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Awada keri-keri... [A joke of the funny type.]

BTW, who can see the link/similarities between this:

"He noted that the request by the petitioners for result sheets for the national assembly rerun election in Zamfara State were not available as no such election was conducted."

and the PDP's request for INEC to produce "The Central Server into which INEC [supposedly] electronically transmitted election results from the polling stations?"



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Isobug:
[b]How come you are the only one with a different view of this Topic so far. ...

Maybe because the truly intelligent ones are by nature very few in a given population? Especially on social media!

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Na wa o... Why all the argument sef? The Judge did not even compel the main actors to appear in court. She said:

... if they want to come they should come, ...

So their appearance in court is their own call and voluntary; it's just that they can't send someone else to a court session and get "reporters," for instance, to start publishing stuff, like: "Governor So-so-so, said so so and so, in court. The Governor, who was represented by..." LOL.

Very simple.

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igwefivestar:
ok but if Apc and buhari is sure they didn't steal Atiku's mandate, they shouldn't fear the video.

What if such video "evidence" turns out to have been doctored or false but already admitted in evidence, even before the other parties to the dispute would have the opportunity to see/examine it?

The law says you must present all evidence you have to the other parties in a dispute before trial. As others have pointed out, this means your evidence must be submitted along with your petition. Simple.

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igwefivestar:
so the rules prohibit them from tendering evidence in Court?

The Rules say any evidence to be tendered by any party/petitioner during trial should be made available to all other parties and the court BEFORE the trial commences.

If that were not the rule, any side to a story can just tender any false/doctored evidence in court at any time before the other parties to the dispute would have the opportunity to prepare to defend against it, or check on the genuineness or otherwise/veracity of such evidence.

The rules are clear.

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zoedew:
Attention to all lovers of History

From the political Archives of Nigeria political history*

A must read piece to the end.
Igbo political leaders and their past misadventures resulting in current national political problems*
Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still there was dissatisfaction by easterners; the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is the tendency to think those are truths and facts.
What follows are documented facts that can be cross checked for authenticity!
Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central govt because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.
Let those who have ears hear.
*What Biafrans will never tell you about the real cause of their woes in Nigeria today*
The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa-fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria.
In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The SE will do well to put a stop to the misrepresentation and consciously work on bringing up the next generation to know the truth. Germans, for instance, have not denied the Holocaust but quietly worked, through the years, on correctional measures to right the wrongs Adolf Hitler engineered. SE should do likewise.
The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating. However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.
I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.
Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300.
This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended. To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as:
"The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.
But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.
After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future.
According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.
But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria.
At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution.
While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe
Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in.
But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.
For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.
*https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/my-opposition-to-secession-zik/*
It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).
"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949)
As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate.
Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria.
With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.
But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region.
But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region.
While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.
While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts.
Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.
But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.
Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government.
However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony.
Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exuberance.
On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.
Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint".
After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers.
That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.
Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day.
In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.
*In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria*
*Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes*
*This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region*
*But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court*
*His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal*
*Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed*
Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.
Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.
Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.
But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty?
Be the judge.
Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:
After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging.
Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.
Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.
First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle.
Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit.
In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process.
Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military.
Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.
Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel cc accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference.
Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.
In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.
That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.
On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise.
But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft.
That was the height of irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.
So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
To his eternal discredit Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we do for a know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.
With the Igbo’s in Yoruba land, “the hand shake has exceeded the wrist”. And as Chinua Achebe said in his book, “it has turned to a fight”

One thing that can be said about The Yoruba is that they are liberal and broadminded. They believe God is on their side largely because they see themselves as givers who will NEVER lack.

It’s about time other Nigerian ethnic nationalities and their intelligentsia go to work and see how we can relate with and equitably accommodate the Igbos without undermining their own interests. Yes, Nigeria is a nation but the Igbo people will not allow a fraction of what the Yoruba - for instance- tolerate in Lagos in Ochanja (Onitsha), Aba, Enugu and the likes.

Let’s agree to live together.

Quoted for the first stanza on the composition of key functionaries/Ministers of government under Balewa. So well said.

Otherwise, the main body of the post is at least a second read for me. Thanks for posting.

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I remember how Fayose won Adeniyi Adebayo... Fayose was distributing water in Ekiti all through Adebayos regime sanding on the fact that Ekiti lacked drinking water, Eve of elections, Adebayo started distributing water also, then the smart Fayose started distributing kerosene.

Big 'manship' that Atiku has been doing doesn't win peoples hearts.

This is my views.... Not anyone's.

And to think the part I've put in bold letters is actually true ehn... Epic!

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MyMouth:
Other pdp witnesses go dey fear to come out now. That Buhari's lawyer is a terror

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LOL, what facts — other than his usual hearsay, confused political and legal opinions and predictions, conspiracy theories, outlandish claims, innuendoes, and ramblings — can this Galadima man present to the Tribunal?

Mr. Atiku Abubakar with his lawyers is in a deep hole with his various claims over the 2019 elections. Instead of him and his party to stop digging and argue intelligently, they're taking off with Mr. Galadima as their first and a star witness? Galadima will just set a confused tone for their case.

But hey, what do I know, right?

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LOL, what facts — other than his usual hearsay, confused political and legal opinions and predictions, conspiracy theories, outlandish claims, innuendoes, and ramblings — can this Buba Galadima man present to the Tribunal?

Mr. Atiku Abubakar with his lawyers is in a deep hole with his various claims over the 2019 elections. Instead of him and his party to stop digging and argue intelligently, they're taking off with Mr. Galadima as their first and a star witness? Galadima will just set a confused tone for their case.

But hey, what do I know, right?

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Sorry, in my search prior to creating this thread, I somehow missed an earlier post on the exact subject by a fellow Nairalander, here:

https://www.nairaland.com/5286858/court-orders-release-details-payments

The Moderator may kindly close this my own thread. Thanks.

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This is indeed a golden gift of a judgement to all Nigerians...well done, SERAP!

For emphasis, let's reproduce the main portion of SERAP's statement on the judgement, as follows:

“We welcome the ground-breaking judgment by Justice Obiozor as a victory for transparency and accountability of public officials, electricity contractors and companies and their shareholders. It is an extremely important step toward tackling the impunity in electricity sector, which has for many years forced ordinary Nigerians to stay in darkness, but still made to pay crazy electricity bills.”

“SERAP commends the Court, and Justice Obiozor for this brilliant judgment, which will surely command respect and adulation from far beyond the legal profession.”

“During the 20 years of Nigeria’s democracy successive governments have failed to increase power generation and provide Nigerians with regular and uninterrupted electricity supply, with many electricity contracts shrouded in secrecy, and trillions of Naira going down the drain.”

“This judgment is good news for ordinary Nigerians who have continued to pay the price for corruption in the electricity sector, as they would finally get an explanation on why the country has remained in darkness despite huge investment in the power sector by the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former President Goodluck Jonathan, and the government of Muhammadu Buhari.”

“The enforcement of the judgment could potentially reveal individuals, contractors, and companies allegedly responsible for squandering over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply under successive governments, lead to the prosecution of suspected perpetrators, and recovery of stolen public funds.”

“SERAP calls upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to demonstrate his oft-repeated commitment to the rule of law by immediately obeying and respecting the judgment of the Court.”

“SERAP has applied for the certified true copy of the judgment, which we will share widely once it’s obtained,” Mr Oluwadare stated.

I couldn't agree more.

But hey, SERAP, your work — and those of other well meaning entities and individuals within and outside the shores of our land — is cut out for you here. This means you'll have to be dogged here to get the required outcome — particularly succour to our Nation — from this landmark judgement by Justice Obiozor. That, I believe, you will, by the special grace of the Most High.

Good luck, everyone!

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Court orders Nigerian govt to release details of defaulting electricity contractors

July 7, 2019Press Release

https://i2.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2017/10/electricity-lines.jpg?w=800&ssl=1

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the “immediate release of details of payments to all defaulting and allegedly corrupt electricity contractors and companies by the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former President Goodluck Jonathan, and the government of Muhammadu Buhari.”

The judgment was delivered last Friday by Justice Chuka Obiozor, a Professor of Law, following a Freedom of Information suit number FHC/L/CS/105/19 brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

Mr Obiozor also ordered: “the full disclosure and publication of the names of companies and the whereabouts of the contractors paid by successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 to carry out electricity projects across the country but disappeared with the money without executing any projects.”

This development was disclosed Sunday in a statement by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare.

The details ordered by the court to be disclosed and published on a dedicated website and widely, include information on: “specific names and details about contractors and companies paid by each government, the total amounts paid by each government and the objects for the payments, the level of implementation of electricity projects, as well as details and specific locations of projects executed across the country by each government since 1999.”

The court also ruled in the suit brought against the Federal Government and the Ministry of Power, that: “the failure by the government of President Muhammadu to provide SERAP with the details of payments made to contractors by each government since 1999 is a breach of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011.”

The court also ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently disclose if there is an ongoing investigation or prosecution of contractors and companies paid by successive governments since 1999 to carry out electricity projects but failed to execute the projects for which public funds were collected.”

Mr Obiozor in his judgment granted the following reliefs:

1. A DECLARATION is hereby made that the failure and/or refusal of the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to provide SERAP with documents and information containing the specific names and details of contractors and companies that have been engaged in the power sector by successive governments since 1999, 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, and failure to widely publish it on a dedicated website, any of such information, amounts to a breach of the obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2011.

2. A DECLARATION is hereby made that the failure and/or refusal of the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to provide SERAP with specific documents and information containing the specific names and details of contractors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects from successive governments since 1999 but failed to execute any of such projects, and failure to widely publish it on a dedicated website, any of such information, amounts to a breach of the Respondent’s responsibility/obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2011.

3. AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is made directing and compelling the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to urgently compile and make available to SERAP documents and information containing the specific names and details of contactors and companies that have been engaged in the power sector by successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 to date, details of specific projects and the amounts that have been paid to the contracts and companies, details on the level of implementation of electricity projects and their specific locations across the country and to publish widely including on a dedicated website, any of such information.

4. AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is made directing and compelling the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to urgently compile and make available to SERAP documents and information containing the specific names and details of contactors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects from successive governments since 1999 but failed to execute any projects.

5. A DECLARATION is hereby made that the failure and/or refusal of the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to urgently disclose if there is an ongoing investigation or prosecution of allegedly corrupt contractors and companies in the electricity sector, amounts to a breach of the Respondent’s responsibility/obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2011.

6. AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is made directing and compelling the Respondent [Federal Government/Ministry of Power] to urgently disclose if there is an ongoing investigation or prosecution of allegedly corrupt contractors and companies in the electricity sector.

SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare said: “We welcome the ground-breaking judgment by Justice Obiozor as a victory for transparency and accountability of public officials, electricity contractors and companies and their shareholders. It is an extremely important step toward tackling the impunity in electricity sector, which has for many years forced ordinary Nigerians to stay in darkness, but still made to pay crazy electricity bills.”

“SERAP commends the Court, and Justice Obiozor for this brilliant judgment, which will surely command respect and adulation from far beyond the legal profession.”

“During the 20 years of Nigeria’s democracy successive governments have failed to increase power generation and provide Nigerians with regular and uninterrupted electricity supply, with many electricity contracts shrouded in secrecy, and trillions of Naira going down the drain.”

“This judgment is good news for ordinary Nigerians who have continued to pay the price for corruption in the electricity sector, as they would finally get an explanation on why the country has remained in darkness despite huge investment in the power sector by the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former President Goodluck Jonathan, and the government of Muhammadu Buhari.”

“The enforcement of the judgment could potentially reveal individuals, contractors, and companies allegedly responsible for squandering over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply under successive governments, lead to the prosecution of suspected perpetrators, and recovery of stolen public funds.”

“SERAP calls upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to demonstrate his oft-repeated commitment to the rule of law by immediately obeying and respecting the judgment of the Court.”

“SERAP has applied for the certified true copy of the judgment, which we will share widely once it’s obtained,” Mr Oluwadare stated.

[img]https://i0.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2018/10/Babatunde-Fashola-large.jpg?zoom=1.5&w=600&h=375&ssl=1[/img]
Nigeria’s [outgoing] Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola. [PHOTO CREDIT: Energy Mix Report]

It would be called that SERAP had in February filed the FOI suit against the federal government and former Minister of Power Mr Babatunde Fashola. The former minister then responded, saying that: “the Ministry has searched for the requested information on details of alleged contractors and companies but we could not find it from our records.”

Mr Fashola subsequently sent SERAP the name of just one contractor–Pow Technologies Limited, an Abuja based company–through the Ministry’s letter with reference number FMP/LU/R2K/2016/T/40. The company was said to have been awarded a contract in 2014 but only supplied 13 of the 19 electricity maintenance equipment relays agreed. The government paid N79,404,892.66 to Pow Technologies Limited.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/339381-court-orders-nigerian-govt-to-release-details-of-defaulting-electricity-contractors.html

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Deepthoughts:
you are just been bias, Atiku is very much more than prepared to provide his evidence, it's the courts that have allowed themselves to be compromised by your demigod that are refusing to even hear him out,let the court just agree to hear Atiku out n you would be shocked by the amount of cankerworms that would be exposed!.

Lol, and you're not biased? Or just like Atiku your Lord and saviour has provided all the "damning evidence from body cameras" to prove he "won" the election, right?

Like I said, Atiku has his shadow work cut out for him, so let him continue. Some people can also continue to rave and wail, in the end, they will all wait and have to accept the final verdict from the courts, just like everyone else.

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Deepthoughts:
I don't understand the difficulty in sorting out this server issue, since Atiku has stated the server address n the maker n supplier of it, why can't this persons be summon to clarify the issue once n for all, something tells me INEC/Apc has realized that Atiku/pdp has beaten them to the game n they are now only using federal Influence to fraudulently achieve their aim,in the midst of this the judiciary is making a mockery of itself.

Lol, after claiming something exists or was done, the plaintiff is now looking for evidence? It is Atiku's duty to provide/call his witnesses to support his case; it's not the job of the Tribunal to summon a witness for Atiku. The courts have ruled over and over again that they're not father Christmas to dash something to any side in a litigation.

When Atiku is ready, he will prove the existence of the so-called Central Server he is claiming "was used to transmit election results." This his claim despite the fact that his agents and those of other contestants signed off on the polling result sheets on which the final declared results were based and all those still exist?

Can "transmitted results," some of which might not even have gotten through with our poor infrastructure, even if some were indeed electronically transmitted, be more complete than the signed polling result sheets from which they were supposedly transmitted?

Why is Atiku relegating signed paper trails and instead chasing the shadow of an at best incomplete election results he still has to prove was transmitted on a server?

Having said all that, it's Atiku's right, so let him continue.

But hey, what do I know, right?

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ojeysky:
Yeah I have tried all combinations; USB, SBU, SUB none of them brought the mppt on the solar icon(like yours), instead the icon just keeps blinking.

Perhaps I wasn't very clear with the part of my suggestion you responded to here. What I meant is to use the various disconnect switches between the PV array, the PIP, and the Battery bank, to put them on in different combinations towards powering up the system each time. I once saw a video on YouTube where that strategy worked for someone who faced a similar situation as you, although the number of panels didn't feature in the vid. I wish we could talk. I'll PM you.

ojeysky:
We've lost grid power over the last 2 months, it's the reason why I am trying to get this up, so no supply to AC for now. However I am still charging my batteries with the 1.5kva inverter I currently use (with my gen which cannot serve my GK)

My own gen packed up and no grid (a peculiar NEPA story fit for another discussion) so I had wanted to feed a/c power from my VIL 24V to my PIP's a/c input, since a/c is a/c, just for tests, before I'd deploy the PIP itself in the house. But the VIL packed up before I could. You may want to try that as a filter if a solution is taking too long and you're bold enough?

ojeysky:
Thanks, if I may ask, have you tried to (or can you) put 4 panels on your GK to see if you can reproduce the issue at your end as well?

Mehn, it's particularly hard to uncouple MC4 connectors from/on Canadian Solar panels in particular with the normal MC4 combination tools I have. This is especially so because I'm not doing them at eye level but from under a car port kind of set up. The MC4 connectors I personally put on the Yinglis are easier to work with for me, though. Taking all together, I'll only uncouple them as a last resort, I'm afraid, so let's hope you're sorted out pretty soon.

Good luck.

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ojeysky:
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Yeah I have written mppsolar hopefully will read from them on Monday

Yeah this will be helpful, perhaps @duwdu can help here.

Thanks

Sorry, I just got back on this forum now and thought to read through the last post before making a response.

First, I'll suggest you try various combinations of the sequence in which you switch on the parts of your system: PV, battery bank, PIP; or in any other sequence. One of them may just initialize the power charging/supply mode.

Secondly, I probably missed your mention of it, but is your PIP connected to the grid? Because the grid should start charging your batteries with the normal/default setting of possible charge/discharge sources?

One thing to be especially careful about, though, is to not misconnect the "A/C IN" and "A/C OUT" wire blocks. As you've probably seen, the User Manual calls a special attention to such a potential error, since the two power blocks are side-by-side.

If those all fail, let's hope you get some helpful message tonight/tomorrow morning from MPPSolar.

Good luck and hope you revert with some breakthrough news as early as overnight.

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NiyiOmoIyunade:
I think idle watts he meant 'no load self-consumption' of the inverter - how much power it consumes to stay on and maintain internal operations when the inverter is not powering any loads or not doing any work.

For a similar Axpert unit, I measured <50watts idle/self consumption - this version was not batteryless though.

I missed the word, "idle," hehehe. Thanks, 'Niyi, it's about the same on this inverter that I've seen so far.

And sorry for my misunderstanding of you, totalgreen01.

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ojeysky:
Cool, here I was thinking you've had yours set-up a long time ago good to see you are now up and I have also picked up a few points for set-up of my PIP-3024GK

If I may ask, are you using a combiner box and how did you connect the SPD to ground?

What's the peak generating you've seen thus far? And what's your PV spec?

Cheers!

It's my pleasure and thanks; all the best with yours.

At the initial stage of gathering my accessories, NiyiOmoIyunade offered some nugget of advice on the combiner box issue. You'll see those posts on a couple of pages back. [I may also try later to provide a link if I can. I simply can't explain it the way 'Niyi kindly did.]

I'm not using a combiner box, mainly because I have just one string. I had to improvise as suggested. The SPD has its own dedicated earthing slot on it (like I saw on those in the pdf file you posted earlier, have.) I ran a grounding wire direct from that slot to the grounding bus bar in my fuse box.

It's not been very sunny in Lagos these days, to say the least. Even at that, I saw about 2 KW peak today. I had deliberately plugged in a filled 1.5 KW water boiling kettle when the sun was out at about 1:40pm, just to see how much wattage I could induce from the panels at that point. (Attached. Don't mind the SOC shown, it's mostly wong on this unit.) Just my computer with a fairly large screen, a couple of energy saving bulb points, phone chargers and a router were mostly the other things connected at the time.

My panels are 4x 330Watts Canadian Solar + 6x 310(?)Watts Yingli. I don't have the labels handy, but they can be looked up.

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totalgreen01:
hi,
nice inverter, I have the MK in the post
what is the idle watt on this inverter

thanks

Do you mean the extent to which to load it with panels? If so, I think you can safely do like 30% over and above the recommended max wattage the model you'll have is rated for.

If you mean how much Watts you can draw from the inverter, then my little knowledge says, not more than 75% of the energy draw your unit is rated for.

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mctfopt:
Sorry for the stress. Please I did not understand some of the points you made above. Was it as a result of using a higher guage wire that the fan was obstructed? Thank you.

Ah, sorry if I wasn't clear [and I've had to catch my breath, hence this delayed response]. I used a thicker gauge wire (50mmsq) instead of the recommended 38mmsq.

Edited: The larger wire called for me to have to work through the somewhat precise space in the machine meant for a smaller-size wire. In the process, my "fat" hands pushed other things in the way of the fan.

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The summary of this post:

I've had a battle scare with my PIP-5048GK transformerless with battery-less-support inverter I just installed during the early hours of yesterday; but it's all good now.

How it went:

I had been on my brand new 24v 3KW/4KVA VIL Power Star-Light inverter for just under a year, using the 1.8KW max PV loadable on it out of my available 3.2KW. Then the bugger crapped out on me two days ago, in the dead of the evening. The seller wouldn't provide support, stating that the original merchant went under, or something to that effect. Meanwhile, I'm totally off grid and the past two days have had autonomy weather forced on my part of Lagos...

So, I was forced to have to install and deploy my PIP during the very early hours of yesterday, even as I was not quite ready with the PIP (still expecting the second of two 600/800vdc SPD's I learnt would be ideal for the system, one each by the PV array and inverter ends, particularly if the distance between is considerable.)

I went ahead anyways and also reconfigured all of my 10 PV's in series for a possible combined 400V, or thereabout. I also reconfigured my meager 4.8KWh of batteries to 48 volts. Then waited for dawn — and the sun — to show, starting from the next hour.

At about 7:30am, and without any batteries connected whatsoever, the PIP came to life with about 100 watts of power. No load yet, of course, because of the still sun-starved weather. It was beautiful, a successful test of the battery-less feature of the unit. Of course I would have to charge my batteries once the weather improved...what with the past two days of forced autonomy from the glorious sun!

Fast forward about two hours. I proceeded to shut down the sweet system, then installed the batteries. About ten minutes after system restart with batteries now in, the system started bleeping hysterically and shut down...there had been a fault with the fan! (Attached.) The system wouldn't stay back on and consistently beeped and threw "Fault 01 - Fan is locked when the inverter is off." According to the User Manual, the solution was to "Replace the fan."! I entered panic mode...

At about 2pm, I quickly wrote to MPPSolar, describing the problem and lamenting 'how embarrassing the unit became within the first two hours of its deployment and that how could that be? Please rush me a replacement fan, expectedly in addition to other urgent remedies you may suggest. Thank you.' Of course Taiwan had by then closed for the day and gone to bed; I'll have to wait another day...

Still in panic mode, I got in touch with an occasional but very reliable supplier on here, asking for a low price "túké-túké" 48v inverter? (Oh Lord, I'll have to reconfigure my panels again for a max 150v system?!) But there was none. And so I went to bed last night, power-hungry.

I woke up this morning to a waiting email response to me from MPPSolar in Taiwan. Ọpẹ́ o. One of the steps I was advised to take was see whether there had been an obstruction to the normal operation of the fan by some internal wiring harness? I quickly jumped on that one.

What I saw was that, in the process of installing the batteries' +ve lead into the inverter, I had inadvertently worked a clear acrylic flap adorning the top of the fan housing, INTO the fan housing, thereby obstructing the normal movement/rotation of the fan! By 8am, I had corrected the issue and the F01 fault was cleared. The PIP-5048GK has been flawless ever since. (Screenshot attached.)

Morals of the story:

My brethren, please know what you're doing while DIY'ing. The specs for some of our gadgets are precision based, even if the manufacturer has not specifically stated so. In this my specific case, the wire girth specified 38mmsq. I crimped the 50mmsq cables I had at hand and sort of worked them in. After all, one wire gauge up will be even better for carrying current, right? Well, I applied this teaching in a half educated manner and paid with aggravation.

So please be guided as necessary.

Good luck, folks, and thanks for all the education and help on here and elsewhere.

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The summary of this post: I've had a battle scare with my PIP-5048GK transformerless and battery-less-support inverter I just installed during the early hours of yesterday; but it's all good now.

How it went:

I had been on my brand new 3KW/4KVA VIL Power Star-Light inverter for just under a year, using the 1.8KW max PV loadable on it out of my available 3.2KW or so. Then the bugger crapped out on me two days ago, in the dead of the evening... (sorry, I'm interrupted. I'll contnue shortly.)

Edited: Please see below.

tuniski:
The observers clear verdict says that. Even you as an electorate knows this Buahri election is very Flawed.

You're simply a master of speculation and innuendo. And to think you even know what I know? Your argument is one kind, abeg. Just carry go, nothing do you.

As for me and my household, we shall wait on — and readily accept — the final legal verdict, most probably by the Supreme Court of the land, on the matter.

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tuniski:
Buhari is going about with a flawed mandate akin to stolen mandate!

Thank Heavens, tuniski is now the Supreme Court of our obodo 9ja.

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Mynd44:
He believes they were manipulated

What would Atiku believe was manipulated... Voting result sheets signed off by official party agents, including those of his own party?

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tuniski:
He knows and even buharideens know atiku wasn't beaten blue and black.

You're probably right... Atiku was not beaten blue and black, Atiku was beaten Black and Blue.

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ojeysky:
Thanks I have an SPD that has 600Voc, is it the same thing with what you've stated above? Here is the reference of the SPD I have:

https://www.otowadenki.co.jp/eng/products/pdf/LS-YPV6012S%20%20LS-YPV10012S.pdf

Regards

No; what has been described is the item labelled "DC Switch" in the .pdf file you attached.

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OAUTemitayo:
The electoral act allows the verification of voters with card readers but ONLY allows collation of results THROUGH a physical form that must be signed by; electoral officer, the party agents and the security detail at the polling booth.

And when you want to prove electoral irregularities, you prove it by adding up the numbers on the result sheets given to your party agents and reconciling it with INEC's announced figures.

Only the manual result sheet is admissible as evidence before the tribunal, that's exactly what the electoral act said. All these server server are just unnecessary distractions from the Cameroonian.

Maybe you should ask Atiku why he finds it so difficult to use the copies of result sheets given to PDP agents at polling booths.

Atiku is a fraud, just forget about all his noise.
They know some Nigerians are gullible and will swallow it like sharwama.

Secondly, between the manual result sheets which was filled with the result of each candidate/party in the full glare of all present party agents, election observers, security agents and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the voters who waited till end of voting, and a 'supposed' server that not all corp members sent results to through the card readers in public, which one do you as a learned person, as somebody who believes in transparency want a constituted tribunal backed by law to accept as admissible evidence?

This is very good thinking and so well said, OAUTemitayo.

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jamace:
They exist of course, both in hard and soft copies.

That's what the courts are there to adjucate; we shall all be law abiding and wait for the final outcomes of those processes.

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jamace:
You are just speaking English. A contestant is not satisfied with the outcome of the competition and wants to examine the equipment and materials used, which he is entitled to by law. If the winner has nothing to hide, why instigating the umpire to deny access to those equipment and material to the opponent?

Seems to me you're a master of conjectures? But I'll simply let you be. Good luck with your world view and expectations!

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Temple1288:
1993 was more fraudulent!

I'm sorry if this [what I say here] sounds disrespectful, but I think this comment of yours simply profiles you as someone who was most probably not yet born or mature during that 1993 crisis.

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