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garfield1:
Has atiku presented any proof that he's a nigerian by birth

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has rebuked the All Progressives Congress, APC, describing the allegation that he is a Cameroonian as puerile, face saving, vexatious, absolutely and completely unfounded.

Atiku, in his response to preliminary objection the APC filed to challenge his petition against the declaration of President President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the February 23 presidential election, maintained that he is a full blooded Nigerian.

He urged the Presidential election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja to ignore what he termed as “extraneous facts, contradictory, diversionary, evasive, speculative and vague assertions”, by both the APC and President Buhari.

Atiku told the tribunal that contrary to APC’s allegation that he is an alien, he said he is a Nigerian by birth and a Fulani by tribe.

He told the tribunal that he has been a Nigerian politician for about 30 years, adding that in 1992, he contested in the Presidential Primaries under the platform of then Social Democratic Party (SDP) alongside the late Chief M.K.O Abiola and Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe.


He said: ” Contrary to the allegations contained in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the 3rd Respondent’s Reply, the Petitioners state that the ” ” ” 1st Petitioner is a citizen of Nigeria by Birth and thus qualified to vote and be voted for and returned in the election to the office of the President of the Federal Republic of

“[b]In further response to paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of the 3rd Respondent’s Reply, Atiku and his party state as follows:

.”The 1st Petitioner was born on 25th November, 1946 in Jada, Adamawa State by Nigerian Parents and he is therefore a citizen of Nigeria by Birth.

“The 1st Petitioner’s father, Garba Atiku Abdulkadir was a Nigerian by Birth who hailed from Wumo in present day Sokoto State while the mother, Aisha Kande was also a Nigerian who hailed from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.

“The parents of the 1st Petitioner are both Fulani, a community/tribe indigenous to Nigeria.

“The birth of the 1st Petitioner in Jada, in present day Adamawa State of Nigeria was occasioned by the movement of his paternal grandfather called Atiku who was an itinerant trader, from Wu.mo in present day Sokoto State to Jada in the company of his friend, Ardo Usman.

“That in Jada, Atiku, the grandfather of the 1st Petitioner gave birth to Garba who in turn gave birth to the 1st Petitioner and named him after his own father Atiku.

“The 1st Petitioner’s mother, Aisha Kande was the grand-daughter of Inuwa Dutse who came to Jada as an itinerant trader too from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.[/b]

“That all averments concerning Germany, British Cameroons, League of Nations and Plebiscite are false and misleading in relation to the 1st Petitioner and therefore completely irrelevant more so that the 1st Petitioner is a Nigerian by birth within the contemplation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic ofNigeria, 1999 (as amended).

“The averments in the aforesaid paragraphs are indeed fabricated, contrived, made in bad faith and designed to embarrass the 1st Petitioner.

“In response to paragraph 7 of the 3rd Respondent’s Reply, the Petitioners aver that the votes of the 1st Petitioner in the Election of 23rd February, 2019

to the office of the President are not wasted votes, and the 1st Petitioner being a qualified candidate in the said Election indeed secured majority of lawful votes over and above the votes of the 2nd Respondent.

“In further reaction to Paragraph 7 of the 3rd Respondent Reply, the Petitioners hereby plead and contend that at all times material the he Atiku has been a Nigerian by birth and has participated in the following career and political activities and has also received the following awards and honours:

“That he was a civil servant in the Nigerian Customs Service for over 20 years and retired as a Deputy Director.

“That he has been a Nigerian politician for about 30 years and in 1992 he contested in the Presidential Primaries under the platform of then Social Democratic Party (SDP) alongside the late Chief M.K.O Abiola and Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe.

” That he contested for and won the 1999 Gubernatorial election in Adamawa State under the platform of the 2nd Petitioner.

” That Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and himself contested for and won the 1999 and 2003 Presidential Elections, respectively as President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the 2nd Petitioner.

” The 1st Petitioner is the recipient of the National Honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON).

“The 1st Petitioner was the traditional title holder of Turakin Adamawa from 1982 to 2017 when he was elevated to Wazirin Adamawa amongs other avarment to support his claims.

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/04/22/i-am-a-nigerian-atiku-replies-apc/amp/

garfield1:
Buhari is qualified to contest elections

Atiku never alleged forgery and bihari has successfully proved that he's educated up to school cert level

The results were correctly computed and collated.

Atiku clearly failed to prove that hes a nigerian citizen by birth

He failed to reply to apc application that his case will be struck out

He will lose without even the judges hearing the main case.up buhari,down Atiku

Argue with this

ejimatic:
. The PDP prayed that Atiku be declared winner or a rerun on 10 states. No election tribunal can declare or winner .deduct votes .It can only order a rerun. The writer of the above thread gave examples of states elections where results were cancelled before the use of revised electoral laws. Is there any precedent in presidential election?Obasanjo vrs Buhari Awolowo vrs Shagari Fakae vrs Obj Buhari vrs Jonathan all went in favour of respondents.This is not a surprise because non compliance must be proved beyond any reasonable doubt.In the case of Atiku there were contradictions in the testimony of all the witnesses.Even the inec server was not logically proved. All was doctored testimony.The tribunal must accept all evidences but it does not mean they are tenable. In my opinion all of them hold no water.By implication of supreme court judgement on Tuesday if there is no inec server what else again? INEC is not mandated by law to present witnesses .it is an umpire. No witness for INEC in Osun tribunal. This was emphasised and accepted at the appeal court later. A good part 1 law student should know that Atiku case has evidential and technical failures.It is the simplest case so far to be determined in the history of presidential election in Nigeria. It will forever be a mirage for the opposition to win at the presidential election tribunal in Nigeria.

Is lying under an oath an offence

Can you present 3 certificates for the same exam with different names and result computation.

agabusta:
Wole Olanipekun and Fagbemi have a misguided view of how substantial non-compliance is proven??

Continue fooling yourself.

Go back to sleep.

Seem sleep still dey worry you

garfield1:
This is balderdash,rubbish,hogwash.these were not from the form ec8a but from the electronic copy of atiku's server result.none of these copies or samples were shown to the court or demonstrated before the court during the witness testimonies,they were simply dumped on the court.no judge will go through all these hogwash.moreover,atiku and his witnesses have contradicted themselves in several fronts.

Wake up to reality stop fooling about.

Seems you're following the proceeding from your illusioned BMCO mud m-house.

Wake up morning don break

Cc: tuniski, ChristianNorth, deji68, fergie, johnnyessencex BERNIMOORE, Ratello

For now

1. Buhari did ot qualify on false declaration of result under oath.

2. Buhari not having the required certificate

3. Non compliance on the part of inec to EA

4. Wrong computation of Manual form EC8 from Polling unit to national collation

5.....loading

APC/INEC/BUHARI were expecting PDP to come with only the e-collated results from the servers which existence INEC then decided to deny completely by claiming not to even have a server at all.

But PDP came and proved that with their own manual collation, wrong addition gives Atiku victory.


In addition of course PDP brought the server results also

From the foregoing, it is ebident therefore that the failure of INEC to defend the figures they announced from those states by calling their officers who conducted the election, and what PDP has presented, Atiku is having a strong case

All that Atiku was able to proved in those states was that 1,740,850 to be removed from Atiku’s votes in those states, 5,686,781 to be removed from Buhari’s votes.

Then to Zamfara where INEC didn’t release all copies of the results and PDP had to rely on pink copies from its own agents in the field.

After these deduction, PDP leads.

On wrong collation of results

The INEC EC8 forms are the official forms for collation of results at various levels of an election.

In essence the following we're used:

Form EC8A - for Polling Unit
Form EC8B - for ward collation
Form EC8C - for LGA
Form EC8D - for State and
Form EC8E for National collation.


What Atiku/PDP allege and prove is that during the manual collation, figures were added to Buhari/APC votes in those states mentioned, and subtracted from Atiku’s votes.

And these are easily seen with mere observation of the forms from various levels of collation.


That is to say in adding together the votes from the form EC8A for the several PUs in a Ward, INEC officers wrongly and illegally inflated Buhari votes and subtracted Atiku’s own, these were shown for some EC8As, EC8Bs and EC8Cs of 10 states (excluding Zamfara).

For some of those forms, they were not stamped or signed by the Presiding Officer (as required by law), some were obviously manipulated.

So, Atiku is asking for cancellation and deduction of those votes: both for PDP and APC, based on non-compliance.

The maths was presented:

On the burden of proof claimed by Buhari/APC/INEC lawyers,

However Atiku/PDP as the petitioners are to prove their case but established precedence in these cases is that the burden of proof shifts from side to side until one outweighs the other.

In other words: if I alleged that some Nairaland Mod are partial and partisans, I have to prove it.

Even if my proof is shabby documents and shaky testimonies from witnesses but then then the Alleged Mod fails to call his own witnesses to counter mine or present any counter-evidence, my margin of victory is very high.

In this instance: INEC did not call a single witness to debunk any assertion made by PDP/Atiku - even if the documents presented were weak, even if the oral testimonies were shabby, INEC/Buhari/APC did not present solid counters.

And there’s again strong precedence on this as seen from the final address of Atiku.

one of the cases cited is Buhari’s case against Obasanjo’s election in 2003 which was decided on in 2005.

This is another failure from Inec

What Buhari/APC/INEC were expecting was that Atiku would attempt to prove substantial non-compliance across Nigeria, this was their point of arguement from their final addresses confirm this.

What PDP did was to challenge results from where Buhari won massively and then INEC made a mistake.

INEC failed to defend the results it declared from those places, they only tried to probe weaknesses in testimony from PDP witnesses but called not even one person to affirm their own result.

In the final address, Atiku’s legal team calls up a strong authority to affirm this.


The smart legal option in cases where election petitions failed is that the person being challenged usually counter-challenges results from the challenger’s strongholds also or at least defends its own strongholds vigorously.

Neither INEC nor APC did this in this case.

AJASIN Vs Omoboriowo 1983

Substantial non-compliance was proven from Omoboriowo’s Ekiti strongholds, which FEDECO then failed to defend,

Ajasin’s stronghold were left intact which NPN failed to challenge; and Ajasin was declared the winner after the subtractions were made.

OBASANJO VS BUHARI

Buhari’s first contest against Obasanjo irregularities were proven in Ogun, which was then cancelled but not established in other states so Ogun was cancelled but OBJ still won on the balance.

MIMIKO Vs AGAGU.

Funny enough Olanipekun Was Mimiko Lead Counsel

10 LGAs (mainly the Ilaje areas) where Agagu had won were cancelled for irregularities (substantial non-compliance), 7 where Mimiko won were left intact and one other.

FAYEMI VS SEGUN ONI

In declaring Fayemi as Ekiti Governor over Segun Oni who has been declared by INEC, the courts again did not go for substantial non-compliance on the entire Ekiti, Ido-Osi and Efon Alaaye - where PDP had won massively were deducted, Fayemi declared winner after the deductions.

OSUNBO VS OSHIOMOLE

In upturning Osunbor’s election in Edo, Oshiomhole only had to prove substantial non-compliance in PDP strongholds that had returned huge votes for Osunbor - 10 out of 18, votes were deducted and Oshiomhole declared winner on the basis of results that complied with the EA.

OYINLOLA VS AREGBESOLA

In upturning the election of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the courts cancelled 10 LGAs which were PDP strongholds (Osogbo and Ife areas) and declared Aregbesola winner based on the 20 remaining LGAs where his party had won massively.

Substantial non-compliance wasn’t proven across Osun.

APC failes to take note of even their own various court cases at the various levels.


Here are some few of those states

Atiku’s legal team also played on them calling up and submitting electoral documents from every PU before the election, making the other side believe this was to compare the manually collated results with the electronically collated ones; but then shifting to just 12 states.

So basically, the results challenged at the PEPT by the Atiku team are from states where Buhari was allocated massive votes:

Bauchi
Borno
Gombe
Jigawa
Kaduna
Kano
Katsina
Kebbi
Nasarawa
Niger
Yobe and
Zamfara.

What they failed to realized is that Atiku’s legal team led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu had ambushed them with the agreement to conduct the proceedings within a certain time - 10 days for PDP/Atiku, 5 each for each of Buhari, APC and INEC - they expected the time was short for Atiku.

The ambush snuck in from the PDP angle was that they agreed that nobody would object to evidence being tendered from the bar - rather than through witnesses.

In almost every election petition that succeeded in Nigeria - all the petitioner has done was to prove substantial non-compliance in the places where the other side won the elections massively; Buhari/APC/INEC were badly misguided in expecting PDP to prove it everywhere.

Buhari/APC lawyers assumed that to prove substantial non-compliance in the petition challenging the flawed and fraudulent February 23 Presidential election, Atiku had to prove non-compliance in every single Polling Unit across the country to make it substantial.

From the final address of Buhari/APC/INEC, it’s clear that they have a shockingly misguided view of how substantial non-compliance is proven, very shocky

In their position, they went on and on about how large the entire Nigeria is.

Yesterday all the Parties to the Tribunal adopt their written final addresses.

The Panel Judge thereafter adjourned for later date to deliver judgement.

What we'll consider here is a dissect on Atiku ground of appeal at the Tribunal.

Join us as we move on

tuniski:
Hehehehe. Comrade fire on. Leave them to their technical judgement for itt is obvious to even them that justice was denied.

They seem to be deluded that section 131 and section 318 of Nigeria constitution as amended, give rise to section 138 of electoral act 2015 as amended.

They failed to read the detail interpretation of the constitution and their lawyer failed to do that.

Na me go come help them.

Even their lawyer was even pleading not to see buhari as a Certificate less presido, .

Chaiiii.

Buhari got more than he can bargain for.

He had been threatening people with 50 SAN before.

Olanipekun was seriously helpless that he had to sheepishly said, the media is portraying Buhari as not having certificate,

Abeg how best can one show you have certificate

TooMuchStuff:
Festus Keyamo deserves a full minister of Justice or Police affairs. This embarrassing position is not cool for a very loquacious irritant of his calibre.

Why did Buhari picked 2 Muslims from kaduna, 1 Muslim each from Kogi, nasarawa, adamawa and Taraba where Christians are the majority population of those states??
How would Kano double ministers all be full ministers while most southern states got mere "minister of state"?

This religious imbalance is injustice and provocative.
Imagine FCT with less than 30% Muslims is having 2 Muslims ministers? Same for Agric?

Haba mullah buhari!!

Mumuyamo was placed on silent mode

Afamed:
I have told you , I don't argue / answer rubbish severally. Talk your paper to tribunal

Then take your question to your certificate forger.

And ask him such question

garfield1:
Guy,rest na.isn't it time you left nairaland? You lost in osun,doesn't that tell you that you are empty?

E ee ti i poto e lo po si wa.

Afamed:
Now that you have presented all your facts and figures. Including server witneses from abroad, fake certificate from Cambridge , wrong tarbulation witnesses from Inec and 24,000 witnesses.

Will you be bold enough to accept the court verdict when ever it's being made?

Will the democracy not be on threat when the court pronouncement is and it does not favour paymaster?

Yes or No?

You have to answer my question 1st.

Why did buhari have to lied.

Why did buhari refuse to order army boatd for his certifiate with them he is the C-in-C for Pete sake.