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zoedew:
No Sir! The duty of the court is to act on documents presented before it and proved. Uzodinma presented a result sheet. Ihedioha and INEC did not do what in law is required to discredit the results sheet. In law it is taken as proved. Justice to Ihedioha should also be justice to Uzodinma. The Supreme Court will be stepping into the ring and doing injustice to Uzodinma by doing Ihedioha and INEC job for them. The law is that there must be an end to litigation!

So it makes sense to you that if a candidate presents documents showing he won more votes than there are registered voters, the SC must accept them AND order him sworn into office IMMEDIATELY, so as not to be accused of “stepping into the ring”.! Law is said to be very technical but this is pure absurdity

zoedew:
Bullseye!
Non-lawyers probably miss that. Lawyers already saw that and more!Since it is an impartial arbiter The Supreme Court in all the circumstances could not but decide the matter the way it did. I have this funny but yet unsubstantiated feeling that INEC deliberately played down its response to the petition for obvious reasons.

Not just INEC, SC acted like part of the conspiracy.

They pretended not to see what is right in front of them! Don’t u think the SC has a duty to EXAMINE the appellant’s documents and decide wether they are up to par and wether the figures therein make sense vis-a- vis number of registered and accredited voters??!!

allthingsgood:
My dear stop blabbing. It's not only inec that has duty of producing evidence. It's actually the duty of the party alleging irregularity. U can't claim that an election was improper without producing any evidence to that effect. Pdp did not produce any evidence other than mere allegation! Supreme decision is very sound

My brother, LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! Forget about this particular case! This is your country’s future we are talking about!

This is a horrible judgment that sets dangerous precedent. A person that came 10th can easily be declared winner and IMMEDIATELY sworn into office.
All they’d do is present result sheets and the Supreme Court MUST accept them no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!
WOW!!!

That is what you are supporting in a bid to win a meaningless argument on a faceless, anonymous forum!!

Can’t you see that the SC has a duty to EXAMINE the appellant’s documents and decide wether they are up to par and wether the figures therein make sense vis-a- vis number of registered and accredited voters??!!

tee2faith:
Exercise in futility. The very step he ought to have taken in the first place. Now, after bashing the Supreme Court judges left, right and center, you now expect the same court to rule in your favour?

People, LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! Forget about this particular case! This is your country’s future we are talking about!

This is a horrible judgment that sets dangerous precedent. A person that came 10th can easily be declared winner. All they’d do is present result sheets and the Supreme Court MUST accept them no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!
WOW!!!

What that means is that a ruling party (who we all know actually controls the “independent” INEC) can rig any election with impunity by manipulating INEC as to what to present or not present in court! Which will inevitably lead to a one-party state!
That is what we are supporting in a bid to win a meaningless argument on a faceless, anonymous forum!!

MICHEALADEX:
Returning to the same Tanko OK come closer Mr looser and get another knockout

People, LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! Forget about this particular case! This is your country’s future we are talking about!

This is a horrible judgment that sets dangerous precedent. A person that came 10th can easily be declared winner. All they’d do is present result sheets and the Supreme Court MUST accept them no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!
WOW!!!

What that means is that a ruling party (who we all know actually controls the “independent” INEC) can rig any election with impunity by manipulating INEC as to what to present or not present in court! Which will inevitably lead to a one-party state!
That is what we are supporting in a bid to win a meaningless argument on a faceless, anonymous forum!!

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Wow

Blindersoff:
You are hell bent on continuing with these your obtuse posts.

The judgement was just and extremely good.

Next time any other litigant would ensure they have all documentation ready even if INEC does not have or refuses to present their own.

There were 3 people involved in this case and not just Uzodinma vs INEC. It was UZODINMA vs INEC/IHEDIOHA so even if INEC refuses to present, IHEDIOHA should have presented and then INEC would be on the hot seat

Justice knows how to balance itself.

Enjoy your Sunday filled with HOPE

You don’t understand. Ihedioha/PDP have no documents from those areas because none was issued to them!

Bros, forget about winning this meaningless argument. This is an anonymous, faceless forum.

This is a horrible judgment that sets dangerous precedent. A person that came 10th can easily be declared winner. All they’d do is present result sheets and the Supreme Court MUST accept them no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!
WOW!!!
Just look at what u r supporting in a bid to win a meaningless argument!

berrystunn:
Government magic they can use any element and also give 200 reason.

Breaking…Rt.Hon. Emeka Ihedioha Returns To Supreme Court.

Former Gov. Emeka Ihedioha has gone back to the supreme court seeking to be returned as the Governor of Imo State, he approached the Apex Court on thursday based on the following reasons..

1. Uzodinma was not APC candidate & was not a candidate of any party in the 9th March Governorship election in Imo State based on the judgement of the same Supreme Court on 20th December 2019.

2. Uche Nwosu was declared as the rightful candidate of APC & AA and was disqualified for double candidature.

3. APC couldn’t have produced 2 candidates in one election.

4. Supreme Court have no powers to allocate votes to any candidate.

5. Supreme Court have no power to increase the number of people accredited by INEC.

6. Somebody that was not a candidate cannot be winner of an election he was not a candidate.

7. Nigerian Police have no powers to
organize elections in Nigeria.

8. Results tendered by a police officer cannot be admitted in any court as exhibit as he was not INEC officer.

Based on the above facts that are still subsisting Ihedioha & PDP have applied for review & he might return to his office as the elected Governor of Imo State.

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Something just occurred to me! HOW COULD WE HAVE MISSED THIS?!
Here it is:

SC just handed INEC (and by proxy any ruling party, which is who usually controls INEC) the power to rig any election with impunity. ALL THEY’D DO IS REFUSE TO PRODUCE THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS OF THE AREAS WHERE THEIR CANDIDATE RIGGED. And just like that their candidate’s fake result sheet must be accepted no matter how outrageous it is! Which means he can become the winner even if he came 10th!!

That will invariably lead to a one-party state!

Unless u can articulate an antidote, that makes this judgment not just bad but quite dangerous!!

Blindersoff:
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Spewing trash does not make you sensible. Justice cannot be Hoodwinked.

Enough of your senselessness please. Headaches are real

Forget this particular case. Look at the big picture. This is also your country.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO MITIGATE THE PRECEDENT SET BY THIS HORRIBLE JUDGMENT??

CanadaOrBust:
Once again, an electoral body swore in court that certain documents supposedly issued by it were inauthentic. NOT ONLY THAT, the documents themselves truely looked incomplete and inauthentic. NOT ONLY THAT, figures from said documents would make for funny electoral totals.
YET, without even cursory examination of said documents and based SOLEY on them, the SC promptly sacked a sitting gov and replaced him by the man who came up with the said clearly questionable documents and who came FOURTH in said election!

And you see nothing wrong with that??

According to you the only way is for INEC to produce the originals. So from now on the only way INEC can prove they never issued a document is to produce the original. That makes sense to you bah?

garfield1, Blindersoff, Olaolufred, Agboriotejoye

Something just occurred to me! HOW COULD WE HAVE MISSED THIS?!
Here it is:

SC just handed INEC (and by proxy any ruling party, which is who usually controls INEC) the power to rig any election with impunity. ALL THEY DO IS REFUSE TO PRODUCE THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS OF THE AREAS WHERE THEIR CANDIDATE RIGGED. And just like that their candidate’s fake result sheet must be accepted no matter how outrageous it is! Which means he can become the winner even if he came 10th!!

That will invariably lead to a one-party state!

Unless u can articulate an antidote, that makes this judgment not just bad but quite dangerous!!

Can we get honest opinions from any long-term Nigerans in Australia and Canada

Wow!

xpmode:
You might want to define your injustice as regard to the case.
INEC officials who run independently in the state messed up Election result, SC pass judgement based on fact presented before them where is the injustice.

Definition of injustice is when u present clearly questionable and obviously faulty documents that INEC has sworn are inauthentic, then without examining those documents, and based SOLELY on those documents, a Supreme Court orders immediate removal of a gov, to be replaced by a fourth place finisher, the sole person who supplied the questionable documents.

That is the definition of injustice.

Blindersoff:
I don't know why you are blindly arguing a judgement whose simplicity can be seen even from space.

The judgement has been delivered and the only 2 sides which stayed on the side of the law were the Supreme Court and hope Uzodinmas counsel.

The counsels of INEC and PDP were monumental flops and legendary móròns.

If you still wish to lament and cry then go ahead but know that tears cannot erase or reverse a Supreme Court Judgement credibly given.

Have a great weekend......HOPEFULLY

Maybe u missed this:

Any unbiased person with a robust sense of fairness would have a problem with this SC ruling.

BOTTOM LINE - You don’t lightly remove a gov and hand the seat to a person that came fourth in the election. If u must do so make sure the documentary basis for your action are authenticated, collaborated, totally above board, and beyond reproach!
In this case not only do the documents (which are the ONLY basis for the judgment) look totally faulty, INEC itself swore they were inauthentic. PLUS, adding figures from them would make for quite ridiculous electoral totals!

That ought never be the basis for immediate replacement of a gov by a 4th place finisher!

THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE.

Nice chatting with y’all!

xpmode:
This is the truth, we should not be rubbishing our National Institution just because of Politics.

Clinton knew she was rigged out in the election but remained silent to protect US dignity.

It is cowardice to keep quiet in the face of injustice or to not point out evidence that an institution might be compromised.

Besides, Clinton was not rigged out at all. She handily won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote!

Olaolufred:
IHEDIOHA WAS FRAUDULENTLY RIGGED IN AS THE SUPREME COURT HAS PROVEN.

IT HAD BEEN PROVEN THAT UZO'S CASE ISN'T DISPROVED BY HIS OPPONENT.

SO HIS PRESENTED RESULTS ARE ADMISSIBLE AND PRESUMED ORIGINAL UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.

THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO PROVE IT OTHERWISE DIDN'T PROVE ANYTHING AT ALL.

WITH THE FIGURES SHOWN IN THIS CASE.

CANDIDATE 3 WOULD COME 3RD BEHIND IHEDIOHA.
CANDIDATE 2 (NWOSU) IS NON EXISTENT IN THE EYE OF THE LAW. BECAUSE HE WAS NOT QUALIFIED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
NWOSU ONLY HELP WASTE THE VOTES THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ACRUED TO OTHER CANDIDATES.
I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THE SHODDY JOB INEC DID ON THIS CASE.

Once again, an electoral body swore in court that certain documents supposedly issued by it were inauthentic. NOT ONLY THAT, the documents themselves truely looked incomplete and inauthentic. NOT ONLY THAT, figures from said documents would make for funny electoral totals.
YET, without even cursory examination of said documents and based SOLEY on them, the SC promptly sacked a sitting gov and replaced him by the man who came up with the said clearly questionable documents and who came FOURTH in said election!

And you see nothing wrong with that??

According to you the only way is for INEC to produce the originals. So from now on the only way INEC can prove they never issued a document is to produce the original. That makes sense to you bah?

garfield1:
Gbam,thats it

Any unbiased person with a robust sense of fairness would have a problem with this SC ruling.

BOTTOM LINE - You don’t lightly remove a gov and hand the seat to a person that came fourth. If u must do so make sure the documentary basis for your action are authenticated, collaborated, totally above board, and beyond reproach!
In this case not only do the documents look totally faulty, INEC itself swore they were inauthentic. PLUS, adding figures from them would make for quite ridiculous electoral totals!

Olaolufred:
THEY SWORE THEY NEVER ISSUED ANY DOCUMENTS?

ELECTORAL ACT MANDATES INEC TO GIVE COPY OF THE PU RESULTS TO PARTY AGENTS AND POLICE. THIS IS A GUIDELINE TO GUIDE AGAINST MANIPULATION AFTERWARDS.

PDP AND INEC IS EXPECTED TO HAVE A COPY OF SAME RESULTS TO DEFEND THEIR CASE.

BUT THEY BOTH COULDN'T PRESENT THEIR OWN COPIES PRESUMED TO BE ORIGINAL.

IT IS A GRAND-FOULPLAY.

BROTHER, THE REALITY IS STARING US IN THE FACE.

THOUGH WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE BLINDED AGAINST IT.

BOTTOM LINE - You don’t lightly remove a gov and hand the seat to a person that came fourth. If u must do so make sure the documentary basis for your action are authenticated, collaborated, totally above board, and beyond reproach!
In this case not only do the documents look totally faulty, INEC itself swore they were inauthentic, PLUS, adding figures from them would lead to quite ridiculous electoral totals!

Agboriotejoye:
Dude, I like the fact you used the phrase "Uzo's result". That says it all. Mind you, INEC neversaid elections never held. What they said is that the elections were fraudulent and the results cancelled. Therefore, any result coming from there is false and fake. Simple as ABC.

What i'll like to hear is that INEC does not have the power to cancel results. That's when SC can have a point. But we all know INEC have the power to cancel results not so? Therefore, it's trite that they can declare a result fake. Like I said already, let's wait and see. This judgement is going to empower rigging in a way never seen before.

A result not signed by INEC's polling officer, not signed by any party agent and having blurred figures produced by Uzo and Police is seen as gospel, let's get real guy. This is an admission of the right to rig and it will portend a very dangerous lead for us. The beneficiaries will be the police officers and polling officers. If you like vote till tomorrow, the results will be written as they wish and INEC will not be able to do anything about it.

That succinctly summarizes it. You don’t lightly remove a gov and hand the seat to a person that came fourth. If u must do so make sure the documentary basis for your action are authenticated, collaborated, totally above board and beyond reproach!

Olaolufred:
Bro.

For Christ's sake,

Has the verbal averment of the defense lawyers proven that Uzo brought in fake results? No.

"I disagreed" isn't same as "I proved"

All your points listed above are averments/disagreements of the defense counsels.

They proved nothing.

1. They had no proof there was no elections.

2. They had no proof elections was cancelled.

3. They had no results to prove the votes they returned.

They only knew one thing "uzo's results were fake"

Please, INEC is disgusting on this matter.

And I respected you to do better than this.

I am not sure u read what he wrote. The DOCUMENTS presented and right in front of the judges were faulty to the point of uselessness. Yet they did not see that because they refused to examine them, the sole basis for their momentous ruling!

Olaolufred:
Dear brother.

The defense lawyers did well in their averment or simply put disagreement (pages 26-32).

And that is all they did well at.

Averment is only verbal and academical in nature. Proves to support their averments is where they terribly failed.

You don't win cases like this without proves.

Uzodinma had one. INEC and Ihedioha didn't.

The only way to dislodge the "fake" is to use the absence of the features on it that are on the "original". Or that are on the fake, but not in the original.

Either way, you need the original to disprove the fake.

INEC and Ihedioha failed to provide the original.

A huge sign of conspiracy.

You would like to pity the responders, but they don't deserve it because they proved nothing.

Conspiracy is clear in all these legal tussles from the tribunal to the appelate court.

You obviously missed this my post. Here it is again:

[[Simply admit that any unbiased person with any sense of fairness and justice would fault this judgment.

An electoral body swore in court that they never issued certain documents. Not only that, adding figures from said documents would make for funny electoral totals.
YET, without even cursory examination of said documents and based SOLEY on them, the SC promptly replaced a sitting gov with the same man who came up with the said questionable documents and who came FOURTH in said election!]]

Olaolufred:
The onus to explain any figure conjoured is on INEC.
That's is why it is the duty of Ihedioha to take INEC to court.
SC made judgement based on the case before it.
Not on the figures INEC itself failed to prove.

Simply admit that any unbiased person with any sense of fairness and justice would fault this judgment.

An electoral body swore in court that they never issued certain documents. Not only that, adding figures from said documents would make for funny electoral totals.
YET, without even cursory examination of said documents and based SOLEY on them, the SC promptly replaced a sitting gov by the same man who came up with the said questionable documents and who came FOURTH in said election!

Yusman316:
My brother with all the thorough explanations this gentleman has been making to u, u are still arguing up and down incoherently. Just say your issue is, the judgement went APC's way. We all know it's not about the judges not giving the right judgement, but who the judgement favored

Totally wrong. I am totally unbiased, maybe leaning very slightly APC.
Any unbiased person with any sense of fairness and justice would fault this judgment.

Maybe u didn’t see my post below. So I’m reposting it. Combine it with the fact that the documents amounted to impossible electoral math then ask yourself how such convoluted material could possibly be the SOLE basis for the prompt replacement of a sitting gov by the same man who came up with the said questionable materials and who came 4th in said election!

[[ The onus is on the SC to at least examine the documents (which were the SOLE reason for the judgment) before taking the absolutely extreme step of replacing a seating gov!
You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLELY on those same documents which were solely supplied by the appellant himself and which INEC had sworn were not authentic??!!]]

Olaolufred:
Please stop this.
You should be more knowledgeable than this.

"You only know fake by features it has or hasn't that made it different from the original".

INEC have the ORIGINAL since they have declared Uzo's results fake.

All INEC needed to do is present the original so as to rendered the purportedly fake result useless.

The wiser ones knows INEC should be flogged for this shoddy job.

Disgusting and annoying.

Maybe u didn’t see my post below. So I’m reposting it. Combine it with the fact that the documents made for impossible electoral math then ask yourself how such convoluted material could possibly be the SOLE basis for the prompt replacement of a sitting gov by the same man who came up with the said questionable materials!

[[ The onus is on the SC to at least examine the documents (which were the SOLE reason for the judgment) before taking the absolutely extreme step of replacing a seating gov!
You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLELY on those same documents which were solely supplied by the appellant himself and which INEC had sworn were not authentic??!!]]

Olaolufred:
The appellant's appeal is that he should be declared winner because with his denied votes he was the winner.

Court can't give a re-run because INEC and Ihedioha failed to prove their reason for the votes denied uzodinma.

A re-run would be a condone to an injustice.

Justice is always two -edged bro.

The onus is on the SC to at least examine the documents (which were the SOLE reason for the judgment) before taking the absolutely extreme step of replacing a seating gov!
You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLELY on those same documents which were solely supplied by the appellant himself and which INEC had sworn were not authentic??!!

The ranking is not baseless. I travel around and I can tell u 9ja is the most corrupt WA country!

adanny01:
Intrigues of lawyers, that was all it was. You cant condemn something that the court found original without presenting counter evidence.

Isnt this the reason Buhari still has a certificate when the outcry wants to say different.

The court is not about what lawyers say, its about facts and evidence.

You can’t find something original without EXAMINING it. You also take into account that with acceptance of the documents the electoral figures no longer add up!

adanny01:
To be specific, Uzodinma produced Duplicate original of the results, 28 witnesses and the police witness corroborated. Uzodinma's case was considered proven by the court.

The onus was on Ihedioha, PDP and INEC to provide proof that the documents were fake. They failed to do that.

The fact was that the lawyers to the defendants knew that the appellant's documents were original. If they submit any document that will contradict those original copies, they could be setting themselves up for committing a crime of electoral fraud. So they simply didnot produce any document. The lower courts played to the tune of the defendants lawyers intrigues.

The problem of this country is that someone or some people have escaped with the crime of electoral fraud. Ihedioha is free, INEC is free, PDP is free when one or all of them colluded to commit electoral fraud. In saner climes, that will be the focus at this moment. We need to find out how, when and who removed those votes, prosecute the culprits and amend the electoral process accordingly to forestall future occurance. The judgement means an electoral fraud was committed but its not relevant since justice was delivered, the justice is not enough, it ought to be pursued to the end.

Next elections, another person will do same thing and test it in court. When the fraud is not our concern, it will keep happening till we focus on it.

No, the onus is on the SC to at least examine the documents (which were the SOLE reason for the judgment) before taking the absolutely extreme step of replacing a seating gov.
You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLEY on those same documents??!!

Neoteny:
So I'm guessing you know more more law than seven seasoned justices of the supreme court, even as everyone with a brain agrees their judgment is sound?

So why does uproar surround only this judgement?
You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLEY on those same documents??!!

Blindersoff:
You are very obtuse!

How can the SC examine the tendered document without INEC providing their own true copies for comparison?

Did you not see where I have repeatedly said INEC/IHEDIOHA COULD NOT PROVIDE A SINGLE DOCUMENT AS PROOF THAT UZODINMA SUBMITTED FAKES?

Are you high or deliberately blind to whatever you read?

Will the SC manufacture on its own what INEC should have in their possession?

You obviously did not read the respondent attorney’s submission that the documents were not even properly signed and were smudgy and incomplete. A simple cursory EXAMINATION would have revealed all that.
Don’t you think that at least that should have been done before rushing ahead to replace a seating governor with the appellant based SOLEY on those same documents??!!

Neoteny:
There's always a first time for everything, the entirety of legal history is made up of precedents.

Just because it happened for the first time does not make it invalid.

Precedents have to at least make some sense. In this case even the primary school arithmetic does not add up!