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BREAKING: Senator Adeleke wins in court
John Owen Nwachukwu John Owen Nwachukwu
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside the April 2, 2019 judgement of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Bwari, which earlier voided Senator Ademola Adeleke’s candidacy for the 2018 governorship election in Osun State.

Justice Othman Musaon of the High Court had voided Adeleke’s candidacy on the grounds that he was not qualified.

The lawmaker was said to have been in possession of an invalid secondary school certificate.

A three-man panel of the court held in a unanimous judgment on Thursday, that the FCT High Court was wrong to have concluded that Adeleke did not complete Secondary School and that he made false representation as regards his educational qualification.

The lead judge, Justice Emmanuel Agim, faulted the trial court for assuming jurisdiction over the case filed by Wahab Raheem and Adam Habeeb outside the 14 days prescribed for pre-election cases by the constitution.

Justice Agim, said the case was statute barred, the plaintiff, having not complied with Section 285 of the Constitution in the filing of the case and the trial judge, having failed to deliver its judgment within 80 days.

He awarded cost of N3million in favour of Adeleke, to be paid by Raheem and Habeeb, who were plaintiffs at the trial court.

And so what

BabaO2:
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Sentiment apart, election supposed to be canceled, not awarding it to pdp, it was an intra party fault

So we should wait for APC to conduct another primary again.

Una no well

Rotello, Johnnyessence, ChristianNorth, Tuniski

Abbey make we suggest the next court for our Shia-Man

Lalasticlala this Our chairman na wa hooo.

OSHI-OMO-=OLE

Starnger you say, beg swerve

Zamfara: Oshiomhole faults Supreme Court, says judgement imposes total strangers on state

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has described as injustice, the Supreme Court judgement, which upturned the party’s electoral victory in Zamfara State on grounds of technicality.

He stated this while speaking with journalists at the party’s national Secretariat in Abuja on Monday, in his reaction to the development after the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting.

The five-member panel of the Supreme Court justices, in a unanimous judgement on May 25, declared that the APC in Zamfara had no candidates in the 2019 general elections.

This, it explained was because the party failed to conduct recognised primaries in accordance with party rules.

In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Galinji, the apex court held that all votes cast for the APC during the general elections in Zamfara were “wasted votes”.

He declared that all political parties with the second highest votes in the elections and with the required spread, were elected to various elective positions in the state.

Mr Oshiomhole stressed that the Supreme Court ruling amounted to imposing total strangers on the people of Zamfara.

He added that the right thing the court should have done, is to call for a repeat of the elections if the party fell short of electoral laws.

He, however, maintained that since it is impossible to appeal the Supreme Court ruling, the party will take its case the God.

On the votes cast for the APC at the elections which the court said were wasted votes, Mr Oshiomhole recalled that at the time the votes were cast, a High Court had ruled that the party’s candidates were validly nominated.

“There is something I learnt from Lord Denning, a famous British Supreme Court Justice that the law has to be interpreted taken into account the intention of the lawmakers, and try to deliver justice in its purest form.



“So, there is no justice when on grounds of technicalities, you impose on the people of Zamfara, not just a man or a woman, but a whole party candidates from Governor to Senate and others that they didn’t elect.

“If the court thought we were wrong, justice would have demanded that we repeat, but you cannot use technicalities because we are in a democracy.

“There is nothing democratic when the court imposing strangers to govern a people, but we understand that after the Supreme Court, we can only take our case to the Court of God, to that extent we must obey the Court,” he said.

He further maintained that what the APC got in Zamfara State was a judgement that didn’t translate to justice, considering the way the people of the state voted for the party and its candidates.

He, however, declined comments when asked whether the party would sanction its members that took it to Court in Zamfara.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/331988-zamfara-oshiomhole-faults-supreme-court-says-judgement-imposes-total-strangers-on-state.html

fiizznation:
You must be very deluded. How many crimes do these Almajiri boys engaged in that crimes will out rightly reduce once they are taken off the streets? Yeah the beg for food and some other things, but are they the ones involved in banditry, kidnapping, robbery, internet fraud, money laundering, etc. I don't even understand the problem of most commentators here. You make your comments like you don't have brains or something.

Do you have sense of reasoning at all.


According to you Alimajiri is student.

So student are expected to be causing nuisance in the street begging for food, holding stick about and cause riots.

Compare the Alimajiri Islamic studies over there in the north and what is obtainable in the south.

Are they doing different Islamic studies.

Mr man will you not keep quiet

soul95:
I don't want to call you names, but your brain capacity is a deficiency in evolution, you are a testament of the failure of the natural selection process instituted in nature.

The kidnappers in Abuja and Kaduna, do they look like persons who grew up in normal homes? The easy recruits for suicide bombings, where do you think they are recruited from? The bandits used for herdsmen raids where are they recruited from? The foster care system in the United States, even though it is more organized than even normal parenting in some countries, has produced the highest percentage of children who grow up to be terrible criminals, how much more an evil , dirty, archaic, hopeless system like the almajiris?

It's your type that exist mainly as a reminder of the depravity of humanity. You are a pathetic mix of ignorance and evil.
Nonsense.

Leave that Alimajiri alone.

He seems to be one of them adavancely.

Is it only in the north that Children go to the Islamic school.

In other region they go to school and they don't become nuisance to the society.

fiizznation:
You don't understand the Almajiri system, you have never ever participated in any social event that has do with taking the Almajiri kid off the street, heck you are obviously a kid/teenager like most commentators here are, you have never catered for a homeless almajiri child before and you will never ever cater for one, and you want to tell me about things your little brain doesn't know anything about. Yeah well, I might even have a discussion with an ant.

Stop misbehaving


Alimarijiri no matter how you paint it.

Is a system that allow crime to fester.

Imagine you eating somewhere and a host of this boys swarm on your food even without you inviting them.

Is that where they learn in the so called Islamic school.

Then after the class, what next than to troop pit causing disturbance in the street.

tuniski:
No it is the easiest rather. Osun and Kano will follow. Kaduna's case more like Elrufai rigged successfully.

Leave them alone

OP

Keep on in your painment

From PDP does not have vote spread to this rubbish

kahal29:
Zamfara Governor Elect meet PMB at the State House Abuja..

https://mobile.twitter.com/DeeOneAyekooto/status/1132637081900060674

Pele

You will dey alright las las

Keep dishing out old pictures

Johnnyessence:
yes soooooo

And we will celebrate it with some mesuya on this platform

MrFly:
They have sacrificed Zamfara state to take over Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa states.. If u knw u knw

If you are sleeping wake up

Johnnyessence:
oga engineerboat, another one is on the way.

Sure

And sure

Johnnyessence:
you are welcome, thanks for your mention sir. God bless you abundantly.

This is expected.

Sorry

Ngeneukwenu
Kahal9
And others

Next time red the judgement very well

You will all dey alright

adanny01:
There are counted as spread which is indirectly. Are you still arguing that?

Counted valid votes will be used.


Wasted.

Invalid votes

Is gone down the history lane


Pele

ericsmith:
Don't rack your brain further , i bet you will agree with % are yardsticks over 100.
according to the inec spreadsheet if apc had 58% are you emphatically saying apc won on a % of 58/98.
assuming those rejected voted went to another party say NRC party will you talk like these,
if i had not pass to school i wonnt even know that whatever % a student score is bases on over 100%, even when ur lecturer give test saying 30% ..you alreary know on the long run its gonna be on 100%

Stop confusing yourself.

Invalid votes is invalid and does not count on total valid votes which is used in calculating the actual winning percentage.

Get a life

Pele you will dey alright las las

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

Stakeholders:
Is it because of political party that people did not reason deeply again? All this politicians did not care about we citizen.



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