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PDP controlled state and home state of the immediate past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan

Bayelsa decides 2019: Updates, Reports and live monitoring.

46 Political Parties are cleared by INEC for the election

As it is, the contest is a straight one between Diri of the PDP and Lyon of the APC, however the Accord Party candidate, Ebizimor Diriyai, is also putting up a surprise

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Tribal lords, be careful

For the Kogi West Senatorial Election

The contest is majorly between

1. Senator Smart Adeyemi of APC (a 2 time senator)

2. Senator Dino Melaye of PDP, for Rep Members, Senator in the last NASS and currently occupying the position before the Appeal court order for the re-run

The contest is between 2 major political party in the governorship contest

1. Yahaya Bello of APC

2. Engr Wada of PDP

The governorship And Senetorial Election into Kogi West Senatorial Seat holds today 16th of November 2019.

Watch this space for live Updates and reports across the state for Governorship election and Kogi west for Senatorial election.

No name calling, drop useful information and no abuse.

Tribal warlords should please take note.

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garfield1:
The hunter has become the hunted.you are needed to repair my neighbour wheelbarrow

You're daydreaming already

I'm so sorry about your Party predicament

What a sad day to Be APC lying Machine

garfield1:
Why not abstain from commenting? When pdp loses i wonder what you will blab

How far on Bayelsa FHC porhacourt Stay of Execution

Una don get am

That is what you people should be concerned about instead of peddling BNMC lies about

MelesZenawi:
People can lie. There was no disqualification rather the chief Judge asked the presiding Judge to answer query level against her.

You dey mind APC minions

The thread like all promise cancelled

Dansuqi:
Engineer canoe why are you so desperate in seeing apc not contest the bayelsa polls

I'm not sure you know what you are saying

When court did not seat

Or is it APC BMNC court room

Abeg swerve

seunmsg:
My dear engineerboat, you came late to the party. The latest news in town is that another FHC has nullified the Bayelsa PDP primary. As it stands, PDP has no candidate in tomorrow’s election. Let us kuku scatter everything since PDP they are the only ones with madness.

If you're sleeping wake up

Abuja stay of execution only affects Abuja FHC ruling.

48hrs to Bayelsa gov’ship: High Court sacks APC candidate as Appeal Court reinstates deputy

A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, yesterday, nullified the September 4, 2019 Bayelsa State governorship primary that produced David Lyon as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in tomorrow’s election.

Our reporters in Yenagoa report that the decision had thrown stalwarts of the APC into confusion, reminiscent of what befell the party in some states during the last general elections when it was disqualified from participating.

But in a twist, the Court of Appeal in Abuja, yesterday, ordered a stay of execution of the judgement of the Abuja Federal High Court which disqualified the APC deputy governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, over false information.

The panel, chaired by Justice Stephen Adah, issued an interim order of stay of execution of the judgement of the Federal High Court of November 12, 2019, pending the determination of “the motion on notice for order of interlocutory injunction filed on 13 November, 2019.”

The appellate court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to maintain status quo ante bellum which existed on or before the 19th day of September 2019 when suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1101/2019, now on appeal to this court, was filed at the lower court pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction filed on 13th November, 2019.”

The judge consequently adjourned hearing of the motion to Wednesday November 20. The appeal was brought by Degi-Eremienyo’s lawyer, Damian Dodo (SAN).

The Bayelsa judgement

While delivering her judgement which sacked Lyon in a suit filed by Senator Heineken Lokpobiri who is also governorship aspirant of the APC, Justice Jane Inyang noted that the primary was conducted outside the rules of the party. Lokpobiri, a minister of state for Agriculture during the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, had sued the party protesting the conduct of the governorship primary. He approached the court seeking a declaration that he was the “authentic candidate of the APC” and not Lyon.

Lyon, who was seen as new in Bayelsa politics but had the backing of the Minister of State for Petroleum and former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, had during the contentious primary scored 42,138 votes to defeat five other aspirants including Lokpobiri who scored 571 votes. Justice Inyang ruled that since the primary was conducted in violation of the party’s constitution and guidelines, none of the aspirants should stand as APC candidate in tomorrow’s election. She therefore restrained INEC from fielding Lyon as the party’s candidate.

Responding to the judgement, Lokpobiri’s lawyer, Fitzgerald Olorogun expressed shock on the grounds that the court’s declaration was not part of their prayers. “It’s strange,” he said. Lokpobiri had while pursuing his case in the court, nonetheless, urged the people of Bayelsa to vote for the APC despite his court case against Lyon and the party. But beyond Lokpobiri’s clamour to be declared winner of the primary election, the judge said the APC guideline provided that results should be declared by the chairman of the election committee of the party, saying in the case of Bayelsa, it should have been Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe and not Senator Emmanuel Ochega who served as the committee’s secretary. She noted that the APC also violated its own rules in the composition of the election panel when it constituted an 11 member committee rather than seven.

“It has been established by judicial authorities and several judgements that political parties are bound by their own rules. The committee that conducted the primary threw caution to the winds and it is my ruling that the primaries stand nullified,” she said.

APC moves to Appeal Court

Reacting to the judgment, Mr Jothan Amos, who is the Chairman of Bayelsa chapter of APC, said the party was optimistic of overcoming the setback before tomorrow. He said the party had set in motion the legal process of appeal and was in the process of obtaining a stay of execution pending the determination of the appeal. He assured party followers that the party was seeking judicial review of the judgment and urged them to remain calm. Sylva gives another interpretation However, Sylva yesterday gave a different interpretation of the Court of Appeal judgement, saying it had granted the APC a stay of execution on the judgment delivered by the Federal High Court nullifying the primary of the party. Sylva, who stated this in a news conference in Yenagoa, said that the APC would fully participate by contesting in the Saturday governorship poll. “I must tell you that the judgment nullifying the primary was clearly a bias one with all due respect to the judiciary. “So, I have come to address you because we have good news for the people of Bayelsa. The court in Abuja has granted us stay of execution. “That means, we are fully as a party, in the position of contesting this election. “Because we know that the people of Bayelsa are seriously behind us and we will win the election,” he said.

Lawyers react

Lawyers have described the situation in Bayelsa as complicated, but explained that despite the orders of the high courts in Abuja and Yenagoa, INEC should allow the political party on the ballot paper for tomorrow’s governorship election. The Director General of the National Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Prof Taofiq Ladan, said despite the order of the High Court in Yenagoa disqualifying the APC governorship candidate, INEC cannot disqualify a political party because the logo on the ballot is that of the party and not a candidate. Dayo Akinlaja (SAN) said the APC would lose the opportunity to field a candidate in the election except it moves swiftly and “finds a way of restraining INEC from removing the candidate from the ballot paper for the election to forestall an appeal against the judgement from being rendered nugatory.” According to him, “I must admit that it is a somewhat complex and complicated scenario.

The reality is that if INEC excludes the candidate based on the judgment, it cannot be accused of doing any wrong. Nonetheless, the saying that ‘discretion is the better part of valour’ has a pride of place in all this.” For his part, Obioma Ezenwobodo Esq. said the situation is dicey because the disqualification may be upturned or upheld at the Supreme Court, stressing that the only way the matter would become immaterial is where the APC loses the election on November 16.

Our correspondents report that similar internal party crisis did not augur well for the APC in Zamfara and Rivers in February and March, this year. In Rivers, the party’s candidates for governorship and other positions were all disqualified before the general elections.

In Zamfara, the candidates who were earlier declared winners with a landslide were all disqualified by the Supreme Court in favour of the opposition candidates mostly from the PDP. PDP asks INEC to delist APC from poll The PDP yesterday said APC had no place in tomorrow’s governorship election in Bayelsa State following the disqualification of its candidate, Lyon and his running mate, by two courts of competent jurisdiction. PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the development pointed to nothing but victory for the PDP and democracy in the country. The party asked INEC to delist the APC from the ballot as any vote cast for the party would be a wasted vote. “The PDP invites INEC to note that no fewer than two decisions of courts of competent jurisdiction have negated the participation of the APC in the race.

INEC rules out postponement

Speaking on the development, INEC yesterday ruled out postponement of tomorrow’s governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. INEC said last night in Abuja after a management meeting to review the Bayelsa case and other aspects of the election that there was no going back. Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said the meeting ended successfully but that the commission would not issue any statement on Bayelsa or on any aspects of the elections. “The meeting has ended but we are not issuing a statement. However, our elections in both Kogi and Bayelsa will go on as planned,” Oyekanmi said and declined further comments.

Kogi debacle Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Abuja will today rule on the application seeking the disqualification of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State from participating in tomorrow’s election over double registration of voters’ card. In the originating summons the governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Natasha Akpoti, is seeking the court to also issue an order of mandamus compelling INEC to “thoroughly investigate the acts of double registration as a voter made by Yahaya Bello” and to prosecute him upon the expiration of his tenure in January 2020. Akpoti alleged that Gov. Bello committed electoral fraud through his registration sometime in 2011 in Abuja and a second registration as a voter on 23rd May, 2017 at Government House, Lokoja “while his first registration as a voter in Abuja was still live, extant and subsisting.” In the application brought on her behalf by Mike Ozekhome (SAN) on Oct. 10, Akpoti also asked the court to declare that the governor is liable to be disqualified and/or barred from contesting, participating and/or voting in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship election. She contended that the act of doubt registration of voters’ card is a violation of Section 24(E) of the Electoral Act, 2010.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/48hrs-to-bayelsa-govship-high-court-sacks-apc-candidate-as-appeal-court-reinstates-deputy.html

Yusman316:
His case is not for the disqualification of the APC, rather confirming him as the rightful APC candidate. Here we are talking about the deputy governorship candidate's disqualification. And I am saying it was PDP that entered that case into court

Go back and read the OP link again

Yusman316:
This is the problem of Nigeria. Youths that are too lazy to do simple research about issues. The governorship candidate of any political party usually picks his running mate, either unilaterally or by party stake holders consensus. So why will a party member fail against the governorship candidate in the primaries then go after the deputy governorship candidate? PDP now seeing APC as real threat this time around, file the case in court. Not that there is anything wrong with that. The guy presented false documents which is wrong. APC goofed by not screening their candidate's credentials properly

Should I say you're the one showing sign of laziness here.

Its a two court case

The one for the afternoon was instituted by lokpobiri an APC cnndidate

Enwhen:
When was this Lokpobiri judgement delivered ?

This afternoon

Enwhen:
Not Lokpobiri , it's the PDP , Lokpobiri own is still in the court , just like that of Idris in Kogi PDP waiting for Wada to win and take over.

The ruling is made already

APC has no candidate the court ruled
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/362829-just-in-apc-has-no-governorship-candidate-in-bayelsa-court-declares.html

The Federal High Court, Yenagoa, on Thursday declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not have a governorship candidate in the forthcoming election in Bayelsa State.
This development is coming two days to the election.

The court was presided over by Justice Jane Inyang.

The court declaration, on Thursday, was part of its judgement in a case filed by Heineken Lokpobiri, one of the APC governorship aspirants.

Mr Lokpobiri, a former minister of state for agriculture, had approached the court, asking it to declare him, and not David Lyon, the authentic candidate of the APC.
“The court pronounced that the governorship primary conducted by the APC in Bayelsa state was not done in compliance with the guidelines and the constitution of the party, and, therefore, the party has no candidate,” Mr Lokpobiri’s lawyer, Fitzgerald Olorogun, told reporters immediately after the court ruling.
A shocked Mr Olorogun said the court declaration was not part of their prayers. “It’s strange,” he said.

Asked what was the next option for his client, Mr Olorogun said “We’ll do the needful. But for now, the pronouncement of the court is that APC has no candidate.”
There was heavy police presence within and outside the court premises. The main highway way leading to the court was barricaded by the police. Visitors, including journalists, were frisked before they were allowed to enter the court building.

Mr Lokpobiri, before now, has been urging the people of Bayelsa to vote for the APC in the November 16 election, despite his court case against Mr Lyon and the party.
“I’m a very strong member of APC and I came today to formally tell our chairman and to speak to Nigerians, in particular, the electorate in Bayelsa that all of them should vote for APC regardless of what happens in the court case in which judgment is slated for Nov. 14, 2019,” the former minister said in Abuja after a courtesy visit on the national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole.

“I told my supporters even before I came here that no matter what happened, I will remain in APC having served as a minister under this administration.

“There is no way the outcome of the governorship primaries will make me leave APC. We are working and campaigning at different levels.
“I always advise that anybody that is grieved, the only place to go is the court.


“So, whatever happens in the matter that is pending in court will not be an infraction on any part of our party’s constitution,” he said.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday had disqualified Mr Lyon’s running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, from participating in the forthcoming election on the grounds that he provided conflicting information on the documents he presented to INEC.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/362829-just-in-apc-has-no-governorship-candidate-in-bayelsa-court-declares.html

Enwhen:
The Gov and D.Gov candidates are not qualify to run Bayelsa at all...non was present at the debate, the deputy gov. candidate forged credentials, the Gov candidate cannot spell his name well, instead of LION he is using LYON( France Ligue 1 club)....



It would have been difficult fort he PDP and APC this time, but had it been the APC field in Silver or Lokpobiri it could have been a complete take over with the supports of GEJ and federal might, but with LION , court or no court , the PDP will win , DIckson is in control of two senatorial districts while LION and APC joined with the new former PDP defectors are struggliing to take full control of just one( GEJ constituency) .....I am happy for this judgement like that of Rivers , the judgement has just saves hundreds of lives(including soldiers, Dss, EFCC, corpses and police) and properties...

It was lokpobiri that instituted this very case faulting APC primary

APC e-wariors

This is another judgement instituted by APC aspirant on Bayelsa APc primary it has nothing to do with PDP

senatordave1:
You are already swerving and on a losing spree

Eya Sorry

You will dey alright las las

Appell court cannot help adelabu

You have a bad case

senatordave1:
Yes.only you and two others understood the judgment.what happened is that the appeal court in a majority judgment discovered that the apc were not given fair hearing and that documents and other evidences presented by the apc were ignored by the tribunal which is a miscarriage of justice.and that if they scrutinized these evidences,perhaps they would reach a different conclusion.they then decided that the trial tribunal judgment affirming makinde victory is nullified and should retry the case but since it the 180 days period has elapsed,the status quo remain.


They are now leaving the matter for the supreme court to decide.they could have based on the strength of the documents made a declaration either cancelling the polls or declaring adelabu

.for them to come down hard on the tribunal means that the documents had incriminating facts.perhaps,they didnt want to make a declaration which the apex court will cancel and therefore ridiculing the judges.therefore,this is a wise move.very tactical.the supreme court should now look at the documents and see whether a declaration should made be made or not.

What do you say about Atiku.

You said atiku just dump Evidences on the Appeal tribunal


It's a karma don't you know.

You cannot mis-interprete now that it affects you or your party

senatordave1:
I have better understanding of legal matters thsn you.dont argue.listen and learn.the buhari and adeleke matters should have humbled you,dont know why you are still arguing vainly.

The matter is 50 50.the supreme court can decide on the strength of the evidences order a rerun.nothing is certain

50, 50 you say

Adelabu complained of irregularities in 1,334 polling units and only called 38 polling unit agents out of which majority of them confirmed that the election conducted by INEC complied strictly with the Electoral Act.

senatordave1:
I have better understanding of legal matters thsn you.dont argue.listen and learn.the buhari and adeleke matters should have humbled you,dont know why you are still arguing vainly.

The matter is 50 50.the supreme court can decide on the strength of the evidences order a rerun.nothing is certain

No wonder you quickly forget your gallivanting statement on osun on quickly.

Better understanding KO better overstanding no

Ogbeni swerve

Iamgrey5:
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Ogbeni o to nowww

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Iamgrey5:
3G doesn't save data. Your data saving depends on your browser..

Ogbeni o to nowww

By the way, if you're now downloading or working on browsing that require 4G why wasting your data on 4G

senatordave1:
You are an annoying fellow i must tell you.only channels is reporting something different.infact from what channels reported,you can deduce that the elections were nullified but no declarations were made therefore he remains governor for now tentatively

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