senatordave1: It is 50 50../cc fergie001, ejimatic
. I share the same opinion with Femi Falana SAN that it will be difficult to upturne the majority judgement of the TB tomorrow. As for the appeals of of Adeleke INEC and PDP , they are frivolous and will be struck out for lacking meris. It is also worrisome that the two judgements upheld forgery claimed by Oyetola and APC yet went ahead to look for a ground to sustain the qualification of Adeleke .That conclusion is alien to our jurisprudence.In my opinion it is 100 % in favour APC and Oyetola.
senatordave1: Obidients claim obi was the first to win in court after being rigged out.the first was late adekunle ajasin the then governor of old ondo in the famous ajasin vs omoboriowo case.the second person to do that though belated and posthumously was late alhjaji alhassan badakoshi in 2003... Obi case ended at the appeal court and standard of proof at the appeal court is less weighty and easier than in the apex court.I don't think he would have triumphed at the apex court.
lhordspy: Chief Wole Olanipekun , SAN, OFR, CFR a Nigerian Lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and Senior Advocate of Nigeria will lead 49 other lawyers to defend the victory of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu at the presidential election tribunal.
. One man too many! Omo kan bi meedogbon ..That is the man that will enlongate Obi and Atiku's cries after the petitioners' feeble cases have been struck out .
tamdun: OBIDIENDS BURSTED If a Nigerian for instance live in diaspora with a resident permit of that Country in his/her Nigerian passport, when that passport expires,he/she will get a new passport where d Residency would be stamped. And to avoid that expired Passport being used for any
dubious activity, d foreign authority of that Country would PERFORATE d passport.
I took my time to take a good look at those videos of those OBIdiends claiming they're destroying their passports because they don't want to have anything to do with Nigeria again. And d pics
are here. You can watch d videos again. They're already expired Passports. Meanwhile, there is a way to renounce Nigerian citizenship. But I understand this is how they mislead d gullible OBIdiends back home.
Imagine, a grey bearded man for that matter
All of them should tear their geniune passports.Who cares? Their pains our gains!
popesco123: You are calling the name of God in vein, you are bringing more destruction to yourself and generation. Read my comment again. I only ask you to assess your conscience if you support fraudulent election. But all the same keep on wrestling with your conscience.
uote author=ejimatic post=121982332]. We reject what you said in Jesus name. You are not Obi and you can never be Obi . Apart from that ,my comment is not for you so I wonder why you are taking it personal. I don't like abusing people but with yiur foolishness and frustration that run in your family,if I reply you YOU WIL COMMIT SUCIDE! You and who ? Ti aja ba n siwin o ma n moju olowo e ni o! I decree this evening by the power of God that you and your entire generation WILL DIE MISERABLY.So shall it be ! I apologise to my friends for my outburst.
My outburst is not for you at all. Yiu are a civil person ..It is for the fool who said his people will die miserably because of frustrated Obi.. ......It is fir the one who called himself POPESCO.....I hope I am not mixing things up
popesco123: You are not God of millions of suffering Nigerians who need a workable nation. Anyone that supports fraudulent elections shall die miserably. Assess your conscience.
quote author=ejimatic post=121978452]. OBI WILL CRY AGAIN AFTER THE JUDGEMENT!
. We reject what you said in Jesus name. You are not Obi and you can never be Obi . Apart from that ,my comment is not for you so I wonder why you are taking it personal. I don't like abusing people but with yiur foolishness and frustration that run in your family,if I reply you YOU WIL COMMIT SUCIDE! You and who ? Ti aja ba n siwin o ma n moju olowo e ni o! I decree this evening by the power of God that you and your entire generation WILL DIE MISERABLY.So shall it be ! I apologise to my friends for my outburst.
ufotunang: ...but this 2023 election is the worst....it's INEC, politicians and thugs that decided the winner of the presidential election not nigerians the voters that decided
. I appreciate what you said. I am not in any way supporting black market election. We are just paying for our backwardness in Nigeria in relation to our elections.In the early sevethies our elections were rigged and manipulated by politicians then. In 1979 NPN manipulated and rigged results in favour of Shagari. In 1983 ,voters were pregnant with ballots which they would use to stuff the ballox boxes .It was so bad that the military had to take over then. In 1999, PDP and OBJ with the cabals behind them rigged elections for Obasanjo. In 2004 , same happened. In 2007, Yahadua decried the election that produced him as the president.Same stories in 2011 2015 2019 and 2023.Each result In each year was challenged at the court but the case was set aside respectively. If another election is conducted in Nigeria next year, it is same stories. No perfect election in Nigeria.The only solution to our problem is : Electronic voting! No more no less!
id4sho: Presidential Election: Peter Obi disputes INEC results in 21 states (FULL LIST) The 21 states include three of the 11 states that Mr Obi won based on the final result announced by INEC.
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has disputed the results of the 25 February election in 21 of the 36 states in Nigeria.
The 21 states include three of the 11 states Mr Obi won based on the final result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In the states that he won, Mr Obi is challenging only the figures credited to Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner of the keenly contested poll.
Mr Obi, who came third in the election based on INEC’s official results, filed a case Tuesday at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to challenge Mr Tinubu’s victory.
He said in the petition, which he filed alongside his party, that the poll was marred by various forms of corrupt practices, overvoting, votes suppression and non-compliance with the provision of the Electoral Act in various states.
He is disputing the results announced by INEC in states including Rivers, Lagos, Taraba, Benue, Adamawa, Imo, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau states.
The rest are Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, Taraba, Osun, Kano, Katsina, Kwara, Gombe, Yobe and Niger.
Alleged wrong computation for Tinubu and overvoting Mr Obi won in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, based on the result INEC announced on 1 March.
He is disputing the outcome of the poll in 21 states of the federation, including three that INEC declared him to have won. The three states are – Lagos, Imo, and Plateau. The other eight states and the FCT that he won are excluded from the list.
In Lagos, Imo, Plateau and seven others “and other states of the federation” not specified in the petition, Mr Obi said “the votes recorded for the 2nd respondent (Mr Tinubu) did not comply with the legitimate process for computation of the result and disfavoured the petitioners”.
The 10 states including the three won by him are Rivers, Lagos, Taraba, Benue, Adamawa, Imo, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau.
In the remaining 11 states whose results he is challenging, the Labour Party candidate alleged that the outcome of the election was marred by overvoting.
He said overvoting occurred in Taraba and Borno, the home state of Mr Tinubu’s running mate and vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima.
The 11 states plus Borno and Taraba where overvoting took place, according to Mr Obi, are Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, Taraba, Osun, Kano, Katsina, Kwara, Gombe, Yobe and Niger.
Mr Obi said his forensic analysis of the electoral materials used for the election showed that votes cast in the polling units “exceeded the number of voters accredited on the BVAS in those states.”
The breakdown of the discrepancies in the figures is not included in the body of the petition available to the public. But the petitioners referenced a forensic analysis reporr, which they said contained the necessary details.
How INEC declared Tinubu winner INEC had on 1 March declared Mr Tinubu the winner of the presidential election with 8,794,726 votes. Mr Tinubu led in only 12 of the 36 states of the federation.
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Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who has similarly filed a separate petition to challenge the outcome of the election, came second with 6,984,520 votes. He also led in 12 states.
Mr Obi came third in the election with 6,101,533 votes, winning in 11 states and the FCT, Abuja.
Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came fourth with 1,496,687 votes. He won in only one state.
Mr Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.
Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
Mr Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states, as well as the FCT.
Mr Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.
‘I won the election’ Mr Obi and Labour Party maintained in their petition that they polled the majority of the lawful votes cast across the country.
The Labour candidate said he won the presidential election, but for the suppression of his votes across thousands of polling units.
Relying on the report of the inspection of the electoral materials and the report of forensic analysis, Mr Obi said he would show to the court that his votes were subtracted in many polling units and added to Mr Tinubu’s scores.
He said his votes “were unlawfully reduced and added by the 1st Respondent (INEC) to the scores of the 2nd Respondent (Mr Tinubu)”.
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Besides alleging corrupt practices, the petitioners alleged that both Mr Tinubu and Mr Shettima were not qualified to contest the election as of the time it was held on 25 February.
Mr Obi said Mr Tinubu also failed to secure one-quarter of the lawful votes cast in the FCT, Abuja, as required by law.
He argued that the failure of INEC to promptly upload the results from polling units through BVAS to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal on the day of the election invalidated the exercise.
But he urged the election petition court to review “these unlawful scores added to the 2nd Respondent and for those scores which were legitimately obtained by the Petitioners to be credited to the Petitioners’ scores.”
According to Mr Obi and his party, “when the scores unlawfully added to the 2nd Respondent are deducted, the Petitioners will have the highest number of votes in the election, as shown in the Forensic Report pleaded above.”
“The Petitioners aver that when the results of Polling Units, Wards, Local Governments, States are properly tabulated and calculated as required by the Electoral Act and the Regulations and Guidelines for election, the overall results of the election and the percentages scored by the Political Parties will show that the Petitioners won the Presidential election of 25 February 2023,” their petition read in part.
The petitioners, therefore, urged the court to either declare him president-elect or order a fresh election.
They sued INEC, Mr Tinubu, APC, and Mr Shettima as co-respondents to the petition.
The respondents are expected to file their separate replies to the petition.
[quote author=engineerboat post=121977088][/quote]. Good one! Are Osun Lagos SE included? After the arguments of the counsels it will be conxluded that their claims are not Enough to affect the results of the elections!
engineerboat: Presidential Poll: Atiku files petition, insists Tinubu not qualified to contest.
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has filed a petition to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential election that was held on February 25. Is
Atiku, in the petition, marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023, which he lodged before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, applied for the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return that was issued to Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He maintained that the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election was “invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022”.
Atiku, through his team of lawyers led by Mr Joe Kyari Gadzama, SAN, further argued that Tinubu’s election was invalid by reason of corrupt practices.
“The 2nd Respondent was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the Election.
“The 2nd Respondent was at the time of the Election not qualified to contest the Election”, Atiku added while listing grounds he said the court should consider nullifying Tinubu’s election.
He prayed the court to declare him the winner of the presidential election, having secured the second-highest number of lawful votes cast at the election.
Meanwhile, Vanguard learned that Atiku’s legal team perfected the petition filing process at the Registry of the Court, late in the night on Tuesday.
It will be recalled that the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had Monday night, also filed a petition before the court to void the declaration of Tinubu as the President-elect.
They prayed the court to hold that Tinubu was not legally qualified to contest the election, alleging that he was previously convicted and fined the sum of $460,000.00 by the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, in Case No: 93C 4483, for an offence involving dishonesty and drug trafficking.
Obi prayed the court to declare him as the candidate that secured the majority of the lawful votes cast with the required constitutional spread of not less than 25% of the votes cast in at least 2/3 of the States of the Federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
In the alternative, he prayed the court to order a fresh poll, with the exclusion of both Tinubu and the APC, by virtue of their non qualification to participate in the election.
It will be recalled that INEC had on March 1, announced Tinubu as the winner of the presidential poll, ahead of 17 other candidates that contested the election.
It declared that Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes and Obi who came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
. Again can somebody tell me the strength of this case? They did not indicate there that they won the election in the petition and they would show how they won it. They did not even indicate that they would call witnesses across Nigeria(very impossible) All I see here are issues that are similar to pre election cases. The question is how did all the issues contained on this petition affect the results of the election? This case like that of LP is an academic excercise In futility whose aim is just to put it on record that the losers of the election challenge that resukts.
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All these cases have been won in court .The US ambassador in Nigeria once said he had no case in the US. No inclusion. Of overvoting and manipulation of results again? They know that nothing would come from that and then decided to open a case that has been flogged several times.We will see how that will make Obi become president! Congrats to BAT on his PEPT victory in advance!
Summary: 1. Tinubu/Shettima not qualified to contest 2. All votes for the two should be voided 3. They didn't score 25% in FCT: 4. Order Fresh election in which Tinubu/Shettima should be barred from participating.
I just came across the above prayers Peter Obi team submitted at the Petition Tribunal. I couldn't help but cringe. Is this the "Stolen Mandate" his supporters have been shouting about all over social media?
The claims that Tinubu didn't win the overall votes, rigging, voting issues, claims Obi won the election and so on I was expecting to see those allegations on the prayers.
Folks this case is so weak and petty. No. 1-4 no case at all. This is shameful.
I think his followers just jump in the band wagon of "stolen Mandate" because others just say it.
They are only making noise and creating needless tension in Nigeria
. LP is having 97 % percent of the votes cast in some SE states. Is this tenable? We know all about it! Rigging unlimited? NO WONDER RIGGING IS NOT ON THE LIST OF THIER PETITIONS!
Lizzysamuel: Reports that Peter Obi in his election petition is not seeking to be declared the winner of the election is false and misleading. I’ve seen a copy of the petition. Peter Obi has prayed that he should be declared the winner. The law allows a petitioner to seek alternative reliefs.
That is what Peter Obi and Labour Party have done in their petition before the Court of Appeal. They are seeking reliefs in the alternative; either that he be declared as the winner having scored majority of lawful votes cast, or that the entire election be nullified.
There is no issue here. Those who are making issues out of the imbalanced media reports on the contents of the petition are doing so either because they’ve not seen and read the petition, or they are mischievous or they don’t understand.
Let’s see how this turns out eventually.
You can read the entire prayers that the Petitioners (Peter Obi and Labour Party) are seeking below.
Who can tell me the seriousness of these petitions? OAU Law students will never prepare election petitions like this which solely rely on frivolities!
. No rigging again? No overvoting again? . I think Obi and LP are "giants " but I have now seen that they are midgets......Moro pe won Tobi ni ,ASE won Fuye gege ....,.DoA allegations
In all his petition, he did not say the election was rigged. I guess he learnt he doesn’t have a case against the actual election itself and now he is extending his case to the candidature of Tinubu and Shettima and saying they are not qualified to contest.
His evidence will be the David Hundeyin numerous jargons of Chicago state and etc and that will be his ground of wanting the court to declare Tinubu not qualified to contest.
. SC judgement on the case:. ......it is evident that the petitioners having lost at the PEPT cooked up a cock and bull story in their paetions against the AC judgement. For want of evidence and no subtantial evidence to support their allegations, we hereby dsimiss the petition and award 200000 Millons to the respondents. ....CJaN Ariwooola rules.
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