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Why wont you go to court if you lose fraudulently? This is not the time to tell people what will make them feel good.

Fame=ACN

Shame=GEJ+BEAF

In 2011 someone will either be VOTED IN or VOTED OUT. Nobody will be RETURNED IN.

How did you people manage to chase BEAF away from this thread?

U 4got to mention that your GEJ will solve our problems & take our misery away. Finally one ailment without IBB or Atiku

@poster - your kite wont fly

@osasyankee - cheap and idiotic comment.

If you think its only when you embarrass the US by arranging a fake trial of D. Chiney that America will wake up and help you try Atiku, you must be joking. If you haven't got he balls to try Atiku yourself for alleged money laundering, dont expect the US to do it for you. Beaf has been watching too much BEN10 and Barney films and just wont grow up on this Atiku matter.

That was 1999.
By 2003, he was fairly in control.
That said, he still needed Atiku's help in 2003

I thought a sitting President doesn't need help the way GEJ people seem to give us the impression that his is a done deal.

You see how a man man is declared wanted and promptly arrested. Not the Atiku is wanted in the US rant by BEAF.

Its I.DIOTIC to even believe this post

I am not sure you can be declared wanted in the US and find the UK a safe haven. GEJ people try again

See long it is taking BEAF to post the Warrant of Arrest on Atiku. Hope he's not designing a website?

Oh no!! the kpomo and MEATY distraction has started.

Ok. Keep it coming guys. Thread is going on fine. So far no MEATY distraction.

Nice and tempting proposition. SE=VP @ 2011 + SE=P @ 2015. Igbos go for it. This is your best bet.

Shine your eyes Nigerians. Booby traps all the way.

I will make no further comment until he gets to the Senate and is faced with millions and does not compromise.

So what was the transport fare doled out to the invitees?

This fire has no smoke

Any case against Cheney is likely to be done with US say so; its most likely that US authorities want a local outcome from Cheney for which the Nigerian angle is a bargaining chip which will die down once the US has what it wants.

Why not mention Atiku and rest your case.

Nobody is talking about the spending habits of people. If my neighbour does not have 6 cars wont the economy heal?

The Apostle needs education not money.

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Madam EFCC wants DICK chiney badly. Arrest Uduaghan now you wont. When he becomes Gov you'll shouting immunity.

@emcaluv The policeman you've been giving 20naira all your life without wanting something from him what do you call that

The Chief Judge of the Abuja High Court, Justice Lawal Gummi, while delivering judgment in a suit filed by a member of the party, Dutsinma, yesterday held that when a party had made a constitution for itself, it must comply with the provisions of its constitution.
He, however, said it was within the party's discretion to decide how its zoning arrangement would be implemented.
According to the judge, Article 7.2 (c) of the first defendant’s constitution (PDP) 2009 as amended recognizes the principle of zoning and rotation of party and public elective offices.

He said: “The said article is subsisting and binding on the party, its organs and members. But I am unable to make a declaration that the North is entitled to bear the presidential ticket of the first defendant for two consecutive terms 2007 and 2011 respectively as the South did in 1999 and 2003, same being a political question and therefore not justifiable.”
Justice Gummi also declined to make a declaration that PDP would be in breach of its constitution if it sponsored a Southern presidential aspirant when the North had not exhausted its two consecutive terms.
Justice Gummi further said: “Though Article 7.2 (c) recognizes zoning and rotation. I[b]t is an internal matter for the party to determine and decide how and where the zoning should be done."[/b]
He also said that compelling a political party to sponsor a candidate from a particular zone was obviously an act of delving into the internal affairs of the party.

On this note Justice Gummi endorsed the general principle that the court should respect the independence of parties in matters that were strictly the internal affairs of the party.
The court also said that if a party’s constitution made a provision as to how its affairs should be run, it must be run in that direction.
He said the court was duty bound to ensure that the party complied with its constitutional requirements.
In this instance, Justice Gummi said the PDP constitution recognized zoning and rotation even though it had not proved how it should be carried out among members of the party.

The court also held that for it to therefore give an order that only candidates from a particular zone should be sponsored where the constitution of the PDP had not so defined would amount to an invitation for the court to delve into internal affairs of the party.
The plaintiff, Dutsinma, had brought the suit via an originating summons asking the court for a declaration that Article 7.2(c) of the first defendant's constitution 2009 as amended was subsisting and binding on the party, its organs and members.
He also asked for a declaration that the North was entitled to bear the presidential ticket of the first defendant for two consecutive terms 2007 and 2011 respectively as the South did in 1999 and 2003.



what is the jubilation about really?

www.thisdayonline.com

Court Okays Zoning But Fails to Stop Jonathan
From Tobi Soniyi in Abuja, 12.01.2010


An Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has said President Goodluck Jonathan can contest the 2011 presidential election, though it also upheld the zoning arrangement enshrined in Article 7.2 (c) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) constitution.
The court refused to declare that the North was entitled to produce the president by 2011.

The Chief Judge of the Abuja High Court, Justice Lawal Gummi, while delivering judgment in a suit filed by a member of the party, Dutsinma, yesterday held that when a party had made a constitution for itself, it must comply with the provisions of its constitution.
He, however, said it was within the party's discretion to decide how its zoning arrangement would be implemented.
According to the judge, Article 7.2 (c) of the first defendant’s constitution (PDP) 2009 as amended recognizes the principle of zoning and rotation of party and public elective offices.

He said: “The said article is subsisting and binding on the party, its organs and members. But I am unable to make a declaration that the North is entitled to bear the presidential ticket of the first defendant for two consecutive terms 2007 and 2011 respectively as the South did in 1999 and 2003, same being a political question and therefore not justifiable.”
Justice Gummi also declined to make a declaration that PDP would be in breach of its constitution if it sponsored a Southern presidential aspirant when the North had not exhausted its two consecutive terms.
Justice Gummi further said: “Though Article 7.2 (c) recognizes zoning and rotation. It is an internal matter for the party to determine and decide how and where the zoning should be done."
He also said that compelling a political party to sponsor a candidate from a particular zone was obviously an act of delving into the internal affairs of the party.

On this note Justice Gummi endorsed the general principle that the court should respect the independence of parties in matters that were strictly the internal affairs of the party.
The court also said that if a party’s constitution made a provision as to how its affairs should be run, it must be run in that direction.
He said the court was duty bound to ensure that the party complied with its constitutional requirements.
In this instance, Justice Gummi said the PDP constitution recognized zoning and rotation even though it had not proved how it should be carried out among members of the party.

The court also held that for it to therefore give an order that only candidates from a particular zone should be sponsored where the constitution of the PDP had not so defined would amount to an invitation for the court to delve into internal affairs of the party.
The plaintiff, Dutsinma, had brought the suit via an originating summons asking the court for a declaration that Article 7.2(c) of the first defendant's constitution 2009 as amended was subsisting and binding on the party, its organs and members.
He also asked for a declaration that the North was entitled to bear the presidential ticket of the first defendant for two consecutive terms 2007 and 2011 respectively as the South did in 1999 and 2003.

He asked for an order compelling PDP, its organs and members to respect the provision of Article 7.2 (c) of the party's constitution as amended by sponsoring a Northern presidential aspirant in the 2011 presidential election.
In its defence, PDP said it did not zone the presidency to the North for two consecutive terms.
In a counter-affidavit filed by the party to the suit, PDP said that the fact that it zoned the presidency to the North in 2007 did not mean that it would zone it to the same region for 2011.
In an eight-paragraph counter-affidavit to the originating summons, PDP also said it had not singled out any aspirant for encouragement, let alone adopt any aspirant from any part of Nigeria to vie for the office of the president of Nigeria under its platform.

The party said its constitution never specified that any zone would serve for two consecutive terms and as such, asked the court to discountenance the plaintiff’s statement claiming that a zone was entitled to two terms.
The affidavit, which was sworn to by a lawyer in the employment of the party, Mr. Owukori Akuyibo, who said he had the authority of the party's Legal Adviser, Chief Olusola Oke, to depose to the affidavit read: “It is not correct to state that the presidential flag bearer of the 1st defendant (PDP) for the 2011 election is zoned to the Northern Nigeria as the 1st defendant has decided that its members from all parts of Nigeria are free to apply to fly the 1st defendant’s flag."

Whoever said it was a judicial matter?

You guys make me laugh. We're just going round in circles here.

I am telling you that the reason those salaries are so high is that those senators and reps, in fact anyone in a position of authority in Nigeria is UNDER HEAVY FINANCIAL AND MORAL PRESSURE from family, friends, kinsmen, political godfathers etc etc, more so than any other place ON EARTH.

WHO THEN WILL ACT TO REDUCE THOSE SALARIES?

Who is the ''we'' in your post above?

That person you think should act is himself under even GREATER pressure than the senators and reps to make it big!

So who will bell the cat?

You yourself cannot do it if YOU got to power.

Nobody likes to be seen as a fool by his people. Nobody here will serve as a senator or VP and expect to be seen afterwards driving a 1991 Tokunbo Hyundai and living in a 2 bedroom in Ketu or Orile.

You would expect (and be expected) to be able to reside in VI, Abuja, GRA, VGC, and so on, failing which your own wife, even your children, will regard you as a complete waste of space, maybe even abandon you altogether to your sufferhead existence. Your people will blame it on a curse someone placed on you.

Until we learn to face facts and decide on how we as a people look at life, we will be here in 20 years still abusing ''our leaders'' for merely reflecting us.

Truth has always been bitter

Now we know. Those who wanted proof here you have it. Over to huhuonline.

Is that all you can say? No more insults. Have you forgotten I live in beer parlour $ swim in pepper soup? Come dish it.