₦airaland Forum

IyaebeTheGreat:
They should stop sticking their noses in what does not concern them. There's no perfect election anywhere in the world.

Pristine664:
Obi: We won the election and we will prove it

Datti: Tinubu should not be sworn in on May 29 (CJN should not risk it bla bla bla)

Compare these statements to Kwankwaso political talks.

CaptainFM1:
Are we dealing with Obi here or we talking about Channels TV? Why is everybody fearful and losing their breath on Obi?

tsdarkside:
obi is a disgrace....

kiki....voice like broken down kekenatep....

Pristine664:
He never said he (Kwankwaso) won the election.

He never said the president-elect should not be sworn in.

Segol:
Your candid opinion is urgently needed. If Labour Party had been declared winner of February 25 Presidential Election in Nigeria and Labour Party is also declared winner of March 18 gubernatorial election in Lagos. What do you think will be happening in both the society and in the cyber space now.

Jack500:
Keep hallucinating, you will soon wake up

Jack500:
You are just fooling yourself, if he didn't get the majority votes, who did?

duro2chang:
Everything about Labour party and Obi is lie, provocation, mischief, falsehood, blackmail, provocation, intimidation, character assassination and mudsling.

Mynd44:
As President-Elect, there are things you can't say or do else you will be usurping the incumbent

manutdrichie:
We expect more propaganda by tomorrow

Something like, when peter obi was 7yrs old he refused to fetch water for his grand mother

APC can do anything for power

GogetterMD:
Yes daddy helter shelter

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika is under fire for spending a whopping sum of N12 billion to acquire 10 firefighting trucks in Nigeria Airports.

Sirika disclosed on Sunday that he commissioned ten firefighting trucks for the Federal Airports Authority, FAAN.

In his post through Twitter, a microblogging site, Sirika revealed that FAAN had not bought firefighting trucks in 15 years.


“Just commissioned 10 Firefighting trucks, the total cost of over 12Bn Naira. More to come in due course. Safety has been the Buhari focus in Aviation since 2015. Hitherto, FAAN has not bought new trucks in 15 years”, the Minister posted.

However, in a swift response to Sirika’s post, Nigerians said spending N12 billion on Ten firefighting trucks is a fraud.

“How would Ten fighting trucks cost N12 billion?” Nigerians queried.


Nigerians’ reactions below:

According to the Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress and an activist, Omoyole Sowore, the Minister and President Muhammadu Buhari had finished Nigeria.

In his tweet, he said: “Wow! You mean you bought a single fire engine for over $2 million each. Wonders shall never cease. You and @mbuhari really finished Nigeria!”.

@Mood Obidient

I can confirm that Firefighting trucks are expensive depending on the model, and it is in the interest of Nigerians to know the exact specification before concluding.


Yes, the 10 Firefighting trucks can also cost 12Bn Naira depending on the dollar exchange rate.

In fact, according to The Morning Call, a ladder truck for Forks, Indiana, was estimated to cost $2.5 million.

Dover fire department estimates it costs them $840,000 to put a fully equipped pumper engine on the road.

Please inform the public of the exact Firefighting trucks purchased

@Valchekwas:

I spent the last hours researching how much fire trucks cost; the expensive high-end trucks cost $650,000 (which Nigeria never gets the best of, I can bet these are used trucks too).


NYC fire fighting trucks cost $550k each; what truck did you buy for $2.8m

You, sir and your cohorts are thieves.

Give the spec of this truck and what makes it N1.2B each— the ridiculous broad daylight robbery of our coffers.

The controversy over the alleged plot to install an interim government in the country has continued unabated as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described it as a covert plan by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) to subvert the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

The main opposition party, which has also restated its opposition to an interim government, describing it as unconstitutional, also charged the DSS to work covertly like its counterparts all over the world to unmask the politicians plotting to truncate the swearing-in of a new government on May 29.

But in a swift response, the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the APC has said that the main opposition party was suffering from post-election trauma.The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, who blamed the APC for the DSS alarm, in an interview with THISDAY in Abuja yesterday, argued that the ruling party was aware that it did not win the presidential election held on February 25.


According to the main opposition party, the ruling party is working covertly to suggest that the opposition parties are clamouring for an interim government, knowing full well that both the President-elect, Bola Tinubu and the party cannot survive the outcome of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.“The entire idea of an interim government is a plot by the APC and the DSS to subvert the outcome of the presidential election tribunal. Why should the PDP be part of it? We know the PDP won the presidential election. We are at the presidential tribunal to prove we won; so, why must we follow all illegal routes?“As a party of due process and a party that believes in the Constitution of Nigeria, we are in the presidential election tribunal challenging the illegalities that took place on February 25.

“Why should we opt for a short option? Look, the idea of the interim government is the brainchild of the APC, because they knew what they concocted with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); the APC knew that the election is nothing but a sham and therefore cannot stand the test of time.“This explains its theory of Interim government with the DSS, trying to find a way out of their awful rigging. Have you been reading international journals and newspapers and seeing how Nigeria has become a laughing stock as well as begging serious democratic nations to congratulate Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president-elect?“If the presidential election was credible, international communities will on their own congratulate the winner of the election,” Ologunagba explained.He urged the DSS to stop making unnecessary claims and statements, reminding it that as secret police, it should engage in covert operations to unmask those behind the alleged plot to install an interim government.“We, in the PDP, will advise them to emulate their counterparts all over the world. They don’t make unnecessary claims and statements. The DSS is a secret police. They undergo covert operations. They are not to be seen, their actions are secrets and are louder than voices.“We challenge them to arrest and prosecute those politicians with entrenched interest,” he added.

PDP Suffering from Post-election Trauma, APC Claims

Reacting to the PDP’s allegation, the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the APC told THISDAY that the main opposition party was suffering from post-election trauma.[/b]The spokesperson of the campaign, Mr. [b]Festus Keyamo, (SAN), while reacting to PDP’s allegation, said there was no correlation between Interim National Government and Election Petition Tribunal because the invitation comes before the court’s decision.He said: “There is no correlation between the court and the interim national government because the court decision will not come before the inauguration. So, there is no correlation, it is a corkless statement. How does it affect it? They are afraid Asiwaju will lose in court; how does it affect it? The statement does not make sense. There is no logic behind that statement.

“Except you can’t tell me the logic; maybe, I’m not seeing it, but when you explain the logic better, I can see, but I am not seeing the logic.“How will cooking up a story of interim national government help the court case? How does it help the court case? PDP, they are suffering from post-election trauma, that’s what they are affecting from. When somebody is suffering from trauma, there is no logic behind what they are saying,” Keyamo added.

PDP Directs State Chapters to Submit Reports in 2023 General Election

Meanwhile, the main opposition party has directed all the state chapters of the party to submit a comprehensive report of the outcome of the general election, to enable it to form and take decisions. When asked when the party will summon the meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC), Ologunagba said, “at the moment, the National Working Committee (NWC) has directed all our state chapters to give us a comprehensive report of what happened during the general election, it is only upon after that can we contemplate a meeting of NEC.”

In a related development, the South-south zone of the PDP has hailed the party over the amicable resolution of the crisis that emerged from the suspension of the party’s chairman, Senator Iyrochia Ayu, and his replacement by Alhaji Iliya Umar.The zonal committee has also called for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation committee to achieve lasting peace in the party.The resolutions of the South-South chapter of the party followed a meeting of the Chief Dan Orbih-led zonal branch at the zonal headquarters in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.

The party in a statement issued by its zonal publicity secretary, Bishop Etim Ante while commending its candidates who won in the 2023 general election, also commended the NWC for its handling of Ayu’s suspension saga and the subsequent assumption of office by the Deputy National Chairman North, Alhaji Iliya Umar Damagum as acting National Chairman.“The zone calls for an amicable resolution of all lingering crises bedeviling the party.“The zone recommends the setting up of a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to achieve lasting peace and unity for the progress and growth of the party,” the South-south PDP said following the decision of Ayu to step down as national chairman,” it added.

North4Obi23:
The judgment, which was delivered in the case of Mohammed Abacha versus the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the current Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, while serving as a Supreme Court justice, declared that forfeiture means “the loss of a right, privilege or property because of a crime”.

“The word ‘forfeiture’ means the divestiture of property without compensation. The loss of a right, privilege, or property because of a crime, breach of obligation, or neglect of duty,” Justice Ariwoola held in a majority decision.

He noted that any person who has forfeited property on the basis of a crime cannot be entitled to indemnity, adding that forfeiture is a form of punishment, and that there is no indemnity in Nigeria’s criminal procedure.

While many legal experts have argued that the Tinubu’s case is quite different from that of Mohammed Abacha, others stated that the peculiarities of the case would need the court to determine if the US court’s ruling has relevance in Nigeria.

Though the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, did not include the Chicago drug case in their petitions challenging the declaration of Tinubu as President-elect, the party’s Presidential Campaign Council had in January threatened to drag Tinubu to court.

The party’s campaign council had argued that he should not participate in the February 25 presidential election on the premise of an alleged criminal case of trafficking in drugs that led to his subsequent forfeiture of the sum of $460,000 to the US authorities.

The spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke in Abuja, had expressed the determination of the campaign council to file for an accelerated hearing in the case in the interest of the nation.

According to him, Nigeria’s laws do not permit an alleged convict, let alone an individual convicted on account of the international crime of trafficking in narcotics, to stand election at any level, adding that Nigeria cannot afford the embarrassment of having an alleged convict hold office at any level.

He added that the campaign council would ask the court to “declare Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, having been allegedly convicted, as ineligible to contest the Presidential election under section 137 (1) (d) of the 1999 Constitution;

“Compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately delist Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the APC or any other political party for that matter and expunge his name from all materials and documents related to the 2023 presidential election.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the United States Court in sentencing Tinubu ordered, ‘that the funds in the amount of $460,000 in the name of Tinubu represents proceeds of alleged narcotics trafficking or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. S1956 and 1957 and therefore these funds are forfeited to the United States pursuant to 21 U.S.C. S881(a)(6) and 18 U.S.C S981.’

“From the declaration of the court and the sentencing, it is clear that Tinubu was summarily convicted by the court, took no step to challenge the judgment but acceded to the forfeiture of the $460,000 found to be the proceeds of narcotics trafficking,” it stressed.

Ologbondiyan further noted that “Nigeria is a signatory to such international conventions and therefore is mandatorily obligated to implement the consequential effect of the conviction imposed on Tinubu by a court of competent jurisdiction in the criminal case of trafficking in narcotics.

“The import of the foregoing is that under the 1999 Constitution (as amended), having been so convicted and fined and having acceded to the sentencing by way of forfeiture of $460,000 and have not received any state pardon or acquitted by any court of competent jurisdiction, Asiwaju Tinubu remains a convict and the consequential effect is that he cannot contest the election at any level in Nigeria.

“The effect is that the listing of the name of Bola Tinubu, who stands allegedly convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction on the ballot for the 2023 presidential election is by the virtue of Section 137 (1) (d) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) fundamentally illegal, invalid and must be expunged immediately,” he further explained.

But responding to the PDP campaign council’s press conference, the spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, had described the Atiku/Okowa Organisation as a body that was deficient in ideas and originality. He noted that until its APC counterpart took Atiku to court for alleged confession to have fraudulently helped himself to state resources while serving as Vice President, the PDP campaign council did not know the road to court.

He said: “Why did they wait all these months until we filed before they are now rushing to court? I challenged them more than two months ago, yet they did nothing. It shows a team that is lacking in originality, lacking in ideas, and lacking in vision.

“It is just an attempt to create a counter-suit to our own. Unfortunately for them, Nigerians have seen through them already. They are Special Purpose Vehicles advocates that are trying to turn the tide of public opinion. Nigerians have decided; Nigerians have rejected them. This is so laughable that Nigerians are beginning to see that these are remorseless people; leopards that cannot change their skin.”

While Tinubu’s traducers have argued that his victory would be upturned by the courts, his supporters think otherwise, given the fact that he has never been convicted by any court anywhere to warrant his disqualification from occupying elective offices.

However, no matter the outcome of Obi’s petition in the election tribunal, the final decision on his petition will put the issue of Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 to rest permanently.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/04/02/obis-petition-as-tinubus-nightmare

madridguy:
Yes daddy Daddy you can move to the system where law governs. Atleast Prof. Mahmood tried his best by preventing some hackers to hack our election.

Prof. Mahmood deserves plenty accolades.

naijapips04:
Those that know Peter Obi from his days as Anambra Governor know what a bigot he is. They won't be surprised one bit by this phone leak.

Peter pitted Anglicans against Catholics. Governorship elections in Anambra then was a full fledged religious war.

The highly manipulative desperate bigot didn't take long to show his full colours. Nigeria would have been in a full blown religious war if that mkpi had won.

The ambitious bigot divided us so much along tribal and religious lines.

May Peter "Yes Daddy" Obi never rule Nigeria. Isee!