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for those shouting rerun


1. Re-run which polling units,

2. Re-run, how do you determine which Voters votes for APC, PDP and other parties,

3. Re-run where,

or are APC people telling us that the whole election be cancelled,

tell me something

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The true of the matter is that merely looking at it, Zamfara guber election will be inconclusive, they will have rerun without APC name on the ballot paper.

RE-RUN where and how,

1. How do you determine voters who votes for APC from each polling units,

2. Who will now come out to vote for say he voted for APC

the initial cancelled unit where 17 thousand plus, if that is where re-run will take place, then its just a waste of time conducting such re-run

Fezchima:
Bro, INEC did not consider the rejected votes I determining those percentages in the spreadsheet you cited. 3 components where used namely APC, PDP and valid votes. The rejected was not used.

Don't mind him, no wonder he went into hibernation once that his poor logic was thrown into thrash bin

ihatesycophant:
Wasted vote can be translated as invalid vote.
In calculating the number of vote cast, it's valid vote + invalid vote. There's a portion like that in the INEC's record sheet.
A vote cast cannot be said wasted but invalid.
Using sentiment to bring out valid deduction make some of you look illiterate.

Remember this is a PRE-ELECTION MATTER,

Meaning APC are not meant to participate in that election

Supreme Court are very explicit on this, wasted votes (Why didn't they use voided votes)

so as it stand, APC votes will not count

Safyqueen:
See the break down.

*IT IS NOT YET UHURU FOR PDP IN ZAMFARA STATE*

IBRAHIM ABDUL, Esq. P.hD. ANALYSED:

ZAMFARA: A NOVEL CONSTITUTIONAL PRECEDENCE
From the Supreme Court judgement today and my analysis of the Zamfara State declared Guber results vis-a-vis the declaration of the Apex Court ''that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfills the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state''. The PDP may not benefit from the judgement as being speculated. Here is my analysis.

The PDP did not win any of the 14 Local Government Areas in the last Gubernatorial polls in Zamfara state, APC won all. However, PDP had one-quarter (25%) of the total votes cast in only 6 (Anka, Bukkuyum, Maradum, Buggundu, Kaura Namoda and Maru LGs) while it did not make the 25% requirement in the remaining 8 (Bakura, Gunmi, Zurmi, Birnin Mogaji, Gusau, Shinkafi and Tsafe). Mathematically, two-third of 14 (LGs) is 9. Thus, Zamfara may not have a substantive Governor come May 29, 2019. Even if the Chief Judge assumes the Acting Governor's role, there may still not be any elected members of the House of Assembly to be inaugurated. So the CJ will be a Sole Administrator.

Jankara analysis


Wased votes period

tesppidd:
How could what i wrote be interpreted as wanting APC to participate?

How you dey reason your own sef?


My logic is not for the party APC to participate,

but for the Zamfara indigenes who voted for APC to exercise their franchise and participate.

Its still the same thing as voting for unregistered party

ericsmith:
i thought we will never have to do these again until another 4yrs, obviously the pdp sympathisers yet to learn a thing,
first of all! the court never mention or declare pdp as winner, the judgement only compelled inec to declare 2nd runner up as winner provided the party meet the requisite.
the fact that some vote are rejected or voided does not affect total vote ,check inec spreadsheet of all elections total vote will alway be the sum of valid votes + rejected vote racoon said you are intelligient i laugh ... that's an expensive joke on NL.
inec will judge pdp on basis of total vote, can someone tell me whatelse i don't know

Do you do mathematics in school at All

Going budget you pasted above

1. Using valid votes

In ekiti

APC will have 57.6% approximately 58%

2. Using all votes cast

In ekiti APC will have 55.4%


Isn't that simple

ihatesycophant:
You're olodo, was it the APC that voted or the people of Zamfara. The votes cast by people of Zamfara for APC cannot be cancelled from the main votes by your analogy, their votes still part of vote cast but does not benefit APC.
Think like someone that passed through school.

What then is the meaning of wasted votes.

Pack well jare.

tesppidd:
The truth is that everybody now wants to turn logic on it's head.

Logic!

The essence of the constitutional requirement of 25 percent in 3/4 is for a great spread of the state indigenes to have a say in electing their governor.

And for anybody to imagine that the Suprme Court would seek to punish the over 70 percent of Zamfara indigenes who voted for the APC not out of breaking the law but simply because the APC fumbled their own primaries is quite idiotic to say the least.

There is no way that the votes cast for the APC could be disregarded in determining this "spread", required by the law.

No way!!

That would amount to technically disenfranchising over 70 percent of Zamfara indigenes who did nothing wrong.

The Supreme Court wouldn't contemplate that.

From your logic you are still saying APC should participate in the election.


APC are marouders in the election.

There name was not expected to be there.

So any vote cases for them are wasted votes.

Supreme court ruling stands.

Party with second highest votes and spreads bearing in mind there are other parties which could as well takes some spread as well

Apex court judgment on Zamfara, a bitter-sweet experience, says Marafa

Sen. Kabir Marafa (APC-Zamfara) has described the Supreme Court judgement on Zamfara All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the last elections as “a sweet, bitter but a huge victory for democracy.”

Marafa, who represents Zamfara Central Senatorial District, also said it is victory for the state and the country as a whole.

He made the remarks, on Friday, in a statement he personally signed in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lawmaker and the outgoing governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari, prior to the party’s primaries, had locked horns over control of the state’s chapter of APC.

However, the Supreme Court, on Friday, declared all the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidates as winners in the last governorship, National and State Assembly polls, ruling that APC did not hold valid party primaries as required by law.

In his reaction to the court ruling, Marafa said: “No matter how long, truth will always prevail over falsehood. “Today’s judgement is a victory for democracy, triumph of truth over falsehood and redeemer of the integrity of the judiciary.”

According to him, as we all know, the APC was unable to conduct primaries in Zamfara, following Yari’s thuggery and violent machinations. “With this, lesson has been served that only strict adherence to rule of law and due process will take the country to the next level as being advocated by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“This Judgment has shown that the president is religiously sincere with his non-interference stance on function of other arms of government. “He has further endeared himself to Nigerians and the world for resisting all efforts by Abdulaziz Yari to force him to interfere in the judgment,” he said.

Marafa, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), urged his “adversaries to take the judgement as the will of Allah and a lesson that only Allah, the Almighty, can crown a king.”

Commending the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad for leading the Justices aright, he said the judiciary remained the last hope of the common man. “The acting CJN and the justices that delivered the judgement have with the judgement, laid the foundation for the redemption of the battered image of the judiciary as painted by the likes of justice Bello Shinkafi. “I will like to thank the judiciary, especially the Justice Tom Yakubu team at the Appeal Court and now the CJN team in the Supreme Court, the courageous position of INEC, the unflinching support of the people of Zamfara, my family for their wonderful support and prayers, my well wishers and admirers in Nigeria and Diaspora for their overwhelming support.

“Judiciary remains the last hope of the common man, therefore all hands must be on deck to strengthen it,” he said. (NAN) Dear Esteemed reader, As part of our drive to keep improving the content of our newspaper, we are conducting a readership survey to enable us serve you better. Kindly take two minutes of your time to fill in this questionnaire.

Thank you for your time.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/apex-court-judgment-on-zamfara-a-bitter-sweet-experience-says-marafa.html

It's very simple,

APC BMC una doooo oooo

E pele una go dey alright las las

buharitill2023:
you are right, but 180,000 votes out of 850,000 total vote cast, is that up to 25% requirement

APC does not have candidate, any vote for APC is wasted

Where will the pendulum swing today.

2 conflicting High court judgement
2 conflicting Appeal court judgement

1 expected Supreme Court Judgement.

Today is the Supreme Court Judgement on the Political Tuzzle regarding APC candidacy in the just concluded Federal And State Election.

Supreme Court delivers judgment on Zamfara APC dispute today May 24

The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed May 24 for judgment in the appeals relating to the dispute over the validity of the All Progressives Congress’ primary elections which produced the candidates fielded by the party in the last general elections.

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad led the five-man panel which heard the appeal on Thursday.


‎There had been two conflicting judgments of the Federal High Court in Abuja and the High Court of Zamfara State on whether or not the party conducted valid primaries in the state.

The Abuja and Sokoto divisions of the Court of Appeal had also delivered conflicting judgments on the matter.


While the Governor Abdulaziz Yari faction which, with the backing of the national leadership of the party, produced the candidates fielded for the elections in the state, had maintained that the party conducted valid primaries in the state, the Senator Kabir Marafa faction claimed otherwise.

https://www.punchng.com/supreme-court-delivers-judgment-on-zamfara-apc-dispute-may-24/amp


Where will the pendulum swing today.

2 conflicting High court judgement
2 conflicting Appeal court judgement

1 expected Supreme Court Judgement.

Today na today.

obailala:
Oga don turn the matter to pdp vs apc. Now it's obvious why you are fighting everyone on this thread who has pointed out that progress of work on that (and on many other) roads is terribly slow. Take a chill pill bro election don pass. No be only you be apc supporter.

So this is the thickness this BMC are talking about.


Not even up to 50mm

sarrki:
You are too childish

Very very childish

Cc lalasticlala

Cc mynd44

This is fake news

Deserves a long term ban

We don’t need for news here

One more time

Cc lalasticlala

Cc mynd44

Are you saying Tinubu is not qualify to be Parosident ni

His daughter minister of Finance

MC Olumomo as Minister Of defence

Poliiii as COAS

Sarrki se iro ni mo pa

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Atiku demands N500m from Buhari’s aide for defamation

Atiku Abubakar, presidemtial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked Lauretta Onochie, an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, for an apology and N500 million for defamation.

In a letter dated May 14 and addressed to Onochie by Mike Ozekhome, his lawyer, the presidential candidate threatened to commence a N2 billion suit against her if she did not meet his demands.

On May 7, Onochie had tweeted that the former vice-president was on a United Arab Emirates (UAE) watch list.

“Atiku on UAE watchlist- Security sources,” Buhari’s aide tweeted.

“Security operatives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are keeping a close tab on a former Nigerian Vice Pres Atiku Abubakar who has been in the Middle East nation for several weeks now
What is he doing there?

“Me: Shopping for Terrorists?”



TheCable had fact checked her claim and found out that it is false.

The presidential candidate asked Onochie to publish a retraction in six national newspapers and one international daily as well as on social media.

“Your odious publication is clearly also aimed at rubbishing our client’s image and reputation,” the letter read.

“It has caused him national and international backlash and embarrassment and done incalculable damage to him.

“Your publication has also caused our client, in the eyes of reasonable members of the public, unspeakable odium, obloquy, hatred, ridicule and psychological trauma.

“He has thereby been subjected to the shame and infamy of being viewed by members of the public as not only corrupt, but as a terrorist and sponsor of terrorism. Numerous telephone calls, emails, visits, letters and private social media chats by his family members, friends, political and business associates, and international statesmen and women in the last few days attest to the alarm and serious concerns generated by your false publication.”

https://www.thecable.ng/atiku-demands-n500m-from-buharis-aide-for-defamation/amp

Atiku, PDP dismiss INEC’s denials, demand access to server, results

•Insist commission transmitted election results to server
•Seek permission to file report of inspection, examination
Olusola Fabiyi and Ade Adesomoju

The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have filed a fresh application for access to information contained in the smart card readers and “central server”, which it said the Independent National Electoral Commission used for the conduct of the disputed election.


They filed the application before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, where their petition challenging President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress’ victory at the poll is pending.

The petitioners, through their lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), made the request in their application filed before the tribunal, despite INEC’s insistence that the results of the election were manually collated and never transmitted electronically.

Uzochukwu, in a chat with SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday, confirmed that the application was filed on May 9, adding that the respondents – INEC, Buhari and APC – had yet to file their replies to it.

INEC had declared that Buhari and APC the won the February 23 election with 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku who polled 11,262,978 votes.

But Atiku and the PDP, in their petition filed on March 18 to challenge the outcome of the poll, stated that “from the data” they obtained from INEC’s server, “the true, actual and correct results” showed that they polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom they said scored 16,741,430 votes.

By calculation, Atiku and PDP claimed to have defeated Buhari by 1,615,302 votes. However, in its reply filed on April 10 to counter the petition, INEC urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition, insisting that the petitioners’ claims were false.

It said, through its lead counsel, Yunus Usman (SAN), that it collated the results of the election manually and never transmitted them electronically.

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It added kept no server where results transmitted electronically could have been stored as alleged by the petitioners.

However, the petitioners, in their fresh application, maintained that INEC kept “central servers” in which “information was recorded and stored in database packets relating to accreditation of voters and transmission of results from the presidential election”.

They sought to be permitted to inspect the said servers and the card readers used for the conduct of the poll, examine and analyse the information obtained from them.

They also prayed for the tribunal’s permission to be allowed to file a report of their inspection, examination and analysis of the content of the facilities.

Their written address filed in support of the application read in part, “This motion is brought pursuant to Section 151 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), Section 71 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), Paragraphs 18 (7) (e), 41 (5) and (6), 47 (2) & 54 of the First Schedule to Electoral Act, 2010, (as amended), Section 6 (6) (b) Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and under the Inherent Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court.

“The motion prays for the following orders as expressed on the face of the motion paper, namely:

“An order allowing access or a court-supervised access and inspection by the Petitioners, in the presence of the 2nd and 3rd respondents (Buhari and APC) if they so desire, of the 1st respondent’s (INEC’s) central servers wherein information was recorded and stored in database packets relating to accreditation of voters and transmission of results from the Presidential election, the subject-matter of this petition.

“An order directing the 1st respondent’s Chief National Electoral Commissioner and/or other officers to grant the petitioners access to the said database packets in the 1st respondent’s central servers.

“An order granting leave to the petitioners to inspect and obtain certified true copies of Smart Card Reader accreditation data from the Smart Card Readers used in the said election and stored in the 1st respondent’s servers.

“An order granting leave to the petitioners to file a report of the inspection, examination and analysis thereof at the trial.”

The applicants filed 13 grounds to back their application and their claims in it.

Part of the grounds of the application acknowledged that INEC as well as the two other respondents to the petition — Buhari and APC — had contradicted their claim about the electronic transmission of results to the server.

But they insisted INEC was constitutionally and statutorily vested with the responsibility to conduct and manage the presidential election and set up electronic data central servers.

They stated, “The 1st respondent, as the body constitutionally and statutorily vested with the responsibility to conduct and manage the presidential election, set up electronic data central servers for the purposes of storage of transmitted accreditation data and results from smart card readers deployed for the election in an apparent bid to ensure relative transparency of the process.

“The respondents have, in their replies, joined issues with the petitioners in respect of the said data transmitted to the INEC’s central servers.”

But they said, “The Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) itself acknowledges network data by recognition given to the website of the Independent National Electoral Commission in section 71 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended). We also submit that section 84 of the Evidence Act, 2011 recognises computer data, and evidence generated therefrom.

“Thus, the general framework of the law accommodates such data retrievable from computers, of which a server is a storage component.”

Maintaining that INEC deployed the servers for the conduct of the February 23 poll, they said as part of the grounds of their application, “the results of the election were electronically transmitted to the 1st respondent’s Central Server”.

They added that notice had given INEC “notice that reliance will be placed on the extract of the electronic data from the said Central Server as at February 25, 2019”.

They added, “The data from the said central server is very material and relevant for the just determination of this petition.

“The petitioners require the data from the said central servers to maintain this petition.

“The petitioners also require the extract of the data from the smart card readers for the maintenance of the petition.


“The smart card readers were used at the said election for verification, accreditation, and authentication of voters and for the transmission of results to the 1st respondent’s servers.”

They added, “It will work tremendous hardship and grave injustice to refuse access to the contents of the central server that will assist the honourable court in the just consideration and determination of the issues involved in this matter or to allow a Party suppress or withhold access thereto.”

https://www.punchng.com/atiku-pdp-dismiss-inecs-denials-demand-access-to-server-results/amp/

Sowumi: Atiku Is More Patriotic Than Those Who Set the Nation on Fire Because They Lost an Election

Spokesperson for the Atiku Campaign organisation, Mr. Segun Sowumi, in an interview with select journalists in Abuja, spoke about the 2019 general elections and also dissected the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari. Adedayo Akinwale presents the excerpts:

You believe the outcome of the 2019 presidential election was a stolen mandate. You’ve also had a number of narratives as to why you thought it was a stolen mandate. But also looking back, were there things you should have done differently?
This question comes up a lot from the media. There is no human engagement that is not open to improvement. Observations after the event are always 20/20. You never make any mistake with it. So, in that regards, I would say maybe, topmost of them is that we could have used our support groups more. We could have relied on them more as election day managers. Perhaps, if our support groups had been our polling booth managers, maybe they would have resisted more. But then again you have to ask: why put your supporters in harm’s way?
So, from the point of view of how statesmen should approach election, Atiku did everything he was meant to do and whatever was asked of him he did. In the campaigns, you all are witnesses that we speak to issues; did we provide the minimum logistics required to organise things? We did. Did we run on a clear agenda that can be given to the people which will help them to better their lives and move us into greater level of development across the country? We did.

Did we prosecute it with the diligence and the discipline required? We did. Did we engage the media and the public? We did. Did we get in touch with the traditional rulers and the owners of the emotions of our people, everything that was required and that was descent? We did. Did we participate in debates as many of them as possible except for the one debate, where it was clear that the main challenger was not going to be there. But in terms of our campaign, it was a beautiful campaign. It was a campaign that had life; that had message – it was a campaign that really spoke to Nigerians. As far as I am concerned, the 2019 presidential election – the campaign part of it – the one that has to do with Atiku Abubakar, the ‘let’s get Nigeria working again motive’ was absolutely fantabulous.

Looking at the areas where Buhari won, which is mainly in the north: was it a case of Buhari being very popular in the north or Atiku not accepted in the north?
You must first of all understand that our position is that Buhari didn’t win and it is etched permanently in our hearts. And then you must also see that there is a lot of disconnect and inconsistency in the way the number from the north especially, the key states, came in. The various patterns of human beings towards election are actually a scientifically predictable set of outcomes.
What we saw is that the North would have to come and explain itself how it was easy for the numbers, that the presidential election could be so much different from the numbers at the state elections. What we saw in some of those areas that you are talking about in the North was that something like abracadabra must have taken place there. We are in court already, therefore, some of these matters we cannot delve much.

If you don’t examine critically, thoroughly, holistically what happened in 2019, you will not be able to prevent it from repeating itself and if you cannot prevent it, God forbid we will be inching our country nearer crisis, because election on their own are even very emotive and you can see the ugly signs showing up in some locations.

Take the case of Rivers, however you call it, nobody will be happy to see that kind of thing. Take the case of even some locations in Lagos, why would you be happy as a Nigerian to see that and if you stretch it to the other locations in the country, you just find out that examining the 2019 election is a way to prevent us from a bloodbath that would be uncontrollable?
And when you look at all of the things happening in our country now, the earlier we do that the better for us. So, for us and Atiku, going to court is actually a service to humanity and a service to Nigerians.

There are insinuations that the former vice president is being backed by some foreign powers. How true is this?
I will know or I ought to know. Atiku is a phenomenon and with phenomenon what you find is that everything they do have a way of even becoming larger than life. Atiku is not backed by any foreign power to the extent of maybe in the course of the campaign of this magnitude all the nations of the world that are interested in the activities of Nigeria may be interested and other agencies of government all over the world. Atiku is a Nigerian; his patriotic, nationalistic zeal is such that Nigeria first all the time.
Atiku is not backed by any national power. There is no truth about that. Atiku is not conniving with anybody. He is not trying to undermine this country by any means. He is not even wishing for crisis in the country. Atiku is not interested in the shedding of the blood of any Nigerian for whatever reason let alone for his ambition. That is not Atiku.
If Atiku did not get enough reason to believe he won or that it could be challenged in court, Atiku is not the kind of person, who would do that. This is not Atiku’s first time of running an election in this country, he has been running election for some time, when have you ever heard Atiku ran for an election and lost and he tried to implode the country? It is not his style.

Don’t you think it would have been better for the former vice president to wait for the current president to finish his tenure, and then contest again in 2023. After all, the APC is talking about zoning the presidency for 2023 to the south?
Men must be fearful of playing God for God is the eternal and omnipotent, omnipresent, absolute ruler over the affairs of men. We are yet to bury the carcass of 2019. It is too early to start to speculate about 2023. In any case, what is important is that democracy does not imagine some musical share: run I run after you, chop I chop kind of thing.

If the people go through a dignified process and the credibility or otherwise of the process is not in doubt, then, even whoever it is that loses an election must be very proud of himself for he would have done the job of opposition and even if the other man gets to carry it. So, there is no way you hedge it. Atiku is already the winner of the 2019 election in the minds of the people for he is the leader of the opposition now.

What Are Bulkachuwa’s Options?
His views are the views by which we are going to measure the performance or otherwise of government. Atiku is not going to be silenced whatever the outcome be. We are going to bring forward alternative viewpoints, even on policies, on ideas and directions and the reason is because democracy is supposed to be like that. So, I don’t believe that Atiku shouldn’t have gone in 2019. He was the best bet for the party. He was the best bet for the country. The entire process was energised as a result of him. We believe he won and we are waiting to see how that goes.

If Atiku loses at the courts, will he contest again in 2023?
You cannot pre-empt the judiciary. There are no otherwise in the affairs of the judiciary. They are going to do what is professionally expected of them to do.
We hope and pray that the cankerworm that is nepotism, corruption and lack of integrity that have eaten into the other fibres of the society; we hope and pray that the court had been immune – the court of appeal and this panel from the same integrity issues that have bedevilled the country and it is up to the court to demonstrate that.

After the elections, there have been reviews of INEC’s performance by the CSOs and other stakeholders. Already, 75 out of 91 political parties that participated in the 2019 election gave a pass mark to the electoral body and its chairman said it means the commission was right in declaring Buhari as the winner of the presidential election. What do you think?
Seventy-five political parties gave INEC pass mark; maybe those political parties were not involved in the election or didn’t go into the election to try and get anything out of it. All those 75 political parties that endorsed INEC, INEC should just withdraw their certificate. What are they endorsing? Are they endorsing the process of accreditation that is difficult for anybody to understand?

Or is it the fact that after all the political parties that are serious went in to go and do election, five minutes before the election started, INEC came up with one annoying story about logistics and postponed the election, is that what they are endorsing? Is it an INEC that went into a location and the rules by which they declared some parliamentary elections inconclusive is not consistent with how they quickly rushed and declared the presidential election results?

There is a difference between the person whose child is dead and the one whose child is missing. If your child is dead you will cry and they will console you but if your child is missing it is like madness. Have you ever seen a mother looking for her child? So, you cannot come and tell me to clap for INEC when we are the victims of the things INEC have done.
We thought that after the huge applause that Jega got, we thought it will only get better but little did we know that the people who are going to step into the tiny shoes of Jega are going to have the feet of a mouse, whose legs will be so small that the entire body will be consumed by Jega’s big shoes.

What’s your assessment of Buhari in the past four years?
The past four years of President Buhari’s administration has been extremely unfortunate. It has been retrogressive. It has not even met the minimum that anyone would have expected from someone, who is as experienced or ought to have been as experienced as Buhari. He couldn’t manage the legislators well to his own advantage. He couldn’t manage the security of the country well as he should have.
In the economy, he scored zero. He couldn’t manage the relationship with the judiciary. If he is not arresting them overnight, he is uing Gestapo style to cow them. He couldn’t even manage his own anti-corruption drive. He converted it into a machine by which he goes after the enemies or perceived enemies of his own government and his party. He couldn’t even manage the health care requirement for a country.

He has been president for four years and even though he himself needs medical intervention but that has not spurred him to create a situation in the country where we can have one good hospital that can take care of the high-networth persons in our country for whatever it is worth. He has not even thought about the security situation of yielding the number of citizens of our country to the management of another country.

Only God knows what you want to score Buhari well on. I heard that even in his state, Katsina, people are crying. They are being killed. He met the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east and he tried in that regard. But he has allowed the insurgency to go to the North-west and the North-central and the South-west. Even the Abuja-Kaduna road has become a harvest ground for kidnappers, where they kidnap people every day.

He has not been able to manage well the security apparatus in my opinion. He has left the officers, who should have been retired for younger people and fresher hands to take over. He has extended their stay longer than necessary while their colleagues have been retired and he has retired people, who are even their junior.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/05/19/sowumi-atiku-is-more-patriotic-than-those-who-set-the-nation-on-fire-because-they-lost-an-election/amp/

BREAKING: Court strikes out suit seeking Saraki, Dogara, 52 other lawmakers’ sack over defection



The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a suit seeking an order declaring vacant the seats of 54 National Assembly members who defected from the political parties which sponsored their elections to other ones last year.

The legislators targeted by the suit include the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and a former Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio.


Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Okon Abang held that the plaintiff which instituted the suit, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, lacked the locus standi (the legal right) to institute the suit.

He held that LEDAP’s status as a registered corporate body under the Company and Allied Matters Act was not sufficient to confer the right to institute the action on behalf of the public.


He held that the plaintiff, not being the Independent National Electoral Commission, the political parties from which the legislators defected to the other ones, a member of any of the political parties, a member of the constituencies of the legislators or a registered voters in the lawmakers’ constituencies, it lacked the legal capacity to institute the action.

The judge held that despite the noble intention of the plaintiff, its lack of locus standi to file the action had robbed the court of the jurisdiction to consider the merit of its claims in the suit.

It added that the plaintiff’s failure to join the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress and the Action Democratic Congress which sponsored the elections of the defector legislators, was fatal to the suit.

https://punchng.com/breaking-court-strikes-out-suit-seeking-saraki-dogara-52-other-lawmakers-sack-over-defection/

Again, INEC Withdraws Return Certificate From Buhari’s Ex-aide, Gives To Minister’s Son
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday issued a Certificate of Return for the House of Representatives seat in Sumaila/Takai Federal Constituency of Kano to Shamsuddeen Dambazau, son of the Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau.



The certificate had earlier been issued to Kawu Sumaila, a former senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters.

The Federal High Court in Kano on April 18 disqualified Mr Sumaila as the duly elected lawmaker on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Dambazau approached the court challenging the nomination of Mr Kawu-Sumaila as APC flagbearer on the ground that the former presidential aide never participated in the House of Representatives primary election.



Issuing the Certificate of Return on Monday, INEC National Commissioner, Amina Zakari, said the issuance of the certificate is on the order of the court.

“INEC is a law-abiding organisation and respects the rule of law hence the issuance of the certificate to Alhaji Muhammad Shamsuddeen,’’ Mrs Zakari said.

Mr Sumaila could not be reached on whether or not he had appealed the court ruling. He did not pick or return calls made to his phone nor reply a text message sent to him.

The Controversy

Mr Dambazau had sued INEC, APC and Mr Sumaila challenging the nomination of the latter as the candidate of APC.

He told the court through his counsel, Nuraini Jimoh, that Mr Sumaila contested for the Kano South senatorial seat and lost to Kabiru Gaya.

Mr Sumaila had indeed contested the Kano South senatorial ticket of the APC. He lost to a serving senator, Kabiru Gaya.

Later, the state chapter of APC compensated him with House of Representatives ticket of the Sumaila/Takai federal constituency which is also within the Kano South senatorial district.

The APC eventually won the legislative election.

In its April ruling, the judge ruled that the action of the APC was illegal as the ex-presidential aide did not participate in the APC primary for the House of Representatives.

The judge, Lewis Allagoa, ordered INEC to withdraw the certificate of return issued to Mr Sumaila.


https://www.nigeriancablenewsonline.com/politics/again-inec-withdraws-return-certificate-from-buharis-ex-aide-gives-to-ministers-son/

MobilityExpress:
Forget about dictator matter, because it doesn't come to play here at all. APC has majority in both house and Senate, and therefore the APC as a party should determine the leaderships, this is common sense. Buhari's part is to support and push for his party's choice of leaderships. That's what is expected of him, not for him to say he will not interfere. What kind of rubbish statement or policy is that? Imagine all the APC senators and reps, and governors, as well as Buhari's (APC) party leaderships said they will not interfere during the elections, and had this kind of nonsense attitude the president is showing, and said that the election process should happen on its own, do you think Buhari would still be president today, do you think he would have won the elections? He would have lost. But now when it's time for him to influence the leadership positions adopted by his party, he is saying, he won't interfere, despite knowing that if the leadership falls to the wrong hands, his office will be handicapped again in making huge development strides in the country. This kind of action is not justifiable with the I don't want to be called a dictator excuse.

Nobody handicapped his government..
It is a lie imagination from you BMC Lagos chapter

BuhariAdvocate:
its unfortunate for you to believe this in fact I think you will condemn the doctored voice the opposition made in order to ridicule the man.

For this Your APC govament.

Onnoghen treat await emefiele

Mark this thread

TonyeBarcanista:
It's unfortunate

I'm suspecting something.

Emefiele will be given Onnoghen treatment and s northerner Appointed to replace him after may 29

Waec had stopped date of birth correction since 2017.


Go and do affidavit.

Where you will get problem if NYSC unless your VC is ready to sign for your data correction

Please note that this was innitial appeal of Onnoghen that was suppose to have been heard since February 27, long before CCT begin trials



We await the main appeal after tribunal Judgement

Appeal Court condemns ‘secret’ CCT sitting suspending Onnoghen, but refuses to rule on it

A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal on Friday declined ruling on the status of the order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal suspending the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.

Mr Onnoghen was suspended on January 25, based on an order of the tribunal led by Danladi Umar.

The appeal court in a unanimous decision agreed that the decision taken “in secret” for the suspension of Mr Onnoghen should not be so because “justice should not be shrouded in secrecy”

The tribunal however said the case before the tribunal is only on the validity of the ex-parte motion and since the main matter has already been decided, the matter is already spent.

The court is currently ruling on a number of appeals from Mr Onnoghen.



The court first determined the application challenging the decision of Mr Umar to remain on the panel of the tribunal, despite a request for him to step down.

Mr Onnoghen had approached the appeal court after the CCT allowed an ex-parte application seeking his suspension on January 25.

The application was granted on January 23 in a private session at the tribunal.

It was based on the CCT ‘secret’ order that President Muhammad Buhari suspended Mr Onnoghen.

The judges said the issue for determination is whether the ex-parte order granted was valid or null and void.



“We have reviewed the arguments of counsel in this appeal. The order was a product of an ex-parte motion,” the court ruled.

They added that previous rulings had decided on what an ex-parte motion is.

“The record before us show that the appellant had not been arraigned before the order was made.

The court noted that the ex-parte order was given in ‘secret.’

The judges, however, added that since the case has already ended, the request regarding the ex-parte motion is already spent and they would not go into the details of what its effects are.

The appeal court had reserved judgment in the appeal on February 27 for a date to be communicated to parties.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/329327-just-in-appeal-court-condemns-secret-cct-sitting-suspending-onnoghen-but-refuses-to-rule-on-it.html