SoNature: You see, the EFCC is the least of my worries, and the same should apply for every genuine freelancer.
I am even more worried about my neighbors thinking I am a yahoo-yahoo guy because I don't go to work. However, I take time to explain to those close to me what I do. And of course, they are always marveled.
The day the EFCC officials would burst into my house to harass me, they would pay for every single pin damaged. Anyone doing well in freelancing should be able to afford a lawyer. He will sue their asses and get them to pay heavy damages. I don't brag...I am just expressing myself because I feel strongly about the subject.
Trust me, the easiest thing to defend in life is the truth.
Good morning guys.please help me,my landlord is about to throe me out for not paying my rent.help
9jahotblog: Raw evidences Nigeria lawmakers sold their votes to crown femi gbajabiamila as the speaker of representatives
To prove that they voted for Gbajabiamila after collecting $10,000 each, reps members snapped their ballot papers after voting in the House of Representatives Same way you showed your ballots after collecting N500 to vote for APC at the Polling Units..
Johnnyessence: On osun state governorship election What supreme court may base their judgement on according to the constitution. 1.The election has been concluded already,each party has already knew their score the winner already clearly emerged,with this result Ademola Adeleke has been satisfied constitution requirements, but under duress the person which not supposed to cancel elections do it. 2.supreme court will tell the whole world which is most superior between constitution and electoral law. If truly constitution superior above just electoral law which can be amend easily at any time. Ademola Adeleke has satisfied constitution requirements. If supreme court prefers electoral law above constitution. At first instance, What brings about inconclusive,who cancel these 8units, presiding officer (PO) or returning officer (RO)who has rights to cancel it according to the electoral Acts. 3.supreme court will also tell the whole world, if INEC has rights to cancel election that the winner has already known, Final results has already pasted on INEC server . 4.Apex court will tell if truly form ECA8 were doctored /altered by INEC. In my own assumption supreme court may likely base their judgement on this below results
This is the substantive suit.the supreme court can only come in here if only adeleke scales through preliminary objections and also agree that justice obiora wasn't absent
tuniski: The supreme court can uphold the Appeal court judgment but, still declare Adeleke winner on the 2nd appeal if it rules that supplementary election based on the margin of victory is inconsistent with the constitution thereby rendering the September 27th supplementary election Null and void since adeleke met the constitutional requirement to be declared winner.
The import of the judgment on the 4th appeal is deeper than Osun election but, on the validity or otherwise of 'margin of victory conditionality'.
If the SC rules against it, then Kano's situation is solved instantly.
Guy,why are you always annoying and dumb? Why try to bring your own logic into established judicial precedents? Why go forward and backwards? I dont want to descend into name calling.lawyers in the house,help this fellow please
tuniski: You get it very wrong. The first consolidated appeal deals with the Appeal court judgment while the 4 stand alone challenges the legality of the supplementary election which is inconsistent with the provision of section 179 of the constitution.
That is why they are taken separately. The technicality is limited to the processes of the trial while the 4th appeal is on interpretation and import of the provision of the constitution;simple majority and 25% of 2/3. That the margin of victory introduction is alien to the constitution.
You are the one that is wrong.the first three appeals are grounds in one suit.the 2nd appeal is a cross appeal.but let me not argue further because you never accept defeat.to show you that you that your legal knowledge is limited,you are treating the technicalities lightly.that is the first thing any court rules on that is why its called preliminary objections.if the supreme court finds merit in them,the case is over.ask any lawyer friend around you to educate you more before you misled yourself again. According to you,the first appeal deals with the appeal judgment.if the supreme uphelds it especially the one relating to the absence of justice obiora,the 4th appeal is dead.try and understand simple things
tuniski: There are four appeals by PdP/adeleke and the supreme court on 17th of this month's hearing declared that their judgement on the first appeal will be applicable to appeals 2&3 while appeal 4 will stand alone.
In essence, there will be 2 judgments on July 5th even though there are 4 appeals. This clearly indicates that substantive justice rather than technicalities will prevail.
You are too learned to start confusing yourself.seems you are new to tribunal procedures.those appeals you mentioned are the main or substantive suit and can only be treated if preliminary objections and technicalities are struck out.they will also look at the request for amendment by ikpeazu.too many hurdles to cross for adeleke.i wont be surprised if that error that was noticed on the 17 was due to sabotage or deliberate. The second appeal will not matter if the first appeal goes against adeleke,the first appeal being against the appeal court ruling on justice obiora's absence.if his absent is deemed to distort the composition of the panel,then it is over.the 2nd appel will just be mere academic exercise,pure formalities.
Johnnyessence: The Supreme Court today (Monday) spent about four hours
devoted to the long drawn battle for Osun governorship.
Chairing was the Chief Justice himself, Tanko Mohammed
who alertedly coordinated the hearing ,enforcing rules and
affirming the apex court readiness to do justice.
As much as the final judgement is scheduled for July 5th,the
public beyond political propaganda may want to peruse the
following as the takeaways from the hearing:
1. CJN’S FRANKNESS
Contrary to insinuations, the CJN demonstrated fairness,
alertness and passion for adjudication with justice as the
ultimate goal. Repeatedly, he affirmed: “We will read your
briefs twice ,thrice and even more before we write our
judgement. We will do justice”. The insistence to follow
substance rather than technicalities was clearly evident.
2. COUNSELS’ STRATEGIES
The counsels on both sides were at maximum alert. The
respondents’ lawyers adopted the strategy of dodging the
issue, the substance of the case,opting for an exit strategy by picking for errors in the appellant’s brief. Interestingly, the only one the counsel got on one of the four Appeals under
consideration was a secondary error which does not touch the primary core of the appeal. The Appellant’s counsels on the other hand combined combative corrective measures before the lord justices while maintaining the focus on the core grounds of the appeal;
3. CONSOLIDATION OF APPEALS
The CJN directed consolidation of the four appeals into two
even while allowing all issues to be mentioned and addressed.
The main appeal and the cross appeal which was a
constitutional issue were adopted under dramatic setting. The more than 30 grounds canvassed by the Appellant were thus consolidated .The goal was to fast track the hearing and ease the writing of final judgement;
4. UNANSWERED MAIN APPEAL
The appellant’s counsel adopted the brief of the main appeal
which was seeking upturning of Appeal Court judgement and
seeking declaration of Ademola Adeleke as the governor of
Osun state. Interestingly, neither APC nor INEC filed any brief
on this. Both supported the brief filed by Gboyega Oyetola
through his counsel, Wole Olanipekun.
5. CROSS APPEAL SHOTS
The appellant also adopted the brief for the cross appeal,
positing that on constitutional ground, Senator Ademola
Adeleke should have been declared winner based on
September 22 poll results by the INEC in compliance with
Section 179. (2) of CFRN. They also Cited a Supreme Court
judgement in the case of Buhari versus Obasanjo, where the
Supreme court struck down the INEC manual on use of Card
Readers as it conflicted with the Electoral Act. The appellant
argued that any additional conditions for winning election not known to the constitution should be struck down by the apex court. The CJN and others took copious note during the presentations.
6. APEALLANTS’ LEGAL ERUDITION
Argument that September 22 outcome did not satisfy
constitutional requirement of election being held in all parts of the state constituency was countered by appellant’s counsel.
The cancellation of seven polling units was described as an
illegal act designed to rob the winner of September 22 victory through the holding of another illegal rerun on the 27th;
7.WEAK DEFENCE
The Oyetola/APC team at the Supreme Court today failed to
come up with ANY CREDIBLE defense against Sen Ademola
Adeleke’s solid grounds of Appeal to be declared legitimate
Governor of Osun state having satisfied the requirements of
Section 179 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
Instead of arguing the merits of the case,the respondent went wild with a Preliminary Objection based on an observed minor typo at the last page of the notice of Appeal as transmitted by the Appeal court, particularly page 4,027, where the counsels were listed as “Counsel to the Respondents” instead of “Counsel to the Appellant”. A very trivial and inconsequential typo.
8. CRITICAL LEGAL NOTE
The Supreme Court ruled In JERIC NIGERIA LIMITED v. UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC (2000) 14 NWLR (pt.691), the Supreme Court per KALGO JSC at page 458 that quoted in part:
“…….. The error is as in my respectful view not fatal as to
render the appeal incompetent. It is also true as submitted by the learned counsel for the respondent that this court has long moved away from sticking to technicalities as opposed, to the determination of parties rights on merits and substantial justice. See the State v. Gwonto (1983) 1 SCNLR at 160; Amako v. The state (1995) 6 NWLR (pt. 399) 11 at 26; Akpan v. The State (1992) 6 NWLR (pt. 248) 439.
“I am therefore satisfied and hereby find that the putting in of
the year *”1996 instead of “1997” in referring to the date of the judgment of the trial court appealed against to the Court of Appeal on the Notice of Appeal filed by the respondent, is a mere irregularity in the circumstances and did not vitiate the appeal or render the Court of Appeal incompetent to entertain the appeal”.*
9. THE WEAK FOCUS
The typo that respondent’s counsels based their arguments on was so inconsequential that it did not affect them in their
replies as they did not refer to it in any of their reply briefs, it
also occurred in 1 out of 4 Appeals filed by Senator Adeleke’s
team of Counsels, there cannot therefore be any basis for
concern or alarm.
10. CONCLUSION
Judgement on the consolidated Appeals 553, 554 and 555 as well as the separate cross Appeal 556 were reserved till the 5th of July, 2019.
zoedew: You see, the matters in contention are beyond the technical. The truth is that where you do not do what is required to actuate the jurisdiction of a court the Suit is bound to fail. Even where the court sees differently- which will be laying a dangerous precedent as rules of court are made to be obeyed- the Leading Judgment Of The Tribunal Of first instance is incurably bad having been written by a Member who was not present when the evidence he purported to review in the said Judgment was given. Adeleke is flat. July 5, 2019 is close by.
Any laws or judicial precedent to back this assertion
psucc: I can where the onus lies. honestly, it wasn't Ukarakpa. It was the people. Akpabio only got served in his own coin by the 8LGAs he decided to neglected in his 8years as Gov
The truth is that the political gladiators and chiefs of akwa ibom across party lines ganged up to humiliate akpabio.
The major grounds of pdp suit is that one alterations in 17 units constitute grounds for substantial non compliance and therefore results here must be canceled. Secondly that during the first elections that adeleke s mm satisfied constitutional requirements and should have been declared winner and that supplementary polls are an illegality Thirdly that the 7 polling units where elections took place shouldn't have happened since elevtions there were cancelled by the state rec instead of the prrsiding officers. Fourthly that justice obiora was never absent in court and if he was,it is not enough grounds to nullify the panel sittings. Finally that the rerun polls was characterized by massive riggings and violence. They also filed a cross appeal
In response,apc replied that in 2016 the supreme court upheld supplementary polls during the kogi guber petition. That alterations on the result sheets did not affect the votes scored by each other.it affected other columns only.that the scores in the original were same in the pink copies held by parties.therefore,it does not constitute substantial non compliance.i age with them They also averred that justice obiora missed one of the sittings were key witnesses were testifying but ended up writing the lead judgment.according to them,they cited 7 supreme court judgments where the judgment or vote of a judge who missed a sitting was nullified or canceled.ejimatic csn help us out.agree with them here. That elections didnt actually hold in the 7 polling units during the first elections and that presiding officers actually canceled the elections. That section 140 of the electoral act forbids tribunals from declaring a winner and this was upheld by a full panel of the supreme court.i agree
tuniski: Technicality is part of law however there is limit to it.
The supreme court has clearly indicated that the error has been cured when it said the judgement in case 1 will apply to cases 2&3.
July 5th justice will be done. Dazal
No sir,it has not been cured sir that is why olanipekun said it is incurable.go back to the review of the sittings,ikpeazu moved a motion to amend the errors which the court proposed to rule on with the main judgment on the 5 july
I know its subjudice to discuss matters before a court but i wonder if adeleke can get victory based on what happened at the supreme court hearing on the 17th of June.his lead counsel made grievous errors that may cost him the case,olanipekun as usual took advantage of the technical error and moved a motion to strike out the case.wole best skill is always in defending electoral victories and always prevails using technicalities but performs averagely when he is on the petitioning team.what are the chances of adeleke winning?
firo08: Oga forget all these grammar. A quorum was formed before these speakers emerged. Oshiomole should stop crying because he is a destroyer not a builder.
I should forget the grammar which is order and remember the nonsense you typed
Kingsteve: You didn't answer my question, so I'd assume the answer is that someone services you once in a while. Thanks for the scripture though... I appreciate!
Morning sir,my landlord is about go evict me,cant renew my rent.please help
kingzizzy: Erik was actually a lucky man. At the start of the war, General Philip Effiong tried to recruit him into the Biafran Army but he chose to fight for Nigeria
When Biafran forces surrounded Etuk and his forces in the city of Owerri, Etuk fought back well. He was eventually allowed by the Biafran forces to withdraw from Owerri
Allowed to withdraw or brilliantly fought his way out of owerri to ph?
Babalegba: lol, I met one Delta Igbo last week and his dislike of the main ibo states and biafra was shocking. He had nothing but disdain for kanu the rabble rouser and his money grabbing cohorts.You cannot force somebody to claim ibo.
That is why i said 80% or more of ss people are vehemently anti biafra.even a lot of igbos do not subscribe to that ideology.trying to force them will attract resentment and hate.its a Free world
Warship: You stay in your enclave telling me who has a link to Akwa Cross that Igboland & thinking pattern with that of Akwa Cross aren't the same.
Do you see Annangs, Ibibios, Orons, Efiks etc live on water like the Ijaws.?
Can you differentiate us easily the way you do between Igbos and the Yoruba people.?
Do you know of hybrid clans like Arochukwu, Abiriba, Ohafia, Abiam etc made up of Igbos & Akwa Cross people.?
Haven't you heard of nsigbidi letters & ekpo secret society that cuts across Akwa Cross & Igbo nations.?
Oga, if u know who I am, u won't be arguing trash.
Let me state one fact known to even our enemies.
Most Igbo communities have Akwa Cross roots & vice versa.
Etuk was an inside rat that led the outside rats to overrun Biafra
Lets not bring this biafran theory here please.dont force people that are not part of something to be there.akwa,cross and rivers borders igboland hence similarities in some areas.it happens everywhere in the world along boundary lines between different ethnicities.at least 15% of people fighting in the then nigerian army were from the eastern region.etuk's prowess was not due to geographical knowledge afterall they were several other akwa cross commanders that didnt perform as much as him
Mk12: That is why some people are demanding restructuring and adjusting of this useless tissue paper given to us by the British as constitution. The tissue paper is always silent and clueless when it comes to things that are of national importance giving room for greedy politicians to always twist and maneuver things to their advantage at the detriment of the mass
PAGAN9JA: Don't teach me about animals jor. I own many cats. You can get two lion cubs for that amount. I've seen the price. Those are Persian cats. There was a hype at one time but now there are too many in the market because of breeders. They are not even worth a quarter of the amount you quoted.
Morning sir,my landlord is about go evict me,cant renew my rent.please help
joinnow: At this time, there is very little evidence to support the idea it causes cancer.
But what baffle me is each time my friend that work / repair mast returned back they give him carton of milk. Why the company do that is suspicious. Meanwhile overseas you hardly see base station.
Morning sir,my landlord is about go evict me,cant renew my rent.please help
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