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ddippset:
Delusions of grandeur.

People tell themselves what they want to hear and they rejoice over it, it's a free world sha.

The world is so big, good and bad things happen to people everyday.

A lot of bad things have also happened to friends and officials who supported Jonathan.

So what would you call that?

Karma for supporting Jonathan?

You mind those self-consoling GEJ praise singers?
Many people supported Jonathan and they have had a fair share of bad moments too. Why didn't these GEJ sympatisers link the people's misfortunes to supporting Jonathan.

Olisah Metuh was Jonathan's supporter and he is cooling off in prison today.

Ayo Fayose was Jonathan's apologist. He has had his political fortune on reverse motion since 2018. He couldn't even produce a successor. Now Mr Fayose is walking on the shore of prison, if the same fate that befell Metuh's case also befall his.

To put Jonathan on the pedestal of a Demigod that should not be opposed without negative consequences is the height of self-vindictiveness I have seen many of Jonathan's supporters manifest.

In fact, these people have taken their delusion as far as attributing Barack Obama and his Democratic Party's loss to Donald Trump's Republican Party in American Presidential election to Obama's reward for not supporting Jonathan's re-election in 2015.

It's as if Jonathan was the only sitting President to be opposed and to have lost election in life.

Calculating:
Why is everyone who played a vital role in ousting GEJ having problems?

...including Ayo Fayose and Olisa Metuh.

The reality is that Wilder is now demystified. If he trigger the third fight clause, he would get roundly beaten again by Fury.

[quote author=andrezie post=86750696]How is it your problem?
Not mine, jare. It's obviously their problem.

CanadaOrBust:
He is not spending any money. If anything he can make money from this case if he wishes. EVERYBODY is watching this case and every non-partisan, non-political person like me can see the SC aided fraud and rigging.

Yes, everybody is watching; including the international communities like the UN, the EU, the AU, the ECOWAS, the UK, the US' Donald Trump and Congressmen! Above all, it's being watched by a politically 'non-partisan' person like you.

Now they realise they need to file more documentary evidence; the documents the didn't know they should have filed from the inception of the case from Tribunal till it was finally determined at the Supreme Court. What they failed to do at the hearing to properly defend the petitioner's case against them, they are just awake trying to do. A case of systematic re-litigating of the case in the guise of a review.

Now they realise they need to file more documentary evidence; the documents the didn't know they should have filed from the inception of the case from Tribunal till it was finally determined at the Supreme Court. A case of systematic re-litigating of the case in the guise of review.

9jaRealist:


Laughable DEFAULT judgment...
Likely to be summarily OVERTURNED on appeal.
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Are you sure it's a default judgement? The case that was instituted in October 2018 and judgement just delivered in January 2020 might have been well argued by both parties.

The report only says the defendant was not represented on the day the judgment was read. It doesn't indicate that he was not represented all through the trial.

By the way, if it's actually a default judgement, the judgment stands and cannot be summarily overturned, if there is proof of proper service and notices of hearing on Professor Odinkalu and he only chose not to defend himself.

MaNyEsq:
I was just wondering what was the libelous statement that was published in the book by the defendant, Chidi Odinkalu. Mr. Odinkalu's mistake was not to have representation by a counsel.

It's not stated in this report that the Professor was not represented by counsel in the case. What the report says is that no counsel represented him during the judgement. The lawsuit was since October 2018. Judgement is just delivered in 2020.

joefelin2345:
That's may be so. Behind great fortune n fame is crime. May God forgive us our many sins as well.

So you've concluded on yourself so much that you cannot make great fortune in life without commiting crime?

ngwababe:
This means that "Faith" wasn't even his child. It's obvious the first wife got pregnant from another man.

It might not be. It's possible for a man to successfully father a child and be unable to do so again or for a long time. Same way, it's possible for a woman to give birth once and be unable to conceive again or at least immediately after. If you're yet to marry, may you never experience such a situation.

PS712:
Hmm. Wonders!
One day when the child is grown he/she will be like 'dad, do you know your late wife was my sister?'

His/her 'Sister'? Read the story again.

JosephXavier:
Wetin go even attract you to the old woman with her breast wey Don fall finish

How did you know she is old?

Esseite:
INEC which conducted the election said the result is fake with evidence, but the supreme court which had no business in the election said it's not fake and the evidence submitted would not stand even with votes count more than accredited voters...

Supreme ice-cream indeed.

Which evidence? Could you please bring out the evidence provided by the INEC?

INEC pleaded that the results provided by the Petitioner were false and stated that they would produce the genuine. They never produce the genuine, neither did they call a single witness nor provide any evidence to prove that the results were fake from the beginning to the end of the trial.
Go and read the full judgment and try to be dispassionate while reading it, you will get the clear picture.

PassingShot:
You don't really know what you are talking. As an entity for security work, the state's HOA needs to pass a law for it to be legal.

You guys should be careful of what you ask for, else this same group will unleash terror on the same people they're meant to protect.

My brother, it is not unusual for an outfit to start operation before it becomes fully supported with a legislation. So many outfits began like that and they operated without failing before and after being incorporated into a legislation. Even the Hisbah you made reference to as being legalized started operating in the North as Sharia Police years before they were first legislated upon in 2003 in the northern States. Did you know that there was no legislation backing up the now institutionalised Nigeria Security & Civil Defence Corps for decades before an Act was enacted to back it up during Obasanjo's tenure? I was a Civil Defence cadet in the early 90's. Yet they operated back then as security operatives.

The Governors and the people behind the conception of Amotekun know well about this and they have never said the concept will not be legislatized as it goes on.

The fact that each HOA of the States that make up the security Network has not enacted upon it does not make it illegal. As a matter of fact, I make bold to say it is constitutional. And the fact that the outfit is yet to be reduced into legislation does not leave it without operational guidelines. And it does not make its operatives automatically destined to misbehave as you fear they might do. If any of them do, of course there are existing laws in place in several Criminal Laws to deal with any of their errant members.

Even if each of the States has legislatized the outfits, it still does not stop any one among them who would misbehave not to do. The Police and other security agencies established by laws still misbehave on some occasions and they are dealt with according to existing laws in place.

Amotekun's operation is well spelt out and deliberated upon. The place the conventional security institutions will occupy in the scheme is well articulated in the series of deliberations and events building up to its inauguration. The Police hierarchy from top to States levels were well involved and aware of it. Infact, the Amotekun network is set out to operate under the control and co-ordination of the Commissional of Police of each State.

The understanding is that they will not carry automatic guns other than the ones each of the groups that make up the outfit are already known using for now. In the event they make arrest, which every citizen is constitutionally empowered to do, they are to hand the arrested suspect over to the Police immediately. They are not to operate a detention facility and they do not say they will.

Some of these outfits are already operating this way along with the police before now and there has been no issue about it. The only difference now is that they are now organized, synegized and to be financially supported officially.

Osun State civil servants should not only forget about minimum wages, they should also forget about payment of backlog of salaries of years they are still being owed since the tenure of Rauf Aregbesola.

They should also forget about promotion and payment of salary equal to current Grade Levels(GLs) on which they are.

Since the last promotion they had, civil servants in Osun State have not been paid in accordance with the salary structure equal to their Grade Levels. A person on level 10 is still being paid salary on Level 8, while an officer on Level 12 still continues to receive Level 9 salary.

This is the critical situation and the state of civil servants in the State for a long time now. Actually, it is not a nice time to be a civil servant in Osun State.

atiku4President:
Operation destroy the South and keep the North.

Oh, another face-saving theory?! So, Oyo State of Governor Seyi Makinde is in the North, abi?

englishmart:
The Imo criminal saga is still seething, they don't want to raise more dust

As if they give a damn for any dust. Dust starts and ends on the streets and in the noses of the dust raisers.

SangoOlukosoOba:
Go and tell the Supreme Court.


Case is closed and buried!

I'm only correcting the guy that was trying to misinform the public that the Supreme Court inflated the total votes in the election above the total registered voters after adding Hope Nzodinma's votes that were excluded from the total votes cast.

The correct situation was that the total votes were not more than the registered voters but more than the accredited voters, the situation which the Supreme Court had held in many decided cases in the past that when such happens, it doesn't invalidate the votes as long as those votes were signed by parties and observers and also certified by Presiding Officers in the affected units as actual votes cast in those units. Nyesom Wike was a beneficiary of this position in 2015 election.

Isobug:
Zamfara and Rivers cases were too glaring (no primaries conducted). You people should not be using it as a pretext and reason to cover the judicial atrocity committed by the Supreme Court

The question is if it were PDP that was affected by those judgements in Zamfara and River States as they affected APC, would you or PDP have said the cases were too glaring? Wouldn't you have said it was because APC was in power and that was why they were using the judiciary to stop opposition from contesting elections and for handing over the opposition's mandates to their candidates that didn't win?

Kingosytex:
Will that change anything?


How those judges managed to declare Hope the winner still baffles me considering the fact that the Senator came a distant fourth in the election.

The total votes cast is now greater than the number of registered voters.


The judges are mathematical gurus...Naija I hail thee!!!!!

Total votes cast were not greater than the number of registered voters but greater than the number of accredited voters.

goodheart02:
My dear, why not look at it this way.... when such prophecies are given, it's meant for those involved to pray and avert it. Rather we end up calling the man of God names thereby forgetting to pray, hence the prophecy becomes fulfilled. We forget the topic and chase the subject.

Think of the days of the bible. David was told by Prophet Nathaniel that God said he will die and that was final. But David prayed and fasted and the same prophet came back to tell him God said he won't die anymore.

David? No, not David. You mean King Hezekiah.( 2 Kings 20: 1-6)

Theflint1:
And waste the better part of his life? Man looks to have got a good deal escaping.

He escaped jail at age 24 in 1979. He had 7 years to serve out of 18 years jail term. He would have finished his term in 1986 at age 31 or even before.

Life at 31 years and after is still a better life to be spent productively in freedom and peace of mind without having to lay low all his life in horrible fear and apprehension of being caught that he had engaged himself doing all these 40 years. It must have been 40 miserable years of tension for him.

Weirdgee:
He might lose again.

Just like Andy Ruiz also might lose once again in his boxing career.

Theboss100:
Everybody that ganged up against DR. JONATHAN To make him lose his re-election. From ATIKU, SARAKI, DINO Pls help me with all their names. They have all been retired politically. Inside life.

And Dr Jonathan "ganged up" against himself on November 16th to make his party PDP lose his home State Bayelsa, the stronghold of PDP his party since 1999 by helping to deliver it to the opposition APC for the first time in the history of that State. Could you please add DrJonathan to your list of politically retired politicians too, for 'ganging up' against himself?

But why did you forget to mention Rotimi Amaechi, Nasir El-Rufai, Aminu Tambuwal. Are they not part of the 'gang-up'? Are these people retired politically, according to your vindictive reasoning? After all, Tambuwal was the arrowhead of it all in the National Assembly. He became Governor under APC and he is still same under PDP. Amaechi was the arrowhead of the 'gang up' among the Governors and he is still a Minister and that for the second time now.

By the way, where are Ayodele Fayose and Olusegun Mimiko. Were these people not die-hard supporters of GEJ's re-election bid? I think you should have something to say about them; are they still politically relevant? But they didn't "gang up" against Dr Jonathan now? Don't you think your sentimental political reasoning should apply to them too, or are they not retired politically?

tiwiex:
Real winning or the type we see these days? I doubt if Smart could have one Dino in a fair contest. The truth is the likes and share is not small pikin anything. It is a random sampling of opinion. Even if e no dey accurate, I already see a 3:1 ratio, yet the loser is leading in real life by 20k votes. I no send Dino and I don't like him but in a fare election, he would have beaten Smart flat and square.

Gathering of likes and shares on Nairaland a sampling of opinions?! From the people you never see and don't know if they're qualified to vote or are even resident at where election is taking place? My brother, it's just a child's play thing. And that's why such poll has always failed to produce the winners it always produces online in the real street elections. Jonathan won all the likes and shares polls here on Nairaland in 2014/2015, but in the actual election, Buhari defeated him hands-down.

My brother, Dino rode on the wind of Buhari and APC's popularity in 2015 to defeat Smart. If Smart had contested on the ticket of APC and Dino had contested in PDP, I tell you Smart would have defeated Dino in 2015. The February 2019 election that could have been the real test of Dino's electoral superiority over Smart was unanimously upturned by two courts of superior record consecutively for being marred with irregularities. It's not a matter of any of them being personally acceptable electorally, both of them are just products of opportunities available to them as situations and circumstances dictate during each election.

And it's not a matter of free and fair election alone. Dino himself cannot say that all the votes he has gotten for himself so far were lawfully gotten votes. None of them can be vouched for.

imolile:
Of all global development programs, University of Transportation in Daura, what more can you expect from a Dull, Academic double 007? His own scholastic prowess is undoubtedly void. Even his Nepotism does not provide any better, so far he can corner the state funds to his home after his useless tenure as an impostor.
Tinubu finally influenced him to make MC relevant, I am sure that will be his first vice chancellor at the University
Useless President. too daft to be regarded

All this because of bitterness against one man that doesn't even know you exist?!
Unfortunately, the cancer of bitterness and hatred does not kill the hated but the hater that harbors it. I advise you rid yourself of this cancerous bitterness quickly before it eats you finish.

Now, he becomes an ex-Oba, a former King!

mainaugustine:
Don't forget what happened to our dancing senator..the same thing can happen again

That's it! Head or tail, I don't see it turning out to be in Dino's favour.

djdutchbrah:
Kogi had the option of SDP Natasha Akpoti,but the residents were angling for the fantastically corrupt gangsters in PDP and APC to rule and plunder the state treasury and empower thugs.

It is highly unfortunate. We still have a very long way to go in this country.

According to Clement Nwankwo,"Situation Room is disappointed with the conduct of the two governorship elections that held in Kogi and Bayelsa states. The elections fall below the standard expected of a free, fair and credible election.
“In Kogi State, the levels of violence perpetrated by the two major political parties seriously undermined the elections, deterred voters and made the exercise a farce."

In every election, as it has always been before, the two major parties, APC and PDP, employ all manner of tactics to rig and undermine the outcome of the election to their favour. They deploy thugs, induce voters with money, compromise INEC officials and security personnel in the areas they can influence. They even arrange and pay to have some of the election observers to their side.

The party that ends up losing eventually becomes the loudest crier. Unfortunately, this is what has come to play in these elections, especially the Kogi election.