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ijustdey:
. As group demands inclusion in next-level govt






https://www.sunnewsonline.com/why-ll-bayelsa-with-8-kano-44-lgs-have-equal-senators-buhari/

. A lot of imbalance is in Nigeria.There must be equal number of states in all regions unlike what it is now when the north has more states than the south and the East.Local government mist be equal too since all the states collect allocation from the federal.Ironically some states with more local governments are even better than many with few local governments.

BleedingPen:
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has turned down a request by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for more time to close their case.

Igbere TV reports that PDP lawyer, Chris Uche, on Friday asked for more time from the Presidential Tribunal.

But Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba said the Tribunal will continue with proceedings till later in the day to enable the petitioners close their case.

Igbere TV reports that the Tribunal had earlier granted the petitioners (PDP, Atiku) ten days to conclude their case which expires today, Friday.

Igbere TV reports that the PDP and Atiku are challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the February 23, 2019 election.

http://igberetvnews.com/831326/just-in-presidential-election-tribunal-rules-against-pdp-atiku/

. we will see how 59 inconsistent witnesses and unestablished. server will make Atiku win at the Tribunal and nullify elections that took place in 36 states and 774 local governments..... This made all previous presidential election petitioners lose at the tribunal ..Awolowo. Buhari Olu Falae and so on....Presidential election appeal is a waste of time in Nigeria .

Jchi9876:
An Information and Communications Technology expert witness, David Njoga, called by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said on Friday, that he needed the permission of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission to decrypt or read some documents he claimed to have been obtained from the commission’s server.

Njoga, who said he came from Kenya to testify in the case, said without the INEC chairman’s permission, he could not access the said server and decrypt the documents obtained from it.


The petitioners are challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the February 23, 2019 poll.

Under cross-examination by respondents’ lawyers, the witness who testified as the petitioners’ 59th witness, had said the results being laid claim to as the authentic results of the last presidential election obtained from INEC server were published on www.factsdontlie.com by an anonymous INEC official.




He said he never knew the said INEC official but was able to use “scientific method” to trace the source of the data on the website to INEC’s server.

Under cross-examination by Buhari’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the witness was confronted with some of the documents he claimed to have been downloaded from INEC’s server.

He was specifically shown his Exhibit A3, which was his acclaimed state-by-state list of voters accredited through the use of card readers during the February 23 poll.
Asked to open to Ekiti State and mention the surname, middle name and the first name of a person on the list, the witness said, “If you give me the INEC server key, I will decrypt it.

“This data is encrypted for security purpose.

“I can decrypt it but I am not authorised to decrypt this data.”

Asked by All Progressives Congress’ lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), Njoga said it was only the INEC Chairman that could give the authorisation to access the server.


“It is the data owner, the chairman of INEC, that give an authorisation.

“This implies that, professionally, if the owner of the server provides access, I will be able to decrypt, and to confirm the source of the document.”

Asked how he was able to trace the data he analysed in his report when he had yet to gain access to the server, he said, “I am well trained in data sourcing.”


“I use the scientific method,” he said.

He was asked again if using his “scientific method” to source documents from the server “without authorisation, could also be used to tamper with the content of the said server.

He said “yes”.

Asked he said he was engaged to do the job, but was only paid for the logistics of the job.

https://punchng.com/atikus-witness-says-he-needs-inecs-permission-to-read-server-documents/

. a lot of discrepancies....another time waster

astrodome:
https://punchng.com/fasorantis-daughter-residents-cry-out-over-arrest-of-artisans-motorcyclists/?fbclid=IwAR3GSBpmTZq6eakUelmu3vpNSNrua-AfGsZPA1UDdEemPvVjyA08nxqyRE8

In my humble opinion It seems the woman was the target of the kidnappers and somebody gave them a tip off of her movement.The kidnappers attempted to shoot her tyres in an attempt to kidnap her.In the process one of the bullets hit her leading to her death. It is a very painful and disturbing development.

astrodome:
https://punchng.com/fasorantis-daughter-residents-cry-out-over-arrest-of-artisans-motorcyclists/?fbclid=IwAR3GSBpmTZq6eakUelmu3vpNSNrua-AfGsZPA1UDdEemPvVjyA08nxqyRE8

. In my humble opinion It seems the woman was the target of the kidnappers and somebody gave them a tip off of her movement.The kidnappers attempted to shoot her tyres in an attempt to kidnap her.In the process one of the bullets hit her leading to her death. It is a very painful and disturbing development.

WoeBetide666:
I was today years old when I learned that OBJ wrote a biography of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (the main plotter and executor of the 1966 coup) back in the 80s. This might be old news to some but for those who did not know, now you know.

Obasanjo the father of the modern CORRUPT Nigeria.

[quote author=Welrez post=80402285][/quote]It may work I agree with you.Step 1 retired jiudges who are not under NJC.Step 2 and 3 for active judges who are under NJC...It may be a good developments.

Welrez:
The right of appeal takes care of that concern

who will be the judges in charge too?Retired ones? It will be worse than the tribunal judgement.

dorothybella:
Femi Falana in a communique sent out on Thursday, advocated for election petitions to be handled by retired Judges as serving judges have been overburdened, leaving all matters pending in their courts to carry out national assignments.

The human rights activists pointed out the adjournment of court cases by over 350 Judges of the State High Courts, Federal High Court, and National Industrial Court, for a 'national assignment' which was never within their jurisdiction.

Femi Falana pushed for a review of preference given to election petitions and appeals, and further stated that such cases are not handled by regular courts in neighbouring countries but by constitutional courts.

The statement reads “Over 350 Judges drawn from State High Courts, Federal High Court, and National Industrial Court and handling election petitions have adjourned all matters pending in their courts’ sine die. Their Lordships and Ladyships are said to have left their jurisdictions for “national assignment” in other parts of the country.

“Apart from appeals arising from pre-election cases and election petitions, both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court are adjourning all pending appeals till 2020 and 2021. The vacation of the Justices of the Court of Appeal has been cancelled to enable them to handle election-related appeals.

“Since all litigants are equal before the law it is high time the preference given to election petitions and appeals by Nigerian courts was reviewed. In some neighbouring African countries, election petitions are not handled by regular courts but by constitutional courts.

“It is therefore suggested that the Constitution be amended to allow retired judges to handle election petitions and appeals arising from them. If our retired judges can handle arbitral matters and participate in judicial commissions of enquiry they should be saddled with the responsibility to handle election petitions and appeals arising from them.

“The injustice meted out to litigants whose cases are not political by the legal system should stop forthwith in the interest of justice”.




Read more here https://thickmatch.com/election-petitions-handled-retired-judges-femi-falana/

. With due respect I disagree with you sir. Retired judges have nothing to lose again.They will turn judgement to bazaar purchase.

AcuraZDX:
Source:
https://zenithnaija.com/nigeria-will-soon-produce-graduates-who-cant-speak-english-senator-okorocha/

The truth is there are many Nigerian graduates who cannot speak good English for five minutes. This development is a topical issues involving all stakeholders in Nigerian tertiary education.

ericmor:
It reads behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die

The soul that sinneth. It shall die meaning the one that did not sinneth shall live with the lord

. I was only trying to explain what each of them means not what happens to an erring soul or an obedient soul.

goldcoinhub:
The Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola has said he felt ridiculed contesting against Senator Ademola Adeleke in the 2018 gubernatorial election in the state.

He made the statement when leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), led by Professor Yemi Farounbi, paid him solidarity visit on his victory at the Supreme Court, daily Independent reports.

The governor noted that there was lack of control in the Nigeria electoral system.

According to him,



https://lailasnews.com/i-felt-ridiculed-contesting-against-adeleke-oyetola/

. I advise Gov Oyetola to leave Adeleke alone.Adetunji Adeleke disappointed me by wasting his money on Ademola to be governor.He advised Ademola several times to go back to school but partying drinking and clubbing did not allow him to do so.Even Deji Adeleke who represented PDP at the state collation office is more serious than the pot bellied comedian who was a file carrier for his brother when he was the governor in Osun State.It is a surprise and total disappointment that the entire Adekekes could line up behind Ademola in his sponsored bid to be the governor....By 2022 the entire Adeleke s family must have gone into extinction politically...... Gov Oyetola should concentrate on workers welfare. payment of outstanding salaries and masses oriented programmes for the Osun citizens....He should forget Ademola Adekeke's family shame and ridicule and let them continue to sleep and turn their heads in the same place.... The stain on the family image may last forever

[quote author=zoedew post=80369530]Indeed so but inwardly you wished it was not Akin Ogunbiyi! Any day he’ll beat you hands down! Deji Adeleke deep inside knows Ademola was a hard sell but felt nothing was beyond n10-15 billion. Ademola brought more shame to the dynasty. On a good day Ademola is a member of the family who should be kept out of the way when the family receives dignitaries![/quoteAdeleke Ademola was carrying files for his late brother when he was the governor in Osun State.Out of anger Adejare Bello left PDP because he saw no sense in placing a riffraff and tagalong politically ahead of him as a candidate in PDP. It was much later that some PDP started raising the alarm of his academic incompetence. How many times did he even talk at the senate? By 2022 the Adeleke political family must have gone into extinction....]

zoedew:
Indeed so but inwardly you wished it was not Akin Ogunbiyi! Any day he’ll beat you hands down! Deji Adeleke deep inside knows Ademola was a hard sell but felt nothing was beyond n10-15 billion. Ademola brought more shame to the dynasty. On a good day Ademola is a member of the family who should be kept out of the way when the family receives dignitaries!

. Adeleke Ademola was carrying files for his late brother when he was the governor in Osun State.Out of anger Adejare Bello left PDP because he saw no sense in placing a riffraff and tagalong politically ahead of him as a candidate in PDP. It was much later that some PDP started raising the alarm of his academic incompetence. How many times did he even talk at the senate? By 2022 the Adeleke political family must have gone into extinction....

kidap:
The Senate Ad hoc committee which is investigating the alleged misconduct of Senator Elisha Abbo has said that the victim slapped by the lawmaker in a viral video did not honour its invitation.

The Chairman of the panel, Senator Sam Egwu, who stated this at plenary on Wednesday, said all efforts to make both the assaulted lady and the shop owner appear before the committee did not succeed.

The former Governor of Ebonyi State said the embattled Senator refused to make submissions before the ad hoc panel because he said doing so would be subjudice.

He also said both the Commissioner of Police in charge of FCT and the lawyers to the victims also refused to make submissions, citing the same reasons.

Egwu, therefore, requested that the matter be stepped down pending the determination of the criminal case instituted against Abbo by the police.

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who presided over the plenary, disagreed with Egwu stressing that the panel could go ahead with its work notwithstanding the court case.

Lawan said what the Senate was investigating was the alleged misconduct of its member and not the criminal case against him which is already being handled by the police.

Egwu, therefore, sought the permission of the leadership for appointment one-week extension to enable him to submit the report.

The Senate President granted the request.


Source: https://ngg.ng/2019/07/17/victims-of-senator-elisha-abbos-assault-fail-to-appear-before-senate-panel/

. Out of court settlement........ The senate is just wasting its time ..

dorothybella:
Today, the Independent National Electoral Commission described the 48-compact disc evidence tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as empty and lacking in probative value
According to reports four of the video clips played at the Presidential Election Tribunal court hall included ‘countdown of Osun Decides,’ a production of Channels Television, with Seun Okinbaloye as host. In the production dated February 8, Mike Igini, Resident Electoral Commissioner for Akwa Ibom, had talked about the readiness of the electoral body to transmit the February 23 general elections electronically.

The second video was a clip of the postponement of the general elections by INEC chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood while the third video was a clip of AFEX Nigeria training of INEC ad-hoc staff on electronic result transmission. Similarly, the briefing by the Nigerian Army authority on the status of President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged certificate saga completed the four materials shown in court. Counsel for the petitioners, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, had led the spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Segun Showunmi, to tender the materials before the five-man panel of justices.

During his cross-examination by counsel for INEC, Yunus Usman, SAN, Showunmi agreed that the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Akwa Ibom was not a spokesman for the Commission. Usman also made the witness to confirm that the chairman of the electoral body only expressed the hope of the Commission to transmit results of the general elections electronically, but that it was actually done.



Usman was of the view that the video clips front-loaded by the witness had nothing to do with the February 23 general elections. Showunmi attested to Usman’s question by saying that the four clips were events that preceded the election. The other clip was on the President’s certificate controversy, as the Army confirmed that Buhari had West African Examination Certificate with credits in English Language, History, Geography and a pass in English Literature.


Meanwhile, counsel for Buhari, Dr. Alex Izinyon, SAN, had tendered a video clip dated February 6 where chairman of the Commission hinged the possible transmission of the election electronically to the signing of a new Electoral Act. Drama however ensued as the petitioners’ legal team refused to allow their system to be used to play the CD. In the circumstance, Izinyon filed an oral application for adjournment to allow his team bring their system and screen to continue with the cross examination of the witness.

Justice Mohammed Garba went ahead to adjourn the proceedings until July 16 for continuation. Earlier, the petitioners had presented three of their witnesses, totaling about 40 of them out of the 400 that were listed to testify so far. On their parts, Babagana Kukawa, Hon. Abana Pogu, Suleman Mohammed, Local Government Area Collation Agents for PDP had alleged over-voting, vote-buying, and violent disruption of the election in their various states.

When they were crossed examined, the witnesses were unable to back up their allegations with documentary evidence. The counsel to INEC had reminded them that their signature on Forms EC8C (results transmitted to the local government areas) were approval of the exercise at polling units and ward levels across their states.





See more here https://thickmatch.com/video-evidence-empty-buhari-inec-others-tell-pdp/

. The only video that is tenable is the one that shows voters at the polling booth stuffing the ballot box or causing violence at the polling center. The footage must show date and time. The background must have a lunk to the ward and the contested polling booth..Lawyers are just eating up Atikus money..... All his evidence hold no water .

newsman101:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/minimum-wage-we-are-no-longer-sure-of-fgs-commitment-tuc.html

The money will be paid after payment committees is formed by the government.....

GistMore11:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/breaking-samson-siasias-mum-abducted/amp/

. Are the kidnappers Fulanis too? kidnapping is a business of all tribes in Nigeria.

nairavsdollars:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere on Sunday said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot be regarded as one of the defenders of the Yoruba nation based on his utterances and actions especially on the issue of killer herdsmen in the country.

The organisation also condemned Tinubu’s statement in Ondo during his condolence visit to Pa Reuben Fasoranti on the killing of his daughter by suspected herdsmen last Friday.

Yinka Odumakin, National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere said Tinubu has been silent on the activities of the herdsmen because he is one of their prominent supporter.

He said Tinubu's statement in Ondo on Sunday that Nigerians should stop regarding kidnappers as herdsmen shows that he is sympathetic to the cause of the activities of the herdsmen in the country.

"He is their supporter. In October last year in Abuja , he was the first person to advocate Ruga that all unused lands in Nigeria should be given to herdsmen. Today in Akure, he went to 'mourn' with Pa Fasoranti and when he finished, he was speaking as if he went there to dance on the grave of the deceased when he said people should stop categorising kidnappers as herdsmen".

"That herdsmen are not the ones that started kidnapping. Is Evans a Fulani herdsmen? So, he went to pour salt upon injury. So, we cannot count him among our defenders in Yorubaland" he said

https://www.independent.ng/we-dont-regard-tinubu-as-one-of-yoruba-defenders-afenifere/

. The truth is kidnappers in Nigeria include Hausa Yoruba and Ibo......

Holycity:
Whats the difference between the spirit and the soul?


have be wondering

abeg guys help me answer this one

The spirit is the life force of a person and an animal.It is inanimate and does not exist after the death of a person...... Only God can restore it if a person dies.The soul means a person. or an animal. .it can die Ezekiel 18 vers 4......

Limitednow:
Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/election-tribunal-how-aides-lawyers-scammed-atiku-buharis-aide-reveals/

. Since 1960 no president has lost at the tribunal.It will never start from PMB...Soon I will explain very briefly why Atiku s case will go like other cases on presidential elections in Nigeria. It is a dead on arrival case already

AutoReportNG:
Ever since the new international passport was unveiled especially the data page which some group of people claimed to have some sect of people. AutoReportNG was able to get the new international from someone who got their from the passport office and we felt we need to set the record straight.

Base on the little we know about passport designs and implementations, we noticed that passport was designed from all the cultural and ethnic tribes of Nigeria. For example, the Benin people have the ebony artifacts, the Yorubas have the Oduduwa, the Hausas/Fulani have the herdsmen, the National Assembly, the Aso Rock in Abuja and lots more.

It will be unfair to just pick a page out of the 64-page of the international passport to make an issue out of it. The passport was designed using all the cultural traditions from the 3 ethic groups in Nigeria which are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbos.

Please see more for yourself and be the judge.

- AutoReportNG


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The Data Page of An American Passport

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Editorial Note
This is not about being paid by a group of people, it's about being investigative and setting the records right which AutoReportNG stands for... To see more, please check the source



Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/07/the-truth-about-nigerian-new.html

.Thank you for your clarification
Mine too has no issue.It is a representation of Nigerian culture........My concern is the Arabic inscription on our Naira notes....What did Obasanjo and other presidents do to it? Nothing..Our Nairas should not have Arabic inscription.

garfield1:
It will not because the court sat and one or two witnesses testified

. if the sitting took place and some witnesses were presented it would not be excluded.Other witnesses would continue with their evidences on the next day.....if the sitting did not take place at all it would be excluded.

References:
Some witnesses heading to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja to testify against President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have been attacked and injured by armed bandits.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, broke the news to the Justice Mohammed Garba-led five-member panel tribunal, shortly before further hearing on their petition against the outcome of the February 23 presidential election was adjourned till Monday.

"My lords information we just got is that some of the witnesses we scheduled for this afternoon were waylaid by armed men while on their way. They were coming from Zamfara.

“This is a matter in which out witness are coming from far places”, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, told the court.

Corroborating the report, Atiku’s lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, said: “To confirm, I was the one that was called on the phone and I had to repeatedly go outside to receive the call.

“I was told that some of them jumper into the bush and up till now most of them have not been seen while some were greatly injured.

“In the circumstance, we will continue on Monday”.

While adjoining the case, Justice Garba held: “For the information, you have given to this court, proceedings in this matter is hereby adjourned till July 15, Monday”.

The petitioners who have three more days to present their case, have so far called 36 witnesses that testified before the tribunal.

More details soon.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/breaking-buhari-vs-atiku-tribunal-adjourns-as-bandits-attack-injure-pdps-witnesses/

. This is an emergency matter.......Today may be excluded from his ten days...

kahal29:
The chance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the Feb.23 presidential election to present 400 witnesses listed in their petition against President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election within the remaining three days continued to tick away.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that all parties in the matter had agreed to open and close their cases within specified period.

The parties, therefore, agreed to workable modalities in the management of time to ensure the petition was dispensed within the 180 days allowed by the Electoral Act.

Flowing from the agreement, the ten days allotted to the petitioners to open and close their argument which commenced on July 4 would expire on July 17.

NAN reports that all the respondents were also given six days to present their responses to the petitioners’ allegations.

In light of this, the respondents are expected to open their separate defences between July 18 and July 25.

To the chagrin of visitors to the tribunal on Friday, the petitioners had urged to the court to adjourn until July 15.

Chief Chris Uche, SAN, Counsel for the petitioners had informed the tribunal that their witnesses earmarked for the day could be reached.

Uche said the witnesses who were based in Zamfara State were attacked by arms men while on their way to Abuja on Thursday.

Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, the lead counsel for the petitioners, rose to complement the information been availed the tribunal by Uche, adding that the witnesses were yet to found.

“My Lords, it is true that those we have listed to present for further testimonies were attacked while coming to Abuja from Zamfara state, and therefore it will be impracticable to go further.

“ We pray for an adjournment until Monday, July 15 for continuation’’, Uzoukwu said.

So far, the petitioners have tendered 31,287 exhibits to prove various allegations of malpractice in the poll, but have presented less than 60 out of the 400 witnesses.

Earlier, Mr Oseni Haruna, Local Government Area Collation Agent for PDP told the court that violence and over voting marred the process, but was unable to provide cogent evidence to substantiate those claims.

https://thenationonlineng.net/pdp-atiku-miss-chance-to-present-400-witnesses-in-10-days/2/

. It is not possible to call 400 witnesses within ten days...There must be cross examination of witnesses by the respondent lawyers. Besides the number of witnesses does not win a case but their SUBSTANCE does....Most witnesses nowadays are coached witnesses who will contradict themselves.

garfield1:
Zoedew,ejimatic and other learned lawyers in the house i have a question.if the witnesses are unable to testify today,will today still be added to the 10 days given to atiku?

Presentation of evidences which MAY be accepted as exhibits and calling of witnesses go together. If Atiku did not do so today because of the laxity of the lawyers, today is part if the ten days.However if the panel did not sit today .today is excluded.... The appellant must present his witnesses within the allotted days. The appellant may reduce his witnesses if he wants to considering the time frame.

OndoFirstBorn:
Deji Adeleke, elder brother to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the September 22, 2018 governorship poll in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday, said many promises made by the PDP before the family accepted the party’s governorship ticket were not kept.

Adeleke, in a statement he signed and obtained in Osogbo on Thursday, declared that his younger brother had no intention to contest the governorship election in the first place.


He, however, added that Senator Ademola Adeleke, was prevailed on by the PDP leadership and elders before the family accepted “most reluctantly after receiving assurances and promises that were never kept.”

He said the younger Adeleke should be given a break to take a rest and decide what he would do or not do when the time comes.

He expressed gratitude to those who are concerned about the huge resources committed to execute his younger brother’s participation in the PDP primary and general elections and the payment to lawyers during the litigation period.


Adeleke conselled that money spent on elections should not be considered an investment that would be recouped upon assumption of office through corruption and banditry, but should rather be considered as a grant to help deepen democracy and advance the rule of law.

The statement read, “I am not a card-carrying member of any political party but I am a sympathiser/supporter of the PDP in Osun State. Osun State PDP will be better off and well prepared for the next general election in the state, if internal democracy is encouraged and enforced.


“All elective positions, including the position of governor of the state, should be open to all members of the party to contest in a transparent primary election. Everyone must be given a sense of belonging, in order to grow the party in Osun State.

“The PDP members that are trading blame within the party should be reminded that the PDP won the governorship election held on September 22, 2018, but was not allowed to take office by the powers that be in the ruling party. Members should be proud that the electorate sided with the party against the ruling party in that election and not blame each other for the daylight robbery that deprived the party of the mandate freely given by the good people of Osun State, which has brought shame and disgrace to Nigeria as a country.”


He added, “As for the Adeleke family, of which I am one, we will like to remind all the PDP members that Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke had no intention to contest the governorship election in the first place, but was invited and prevailed upon by the party leadership and party elders to contest the governorship election, which he and his family accepted most reluctantly after receiving assurances and promises that were never kept.

“Everything that followed after this, is now history. Senator Adeleke should, therefore, be given a break, to take his well-deserved rest and decide what he will do/not do when the time comes.


“Contributions to an election fund should always be considered a grant, to help deepen our democracy and advance the rule of law, which eventually translates into Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), economic growth and job creation.”

Reacting to the controversies surrounding reported adoption of Senator Adeleke as the PDP consensus governorship candidate of the 2022 poll, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Diran Odeyemi, said a chieftain of the party from Osun West, while addressing a meeting held in Adeleke’s residence in Ede, on Tuesday, suggested that Senator Adeleke should be re-presented by the party in 2022.


Odeyemi said, “Dr Babalola said in appreciation of the support of the Adelekes to the PDP in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke should be represented in 2022 and everyone seated clapped in appreciation of that motion.


“What I said was that after listening to assurances from Dr Deji Adeleke, who assured us of continuous support, I suggested that he should be made one of the leaders of our party. It happened at a political gathering.”


https://punchng.com/adeleke-family-alleges-betrayal-rejects-2022-pdp-gov-ticket/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

. They are digging their political graves ifor 2022 election..... By 2022 the Adelekes must have become irrelevant in Osun State.

INTERMAN:
Ibadan poly burnt phones seized during various Examinations in the university. What do you see about this gruesome action?

. I am yet to understand why we don't get it right in this country....If bringing phone is an exam offence is the penalty not automatic failure if the paper and collection of the phone with money after which it will be burnt? Burning is not the first step....

Made4naijaceo:
Driver storms police headquarters, Ibadan, to protest the seizure of his Taxi and N150k bribe demand

Watch video

source :

https://www.made4naija.com/driver-storms-police-headquarters-ibadan-to-protest-the-seizure-of-his-taxi/

Although I do not know what he did but the corruption in the Nigerian police is alarming and disturbing.....on the road collecting 50# ..at the station charging for bail.....When will Nigeria have a decent police system like in the western world?

kahal29:
A witness called by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate at the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, stunned all on Tuesday when he said he was seeing for the first time the statement attributed to him, which he adopted as his own.

Bako Umar Katanga, who said he acted as Local Government Polling Agent for the PDP at the election, had, while being led in evidence by Mike Ozekhome (SAN), claimed that he deposed signed the statement before the court’s registry on March 18, 2019.

But, under cross-examination by lawyer to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Atoyebi (SAN), the witness said he was seeing the statement for the first time, a reaction that got everyone in court laughing.

After the conclusion of Katanga’s testimony, Ozekhome applied for an adjournment, a request the tribunal Chairman, Justice Mohammed Garba granted and adjourned till Thursday for further hearing in the petition.

The petitioners called 13 witnesses on Tuesday, raising the number of witnesses they have called between Monday and today to 19.

https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-i-saw-my-statement-for-the-first-time-before-tribunal-says-atikus-witness/

. Another academic exercise in futility.... Atiku can never ever win the case....

OILFLASHY1:
Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on Osun State governorship election.

The court had affirmed the victory of Governor Gboyega Oyetola o f the All Progressives Congress (APC) over candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke.

Sagay told National Dailies that though the apex court was right to have nullified the verdict of the tribunal, it should have made an affirmative pronouncement if INEC was right to have declared the poll inconclusive and subsequently held supplementary poll.

“The lesson should be drawn home to everybody that all members of the tribunal or the court should be present before they can take part in a judgment,” he said.

“When a judge has conducted a case 90 percent, the judge that takes his place is not allowed to use the records, he has to start all over again. That is the point the Supreme Court is making here, and I think I support the decision.

“If there was violence or something was wrong and you are unable to vote, I don’t know why it is something wrong in being allowed, on another day, to vote… I think the Supreme Court should have just completed that so that the issue would not arise again.

“Ballot boxes have been carried away. Even if you voted, your result cannot count and then INEC decides according to its guidelines to repeat election in such a place, what is wrong with that?

“I think the Supreme Court should have pronounced on that so that you don’t have a situation where somebody would pre-judge the outcome of election by creating confusion in some areas where he is weak and then insisting that those people there should not have an opportunity to vote and then he wins by only allowing election in areas where he is strong; that is the whole idea of supplementary election so that everybody can have an opportunity.

“I think the Supreme Court should have made a pronouncement on that; whether it is right or wrong.”



Read more here https://thickmatch.com/osun-supreme-court-done-sagay-reacts-oyetolas-victory-adeleke/

. Appeal court justified the rerun by upholding all thevSeptemver 22 results. The Supreme court agreed with the deciidion as contained in it judgement.....

OILFLASHY1:
Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on Osun State governorship election.

The court had affirmed the victory of Governor Gboyega Oyetola o f the All Progressives Congress (APC) over candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke.

Sagay told National Dailies that though the apex court was right to have nullified the verdict of the tribunal, it should have made an affirmative pronouncement if INEC was right to have declared the poll inconclusive and subsequently held supplementary poll.

“The lesson should be drawn home to everybody that all members of the tribunal or the court should be present before they can take part in a judgment,” he said.

“When a judge has conducted a case 90 percent, the judge that takes his place is not allowed to use the records, he has to start all over again. That is the point the Supreme Court is making here, and I think I support the decision.

“If there was violence or something was wrong and you are unable to vote, I don’t know why it is something wrong in being allowed, on another day, to vote… I think the Supreme Court should have just completed that so that the issue would not arise again.

“Ballot boxes have been carried away. Even if you voted, your result cannot count and then INEC decides according to its guidelines to repeat election in such a place, what is wrong with that?

“I think the Supreme Court should have pronounced on that so that you don’t have a situation where somebody would pre-judge the outcome of election by creating confusion in some areas where he is weak and then insisting that those people there should not have an opportunity to vote and then he wins by only allowing election in areas where he is strong; that is the whole idea of supplementary election so that everybody can have an opportunity.

“I think the Supreme Court should have made a pronouncement on that; whether it is right or wrong.”



Read more here https://thickmatch.com/osun-supreme-court-done-sagay-reacts-oyetolas-victory-adeleke/

. Appeal court justified the rerun by upholding all thevSeptemver 22 results. The Supreme court agreed with the decision as contained in it judgement.....