₦airaland Forum

StarBoard:
Oba leave that rhetoric.
What about the killings and widespread violence that occurred?
You don't seem to have a problem with the collective rape on our sensibilities as long as it favors whom you support.
Abeg swerve with your hypocrisy.

Thank you and well-said !!! When Buhari said he will not forgive or forget the violence, arson and murder that marred the rivers election, what exactly did people think he meant? You can always tell PDP fan by the way they, similar to the Party they support, appear to have no conscience. Because PDP considered the deaths of Nigerians during election as 'collateral damage' that means Buhari will be of the same mindset? Some people, especially PDP supporters, fail to realise that the last thing a Buhari-led government will tolerate is impunity. I said it last week that all these guys, i.e Wike et al, go hear wien (Fela). Some thought I was joking. Make we dey enjoy the drama ojare.

@Topic.

I warned them that this is a new regime not joking around, on the thread below, but they scoffed. Now perhaps they will realise this is no joke.

https://www.nairaland.com/2691004/expose-saharareporters-led-governor-wikes/4#39390532

Whynotthetruth:
Gbawe!!! Always writing empty rhetorics and epistle of innanities...

1)Its about constitutionality bro...Constitution isn't negotiable or subject to the whims and caprices of anybody unless when judgement is compromised for pecuniary reasons like Salami...

2)Counter the constitutional lacuna or blunder committed by APC and their judge as contained in my former post...

3)Is it possible in your head that an election tribunal can upturn the decision of higher cum regular court with competent jurisdiction?...That's what you did in Rivers state which can NEVER stand unless in a corrupt and compromised judiciary... Wherein the people/masses will now vehemently take laws into their hands...Can buhari handle a turbulent NDelta and boko haram cum Biafra agitators at same time?

Empty rhetoric abi? In view of development today do you now understand what I mean when I made the statement below you claimed is "empty rhetoric"?

Look, your biggest limitation is that you do not realise when the rules of the game has changed. What Wike could get away with under GEJ he will not escape under PMB. You also do not understand your own people. you do not get it that Nigerians, in the entire world, are the people probably most amenable to rule change whether supreme court judge, senate president, market trader or street vulcaniser. Nigerians can be anything a system allows them to be.

I will leave you to find out what I mean by this in your own time and then we will see who is ignorant.

You guys are simply too damn emotional and this means you will never learn to play the game let alone win at it. You see what I mean now? You guys simply make me laugh. GEJ, a whole President, was demystified literally in seconds, to the extent he is now hiding and keeping a low profile so as not to annoy the powers that be, and you are talking about Wike and his cohorts who supervised the worst rigging and electoral violence in Nigeria thereby making themselves easy preys? The naivete and emotional nature of some of you is always amusing to behold.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/26/election-tribunal-sacks-speaker-and-20-house-assembly-lawmakers-rivers-state

Election Tribunal Sacks Speaker And 20 House Of Assembly Lawmakers In Rivers State

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKOCT 26, 2015


Elections petition tribunals sitting in Abuja have nullified the election of the Speaker, Owaji Ibani from Andoni constituency and 20 lawmakers in Rivers state house of assembly. The lawmakers were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on April 11 2015 in an election marred by vote rigging and violence.

The judgements given today by the relevant tribunals in Abuja is bound to compound the case of the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, who was sacked last week by a tribunal under the same circumstances. There are 32 state lawmakers in Rivers state with the election of 21 members nullified the state assembly will no longer form a quorum as to continue to function.

More details shortly...

Whynotthetruth:
Which stay of execution application And you claim not to be ignorant? ...smh...Writing epistles with venomous language isn't synonymous with being informed bro...

Wike can approach Appeal court to Supreme court to quash the judgement pending whose ruling he remains the governor...So NO need any for any stay of execution ruling here...except he chooses not to appeal...BTW NO SINCERE judge will uphold that judgement except a compromised judge like the one who declared the Saturday's ruling which;


1)Contradicts and undermines the ruling of higher court against card reader...

2)Contradicts Lagos ruling which falls inline with appeal court judgement...

3)Tribunal isn't meant to readjust and grant pleas NOT entered by the prosecuting counsels which is what that ruling did...

Your other vituperations about Rivers doesn't hold water...court is about processes and evidences not your gossips and lies...APC are reinventing more Salamis in our system... but I think they are knocking on the wrong door this time...

This is why Nigeria is stagnant. Too many 'book knowledge' followers, like you, and too few 'outside the box' innovators and reformers. There are too many people like you who like to quote theory yet cannot recognise that the law, simply because the PDP made you believe so, is not designed to be an impediment to man or to abet criminal conduct as you tout. Look, your biggest limitation is that you do not realise when the rules of the game has changed. What Wike could get away with under GEJ he will not escape under PMB. You also do not understand your own people. you do not get it that Nigerians, in the entire world, are the people probably most amenable to rule change whether supreme court judge, senate president, market trader or street vulcaniser. Nigerians can be anything a system allows them to be.

I will leave you to find out what I mean by this in your own time and then we will see who is ignorant. Those who lead Nigeria are not pen-pushers, the smartest lawyers or inflexible and apologists 'crammers' who know what every line of the constitution says yet can never think or act outside the box. Those sort are limited individual who only seem smart and effective while leaders and the system in place assist them to appear that way. Those who lead are actually the men and women who understand how to use the pen-pushers you appear to sound like. Once again, I will tell you that the law is an instrument of progress. It is not in place to shield criminals or constitute an impediment to good governance. A leader determined to lead well will know this and will understand how to go about making the law an instrument he can use for positive reforms and progress.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Story Story,bribing is bribing

Yes bribing is bribing but no one will compare bribing a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) , who is subject to the ruling of the court, to bribing the judge who decides and can partisanly influence the ruling of the Court. Gerrit?

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Only when it involves Pdp,but d dullard made ameachi dat was indicted for corruption a minister and kept a blind eye to Yobe

look, Amaechi is competent, fearless and genuinely pro-progress. Buhari knows why he is insistent Amaechi must become a Minister. He needs Amaechi and others like him. The allegations of corruption are unproven. Deal with what has been proven against Amaechi in a competent court of law. As for the Yobe you keep mentioning, I have to say I find the reasoning of you and Firefire amusing. How can you compare bribing a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) with bribing a judge? When you bribe a resident electoral commissioner then the chairman of the election tribunal has to look at the merit of that evidence as it pertains to the case and make a ruling as per how such affects the case. If it is the judge heading the election tribunal who is suspected of receiving a bribe then there is no option but to remove them ASAP from adjudicating further on the case in question.

Whynotthetruth:
Never knew you were as ignorant as you displayed all over this thread...smh... and you have been boasting about your high IQ

I may be a lot of thing but no honest person can accuse me of ignorance. I am not here to drag pedantism with you. My belief is that the gross and repugnant rigging in Rivers, laced with the most violence and electoral irregularity Nigeria witnessed that even international observers attested to, means Wike has no judicial leg to stand on. Let us continue to observe. You guys think this is the 'abracadabra' days of the PDP and GEJ? Okay. Let us see the appeal court judge that will grant the stay of execution Wike is seeking.

Bayswater:
Let's wait and see. A re-run must take place within 90 days, can the appeals process be concluded before then?

Bru, like I keep telling you guys, it is not a fight. Let us indeed wait and see.

Dhugal:
Guy,I'll advise you stop wasting valuable time with that bit of flotsam.
As you can see,his intent isn't to rightly inform,but to confuse the more the legions of the uninformed that make nairaland home.

yet you are still posting and reading? Comical.

Firefire:
Don't you feel all options provided by the law must be exhusted before making any conclusion?


Wike remains the governor until Supreme Court ruling.

Did I tell you I disagree with this? My point is that the rigging in Rivers was the worst in Nigeria with ample evidence revealing this. I personally don't believe Wike will find any judge to do the 'abracadabra' he needs in today's Nigeria. I don't think anyone will be getting away with such impunity under this regime that is why I am certain Wike will not get a stay of execution. I may be wrong but we will wait and see. Everything is a test of Buhari's integrity home and abroad. Some things will make him look foolish and solidify the opinion Nigeria is still the land of impunity and has not changed under him.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Somebody asked you what happened to the Yobe case that received 15m bribe from d Gov,you have no shame at all,nobody takes you serious

You are the one without shame if you think I am compelled to respond to you or anyone who 'ask' me anything.

Bayswater:
Are you just ignorant or trying to tell a lie? Wike remains governor as long as an appeal is filed against the tribunal's decision.

His appeal will be set aside. Wait and see. Was there no proof of electoral malpractice necessitating the removal of Wike and the ordering of a rerun?

Firefire:
So, you are aware there is going to be an appeal ? SMH

In my opinion, it is a foregone conclusion that is appeal will fail. We are not in PDP Nigeria where Judges can grant judgement that makes no sense. The rigging in Rivers means Wike was dismissed with solid evidence that proved electoral malpractice. Let us keep watching. What I know is that the Judiciary remains independent yet under a President that wants strong institutions, Judges will now have to explain 'strange' judgements otherwise Nigerians will believe there is no 'change' and everything is still business as usual.

Governor Wike had made at least two attempts to see the Chief Justice of Nigeria to seek the CJN’s help to influence the outcome of the tribunal, but the nation’s top judge declined to meet with the governor, citing his fear of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Firefire:
My brother is gallivanting with half information.

What half information? Wike has been dismissed and will no longer have immunity once the head of the State legislative arm is sworn in as acting Governor. If the judgement dismissing Wike is based on sound evidence, which I think is the case, then he is merely wasting his time at the appeal court.

bettercreature:
This government is too young and we have to give PMB 3 yrs atleast before we can decide if change is a scam beside there is nothing bad in returning power back to the north,GEJ was a disaster

GEJ was indeed a disaster. A very big one. He has set Nigeria back by at least 10 years in my opinion.

Dhugal:
Erm.....wake up from dreamland,man.Wike is still Governor until the appeal process up to the Supreme Court is exhausted and go against him.
Why don't you just shut up and observe from the sideline,than being made to eat crow at the end of the day.

Let us see the outcome of his appeal.

bettercreature:
Just look at what happened to Ghanian judges who collected bribe,they were all suspended currently facing charges
I dont think it's on going,our journalists are not that bad

This is linked to an election and has to be handled sensitively plus in the right order. The judge was replaced and Wike was removed. You too should think of the backlash if the judge had been arrested, charged and suspended. Would the entire world not accuse the Buhari regime of deliberately removing the judge so he could nail Wike? Better to replace the judge and legally dismiss Wike. After that point then the bribe-taking judge can be prosecuted. The APC is not a foolish Party to give the opposition ammunition when we all know said opposition is desperate for 'food' to use in declaring that Buhari has begun to hound and jail "innocent" folks without trial.

biafranking:
if he s prosecuted for bribery then they charge him to court and remove him from the seat of power, who then will now be the governor? his deputy? Or the apc man(peterside)?

i think they should just leave the man cos he s working tirelessly for the good of rivers state.

Peterside cannot be Governor automatically because a rerun has been ordered. Neither can Wike's deputy since the assumption is that he gained power with a governor who may have secured a stolen mandate. The head of the State legislative arm will be sworn in as acting Governor. Elections will hold in 90 days. If, and it is a big if, Wike is prosecuted successfully thereby disqualified from running as governor then the PDP can still present another candidate for the gubernatorial rerun. I am not telling you this is what will happen but simply giving you the scenario that may play out.

bettercreature:
I mean the judge who collected the bribe

How are you sure this is not currently happening?

bettercreature:
Then why they didnt prosecute him if they have evidence of bribe or what kind of junk journalism is this one

He had immunity then. Not now. He may yet be prosecuted.

biafranking:
wike must be the governor.

Not if he keeps increasing the number of criminal charges that can be brought against him now he no longer enjoys immunity.

Over to fans of Wike and the PDP. They were busy working the angle the election tribunal chairman is Buhari's relative whereas the reality is that Wike compromised the former chairman of the Rivers election tribunal leading the President of the appeal court to dismiss Pindiga and replace him with Ambrosa. Interesting. One thing is clear though - this is not a GEJ or PDP government in place and the likes of Wike will quickly regret their 'business as usual' practice/tactics.

Justice Mu’azu Pindiga, chairman of the Rivers State governorship election tribunal, was removed after investigators from the Department of State Security (DSS) discovered that the judge had accepted a bribe of N200 million from Governor Nyesom Wike, the major defendant in an electoral case before the tribunal.

Our sources within the DSS said their agents confronted the judge as well as the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, with evidence of the bribe. Justice Bulkachuwa then decided to remove the tribunal chairman.

Justice Mohammed Ambrosa was then asked to replace the compromised Justice Pindiga, as the President of the Court of Appeal said there was no point swearing in a new judge.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/24/expose-saharareporters-led-governor-wike%E2%80%99s-removal-elections-tribunal

Expose By SaharaReporters Led To Governor Wike’s Removal By Elections Tribunal


BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK OCT 24, 2015

On September 11, 2015 SaharaReporters published an expose revealing that the judge heading the governorship election tribunal in Rivers State had received a bribe of N200 million from Governor Nyesom Wike to pervert the course of justice.


That compromised judge, Mu’azu Pindiga, was quietly removed as head of the election petition tribunal and reassigned to another tribunal as chairman of the National and state Houses of Assembly Tribunal for Court 2, handling state and national assembly elections petitions in Rivers State.

Despite his removal from the governorship tribunal and our our expose that his removal was due to the fact that he took bribe, Justice Pindiga went ahead to deliver controversial verdicts, validating all the legislative results called by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state.

“The truth is that Justice Pindiga tainted the image of the judiciary with his rulings,” said a lawyer who represented one of the candidates who petitioned the tribunal to overturn a controversial election into the House of Representatives. “We all know that the PDP [Peoples Democratic Party] carried out massive rigging throughout Rivers [State]. So when Justice Pindiga’s tribunal upheld all the cases brought before him, he robbed the people of Rivers the opportunity to redress the injustice done against them by men and women who fraudulently got into office using widespread rigging and violence,” said the lawyer.

Justice Mohammed Suleiman Ambrosa, who took over the governorship tribunal, reportedly rebuffed every effort by Mr. Wike and his cohorts to bribe him and members of his tribunal, perhaps for fear of being exposed as his successor, Justice Pindiga, was.

Below is the text of our original reporting on the firing of Justice Pindiga:

Governor Nyesom Wike’s N200 Million Bribe Behind Firing Of Governorship Election Tribunal Chairman In Rivers State

[size=14pt]Justice Mu’azu Pindiga, chairman of the Rivers State governorship election tribunal, was removed after investigators from the Department of State Security (DSS) discovered that the judge had accepted a bribe of N200 million from Governor Nyesom Wike, the major defendant in an electoral case before the tribunal.[/size]

Our sources within the DSS said their agents confronted the judge as well as the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, with evidence of the bribe. Justice Bulkachuwa then decided to remove the tribunal chairman.

Justice Mohammed Ambrosa was then asked to replace the compromised Justice Pindiga, as the President of the Court of Appeal said there was no point swearing in a new judge.

Two lawyers representing clients whose petitions were before the electoral tribunal told SaharaReporters that they welcomed the firing of Justice Pindiga. “Apart from the fact that he has been exposed for being corrupt, he has not demonstrated any knowledge of electoral matters,” one of the lawyers said. “I can tell you that a number of lawyers who have appeared before him have found him wanting when it comes to issues pertaining to the electoral laws of this country,” he added. Another lawyer echoed the sentiment. “We had protested to the President of Court of Appeal to replace the judge. He was a poor judge,” he said. After learning about the replacement of Justice Pindiga, Mr. Wike’s lawyers launched a feeble protest, criticizing the reconstitution of the tribunal. However, their protest was silenced when they were told that the governor’s bribe to the removed judge had been exposed.

Governor Wike had made at least two attempts to see the Chief Justice of Nigeria to seek the CJN’s help to influence the outcome of the tribunal, but the nation’s top judge declined to meet with the governor, citing his fear of President Muhammadu Buhari. SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Wike’s lawyers facilitated the collection of the N200 million by the ousted tribunal chairman. Justice Bulkachuwa, who oversees the Court of Appeal, is mentioned in legal circles as a keen receiver of inducement in past electoral tribunal cases.

I wonder how those who backed GEJ vehemently and sacrificed a lot for him now feel even as some of us insisted he is a self-serving and highly unprincipled opportunist who stands for nothing and will abandon his Party, loyalists and followers once he loses the election. Abeg where is oga GEJ? Spending his loot as I predicted? When we said GEJ is no Atiku or Tinubu and that he would disappear after the election Pa Chukwudi et al were busy claiming the opposite by touting Jonathan "the most influential politician in Nigeria". How far Chukwudi?

Gbawe:
@Topic.


GEJ cannot lead anyone because he is not a leader himself. He is an 'accident' who stumbled into the Presidency. I said it here that GEJ would be the last accidental President Nigeria would have and I have being proven right. The days of OBJ et al imposing dull and unknown 'mumus' on Nigerians is over . Now it is political gladiators and leaders who really want it who will gain the Presidency after besting others on the field of battle. Those asking GEJ to now stand tall to lead the PDP simply do not understand that GEJ is a very simple and small-minded individual who is entirely about his own ambition and nothing else.

In fact after May 29th not much will be heard of GEJ again. He will simply become another Odili by retiring to the background to spend his loot. The PDP will have to look, if any remain, towards its strong and sagacious characters to lead what will be a very difficult rebuilding period for the Party where it went from the ruling Party of Nigeria, with majority in all legislative houses, to an opposition Party with no majority in any legislative house and in control of far fewer Nigerian States than was the case when the Party was at the heights of its power. In fact, I think the PDP is now effectively a regional Party strong only in the SE and SS. This will never be enough to relaunch it towards the centre or towards political relevance and might.

https://www.nairaland.com/1302601/jonathan-misses-speaking-slot-au

Are threads like these not now really funny to read today? "Much ado about nothing" as we warned them. The same GEJ has disappeared from politics today, as I predicted he would because of his self-serving and weak character, to leave the PDP to its fate even when the Party gave him the platform to become who he was.

@OP

I don't see why you must put an ethnic slant to a development that deepens Nigeria's democracy. If you claim the SW and the North are the ones celebrating this judgement, which is entirely correct in my opinion, then what do you make of those who back their own leaders blindly even when their actions led to the death of many innocent people? Do you want the SW and the North to be sad that the worst and most deadly election of 2015, that saw the largest number of innocent Nigerians dying, has been annulled? I don't get your reasoning.

The SW and the North collectively, or indeed any well-meaning individual, should be happy that the election international observers complained about the most, i.e Rivers guber, has now been annulled. The SW and the North do not owe you any apology for supporting justice and equity. You might not get it yet but the bottom line is that many are happy that the impunity of GEJ and his minions like Wike, led by the belief Buhari would never win, may now see justice handed out to lawless elements in the Nigerian political space.

dazdilijae:
Please between wike and GEJ which election came first? Buhari can not do jack shit in rivers state trust me. We are waiting for your lion(our dog) of obima to cam show the federal might.
Federal might only works when the people like you it diddnt work in Osun or koro n Lagos. Bayelsa is your first test of federal might in SS so we wish u the best. Like bayelsa PDP has said meet you in the field

Look, GEJ was still President , with the full influence of office still available to him, when the Rivers gubernatorial election were conducted so I don't get your point. PEJ took issues personally as well and was determined to ensure everything was done to ensure Wike won. They did not expect GEJ to lose and this is why they went overboard with the rigging and violence.

Also, where did I mention 'federal might' in relation to election victory? The point of the post is that the PDP went over the top , with rigging and violence, for an election they would likely have won comfortably anyway. If Buhari is determined to prosecute those behind the election violence and loss of lives, that was the worst in Nigeria,then he can. No one is dragging election win with you but Wike and his minions are not above the law - especially in a Buhari-led Nigeria.

olatade:
If Jonathan could not defeat Ameachi, then who is Wike.

On the whole, PDP will likely will a rerun in Rivers because the Party is very strong in that State. Yet the dynamics have changed slightly. While Wike would have won comfortably under Jonathan, an SS President, the GEJ/PEJ factor, clout and machinery will not now work for Wike as effectively as it did before the original elections earlier in the year. The PDP should still win but anything may happen in 90 days under an APC President and with Amaechi a Minister. The substantive point is that the APC and Amaechi can still work hard enough to mount a serious challenge against the PDP.

MizMyColi:
Gbawe is an Ambivert.
He is a mix of introversion and extroversion.
People like him are very good manipulators and charmers.

I'm not surprised.

Chief Gbawe, if you like, take offence.
I bear you no ill

*Sigh*. Thanks for the free character analysis. I'll print it off and frame it on the wall.

SeverusSnape:
Okay Mr. Gbawe_, I've heard you. But we were only joking about that. That incident happened in the past, and let's leave it where it belongs - The past.

Thanks for your understanding.

I agree but that reminder is better off directed at Truckpusher because he started the whole 'protection seeker' thing here. Overall, your call is correct.

SeverusSnape:


I'll heed to your advice, If I don't listen to my boss, who will i listen to?

But he dare not accuse me of "protection seeking"

People just start a rumour and then some begin to try and pass it off as truth. Why would I accuse you of "protection seeking"? You do know it was the poster nicknamed "protection seeker" who childishly revealed the content of private conversations he had with other posters here for all to see? As I said above, if the revelations he himself made public then come back to hurt his image then his fans should blame their hero and not Gbawe, Pendy, Rawani and many others he PMed only to then drag everything out in public because of his obsession with attention-seeking. In my 6 years as a member here who have I accused of seeking anything from me for anyone to think I am interested in that nonsense? Please let the attention-seeker face the consequences of what he did to himself and let his fan apportion blame fairly and maturely.

Truckpusher:
Don't go too close before he will spin up some convo and accuse you of seeking protection.

Dude got no honor and dignity, he winds for the highest bidder.

For the record, your pal exposed himself completely because of his impetuous character and desire to present himself as the victim always. He revealed the content of private conversation he had with me and others. If those then turn around to hurt his name and credibility here then that is his own problem not mine.