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Eminent lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, and a Lagos-based legal practitioner, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, on Thursday, queried the recent judgments of the Supreme Court, which dismissed all the cases challenging the polls of some governors, including those that had earlier been overturned by two lower courts.

A seven-man bench led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Wednesday, affirmed the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission with respect to the Abia and Akwa Ibom states’ governorship polls.

In separate telephone interviews with our correspondent, Sagay and Ogunye said the Supreme Court judgments were not justifiable.

The Court of Appeal in the case of the Abia poll and the election petitions tribunal with respect to the Akwa Ibom election had taken a position different from that of the apex court.

Earlier, the apex court had affirmed the governorship election in River State, despite contrary findings by the appeal court.

The apex court had also affirmed the governorship polls in Ebonyi, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta and some others.

The Supreme Court is to give full reasons for its decisions on most of the governorship elections later this month.

The apex court’s decision has not been delivered in the appeal with respect to Taraba State election.

Drawing an analogy between the Supreme Court’s decisions and the attitude of an ancient king called Draco in punishing all offences with death, Sagay said on Thursday that the apex court’s streak of judgments was strange.

He said, “It is not something I can just pounce on. But all the judgments have been the same. It’s very interesting. There used to be an ancient monarch, who punished every crime by death. He was called Draco. That is why when somebody does anything extreme he is called Draconian.

“If anybody steals one kobo, you kill him, if he kills someone you kill him, at the end, there is no distinction between offences.

“There should be distinctions. How can all the governorship cases go the same way? How is that possible? That is the question we are all awaiting when they will give the reasons for their judgments.

“I don’t know how to put it, but it’s very strange. We will wait for them to give their reasons and see how that magic occurred that every governorship election was valid and in line with the Electoral Act. It is very unprecedented. We will see when they give their full judgments, that is it for now.”

On his part, Ogunye said he was met with ‘shock and disbelief’ following the apex court’s decisions.

He expressed fear that the Supreme Court’s judgment might ‘unwittingly become an anti-technology, anti-innovation and anti-science precedent’ which he said was “sad for our democracy’.

He said with the trend of the apex court’s judgment it would have been impossible for the likes of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun and former Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, to assume governorship positions.

Those mentioned by Ogunye had become governors by an order of the Court of Appeal at the time when the Supreme Court had yet to have jurisdiction over governorship election appeal cases.

He also said, “Nigerians and the international community were living witnesses to the conduct of the polls in the states where these election petitions emanated and the conclusions were that the elections were terribly mismanaged and marred by violence and malpractices.”


http://www.punchng.com/sagay-ogunye-fault-scourt-judgments-on-gov-polls/

aleshmotors:
Op watch ur word,kindly post pix of ur own unfinished lady. Smh

He meant someone from Finland

Meanwhile, Bokoharam has be technically been defeated while the defeated group are still ravaging borno

Buhari should resign for having failed in protecting the people he sworn by the constitution to protect.

Buhari is an insensitive leader who has no business governing zoogeria in the 21st century

Arresa, you're very shameless and mischievous ,
Instead of you to condemn the action of your paymaster Buhari whose house was razed down by Bokoharam and was found in far away Kenya inspecting and massaging cows .smh

DropShot:
To me, this is not surprising at all. In fact, I expected this to have come from OBJ long before now. The reason being that PMB has rightly decided not to allow the so called influential Nigerians tele-guide him.

Expect Tinubu, Atiku and a few others to tow similar path to OBJ in the coming months. It's what they will resort to once they're not consulted before major policies/decisions are taken by the government of the day.

If it was ok for the Ineffectual Buffoon to borrow during surplus revenue with NOTHING to show for it, is Buhari expected to perform magic without borrowing during "recession" with far less income?

Lastly, losers in the last election should permanently register it in their brain that the Ineffectual Buffoon was NEVER an option in the last election. He will NEVER EVER be an option in any future presidential election in Nigeria. He has been consigned to sorry past history of the country. So, no amount of crying, wailing and idiotic display will bring him back.

Passingshot, you no dey shame?

EasternPride:
Mehn.


Best of my knowledge, selling gala is better than this kind of scam.

My brother this is 'sophistication' in Full HD

Are they sure cos this scam government in power does not allow people to know when truth is told at face value since APC and Buhari made propaganda their slogan

Na them not a surprise when I see London


Kelvin Okusanya, 32

Olu Fasoranti, 32,

motola Wellington, 31,

Michelle Deola, 23,

Clement Bankole, 38,

You can now judge, over to you name checkers

Those spearheading this move are the following despots ; Buhari, Mugabe and Alba shir who have doctorial cum tyrannical tendencies embedded in their DNAs

Milking and massaging cows is his specialty not governance

Obiagelli:
Buhari never expelled 700,000 migrants, too many lies everywhere. The mods should stop promoting articles with poor sources.
Btw after Ibb devalued the naira, what became of our economy?

Do you have any empirical evidence contrary to what the op posited?

Zoogerians would have allowed Buhari to continue with his cow rearing business and its massaging technology in the remote village of Daura than bringing in the senile dictator who has no background on democracy and rule of law coupled with his poor economic management than disgracing himself and his supporters with poor economic policies which are crude to what is obtainable in the 21st century.
Indeed Buhari's much taunted integrity and frugality are nothing but a RUSE

Risky

Kemi Adeosun is a clueless, crude and incompetent Finance Minister who lacks the will and expertise to steer the sinking mono-economy of zoogeria in this trying time.
She should resign now or get sacked.

When IBB told zoogerians that Buhari failed all his courses on Military Strategy during his days as a quota system officer who was admitted into the army without required credentials but a recommendation from his school principal he got nothing but attacks from APC supporters. His senility is becoming a thing of concern tbh

Hmmmm
...and Buhari is busy inspecting and massaging cows in Nairobi, Kenya.smh

doctokwus:
Fighting and defeating foot soldiers is fool's victory.
The govt may have defeated BH footsoldiers,but it will continue having these same soldiers when it has still not unveiled the sponsors(publicly) of BH.
The sponsors of these recent BH attacks and suicide bombings are within those that have lost and have had their funds, properties seized and are looking at long jail terms. If the PMB govt doesn't know this at this time,then it's naive and living in a false utopia.
The ideology based BH may have been defeated,but the political backed faction will continue until the sponsors are vigorously unearthed and publicly exposed as has happened to the Dasukigate beneficiaries and soon to be unveiled other scammers in other sectors!

Clowns everywhere

Chidozieude:
Decibel the IPOB old man

U keep using your alt monikers to start useless threads

At least give us a source to this story

And I am sure you know the meaning of context? Conventional in this sense means the usual method used by BH to orchestrate their attacks. Their ability to conduct their usual conventional attacks has been significantly destroyed.

Grow Up IPOB old man

Subway101, the nairaland resident jobless fraudster whose modus operandi is to clone monikers in addition to defrauding unsuspected members.

These are pockets of attacks from defeated miscreants-Lai Mohammed

Illiteracy the bane of zoogerian leaders

Dividends of Body language and mouth action

Propaganda!

Pharaoh let my people go

Democracy in action
Ruling Zoogeria in the 21st century is different from rearing and milking cows in Daura- (Onatisi, 2015)

That's corruption

Buhari is about to set Zoogeria ablaze with his dinasourial style of leadership laced with trial-and-error

porshuch:
lies lies! Sullivan performed more better than Obi. Go and check records. Peter Obi is just ojionu .

Shataap, what can you say about Alhaji Abdulkarim Idris Okorocha who spent 100 million naira on Christmas tree while imolites are languishing in penury?