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Ezekiel Nya Etok, a renowned political analyst, has come out to share his thoughts on one aspect of the former Anambra governor’s lawsuit that Nigerians should keep an eye on as the nation waits for the outcome of the petition filed by the Labour Party’s flag bearer, Peter Gregory Obi, challenging the victory of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Election Tribunal.

Etok, a candidate for governor in the recently completed general elections in Akwa Ibom State, stated during a Thursday night interview on Africa Independent Television’s “Jigsaw” program that the allegations of double nomination made by Obi against the APC’s Vice-President-elect, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, at the Tribunal are so serious that Nigerians should pay attention to what the Electoral Act says about them.

He stated: “In Obi’s petition, there are very sensitive and weighty issues of Law that I want Nigerians to have an open mind towards.

For example, the allegation of double nomination leveled against the APC Vice-President-elect. What is a double nomination? Section 35 of the Electoral Act says that anyone who knowingly, allows himself to be nominated by two parties or in two constituencies, his nomination shall be void, and nothing else.

That statement is so weighty. Because it also means that if out of 9 political parties, seven of them fall short of that provision, all their votes shall be voided. Nigerians need to keep an eye on these kinds of issues because they are clearly explained by the law and it should not be difficult for the courts to interprete them.

He said he saw God empowering the judiciary to stand for the truth.

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Gucciblog:
Every morning, Mr Peter Obi works out for a minimum of 2 hours. It is a routine he strictly follows.

Today, he decided to work out with a walk out on the streets. He obviously enjoyed it, and so did the crowd of supporters who ran into him.

DatNiggaDaz:
The same we say I am yoruba first before a Nigeria

She said: “I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white.
But I was Igbo before the white man came.”

Exceed15:
And APC blind followers are still dying for them..

Alamkir:
This is typically of u children, u resort to insult when u hav no facts prove ur point. Get out of my mention I dnt talk to children

Alamkir:
May be u ar c2 who join yesterday because I remember receiving stipend last Yrs Easter

The quick intervention of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of Labour Party (LP) last week saved the plan by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to weaken the party leadership and scuttle the petition filed by its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, challenging the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as presidentelect. A Labour Party member, Lamidi Apapa, had, in the wake of the court order restraining Julius Abure from parading himself as LP National Chairman, declared himself acting Chairman. But the NEC meeting of the LP, which was held in Asaba last week, was summoned to tackle Apapa and other fifth columnists in the party.

The meeting, with officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in attendance, suspended Apapa, expelled Arabambi Abayomi, National Publicity Secretary, while the suspended National Youth Leader, Anselm Eragbe, was recommended to the national convention for expulsion. And to further checkmate future fractionalization of the party, the tenure of Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC) was extended by one year. Apapa, who was suspended by NEC at its meeting in Asaba, Delta State, last week, was Vice Chairman (South), whereas Ladi IIiya is the Deputy National Chairman, who is supposed to act in the absence of the National Chairman. The assumption of office by Apapa as acting National Chairman was orchestrated to fractionalize the LP and scuttle the petition filed by Obi.

He started immediately to execute the plan of his sponsors by lifting the suspension imposed on the former National Publicity Secretary, Arabambi Abayomi and National Youth Leader Anselm Eragbe and readmitted them into the party. Abayomi was alleged to have worked against LP producing candidates for Lagos and Ogun States, but for the intervention of the party leadership, who engaged another lawyer to handle the appeal against the exclusion of the party’s candidates in the two states by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Throughout the period he acted as National Chairman, Apapa made no attempt to meet Obi. Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, said there was no need for an acting National Chairman because there was court order stopping Abure’s suspension. “They (Apapa group) have an agenda.

Ladi IIiya is the Deputy National Chairman, seconded from the NLC (Nigeria Labour Congress). She is the one who supposed to act in the absence of the Chairman. “But we don’t have acting Chairman because Abure has not been removed. He remains substantive Chairman because a court of competent jurisdiction, in Edo State, has stopped his removal,” Ifoh said. The NLC and 37 state chairmen of the party stood solidly behind Abure. They were also present at the Asaba meeting where normalcy was restored in the party. Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, was also accused of involvement in the LP crisis. Imo is one of the three states INEC plans to hold off-season governorship elections in November this year. Uzodinma, who is seeking a second term in office, is reportedly not comfortable with the wave LP is making in South East, and is working to weaken the party in Imo State.

The LP platform attracted many aspirants, but Athan Achonu, a former Senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), emerged as LP candidate in the April 15 primaries. This is generating reactions from party supporters. Achonu is alleged to have been sponsored by Uzodinma. A video currently in circulation alleged that the governor gave him $1 million to pay delegates, who voted for him during the primaries. Achonu scored 134 votes to beat his closest rival, Jack Ogunewe, a retired major general, who scored 121 votes. Imo Obedient Movement, after its stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri on April 20, resolved to support Ogunewe, and asked the National Chairman “to quickly implement the recommendation of the Hon. Ceekay Igbara-led Labour Party Appeal committee report published on 16th of April 2023 and recognise Major General Ogunewe “as the authentic flag bearer of the party within the next couple of days or we will ask him to immediately secure the ticket of another party.” According to the group, the appeal committee report clearly captured what transpired in the LP gubernatorial primary election in Imo State and “it looks like what happened during the PDP presidential primaries, which led to the Obidient Movement asking H.E Peter Obi to exit the PDP which he promptly did. “Now, the Obidient Movement in Imo State is asking the peoples ‘General’ to ensure he is on the ballot in the November 2023 Imo State elections even if it means flying another party’s ticket.”

The group alleged massive irregularities before and during the primary election, “starting from the delegate list, which they claimed was manipulated and did not reflect the delegate election most of its members observed across the state and had on camera. “Some delegates that were clearly elected were not allowed to participate in the primaries by the compromised Labour Party Local Government Chairmen.” But Ifoh said the party recognised the primary conducted by Abia State governor- elect, Alex Otti, which produced Senator Achonu. “We have submitted his name to INEC,” he said, stating that the allegations of irregularities have not been proved.

The LP spokesman alleged that the group, through their recent activities, show “they are hirelings compromised by our political opponents to put spanners in the work of progress going on in the party.

Parachoko:
Even though Chicago State University don confirm say Asiwaju graduated from the school, David hudeyin still dey spread him propaganda.

Well, David hudeyin should com and tender his evidence in our court

StOla:
This one has been tormenting himself in futility.

He still cannot believe that despite all his partisan journalism and rehashing of the same tales as new discovery, he could not prevent Tinubu from being President.

KingKO22:
Arrest our president elect so that Obituary and Atiku can takeover our economy 🤣😂😀

You na go cry tire

Hundeyin revealed that Tinubu failed to declare in his form EC9 submitted to INEC that he obtained the citizenship of Guinea.

Investigative journalist and author of 'The Jungle: A Personal Journey with the Enfant Terrible of Nigerian Journalism,' David Hundeyin, has accused Nigeria's 'President-elect' Bola Ahmed Tinubu of committing perjury.

The journalist, who earlier revealed how Mr. Tinubu submitted a fake Chicago State University certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, said that the former Lagos State governor should face a 14-year jail term as the punishment stipulated for perjury under Nigerian laws.

While appearing as a guest in the popular online interview programme 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo on Sunday, David Hundeyin revealed that Tinubu failed to declare in his form EC9 submitted to INEC that he obtained the citizenship of Guinea.

"In the form EC9, which is a sworn affidavit, there is a question that asks if the candidate has obtained citizenship of another country. It requires a simple yes or no answer.

"Tinubu clearly ticked 'no'- that he has not acquired citizenship of another country. But there is prima facie evidence that he did acquire citizenship of another country and fairly recently as well. So he lied under oath, which is perjury, and under the Nigerian constitution, it's punishable with 14 years imprisonment," he explained.

During a live television interview on Channels TV on Sunday, the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola, said that Tinubu's acquisition of Guinean citizenship does not make him ineligible to be Nigeria's president.

But Mr. Hundeyin argued that the issue at stake is Tinubu's deliberate falsehood in the information supplied under oath in a sworn affidavit.

Meanwhile, the Bola Tinubu team has been doing everything to suppress the story. They reported David Hundeyin's Twitter page and got him locked out of the social media platform. They also persuaded YouTube to take down Rudolf Okonkwo's video of the interview with David Hundeyin on Dr. Damages YouTube account after accusing it of violating community guidelines policy called "harassment and cyberbullying."

slivertongue:
AriseTv should know the limits .

Nigerians don't want an unidentifiable flying object as a president - Dr. Reuben Abati, host of the Arise Television Morning Show, has said Nigerians do not want "an unidentifiable flying object" as a president.

Bluntguy:
A lot of things hidden about this man is being gradually revealed in recent days. Bishop Feyi's prophecy on my mind right now.

post=122622796:
God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬

Kobojunkiee:
Indeed, this problem isn't new and it grows as society is no longer able to forward the vicious lie that polygamous is a man-only feature. Women have always desired to have multiple partners and during the time of our ancestors, some cultures attempted to work this out by allowing wives to have concubines. However, over time the diction shifted towards men alone being polygamous. However, that diction has failed in causing change intended as the truth is not easy to hide anymore.

SenatePresdo:
The cabals wants Tinubu down, they have not given up.

It was Guinea GOVT that leaked it

aswani:
I am genuinely interested, how will Obi be running an administration when Atiku came second?