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frugal:
He shouldn't. They'll send him and his deputy to prison instead

And throw the keys in the Indian ocean

Mazk:
he has been using them because no one challenged him. which result did he used in getting admission ?

I like the way you are schooling that etaka1 guy. He thinks the documents presented were not thoroughly examined by the court before pronouncing them as insufficient.

How can someone be changing names like its going out if fashion?

Wetin dey happen?

daddytime:
Yeye teachers contribute to wetin make me still hate maths with passion till date.

adekunley93:
I think they are heading to d court for d interpretation of d judgment concerning d geographical spread.

The SC Judges are even the ones causing this interpretation problem and its because some of their judgements in the past have been compromised that is why it is hard to maintain a truthful standard.

The judgement is the IMO case is really sad and will cause problems in the future because of "antecedence" in law.

CanadaOrBust:
I am not necessarily for PDP nor am I against APC. I calls’em as I sees’em. I just vehemently hate that Imo judgement. For one thing it sets a precedent that may lead to me having no say at all in who governs me!

Good for you. I share your position but I will admit that in as much as I see PDP as a useless party that brought us to where we are today, APC is demonic.

PDP = very bad and wicked man.

APC = Devil

So when PDP people defect to APC, I remember the devil is the ruler of this world

But when APC people defect to PDP I remember Miracles

CanadaOrBust:
INEC testified under penalty of PERJURY that they canceled results for those units and that they never issued the documents presented by Hope.
(Just recently PDP won a rerun in the same areas Hope got 99.9% of votes with over 100% voter turnouts!)
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Vanguard. Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Imo Guber: How Supreme court erred in computation of results

*Declared more votes than accredited voters
*Failed to interrogate petitioners’ evidence
*Avoided mentioning figures in a written judgment

Facts have emerged that the Supreme Court failed to do a thorough mathematical computation of the results of the election but relied only on the wrong computations submitted by Sen. Hope Uzodinma to declare him the duly-elected governor of Imo State...

Both the EPT and the Appeal Court dismissed the petition for lacking in merit.

By relying on the faulty tabulation made by Sen. Uzodinma, the Supreme Court arrived at a figure of 950,952 total votes cast at the election, which is more than the total votes cast at the election totalling 823,743.

This gave rise to 127,209 excess votes at the election as affirmed by the Supreme Court, which all through avoided mentioning figures regarding the votes cast for the disputants or the total registered voters and valid and invalid votes in the judgment.
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This one is from Guardian (remember these numbers exclude votes scored by the other 68 Parties!):

“The Guardian obtained a certified-true-copy of the record of the appeal filed at the Supreme Court by Uzodinma and APC...

On figure number 69 which shows votes cast at Eziama/Okpala (Umualum Village Square, Eziama)
total number of registered voters =492, whereas the APC scored 819 votes
and PDP scored 7 votes,
meaning 334 more votes than registered voters!

On page 22 of the record, at the polling unit 285 (Obudi/Aro, Central Assembly Square,
registered voters = 449
APC polled 780 votes
PDP polled four votes, leaving a total of 335 votes higher than the actual number of registered voters.

Also on page 22 of the petition, polling unit 282
number of registered voters = 591,
APC polled 586 votes
PDP nine votes, indicating a total of four votes higher than the registered number of voters.

Figures from page 79 of the record of appeal show:
Registered voters = 526
APC got 526 votes, while PDP was credited with two votes, indicating two votes higher than the total number of registered voters in the area.”

If the result is upturned because of these facts now those APC miscreants will now Start shouting "procured verdict" destroying everything just because it doesn't favour them. We watch!

CanadaOrBust:
I can’t believe u folks are talking like this.
I’m not sure u read what I wrote:
How hard is it to obtain INEC documents, write any results u wish, keep the carbon copies, and destroy the rest??
Or is it that it is so hard to obtain INEC documents??
The ONLY way to checkmate that is to accept INEC’s word, UNDER OATH, that they never issued those documents!

Remember this is not just any case b4 a high court. We are talking about a case that strikes at the very core of what type of country we’d end up becoming.
IS THERE ANY LAW THAT PREVENTS U FROM EXAMINING DOCUMENTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU??!!


Notice how the SC had to bend backwards - they carefully did not mention any figures in their judgement. Very strange when u r dealing with a case that is all about numbers!

There is a principle in law “if in doubt let the status quo stand”. You don’t replace a sitting gov with a 4th place finisher by refusing to examine documents and ignoring ridiculous numbers!

It seems we are saying the same thing in different ways.

Your last bolded statement sums it up.

But if there is an authentic result of an election, who should have it? Regardless of if anyone can get election sheet and write his own result.

Thats shy I asked if INEC testified? If they testified and authenticated the result uzodinma brought all well and good but if not why replace the gov with result brought by one of the contestants when we all know such documents can be forged easily

CanadaOrBust:
Duly signed? Not at all sir!
The Uzodinma documents they relied on to replace an 8-month incumbent governor with a FOURTH place finisher: not only were they full of ridiculous figures that exceed number of registered voters, they were also incomplete, smudgy, full of alterations, signed only by APC, and showed results for only APC and PDP out of 70 parties!
Also INEC swore under penalty of PERJURY that they never issued those documents.

Like I said, I am not at all into politics at all, but here is what someone into Imo politics wrote:

Imo people did not vote for Hope! Hope didn't even campaign in Imo because of the APC crises between him and Rochas who was fronting his in-law, Uche Nwosu.

On the day of the election, Hope and some APC loyalists were lodged in a Hotel in Owerri writing results after INEC announced results. They brought the results and were compelling returning officer to announce but he refused that it was fake that even party reps have raised the alarm.

Also, do u at all consider the precedent set here (which lawyers will cite forever):

How hard is it to obtain INEC documents, write any result u wish, keep the carbon copies, and destroy the rest??

A person who receives no single vote can easily be declared winner and immediately replace the incumbent. All they’d have to do is present result sheets which the Supreme Court MUST accept no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!

Using that precedent, a ruling party can easily “win” any election, effectively removing any say u may have in choosing who rules you.

That’s what u r busy defending!
codedguy1

Please correct me if I am wrong. I believe INEC never produced any evidence in court as per the result.

INEC was joined in that case and should have brought their own results to verify if the result presented by Hope or even PDP was authentic.

Because PDP didn't bring a result to counter Hopes own didn't mean Hopes result was correct.

The implication to that is that INEC was complicit in knowing that Hope had presented a fake result and still kept quiet.

The court atleast at the lower Level ought to have compelled INEC to produce the authentic result so prove or disprove who was having the correct result.

Hope produced a fake result as asserted by PDP who didn't have a result to counter it and INEC kept mum.

A rerun should have been the solution in IMO.

My opinion though.

supereagle:
There is another opinion from another lawyer.

The Way To Proceed in Bayelsa Is To Swear In The PDP Candidate Immediately

1. By the terms of the Supreme Court judgment of 13/2/2020, the two candidates sponsored by the APC for the Bayelsa Governorship election became disqualified.

2. The Surpeme Court treated them as if they were never candidates in the election, that is they should not have been part of the election ab initio.

3. The disqualification of the APC candidates by the court automatically voids whatever result APC polled in the election. Thus, all the votes cast for the APC candidates automatically become voided by reason of the Supreme Court decision and cannot be added to total valid votes.

4. The total lawful votes for the Bayelsa Governorship Election prior to the Surpeme Court judgment was 499,551, out of which APC had 353,552, which has now been voided by the Supreme Court, leaving total lawful votes cast to be 145,999, from which INEC is to calculate the 25% spread. PDP has 143,172, which clearly meets 25% of the lawful votes of 145,999.

5. INEC is not to calculate 25% of voided votes which in the eye of the law are null and do not exist.

6. By virtue of section 287(1) of the 1999 Constitution, INEC should immediately issue certificate of return to the PDP candidate, without further ado.

7. The Chief Judge of Bayelsa State should proceed to swear in the PDP candidate immediately.

8. Anyone dissatisfied with the decision of the Surpeme court should follow due process of law.

9. The judgment of the Surpeme court is an indictment on INEC, the political parties and the President who has failed to fulfill his promise of electoral reforms.

10. It is not proper for our leaders to keep pushing us to the point where the will of the people to choose their leaders during elections is upturned by the courts.

Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, SAN
Lekki, Lagos.
14/02/2020.

I had read this report earlier and I think it even explains the whole thing better.

I just wanted to answer that lawyers assertion that even if there is a rerun APC would not still be on the ballot.

Claiming to withdraw so that they can field another candidate after being disqualified is just being arrogant and stupid.

Because they know the people actually rejected PDP at the polls and would do so again if given the chance that's why all these option replacement is being touted.

They should go lick their wounds.

Racoon:
So much that this is a sad development, it should give the nation esp.the NASS an opportunity to embark on thorough electoral reform in the impending constitutional review.Supreme court is not supposed to do INEC work hence disenfranchised the electorate.

But its because INEC didn't do it job well that's why the SC had to step in.

This same deputy had been stopped by the high court only for APC to get an appeal court judgement instating the deputy just before the Nov elections. The SC only look at the case as a pre election matter and ruled on it.

You self see how many names the guy get, am sure that deputy would have been confused at some point which of his name is authentic.

Imagine him havung diff bank accounts in those 5 names. Only bvn would link him to them.

ddippset:
The only way the Supreme Court could overturn Imo would be if the PDP can go back to the tribunal and prove that the votes Uzodinma is carrying about are fake and rigged votes.

The Supreme Court is not father Christmas.

It doesn't even sit on Dec 25th.

Agreed! But if they can't do that let them eat their loss and continue to protest naturedly until they get tired unlike APC in Bayelsa.

Blindersoff:
Are you so daft that you cannot understand when someone is trying to explain why the people are vexed in this manner?

What has my comment got to do with the nonsense you typed?

And you are a rettardded dingbat to not understand the correlation.

Why are they not angry with the APC who fielded an unqualified candidate? Why are they destroying PDP properties and attacking Douyes house?

Is getting angry and destroying PDP properties the way to go.

They are free to be angry but should not destroy any body's property.

CanadaOrBust:
But what can people do when SC aids and abetts fraud that everyone knows is fraud?! The Imo state case is waayyyu out of bounds. It is simply not in the same league with any of these other cases.

Notice in that case SC said nothing about meeting “the required constitutional geographical spread of votes”. Why? Because they know the numbers make no sense - the man gave himself 2 times the registered number of voters in some places!
Then INEC gave him certificate the very next day, carefully making sure NOT to release final tally of votes (because they know they’d be laughed at!)

I’m not into politics at all, but even I know the Imo state case is is different from the rest

Don't mind those APC thugs who only want to accept a verdict as long as it favours them.

The IMO case is rather blatantly pathetic to say the least. If it is overturned based on facts these morons in APC will want to use lies to overturn another judgement against them.

Whenever they lose they turn to destruction.

Blindersoff:
That is not their concern. Diri is the former governors cousin so is not wanted. The former governor failed them now wants his own cousin to continue?

PDP was massively rejected at the polls because of this thus the annoyance of the people

This does not make sense in the present circumstances.

So because the people rejected PDP and Diri because they were fed up with the former gov is the reason APC should be arrogant enough to nominate someone who has multiple identity issues.

Is it the fault of the people that APC were dumb enough to not get the right people to carry their ticket.

What is the SC business with who the people rejected or not.

Instead of you to look at the APC who failed the people by being incompetent when they fielded an unqualified candidate, you are here talking as if the judgement from the SC considered the feelings of the people even if tey actually rejected the PDP at the polls.

supereagle:
The running mate can't be excluded like that. See the opinion of a lawyer on this.

Copied :

SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT ON BAYELSA ELECTION: WHIRLING DUSTS IN THE LEGAL ARENA

The Supreme Court judgment on Bayelsa Governorship election has raised many dusts for legal fireworks which may be difficult to quench permanently even by the Apex Court until the parliament comes into rescue by amending the Constitution and the Electoral Act.

Since the Supreme Court has annulled the election of Bayelsa governor-elect and his Deputy in its judgment, thereby directing INEC to issue Certificate of return to the person who scored the 2nd highest number of lawful votes cast and covered the geographical spread in the State as provided in the Constitution. Then there will be need to consider if PDP meets the Constitutional requirements as provided in Section 179(2(b) ) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

In other words, if PDP has the 2nd highest number of lawful votes in the election but failed to have not less than one-quarter (25%) of all the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local government areas in the State. By implication, the PDP candidate must have at least 25% of lawful votes in at least 5 LGAs out of the 8 LGAs.

See the result of Bayelsa Governorship election and analysis. *(culled)*

1. Ogbia LGA:
APC - 58,016 *80.8%*
PDP - 13,763 *19.2%*

2. Yenagoa LGA:
APC - 24,607 *70.3%*
PDP - 19,184 *29.7%*

3. Brass LGA:
APC - 23,831 *69.6%*
PDP - 10,410 *30.4%*

4. Okuma/Opokuma LGA:
APC - 8,934 *36.7%*
PDP - 15,360 *63.2%*

5. Nembe LGA:
APC - 83,041 *99%*
PDP - 874 *1%*

Sagbama LGA:
APC - 7,831 *11.9%*
PDP - 60,399 *88.5%*

7. Southern Ijaw LGA:
APC - 124,803 *96.2%*
PDP - 4,898 *3.8%*

Now ⅔ of 7 LGAs is 7x ⅔ = 4.7

But from the above results PDP scored 25% in only 4 LGAs. Therefore the PDP governorship candidate cannot be sworn in or be issued Certificate of Return.

Consequently, there will be need for fresh governorship election in Bayelsa State while the Speaker of the State will be sworn in tentatively as Acting Governor of Bayelsa State pending the outcome of the fresh election. This is in accordance with Section 191(2) of the Constitution.

However, if re-run election is to be held, does APC have a right to substitute its deputy governorship candidate having been disqualified by the Court and having regard to Section 33 of the Electoral Act, 2010 which provides thus:
" A political party shall not be allowed to change or substitute its candidate whose name has been submitted pursuant to Section 32 of this Act, except in the case of death or withdrawal by candidate."

Flowing from the above provision, the only instance or situation where substitution is permitted is where the political party's candidate dies as in the case of AUDU/FALEKE or he voluntarily withdraws from contest. In the case of Bayelsa State at hand, the Supreme Court disqualified the APC deputy governorship candidate.

Thus, having been disqualified, can APC deputy governorship candidate hide under that guise, by applying for a withdrawal from contest in order to permit APC to substitute his name with another? This is the point where the dust will be raised for legal debate that may even roll back to the Apex Court for resolution.

Though my humble view to this poser will be in the affirmative. Even though, it is not expressly provided in the Electoral Act, withdrawal of candidate from election may come in any form and no reason need be disclosed to INEC for such withdrawal. This is a situation where doctrine of necessity will be applicable to cover the constitutional lacunae.

Meanwhile, it is imperative for the National Assembly to take a second look at the provision of Section 33 of the Electoral Act for probable amendment and for avoidance of legal conundrum as this.

My humble legal opinion...

Henry Akingbesote Esq.

The guy raised a poser and answered it in the affirmative.

I disagree with his assertion. How can you withdraw from a race you have already been disqualified from.

This is how lawyers will start to turn logic on its head just to justify their bias.

The deputy and by extension the APC ticket has been disqualified, to now turn to say he withdraws just to give chance for another person is akin to fraud in this instance.

My humble opinion.

DTaj:
The spirit of "fake name" has caught INEC too. The man's surname is Duoye, but the certificate of return showed "Douye"!

The spirit of Degi in multiple of 5! Lol.

Na wa o!

Duoye himself wants to claim he did not see it except he just wan collect this one with the tension gets sworn in and then ask INEC to get him a corrected one. Make person no go go court that to claim fake name

He needs to be sworn asap.

Leyqute:
These players “understood “ off the ball movement when Ole was an interim manager, what happened?

That's a million dollar question.

Wat hapin?

eph12:
I didn't need to go through the link to see something that is very obvious and has been lacking in the club for some time. It's not only against Wolves. Generally, off the ball movement is always poor in every match. I expect the coach to drill the entire team on movements off and on the ball. No evidence of that for the major part of the last 12 months.

Except Ole is just realising off the ball movements are poor, drilling that into the ears of our players should have yielded some improvements in that aspect of our game. But from beginning of season till now we have noticed that off/on the ball movements in the team get as e be.

Except both players and coach are just dumb and don't know how to communicate with each other.

Its rather annoying that the same issue of lack of movement by the players still persist deep into the season.

I just tire.

Hmmm

nwakibie3:
Do u really know the meaning of void

When all APC’s votes are void, PDP automatically wins all the local govts.

The guy still never understand how the thing dey go.

Resurgent2016:
'can only imagine the mental stress legislators who decamped to APC will be going through......

Mental stress ke. Those ones that have no iota of shame! Na to cross back to PDP and therein lies one of our problems.

The system, psychy, morals, ethics and everything humane has been bastardized and degraded in this country.

Wike fit punch Oshobaba as e be now.

Racoon:
INEC have failed woefully by failing to duly scrutinise all contestants for elective posts before elections.It's dangerous and too bad that the electorate and INEC dont help in determining election winners in this dispensation but the supreme court.

From president to govs to senators and nor.

Am sure there are more we haven't noticed.

When the head is rotten......

Awol1:
GEJ didn't do it because he is not as stupid as the fools you are supporting.

Apapa wharf gridlock is a national disaster. What has your govt done about it?

Calabar port needs dredging so that bigger vessels can berth. What has your govt done about it?

Warri and Onne ports are reported to be battling obselete infrastructure and piracy. What has your govt done about?

Onitsha seaport needs dredging to start taking vessels. What has your govt done about it?

It is only fools of wanton stupidity that would start a whole new ports while having not fixed existing ones.

Do these people have brains at all?

Don't waste your time with that dingbat, he knows nothing about nothing just like the govt he supports.

Buncha useless, brainless, rettarrded, irresponsible, wicked, selfish idiots we have ruling this country now. I have no adjectives to describe those who support them.

myobjective:
From day one I always antagonise Buhari, I never supported him then despite I being a Yoruba Muslim (demography of Yorubas that Igbos like to hate) because I know he is an ethnic and religious bigot couple with the fact that he ha nothing to offer but I wouldn't blame those that supported him in 2015 due to supposed Jonathan incompetency.

I respect what Nnamdi Kannu is fighting for, he may have gone about in a crude manner but at least he is fighting for something he believes in, what I despise is how Igbos here like to hate on Yorubas when the Yorubas have always been the most accommodative of the major ethnic group in Nigeria towards them, how they always undermine ur interest and support the so-called Fulani that they're condemning Tinubu and Yoruba for.

The question I always the Igbos is between a liberal Yoruba president (be it Christian, Muslim, Atheist) or a conservative northern Muslim who will ensure equity and possibly restructured Nigeria. We can all agree that the Igbos are due a president because they deserve it for fairness but would they ever get it by supporting the born to rule North?

Finally, the population, cultural, religious intolerance, disdain for education and lack arable land and surface water in the far north will make the core north (north west and east) be a disaster in the event of Nigeria disintegrate. An independent Core northern Nigeria will be worst than Niger and Chad

Defending GEJ at that time was quite hard, that was the major problem especially when Buhari was coming with the anti corruption toga. It is only now that a lot of people have come to realise that bubu has nothing to offer even if given 2 decades to rule.

As per the taunting between Igbo's and Yoruba's in this forum it goes both ways. Yoruba's are accommodating just as the Igbo's are travellers and can settle anywhere. Well the igbos feel frustrated by the support the "Yoruba's" gave the Fulani to bring them back to power and want to taunt them because the same Buhari they supported is now ignoring them(Tinubu). I admit its a wrong way to go about it though. If the yourubas stand as one to ask for restructuring with the Igbo's it would just be a matter of time we achieve it.

Nnamdi kanu's approach is really a problem, now that he seems to have an army of supporters goading him on only God can help us.

I didn't really get your question about the liberal Yoruba or conservative northerner as president towards achieving restructuring. Are you asking who would we achieve restructuring with quicker?

As per northeast and north west being a disaster if we disintegrate. That would be a major challenge but I still think it can be summounted. The issue is getting the right leader go lead them and they can turn that population to achieve greater things.

In secondary sch we were taught about the 4 factors of production land labour capital and entrepreneurship. They can start from there cause they have at least 3 of the 4. Info tech can be used to hasting things up.

Security will be the first challenge though.

myobjective:
Get this clear bro, the Yorubas are not against the Igbos leaving or restructuring you just have to do it without abusing us or antagonizing our interest. We can both come to a compromise in pursuing how different agenda.

We both can agree that Nigeria current structure will not yield any fruit and the country to slide into abys if nothing is done to restructure it. The northern elite may be comfortable with our current predicament because of the other alternative may not be good for them if you look at their social and economic disadvantage but we can't allow them to drag us backward. We'll ask the question of the basis of our unity as a country

Firstly, I ain't Igbo.

I will not rope every Yoruba man into the Tinubu camp and supporters who merged with Bubu just to get power because I know there are Yoruba's who never wanted this bubu as president too.

The truth is the support he got from that faction of the sw is what brought bubu into power and he is even now showing the Yoruba's themselves (tinubu faction) that he doesent care about them.

Nnamdi kanu's vile utterances are a problem for the Igbo's, but I also know there are Igbo's who do not ascribe to his methods and style of abusing those he could have had as allies. There is always a betrayer in the midst.

Nnamdi kanu's position should not be seen as the position of every igbo. Just line Tinubu has people that would support him supporting a tyrant that's how NK has his followers who go to the extremes with their conducts.

Sw will thrive better on their own same as the SE and I dare say that the north will not suffer as much as we think they would if they tap into what they have to make Nigeria a better place if we are still one.

Perkins2018:
Igbos are more than confused.

We love Nigeria more than everyone by living in every part of Nigeria.

We want Biafra.

Give us presidency.

We give up on Biafra for atiku.

What do you really want.

Igbo's have at least attempted to leave this contraption called Nigeria but were fought down to remain.

If today they decide to want out will the Nigerian state allow them go?

Nigeria cannot not want them to go and also say the are confused when they insist on participating in elections. The voting patern shows they want out or at least a restructured Nigeria. Its a cache 22 for them.

Zooposki:
Seems only the Yorubas are in support of one Nigeria, yet they keep pretending by chanting Oduduwa Republic.

Confused lot.

But I admit there are those who know exactly what will make their territory blossom and I give kudos to them.

Tor!

elrony:
The dribbling dey taya person

I dey tell you. Person go just confuse on top which position one person dey try prove inside him own argument.

He has started the work he was employed for.

Na southerners go suffer am pass.