₦airaland Forum

walex2:
You are an illiterate you can't abdicate a constitutional matter, you still need to go to court and interprete. By the virtues of their defection you still need to approach the court, so until the court say otherwise they are still the legal representative of their people. If we all begin to interprete the law for ourselves we will all be encloud with anarchy

Don’t be cheeky.

Where is the illiteracy, with such clearly written words? Do illiterates write in the own native languages, how much more English language?

Take your time to read the constitutional provisions and cease to follow the crowd. The constitution is clear about it and it has been tested in the courts, as far as the Supreme Court, way back in 2015.

Read the 1999 constitution @ chapter-5-part-2-section-109-tenure-of-seat-of-members, to clear your misinformation.

Now if (dis)honorable members choose to apply some braggado, by defecting to other parties, without expecting to pay the price, then it behoves on the citizens to insist on the right thing. It is inappropriate for citizens to look at certain irresponsible behaviors of our leaders and applaud them.

They are the law makers. They are supposed to know the constitution more than us. They break the laws they make at will and make themselves look like the victims. They know that it is a constitutional matter. They chose to abandon the party upon whose platform they contested the election. Without the party, they would never contest, as the party is the vehicle. The votes we cast belong to the party. Since they have abandoned the party, the owners of the votes (in this instance the party), must have their votes back.

They wrongly timed their defections and must bear the consequences. Wike who sponsored them remains in the same PDP shamelessly and thinks that he can influence the courts to misinterpret the constitution in their favour. Fa fa fa fa fa fawol.

While not stopping the now former legislators from exercising their fundamental rights to seek redress in the court, we must not continue to support illegalities on the part of our leaders.

This should serve as a lesson to other legislators across all parties, who only think of their pockets and not the citizens, who they are elected to serve.

That’s the way it is.

Ok

That should be the position.

I suspect that when the so called political solution was found after meeting Tinubu, Mr. Wike breeched the terms of the agreement somehow, by his overbearing attitude. The governor accepted the terms hook, line and sinker and started implementing them. The illegitimate 27 members of the house started causing problems for the governor. They passed bills without his accent. They threatened him with impeachment once again and Fubara felt the chains on his hands were no longer bearable.

Fubara reunited Wike’s sworn enemies and made friends with them. Do not be surprised that he made very solid relationship with Rotimi Amaechi, while that one his behind the curtain. Now Fubara’s feet are solid in the ground.

Tinubu has the economy and insecurity to deal with first. He appears to be losing his grip and must concentrate. Wike’s battle with Fubara is a distraction. Again, this is politics. Interest is at play and not friendship. If it threatens his government, then Tinubu can make another move.

Wike must know that the state party leader is the governor. Fubara initially did not threaten his so called structure. Wike’s greed exposed all. After his tenure as the governor of Lagos, Tinubu maintained and shared his structure with other powerful personalities in Lagos. Mutual respect between them enabled them control Lagos up till now.

Wike must learn to respect the governor and others.

RickyJesus:
Very stupid comment.

So says someone who has never traveled outside his one room apartment.

DonroxyII:
Same thing happened to me From Abuja to Taraba ... I boarded at Mararaba ... Gisos ...

The Driver was Speeding at 170 ... He would soft pedaled at 120 & raise to 170 again . We could be on 170 for like 5mins before he would go to 120 & still raise to 170 again ...

The tyres were so soft on the road I knew just the tip of the Tyres were on the road the rest were on the air ...

I was sitting beside him at the front ... I was just remembering all my family at home cuz I knew any slight error... That Hummer Bus & Every Occupant is Dead ....

The driver doesn't even care for Portholes... he can maneuvers the road like the back of his hands ...

Na God that day ... Hausa Drivers are too Giran in the Mind ... Life & Death na Same thing to dem as dem no care ... Chaiiii !

Thank God that day sha ...

Hmm

Donald7610:
Supreme, Appeal court to decide not Rivers state's court

Fubara na initial gragra

That is the truth

Until it gets to Supreme Court, no more sitting for the illegitimate 27.

And by the way, that must be the beginning for legislators who win on the platform of some parties and then decamp.

Where is the midnight injunction?
So Wike’s trying to tell Nigerians that the constitution is a midnight constitution? He surely must be pulling the wool on the eyes of his gullible followers.

Anyway, let’s quickly supplied Wike with 10 bottles of BITTER OBI herbal mixture. He surely is suffering from serious BATeria.

udemzyudex:
You have short term memory.

Short term memory? With your long term memory, how did it go?

So sad.

The drivers in the north are among the worst in the country…sorry to say. The speed is always excessive. In those days, traveling from Zuba for example to Minna, the drivers would keep the speed @180.
The same on the way to Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri.

I wish them speedy recovery and may they be comforted.

Let Secondus go and sit down. Wike did not bring misery when he forced Secondus on PDP as the national chairman. He paid Secondus back for supporting his aspiration to be the governor. Having brushed Secondus aside because of his Presidential ambition, Secondus became aggrieved.

Politics is about power and ambition. It is the survival of the fittest. We know Wike has issues, but Secondus should please close his mouth.

Na boxers e wear so abi na gele e wrap for waist?

When taxation is too much you create poverty. This issue of taxation must be examined and adjustments must be made. There is no way that you can tax manufacturers and importers of finished goods, without expecting the multiplier effects on the prices of goods and services.

Government must face the real issues with the nation, which are insecurity and hunger. We have advocated that insecurity must be tackled with the full force that it requires, irrespective of the area, tribe or religion. Nigerians live where they find live meaningful for themselves. That’s why you find everyone, everywhere. If the citizens cannot go to their farms, how can we achieve food sufficiency? If the farms and highways are unsafe, how can food be grown and transported to the markets? Insecurity must be the first to tackle seriously. The next should be farmers getting to business in the farms, with government providing grains and finance. No great nation has achieved its status without first dealing with food. You cannot be talking of 15 trillion on a single road, without ensuring that there’s food on the table for citizens. When there’s food, they do not care how you go about building roads.

Someone needs to tell Tinubu and his team to take governance serious. While he was campaigning, he said that the Presidency was not a 100 meters dash. Now he sees that it is even beyond that 100 meters dash, with all that he has to attend to daily. He must wake up to his responsibility, to ensure that everything gets better and life is worth living for every Nigerian.

What you sow is what you reap, as they say.

I remember clearly that Rotimi Amaechi once said that it was difficult for him to go to Rivers state. The reason was Nyesom Wike. On at least one occasion, their convoys met in Port harcourt and there was exchange of gunfire between the security aides. Wike made life very hard for his predecessor and former boss. What goes around, comes around as they say.

No one knows the source of Wike’s humongous and unquestionable wealth. While Fubara was the accountant general, he was haunted by EFCC for brazen looting of over 400 billion. Wike his him in the government house and made him the next governor. Secrets are shared between them, just like it happened with Amaechi. One cannot doubt that Fubara holds Wike by the “blokkos”, as it is termed.

The legislators with false confidence suffer the most. Obaseki made an example of them in Edo state, of what the governor can do to legislators. He shut down the house and ran his government. Wike must thread softly with his “structure” in Rivers state.

Again, if not for financial gains, how is it that one man single handedly funded the election of the entire political office holders in Rivers state? He openly boasted about it and no one in the anti corruption office queried him about it. The other person in the House of Representatives who attempted to contest with his personal resources, was harassed and detained. They ensures that he did not get out until the primaries were over.

In all, the citizens are very weak. Until the citizens begin to demand accountability from leaders, they should expect greedy and irresponsible people to continue controlling their lives and serving them pittances to survive.

So no payment for “ghost workers”. Also no extra for the local government chairmen to collect.

Anyway, the local government chairmen all have issues with Fubara. If Fubara refuses to release funds, then feeding will become very difficult for them. Wike cannot share his resources with them all.

What’s actually going on? Without the dollar story, can the nation not move forward? If BAT does not have solutions, then he can seek advice from those who know far more than him. I can give him just one name, if he does not mind.

Thank God that he survived.

Their massive looting and underdevelopment of the health sector stared him in the face. He should not complain, as hospitals need money to run them. Doctors need to get paid and drugs must be purchased. Now Doctors do not get the right salaries, neither the nurses nor drugs purchased. His mates, rather than fix hospitals embark abroad to treat themselves.

This man shamelessly exposed himself as regards his the finances aides. In such an emergency, the conscious around usually tackle the matters. If all that went with him to the hospital could not muster the deposit of 80k, it shows they are either heavily underpaid or angry at him. If he did not wake up from his unconscious state to pay, that would have been his end with his staff unable to offset the deposit of 80K.

BadBradley:
you're still confusing court judgment (precedents) with an interim order given my a High Court which can be set aside by the a Higher Court while the substantive motion is on going.

I am not confused in anyway. I am just examining the angles with you.

- PDP is in court over the matter
- The court pronouncement making Ehie the speaker was not set aside
- The Supreme Court made a pronouncement over the matter. An example was set in 2015 in Ondo state
- Fubara has recognized the new speaker and works with him.
- Amaewhule and his group intend to impeach Fubara.

Now if the substantive motion gets going, with the weight of the above legal and political issues, how can the illegitimate 27 seat anymore?

And when the try to remit to their countries, there”ll be no dollar. That again would add to the pressure on banks and FG.

Anyway, let’s way and see if there”ll be any improvements.

Raf4:
Can you mention a single law maker who ever lost his seat because of porting to other party?
Dogara? Saraki? Some just dumped one party for other in Enugu state recently.

Read the below:


“Federal High Court sitting in Akure has sacked a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ifedayo Abegunde representing Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency, for defecting from the party from which he was elected.

Abegunde was elected into the House of Representative on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) during the April 2011 general elections, but defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) after a few months.

He had approached the court for judicial protection against his recall by the Ondo State House of Assembly and the Labour Party.

Joined in the suit are the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Abegunde’ s counsel, Chief Adekola Olawoye had argued that by the provisions of Section 68(1) (G)) of the 1999 Constitution and the imbroglio, division and factionalization in LP, he is entitled to dump the party.

The defence counsel led by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ondo state, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) with the state’s Director of Civil Litigation, Rotimi Olamide submitted that since Abegunde had dumped LP and has not proved any division within party, he has automatically vacated his seat as a federal lawmaker.

The defendants also prayed that the electoral body should conduct by-election to fill the vacant seat.

In her judgment, presiding judge, Justice Gloria Okeke noted that without a political party, no candidate can contest an election since there is no provision for independent candidacy in Nigerian elections.

Citing a Supreme Court decision in Amaechi vs INEC (2008) 5 NWLR Pt. 1080, she added that “if it is only a party that canvasses for votes, it follows that it is a party that wins an election. A good or bad candidate may enhance or diminish the prospect of his party in winning, but at the end of the day it is the party that wins or loses an election.

Okeke held further that Abegunde could not prove the alleged division and crisis in LP by the virtue of the letter signed by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Akin Orebiyi that “we are not aware of any crisis or issue concerning dispute in LP.

“We were also present at the Congress that produced the elected and recognized State Chairman of the party. As far as INEC was concerned, there was no crisis or factionalization in LP in Ondo State.

According to her, the issue raised by Abegunde was not a dispute that should warrant his defection to the ACN, adding that it is a constitutional matter that a parliamentarian who defects in this manner “shall (mandatory and not a mere directive, not a matter of opinion) vacate his seat”.

“Since it is the 9th defendant, Labour Party that sponsored the plaintiff (Abegunde) in the election into the House of Representatives to represent Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency and defected on account of unproven imbroglio, crisis, dispute and factionalization in the party, the plaintiff has lost the seat and should therefore vacate the seat and I so hold” Okeke ruled.

While Jegede hailed the judgment as a landmark in the annals of the Nigerian legal history, the plaintiff’s counsel, Olawoye, who described the judgment as unacceptable, said his client will appeal against the judgment”


This case went on to the Supreme Court and the judgements of the lower courts were upheld in 2015.

Judolisco:
u be estate surveyor?

Bros wetin I do you na?

If I keep quiet you fit call me land speculator. Abeg sorry for me bros.

tutudesz:
If you stay in Lagos, you wouldn't make such statement
You see people leaving their houses by 4 am just to get to work on time, due to hold up.
"If she came with the school bus, sometimes the bus gets to school by 10; they will definitely not throw her out of the school"

Between the mother and the school, there must be an outstanding issue. The business is very competitive and schools want to have as many students as possible. We need to hear from the school too.

Again, schools need to be more understanding with time. Parents have various reasons why children get to school late. Some can be traffic. Some can be finance. Some can be domestic disagreements leading to delay in going to school. For some reason the car fails to start; parents cannot find the mechanic, etc. There has to be patience and parents must always remember to put calls across to the school authorities when such things come up.

May God help parents and schools.

Jakumo:
You have highlighted the greatest benefit of cheap surveillance drones, which is that they can pinpoint the location of criminal encampments very quickly and without alerting the targets that the police have their coordinates that will used be to coordinate ambush attacks that have the potential to save kidnap victim lives. The element of surprise works in favor of law enforcement consistently, once it becomes possible to view real-time or recently filmed surveillance video footage during those vital minutes when task-force commanders plan counterattacks against hidden criminals so easily spotted from the air.

And do you know that it is so simple. Why they choose to ignore the right things, baffle people like me.

BadBradley:
an interim order is not a judgment of court.

But can a lower court contradict the judgement of the Supreme Court or constitutional provisions? Please tell us.

With that 1000 naira worth of moi moi he purchased his ticket to a correctional center to reside for the rest of his life. While there he can use the garri given to him as the combination to complete the meal.

A very big for nothing ugly looking man.

It is very unfortunate that Nigerians found themselves in this hole. While ignoring the provision of food and security first, they quickly begin the construction of a 15 trillion coastal highway, which construction, will outlast their government.

Now he will reside permanently in a correctional center. Since he failed to live like proper humans, a correctional center better suits him, where he”ll meet people of his level and thinking.

helinues:
Needs are essentials/priorities while wants are secondary

Please with the description of the items in her small shop, can you single out the essentials, priorities and secondary?

helinues:
Perhaps, your line of business is not what people needs but wants

So simple to assume.
Can you differentiate between “need” and “want” please?

Ancient Egypt, always good to read in history.

Jakumo:
This is by far one of the most viscerally terrifying kidnapping accounts that I have ever read in recent times. For typical law-abiding citizens who have never contemplated harming another human being, it is impossible to visualize the depth of heartless, sadistic evil that resides in the hearts of career criminals who injure, maim, and kill their victims as a matter of daily routine. This first-hand account of a kidnap ordeal provides a jarring insight that lays bare in stark relief the abject paralyzing horror movie that is Nigeria in 2024.

Surveillance drones are required for deployment by police formations all over the Nigerian federation. With a round-trip mission range of well over ten miles, a used $500 DJI Mavic 2 Pro fitted with a new $200 extra-range battery sold online by Ali Express, could be issued to EVERY police station in the federation, after adequate laptop-based simulator training has been given to the drone operators. With this $700 security investment in all or some of Nigeria's police stations, and with flight batteries charged at a centrally located solar-powered drone battery charging station in each town, the tide can very quickly be turned against the kidnap gangs now proliferating with alarming speed all over the Nigerian federation.

Unfortunately, the same law officers will sabotage it.
We suffer a very big shame with some law officers in this country. One wonders how in this age of advanced technology, this country battles with these rag tag criminals and vipers on our highways. To think that the police do not even have trackers is a monumental disgrace.

How then with all the hefty budgets can things ge appropriately carried out? Even when the equipments are provided, we hear of security officers who share surveillance and intelligence secrets with bandits and kidnappers. The honest ones find out at the point that all their efforts wasted.

From all the security budgets of governors, how is it so difficult to purchase drones and trackers? What’s the point purchasing Hilux’s and bikes, when technology can penetrate much deeper and faster?

It is indeed very sad.