₦airaland Forum

Compels party to allow Abe’s loyalists participate in congresses



By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared Hon. Igo Aguma, the Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

The court also compelled the party to allow all members of the party loyal to Sen. Magnus Abe, who purchased from for the congresses of the party in 2018 to take part in the process.

Justice George Omereji gave these rulings in two separate suits brought before him by Dele Moses and 9 others and Igo Aguma, a chieftain of the party, on different matters in the crises rocking the party in the state.


Aguma had sought the court to declare the Caretaker Committee brought by the National Working Committee of the party as void, and declare him to head the affairs of the state by virtue of his position as the National Delegate and Statutory member of the party.


Omereji in his judgment after the submissions of the claimant’s counsel, Echezona Etiaba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, declared that Aguma had the locus standi to approach the court, adding that there was the issue of injustice and violation of the civil right of the applicant.


On issues of jurisdiction as raised by the defendants, Omereji held that the court has the right to entertain the matter to see whether the rights of the claimants have been violated, adding that defendants have not established that the claimant has no locus standi and had provided no evidence to show that he (Aguma) did not exhaust all the avenues in the party before approaching the court.

He also ruled that the suit was not an abuse of the court process, because he only requested that the APC rules should be followed, noting that the claimant being a former member of House of Representatives meets the requirements of a statutory member.


He ruled that no section of the APC constitution prohibits the statutory members of the party not to carry out the duties of the State Executive Committee in their absence, noting that in the case such lacuna that will warrant the setting up of the Committee by the national body of the party has not arisen because there was still the State Executive Committee of the party in the state.

He held: “It is my view that the appointment of the caretaker of the Committee without the inclusion of the national delegate and SEC is a violation of the party’s constitution. All the National Convention Delegates and State Executive Committee members should be part of the caretaker Committee.”


He noted that the tenure of the caretaker committee of the party elapsed in September, noting that the continuous stay of the caretaker Committee is null and void, even he described it as fatal.

Omereji, who granted all the prayers of the claimant, Aguma, held that the decision of the court should be given immediate effect to enable the second party to rebuild itself.

On the matter brought by Dele Moses and nine others, Omereji held that only those who purchased the form to participate in the annulled Congresses of the party in the state should participate in the Congresses to be rescheduled by the party.


The judge granted all six prayers of the applicants, ruling that the court can interfere in the internal affairs of the party when the party constitution is not followed.

Omereji held that democracy would be effective in the country when the parties have internal democracy, noting that the suit by Moses and others is justiceable.

He ruled that all the candidates and those excluded in the cancelled Congresses are automatic to be allowed to participate in the process.



Reacting to the court judgment, Aguma, noted that the ruling has given the party opportunity to make peace, noting that the party is bigger than any individual.

Aguma promised not to compromise the confidence reposed on him in piloting the affairs of the party, adding that peace would be restored in the party.

However, counsel for the defendants, Mr. Emenike Ebete, said the decisions of the court on the two matters would be challenged at the Court of Appeal.


He noted that there were a lot of grounds where the court erred in its decisions, adding that the judgment would not survive tested at the appellate court.

Ok

This is what they called "investment in education". This is wonderful

SirWarlock:
If it wasnt a respiratory virus

Because, I have not been hearing about it for a while now

I been think say this thing don go finish

sesameq:
I believe that of osun because you can sleep without any mat on roads in osun,

last time I went to Oshogbo, I got lost, everywhere has changed. unlike our own governor here.........

Who's ur governor?

After 21st, we go know how far

It doesn't just look awkward, it's practically and politically awkward

R.I.P

But, Oshiomhole stood against godfatherism

Brazil reported a record 1,349 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period Wednesday, the health ministry said, as the pandemic continued to take a grim toll on Latin America’s hardest-hit country.

The figure brought the total death toll from the new coronavirus in Brazil to 32,548, with 584,016 confirmed infections — the second-highest caseload worldwide, after the United States.

Brazil’s death toll, which has doubled in 17 days, is currently the fourth-highest worldwide, after the US, Britain and Italy.


Experts say under-testing in the country of 210 million people means the real numbers are probably much higher.

President Jair Bolsonaro has fiercely criticized coronavirus isolation measures, even as the number of infections and deaths continues to soar in Brazil.

The far-right leader has urged business leaders to wage “war” on state governors who order stay-at-home measures, arguing they are needlessly hurting Latin America’s biggest economy.

Bolsonaro, who famously compared the virus to a “little flu,” appears to have pinned his hopes on the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to stop it.


He has gone through two health ministers since the pandemic began, firing one and reportedly falling out with the other over his insistence on recommending hydroxychloroquine despite a lack of scientific consensus on its safety and effectiveness against COVID-19.

The former number two under ousted health minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Joao Gabbardo, told AFP that Brazil was now facing a complex scenario with different trajectories of infection in different regions.

“We have several curves,” Gabbardo said, adding Brazil could face a similar situation to Italy, “which had a large number of deaths in the north and not in the south.”

Brazil has been hardest hit so far in the southeast — the business and industrial corridor that includes Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro — the impoverished northeast, and the north, including the Amazon region
The impact has been felt less in the south of the country so far.


However, Gabbardo warned that if the coronavirus starts to spread rapidly in the south, which is about to hit cold winter temperatures and peak season for respiratory infections, “there could be very high pressure on the health system.”

– Mexico death toll surges –
Underlining the pandemic’s new epicenter in Latin America, Mexico meanwhile reported more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths in a 24-hour period for the first time.

The daily death toll of 1,092 was more than double the 470 fatalities reported the day before.


Health undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell explained the stark jump by saying that some of the deaths recorded on Wednesday had occurred more than two weeks earlier.

The country of more than 120 million people has now recorded 11,729 deaths — the second-highest toll in Latin America, after Brazil — and 101,238 cases, the office said.

Despite the rapid rise in cases, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government began gradually reopening the economy this week, in what he called a transition to “the new normal.”


The Pan American Health Organization warned Tuesday of a possible jump in infections in Latin America after some countries, including Mexico, started relaxing stay-at-home measures.

[AFP]
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/brazil-records-1349-coronavirus-deaths-in-24-hours/

fergie001:
The same thief Ize Iyamu , Osho told us about?



Well....its politics as they say.

...has been forgiven

AngelicDamsel:
Ok. Christian songs are not exactly the same with Gospel songs.


Trust in God, yet do your part.

Heaven help those who help themselves.

Only Legends will understand this pics.

Where is it written in the holy bible?

Heaven help those who help themselves.

Where is it written in the holy bible?

Abia state people and wicked

A man's gift maketh room for him and bringeth him before great

Stop telling lies

emekaobaro:
Nigerian police and lies are inseparable, he was rescued by vigilante at the inter state border at omuma local government area

AyomideToks:
They also have this price for same phone

How do I change to this type of italic font?

BluntTheApostle:
MTN.

But, they are not as generous as the other network providers.

They gave me 1GB for N200 (21 days).

I think, it depends on your location, here, Glo is the fastest; about 2MB per second on 4G LTE. It's manageable here

Maybe, we can also say - this is the positive side of this pandemic

But, why is domestic violence so rampant in Lagos?

Let's wait and see

UN health body urges African countries to urgently increase testing and warns the virus' peak is near.

Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, and testing should be urgently increased in the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

"During the last four days, we can see that the numbers have already doubled," Michel Yao, the WHO Africa programme manager for emergency response, told a media teleconference on Thursday. "If the trend continues, and also learning from what happened in China and in Europe, some countries may face a huge peak very soon," he said, adding it could arrive in the coming weeks but without naming countries.

The number of cases recorded of the novel coronavirus in Africa have been relatively low so far - with nearly 11,000 cases and 562 deaths.

The WHO's Africa head, Matshidiso Moeti, said there is an "urgent need" to expand testing capacity beyond capital cities in Africa as the virus spreads through countries.

"Without help and action now, poor countries and vulnerable communities could suffer enormous devastation," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats in Geneva.

"The infection numbers in Africa are relatively small now, but they are growing fast," he said.

He noted the havoc wrought even in wealthy nations in the 100 days since China first informed the WHO of cases of a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in the city of Wuhan.

Although Africa accounts for a fraction of global cases of the disease, its countries are feeling the economic impact. In a report published on Thursday, the World Bank said the outbreak is expected to push sub-Saharan Africa into recession in 2020 for the first time in 25 years.

The bank's Africa's Pulse report said the region's economy will contract 2.1 percent to 5.1 percent from growth of 2.4 percent last year, and coronavirus will cost sub-Saharan Africa $37bn to $79bn in output losses this year because of trade and value chain disruption, among other factors.



SOURCE: REUTERS NEWS AGENCY

Jeboy:
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Computer Science is bae.

Which one did u do? And which one is better?

My mother is unnecessarily curious. She ask so many irrelevant questions. But, apart from that, she's hardworking, have a very good Christian background.

This is seriously not a good time for Nigeria and her people; COVID-19, ASUU and the imminent ASUP strike, downfall of the global oil prices and BOKO HARAM

Gandollaar:
Better for him. He can now go home and get Lara pregnant.

But, wait o, how e take concern u?

But, to me, flaunting whatever certificate on social media is meaningless. I'm not a fan to it. I keep a lot of things private, especially, on social media.

Please, who is familiar with the information? I was told when I was doing my JAMB registration that I will need to come back to upload my O'level results