₦airaland Forum

flokii:
Honestly, I'm not happy with the way our law enforcement agencies are treating all the nonsense happening of late with kids gloves.. this sheikh and his likes ougth to have been arrested by now and charged to court.

This kind of public disgrace and ridicule isn't what we signed up for.. If these muslims up North won't behave themselves, then let's just split and everyone should go their separate ways.

How will you call a sitting Minister infidel and feel okay preaching as a sheikh. These people are playing with their peace and free money their poor states get from Federal's purse.

Excellentbuy1:
modified. thanks.

Naija2023:
Read very well before your emotional moblike response

CSU said it is printed OFFSITE not OFFSET printing. SITE not SET

OFFSITE
OFFSITE
OFFSITE

OFFSET

Excellentbuy1:
oga!!! lies go quench all of una!!!


OFFSET PRINTING IS A METHOD USED FOR PRINTING LARGE QUANTITY OF DOCUMENTS USING IMAGE ON PLATES TO MULTIPLE PRINT THE
DOCUMENT!!

Offset printing is done using machine with inputted filmed plate to fast produce large quantity of documents like calendars, certificates, wedding invitations, business cards, letterheads, etc!

THE ANNOYING THING IS THIS AG.BADORIA.NS TAKE NIGERIANS FOR FOOLS AND ILLITERATES - THEY ASSUME EVERYBODY IS AS DUMB AS THEY ARE!! AHHHHGGHHH!


Below are offset printing machines! the most popular is heldelber!

Bloody criminal illiterate agb.adorian forgers!

papyjaypaul:
This is the first Nigerian President that doesn't have a complete biography. It's a mess. God works in mysterious ways. A man thought he could buy his way but he forgot that not everything has a price. One day you go buy market. When he was planning these things, he never thought there would be something called social media so he can buy newspapers and TV and radio but he thought Nigeria of 1999 will remain the same in 2019. What 1000 people could not read in 1999, 1m can now read it with internet. Did this man ever imagine that Nigerians will japa and he cannot buy them too? He thought he had everything under control. Everyone has a price he thought. Now, they have to buy diaspora, they have to buy foreign media, they have to buy foreign investors. You go explain taya


This was the simple reason he refused to talk to the media during campaign. He knew he could buy you,why talk to you? He also knew if he submitted himself to media scrutiny, they will ask him tough questions so he decided to set the townhall questions himself and appointed his team to talk for him. Today, his team are talking for him but they never went to school with him. They will keep talking till they put him into trouble because you can't defend lies. They will keep blaming others to let him work but their conscience de worry dem, they know what the people are saying and they know it's true. They will keep defending because they too used media to attack other people in the past. They were laughing then because it was working. They made others look like losers. They were able to confuse the public with their lies because they wanted that seat. Now they'reon the hot seat and they can't stand the heat. They cry everyday that Obidients are their problems. They cry that Atiku is wasting his time. Abeg is it your time?

Nigerians will suffer for what APC has done and thisis not a curse. You have 2 Presidents back to back from APC who have education certificate scandals and you want to be taken serious in the world? You go write IELTS tire. Very soon, they will start telling you to write high school diploma in their countries because they cannot verify your credentials. You guys should keep playing politics with your lives.


A simple truth won't cost you a dime but lies are very expensive. You will keep spending, spending and spending. You will hire lawyers, hire journalists, hire keyboard warriors, hire PR, hire marketing, hire Imam, hire Pastor, omo you go spend taya. Truth is so cheap, na people go spend for you.

Foolish is the man who thought he could buy the whole world for dishonour is his name. Shame shall come to him that his wealth can't buy. Why do you think thieves look for acceptance? It is because their conscience no rest. No peace for the wicked.

Sharpsharp00123:
u want to free yourself n other people but u igbos can’t free yourself from Ekpa in faraway Finland

Does that make sense to u?

Same people who dare not go out on Monday in their region want to free others

Sharpsharp00123:
if u igbos aren’t targeted for your drug escapades u think they know Tinubu?

So they know tinubu in Thailand, India, Cambodia n co

Dotherightthing:
Pigsss die hard.

Did he attend CSU and graduate? Yes or no?

Iamgrey5:
Southwest college is not University of Chicago sirs

September 18, 2023


I put everything aside to watch the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, from start to finish, on September 6! With rapt attention, I absorbed the minutiae of the very detailed verdict. But after the 13-hour-long ruling, I was utterly despondent. For, instead of safeguarding Nigeria’s democracy, protecting the integrity of future presidential elections and establishing boundaries for integrity politics in Nigeria, the court did the contrary!

Let me start with two general observations. First, the judges worked to a predetermined answer. Because they couldn’t bring themselves to annul the election of a sitting president, unprecedented in Nigeria, they found every reason to affirm Bola Tinubu’s election. Courts of first instance are fact-finding courts that seek to get to the bottom of a matter to do justice. But the PEPC used every conceivable procedural technicality to reject virtually all the facts and witnesses presented by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar.

At one point, a cynical thought ran through my mind: Did INEC’s and Tinubu’s lawyers write the verdict for the judges? I quickly dismissed the thought but was struck by how the judges treated Obi’s and Atiku’s lawyers, most of them Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, like morons, who were utterly incompetent and ignorant of the law, but treated INEC’s and Tinubu’s lawyers with total deference, regurgitating their arguments.

The second observation is that the judges’ interventions and tone betrayed their biases. For instance, one judge read out the results of the presidential election in the five South-East states and said that “INEC must be an abysmally poor manipulator, if not even an imbecilic one”, to have allowed Obi, instead of Tinubu, to win massively in those states. In other words, if INEC really manipulated the election, Tinubu should have won in the South-East.

Really? The learned judge failed to realise that it’s almost impossible to rig an election where one party is extremely strong, and another is extremely weak; that elections are usually rigged where two parties are fairly equally strong such that it’s easier to manipulate votes and tip the balance in favour of one and against the other. Yet, the erudite judge made hay of the argument that Obi won massively in the South-East, his core base, to “prove” that the presidential election was free and fair, making INEC’s and Tinubu’s case for them!

Leaving aside those general observations, what about the substantive issues? These were FCT’s status; Tinubu’s drug-related forfeiture; pleadings and evidence; and the role of INEC. In my view, the PEPC’s decisions were skewed in favour of Tinubu and INEC. There were perfectly legitimate and reasonable positions the court could have taken, if so inclined.

Let’s start with the FCT issue. The PEPC rejected a literal interpretation of section 134(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution on whether a winning candidate must score at least one-quarter of the votes cast in Abuja. It said that only a broader interpretation would align with the intention of the framers of the Constitution regarding “equality of citizens” and “equality of rights”, set out in the Preamble. Thus, the court said FCT’s votes couldn’t be decisive, stating: “Equality of rights in every citizen cannot exclude equality of the weight and value of their votes. No, it includes it.”

But if the principle of “equality of the weight and value of votes” is constitutional and sacrosanct, why did the votes of 8.8million (37 percent) who voted for Tinubu carry more weight and value than those of 15.2million (63 percent) who rejected him? Why should 37 percent of voters have a veto over 63 percent? The court ruled that Tinubu scored “the majority of lawful votes cast at the election”. The total lawful votes cast at the presidential election was 24 million. Is 8.8million the majority of 24 million? Certainly not!

Strangely, while the PEPC adopted a broader interpretation on FCT’s status to give Tinubu an escape route, it adopted a narrower one on the issue of dishonesty to give him another lifeline


According to INEC, Tinubu scored the “highest” votes among the presidential candidates, but not “the majority of the lawful votes cast at the election.” Surely, if votes were to have equal weight and value, a winning presidential candidate should have the majority of all the votes cast, not just the highest among the candidates. Since that’s not the constitutional position, it’s wrong to decide the FCT issue on the basis of “equality of the weight and value of votes"

Similarly flawed is the recourse to section 299 of the Constitution, which says FCT should be treated “as if it were” a state. The phrase “as if” is figurative. Abuja is not literally a state. There are many provisions of the Constitution that apply to states but not to Abuja. For instance, Abuja doesn’t have an elected governor or assembly; and the FCT Minister doesn’t attend meetings that state governors attend, such as the National Council of State and National Economic Council. Indeed, section 299 says that provisions of the Constitution should be read with “necessary modifications and adaptations” with respect to Abuja. The presidential election is sui generis, different from day-to-day issues of governance to which section 299 arguably refers. So, it’s wrong to use section 299 to defeat the reasonable construction of section 134(2)(b) regarding the presidential election.

Strangely, while the PEPC adopted a broader interpretation on FCT’s status to give Tinubu an escape route, it adopted a narrower one on the issue of dishonesty to give him another lifeline. Section 137(1)(d) of the Constitution disqualifies from running for president anyone who was subject to a “fine for any offence involving dishonesty or fraud by whatever name called.” Although the phrase “by whatever name called” is very broad, the PEPC held that the “fine” and “offence” referred to in section 137(1)(d) only related to criminal conviction. Thus, being a “non-conviction-based forfeiture”, the $460,000 that Tinubu forfeited to the US Government didn’t disqualify him from becoming president, even though it was linked to proceeds of “narcotic trafficking and money laundering”.

That ruling would destroy the basis of integrity politics in Nigeria. If, as the PEPC held, the framers of the Constitution intended that a person who, though not convicted, forfeited assets on account of criminal conduct can become president, then it means that integrity and honesty are constitutionally and judicially excluded from Nigerian leadership!

Now, let’s turn to pleadings and evidence. Here’s the utter injustice. The petitioner carries a heavy evidential burden, yet the court and the law put insurmountable obstacles in his way. He must file his petition with detailed pleadings and relevant documents within 21 days of the declaration of election results. Anything not filed or “frontloaded” within 21 days would be rejected. With 176,846 polling units across Nigeria, how can a candidate challenging a presidential election assemble all facts and witnesses within 21 days? Yet, the PEPC struck out most of Obi’s and Atiku’s pleadings and evidence, based on non-filing within 21 days and other procedural technicalities. Truth is, the cards are so stacked, both legally and judicially, against a petitioner in a presidential election that the taunt “Go to court” gains potency.


Finally, INEC’s role. The PEPC ruled that despite stating in its Regulations and Guidelines that it “shall” transmit election results “electronically” and “upload” them “to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV)”, INEC is not obligated to honour those commitments. The ruling defies the preponderance of English case law discouraging public bodies from frustrating legitimate expectations resulting from their undertakings or representations. If INEC cannot keep its own words, how can Nigerians trust it to conduct credible presidential elections?

Truth is, the PEPC judgement is perverse. Unless reversed by the Supreme Court, it will entrench rigged presidential elections in Nigeria and make presidential election petitions unwinnable, as ever. That will endanger Nigeria's future!


Olu Fasan

Racoon:
From "Change" to "Next Level" and to "Renewed Hope" it has been an endless tales of woes, anguish, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. I diss all the it will favour me and my family morons "Gnashing of teeth" by Mighty Diamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGivwq_54Y8?si=FsEasMzPeh3uUkSN

burp18:
How's the quest for search of the missing manhood going? Is there any hope for hoebi?😜 Let me be straight to you. I have nothing against Obi or he's followers. Heck! I couldn't even have anything against him because the guy is naturally a failure with nothing to show for it. Obi claima he won the election. Instead of proving how, he's out raving like drunkard about how Tinubu s certificate. CSU released his transcript and it's available for everyone to see. I wonder what what you Obi supporters will do next. I'm probably thinking you're go back to chanting biafrau.d or death like we used to know y'all

burp18:
Tinubu is the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria. Obi is a 3rd class dullard of philosophy who fled the Anambra he governed for 8years to live in Tinubu s Lagos. Stop supporting failures else you'll end up a failure yourself 😜

burp18:
Hopeless bush clowns.

Reflect7:
Animal. When he was speaking up for Igbos in the past, you people praised him.

Now he criticised you, and all of a sudden he is “a demagogue and featherweight only given a Nobel prize in order to be used.”

I mean, you people are WORTHLESS.

Collective narcissists.