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TonyRazor:
Ogun Guber: Court dismisses APC suit, awards N6 million to PDP

By Carl Umegboro

The Federal High Court, Abeokuta, presided over by Justice Joyce Obehi Malik, today dismissed the APC v. INEC & 3 ORS suit with Suit No FHC/AB/CS/149/2022 filed by the APC against Hon Ladi Adebutu (the PDP Governorship candidate for Ogun State) and his running mate, Hon Adekunle Akinlade and the PDP, challenging Akinlade and Adebutu’s qualification to contest the 2023 governorship election for alleged double nomination. The court awarded a total of N6 million cost to Adebutu, Akinlade and the PDP.

In the defence for Adebutu, Akinlade and the PDP, Chief Mike Ozekhome led Prof Amuda-Kannike, SAN, Chief Emeka Okpoko, SAN, Isiaka Olagunju, SAN, Kadiri Asamah, SAN, Clement Onwuenwunor, SAN, and a team of other lawyers. Wale Habeeb Ajayi, Esq, was Counsel for the Plaintiff, APC. Chief Mike Ozekhome had urged the court to dismiss the suit in its entirety, notwithstanding the belated notice of discontinuance hurriedly filed by the APC only this morning when it very well knew it had lost the case on its merit. He argued that the case had come up on four different occasions for argument after issues had been properly joined by all parties and arguments had indeed commenced only yesterday, before the APC, sensing its imminent defeat, suddenly threw in the towel belatedly by filing a notice of discontinuance just this morning, the second day of hearing and argument.

Citing several appellate court decisions, including amongst others, ZOAKA V. BUBA & ANOR (2020), OGBU V. NNAMCHI & ANOR (2014), ERONINI V. IHEUKO (1989), and EZOMO V. AG, BENDEL STATE (1986), Ozekhome urged Justice Joyce Obehi Malik to dismiss the suit in its entirety and award heavy cost of 3m against the APC in favour of Adebutu.so as to prevent the APC from ever coming back through the back door to file a similar frivolous suit. Bar Wale Habeeb conceded to the order of dismissal as being the proper order to make, but conceded only 1m as cost. The court wholly agreed with Chief Ozekhome and Kannike' s submissions that the proper order to make in the circumstances of the case was one of outright dismissal and not one of merely striking out the case. She accordingly dismissed the case and awarded N6 million cost in favour of the defendants(N2 million apiece) to Hon Ladi Adebutu (the PDP’s governorship candidate for Ogun State), his running mate, Hon Adekunle Akinlade, and the PDP.

Pdp had already done what APC was seeking from the court, which was the disqualification of Adetubu, Which was done yesterday, APC is ready to drop 10 million Naira for the verdict.

mbaboy:
Yes he will be president of your village town union

Shut up nonsense Awka Ipobian.

Creamypie:
Which best brain babangida used?

Peter Obi should have asked him when a few weeks ago, he went to pay homage to him.

Jostoman:
Story story story

Yes O, the truth is a very bitter pill to swallow.

Tinubu will win the election with a landslide.

Only Obidient youths are ignorant to that, even Atiku and the elders of pdp are aware that it is game dusted and over.

Olivera23:
I wonder what is wrong with our leaders, a bridge without a link road, i[b]s now ready for use[/b]. May God help us all.

Completed, will soon be, is different from now ready to use, where did you read that?

Will soon be, could be the next 15 months.

anonimi:
Yeah, unlike electricity, which is why we have blackouts despite Fashola's ofege promise.
How did we allow Thiefnuibu to scam us with these integriThief people of APC?
Did I hear you say Never Again?
God forbid BaThing. Amen

You cannot pick and choose, you have to be correct historically, if pdp and Jonathan had not handed over our electricity infrastructure to quacks on November 7th 2013, signed to a 25 year agreement, things would have been a lot lot easier.

The blame starts with Peter Obi and Atiku’s Pdp.

realestate99:
Lol!!! Na smackdown be this!!! For people that believed that Buhari is dead, people that believed they are Jews, you can excuse them if they believe that Peter Obi is in the race.

Wow those people, their mumurism is unprecedented.

rickleye:
Not president role to do that. State and Local government. they are closer to the people. You must also build it close to amenities and where people can get access to amenities - transportation system, Schools, Markets and work. There are about 50% of edifaces you call houses that should be pulled down. You want to also avoid ghettos like the US eyesores.

Let Peter Obi Keep deceiving them, you have said it all, it lays with the States and Local Governments, it is even enshrined in the Constitution of 1999 as Amended, but no, the people still choose to remain blind, chasing shadows looking for a Messiah.

Colonial abi na Military mentality, it is always about one person? Zombies.

omenka:
Misplaced priorities. They could have deployed the resources for this to more useful endeavours. There was nothing wrong with the first bridge, why build a second?

No one asked for your opinion, Busybody jonesing Interloper.

cilaas:
I doubt if the Igbo men I know will vote for APC because of the Bridge

It is strategy, Obi can keep the 5% entire votes, as long as it is not with Atiku and Pdp, APC is alright.

No one said the bridge was made specifically for Igbo people, the campaign is geared towards the Federal Government’s achievements, even we aliens to that region have recognized it.

FunnyRoy:
Any Party Contesting Against APC In Lagos State Is Wasting Its Time - Governor Wike
https://www.operanewsapp.com/ng/en/share/detail?news_id=dca75f6622ed9d54de8e1e76d4211b93&news_entry_id=s27e2168221018en_ng&open_type=tanscoded&request_id=news_0cffe640-d69f-4eec-89cc-46d2db1c4c8d&from=news

Same goes for Any Party Contesting Against APC For The Presidency Is Wasting Its Time - Governor Wike

Mrshocker:
Blogger bloggers news lol

The irony is that no government from the South East has associated themselves with Peter Obi, even his home state of Anambra is distancing itself, what is going on?

SHINJA:
Ok

Good you edited it with your own hands to receive your punishment, even the scripture professes stripes of the cane, for the back of a fool.

Please be ready to leave Nigeria like Reno Omokri did in 2015, come June 2023, because the train has left the station, if you missed it, you only have yourself to blame.

SHINJA:
Is far better to marry a traditionalist than to marry a Muslim...

Surely guaranteed, you will suffer in Nigeria till your old & gray because of your ignorance.

SHINJA:
Lols...keep crying .

Tinubu wife should better convert to Islam..she is not and will never be a Christian...

No Christian lady will marry a Muslim man

We leave you in your ignorance o, suffer suffer world, Amen, enjoy for heaven, Amen, Christians go dey yah espiritu heavenus, Moslem go dey call Allahu alkuba.

SHINJA:
A Christian can never marry a Muslim man .

She is not a Christian...

We know her type..

We don't consider her as a Christian..
We don't miss with uncircumcised infidels

What of your mama that married a traditionalist in your Papa?

Who cares about a Peasant like you’s Opinion?

Like I said earlier on, only a Big Fool will waste their time trying to make life blissful for ungrateful elements like yourself.

SHINJA:
A Christian can never marry a Muslim man .

She is not a Christian...

We know her type..

We don't consider her as a Christian..
We don't miss with uncircumcised infidels

Bush illiterate man, it is your type of people that in the late 1990’s that were warning people not to use the internet, that it is been controlled by the Anti Christ.

I leave you in your oblivious ignorance. Mumurist.

SHINJA:
Only bokoharams will vote for tinubu the bokoharam leader

His wife is an ordained Pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, can we say same of your mama?

Hypocrites like Jesus called your type, look at yourself in the mirror first, before you look into the open square to see your reflection.

general111:
Donald duke diid well, i mean very well for cross river state..
Those saying he did notbing were children when he was the governor

Only a Fool will waste his time, trying to effect meaningful change on the most ungrateful people known to existence.

SHINJA:
No sensible Christian will work for tinubu..

Tinubu is a bokoharam leader and a terrorist who hate Christians

Just Thank Peter Obi for weakening Atiku and pdp, and making Bola Ahmed Tinubu President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We sensible open thinkers will vote for Tinubu, unlike closet bigots like yourself, If you tried to use what is in that your head. You would be more interested in the comparative advantage your state has to offer that can empower you, not looking to Abuja like one clueless Almijiri.

Charity we know as they say, begins at home.

Cantonese:
Olodo. Go school, No. You prefer touting and always talking out of point.

Simple question, you no fit answer.

Apart from Peter Obi, which other governor wey EFCC and ICPC never call make dem come answer case? Na the question be that for broken English, wey be your level.

Bola Tinubu just to mention one.

Babatunde Fashola to mention two.

Akinwunmi Ambode to mention three.

Only a Mumu believes an allegation against someone is equally guilt?

Then from your logic, Peter Obi is guilty of the facts in the Pandora papers?

A sensible person would have asked how many have been convicted by a competent court of law, not how many were invited.

ScamHunter:
After their tenures, which other state governors had clean records like Peter Obi? I need an authentic list of governors whose records are clean. I mean those that were not even invited by any of these agencies once.

Abuja is not Awka, not more than 20% of the people around Peter Obi will be Igbo, under his nose in his administration, they will steal left right and center to get their own dividends of this democrazy we practice in Nigeria.

Or Peter Obi’s campaign manager Doyin Okupe of pdp fame, will not chop money as a Federal Minister?

Musauzor:
The BATstard knows that he will be floored in Rivers State by HE PO. That's why he's seriously luring the madman, Wike to his side but we'll show them.

That same wicked Wike that chased Peter Obi away from pdp?

DSC7:
Most Jos guys here told me that as far as they are concerned Inec should just declare Peter Obi winner already,,, i asked why;they said the whole plateau state is OBIdient.... Omo i shock...


Igbos and south south no carry Obi matter for head reach NC especially Jos.....


Next election go really shake/shape Nigeria...

Obidient jos guys like yourself that don’t have pvc?

Prime minister Liz Truss of the UK comes to mind as a good analogy for Peter Obi, so much noise pre election, after the elections, about a month later, completely clueless.

oka4ugoo:
One woman even asked, "who be kwankwanso"?

Honestly kwankwanso lost out even he refused/failed to deputize Peter Obi, perhaps thinking he's more popular than Peter Obi.

But now e don clear for em eyes say him and Peter no dey the same league. That he has been left far behind.

Next now na to sell his right to highest bidder between Atiku or Tinubu

Honestly speaking it shows how politically naive you really are.

Are you referring to this same Peter Obi, Abubakar Atiku’s House Boy?

Are you aware that Kwankwaso defeated Peter Obi’s Oga in the primaries of 2014?

NaijaRoyalty:
Obi is your next President wether you like it or not

President of where? Maybe Eastern Nigeria I suppose?

When the FG eventually releases Nnamdi Kanu next month after much begging to Malami, Obi should tell that to the ipobians and the ESN Patriotic Front, that he wants to be President of Zoo Nigeria.

Nonsense, let us see if he has the guts to enter the East to campaign, when the people there are still asking where Biafra is.

So all those your contemporary brain washed youths killed under the guise of Biafra by the Nigerian Army died so that Peter Obi can become President of The Zoo Republic?

No wonder Mazi Nnamdi Kanu cursed his people, like Prophet Moses cursed the Israelites.

MansoryMX:
Urchins and Agbado slaves will have nightmares because of this news


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Very funny coming from Shaq attack, this is how small news excites children like yourself.

Only you political toddlers are unaware that Peter Obi is wasting his time, he is working Bola Tinubu.

A former Governor of a state for 8 years, that doesn’t reside in the state, what kind of mercenary is that?

From APGA he ran to PDP, now he has bailed to the Labor Parry?

Tenses:
Yahoo confirmed Obi is winning

CNN confirmed that Obi chances are bright

BBC confirmed that Obi is the candidate to beat

Boomerang confirmed that Obi is the leading candidate in 2023 election

Financial time has confirmed that Obi is the next president of Nigeria.

One riff-raff, lowlife urchinson will come here and start crying Obi cannot win.

All of them confirmed that President Buhari was going to lose in 2019?

How far?

I doubt if Peter Obi will even win the South East, what a waste of suffrage for anyone who votes for him like his brother Nnamani warned his ndigbo brethren.

urbobo20:
Mr rufai that gas plants is 90 percent in otor udu 5 per jeremi

Shut up, it is 100% in Otu Jeremi.

The plant is about 5 minutes drive to the junction of The Okobaro of Jeremi’s palace on High Court Road Otu Jeremi.

sidonlook:
Where is "ministry of water resources "? We need to review and audit our budget for the past 30 years and bring to book all who collected money for any project on the Benue River.
Nigeria is getting worse every day and it is time we vote for a visionary leader
.
Do not vote for old and sick people.
Be Obidient

Joker, you think politics is for jesters?

Ministry of Water resources, are you referring to the ministry in Asaba, or the one in Awka?

Or are you directing your sarcasm to the Ministry in Abuja?

Ekejoestar:
Effects of bad govt
Why did pdp and APC govt refuse to build a dam to counter the effects of the cameroonian dam overflow which results to perennial flooding?

But this fulani govt carry cow matter for head as if that's why NIGERIANS voted them in in the first place.

The damages as a result of this will be running into billions of dollars not to talk of human lives that will be lost, of which a paltry sum of that money would have been enough to stop all these.

E remain make mr shock absorber express shock.

FTC, I dedicate this my FTC to all lovers of progress in Nigeria, all those who wish to see our nation rise to greater heights of success and prosperity may God bless you all.

Vote wisely next year cos effect of bad leadership doesn't segregate from APC supporter to LP supporter, don't vote because of ethnicity or religion but be patriotic in voting for the best man.

Mumu because to you, you can just wake up and construct a dam?

Do you know the ecological implications that comes with it?

porthouse7:
Ogun state alone generate more revenue than d entire east

Let Peter Obi Keep deceiving himself, I want to be President of Nigeria? only by mistake as vp, when your Oga dies.