₦airaland Forum

lugado:
pls don't let's shy away from the truth. government at any level in Nigeria can't sustain electricity. ordinary road our state government, they can't maintain. ordinary pipe borne water they can't provide. schools are dilapidated.. salaries they can't pay. light railway lines Lagos fourth largest economy in africa, has been battling for over ten years. the subsidy government is paying on electricity some people are raking billions from it.
the contract given to the discos is just a padi padi arrangement.
Siemens should take over

You seem not to grasp the underlying message I was passing. We can't continue like this. Even if Siemens ßhoukd take over it should not be the entire nation.

My point is we need restructuring for us to move forward. You keep saying no government can sustain electricity as if the fg over the years have don any better.

What exactly is the benefit of the national grid? We need to build the nation up regionally through healthy competition all this holistic approach to things won't help us.

APC are ready to prove that something that is blantantly false can be used as long as they find an excuse.

Whether the excuse makes sense or not is not an issue to them


Why would someone continuously be changing his name at every corner as if its getting out of fashion. That it affected Lyon is rather unfortunate.

This is relaxing......

Nobody ever admits he was wrong in this country.

It must be a witch hunt or a mistake.

My question to him is why keep on changing names like it going out of fashion.

He couldn't make a simple decision to keep the name his parents gave him or just find a suitable one and stick to it ONCE.

kept on changing names at every corner and now wants to preside of the people of Bayelsa.

Tueh!!!

When a man keeps on repeating " I am the man of this house" just know that he has lost his balls.

Flyingngel:
Instead of them to remove power from exclusive list to concurrent list so that state government can generate and distribute their power, if they have excess they sell to the neighboring state.

This would be the best option but because they are either bereft of ideas, selfish and parochial in their thoughts it won't happen.

Resource control will make every state know how much it has, how much it can borrow and then make informed decision as to who to engage to solve their electricity issue.

This would also help regions to come together and use their comparative advantage to solve electricity issues. Eg the SW can easily engage Siemens while the MB can engage another electricity Coy to sort out their needs. Excesses electricity can then be sold to regions/states that may need it instead of engaging another firm.

Every state can produce electricity. wind, water/dams all over, and sun can be used. ND use their gas and coal is even an option.

Could be!

I will supply relaxer, any brand needed


People need to have relaxed minds from the relaxers sipping in from head to mind

Goldencheese:
Yesterday BMO said Buhari would have done better if he had money to work. Yesterday also, NSA claimed a non-elected govt official sits over security issues in a country as big and diverse as Nigeria. If Buhari has integrity, he should just resign.

Someone that has no iota of inte.... talkless of grity... is who you want or think would resign.

Agugbadin:
Buhari has made this comment a hundred times and is not back by action

Don't mind the dullard, he thinks by saying it a million times without action it will come to pass.

I don't want to believe he thinks he is deceiving us.

eph12:
Chelshit may end up at 7th by the end of this weekend

What a time to have relaxed mind

Enough relaxer on the head

These people are impossible

Divinalss:
They should have just disqualified the Deputy and ban him from public offices instead of removing the man that won 75% of the total vote cast.

Let me ask a question here, what if the deputy dies before swearing in. ...what happens?

You been wan kill am?

Thank God the courts got to him before you did.

Divinalss:
Was it not the same Supreme Court that nullified the Bauchi state election in 1999 because the running mate of Adamu Muazu wasn't qualified to partake in that election, why didn't they adopt their judgement in 1999?? My brother if you are not in Bayelsa don't talk. Bayelsans are in deep pains. Bayelsa has been a pdp state since 1999 but we dumped partisan politics and we voted massively for Lyon. The blood of the old people who protested for their pension to be paid and got beaten by Dickson will visit this useless justices. ... Dickson spent 10billion naira to secure this judgement.

Some LGA's in Bayelsa are owing 12 months salary ..There are no street lights in yenagoa not to talk of other towns, poor electricity supply, no water, salaries are not paid in Time.
Pdp only won Dickson's LGA where there was massive electoral fraud and that of Diri's. Infact APC got 40% in Diri's LGA.

It may interest you to know that yenagoa is one way in one way out.. There are no roads not to talk of good roads. Right now some workers have been paid and others are not because sterling bank has seized some part of the state allocation claiming that the govt is owing them money.

My brothers a lot has been happening in Bayelsa for the past 8years my people have never had it so tough despite the fact that Dickson received more than N1.7 trillion in 8 years.

Oga stop talking like you are the only one in bayelsa.

First of there have constitutional reviews since that 99 incidence with Muazu and his deputy so its not as straight forward as that.

It is true that we voted massively for Lyon but the blame should go to the APC for being arrogant and careless for bringing someone with questionable identity to partner with Lyon.

The SC is not here for the sentiments that people massively voted for Lyon, they looked at the case and found the deputy wanting and since its a joint ticket it affected Lyon.

Have you not noticed that most of the APC bigwigs are not even talking, Festus keyamo a staunch APC member has even commended the ruling so calm your nerves.

What has happened in bayelsa under Dickson is not different from what has been happening in the state since the inception of democracy so don't make it look like Dickson is the only useless gov even though I agree that he is a stupid goat.

What did Timipreye Silva achieve as a gov?

Lyon IMO would not have taken the state any where, he would have been worse than Dickson because he would have been tied to the shoestrings of Silva.

Douye will also be as useless as useless can be, they are all the same. The douye even looks confused. I hope he himself would be booted out if what I am hearing about his deputy is true.

Timi Alaibe should be more appealing to the electorate than this opportunistic Diri but who can trust these guys.

Make we dey watch. The accord guy Diriyai even looks a better option than all these thieves.

NGpatriot:
If Ihedioha is trying to base his appeal on your lies or the fact that Hope was not APC's rightful candidate in that election, he's on a long thing because Hope was placed on that ballot by INEC via a court order.

INEC conducted that election with Hope's name on the ballot and the PDP and Ihedioha did not challenge Hope's name on the ballot before and after the election, they did not even raise the issue during the appeals so why is that cluelessness part of any appeal after the fact.

Stop being sentimental about these. INEC recognised Hope but the SC has declared his candidacy null and void and for you to think that the SC will just delve into a matter that was not brought up in the appeal confirms that you know nothing.

The excerpts I pasted is part of the supreme court judgement not my lies as you want to see it.

If you have any problem with the judgement you can appeal to your native doctor in your village.

isthatso:
The problem we have in this country is that we have people in positions of power who are not intelligent. The requirement for office is a minimum school leaving certificate. He didnt have to tender all these certificates, all he had to do was tender one that complied with the minimum requirement and beared his proper name...end of story.

This is what Ogun state governor did, he knew he didnt have NYSC so he didnt tender his degree and just tendered his WASC. In this case all Degi had to do was tender his degree which bears the name he wants to use and forget the WASC. WASC is not required if you have a higher qualification.

There is nothing in the constitution that says you have to tender all your certificates. You have the choice of which certificate to tender as your qualification to contest, so long as what you tender meets the requirement.

You can only be judged on what you tender!!! Note the judgement did not say he did not meet the requirement to contest, it said he presented forged documents.

Stupidity of the highest order and IMHO shows the calibre of leadership he would have brought to Bayelsa state!!!

Long and short......He will go down in history as a man who forged/presented a document that was never required and thereby disqualified himself.

Your second to last paragraph says a lot.

I am happy with what happened. Even Lyon doesn't look like someone that would take the state anywhere. He looked lime who Timipreywbsilva will be pushing around lime a yoyo.

Don't know Diri that much but he and his deputy will not go any better. All these politicians are just a bunch of fraudulent opportunist that will not allow those who want to do thinks right aspire yo high offices like gov.

A right thinking straight person will not be able to do the rotten things these guys are ready and willing to do and as such not want to get involved with rubbish. That's why we are where we are today.

Dirty, fraudulent, illiterate, opportunistic, pompous and arrogant nonentities that don't know their left from right but are ready to scheme, deceive, lie and bribe their ways to power because they know there are no consequences for things like that in these parts.

greggng:
You are wrong and will continue to be wrong . When court sense an injury or mischieve, the court will come in to remedy the situation. To answer your question in a straight forward manner. Hope uzodinma provided the result of that excluded unit duely signed by inec and the police even got a copy of it ...which is the standard whenever election is conducted. When Inec was Called to verify the result tendered, they agreed it was their designated officers that signed it...that makes it authentic result. I don't understand what you meant by not verifying it from Inec.

The facts speak for its self .....based on the facts before supreme court, they took a decision facts are not always truth ......but court works with facts...,.I rest my case

Oga try read the excerpt. I rest my own case too...


With the decision of the Supreme Court that Uche Nwosu was the duly nominated candidate of the APC, it becomes logical to conclude that Senator Hope Uzodinma was not a candidate at the election. This is because by the provision of section 87 of the Electoral Act, no person can contest for any elective position unless he contests and wins a primary election and a duly nominated candidate is the only one who can stand for election unless he withdraws in writing or he dies.

An application by Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha for a determination that Hope Uzodinma was not a candidate at the election having regard to the decision of the Supreme Court on the 20th of Dec, 2019 and upholding Uche Nwosu as the duly nominated candidate of APC was brushed aside by the Supreme Court.

The appeal filed by Senator Araraume (SC/1461/2019) at the Supreme Court was heard and judgment was stood down to be delivered the same day.The appeal by Senator Hope Uzodinma (SC/1462/2019) was equally heard the same day and judgment was stood down.

The appeal or cross-appeal by Emeka Ihedioha (SC/1470/2019) was also heard and judgment stood down.The Supreme Court had expressed worry and concern that in each of these appeals, there were volumes of records which they were yet to read or study.

They also expressed worry that there were in each case at least 4, 5 or more briefs of arguments as the appellants each had one brief, the respondents had 3 sets of briefs and there were reply briefs to read in other to do justice to the case, parties were therefore constrained to adoption of their briefs of argument only, to save time and enable their lordships study the records.

Surprisingly, even though the Supreme Court stated that the time for determination of the appeals lasted up to Friday, January 17, 2019, the Supreme Court decided to give summary judgment on the appeals without studying the records of appeal, the evidence adduced at the trial and the arguments canvassed by the respective parties in their briefs of argument.

The Supreme Court stood down for one hour, 30 minutes to enable them come up with their judgment.All counsel in the matter had to comply, thinking that the Supreme Court would pronounce its judgment and defer the reason for the judgment to be given on a date to be communicated to the parties.

Incidentally, when their Lordships came out, they read a full and final judgment which was silent on the evidence adduced at the trial and also silent on the arguments canvassed by the respective parties. The judgment did not last up to ten (10) minutes.

In their judgment, the Supreme Court stated that their judgment in Hope Uzodinma’s appeal will resolve all the issues in the two other appeals.After delivering judgment in Hope Uzodinma appeal, other appeals were deemed overtaken by events.

They simply stated the reliefs claimed by the Petitioner/Appellants, and proceeded to hold that Hope Uzodinma’s scores in the 388 disputed polling units were wrongfully excluded and that the two lower courts were wrong when they held that the APC candidate ought to have called eye witnesses i.e. polling units agents and ward collation agents as according to them, the Appellants’ case was that of exclusion of votes.

They ordered that votes as tabulated by Hope Uzodinma in his table in his petition which had been discredited under cross-examination should be added to his scores without any form of recomputation of the results or arithmetic to determine if even with the addition of the votes, Hope Uzodinma met the constitutional requirement of geographical spread as enshrined in Section 179(2) of the constitution. The Supreme Court proceeded to declare him winner of the election and also held that he had satisfied the mandatory constitutional threshold of geographical spread when there was no iota of evidence on record to that effect.

On the 22nd day of January, the Supreme Court released a 42 paged judgment as against the one they read out in open court.

To all intents and purposes, this judgment was a premeditated judicial coup d’état and rape against democracy and the rule of law and particularly against the people of Imo State whose mandate has been transferred to a candidate that came fourth in the election, improperly.

It is important to point out the following:
-All the documents tendered by Hope Uzodinma as stated earlier were tendered through the bar.
-Poling unit agents were called for only 28 polling units leaving 360 polling units dumped on the tribunal.

-There was no evidence showing that the contents of the 388 polling units tallied with the tabulation contained in Hope Uzodinma’s petition.

-There was no evidence showing that those documents produced by the police witness came from any of the 388 polling units or the contents of those documents as they were only dumped on the tribunal without more.

-There was also no attempt to match those documents produced by the police witness with those tendered by Hope Uzodinma and his lawyers.

It is surprising that the Supreme Court had forgotten its judgments and decisions as contained in our law reports on the need to call eye witness evidence in proof of election petitions, inadmissibility of hearsay evidence including documentary hearsay and also the import of dumping of documents without having them demonstrated in open court or relating them to aspects of the petitioners’ case, even as their decision in the case of Abubakar Atiku v. Major General Buhari is very much fresh in their memory.

For us, the judgment is a miracle as it completely overthrew all known judicial precedents and electoral jurisprudence in Nigeria. It would appear to be based on extra legal considerations, therefore requires a desired reversal by the Supreme Court as dictated by precedent

Therefore, does the Supreme Court possess the powers to review or reverse its earlier decision?
Delivering the lead judgment in *Adegoke Motors Ltd. v. Adesanya* [1989] 13 NWLR (Pt.109) 250 at page 275A, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, also known as the *Socrates* of the Supreme Court considered the powers of the Supreme Court (as the final Court in the land) to review its earlier decisions and said inter alia:

*We are final not because we are infallible; rather we are infallible because we are final. Justices of this Court are human-beings, capable of erring. It will certainly be short sighted arrogance not to accept this obvious truth. It is also true that this Court can do inestimable good through its wise decisions. Similarly, the Court can do incalculable harm through its mistakes. When therefore it appears to learned counsel that any decision of this Court has been given per incuriam, such counsel should have the boldness and courage to ask that such a decision be over-ruled. This Court has the power to over-rule itself (and has done so in the past) for it gladly accepts that it is far better to admit an error than to persevere in error*

greggng:
Can you even take a look at what you wrote ..no point made....how did they erred according to you? Analyse it and link it to the point of law.....I wanna hear statement that could proffer the alternative to supreme court judgement with facts. What you expect the sc to do is not what they law want them to do. You are a bad teacher without any verifiable means of arriving at your point ....cos you only spoke gramma nothing was buttressed

If you can't see how and where they erred then I can't really help you.

Allocating votes submitted by the plaintiff without verification from INEC and when added to total votes surpasses the total number of accredited votes on that day. The SC used those figures to remove a gov.

If you don't know why even the international community is blacklisting all the SC judges because of that judgement then like I said I can't help you.

greggng:
The are not naive...if same judgement went the other way round u and ur gullible pdp will insult the judiciary ....there is no morality in politics ....that's why people support their parties irrespective of whether they are wrong or right . Pdp has visited several embassy with protest about imo election ....it was same supreme court that delivered that judgement

You are being sentimental with the truth even while staring you in the face.

The truth is whether we like it or not the SC court erred in the IMO judgement. I hope they review and correct it. It would send a bad precedence but would be better than allowing that judgement stand just because SC has the final say.

That the SC gave an erroneous judgement does not mean every judgement is or will be erroneous, so saying that because the same SC delivered 2 judgements it must be agreed with even when we all know that one of the judgement was in error is rather sentimental.

If you don't understand. The Bayelsa judgement was right the IMO judgement was wrong and it was the same SC that delivered both judgement.

Iamgrey5:
I understand your point, but a judge could have easily given another verdict tbh

It's not like the case is extremely solid.

The judgment is based on the discretion of the judge but she chose to resolve the case again the defendant.

Na wa ooo

Gforce2015:
There are .always tenable reasons to approach court..diri will be disgraced out of governor's office .

But Lyon won't be the one to benefit from it.

Like I said Apc/Lyon's appeal/review should be DOA unless the SC want to play a rotten game again.

If Douye's deputy is found guilty in his forgery case both he and Douye should FO too.

Let's leave sentiments.

Takeproft:
When I saw that they agreed to a hearing on Imo verdict after the Bayelsa ruling, I knew they were up to something. This is APC trying to upturn the Bayelsa judgement

They will not succeed. They would prefer to have Bayelsa instead of IMO.

The Bayelsa case is DOA. APC scored an own goal. The IMO case is what they want yo correct especially with international pressure on all of them

If they attempt to upturn the Bayelsa verdict they will only reinforce more pressure on themselves because they wouldn't have any tenable reason to upturn it.

Dansuqi:
But she headed the panel?

You have been exposing your naivete on a public forum like its going outta fashion.

Kwantinue!

bigpicture001:
Result will b canceled nd re-run ordered.

Then APC will do their magic

Who would be the APC candidate?

Saintp:
We need to build strong institutions in Nigeria. Look at the shambles the highest court of the land has turned to all in a bid to do the bidding of the executive.

We now have PDP supreme court and APC supreme court all competing with each other to rescue their own even if it means dishing out frivolous judgments. Too bad

Methinks the Bayelsa judgment was a retaliation by the PDP supreme court for the APC supreme court judicial robbery on Imo. Otherwise there is no way the governor should have been thrown out because of his deputy judging by precedence of that kind of issue

Oga try and understand the law before saying what you are saying.

There is no retaliation, even if there is apc presented a suitable means for an effective retaliation.

Its a joint ticket and as such it would affect the gov, that's the law it wasnt enacted just to victimize Lyon. Its the law.

The IMO case was daylight robbery.

That it looks like PDP will/should get the upper hand in both cases only reinforces the fact that politicians and APC in particular are a terrible lot.

I hear Douye's deputy also has a case of forgery against him, if it is proven in court he and Douye will be booted out.

The law is an ass.

Racoon:
Instead of providing responsible governance wherein lives are being safe and secured, the stupid presidency is obsessed with protest that is supposed not to be in the first place.

The useless & hopeless terrorists loving govt will not have any intel on the BH/fulani terrorists because it's the brain behind it but now knows of an opposition protest.

The protest wouldn't make any difference. To me it doesn't make sense. Although it can count against that dullard in the future.

Removing that dunderhead of a president is what we should all channel our energy to.

Is it not the dullard that will appoint new service chiefs if he surprises us in removing the present ones.

Let people not go and die for nothing. We know the big elephant in the room.

Blindersoff:
Who said he could not prove it. Perhaps he was not given ample time to get the documents required for proof or was just lackadaisical about the whole thing so felt it did not matter since it was no forgery.

Now that he has seen the seriousness all required documents for proof may have been gotten now.

Anyway the court will review

Haaa not given ample time ke.

Does he have sworn affidavit/change of name documents for all those names.

Why would he be changing names at every corner. That is enough to suspect that there is foul play but then if anything it needs to be proved in court.

The truth is constant and if there were dubious reason why he kept on changing names like its going outta fashion it would be revealed and that might even make matters worse for him.

Maybe him don kill person before use change of name escape.

Dansuqi:
How did they goof in imo

How can the SC rely on evidence brought by a party and use it to remove a gov.

INEC ought to have been compelled to bring their own copy to see if it tallied with what uzodinma brought.

A rerun should have been the case in o and not awarding it to uzodinma with excess votes.

Dansuqi:
But they did not goof in bayelsa? I thought you revere and respect the supreme court

Stop talking nonsense.

How did the SC goof in Bayelsa?