Buhari is never a man of integrity except if his versi of integrity has a different meaning, everything about buhari is dubious,by Apc's own constitution only the national HQ of the party is empowered to conduct party primaries, Tinubu blantantly refused this n used his gang of thugs to organize a fraudulent primary in Lagos but because he is hidding under the guise of serving buhari's interests while actually consolidating his criminal grip of Lago for selfish reasons buhari kept mute,no one should be surprised because whatever Tinubu does in Lagos no matter how heinous as long as it serves buhari well he will never do anything about it,yet the same buhari n Tinubu will shamelessly accuse others of shortcomings,but it's not their fault like some one said else where,the amount of votes Buhari/Apc will get in the elections will determine the percentage of stupidity in Nigeria.
This an old vedio after saraki decamped from pdp then, now that the campaigns are over,the APC propaganda machine is in over drive but it's not going to work!.
myboy2111: The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner of Katsina State, Jibril Ibrahim Zarewa, said 3,187,988 Permanent Voters Card, PVCs were distributed in the state.
Zarewa said the 3,187,988 representing 98 per cent collection were out of the 3,230,000 registered voters in the state. The Commissioner also said that 63,939 PVCs were yet to be collected and would be taken to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN for safe keeping. His words: “In Katsina State, there are 3,230,000 registered voters out whom 3,187,988 representing 98 pcollected the Permanent Voters Card, PVC. The balance yet to be collected is 63,939 representing two per cent. We have housed it and kept it till after the elections.”
what is the total population of katsina state for her to have this kind of registered voters if not for the fraud of under age voters?,but I only blame the other parts of the country that believes only the north are honest while others are not trustworthy.
GOATandYAMtheory: The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said on Tuesday that it agreed with the argument by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal ( CCT ), Danladi Uma that he and his tribunal were not answerable to the Judiciary, but the Presidency.
NBA, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its President, Paul Usoro (SAN), said Umar was correct in that argument, but contended that the fact that the CCT was under the control of the Executive informs the urgent need to discontinue charge of breach of code of conduct pending against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen before the CCT.
It said: “the Chairman of the CCT, Hon. Danladi Umar, in his response to a petition that was written against him and which was forwarded to him by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) states emphatically that he and his tribunal are answerable and report only to the Presidency, by law and practice. He is absolutely correct.
“An insistence, in the circumstance, on the CJN, the head of an independent arm of the FGN, standing trial before a tribunal that is under the Presidency and is answerable only to the Presidency, mocks the concept of and completely erodes the independence of the judiciary and the constitutional separation that should exist between the three arms of the FGN.
“It is precisely for this reason that our Constitution created the NJC and we are pleased that the FGN has warmed up to the utilization of that due process, as illustrated by the submission of the EFCC petition to the council.”
NBA’s new intervention in the case is coming a day before the resumption of proceedings in the case before the CCT.
The Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Umar had, at the last proceedings on February 4 this year, insisted that Onnoghen must appear before the tribunal in person before any further businesses could be conducted in the charge pending against him (Onnoghen).
Umar gave the directive shortly before agreeing to the request by parties for adjournment to February 13.
He said: “Under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), a defendant, who is served with a charge and represented by lawyers, must take his plea before raising any objection.
“The defendant has continued to stay away from this tribunal. I am going to grant this adjournment at the instance of the prosecution and defence, but must state that the defendant must attend court at the next adjourned date so that all the issues would be resolved in his presence.”
Read Also: Onnoghen to CCT chair: you’re a biased, tainted arbiter Also on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal in Abuja failed to hear the three appeals filed suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen.
The appellate court had in late January adjourned on February 12, 2019 for the hearing of the appeals
But, when lawyers to parties got to court on Tuesday, the court could not form quorum (of three Justices) for the purpose of hearing the appeals.
Parties were told to await information, on a later date, on when the hearing is to be rescheduled.
The appeals are against the decisions of the Code of Conduct to assume jurisdiction over the charge pending against Onnoghen and the ex-parte injunction granted by the CCT, and on which President Muhammadu Buhari acted to suspend Onnoghen.
The statement by the NBA reads: “Ahead of the adjourned proceedings in the above-named matter before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (“CCT”), scheduled for tomorrow, February 13, 2019, the Nigerian Bar Association again urges the Executive arm of the Federal Government of Nigeria (“FGN”) to discontinue this Charge against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honorable Mr. Justice Walter S N Onnoghen, GCON (“CJN”) for the following reasons, amongst others:
“First, as widely reported, one of the two petitions against the CJN that is currently before the National Judicial Council (“NJC” or “Council”) is an exact replica of the petition that motivated the CCT Charge.
“The second petition was reportedly presented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), an FGN agency. We commend the FGN for adhering to due process by submitting the EFCC petition to the NJC for consideration.
“In like manner and in adherence to the law and due process, we urge the FGN to discontinue the CCT Charge and allow the NJC consider the initial petition which, as widely reported, has already been responded to by the CJN.
“Second, the Chairman of the CCT, Hon. Danladi Umar, in his response to a petition that was written against him and which was forwarded to him by the Federal Judicial Service Commission, states emphatically that he and his tribunal are answerable and report only to the Presidency, by law and practice. He is absolutely correct.
“An insistence, in the circumstance, on the CJN, the head of an independent arm of the FGN, standing trial before a tribunal that is under the Presidency and is answerable only to the Presidency, mocks the concept of and completely erodes the independence of the judiciary and the constitutional separation that should exist between the three arms of the FGN.
“It is precisely for this reason that our Constitution created the NJC and we are pleased that the FGN has warmed up to the utilization of that due process, as illustrated by the submission of the EFCC petition to the Council.
“Third, and complementary to the two points afore-stated is the fact that the spectacle of having our CJN, while still holding that title, in the dock before the CCT or any other court, truly diminishes all of us, not least the Executive arm of the FGN.
“The NJC process allows an initial determination to be made on the petitions against the CJN and if His Lordship is found liable or wanting howsoever, appropriate sanctions would be imposed by the NJC including recommendation for his dismissal or retirement.
“In that event, he would no longer hold the office or title of CJN and could be prosecuted for any criminal infraction before the CCT or any other Court.
“An insistence on the CCT prosecution paints a picture of persecution of the CJN by the Executive and such a spectacle in no way ennobles the FGN Executive arm and/or its officials. Such a scenario should be avoided by all means.
“Given these non-exhaustive considerations and facts, we press on the Executive arm of the FGN to please discontinue the Charge against the CJN when the matter comes up before the CCT tomorrow, Wednesday, 13 February 2019.
“We respectfully urge full compliance with due process by FGN in this matter by allowing the NJC process to take its course in respect of the two petitions against the CJN – a step that has already, commendably, been embraced by FGN in respect of the EFCC petition.”
ok if Danladi is not a judicial officer n he n his CCT are under n answerable to the executive only,is no longer a lawyer that should fall under the description says actions of the NBA?, shouldn't the NBA be approaching the supreme Court for the correction of this legal loophole?,a bunch of learned indeed.
Should the NBA/NJC be begging the executive?,what are there interest?.you have your procedures backed by law why can't they just stick to it?, this means onnoghen must be found guilty at all cost to please buhari if not what will happen if buhari agreed to drop the charge only for onnoghen to proof his innocence?,the FG sending a petition against onnoghen to the NJC after having taken him before the CCT is clearly wrong why can't the NJC be bold to stand for the truth?, Danladi of CCT claim he is not a judicial officer n answerable to the the president only!, is this not an anomaly that the NBA should opposed?, Danladi who is not a judicial officer n under the executive can give a judicial order for members of an independent arm of government to be removed from office without challenge!,the NBA/NJC are no longer talking about the unethical conduct of Tanko or his sanctions base on establish prescedence!,no mention is made or heard of his response to the petitions written against him!, but tommorow when the situation changes this same NBA/NJC will find their voices,yet they are the learned!.
ABUJA—-It is more trouble for the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as the National Judicial Council, NJC, on Monday, ordered him to respond to a fresh petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, lodged against him.
The suspended CJN was handed seven days to respond to allegations the EFCC raised against him.
The Council, which took the decision at the end of its emergency meeting in Abuja, further constituted a Preliminary Complaints Assessment Committee, to consider responses to both Onnoghen and the Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, to various petitions against them.
The NJC said it would reconvene on Wednesday to take a final decision on the fate of Justices Onnoghen and Muhammad.
while the decision of the NJC is been awaited over the onnoghen n Tanko saga, isn't the actions of the buhari/Apc executive of suspending the CJ n now forwarding series of petitions against him not tantamount to putting the cart before the horse?is this acceptable in law?,to me it's all a desperate contrived after thought actions in a bid to justify initial malice,the shame will be on the NJC really if they give in cheaply to the coersions of buhari without abiding by their rules n prescedents to do justice in this case, it's a pity but everyday it's been proven that Southerners generally are just a bunch of educated monkies lead by northern agressive goats.
Infomediang: - Famous comedian Okey Bakassi has dropped a thought-provoking comment
- He stated that men who are looking for women who will serve and worship them should not marry educated women - He also added that men who are very jealous should save themselves heartache and not marry beautiful women Popular Nigerian comedian, Okey Onyegbule known as Okey Bakassi is making his way to becoming on of the public speakers on issues of relationships. In a recent interview, he shared advice to men on the kind of woman they should marry. Speaking on women and men having equal rights, he stated that men who want a woman who will serve and worship them should not marry educated women and stick to illiterates whom will welcome the idea of service in marriage. "If you don’t believe that man and woman are equal and have equal rights, don’t bother about marriage. If you are looking for a woman to worship and serve you, don’t marry an educated woman." He said.
He added that men who are very jealosu should not bother marrying beautiful women. He said: "If you are insecure and too jealous, don’t marry a beautiful woman." He however sealed his words of wisdom with the idea that men who are looking for a premium relationship with a suitable spouse can go for beautiful and well-educated women. He said: "If you are looking for a beautiful woman who will give and raise beautiful children with you, take you to the next level, support you in times of needs, then marry a beautiful woman who is hardworking and educated, and has a mind of her own. If you don’t have the right tools and the right skills set to sustain a marriage, you can learn. But no carry person daughter punish am o.”
This is not the first time Bakassi will dish out relationship advise. Once he talked about how having relationships before marriage is a way to get experience for the future.
This is pig shit!,I don't believe In gender equality but I don't expect any woman to worship me,it only mean you should maintain your lane n Know where to apply comma n fulstop that's all,but if any woman should insist on gender equality then don't expect me to cater for you simple.
Chinekepikin: A beautiful Nigerian Lady and a die hard lover of President Buhari was seen crying because she did not see President Mohammadu Buhari during his visit to Kano State Last Week.
Many sympathize with her while others did not take it lightly on her.
Some may hate Buhari, but PMB still got some die hard supporters of him. This is really touching.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN has responded to the Freedom of Information request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) saying that “the Ministry has searched for the requested information on details of alleged contractors and companies that collected money for electricity projects and failed to executive any projects, but we could not find it from our records.”
Mr Fashola’s response followed SERAP’s suit number FHC/L/CS/105/19 filed last month at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos. The suit is seeking “an order for leave to apply for judicial review and an order of mandamus directing and/or compelling Mr Fashola to provide specific details on the names and whereabouts of the contractors who collected public funds meant for electricity projects but disappeared with the money without executing any projects.”
However, in the letter dated 27th January 2019,Seen by PoliticsNGR, which SERAP said it received at its office on 7th February 2019, Mr Fashola said, “We have searched the Ministry’s record and the information you applied for is not held by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (Power Sector).”
The letter signed on Mr Fashola’s behalf by Mrs Shoetan A. A, Director (Legal Services) read in part: “I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 4th January 2019 in which you applied for request to disclose details of alleged corrupt contractors and companies that collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects. The request has been handled under the FOI Act.”
Responding, SERAP in a letter dated 8th February 2019 and signed by its deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare said: “The public expectation is that government information, when in the hands of any public institutions and agencies, should be available to the public, as prescribed by the FOI Act. The FOI Act should always be used as an authority for disclosing information rather than withholding it.”
SERAP’s response to Mr Fashola read in part: “Indiscriminate attempts to limit disclosure of information of public interest such as the details of the names of alleged corrupt contractors and companies that SERAP is seeking, will undermine the government’s expressed commitment to transparency and accountability.”
“We believe that the predisposition by all public institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing should be to grant access to public information and not to implicitly deny it. Indeed, disclosure, not secrecy, is the dominant objective of the FOI Act. This objective would be defeated if there is public perception that public institutions and agencies attempt to shield information of public interest from disclosure or abdicate statutory responsibilities.”
“Although we have filed a case in court for remedial action and seeking an order to compel you and your Ministry to release the information requested, we urge you to take proactive steps to obtain the information from any other public institution or agency that may be holding the requested information, and to send to us the information without further delay. Your Ministry should not wait until the court makes it decision to compel you to disclose the requested information.”
“Proactively releasing the information to SERAP and publishing it widely will strengthen the proper implementation of the FOI Act, promote accessibility and openness in government as well as show that the government will not shield the affected contractors and companies from accountability.”
“SERAP believes that it should be the practice of your Ministry and indeed other public institutions and agencies to hold and keep records of public information including on names of alleged corrupt contractors and companies with the expectation to release any such information when requested.”
“SERAP believes that even assuming that your Ministry has faithfully searched for the information requested and that the information is not held by your Ministry as claimed, your Ministry should still have taken steps to approach and request from other public institution or institutions that may be holding the requested information, in line with the provisions of the FOI Act.”
“SERAP believes that your response implicitly amounts to a refusal by your Ministry to provide the information requested, as allowed under the FOI Act.”
“We note that your Ministry has a responsibility under Sections 1(1)(2), 2(2)(3)(4), 5 and 9 of the FOI Act to record and keep information about all its activities, operations and businesses, including on the specific names and details of alleged corrupt contractors and companies in order to facilitate public access to any such information.”
It would be recalled that SERAP had last month sued Mr Fashola over “failure to disclose specific names and details of contractors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects, starting from the return of democracy in 1999 to 2018.”
The suit followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information request dated 4 January, 2019 giving Mr Fashola 14 days to publish “the names of all contractors and companies that have been engaged in the power sector since the return of democracy in 1999 to date, details of specific projects and the amounts that have been paid to the contractors and companies, details on the level of implementation of electricity projects and their specific locations across the country.”
The organization said: “publishing the names will make it hard for contractors and companies to get away with complicity in grand corruption. The citizens have the right to see that the Freedom of Information Act is enforced where there is an infraction of the right to information or a threat of its being violated, in matters of public interests.”
Just imagine the dirty lies from Mr rocket science,so how did he establish the facts he was basing his accusations on abinitio?,crooks forming saints, idiots.
WiLdFLame: Mr man shut up...from the onset politics is all about interest...if you like call in self interest..interest is interest..it a game of numbers the more interest aligns with your interest Tinubu has spoken Go and kill yourself with your imperial overseas master
Just think back n see how much a fool you have made of yourself,you couldn't contradict what I stating because it's true,but because what Tinubu n buhari are doing suits you for whatever reason you don't see anything wrong in it yet you open your filthy mouth to accuse others n call, your devilish masters saints, when the table turns don't complain because it's all about interests ok,I don't have masters anywhere,by God's grace I will remain alive in this country n we all shall be witnesses to the end.
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has advised Foreign Election Observers to write their reports in peace and "go home".
Speaking at the All Progressives Congress, APC rally in Lagos on Saturday, Tinubu sympathised with them adding that they are 'welcome' to monitor the elections.
His words: "I want to sympathise with our friends, our foreign observers. You are truly welcome. Observe what you need to observe, write your report in peace and go home.
This is our democracy. America is still questioning its own democracy. We are watching CNN, Trump and Russia, China. Interference in the largest Africa democracy is what we are saying. “The G20 in 2007 asked President Umar Yar’Adua, what are you going to do with the election in Nigeria?
"The election that brought me in as the president is flawed and I will reform it. Who conducted the election? Obasanjo, the greatest election rigger in this country. He is an expired meat. Put him in the shop or dump him in the dustbin, forget Obasanjo!"
During the APC primaries,the APC in Lagos under the control of Tinubu refused to allow officials sent from the party headquarters from conducting the primaries as instructed rather the Tinubu gang forcefully organized a crookish primary n claimed the officials from the headquarters were only sent to observe whatever he chooses to do in Lagos!,the party felt insulted n was set for show down but buhari been self centered allowed the fraud to stay because Tinubu was working in his interest,yet characters like Tinubu will have the effontry to accuse others,tinubu's support for buhari n buhari condoning him is all out of self interest, like sani said Tinubu is taking a tigers ride,let him prepare because such ride never ends well,he had been shown a tip of the iceberg before next he would be rammed against the iceberg itself,the result can only be imagined.
Now everyone can see the direction of buhari, buhari is scheming to compromise the judiciary to do his biddings by retaining the corrupt Umar of CCT under the guise that he is not a judicial officer n answerable to him alone!,ok if Umar is not a judicial officer at least he is a lawyer so the NBA should handle his case or doesn't lawyers have an ethics code?, patroitic Nigerians should try to look at the larger picture of what buhari is tryiy to do if this precedence is allowed to stand, eventually once you don't fall into line you will be destroyed even those cheering buhari today should not think they are immuned particularly Tinubu,the way he hijacked the APC primaries in Lagos against the party national leadership is not forgotten it was only let go for strategic reason after 2019 will be demystification n destruction time for him n his likes.
If that's your own idea of leaving no stone unturned then you are dubious n your ways are crookish,you have no right to accuse any other person of wrong doing.its no wonder you are a Tinubu desciple.but come the 16th we shall see,I hope you are not one of Apc's recruited thugs.
dguyindcorner: What's going round on Social Media now is how unfathomable this is for the Atikulooters. The more they castigate Buhari, the more love shown to him.
The case of the more you look the less you see.
With all this so called love,why is the Apc still afraid n not allowing Atikulation unhindered campaigns in their strongholds?.
myboy2111: Video: The Moment Crowd Overpowered Securities at the Gate of the Stadium of Teslim Balogun Stadium to gain entrance Crowd is something here
Just got inside Stadium ...filled to capacity. The campaign is yet to start
A factional group of Ohaneze Ndigbo led by the Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Uche Okwukwu on Friday apologized to President Muhammadu Buhari for the announcement by the main body of the group endorsing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 elections.
The group also told the President not to lose any sleep in the South East for the February 16 presidential election, assuring that in a free, fair and credible election he (Buhari) will win a majority of the votes cast in the zone.
Recall that after the endorsement of the PDP’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by the Chief John Nnia Nwodo-led Ohaneze Ndigbo on the day President Buhari visited Anambra and Enugu states for his campaign rally, the Secretary-General opposed the endorsement and later announced that President Buhari had been adopted as the Presidential candidate of Ohaneze.
If the main ohaneze was wrong in endorsing Atiku because of partisanship,is this faction's apologies to buhari rather than the igbo Nation not an act of hypocrisy n psychophancy?.
Flattino: But some online pigs want us to believe that APC and Buhari has been rejected by majority of Nigerians. Chai . Some people will cry next weekend o
pls when buhari/Apc are through,let them just allow Atikulation to test their ground ok.
YomzzyDBlogger: Ghanaian Actress, Yvonne Nelson has shared a video of her daughter, Ryn Roberts' reaction to seeing her on TV on Wednesday morning during an interview.
She said her daughter was still asleep when she left the house, and when she eventually woke up at about the time she was being interviewed live on TV, she wanted to 'jump' and 'climb' into the screen to meet her.
whaoh!,reminds me of when I became a small hero years back when kids in the neighborhood saw me on NTA Minna while representing my school in a quiz show, luckily we were victorious,men when I came back for holidays I was surprised but happy though n I realized why some people are desperate to be celebrities.
Because people like this are the respected scholars in most areas of the north explains exactly why the north remains the reservoir of all sort of problems n retrogression in this country.dullards forming gurus like the oga at the top.
why didn't Ngige stated this in buhari's presence when he was campaigning in the east?,go n ask buhari about this claim n buhari will promptly tell you it was Ngige that made the claim not him, igbos make una think ooh!.
Buhari never wanted onnoghen in the first place so everything happening now is not actually a surprise to me,I just hope this ends well for the country, buhari has elevated himself to the false status of a god but actually there is a God.
Nigeria is such a Bleep up country, what is the meaning or essence of given police number plates to civilians,I use to think this kind of number plates were meant for registered companies n banks but these days you get to see all dick Tom n Harry bearing this number plates n forming boss which is a security breach,same thing goes for vehicle with tinted windows, commercial vehicle using curtains!,non security or essential emergency vehicles using security lights n sirens n vehicle covering their registration plates for no reason,these are things that should be regulated by the police but it's baffling how these things are not checkmated yet we complain of security threats n breaches every day.
No he is certainly not above the law, infact he strongly wish that the law should respected n duely followed even in his on going case right now simple.
danieljoel759: President Buhari has given reasons why he will never write a book. Speaking when he received some Nigerians in his office in the state house recently, President Buhari said;
''Some people said I should write a bok. I don't think I will ever write a book because I don't want to hurt anybody. Hurting in the sense that there are certain people that I cannot resist abusing and that has got nothing to do with their children and their grandchildren. So I don't want to hurt their children and grandchildren. So for the sake of their children and grandchildren, I have left them'' he said
TooMuchStuff: The Imams are the Real campaign managers for Muslims in whole North. Don't ask me how I know this.....i live beside a giant mosque in the north where political issues are the main Gospel they preach every Friday.
Sometimes they read out loudly Letters from Sultan of Sokoto to all Muslims ummah.
This is where who they vote for would be announced on the eve of the election day.
Sometimes religious riots are also planned and announced from mosques in the hausafulanikanuris north.
You are 100percent correct, talking from experience too.
StupidInyamiri: Just read the Reuter’s report that Atiku paid lobbyists to waive his visa restrictions into The US. While some are paid to endorse him, lobbyists in US were also paid to let him in. He used corruption to cover corruption. But he has been exposed
so ATIKU didn't went to the US as an aide to saraki again?,the US is also now corrupt isn't it?,your zombie case is the viral type,very hard to cure.
Politics › Re: Alleged Thumb Printing Of Ballots At Ketu, Mile 12 And Other Markets by Deepthoughts: 2:28pm On Feb 15, 2019
