₦airaland Forum

sugaslim:
Both of them BP will still be on the Rise�

From the situation on ground, I see no BP rise whatsoever for Smart Adeyemi. He is now the current Senator, done and dusted.

The margin of lead is 20,570 and the total number of registered voters in the affected areas is 43,127. There is no way Dino can pull this through.

Definitely, not all of the 43,127 registered voters have collected their PVCs, even if we believe that they are still all alive and have not changed location. And not all the ones that have the PVCs will turn out to cast their votes on election day.

Whatever level of mobilization put in place by both parties, hardly will 20,000 of the registered voters turn out to vote. I seriously doubt if up to 20,000 voters would come out.

So, how can Dino Melaye secure 20,170 votes to fill the gap between him and Smart Adeyemi? Dino knows this quite well, that's why he has taken the option of rejecting the outcome of the election outrightly.

He can only participate to at least reduce the margin and hope to get the court cancel some of Adeyemi's votes and declare him winner of valid votes cast eventually. And that will be almost an impossible task for him to achieve. He himself cannot say that all of the votes he secured are valid votes. Whichever way it goes, Dino Melaye is out of the Senate for good.

The margin of lead is 20,570 and the total number of registered voters in the affected areas is 43,127. There is no way Dino can pull this through.

Definitely, not all of the 43,127 registered voters have collected their PVCs, even if we believe that they are still all alive and have not changed location. And not all the ones that have the PVCs will turn out to cast their votes on election day.

Whatever level of mobilization put in place by both parties, hardly will 20,000 of the registered voters turn out to vote. I seriously doubt if up to 20,000 voters would come out.

So, how can Dino Melaye secure 20,170 votes to fill the gap between him and Smart Adeyemi? Dino knows this quite well, that's why he has taken the option of rejecting the outcome of the election outrightly.

He can only participate to at least reduce the margin and hope to get the court cancel some of Adeyemi's votes and declare him winner of valid votes cast eventually. And that will be almost an impossible task for him to achieve. He himself cannot say that all of the votes he secured are valid votes. Whichever way it goes, Dino Melaye is out of the Senate for good.

DesChyko:
Pouring water into a full glass is pointless.
I leave you to your folly.

I think you should have responded to the incidents I raised, whether they are also precedents or not. But you went off point to attack my person instead. What a fallacy!

DesChyko:
Hmmm...

Who expected these things would continue after Jonathan's precedence?

You'ld have thought people would want to continue in his footprints but we're even worse than we were.

Goes to show GEJ is one of a kind.

It seems you were out of this world in 2015 when human beings were being beheaded and lives were wasted in numbers during the infamous Rivers of Blood Governorship election. It seems you were not here when similar things happened in Akwa Ibom. Or perhaps you didn't see it in 2014 Ekiti State election campaign when Policemen brazenly stopped the convoy of the then sitting Governor Fayemi and shot dead one of his supporters right in his presence.
I don't know the precedence you're talking about.

Zubydeangelo:
How do you know that someone is educated to any level without proof(certificate). Ok ooo... audio education. No wonder Nigeria is retrogressing.

You can know by student class attendance register of the School, if it is up-to-date till the final year.

lessonsoflife:
And this has opened door to the manipulation of the Judiciary by subsequent power mongers.

Las las everybody go dey okay.

No real concrete reason sef.

If your name don enter register for school, then you are good to contest for any political position whether you finish school or not.

If it's secondary school and your name entered the register but you didn't attend up to the school certificate level, which is the final term of the final year, you are not good to contest, according to the Constitution. The only saving grace for you would be if you have the experience of working up to minimum of ten years at a public or private sector establishment in addition to your Primary School certificate.

Can you imagine! Prophesying that Nigerian election will end in court? Where else does it always end?!

Oshiomole's ultimate plan unfolding. Gradually paving the way for Ize-Iyamu. It's going to be interesting to see how all the drama will fully unfold in the days ahead.

Gradually paving the way for Ize-Iyamu. Interesting days ahead.

seunmsg:
Go and read the judgement of the high court in the case of Natasha Akpoti/SDP vs INEC.

Although I've not read the full judgment of SDP vs INEC as regards Kogi, but if the judgement of the court is to the effect that Natasha Akpoti cannot be disqualified on the basis of the disqualification of her Deputy candidate, I'll say the case is not applicable to Bayelsa's APC case.

Natasha Akpoti/SDP had substituted the disqualified Deputy candidate with another candidate within the window for substitution provided for by law and INEC guidelines. But INEC rejected the substitution and went ahead to disqualify Akpoti, the principal candidate.

Apart from the fact that INEC erred for rejecting the substitution when there was a window of opportunity for parties to do so, according to their own law, the Court eventually held that INEC lacks the power to disqualify any candidate in the first place. Only a competent court of law has the power.

Based on the above, Bayelsa's APC Deputy Governorship candidate's situation doesn't fit in the same fulcrum. The window of substitution of candidate is close as far as Bayelsa elections are concerned. The party cannot replace him anymore. Moreso, his disqualification is done by the court, not by INEC.

So, the Court judgment in Natasha Akpoti's case is not applicable to Bayelsa's APC Deputy Governor candidate's own case. As a matter of fact, the case rather nails deeper his death casket. Unless the Deputy candidate's court disqualification is stayed from execution or reversed by a higher court, it stays and will definitely nullify the qualification of the principal candidate.

If it was PDP that challenged the election and lost this appeal now, I would have helped them say "Democracy is in danger", "Judiciary has been intimidated to submission", "the Appeal panel have done the bidding of Tinubu who handpicked them; Nigeria is in trouble!"

Although, I haven't read the judgment. But if the ground for nullifying the election is because of INEC's recording and declaration of the results of just two out of all other parties that contested the election, then it is another judgment based on technicality, not on whether there were irregularities in the results announced for the candidate with the highest and most widespread votes in the election.

We are know that the two major parties that do share the most substantial and meaningful results of any election in the North are APC and PDP.

Others do only get fringe results that amount to nothing as regards the overall results of the election. Their results always affect nothing, whether they are announced or not.

However, it is the requirement of the law that all parties that contested an election should be recognized and have their results recorded and announced by INEC, even if they score zero.

SalemCiti:
The appointment of Mathias Olusegun Agboola into the High Court of Osun State is the most welcoming and most pleasing to me of all. It's been long overdue. He has made a success of private practice as one of the most exceptionally brilliant lawyers in Osun State.
His integrity as a practising Christian of repute is a uniform testimony of all people that know him both in private life and professional practice. He is a Pastor in Deeper Life Church and a leading figure in the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria.
All these must have counted for him in this appointment no doubt. Moreover, having served as a Judge in the Republic of Gambia must have been an edge for him. M.O.Agboola is a brilliant inclusion into the Bench of Osun State. He is really going to make landmark impacts.

I agree with you on this concerning M. O. Agboola. He has maintained a consistent sterling integrity in all his practice as a Legal Practioner. I have known him for years even before I personally went to School to study Law myself. I must say he is one of my inspirational figures.

Agboola was the first I know to build his legal practice on Christian ideology and it is so clear his clients, fellow colleagues and to judges that it is the guiding principle in his practice. He even named his Law Office 'Christ the Advocate Chambers'!

Olusegun Agboola has the respect in practice both among the members of the Bar and of the Bench unto which he is now called.

I was in court sometime in year 2012 and lawyers were discussing amongst themselves the characters of some senior lawyers in the jurisdiction. Agboola was not in court that day. I was impressed when the lawyers mentioned Segun Agboola as one of the few Lawyers that you could be having a case with as counsel on the other side and would rest assured that he would not employ underhand tactics against you to win his case.

In fact, they said if you were handling a case against Agboola and he discovered that you had made some mistake in your brief which could be fatal to your case and would be to his own advantage. They said Agboola would hint you and give you opportunity to make amend before you both appear before the Judge, instead of exploiting it to his advantage. Many lawyers would wait for this as an opportunity to catch you unawares and defeat you on technicalities. I was so impressed on that day as a junior at the Bar.

And here is a man that has the pedigree of winning so many landmark cases from High Courts to Supreme Court. I once heard him say that a town wanted to confer on him a chieftaincy title in appreciation of winning a communal land case for them up to Supreme Court and he told the King that his calling as a clergyman would not permit him.

M. O. Agboola will perfectly cut into the figure of that literary Incorruptible Judge.

When Andy Ruiz first met Anthony Joshua in June for their heavyweight showdown, there was a moment during the promotion of the fight in which the British boxer just handed over his belts to Ruiz and his trainer Manny Robles as both parties posed with Joshua’s WBO, WBA, IBF and IBO belts.

Turns out, it was a sign of things to come, as Ruiz snatched the belts in emphatic fashion once they squared off in the ring and scored a come-from-behind victory over Joshua that is still frontrunner for upset of the year.

Ruiz (33-1, 22 KOs) continued his victory lap with a personal press conference, meet and greet with fans and open workout Saturday at The Boxing Club East Village in San Diego as he further ramped up the promotion of his anticipated rematch with Joshua on Dec. 7 in Saudi Arabia on DAZN.

When asked if he will return the favor of the photo op to Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) this time around, Ruiz said he had no intentions of playing nice for the cameras.

“Hell no. He has to win me first [to hold my belts]. These are mine,” quipped Ruiz. “I feel that he has more pressure than I do … When I win the rematch, everyone is going to know that this was not a fluke and I’m the real deal — just a little big kid with a dream.”

Ruiz has been training in recent weeks in Guadalajara, Mexico in high altitude and has now returned to Southern California where he will resume preparation at the Legendz Boxing in Los Angeles. His goal is to lose 10 pounds so he can feel lighter on his feet and chase Joshua around the ring should he have to win the match by decision.

In their first fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York, Ruiz brushed off a knockdown in a toe-to-toe fight to dominate Joshua with four knockdowns en route to a seventh-round finish.

“The main thing that I have to do is to let my hands go and throw my combinations,” said Ruiz. “Boxing is my life. This is the only thing that I know how to do.

“Everyone has a dream, but it’s our job to fulfill them. With hard work, dedication and sacrifice, anything is possible. Everyone thought that I was going to do nothing and lose in the first few rounds, but having that will and motivation inside me that I want to do something great helped me accomplish and become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world. It’s about having the right team and the right spirits around you.”

https://www.boxingscene.com/andy-ruiz-hell-no-anthony-joshua-not-touching-my-belts--143518

Ayed44:
The fact that you did not see Mamman Days at the forefront during the campaigns does not mean he did not contribute to the success of the election.

Get this now, some people are more efficient and effective working at the background.

"He packaged Buhari and ... helped him become a number 1 citizen of Nigeria." Is that the contribution you're attributing to Mamman Daura in the events preceeding and leading to Buhari's becoming the President of Nigeria in 2015 that we all saw? And you think this kind of vital contribution will be the kind that would go on in the background unnoticed to all?

Let us know the kind of packaging and help done by Daura to Buhari to make him the President of Nigeria. A man that packaged and helped a candidate to become a President after 12 years of three attempts and failings to become the number 1 citizen of a country can not work at the background unnoticed. What kind of packaging, what kind of help did Daura give to Buhari to become the President of Nigeria? That's what you must make us know, please.

AroleOduduwa2:
He’s one of Buhari most trusted advisor, they are blood related. He packaged Buhari who is uneducated and lack leadership skills, helped him become the number 1 citizen of Nigeria and some mischief want Buhari to dump him.

One thing I admire about Buhari is his loyalty to the people he considered his, such loyalty is hard to find in the current bred of Nigeria politician.

He packaged Buhari and helped him become number 1 citizen?! How? Where did you get this conclusion? Where was Mamman Daura before 2015 election that made Buhari the President? What was his contribution to Buhari's winning the Presidential election in 2015 and even in 2019?

By the time the close relationship between him and the man Daura is allowed to interfere in his private home affairs and the handling of the matters of the State, then it says a lot about the strength or weakness of character of the man Muhammadu Buhari.

So, Sowore will not go out of Abuja throughout the time his trial will last! Even if the trial will last for 5 years. That's even if he could get a surety that can show to be a million naira worth in sum! This is the kind of ruling that retells you the story about the hands of Esau and the voice of Jacob.

Dannyset:
You need to know and accept that some people are difficult to redeem.

You're correct, my brother.

CaptainMeks:
Wrong! He is over-flogging the issue and ensuring he covers EVERY technicality the supreme Court might chance upon to overrule certain judgments already given. This is a very detailed process and Garba is doing an excellent Job and there is no way the supreme court would rule against this judgment based on the way he has been very detailed

Both of you are making the same point.

positivelord:
Mumu ..in the case of my words-against-your Judges are at liberty to investigate if that will help in establishing justice...example Cambridge can NEVER respond to PDP inquiry but they will oblige if a competent court write them for confirmation.

My friend, take correction.
Judges don't go out of their way to investigate in order to establish or verify the truth about a case brought before them. That is tantamount to delving into the arena to make a case for one of the parties before them. If there is anything worthy of investigation or confirmation, it comes by way of application from a party that feels it will help their case.

The party that needs it makes application for an order of the court and the court can grant it. That's why an expert can be subpoenaed to come before the court to either throw more light on an issue or tender a document before the court.

It is at the instance of the party that feels the need for it. It is not for the court to do for any party on it's own, else the court will be making a case for a party against the other party before it.

Yes, the court will not 'write' Cambridge, WAEC or any Institution to come before it for any confirmation, if no party moves the court to do it.

omenka:
But it wasnt in severe pains few moments ago when y'all were jubilating over them denying inecs objection.

How do some of you cope with these alter characters?

That's what you get from folks that follow political issues with their emotions, not their rations.

NaijaRoyalty:
Buhari has succeded in bastardizing our once respected judiciary

Only the highest bidder wins

Our democracy is in severe pain.

When the same judiciary gave similar judgement in favour of Ademola Adeleke in Osun, dismissing a case of lack of certificate made against him, judiciary was not in severe pain. In fact, judiciary was alive and bouncing then!

Now that the similar ruling favours the person you like to hate, judiciary is on injury. So much for emotional attachment to political issues.

Facidio:
Why is he sounding as if he's a commissioner, he's just a fucking adviser who's not even allocated an office with a chair and table. He fucking works from home.

You seem not to know. Special Advisers, Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries are of co-ordinate rank in State cabinets.

SillyMods:
I don't disagree with anything you have said here. This is also my understanding, belief and expectation.

Quite alright.

SillyMods:
After 45 days, his contract will be renewed for another 45 days. After that, he will be charged and trial will commence.

During the trial, he will be remanded in DSS custody. Make no mistakes about it.

His dentention being renewed or not is dependent solely on court's discretion, not on the whims of the DSS.

The DSS is allowed by law to come before the court to ask for another detention order. However, it has to be with a more compelling reason that is even beyond what DSS presented before the court to get the first order.

It is easy for the court to know if they actually have a more compelling reason or if they are just merely interested in keeping him inperpetuity by that time.

I don't see this court granting DSS that luxury. The court that took its time to study the exhibit DSS relied upon before granting them 45 out of the 90 days they asked for will do no less to carefully consider the weight of any ground the DSS may come up with to demand for one further detention day let alone another 45 days.

I don't see DSS having enough in their hands to be able to convince this same court by that time.

His being remanded in DSS custody during trial as you have stated is still in the hands of court to determine, not for you or me to assert conclusively. His bail will be argued by the time DSS prefers a charge against him.

It is more likely that the court would rekease him on bail, if the DSS has no any concrete evidence in their hands to support a charge of treason against him further than the video of his empty threat of revolution and of whether or not DSS would be in existence after the revolution.

In the abscence of any concrete secret plan traceable to Sowore aimed at bringing the threats to fruition filed before the court by DSS, the court would have no difficulty releasing him on bail for his trial.

The only option left for FG is their usual resort to disobeying court order to keep him in custody upon their self-determined ground of national security. And I want to tell you, this option will achieve nothing but only work against this Government, both locally and internationally, in the long run.

What investigation is DSS claiming to be doing again? The next 45days lapse just in September. Then, we will know what next the FG, through the DSS, is coming up with again.

ahnie:
I knew something must have led to her absconding from her home.
Am an ex deeper life member...the level of pretenses in that church would give one chills.

If you complain them would cite biblical references to hush you to submission exp Ephesians 5 v 22.


To be honest...na the woman givam chance...try that shit nau with somebody like me...I would uplift boys with raba and tuussh and dey would run your mata...i go tell them to give him Catholic beating but make Dem no blind his eyes.when he comes home he go know say differences dey btw kpoor kpoor and knock knock.

No one needs to ask any more question about the reason why you left the Deeper Life Church, as you claim; from all you wrote here, it actually shows the reason why you might have left,in the first place.

The fact speaks for itself in your write-up about the character of a person you must have really been!

The Deeper Life I know really can not have a place for a potential employer of Hired Beaters or Hired Killers in their midst.

[quote author=ahnie post=81040892]I knew something must have led to her absconding from her home.
Am an ex deeper life member...the level of pretenses in that church would give one chills.

If you complain them would cite biblical references to hush you to submission exp Ephesians 5 v 22.


To be honest...na the woman givam chance...try that shit nau with somebody like me...I would uplift boys with raba and tuussh and dey would run your mata...i go tell them to give him Catholic beating but make Dem no blind his eyes.when he comes home he go know say differences dey btw kpoor kpoor and knock knock.

TruthinAction:
That doesn't stop the fact that PDP won the election. If it is proven he does not have the right to context, the victory goes to the party and they can replace him with another candidate. But he just said that as they can't defend the allegations that they rigged the election.

In which Electoral Act or any other law did you read it that if PDP is declared to have won the election, the Party can replace Atiku with another candidate if he is proven not have the right to contest the election?

The law is if a party presents a candidate eventually found not to be qualified to have contested the election in the first place, both the party and the candidate will lose out even if the candidate had won the election. Victory will be given to the candidate of the other party that was a runner-up in the main election.

The most recent case in point is the Supreme Court's judgement of Monday this week. APC's Abdukadir Moddibo had won an election into the House of Representatives from Adamawa State. The election was challenged on the ground that he was not qualified to have contested. Moddibo was said to have failed to complete his NYSC. He was also allegedly to have falsified some credentials he had submitted to INEC. On these accounts the Election Tribunal nullified his election and ordered INEC to replace him with PDP's Jafar Suleiman who came second in the election.

APC appealed and argued that Mr Usman who came second in their primary election ought to have been made to replace the disqualified Moddibo. The reasoning was that the mandate belonged to APC which candidate won the election, not to PDP which candidate came second. Court of Appeal accepted the argument and ordered INEC to issue Cerficate of Return to Usman, runner-up in APC primary.

The Supreme Court faulted the Court of Appeal and upheld the Election Tribunal's judgment giving the mandate to PDP's candidate.

If the Presidential election was finally held to have been won by Atiku but he was found not to have been qualified to have contested the election on ground that he was not a citizen by birth. The existing law now is that the Court will not by reason of that give the mandate to the candidate that was second to him in PDP's primary, which is Tambuwal. The precedent presently is that the Court would order INEC to issue Certificate of Return to the candidate that secured the number of votes next to Atiku in the election. This is in case the Court do not declare a re-election based on substantial non-compliance.