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Poll: Presidential tribunal resumes hearing of Atiku, PDP’s petition Monday
Published



The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will on Monday resume sitting on the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday.

Meanwhile, there were indications on Friday that the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, had appointed another judge appointed as her replacement on the five-man panel to hear the case.


Justice Bulkachuwa withdrew as a member and head of the five-man panel on May 22, following the allegation of the likelihood of bias levelled against her by the PDP and Atiku.

The tribunal was said to have issued and served the notice for the Monday’s hearing on all parties to the petition on Friday.

The leader of the legal team of the PDP and Atiku, Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), confirmed the development to Saturday PUNCH on Friday.

“We were served the notice today that the court will resume hearing on Monday,” he said.

Asked if he was sure that Justice Bulkachuwa’s replacement on the panel had been named, Uzoukwu said, “It is the presumption that we arrived at when we received the hearing notice on Friday. But we do not have any information about it.”

The development came barely a week after Atiku and his party wrote to Bulkachuwa, reminding her of her promise to appoint her replacement on the panel to enable the hearing of their petition to resume.

They said in their letter sent to Bulkachuwa on May 31 that they were already running against time due to the “strict requirement of keeping to the constitutional calendar for a petition”.

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The petitioner’s letter signed on behalf of Uzoukwu by a lawyer in their legal team, Silas Onu, stated that as of May 31 when the letter was delivered at Bulkachuwa’s chambers, it was nine days since she recused herself from the tribunal yet nothing had been heard about her replacement.

The letter read in part, “Considering the strict requirement of keeping to the constitutional calendar for a petition and the obvious fact that time is also running fast against the petitioners, we pray my Lord to act by appointing a replacement so that we will get a hearing notice and continue with the petition in the interest of justice.”

The petitioners are, by their joint petition filed on March 18, 2019, challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 poll.

READ ALSO: I admit that we failed to give Nigerians refinery –Kachikwu

The petitioners had alleged in their earlier application filed on May 16 that with the judge remaining as a member and head of the five-man tribunal, their petition would not be handled impartially by the tribunal.

The application was based on the fact that Bulkachuwa’s husband, Adamu Bulkachuwa, is a senator-elect on the platform of the APC, the party whose victory at the February 23 presidential election they are challenging at the tribunal. They added that her son, Aliyu Abubakar, was a governorship aspirant on the platform of the same party in Gombe State.

They also quoted a statement made by Justice Bulkachuwa at the inaugural sitting of the tribunal on May 8 as pre-judging their petition.

On May 22, the tribunal, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the application.

Despite that, Justice Bulkachuwa said, “I am recusing myself from the panel for personal reasons”.

She said a new presiding Justice would be appointed for the panel.

PDP threatens to petition NJC over Bulkachuwa’s replacement

Meanwhile, the PDP has threatened to petition the National Judicial Council over the delay in replacing Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa who last month stepped down as head and member of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

Although the five-man panel of the tribunal in a unanimous ruling dismissed the application, Bulkachuwa said she decided to stand down from the tribunal for “personal reasons”.

The PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Diran Odeyemi, in an interview with our correspondent on Friday said Bulkachuwa’s replacement could have been announced within 24 hours after she recused herself from the tribunal.

He alleged that there was a plot to frustrate the PDP from pursuing its goal to stop Buhari at the tribunal.

Odeyemi said, “It is very unfortunate that Buhari is trying to stop the tribunal from performing its duties. By not replacing Bulkachuwa, and with the time frame for the tribunal to work, definitely they are working towards an answer to ensure that all the ills performed during the election will not be open to the public, because they do not have the answers to all the allegations of rigging they did during the election, that is why they are not allowing the tribunal or not allowing the PDP to make their case before the tribunal.

“What is wrong with replacing Bulkachuwa within 24 hours if actually, they believe in the tribunal set up for this exercise.

“It is unfortunate. We are still watching and the PDP will not fold its arms and allow the cheating or the rigging to go like that.

“We could petition the NJC and we call on the international community to be observant and to come to our aid. We call on civil society and everybody to come to our rescue, because we can see that they are working towards an answer.

“We will petition the NJC. As far as we are concerned, if no name has been made, we believe that nothing has been done.”

Atiku’s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, in an interview with our correspondent said the former Vice-President was committed to exploring all judicial options to ensure victory at the tribunal.

He, however, said a replacement for Bulkachuwa had been made but refused to mention their name.

He said, “Your question has been overtaken by development. A replacement for Bulkachuwa has been announced but it has not been made. There is no name mentioned yet but there will be a hearing on Monday.

“However, on your question, Atiku is committed to exploring all judicial options for him and the party to pursue the matter until justice is done.”


https://punchng.com/poll-presidential-tribunal-resumes-hearing-of-atiku-pdps-petition-monday/

BREAKING: AIT back on air — 24 hours after NBC sanction

African Independent Television (AIT) is back on air 24 hours after the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) suspended its licence over alleged violation of the regulatory body’s rule.

The development comes after a federal high court in Abuja nullified the suspension of the licence of DAAR Communications, owners of AIT and Raypowerf FM.

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-ait-back-on-air-24-hours-after-nbc-sanction/amp

sarrki:
It’s fake news

No be only fake news,

Na fake Sarrki join.

Koju siwaju ogbeni

This was an update to yesterday issue about this case.

And here we are today real


https://www.nairaland.com/5230433/exclusive-senate-presidency-how-president

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Presidency: How President Buhari Plans To Drop EFCC Case Against Danjuma Goje
-Attorney-general’s office on standby to hatch plots

The battle for the soul of the Nigerian Senate has taken another twist and turn as President Muhammadu Buhari is concluding plans to drop charges preferred against Senator Danjuma Goje by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), SaharaReporters can confirm.

Goje who had indicated interest to run for the senate presidency in the 9th Assembly on Thursday abruptly stepped down for Senator Ahmed Lawan, President Buhari's anointed candidate for the seat.

The move came days after the president vowed not to interfere with the leadership selection of the 9th Assembly.

The Plan

In the frenzy of last-minute efforts for the president and his allies to have their way and say in what happens in the senate, Presidency sources who spoke to SaharaReporters revealed that the major bargaining chip for Goje was to get the president who is championing a so-called anti-corruption fight to exonerate him from financial impropriety in a two-fold manner which is to quash the case outright for lack of merit or to reassign the case to a new trial judge in other to prolong and weaken the case.

The Federal High Court which will sit in Jos on Friday will be presided over by Justice Babatunde Quadri.

A source within the EFCC confirmed to SaharaReporters that the lawyers for the EFCC in the matter are currently in Jos and have been put on standby for a directive from the presidency on Friday morning.

The office of the attorney-general had also been notified by Buhari to await a directive on whether to withdraw (nolle prosequi) or completely reassign the case.

Last April, the EFCC had filed a cross-appeal at the court of appeal sitting in Jos, against the judgment of a federal high court in Gombe State that partially upheld a no-case submission by the former governor-turned senator.

The anti-corruption agency is trying Goje and two others — Alhaji Aliyu El-Nafaty and Dokoro Gombe (alias S.M Dokoro) — on an amended N5 billion fraud charge.

The EFCC believed Goje, between September and November 2010, forged a document titled, 'Resolution authorizing His Excellency the Executive Governor of Gombe State to acquire a loan of N5,000,000,000.00 only', with Ref. No: GM/HA/RES/VOL. 1/17.

That resolution was alleged to have been signed by Shehu Atiku, Clerk of the Gombe State House of Assembly, with the intent that it be acted on as a genuine document by Access Bank Plc leading to a N5 billion-facility being obtained from the bank by the Goje administration “for infrastructural projects”.

EFCC said its investigations on the loan revealed that the purported resolution authorizing the loan was forged, pointing out that the approval did not pass through the right processes.


http://saharareporters.com/2019/06/06/exclusive-senate-presidency-how-president-buhari-plans-drop-efcc-case-against-danjuma

Cc.
Lalsticlala


Tuniski
ChristianNorth

Alleged N25bn fraud: EFCC withdraws from Goje’s case
Published

…Hands over to Attorney General

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation on Friday took over the case of alleged N25 billion fraud filed against Former Gombe State Governor, Senator Danjuma Goje from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports in Jos that for almost eight years, the EFCC had been prosecuting the former governor until Friday.

The case, which is before Justice Babatunde Quadiri of Jos Federal High Court II, has even gone to the Jos Court of Appeal over the remaining two counts out of the 21 charges filed against him by EFCC.


READ ALSO: Goje withdraws, endorses Lawan as next Senate President

The Appellate Court is yet to fix a date for the hearing of the appeal.

When the case came up for an emergency hearing before Justice Quadiri, the EFCC Counsel, Mr. Wahab Shittu, told Court that the agency was withdrawing from the case and handing it over the office of the Attorney-General for continuation.

“My Lord, this case was earlier adjourned for June 20 for the continuation of hearing, but then we are here today on the latest development on the matter.

“We as EFCC counsels are withdrawing from the matter and handing it over to the office of the Attorney-General for continuation with the prosecution.

“As you can see in court today is a State Counsel from the AGF’s office to formally take over this case from us,” Shittu declared.

Responding, Mr Paul Erokoro (SAN), did not object to the EFCC withdrawal and handing over of the case to the Attorney-General.

“My Lord, we do not object to the anti-graft agency’s withdrawal and handing over the prosecution to the AG’s office,” Erokoro said.

Mr Pius Asika, Counsel from the office of the Attorney General announced his appearance for the case.

Asika then applied for an adjournment to enable him to prepare for the case proper “having come into the matter today (Friday)”.

Justice Quadiri then adjourned to the case to June 21, 2019 for continuation of hearing.

https://www.punchng.com/alleged-n25bn-fraud-efcc-withdraws-from-gojes-case/amp/

Myd44

Do you read the two thread at all

Here I opened this yesterday, you kept quiet

https://www.nairaland.com/5230433/exclusive-senate-presidency-how-president


Opened an update to the the thread today here tou are closing it.

https://www.nairaland.com/5231779/alleged-n25bn-fraud-efcc-withdraws


So closing yesterday issue with today's update.


Cc.
Lalsticlala


Tuniski
ChristianNorth

Hahahahahahhahaha



EFCC handing over to AGF lawyers.


Fighting kuoroption


Tuniski
Johnnyessense
ChristianNorth

See me see something

Alleged N25bn fraud: EFCC withdraws from Goje’s case
Published

…Hands over to Attorney General

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation on Friday took over the case of alleged N25 billion fraud filed against Former Gombe State Governor, Senator Danjuma Goje from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports in Jos that for almost eight years, the EFCC had been prosecuting the former governor until Friday.

The case, which is before Justice Babatunde Quadiri of Jos Federal High Court II, has even gone to the Jos Court of Appeal over the remaining two counts out of the 21 charges filed against him by EFCC.


READ ALSO: Goje withdraws, endorses Lawan as next Senate President

The Appellate Court is yet to fix a date for the hearing of the appeal.

When the case came up for an emergency hearing before Justice Quadiri, the EFCC Counsel, Mr. Wahab Shittu, told Court that the agency was withdrawing from the case and handing it over the office of the Attorney-General for continuation.

“My Lord, this case was earlier adjourned for June 20 for the continuation of hearing, but then we are here today on the latest development on the matter.

“We as EFCC counsels are withdrawing from the matter and handing it over to the office of the Attorney-General for continuation with the prosecution.

“As you can see in court today is a State Counsel from the AGF’s office to formally take over this case from us,” Shittu declared.

Responding, Mr Paul Erokoro (SAN), did not object to the EFCC withdrawal and handing over of the case to the Attorney-General.

“My Lord, we do not object to the anti-graft agency’s withdrawal and handing over the prosecution to the AG’s office,” Erokoro said.

Mr Pius Asika, Counsel from the office of the Attorney General announced his appearance for the case.

Asika then applied for an adjournment to enable him to prepare for the case proper “having come into the matter today (Friday)”.

Justice Quadiri then adjourned to the case to June 21, 2019 for continuation of hearing.

https://www.punchng.com/alleged-n25bn-fraud-efcc-withdraws-from-gojes-case/amp/

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Presidency: How President Buhari Plans To Drop EFCC Case Against Danjuma Goje
-Attorney-general’s office on standby to hatch plots

The battle for the soul of the Nigerian Senate has taken another twist and turn as President Muhammadu Buhari is concluding plans to drop charges preferred against Senator Danjuma Goje by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), SaharaReporters can confirm.

Goje who had indicated interest to run for the senate presidency in the 9th Assembly on Thursday abruptly stepped down for Senator Ahmed Lawan, President Buhari's anointed candidate for the seat.

The move came days after the president vowed not to interfere with the leadership selection of the 9th Assembly.

The Plan

In the frenzy of last-minute efforts for the president and his allies to have their way and say in what happens in the senate, Presidency sources who spoke to SaharaReporters revealed that the major bargaining chip for Goje was to get the president who is championing a so-called anti-corruption fight to exonerate him from financial impropriety in a two-fold manner which is to quash the case outright for lack of merit or to reassign the case to a new trial judge in other to prolong and weaken the case.

The Federal High Court which will sit in Jos on Friday will be presided over by Justice Babatunde Quadri.

A source within the EFCC confirmed to SaharaReporters that the lawyers for the EFCC in the matter are currently in Jos and have been put on standby for a directive from the presidency on Friday morning.

The office of the attorney-general had also been notified by Buhari to await a directive on whether to withdraw (nolle prosequi) or completely reassign the case.

Last April, the EFCC had filed a cross-appeal at the court of appeal sitting in Jos, against the judgment of a federal high court in Gombe State that partially upheld a no-case submission by the former governor-turned senator.

The anti-corruption agency is trying Goje and two others — Alhaji Aliyu El-Nafaty and Dokoro Gombe (alias S.M Dokoro) — on an amended N5 billion fraud charge.

The EFCC believed Goje, between September and November 2010, forged a document titled, 'Resolution authorizing His Excellency the Executive Governor of Gombe State to acquire a loan of N5,000,000,000.00 only', with Ref. No: GM/HA/RES/VOL. 1/17.

That resolution was alleged to have been signed by Shehu Atiku, Clerk of the Gombe State House of Assembly, with the intent that it be acted on as a genuine document by Access Bank Plc leading to a N5 billion-facility being obtained from the bank by the Goje administration “for infrastructural projects”.

EFCC said its investigations on the loan revealed that the purported resolution authorizing the loan was forged, pointing out that the approval did not pass through the right processes.


http://saharareporters.com/2019/06/06/exclusive-senate-presidency-how-president-buhari-plans-drop-efcc-case-against-danjuma

Danwakae:
Lawan and Gbaja are most experience and better choice but some cabals in the APC see them as Baba Tinubu's choice and it's really counting against them, that's the main problem because the APC has the
Numbers to floor the election but presently their house is divided against itself more than in 2015, the only person that can make Lawan Gbaja come to reality is Baba PMB, but has not really throw his weight behind them and that's where Gbaja and Lawan fears lies...there are underground plot by some big cabals within the APC against Lawan nd Gbaja choice in the name of 2023...it's only Baba Buhari that can stop them

Also almost all the lawymakerfs from the SOUTHEAST on the platform of the APC are not heartily with Lawan and Gbaja, because, Gbaja has already picked Wase from Northcentrer, while for Lawan a southsoutherner is favoured to deputise him, leaving the southeast APC memebers in the dark.
Some of the southeast APC lawymakers, argue that when the PDP was the ruling party that the south west was never a base for them even while having OBJ as president, but yet , SPEAKERSHIP was zone to the region without considering the contributions of the zone to the PDP then, but now the APC is playing otherwise on a selfish role, hold to the fact that the Southwest already has the Vice president and wants to collect the Speaker, and that's the reason y Senator Gaya from Kano northwest refuse to step down for the post of DSP...all these and some many anger within the APC can only be treated if Baba Buhari call a meeting to put an end to it , else it would be a shocker on that Dday as most APC members would vent their angers, as such, as it is now, the PDP would be the decider. And nobody knows the plan of the PDP even tho some of their memebers are seen campaigning for Gbaja and Lawan. And the the policking is more than just campaigning mostly as it may likely be a closed balloting...which will favours the opposition of Lawan and Gbaja....this NAS election is more tensed than 2015 in the APC because of the politics of 2023.

Allah ya ba mu rai mai tsawo...Amin

The fact remains that, 2015 will still repeat itself.

Just like you have posited.

South-west infighting will be Femi undoing.

The North as well are playing a dangerous card.

Media campaign is different The d-day is the koko.

Everybody knows how APC dss operates.

The best to do now is to be like gentle guys.

Atiku’s Petition: Buhari, APC’s response has no supporting documents – Investigation

.. IT’S A BIG ERROR, ACCORDING TO GUIDING RULES – LAWYERS



.. I’M NOW FORMER MINISTER, CAN’T COMMENT – LAI MOHAMMED



.. ATIKU’S CAMP UPBEAT





All respondents to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner, failed to file supporting documents in their defence, The Point’s investigations have revealed.

Sources close to the tribunal disclosed to our correspondent, at the weekend, that the respondents – the Independent National Electoral Commission, the All Progressives Congress and President Buhari – should have, at the point of submitting a response to the allegations, filed supporting documents, in accordance with the guiding rules of the tribunal.

“It will be interesting to see how they will defend the weighty allegations before them, when they’ve not provided documents. They may be playing into the hands of the opposition, unless they have other surprises wrapped up,” one of the sources, who asked not to be named, owing to the sensitivity of the issue, said.

The mood is currently upbeat in the camp of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the sitting of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

Both Atiku and President Buhari, the declared winner of the election and candidate of the APC, have already filed their petition and defence, respectively.

Lawyers have identified a big gap in the response of the ruling APC, following the discovery that Buhari’s APC, in filing its defence to the 139-page petition filed by Atiku and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi, did not include any supporting document.

This development was further confirmed to The Point at the weekend by a leading counsel in the PDP legal team that is set to defend Atiku and the party.

The lawyer, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who would want his identity kept under wraps, said, “Buhari and the APC merely filed their defence to our petition without supporting documents, which is contrary to the electoral law, because we already have heaps of documents, which they have no counter-documents to challenge.

“But it is still left for the tribunal to determine if it would admit their defence without supporting documents or get it thrown out. But above all, we envisage enjoyable sessions for us, but we leave the tribunal to decide, relying on relevant laws.”

Corroborating Atiku’s lawyer, however, another legal practitioner, Barrister Kehinde Olaitan, simply shook his head in pity of what he considered a great omission by the APC legal team.

Olaitan, a Lagos lawyer, said, “If you are filing anything, you have to bring every available document. That has for long been introduced into the electoral law and it is no longer peculiar to the regular courts.

“That is how to avoid any surprise package from the plaintiff, and I am eagerly awaiting how a defendant in an election petition tribunal is going to succeed in his defence without supporting documents.”


Lai Mohammed: Ex-Information minister
Olaitan, in referring to the electoral laws, may have in mind Section 145 of the Electoral Act 2010, which dwells on the rules of procedure in an election petition.

Under it, the law requires an election petition to be accompanied by: (a) A list of the witnesses that the petitioner intends to call in proof of the petition; (b) Written statements on oath of the witnesses; and (c) Copies or list of every document to be relied on at the hearing of the petition.



Under the rules, too, “a respondent’s reply or defence to a petition is to be accompanied by the documents listed above.”

But it notes, “Nonetheless, failure to file the petition with a list of witnesses would not be a ground for declaring the petition incompetent.”

The Assistant Secretary of the Epe, Lagos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dotun Hassan, told our correspondent that the action of Buhari and the APC, regarding the petition, might be deliberate and could be the joker the respondents might want to use to pull the rug off the feet of the petitioners before the tribunal.

Hassan said, “The liberty of the respondent is to leverage on the matter laid before the court or Tribunal. So, the respondents are expected to make their submission with supporting evidence that will help their cases. We, however, have to be aware of the current situation that guides the Presidential Elections Tribunal. Ab initio, documents that are meant to be abused are delayed.

“We should not prejudice or try to predict the outcome of the court. Whatever we are trying to say is to clarify that each party is at liberty to position their interest before the court and that is what is going on. As I said, I don’t want to specifically speak on the Atiku and the APC case before the Tribunal, to avoid being prejudicial. The matter is already in the purview of the court; we cannot pre- empt the outcome, neither can we prejudice the position of the court.

“But there is a timeframe for replying the application before the court or Tribunal. At times, it is within 7 days, 14 days or even 21 days. That is in line with legal procedures. If the documents that are being relied upon by the petitioner is also what the respondents are going to use in backing their case up, maybe it is premeditated for them to hold on to their own proof of evidence, because letting out the cat from the bag may be injurious to their case.”

The NBA assistant secretary further noted, “The court will rely on the balance of probability and if the respondents fail to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt on the balance of probability, they will lose the case. In most cases, the same documents that the petitioners are supposed to rely on are the same the respondents are relying on. It is just a matter of compare and contrast. Forensic experts may be called to investigate and that may lead to a trial within trial.”

Speaking in the same vein, a prominent Abuja-based lawyer, who pleaded anonymity, said, “They have filed their defence; it is within the purview of their lawyers to know why they did that. But for me and some right thinking members of the society, or even in the legal parlance, there are some critical positions, which the petitioners have filed, which require supporting evidence.

“If the petitioners now respond to the respondents’ failure to back their submission with supporting documents, it may lead to delay and the case has a time limit. The petition, if delayed than necessary, may be struck out for being out of time.”


INEC Chairman: Professor Mahmood Yakubu
Efforts by our correspondent to get the reaction of the ruling APC to the development proved abortive as calls put to the phones of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, did not go through. Also text messages sent to him were not replied.

Also, when contacted, the immediate past minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, declined to comment, maintaining that he was no longer competent to speak for the party and the government.

Mohammed added that the party and its lawyers were in a better position to comment on the matter.

“As you know that I am now a former minister; I don’t have the capacity to comment on this matter. I will implore you to direct it to the party and its lawyers. They are in a better position to give a comment that you need. Please, bear with me,” he said.

The PDP and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had on Monday, March 18, 2019, filed an election petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, praying it to declare Atiku as the winner of the February 23, 2019 presidential election.

The petitioners also prayed the tribunal to disqualify the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, the declared winner of the election, as unqualified.

Joined as respondents to the petition are the APC, President Muhammadu Buhari and INEC, listed as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents, respectively.

The petitioners have asked the Tribunal for two major reliefs. One, a declaration that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the PDP for the February 23, 2019 presidential election, was the winner of that poll. Second, and alternatively, a declaratory relief that the February 23, 2019 presidential election was marred by widespread irregularities and should, therefore, be cancelled.

The party also prayed the tribunal for a declaration that President Buhari, who INEC declared the winner of the said election, was not qualified.

The petitioners have assembled over 400 witnesses to testify in favour of their petition during the trial.

https://www.thepointng.com/atikus-petition-buhari-apcs-response-has-no-supporting-documents-investigation/

sarrki:
Pdp man

This is 2019 not 2015

You be beating at your game

Time will tell.

11 June is by the corner

simonlee:
Winter is coming!

Forgive am abeg

Next week is by the corner

Supreme Court declares Hamisu PDP candidate for Wase federal constituency

The Supreme Court has declared Hamisu Mohammed Anani as the authentic House of Representatives Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Wase Federal Constituency of Plateau state.

The court, in unanimous a judgement, held Hamisu’s name ought to have been sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the House of Representatives candidate of the PDP for the Wase Federal Constituency in Plateau State, having scored the highest votes cast in the party’s primary election held on 3rd October, last year.

Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, in the lead judgment, upheld the concurrent judgments of the Federal High Court, Jos and the Court of Appeal, Jos, in which Hamisu was declared the PDP candidate, having won the majority votes in the primary election.

The Federal High Court had, in its judgment, ordered the PDP to submit Anani’s name as its House of Representative Candidate for Wase Federal Constituency, to INEC.

Read also: Sagay seeks review of Supreme Court verdicts on Zamfara, Rivers
In his judgement, Justice Musa Kurya of the Federal High Court 2, Jos division, said the plaintiff (Hamisu) satisfied all conditions having scored the highest number of votes during the party’s primary election.

Justice Kurya held that the 1st defendant, Umar Suleiman Rabo’s nomination by the PDP as is candidate did not follow the statutory procedure as he (Rabo) did not score the highest vote cast at the primary election for Wase Federal Constituency.

“The party laws provide that a candidate with the highest votes cast at a primary election organised by NEC of a political party to the knowledge of INEC can approach the court for redress if he is excluded by the party.”

Justice Kurya said, from available records before him, the plaintiff (Hamisu) satisfied all conditions, having scored the highest votes and was issued with the requisite form CFOO1 and form EC4B, dated 17th October, 2018.

Justices Tani Y. Hassan, Habib Abiru and Muhammad Oniyangi of the Court of Appeal, Jos division, upheld Justice Kurya’s decision in their unanimous judgment given on March 28, 2019.


https://thenationonlineng.net/supreme-court-declares-hamisu-pdp-candidate-for-wase-federal-constituency/

ZombieTERROR:
The sermon was wrong
Kumuyi is not God... He's not above mistake
I can remember when this man was against TV.. That's the devil's box they said.. Today same TV is right inside his church..

Tell me how John the Baptist died again...

Abeg leave History for the Historians, (CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME A QUOTE FROM PST KUMUYI WHERE HE SAID DON'T BUY OR WATCH TV)

By the way let us not allow BMC/APC distractions divide us,


Please i'm on my knee don't allow APC/BMC distraction affect us,


I refused to be distracted.


Now Agabusta is watching

ZombieTERROR:
Maybe someone stole his handle

I suspect that guy

Haaaaaaahahahahahahahah That Rotten Meat Seller You mean.

That's one of Buhari Clueless

Let me tell you something.

The said Pastor Kumuyi Says don't attack Buhari was a coined narration by BMC and Aso Media, If you dont know, now you know, its just a distraction.

Why can't move away from this distractions.

Is Pastor Kumuyi just advising his church members to honour those in Authority, then why are BMC singling this one out where he did not even mention Buharis name.

Let us not fall for BMC/APC Prey, its a distraction..

Please let us move away from their distraction abeg.

Once again Pastor Kumuyi was not addressing protesters, politicians, But His church members.

ZombieTERROR:
You fall hand bro...
Its quite a pity

I'm repeating again,

Lift up your falling hand, we will not always be on the same page.

Doesn't stop the fact that Buhari is as clueless as His followers.

It also doesnt stop the fact that Buhari is seating on a stolen Mandate

My Point is Pastor W. F. Kumuyi is addressing his church members.

Pastor Kumuyi was not addressing Politicians or Political Gathering, HE WAS ADDRESSING HIS CHURCH MEMBERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, Not Nigeria Alone

SarkinYarki:
Wetin dey do you today bro? since when did you start playing for the evil axis ? what's going on ?

Comrade nothing do me abeg.

Calling Pst Kumyi: The Degeneration And Dementia Of Pastor William Kumuyi

that is very wrong.

What is was saying is, Pst Kumuyi was addressing His congregation on a live Streaming and Broadcast, His members spans from Nigeria, Africa, Europe, Asia, all over the World.

The singular Question I'm asking is who was Pastor Kumuyi Addressing. HE WAS ADDRESSING HIS CHURCH MEMBERS ALL OVER THE WORLD

ZombieTERROR:
I'm disappointed bro

You fall hand

All this kids ranting here.

The person preaching knows what he is saying.

Neither does he forced you not to attack Buhari.

Abigail does he come to political campaign to forced you not to attack Buhari in.



We're you there when he was describing the Goverment to remove every Goliath from executives attitudes

We're you there when he was attacked by bandits

He knows more than you so stop this.


Tell government what they're suppose to do that is what he is advising his member for

ZombieTERROR:
I'm disappointed bro

You fall hand

Thank You.


Can you now lift your hand up

Unless you can tell me that you listen to the said message.

I don't say what is not.

So get your facts right.

Once again you can now lift up your falling hand

tsinzu:
Stop ranting like a brainwashed fanatic and tell me if what I wrote is not the truth. Does Kumuyi experience what the common man in the street experience daily? Is kumuyi supposed to be a preacher of the gospel or a defender of buhari?Kumuyi is not God that he cant be criticised even when he is wrong. Did the prophets of old keep quiet when the leaders of the nation engaged in wickedness? Stop worshipping your fellow man and worship God in spirit and in TRUTH!!!

No it is you that is Experiencing Nigerian feelings.

Mr Experience

tsinzu:
Kumuyi is disconnected from reality. He doesn't feel what the average Nigerian feels under this lifeless administration so I will advice him to stick to preaching the gospel and stop being a defender of politicians

So you are the one that have the feeling of the Reality or connected to the reality.

What do you feel.

Abeg pack well.

Are You Deeper life Member.

What is your problem about that.

Is His church member carrying placcards to your office to write all this rubbish above,

Comrde3g:
"By his words and counsel Kumuyi has spat on the blood and pissed on the graves of every Christian martyr that ever sacrificed their lives for the faith by opposing tyranny, injustice and evil"- THE DEGENERATION AND DEMENTIA OF PASTOR KUMUYI by @realFFK

https:///69Xo5h7KkQ THE DEGENERATION AND DEMENTIA OF PASTOR WILLIAM KUMUYI

"History teaches us of the danger of being afraid to speak truth to power"- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, 2nd June 2019.

Pastor William Kumuyi, who says we should not attack President Muhammadu Buhari, has much to learn from these words. If the world had remained silent in the face of Hitler's Nazis we would not be here today.

If Moses had remained silent in the face of Pharaoh's tyranny the Jews would still be slaves in Egypt.

If Elijah and Jehu had remained silent in the face of Jezebel's tyranny Israel would never have been delivered. If Peter had remained silent in the face of Herod's tyranny he would never have left prison.

If Samuel had remained silent in the face of Agag and the Amalekites the Jews would have been decimated. If Esther had remained silent in the face of Haman the Jewish race would have been wiped out.

If Hezekiah had remained silent in the face of Sennacherub, Jerusalem would have fallen.

The Bible tells us that we must resist evil, oppose injustice, stand up for the oppressed, liberate the downtrodden, speak for the voiceless, defend the persecuted, inspire the faithful and set the captives free. Has Kumuyi forgotten all that?

Does he know the meaning and understand the concept of liberation theology?

Is he familiar with the great role that the Church played in liberating Southern American countries from military dictatorships in the 20th century, in fighting for the abolition of slavery in the 19th century and in destroying apartheid in South Africa in the 20th century?

Does he know that the primary purpose of any great man or leader is to liberate his people, oppose tyranny and fight injustice?

Does he know how many great men and women of faith died for these noble causes and stood against these great evils and so many others?

Has he heard of Gideon, Jeptha, David, Daniel, Jehu, Samson, Peter and Paul in the Bible. Did they not oppose evil, speak out against injustice and stand against tyrants in their day?

Every single one of the Lords disciples died for their faith by defying and opposing the tyranny of the rulers of the land. Some were beheaded, cut to pieces or fed to wild beasts whilst others were boiled to death or burnt alive.

In Nigeria today we are facing the greatest, most deadly, most relentlesss and most glaring Fulanisation and Islamisation agenda in the history of our country and it is unfolding before our very eyes.

Hundreds of people are being slaughtered every day and genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder is alive and well in our shores.

All this and someone is telling us not to attack the man that is responsible for it by his actions and inactions?

More Nigerians have been slaughtered by Islamist terrorists and ISIS-backed Fulani militias in the last four years in our country than at any other time in our history other than during the civil war. Yet this man says we must kepo quite and not speak out?

Are we to say that Rev. Martin Luther King jnr. was wrong for speaking out against racism in America and insisting on civil liberties and human rights for black Americans? Are we to say that Oliver Cromwell was wrong for opposing the concept and philosophy of the divine right of Kings and establishing Pariiamentry democracy in England?

Are we to say the French, the Americans, the Italians, the Ugandans, the Scottish, the Chinese, the Zimbabweans, the Turks, the Ethiopians and the Spanish were wrong when they resisted tyranny and fought wars for their liberation, values, freedom and independence? Are we to say that all those that fought against military rule, fascism, totalitareanism, dictatorship, barbarism and colonial rule in the past throughout the world and throughout the ages were wrong? Are we to say that the people of the Soviet Union were wrong for speaking out against the barbarity, cruelty, oppression and wickedness of the godless Soviet state? Are we to say that the Orghuz tribes of Turkey were wrong to stand up against the evil of the Mongol empire?

Are we to say that the Afghan people were wrong for opposing their Taliban government and removing them? Are we to say that the Biafrans were wrong for opposing genocide against their people before and during the Nigerian civil war? Are we to say the people of southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt are wrong for resisting slavery, terror, bondage and servitide? Are we to say that the people of the core north are wrong for speaking out against mass murder and ethnic cleansing by Boko Haram and Fulani militias?

Are we to say that the Shiite Muslims are wrong for saying no to tyranny, persecution and mass murder? Are we to say that Christians in Nigeria are wrong for speaking out against annihilation, religious cleansing, supporter of APC militias, ISIS West Africa, ethnic cleansing, persecution, marginalisation, daily insults, humiliation, death, destruction and wholesale and unadulterated evil? Is that what Kumuyi and his ignorant and impressionable cheerleaders want? Do they know the heavy price that was paid over the last 59 years for the relative freedom that they are enjoying today?

Is it wrong for our people to speak out when a presidential election is rigged, when their candidate is robbed, when their aspirations are rubbished and when their dreams are destroyed?

Is stealing a presidential mandate not the greatest crime of all? Is it not worse than staging a coup d'etat? Yet we are told that we must shut up and keep quiet and that we must even pray for those that have robbed us and violated our most basic fundamental right: the right to be governed and led by whoever we choose.

By his shameful words and his bogus and misleading counsel Kumuyi has spat on the blood and pissed on the graves of every single Christian martyr that ever sacrificed their lives for the faith by opposing tyranny, injustice and evil.

He has also insulted our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself who opposed the devil, the rulers of this world and the Kingdom of Darknes and died for our sins. He has belittled Jesus' suffering on the cross and sought to destroy the purpose of his ministry.

If he can say we must not attack Buhari
the next thing he will say is that we must not attack satan and that we must forgive and love the devil.

What will he say to the man who just came back from the United Kingdom, who was abducted, together with his whole family, by Fulani terrorists and whose wife and 9 year old daughter were raped before his very eyes. Worse still after they finished raping them they sodomised and raped him too.

This is not an isolated event and it happens to people all over the country every day. Buhari's primary duty and obligation is to protect us from such demonic entities and wild beasts yet instead of doing so he protects them and refuses to disarm them or label them as terrorists simply because they share his faith and come from his Fulani tribe.

All this yet Kumuyi says we must not attack him or criticise him. What type of madness and strange logic is this? What has gripped the mind and seized the conscience of a man that was once reverred by all and that established one of the biggest and greatest Churches in the world? What has led to this degeneration and this level of chicanry, double-speak, cowardice and deceit? Is it fear? Is it greed? Is it ignorance? Is it depravity? Or is it madness?

Shepherds are meant to protect their sheep from ravenous wolves and hungry lions. They are meant to give them hope: they are not meant to sacrifice them to wild beasts and cruel rulers as a weekly blood offering.

It appears that senility and dementia have set in and eroded this once great preacher's annointing. Worse still cowardice and greed have shattered his his mantle of leadership, decimated his calling and destroyed his credibility. It is time for him to take a break, go home and rest.

I urge everyone to ignore his manifestly irresponsible counsel and to oppose and attack the policies and person of Muhammadu Buhari as much as they deem fit. That is what democracy is all about. Presidents are meant to serve the people and not to be worshipped by them.

May God deliver us from shepherds that slaughter the sheep, that defend the cruel, that support injustice, that love the wicked, that serve the tyrant, that despise the weak, that enslave the poor and that worship genocidal maniacs and sociopathic butchers.

I can only thank God that we still have men of God in this country that are more than ready to speak truth to power and that have proved their worth.

Men like David Oyedepo, David Abioye, T.B. Joshua, Paul Enenche, David Ibiyeomi, Johnson Suleiman, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Tunde Bakare, John Onaiyekan, Paul Adefarasin, Isah El Buba, Samson Ayokunle, Nicholas Okoh, Ayo Oritsejafor, John Praise, Sam Oye, Mike Okonkwo, Sarah Omaku, Daniel Olukoya and so many others.

They are the saving grace of the Church in Nigeria. They are the true servants of the Most High God.

As for those that have chosen to remain silent despite the evil and tyranny in the land and those, like Kumuyi, who have failed in their calling and told us all to keep quiet and not attack Buhari, I say "shame on you!"

You Need Your Brain to be re-examined.

Do you listen to the said message at all.

You are part of our problem in this country, not buhari and APC alone.

How can you start sprewing out this trash when you have not even listen to the message.

GOH

BafanaBafana:
This topic doesn't need debating. The answer is straight forward. Atiku is not an option. Under no circumstances can we make an established thief our president.

From your Court abi

seunmsg:
He will be disgraced if he attempts to contest. Personally, I believe the OP is just joking. Dogara is smarter than going into a contest that will end in ridicule.

So Gbaja is the speaker no wonder Gbaja keeps moving about with 121 members


Lets I forget how many members makes up HOR

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Just reading that Okorocha was arrested by EFCC. True or not, we knew this day will come.
However, I welcome him to the EFCC Alumni & enjoin the commission not to look away from Amosun too.
While I encourage them to surrender themselves as I did,I welcome Mr Okorocha to the club.

Johnnyessence:
Breaking: Supreme Court hearing for the Governorship Election Petiton proper has been fixed for the 24th of June.
Oh Lord give PDP and Senator Ademola Adeleke victory (Amen)

From centre, left and right,

We are coming

June 24 all the way

BMC una get ready we'll meet at the supreme court