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vannessa7:
I just pity those married to this tribe people, imagine your child carrying their gene, they always think upside down and cannot comprehend simple matter, I also wonder if igbo judges can be efficient because of this handicap or is it a case of selective deliberate cognitive ineptitude, how can an entire generation of people think in the same wrong manner.

tempest01:
INEC should be a witness when they were part of the criminality?

If it was just APC that did the rigging, you would have made sense.

Obi did not shoot himself on the foot.

And they should be answering the query to show that they followed the process, not what they are asking for.

onuman:
INEC is the number one accused for fraud in the election. How can a petioner file a petition without joining INEC as one of the defendants?

onuman:
A political party would not even address fellow political party with those condescending words that INEC used to describe Obi's petition.

With its most irresponsible choice of words to address Obi's petition, INEC has further demonstrated that it's in the contest for presidential seat.

tempest01:
INEC has just shown their bias.

INEC does not represent APC but it is a Nigerian paratastal.


Why is it then making submissions to favour APC? Ideally tey should be neutral and allow the proceeding go ahead with its natural flow. Those that connived are afraid.

Tinubuderanged:
If INEC really said that then you should know that INEC is partisan and selfish.

Globad:
The hypocrisy of the headless mob stinks to high heavens!

Gucciblog:
He left PDP on the 20th.

Stop saying nonsénse

On the issue of alleged conviction and forfeiture involving the President-elect, the APC said, “facts pleaded in paragraphs 28-32 of the petition alleging conviction of the 2nd respondent in 19993 is not pleadable as fact to support grounds of disqualification of the 2nd respondent.

It added that “the issue of forfeiture raised against the 2 Respondent in their petition are already pending before the Federal High Court in suit number FHC/ ABJ/CS/206/2023 between PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY V CODE of CONDUCT TRIBUNAL & 6 ORS and raising same before this court is an abuse of court process.

KingsCity:
Is it your tweet?

Did he get approval from you before tweeting it?



Why must someone get approval from you before deleting his own tweet

SenatePresdo:
He has already said it's fake.

Which other position is FG asking him to clarify?

FG should even take over the case, because gazette violated Obi's privacy, and that's a crime.

Samakus:
One question...

Explain to me how an Accountant on an annual salary of $2k had $460k to forfeit to US government after only working for 4 years?

Over to you

Ngorbungor:
Can you please tell us the meaning of " IN, AND, OR ", don't stop there, give us an example each using those words.

Globad:
I saw a post by some obidients getting excited and puffing about Obi. They said he was several steps ahead of APC because he put his personal name in this petition before he put the name of his party, Labour.

They ascribed foresight to him because of this. Meanwhile, including one's personal name in a petition is normal and ordinary.

Atiku did it in 2019. What's so special it it?

But not so to the Obidients. Everything that Obi does is unprecedented and saintly.

naijapips04:
The point is that it can in all honesty be interpreted either way. Is FCT a state? Technicalities can swing it with a strong argument.

Globad:
I think the strategy they're using is to repeat a lie several times so that it becomes the truth.

They are attacking the credibility of INEC and, sadly, the judiciary. Nay, they're also trying to attack the credibility of the entire country

This is like trying to set a house on fire because of a rat. Only a dangerous and evil person does that.

They've done and overdone it so much that they're unaware of how much ground they themselves have lost and still losing.

Many of the erstwhile liberal LP supporters have become irritated and disappointed and have moved on and away from the despicable behaviour and conduct. Only the fanatics remain.

If the election were held again today, LP would struggle to score half of those votes due to the disappointing post election rash and uncouth behaviour.

Globad:
On would expect them to provide the carbon copies of the forms to prove that the results were changed.

But all I've been seeing is noise

naijapips04:
The petition is the most useful. The only strong argument is the Abuja argument all others are to score cheap social media points.

muykem:
I have studied presidential election petitions and courts judgements since 1999 and discovered that 2023 petitions are the most worthless and useless of them all. It cannot upturn local government chairman election. The petitioners went to court on 4 grounds.
1. 25% in FCT. Supreme Court past ruling, all Nigerians votes are equal and so no golden votes. FCT is just one of states in nigeria as it relate to election and stated in theconstitution.
2. Tinubu indictment of drugs: Supreme Court past judgment, only Court of competent jurisdiction indictment can prevent a candidate. Tinubu was never arraigned or indicted by any court.
3. VP elect double nomination: VP name was never sent to INEC as a Senate candidate. Mere expression of intention is not equal to nomination.
4. Non transmission of results real time: There's no existing law make transmission of results real time a compulsory for INEC.
INEC substantially complied with electoral act.

Ajibola was also a National Chairman of the World Peace Through Law Centre; represented Africa in the demonstration trial on the law of the sea at the World Peace Through Law Conference (Manila, 1970); fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; friend of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London; among others.

His sterling performance at these various roles earned him the award of Knight of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the honour, Commander of the Federal Republic, CON.

In spite of his crowded international commitments, Prince Ajibola accepted to serve as chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State Government to probe the 2008 Jos riots. His far-reaching conflict containment recommendations at the end of the panel, is still a reference point for conflict resolution across the world.

In 1999, he was again sent back to the global scene, this time as Nigerian Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He also doubled as an ad hoc Judge to the World Court on the hearing of the case between Nigeria and Cameroon over Bakassi Peninsula.

During his time in the UK, he visited the country’s biggest Islamic Centre at Leicester and, being a religious person himself, he decided to make a replica of the Centre in Nigeria hence, upon resigning his position as High Commissioner and returning to Nigeria, he established the Islamic Movement for Africa (IMA), which he planned to use as umbrella body for all the projects, programmes and activities that he would involve himself with in retirement, which would enable him to continue to give back to the society that made him and also to humanity.

Prince Ajibola’s life has not only been about Nigeria and the world, his community service impact is equally far-reaching. During his tenure as Governor, Gbenga Daniel appointed him as Chairman of the 50-member star-studded Ogun State Elders Consultative Assembly. Ajibola gladly accepted the position and utilized his ebullient clout to form a high level advisory, consultative and collective ombudsman for the practice of good governance in the State.

Perhaps, one of Ajibola’s most cherished legacies is Crescent University, Abeokuta, a private university he founded in 2005 through a parent body, Islamic Mission for Africa, to impact not just knowledge but good moral conduct on youth. Because of his commitment to the enthronement of excellent morals in youths, Prince Ajibola sold virtually all he had to found the university. That University and International Model College, a secondary school which he also founded, is by far one of the biggest success stories of Nigeria’s educational system.

He is bold, outspoken, courageous and kind-hearted. His leadership and human relations skills are without compare and his patriotism and nationalism are beyond reproach. This unique role model whose life is a study in academic, brilliance, courage, perseverance, persistence, patience, patriotism, enterprise, focus, humility, selflessness, modesty, human decency and moral rectitude is indeed a book for all ages and all generations. He was the editor of Nigeria’s Treaties in Force from 1970 to 1990 and All-Nigeria Law Reports from 1961 to 1990. He has authored over 20 books and various papers and articles on a range of legal subjects.

In an attempt to give insight into what royalty really means, an unknown author once wrote: “A crown! What is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people. To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, and sink beneath a load of splendid care.” That insight perhaps is the closest description of the man, Prince Bola Ajibola. Though born into royalty, the Olori Omo Oba of Owu Kingdom has spent virtually all his royal life serving humanity and dispensing justice.

Eminent Jurist and Educationist

Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo Ajibola was born on March 22, 1934, in Owu near Abeokuta, to the Owu royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela II, who was the traditional ruler of Owu between 1949 and 1972. He attended Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys’ High School both in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law, LLB, at the Holborn College of Law, University of London between 1959 and 1962 and was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962.

He returned to Nigeria to practise law, specialising in Commercial Law and International Arbitration and soon added the high professional plume of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in 1980. It was largely due to his efforts during that period that the practice of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, became composite parts of Nigerian legal practice.

By 1984, the task to lead the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, naturally fell on him. His brilliant performance as NBA president caught the attention of the then military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida who appointed him Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991. In his six years tenure as minister, Ajibola was reputed as the only public servant that never collected salary from government. While serving as Attorney General, he appointed Professor Yemi Osinbajo, now Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as his Special Assistant.

Thereafter, he threw his wig into the highly competitive ring for a seat on the International Court of Justice, World Court. Prince Ajibola went through the laborious selection process and became a judge of the court from 1991 to 1994. He had actually threaded that road behind late Justice Teslim Elias whom he understudied as a guide. It is on record that he was in the habit of writing not less than 80 pages of judgments per night as a world court judge. As a judge, Ajibola had his way with words and was also a maverick of idioms and proverbs. Oftentimes, his judgments and opinions were backed by the rich Yoruba proverbs.

Ajibola exited the international court and took up a position in 1994, as a member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration with respect to the court’s deliberations on the land dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon. Not surprisingly, it was only him and Justice Koroma of Sierra Leone that ruled favourably for Nigeria out of 15 Judges when judgment was passed on October 22, 2002.

Deeper and deeper into International Law practice and juridical concerns, Prince Ajibola grew into a somewhat global phenomenon holding revered positions such as President, The World Association of Judges; Member, Council of African Bar Association as well as International Bar Association, Association of World Lawyers, Commonwealth Law Association; Vice President, Institute of International Business Law.

At a time, he was also President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He was at several times, Judge of the Constitution Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994-2002); Member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, (ICSID); Arbitrator/Commissioner, Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Commission; Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration and Chairman, Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission. He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague); member of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration; member of the International Maritime Arbitration Commission, Paris; member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the London Institute of Arbitrators; member of the International Advisory Committee of the World Arbitration Institute, U.S.A.

A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.

Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, died at 89.

Ajibola, the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a result of old age.

The eldest child of the late jurist, Segun Ajibola, SAN, disclosed this in a statement, on Sunday in Abeokuta.

He wrote, “With very deep heart and gratitude to Almighty Allah.

“Our Dad, Prince Bola Ajibola, departed this world over midnight. May Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah Firdaus.”

gabolak:
A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.

Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, died at 89.

Ajibola, the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a result of old age.

Ajibola was also a National Chairman of the World Peace Through Law Centre; represented Africa in the demonstration trial on the law of the sea at the World Peace Through Law Conference (Manila, 1970); fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; friend of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London; among others.

His sterling performance at these various roles earned him the award of Knight of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the honour, Commander of the Federal Republic, CON.

In spite of his crowded international commitments, Prince Ajibola accepted to serve as chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State Government to probe the 2008 Jos riots. His far-reaching conflict containment recommendations at the end of the panel, is still a reference point for conflict resolution across the world.

In 1999, he was again sent back to the global scene, this time as Nigerian Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He also doubled as an ad hoc Judge to the World Court on the hearing of the case between Nigeria and Cameroon over Bakassi Peninsula.

During his time in the UK, he visited the country’s biggest Islamic Centre at Leicester and, being a religious person himself, he decided to make a replica of the Centre in Nigeria hence, upon resigning his position as High Commissioner and returning to Nigeria, he established the Islamic Movement for Africa (IMA), which he planned to use as umbrella body for all the projects, programmes and activities that he would involve himself with in retirement, which would enable him to continue to give back to the society that made him and also to humanity.

Prince Ajibola’s life has not only been about Nigeria and the world, his community service impact is equally far-reaching. During his tenure as Governor, Gbenga Daniel appointed him as Chairman of the 50-member star-studded Ogun State Elders Consultative Assembly. Ajibola gladly accepted the position and utilized his ebullient clout to form a high level advisory, consultative and collective ombudsman for the practice of good governance in the State.

Perhaps, one of Ajibola’s most cherished legacies is Crescent University, Abeokuta, a private university he founded in 2005 through a parent body, Islamic Mission for Africa, to impact not just knowledge but good moral conduct on youth. Because of his commitment to the enthronement of excellent morals in youths, Prince Ajibola sold virtually all he had to found the university. That University and International Model College, a secondary school which he also founded, is by far one of the biggest success stories of Nigeria’s educational system.

He is bold, outspoken, courageous and kind-hearted. His leadership and human relations skills are without compare and his patriotism and nationalism are beyond reproach. This unique role model whose life is a study in academic, brilliance, courage, perseverance, persistence, patience, patriotism, enterprise, focus, humility, selflessness, modesty, human decency and moral rectitude is indeed a book for all ages and all generations. He was the editor of Nigeria’s Treaties in Force from 1970 to 1990 and All-Nigeria Law Reports from 1961 to 1990. He has authored over 20 books and various papers and articles on a range of legal subjects.

In an attempt to give insight into what royalty really means, an unknown author once wrote: “A crown! What is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people. To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, and sink beneath a load of splendid care.” That insight perhaps is the closest description of the man, Prince Bola Ajibola. Though born into royalty, the Olori Omo Oba of Owu Kingdom has spent virtually all his royal life serving humanity and dispensing justice.

Eminent Jurist and Educationist

Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo Ajibola was born on March 22, 1934, in Owu near Abeokuta, to the Owu royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela II, who was the traditional ruler of Owu between 1949 and 1972. He attended Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys’ High School both in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law, LLB, at the Holborn College of Law, University of London between 1959 and 1962 and was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962.

He returned to Nigeria to practise law, specialising in Commercial Law and International Arbitration and soon added the high professional plume of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in 1980. It was largely due to his efforts during that period that the practice of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, became composite parts of Nigerian legal practice.

By 1984, the task to lead the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, naturally fell on him. His brilliant performance as NBA president caught the attention of the then military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida who appointed him Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991. In his six years tenure as minister, Ajibola was reputed as the only public servant that never collected salary from government. While serving as Attorney General, he appointed Professor Yemi Osinbajo, now Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as his Special Assistant.

Thereafter, he threw his wig into the highly competitive ring for a seat on the International Court of Justice, World Court. Prince Ajibola went through the laborious selection process and became a judge of the court from 1991 to 1994. He had actually threaded that road behind late Justice Teslim Elias whom he understudied as a guide. It is on record that he was in the habit of writing not less than 80 pages of judgments per night as a world court judge. As a judge, Ajibola had his way with words and was also a maverick of idioms and proverbs. Oftentimes, his judgments and opinions were backed by the rich Yoruba proverbs.

Ajibola exited the international court and took up a position in 1994, as a member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration with respect to the court’s deliberations on the land dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon. Not surprisingly, it was only him and Justice Koroma of Sierra Leone that ruled favourably for Nigeria out of 15 Judges when judgment was passed on October 22, 2002.

Deeper and deeper into International Law practice and juridical concerns, Prince Ajibola grew into a somewhat global phenomenon holding revered positions such as President, The World Association of Judges; Member, Council of African Bar Association as well as International Bar Association, Association of World Lawyers, Commonwealth Law Association; Vice President, Institute of International Business Law.

At a time, he was also President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He was at several times, Judge of the Constitution Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994-2002); Member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, (ICSID); Arbitrator/Commissioner, Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Commission; Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration and Chairman, Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission. He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague); member of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration; member of the International Maritime Arbitration Commission, Paris; member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the London Institute of Arbitrators; member of the International Advisory Committee of the World Arbitration Institute, U.S.A.

wale8486:
yes dad