petitioners further aver that the necessary parties as required by law for the determination of the instant Petition are before the Honourable Court.

“The Honourable Court has the requisite jurisdiction to entertain and determine the real issues in this Petition”.
Furthermore, Obi contended that Tinubu’s running mate and Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, was not validly nominated to contest the presidential election.

“As at 14th July, 2022 when the 3rd Respondent was nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate of the 4th Respondent, the 3rd Respondent was still the Senatorial candidate of the 4th Respondent for the Borno Central Senatorial District, his name not having been withdrawn by the 4th


Respondent as stipulated by Section 33 of the Electoral Act, 2022, “Borno Central Senatorial District is a Constituency for the purpose of a Senatorial election. Likewise, the entire Federation is a Constituency for election for the office of President and Vice President.

“Until there is a valid substitution of a candidate by a political party, the status quo remains and therefore the submission of the 3rd Respondent’s Form EC 9 as Vice-Presidential Candidate of the 4th Respondent did not automatically abrogate his subsisting nomination as senatorial candidate for the Senatorial election for Borno Central Senatorial District. The Petitioners’ case is not founded on Section 285(14) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)”, he argued.

Obi told the court that though LP had agents that were positioned at various polling units during the conduct of the election, he said INEC, unfortunately “failed and neglected to give clear copies of the result of the election in the polling units (Forms EC 8A) to the Petitioners’ Agents, as the pink copies given to the Petitioners Agents were very faint and unreadable”.

“In reply to the new issue raised in paragraphs 26 and 27 of the 1st Respondent’s Reply, the Petitioners aver that the actual votes obtained at the polling units as shown in the Report incorporated/pleaded in the Petition, show that the Petitioners won a majority of the lawful vote cast at the election, and met the constitutional requirement to be returned/declared as the winner of the election.

“In further answer to the said allegation by the 1st Respondent, the Petitioners aver that the actual result of the election shows that the 2nd Respondent neither won the highest number of lawful votes cast in the election nor met the constitutional requirement, including securing the 1/4 of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to be entitled to be returned/declared as the winner of the Presidential Election.


“Indeed, by the 1st Respondent’s record, the 2nd Respondent is the first candidate since 1999 to be declared the winner of the Presidential election without winning 25% of the votes cast in the FCT.

“The unlawful return/declaration of the 2nd Respondent as the winner of the Presidential Election in the hasty circumstances that characterized the said return/declaration is patently unconstitutional.

“The petitioners admit the averments paragraphs 28, 29 and 30 of the 1st Respondent’s Reply; and in further reaction to the new issues raised, state that the use of BVAS for the transmission/upload of the result of the election in the polling units electronically to the 1st Respondent’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV) is mandatory.

Manual Collation
The Petitioners in answer to the issue of “manual collation” stated in paragraph 31 of the Ist Respondent’s Reply, aver that by the applicable Laws and Regulations, the legitimate mode for resolving disputes at the collation is by resorting to the result uploaded on the IReV using the BVAS. As of the date of filing this Reply on 21st April 2023, the information on the 1st Respondent’s IReV Portal (http://www.inecelection-results.ng) shows that out of the 176,846 polling units, the results submitted were in respect of 167, 433 polling units; and that the percentage of the uploaded results on the IReV is 94.68%.

“In further answer, the Petitioners aver that the Ist Respondent’s IReV containing the election result of the election in the Polling Units (data of the election result) uploaded/stored on the IReV is hosted on the AWS or the Amazon Cloud Platform.


“The petitioners will at the trial rely on the server logs for the IReV Server, as well as the server content of the AWS Cloud Platform.

“In response to the issues raised in paragraphs 44, 45 and 46 of the I st Respondent’s Reply, the Petitioners aver that for resolving disputes relating to the collation of the election result, the only legitimate reference is to resort to the uploaded result from the BVAS to the IReV”, Obi added in the process he filed through his team of lawyers led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/presidential-poll-youre-biased-peter-obi-replies-inec-2/

LegendHero:
Lol fake news to bait deluded people.

Chase him commot like say him he dog?

I am surprised you are not celebrating the news

Buhari, Festus kayemo all failed together

Where Mod dey sef


Referee don blow whistle, match been don end since yesterday and man city don carry the league but thread is still showing "Live"

caleboxylic:
It's remaining Imo state. We have elected our people that have passion for Ala Igbo development. Peter MBA, Nwifuru,,Soludo and Otti are good to go.
May God bless Ala Igbo. We have eight years to go.

Imo State really need to remove the supreme court imposed governor

donbachi:
Time no dey

Walahi!

No time to even check time

Abdulhakeem7:
You're a blatant lier, he's invited just for consolation

What did I lie about

Rahkman:
Atleast liverpool put on a fight till the final day same with Leicester City and Manchester United arsenal gave up at the 70th minute,after staying ontop of the table the whole season

70th minutes is too far, Arsenal gave up at the 45th minutes, infact at half time

Imagine


Governors lodge in all the LGA

mcmurphy132:
Buhari really show ipob pepper .

Igbo will never forget buhari

Every tribe including yours was shown pepper by Buhari

funshint:
Let Akpabio be made the SP first then bring your trouble... chestbeating as usual

A former president of Nigeria once said, "if the Yorubas beat drums of war, he goes to sleep"

Don't pray for trouble because you might be the first victim

helinues:
Whatever, fake news, impersonating and unnecessary attacks on others must be tamed

Fake news, impersonation are qualities and characteristics of a certain drug lord