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senatordave1:
Are you in apga or pdp? Channels are misleading people.only them are reporting that makinde won but others are reporting something else.the truth is that the tribunal judgment was set aside nut no declaration was made.the comments by the apc and pdp sources there confirms everything.makinde remains governor for now

We're you at the court.

Same thing applies to adeleke you know.

No time again for retrial as the time had elapses.

That time you said the same thing.

Now its playing out for Adelabu APC

Refresh your memory

References:
Just to add....
https://m.guardian.ng/news/appeal-court-faults-seyi-makindes-victory-at-tribunal/

The panel, however, affirmed the victory of Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Oyo State governorship election.

It upheld the decision of the tribunal, which declared Makinde as the winner of the March 9 poll, in a unanimous judgement delivered Yahaya.

This is also from your link

fergie001:
senatordave1... Come and advise Akpabio ooooo.....

Senatodave1 knows APC cabal trap for Akpabio.

Like a proverbial Dog that want to get lost, will not hear the whistles of the hunter

IamPatriotic:
He doesn't have to resign, Fayemi didn't resign even after his victory until few days to his inuagrations

How did Fayemi now contest

seunmsg:
PDP is a party of hypocrites. If they agree with this judgement, they should have disagreed with the silly judgement that gave an illegal victory to Olujimi in Ekiti instead of ordering for a rerun.

The court of appeal should have a standard to follow as far as election petition is concerned. They cannot cancel the result of a local government in Ekiti as a result of violence and irregularities without ordering a rerun in the council while cancelling the result a local government council in Akwa Ibom for the same reason and ordering a rerun in the affected local government.

What is good for Akwa Ibom should be good for Ekiti. The judiciary should not promote double standard.

Stop wailing

I'm not sure you read the 2 judgement

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An audio recording reveals that the Kogi State Resident Electoral Commission, James Apam has expressed concern with being pressured to rig the Kogi West Senatorial election against Dino Melaye. The election held in February 2019.

In the recording, published by Natasha Akpoti, the Social Democratic Party’s candidate for the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial elections, Professor Apam is heard telling someone on the other end of what appears to be a phone call, that Senator Dino Melaye won the poll by 17,000 votes.

“The guy [Dino Melaye] won neatly,” the INEC official can be heard saying.

He also said that there was ‘suddenly pressure” on him to doctor the results so that Melaye would lose the election.

“I hate injustice and can’t keep this to myself,” Ms. Akpoti wrote as she shared the recording on Twitter.

You may listen to the sub-titled conversation below:
https://www.thetrentonline.com/leaked-audio-reveals-kogi-state-inec-rec-under-pressure-to-rig-election-against-dino-meleye-listen/amp/

Listen to audio below

https://twitter.com/i/status/1190334012495138816

Government that needs propaganda to cover another propaganda, is that one government

Exposed: How Customs Paraded 2016 Seized Rice Containers as 2019 Seizures, Alleges Masters Energy


A recent claim by the Nigeria Customs Service that it seized 33 containers of rice from Masters Energy, whereas the seizure was made in 2016 shows that several other claims of seizures made by the service over the years leave much to be desired, writes Eromosele Abiodun


As customary to Nigeria’s security services, the Nigeria Customs Service paraded containers of rice it claimed to have seized last October. Customs’ Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), while parading 54 containers of spoilt rice and other commodities, including fake pharmaceutical products and vegetable oil worth about N2.7 billion in Lagos, said: “One significant finding about this seizure is that all the rice have expired or about to expire.”

The retired army colonel claimed the rice was re-bagged as local products, though they were from China and Thailand.


A closer look at the bags shows that they bore Masters Energy with GRA Ikeja, Lagos and another, Dr. Chang by Yunfei International Trading Co Limited in Jabi, Abuja as companies and addresses, respectively.

However, as the dust had yet to settle over the claim by the customs that 33 of the 54 containers were rotten rice, the issue drew the ire of industry stakeholders and observers, who maintained that the rice was seized in 2016 and had rotten in custody.


Ali had while addressing journalists in Lagos on Tuesday stated that 33 containers of expired and spoilt rice, alongside 11 containers of unregistered pharmaceutical products, two containers of used tires, four containers of refined vegetable oil in retail packs, were seized at the Tin-Can Island ports by the Tin-Can Customs Command.

Masters Energy Commodities Trading Limited and others would be investigated over connections to the seized expired bags of rice, he had threatened.

Ali stated that in all, 54 containers comprising of 15 by 40ft and 39 by 20ft containers with a duty paid value of N2,713,865,051.00 were seized in line with the provisions of the Customs & Excise Management Act (CEMA) Cap C45 LFN 2004 section 46 and 161.


“One significant finding of this seizure is that all the rice are expired or about to expire. Also remarkable is the seizures of Tramadol variants and unregistered performance-enhancing drugs among the pharmaceutical.

“You will recall that in the past, the service has raised the alarm and drew the attention of the general public to the fact that most of the imported rice is expired.

“Some of the rice allegedly imported from overseas had Nigerian addresses, and the service will be going after these addresses to investigate their connections to the importation of these expired rice. Some of the addresses include Masters Energy Commodities Trading Limited located at 31A, Remi Fani-Kayode Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos and 103, Ebitu Ukiwe Street, Jabi, Abuja. We will be going after these addresses and investigating their connections with these expired bags of rice in 33 containers.


“I want to commend officers and men of the Tin-Can Island Port Command of the NCS for a job well done. I am also aware of the commands contribution to the Service revenue collection drive. Statistics in my office shows the command has so far collected N286,742,551,443.00 from January 2019 till date. I, therefore, urge the Command to keep up the good work and possibly surpass its target,” explained the Customs boss.

Seizure That Never Was


However, a source in Masters Energy told THISDAY that the product was impounded in 2016, wondering what the Customs hoped to achieve by parading same items as imported spoilt goods three years later.

THISDAY learnt that Masters Energy Commodity Trading Limited had without being compelled to, petitioned the House Committee on Customs Excise and Tariff, that its agent made false declaration in order to cut tariff for the 30 containers of rice. It had also indicated willingness to pay but the NCS curiously turned down their request.


The letter, signed by the then Managing Director, Mr. Chukwudi Otigba, said: “Sometimes in May 2016, we entered into a business transaction with a Thailand company known as Asia Inter Trade Rice Export Co Limited, for the importation of 30 containers of Thai Parboiled Rice to be delivered at the Tin Can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos as contained in the bill of laden.

“We contracted Destiny Impex Limited, a clearing company registered and licensed by customs with registration number…. As our clearing agent to clear the 30 containers of rice in accordance with Customs tariff and classifications.”


During the parade of the seized containers last week, Ali neither mentioned when the consignment was intercepted nor who imported the rice, as all efforts to ascertain the date of interception proved abortive.

This, analysts asserted, was deliberately done to make it look like the closure of the border was yielding positive results.

In a swift response to Customs’ claims, lawyer to Masters Energy, Monday Ubani, said there was no truth in Ali’s claims.


Ubani stated, “I do not know how many of you listened to this piece of news yesterday in various television channels and radio stations where the Comptroller General, Retired Col Ahmed Ali, showed 54 containers of spoilt rice and other commodities including fake pharmaceutical products and vegetable oil allegedly worth 2.7 billion Naira in Lagos. According to him “One significant finding about this seizure is that all the rice have expired or about to expire”. The retired army colonel said that the rice was re-bagged as local ones even they were coming all the way from China and Thailand. There is no single truth in what Col. Ahmed Ali was trying to make the whole world to believe in the said press conference.


“If you Google, you will find out that sometime in 2016 it was widely reported in the news that about 30 containers of rice belonging and imported by Masters Energy Commodity Trading Limited through Nigerian port, Tin Can Island, Apapa were impounded for failure to pay the correct tariff when clearing them by the Customs’ licensed agent. It was even reported that Masters Energy then petitioned the House Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff that its agent Messrs Destiny Impex Limited, a clearing company registered and licensed by the Customs made a false declaration in order to cut tariffs for the 30 containers of rice.

“The company indicated willingness to pay the correct tariff as the agent was paid full money but decided to cut down the tariffs in order to avoid paying full value of the tariffs. This request was turned down and the company was later informed through anonymous source that the same rice had been shared to the internally displaced persons’ homes in northern Nigeria. It is important we point out here that this parboiled rice was purchased from Thailand from a company known as Asia Inter Trade Rice Export Co, Limited with a disclosed address and there is bill of lading to that effect.”

He disclosed further that the quantity the company imported were 60 containers but 30 containers were seized due to the under declaration by the agent while the remaining 30 containers arrived later at the port by which time the federal government had put rice as one of the famous 41 Items that will not enjoy forex of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Because of the policy the remaining 30 containers remained uncleared and abandoned.

Ubani added: “We have letter from Customs Authority asking Masters Energy to seek the approval of Central Bank of Nigeria before they could clear the remaining rice. These events took place in 2016.

“The issues begging for questions really with this emergency press briefing by the retired colonel are as follows: Why was it convenient for the Comptroller General to withhold the date of the said interception? These containers belonging to Masters Energy was impounded since 2016.

“What point did the comptroller-ceneral of Customs want to achieve by this emergency press briefing in 2019 over a seizure that was made in 2016 and already in the news? Is it to prove to the gullible Nigerians that Nigerian Customs Service that is under ‘heavy fire’ for its excesses is really working and saving Nigeria’s economy?

“What was also intended to be achieved by saying that the rice has expired or about to expire when it failed to disclose when the seizure was done and whether the life span of rice was supposed to be forever?”

Continuing, he said, “That Nigeria should clap for the comptroller-general, who has wasted such quantity of rice that should have been donated to the internally displaced people in Nigeria, who are dying of hunger every day? Why do we choose to run government by sheer propaganda in this Internet age where lies and falsehood can easily be detected by discernible minds?”

Controversy Galore

The NCS seems to like controversy. This is because before the disputed seizure was announced last week, a directive by the customs management in Abuja had unsettled shipping agents and stakeholders in the maritime sector,

The CG of Customs had recently directed that 100 percent examination should be conducted on cargoes destined for inland ports in the country including the Kaduna Inland Dry Port (KIDP).

He said: “All importation are to be unsealed, opened, examined to ascertain the contents and resealed before exiting the mother port. Such consignment shall be escorted by the FOU Escort Personnel to their various destinations without compromise.”

But shippers and importers in the country, who have benefited from the services of these inland ports, especially KIDP, raised concerns over the order saying it negates international best practices.

The stakeholders, which also include freight forwarders, asserted that the directive would amount to multiple screening or examination of cargoes meant for the inland ports since officials of federal agencies such as the NCS are also at the dry ports to carry out proper examination of the cargoes.

Speaking on the matter, the President of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, Tony Uju Nwabunike, cautioned the NCS, saying that such a directive will affect trade facilitation.

He said: “I think we (ANLCA) should look into the principles and guidelines that cover transit cargoes to see if it is proper, but we will send a position to the government through the Customs on the issue.

We think if there is any reason to take that decision, they should go through the principles of import guidelines as they affect dry ports.

“So many of our members that are into exports have said if that is the case, there is no need for a second examination of cargoes. The Customs, from the grapevine, said they just want to open to know what is inside the containers and re-seal them. But whichever way it is, it will be much clearer in a number of days now.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/11/03/exposed-how-customs-paraded-2016-seized-rice-containers-as-2019-seizures-alleges-masters-energy

wwwihy:
They are Anti-Democrats

I guess you mean the man

Who congratulate with "The blood of dog and baboons"

netpro:
President Buhari won the election fare and square. PDP server argument was baseless and ignorant.

PDP congratulating President Buhari tomorrow after ridiculing the Court today, seems an afterthought and a poor sense of reasoning.

You must have come from an Affidavit School

netpro:
If there is an atom of dignity and decency in them, the sore losers ought to tender an unreserved congratulations to the Winner.

There seems to be nothing Democratic left in the PDP.

I will take you serious if you can show to the forum one congratulatory message from Buhari and his Parties from 1999

Breaking News!

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has scheduled to hear the Appeal of the PDP and Atiku/Obi, arising from the judgment of the Appeal Court, on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.

Stay tune for more updates

All this pass back self.

But this people tall

When match just dey start

netpro:
PDP have nothing to campaign with in both States. All they do is name-calling, emotions and cheap blackmail.

With PDP all we hear is: Are the people happy? Bayelsa is pdp. It is Buhari party.

When APC come out victorious, they will start circulating their fake server results online and wail for another 4 years.

I challenge you to name just 3 achievements of

1. Smart Adeyemi in his senatorial zone

2. Yahaya Bello achievement in Kogi.

Just 2

senatordave1:
Many nigerians mostly pdp apologists are still confused about the pept judgment or ruling.some are saying that only an affidavit is needed to show that one is qualified and that one can just swear affidavit and lay claim to any qualification.they even went further to allege that the judges said that no qualification or certificate is needed to even contest for an elective post or to apply for a job.
This goes to show that most nigerians maybe superficially educated but do not know much about our electoral laws,laws in general or even political events.they believe in perception rather than fact.the perception is that buhari doesn't have waec and is therefors not qualified.this is an erroneous belief.they also believe that the judges were induced not minding the quality of the judgment.


To set the record straight,the tribunal simply followed constitutional provisions in arriving at their ruling.the constitution gave three qualifications one can have which are education up to ssce level or its equivalent and it went ahead to give us a clue about what the equivalent are.the judges rightfully said that being educated in any military school is an equivalent of scce and buhari is qualified.it also said primary school certificate in combination with being literate or serving in any public capacity for up to 5 years or overseas training or seminars.on this ground,buhari is qualified.it also said any other qualification accrptable to inec.inec and the judges said buhari being a retired general,a former head of state and even attending staff college jaji form part of this.


Looking at the case of the affidavit,the judges said that atiku didnt prove that buhari lied.moreover the affidavit was sworn in 2014 and the timeline has elapsed plus the army were never called to testify in court and they never said that buhari never submitted his documents to them.

Some people even said that the judges took side with apc and spoke like buhari lawyers and even went to look for evudences for buhari.this shows that nigerians do not follow election tribunals nor read past judgments.legal procedures demands that once a judge or judges take a position,they must adduce enough reasons and quote several authorities and precedents to justify it.in many cases when the supreme court gave their rulings,they usually fix another date to provide their reasons since giving reasons is not a tea party.

Personally,the ruling is 95% correct and will easily be upheld.the only issues i have with it are minor and are not fatal.i feel that the judges shouldn't say that aged oeople cannot lie,this is erroneous and false.i also feel that the judges could have cancelled a few units which had fictitious ruling instead of saying that the electoral act prohibits them from doing that afterall a high court judge in 2014 struck out that particular subsection and it was never contested.but since the pept is a superior court,there in order here.kudos to the judiciary.

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So what should we do about this now.

Why not apply as one of Buhari counsel at supreme court.

You said Atiku should not go to supreme.

Then what is the essence of this rubbish now.


Keep confusing yourself and your fellows menors

FarahAideed:
Me Facebook? God Forbid ..I have never been on Facebook and never will ..The only social media accounts I run are Twitter Instagram and it's strictly for Business

Please leave them alone.

When someone is a fraud his thinking is that all others must be fraudsers as well.

Remember BMC slogans is that if you are doing well then you must be a fraudster.

Such deluded human beings

senatordave1:
Is that not what you should advised atiku to do ?

And you did see the result been tendered at the tribunal

senatordave1:
Is that not what you should advised atiku to do ?

It was tendered at the court.

senatordave1:
Fortunately,the law supports akpabio cade

how.

his main point of argument was that The state rec odered the vote to be cancelled because the results sheet could not be reconciled.

the returning officer in his word.

“I was told that my result was the one they were waiting before going to Abuja, I entered and saw Mike Igini on the High Table, announced my result and left. He never spoke or gave me instruction.” Under examination, the Returning Officer maintained that elections in Essien Udim were marred by over-voting, absence of units’ results, thuggery and electoral violence

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/igini-didnt-ask-me-to-cancel-election-results-in-eudim-returning-officer/


Akpabio was asked by the court to produce the Polling units reults from His agents, till today no single polling unit results are available or to the court.

then where did he get the result he is taking round

senatordave1:
Essien udim in 2015 gave gej 67000 and akpabio 70 000.mind you,it has over 80,000 voters.as far as those votes were manually accredited,then it stands.akpabio won at polling units but was robbed at collation points which is illegal,against the electoral act.the judges erred.

As much as i like to refrain myself from this Akpabio case.

Akpabio can claim to have 65,000 votes. fine.

howver when ward collation are irreconcilable, the state Rec simply ask the Local Ward collation officer to produce the Pooling units results.

Let me ask, what is the primary source of result for ward collation, obviously Polling units, which the ward collation officer failed o produce, in that case, such result stand invalid.

there were complains of inflations of votes, and to investigate that, produce the polling unit results. VERY SIMPLE isnt that

2nd respondents cannot question 2 petitioner non qualifications in defence

They can only do that by filling a cross-appeal

All judges agreed that 1st

Respondents motion 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 is hereby dismissed

The court however cannot rule in individual made against person or deslt with without goving them fair hearing.

Therefore the said paragraph is stroke out

senatordave1:
Atiku doing well so far

Whichever it swing.

Issue must be deslt with accordingly.