₦airaland Forum

Cyberterror:
You are contradicting yourself. A referee takes decisions. He can award a penalty, issue a red card, stop a match etc. INEC has so much powers and they can settle a dispute in a party in a manner that seem fair to them as the referee.

You're overstating INEC's power.

INEC does not have the power to ignore a court order or judgement.

It can't even ignore the order of a magistrate Court, let alone that of a High Court, the Court of Appeal, or the mighty Supreme Court.

INEC's problem is usually around confusing/unclear or contradictory Court judgements where it has to carefully decode exactly what an unclear judgement means.

If a court judgement is clear, INEC has no choice, it must follow the judgement 100%.

Cyberterror:
I assure you that INEC will not upload the names of Mark and his ursupers to their portal. The Supreme Court has left INEC to be fully in charge now and no legal remedy for the aggrieved.

I have not read the judgement but if as it is being reported, the Supreme Court has quashed the Court of Appeal's order to return to the previous status quo, then INEC has no choice but to reinstall Mr Mark's name.

The only issue now is yesterday's Federal High Court judgement which barred INEC from recognising the Mr Mark-led leadership.

Based on what has been reported here, it appears the Supreme Court did not rule that Mr Mark and his team are the rightful leaders of ADC. It merely stated that the Court of Appeal should have left the present leadership of the party as it is pending the outcome of the cases in the lower courts.

My view is that, yesterday's Federal High Court order/judgement remains relevant since the Supreme Court judgement did not touch on the issues before that court.

That being the case INEC may feel compelled to obey yesterday's court order directing it not to recognise Mr Mark's leadership of the party.

No doubt INEC'S legal team will be pouring over the Supreme Court judgement and that of the Federal High Court to determine INEC'S next steps.

Th Supreme Court judgement has even put the ADC is in a bigger dilemma now.

Since they have to return to the lower court for the main disputes between the various camps, and that can last several weeks, ADC politicians that remain in the party beyond May 10 will be locked into the party despite the continuing uncertainty about how things will turn out at the lower courts.

Those who are thinking of moving to ADC will be scratching their heads now wondering whether it is the right move.

As far as ADC is concerned, the legal battles have not even started.

INEC removing Mr Mark's name wasn't even a big thing, just as his name being restored doesn't change anything.

It is the outcome of the cases in the lower courts that are yet to be decided that matter.

If his name is removed and he wins those cases, then his name will have to be reinstalled.

Equally, if his name is reinstalled and his camp loses the cases at the lower court, his name will be removed, even if it's August, October or whenever.

In essence, it is the outcome of the cases that matter. The rest is noise.

If the Supreme Court had sided with the faction that held the Ibadan convention, that would have killed the entire Judicial system.

It would have legitimised rampant disregard for, and disrespect of courts.

The entire court system and indeed society would have descended into anarchy.

Best President / Head of state since independence.

Full stop.

OgwuEgo:
House of reps get more than 10 million monthly as salary plus constituency fund of more than 500million annually he can easily afford it.

N10m per month. Are you sure.

They will soon arrive to ask how airport redevelopment affects the common man, or how it was Mr Buhari that told the President to do the project, or say this is the only project the President has to show for 3 years in government.

They will only acknowledge a project done by the politicians they support.

If he was seated in the 3rd row, that's humiliation and disrespect of the highest order. That's terrible.

At times,you do see the point of those from the East who complain about how they and their leaders are treated in Nigeria.

Imagine Mr Tinubu being sat in the 3rd row of ANY APC meeting during Mr Buhari's government even when it was obvious things weren't right between them.

That would have been the last APC meeting Mr Tinubu would have attended. Them no born them.

ADC is now a hostile territory for Mr Obi. Even if he wins the primaries, most of the Northern ADC politicians will likely not support him in the Presidential elections.

Reaching a decision and writing a judgement are not easy.

Supreme Court judges can't magically turn into superhumans because a party to a case demands urgency.

The Supreme Court will do its best to reach and release its judgement as quickly as it can.

If elected, this sort of person will likely hold his allegiance to his religion not the generality of the populace.

Wickedfact:
Is it possible for a University certificate to be issued on a Sunday?

The Governor's certificate was issued on a Sunday?

May be studied in the Middle East

Orisirisi.

Lol

The manner of questioning is very similar to how the head of the family in a traditional yoruba setting would pose questions to a nutty family member during a family meeting.

Segun, did you do this? Is it true, Segun?

On trips to and from the mainland recently, I was surprised not to see much traffic or hordes of pedestrians walking along main roads as it used to be.

Many parts of Lagos are gradually becoming more orderly.

Or are people migrating out of Lagos Many roads are generally less busy, which is good.

Power plants takes several years to build.

For immediate intervention, the government should do a government to government deal on solar with the Chinese government on 1.5kWh to 2.5 kWh LFP solar power package and sell them at cost.

This will be cheaper and affordable for many people.

Imagine if government borrows $3 billion for something like this and import them enmass, sell at cost, recover the money, and repeat the exercise again and again for about 10 times over the next 3 years, that will help relief a lot of the power challenges in the near term.

And that should happen as investment in big power plants are also continuing.

NaijaGoBetter2:
Some recognised and approved fintech does, PalmPay will gives you 19% or more annually.

Bamboo gives up to 17% annually, cowry gives almost the same rate.

So if Ladda promise 20% it's achievable

PalmPay is more than 10 years in Nigeria

Great. That means I was being pessimistic, because the last treasury bill I bought was like 19%. I assumed banks savings interest rates are usually lower than treasury bills yield.

Anyway, it's good to know savings rates are as high as those you quoted.

Ladda, make una no vex o.

Interesting.

I'm not aware of any commercial bank in Nigeria today that offers 20% interest on basic savings. Not even Opay.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with this company o, but you might want to ask them questions about why they're able to offer such high interest before you deposit your life savings.

I'm sure they have perfectly legitimate answers, but ask first.

Only God can save the black man from self destruction.

Wednesday - N1348
Thursday - N1355

That means Naira weakens

You people just want to destroy your own country with lies because you want your candidate to be President.

No problem. Continue.

Many women don't want it every day, particularly the very busy types.

This woman clearly does.

Mr Tinubu has been gradually decentralising (restructuring) the country, but some Southerners are not bright enough to see it.

They prefer Norther domination as long as it means Mr Tinubu is not President.

Yet, the man has not done anything wrong to their region.

It's pure, unjustified hatred for the man.

So the NBC reminding the press and broadcasters of their statutory responsibility to maintain balance, treat all sides of politics equally and professionally amounts to government intimidating the press Mr Obi?

Very dishonest, deceptive, and hypocritical man.

koxyz:
Economic aberration being committed by Nigerian government

Nigerian government doesn't buy crude oil.

That's Dangote refinery.

You people just get worked up over every little thing.

Crude oil is an international product.

The United States is the largest producer of crude in the world. It exports, but also imports massive amount from Canada, and even Nigeria.

Saudi Arabia imports large volumes of crude oil, even though it is the largest exporter of the product.

The crude oil market is complex. It is not like buying and selling of tomatoes.

You people should get back to your work and stop the noise.

There is surplus and superior beef in Australia and Brazil and they expor frozen beef across the world.

The government should permit importation of frozen beef.

brain54:
Watch obidients creep out from their holes to insult him...

Quite the opposite.

They will avoid this thread.

They will look for a thread where they can shout 'bulabu', 'the country is finished', 'the country is worst' etc

It seems OK is not ok.

Angelfrost:
Lol... Opposition party that is working openly with the ruling party.

Is that one opposition?!

Little wonder our Democracy is a joke, and leadership continues to fail at all levels.

Many Nigerians in villages and towns (the ones that actually turn out to vote) don't really follow or understand the internal shenanigans of the PDP. They know and have always voted PDP.

Thy remember when a bag of rice was N18,000 under PDP . That's all.

They may have heard of ADC, but they don't necessarily know much about it.

This set of people will always vote PDP.

People underestimating the damage PDP can do to ADC's prospects.

As we saw in some of the elections in recent times, PDP still get several times more votes than ADC.

The name PDP has deep resonance with millions of people in villages and towns across Nigeria. Many of these people are not online, and so don't know much about ADC.

They have always voted PDP, and with a little motivation, they will still vote PDP come rain come shine.

In 2027, I suspect PDP will target 5 to 7 far Northern states, select popular locals as gubernatorial candidates, premise financial support for the Governorship election on such candidates delivering say, 20 - 25% of the votes in their states in the Presidential election, thus weakening Mr Atiku's vote counts.

In the South, they will support Mr Tinubu.

Without Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Nasarawa, there are only 15 Northern states where Mr Atiku needs to dominate massively to have any chance. So if PDP succeeds in taking just 20% of Northern votes, ADC will be down and out.

Oga o.

So the way to judge whether INEC is independent is whether an APC bus parks anywhere near INEC's Abuja office.

How far must APC buses stay away from INEC's office. 2, 4, or 5 miles.

Is it ok, if an APC bus is parked near INEC's office is Osogbo or Kaduna?

Or, it's only the parking situation at the Abuja office that worries you.

Truth. Fact.

That was a real uppercut.

Many of the large government corporations privatised under Mr Atiku, are dead.

Big loss to Nigeria.

Truth. Fact.

That was a real uppercut.

Mr Utomi is so good an economist, he ruined Volkswagen, and Bank PHP.

In any serious country, failed theoretical economists like Mr Utomi would hide their head in shame.

But not in Nigeria.

A very hypocritical and deceptive man.

He portrays himself as everything that he isn't.

From the first time I heard Mr Obi speak, I knew he was not a character to be trusted.