₦airaland Forum

Odewaleadesoye:
Assuming the case was done in Nigeria, I am so sure that Ike Ekweremadu and his wife will go scot-free while the boy will be punished or even killed.

I continually ask myself this question:

Can justice really prevail in Nigeria?

Once you have enough money in Nigeria, you can even kill and no one will question you.

Nigeria shall be great again.

jamze:
Bro, in did case, u have lied.
I knew when u Nd fucklove started the beef, fucklove beat u to it by ending it amicably. I remembered vividly.
If u also say I have loud mouth, I challenge u to prove it, you're very good at digging out stuf from the deep blue sea. Prove it.... U have always striked first, Nd u you're eventually attacked, u attack back in 100folds. U even made RosyIsBlesssed leave the thread for u.

I wonder y u use pastor as Ur username, u com allow dem dey insult pastor upandan, when you're clearly a Muslim, or a muslim name.

Well, thank God you have changed, Nd I hope this change remains permanent, such that even anyone attack you, u will ignore.

I have nothing against you bro, Nd I never will, as a matter of fact, I have always enjoyed d banters...it kept d thread alive but sometimes d banters always go beyond d line.
One love

DispatcherLagos:
If she spoke this kind of English I read up there, then she might have been ra.ped for nothing

Jerryherd:
Exactly what an Ibo would say

Objectivity zero

Logic zero

Oluwatoyin Falaiye, an activist, says she endured sexual abuse for years to get an education.

The activist, who founded the NGO Jewels Hive, shared her experinece with Chude Jideonwo, media entrepreneur.

She said her neigbour’s son initially raped her at age 10 and had his mother cover it up.

Falaiye said her foster father would proceed to sexually molest for seven years, shushing her with death threats.

She said she was told she would be put out of school and returned to her village if she spoke of it to anyone.

“I was a village girl. I was born in a small village in Akure. When I turned seven, my father brought me to Lagos to visit his elder sister. I saw a TV for the first time, even though it was black and white,” she said.

“When it was time for my father to return to the village, I put up and tantrum and said no wasn’t going back. My aunt who didn’t have a child not her own decided to adopt me. A year later, I started school.

“At the end of the year, I came top in class. At age 10, I was raped by a neighbour’s son. Because I was a village girl, I didn’t even know what it was to be called a virgin. I just felt that the boy had injured me.

“So the neighbour came in, scolded the boy, cleaned me up, told me not to tell anyone, and sent me away.

“Two years later, my adoptive father began to molest me. That went on night after night for seven years. The days I escaped were when I’d started to become a woman. I was menstruating, so I had off days from abuse.”

Falaiye said enduring sexual abuse was the price she had to pay to get educated.

“I was told not to tell anyone. I was told I would be sent back to the village where I would die after seven days. I didn’t want to die or go back to the village. I was going to a public school in Festac Town,” the activist said.

“Sexual abuse was the price I had to pay to get an education. It was killing me and I was dying slowly. I attempted my first suicide at 15.”

Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the crooked leadership of Mahmood Yakubu began to emerge this past week. It all suggests network egregiousness on a monumental scale that easily rivals the elections of 2007 until now seen as the nadir in Nigeria’s journey of elective governance.

As the National Judicial Council (NJC) released the names of the 257 judges who will sit to consider and decide on elections petitions around the country beginning in May 2023, it emerged this past week that so far 1,044 petitions have been filed against results declared by the INEC in the 2023 elections. That is already more than 70% of the 1,490 seats contested and it appears that these are not the final numbers.

The relationship between election petitions and the acceptability of elections in Nigeria is one of direct proportionality. Candidates and parties who believe that the results reflect the will of the people are generally disinclined to continue the contest and more expenditure through the courts. Those who do not so believe re-litigate the contest through the courts. The numbers tell the story.

Some 1,299 petitions, representing about 86.35% of the seats contested in 2007 ended up before the courts, a fact that prompted The Economist to describe Nigeria as a “democracy by court order”. With a mere 10 months to prepare and deliver the 2011 elections, Professor Attahiru Jega whom President Goodluck Jonathan appointed in 2010 to replace the rampant Maurice Iwu at the leadership of INEC, cut the number of petitions by nearly 58% to 751 in 2011. In 2015, the last election conducted under Professor Jega, there were only 677 petitions or 45.4% of the seats on offer.

By contrast, with four years to deliver the 2019 elections, Professor Mahmood Yakubu managed to grow the number of petitions from the 677 he inherited in 2015 to 811 petitions or 54.4% of the contested seats. Four years later, the bottom has fallen off the system of electoral administration under his watch, with the proportion of petitions guaranteed to be much nearer where they were in 2007. Only a fool will believe that the judiciary can clean up this mess.

In many ways, the drama that accompanied the Adamawa State governorship elections embodies everything wrong with the INEC under the watch of Mahmood Yakubu. In that contest, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), who goes under the appellation of “Barrister” Yunusa Hudu Ari, on 16 April and with full protection from senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force and allied security services, announced fake results without numbers and without authority, forcing an INEC hierarchy steeped in electoral scandal to make song and dance of disowning the declaration.

The antecedents to this development, as well as the aftermath, should detain us.

Like the Chairman of INEC, “Barrister” Hudu Ari is from Bauchi state; and like the INEC chairman, he came from a supply pipeline that appears to bear the fingerprints of the Attorney-General of the Federation. In his home state, Bauchi, Yunusa Ari had worked as a civil servant, before retiring as a permanent secretary. He also previously served as secretary to the Bauchi branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.

But these were not what qualified him to be appointed a REC. His claim to fame is that he was chummy with the Attorney-General of the Federation. According to Leadership Newspaper, “Yunusa was classmates with the minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami”, and “the age-long relationship between Yunusa-Ari and Malami played a crucial role in his emergence as REC”.

Less than eight months before the 2023 elections, in July 2022, President Buhari transmitted Yunusa Ari’s name to the Senate for confirmation as one of a cohort of 19 REC nominees. His identification with the ruling party was well known. Far from disqualifying him as the applicable laws required, these credentials of partisan propinquity made his nomination all the more appealing, guaranteeing his confirmation. Now that the elections are over, INEC admits that many of these RECs nominated by Buhari in 2022 “were clearly partisan and, to make matters worse, some were deployed to states where they had sympathy for the ruling parties.”

After Yunusa Ari’s criminal announcement of a non-existent result, the INEC headquarters intervened purportedly to disown his conduct and summon him to Abuja. From the venue of the announcement, meanwhile, Yunusa Ari headed to the airport in Yola all the time under high-level police protection, where he boarded a private jet. He did not turn up in Abuja to answer the summons of his employers, however. Instead, the same employers went public to claim that he had vanished and they could not find him. The police, under whose protection he acted up to the point of vanishing, suddenly announced an investigation into what happened.

If this all sounds like coordinated institutional hyperventilation manufactured for a cover-up, it is because it probably is. The possibility that Yunusa Ari could have acted this script all by himself and without coordination with other agencies or with people higher up the political and institutional food chain is less than zero. It is equally impossible that he could have left Yola on a private jet that then vanished from the airspace. Air Traffic Control had to have cleared the flight and the manifest had to have been filed with the Civil Aviation Authority, all federal agencies. Bringing him to account would entail unmasking this command chain of complicity and conspiracy.

Hours after Yunusa Ari’s fake declaration, Aishatu Dahiru, the serving senator whom he sought to benefit in the Adamawa governorship contest, went to the federal high court in far away Abuja, asking it to affirm her as the winner of the election. She did this by way of an ex-parte application, essentially asking the court to decide this matter without hearing any of the other parties in the contest or the INEC whose REC purported to declare her the winner. The court invited her to show how it had jurisdiction over her claim. Rather than do that, her lawyers elected to ask the court for permission to discontinue the case. But, instead of granting her application, the court dismissed it.

While he is supposedly a fugitive, meanwhile, Yunusa Ari has apparently been busy firing off missives to the police, and the security services, and suing his employers. His address is presumably undisclosed and undiscoverable. The leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association, whose membership he advertises when he ostentatiously describes himself as a “Barrister”, has studiously averted its gaze from the peregrinations of this its infamous member despite the demand of many of its members for the Bar leadership to take steps to discipline him. Similarly, the Attorney-General of the Federation does not appear to have taken notice.

If they were to choose to, the leadership of the Bar, as well as the Attorney-General of the Federation, would have remembered that Rule 1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct in Nigeria’s Legal Profession precludes every lawyer from “any conduct which is unbecoming of a legal practitioner”.

In a country in which the richest lawyers make their billions from inventing technicalities to justify crooked election results, it is no surprise that those who lead the Bar are unwilling and unable to notice that announcing fake election results and disappearing thereafter into thin air is not something that should be associated with a lawyer, especially not one who claims to be a “barrister”. But then again, anyone who feels a need to be addressed as “barrister” is probably far from fit for purpose, anyway.

Obiedun:
If you want to base this judgment on Hope Uzodimma's case then you have failed. By the way you people claimed his case was a miscarriage of justice. Do you now want miscarriage of justice. What you people said was not right is now what you want. Know this for sure that obi can never never be president of Nigeria.

Obiedun:
Even if Shettima is disqualified, the party that came second will rather be declared . By then the case of rigging by Atiku was never taken to court. Obi should first take Atiku to court for rigging now.

Obiedun:
Even at that obi cannot be declared as winner. He took third position not second.

Akiara:
PO supporters are truly blessed ...

lolu2019:
yes daddy,y r u wailing.

Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission has in its reply to a petition filed by Peter Obi the presidential candidate of Labour Party against the announcement of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the 2023 presidential election, said that it wasn’t aware that Tinubu forfeited money to the US government.

Recall that Obi had claimed that Tinubu forfeited $460,000 to the US government which was proceeds of drug trafficking.

Reacting to Obi’s petition via the certified true copy submitted to court, INEC argued that it was not aware of the alleged forfeiture in “narcotics trafficking”.

SpecialAdviser:
My question in all these is "Is it part of what if filed at the tribunal?". If not, "Can it still be added?". The corrupt and stealing druggie should be arrested immediately.

alobright17:
Truly mosques are scam , even allah said we should be careful about them, some imams fuks both married and under age . If you say you don’t know this then you’re also a scam .

valentineuwakwe:
Obi said his party is committed to creating a new Nigeria because there are too many “thieves” inflicting suffering on the masses.

Obi said, “There is too much suffering in this country, and that is what we, in Labour Party, are fighting to end. There are many thieves in the country.

So, Labour Party is fighting to create a new Nigeria. I am here with you, and nobody is going to force me to leave Nigeria.”
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/04/14/nobody-can-force-me-out-of-nigeria-peter-obi-fires-back-at-fani-kayode-others/

yarimo:
and how is that your business, if we are used and dump

yarimo:
a man that was arrested and deported in a caneo from UK

yarimo:
pictures and videos and yet obi can't leave in that same village you are claiming they are not miserable. Obi leave in Lagos

Obiedun:
Nothing good about him

yarimo:
And yet the village that obi came from are still miserable

yarimo:
And yet the village that obi came from are still miserable