garfield1:


I am not.i said apc will likely lose Kano but win plateau

I remember, you said it's a fifty fifty chance in Kano for both parties

That's why one needs to marry for love not sex

Coming from someone that invested the state fund in his family business as well as saving the state money in his Bank. Kettle calling pot black

VeeVeeMyLuv:


To win election is their only goal, vision & agenda! Nothing else. To serve the people is never in their agenda at all. Infact they see the masses as unwanted pests/cockroaches that must be smashed. This is their mindset on the average normal.

Well they can continue to make a mockery of democratic principles and desecrate democratic institutions, since the originator of the said democracy has also been fumbling.

Oga before you serve you must win an election

ImoleNaija:
It really takes foolishness & self-centeredness to push Osinbajo aside & gave the party's Presidential ticket to Tinubu. Well, it only shows that most political groups have only their parties' interests at heart & not Nigeria's.

Anyway, my prayers are with Tinubu. Tẹni n' tẹni.....

Oga, party gives ticket to someone with that capacity to win an election not Mr nice guy

marlow1962:
Lol, waste of funds, Nigeria football league is shit.
12bn for people that can't win shit, but workers done resume work without last year pay, and agbadorians are still roaming the streets with empty stomach, bobo Chicago have mercy.

Maybe you fail t understand how much people earned a living from football... In all ramifications, football is a serious business, and each labourer deserves his/her wages.

oz4real83:
Ahmed Musa's name still showed in many places in the report, this shows how much we have regressed in sport , what contribution is he making to the team apart from speaking to the press? Nigeria is expecting success in football but still uses expired product as building material to achieve success

Musa is like a legend in the term irrespective of his decline in productivity. I think his experience is solidly needed in the team if not on field.

lagbaja:
In reality, Wedding party produced by Kemi Adetiba is the highest grossing Nollywood wood film if you consider the exchange rates at the times of production.

Wedding party produced in 2016 made N452million when exchange rate was about N390 per dollar. That gives us about $1.2 m dollars.

On the other hand, Funke Akindele's Children of Judah grossed N1B ( latest figure as at yesterday 5th January 2024) which in dollar terms is about $833k dollars (1 $= N1200)

Do you know how much it will make in dollars term within the next six month?

I strongly believe Kano and plateau states might not survive it.. either one or both might go to APC.

Then who will be retiring those receipts if not for the account department?
This wasn't a contract but something supervised by the ministry

AfonjaScud:


When Gej surrounded himself with virtually Ibos, did you complain ?
Atleast, the Yoruba did not complain.

The last time I checked, Jonathan wasn't an igbo man and he didn't appoint Ijaw people. Can that be said to Tinubu too. Nepotism and tribalism will destroy this country. Let me ask you this, is it fair to sack an Fulani-hausa man and be replaced by a Yorùbá person?

symbianDON:
if the man deserves it, yes.

So, people on the other zones don't deserve it... Just be honest with yourself, is it all about competency of tribalism?

Mitsurugi:



Yes. It's their turn

Maybe that's the reason Ogun state can boost of 3 ministerial appointments whereas the entire south east have 5 in total.

Cantonese:



Ohhhh. Which kind boy you be o. Are you from Panya?

The disagreement between the parties regarding the office of the national secretary is not a division in the party oo. By the way, is there any division in the state? Oya answer that small quechion.

1. So, it's division in the office of the national secretary not that of the party.
2. The law only recognized division at the national not state since a party is a single entity. That's why when the party is in dispute in the state and the only organ been recognized by the national is what the inec will support until a valid court judgment.

Cantonese:



Ohhhh. Which kind boy you be o. Are you from Panya?

The disagreement between the parties regarding the office of the national secretary is not a division in the party oo. By the way, is there any division in the state? Oya answer that small quechion.

Oga, I must not be in the state before it's recognized. However, factionalization is a division cos if my memory take me well, the office of the national secretary was in dispute and it's can barred party men and women from discharging their duties. As any organization, the office of the national secretary is as important as that of the chairman. As the last time I checked, the said office was occupied by two factions and the matter was adjudication.

Must it be only Yoruba names?

Cantonese:



Nooo bros, it is not.

Background:

It is important to stress how the Constitution views candidates nominated on a political platform and those elected to office. The power to sponsor candidates in an election is the sole preserve of a political party and the power cannot be challenged by the Independent National Electoral Commission. However, this power must be exercised under laid down rules and regulations considering the amendment to the Electoral Act and recent judicial decisions. Therefore, the votes gotten by any candidate in an election are those of the sponsor, which is the political party.

The Implication

The Nigerian constitution is clear on what to follow when members of the State House of Assembly defect to another political party. The Constitution in section 68(1) states that “a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if – (g) Being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

The question to ask then is whether the PDP in Rivers state or at the National Level has been factionalized or what indeed constitutes a division in a political party. Worth mentioning, however, is that the PDP in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, demanded that “the Speaker of the Rivers State House Assembly immediately comply with the provision of the Constitution by declaring the seats of the 27 former lawmakers vacant.”

What constitutes division in a political party?

In the case of Sunday Ifedayo Abegunde v Ondo State House of Assembly & Ors, the Court of Appeal in its ruling stated that “the person defecting to another party must prove that the party he is leaving has been divided into two or more. That is to say, the party must be so polarized as to have two chairmen, two or three different Boards of Trustees each claiming to be the authentic one and each still bearing the same party name. That is the type of extreme division envisaged by the Constitution. The defector would also be covered by the proviso where the party has split into two whereby one of the factions is bearing another name and he chose to join the faction of the party with the new name.”

To avoid any ambiguity, the Appeal Court also held that “A community reading of sections 221, 222, 229 of the Constitution as well as section 80 of the Electoral Act, clearly shows that the division envisaged by section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution refers to division in the party at the top or centre not division at the State or Local Government level. Since a political party is recognized as one corporate entity, the division must affect the entire structure of the political party at the centre, i.e., the national leadership of the party. A political party has to be looked at as a whole and not piecemeal.”

Considering the tendencies, and even excesses of Nigeria politicians, where members seeking to defect from a party could themselves instigate a division, the Supreme Court held in FEDECO v Goni that the act leading to the defection must not have been caused by the defecting legislator.

Way forward

The 27 lawmakers in Rivers State cannot benefit from an act of illegality. Being lawmakers themselves, they must hold themselves to a higher standard and tow the path of honour: to vacate office and seek re-election.

I think it left for the court to decide whether the division in office of the national secretary can be term to be the division in the party or not.

kerry57:
I saw this coming. I know without any doubt in me that for a Nigerian politician to resign he must have gotten a deal of a juicy position in place.

When I saw the news of his resignation, told myself wait for the announcement of his appointment by his god father, Fubara.

All these people don't care about anybody just them them, wether it's wike, Fubara,tinubu, pmb o., It's the same thing.

Masses, fight for urself, make una mumu do, this new yr

So, chief of staff to governor is more juice than an house member talk less of being a speaker. Dey play!!

Cantonese:


You have not understood it.

See, the moment the lawmakers decamped, they lost their seats. That's the law. The only exception is a division in the party. That's the law too.

Once the 27 decamped, a vacuum arose in the house. The four elected the speaker and continued the business of the house. Be ause they got the order from a court of competent jurisdiction in Rivers State, all actions they took were termed legal.

As the speaker recognized, the actions of Ehie were valid. Now you must ask why the 27 went to court to stop the four along with INEC and PDP from ensuring that they do not return to the house. The matter presently remains in court.

They decamped members cited this, that's the division in the party when the office of the national secretary is in dispute cos all correspondences are handling by the secretary not the party chairman.

Cantonese:


Certainly 4 is not greater than 27. But you must now ask where the 27 stand. Are they now recognised by the constitution as lawmakers? They know the law. Lawmakers make laws and they should abide by the same laws. Decamping instantly removes them from the house, except in the grounds of division in their party. Is there any division in PDP Rivers State? No is the answer. There is also no division at the national level.

Rivers State faces s constitutional problem. What's on ground is greater than Tinubu's advice. The 27 have not reverted to PDP and now PDP is in court trying to ensure that they never return.

Certainly the 27 have their right to justice where possible. However the law is the law. They are gone. In this case, who is greater. The existing 4 or the none existing 27?

The office of the National secretary of the pdp is in court and they deflected members cited that. You telling me there is no division in the party is like you're being economical with the fact cos all the correspondences are been handled by the party secretary. Legally, the division in the office of the National secretary is a good excuse for them to decamp.

Cantonese:
OP, as it stands, it is a constitutional matter. The issue is in court, with PDP insisting that the 27 seats have become vacant by reason of the decamping. Once again, note that the agreement was not in anyway binding on any of the parties.

By the constitution, it remains incontrovertible that the 27 resigned. Ehie acting in his then position as the speaker recognized by a court order. All actions taken by Ehie in his then capacity as the speaker, therefore, are termed legal.

At what point were thi decision been taken?
You guys are funny, so the constitution says five people can hold plenary in house of 32?

Cantonese:


But you brought it up in the first place. So it is not for you to decide either.

The reason I'm saying is that the speaker shouldn't have declared their seat until the court determines the veracity of their claims.

Cantonese:


The dispute about the office of the national secretary does not translate or by any means infer a factionalized party, either at the national or state level. More so do not forget that even the APC itself has been factionalized at the state level.

When a party is factionalized, you find the positions in two or more different factions. Can you say that was the case in Rivers state? Certainly not.

PDP is already in court over the matter of the decamping of the 27. The constitution is clear on what should happen to them.

It left for court to decide not the speaker nor you.

Cantonese:


Don’t mind them. The party was not factionalized at the national level and it was not factionalized at the state level either. The issue of Sam Anyanwu in no way had a bearing on their reckless claim. APC on the other hand has been factionalized for about six or seven years.

Ehie had absolutely the right to declare their seats vacant, given that a court of competent jurisdiction had declared him so. You can check that too

By the way, it is incontrovertible that when state lawmakers decamp to other parties, their seats automatically become vacant. Going to the court is just to establish the fact of allowing them the fair hearing that they need. Again, PDP has stated categorically that their seats are vacant and gone ahead to ask INEC to conduct fresh elections there. The matter as it stands is a constitutional one and the courts must do the needful in the course of time.

Whether we like it or not, the office of the national secretary was in dispute and the matter was in court. Hence, I don't know how people said there is no faction whereas three days ago there was judgement as its connected to the said office. As I opinion earlier, the pdp should have gone to court to get a judgement as its pertaining to the it.

Cantonese:


Sure. Ehie was already the speaker at that time.
Clearly Fubara had been informed ahead of the intention of the 27 to decamp to APC. It was the instruction of Wike to them. Wike would keep servicing Tinubu with his so called structure in Rivers state, until some political disagreements arise.

However by the law, put together by the same so called lawmakers, they lost their seats. The claim that PDP in Rivers state is factionalized is a complete lie. It is well publicized that APC has been factionalized in Rivers state since 2015, on the contrary.

The claimed the office of the National secretary of the party is in dispute... So Alot of their corresponding can't be get back to them hence the decamped. However, the matter is for the court to decide not by your assession. Ehie didn't have right to declare their office vacant except through court order.

Lifemanage:

Dey play. I only believe he might be positioned for something bigger

Can you mentioned one appointment that is bigger than being the speaker of the House ( the third person in the hierarchy of power)?

Trustmea:

Pardon my ignorance is speaker of HOA not lucrative than chief of staff?

Will you mind those nincompoops?
They will tell you how influential chief of staff to governor in Rivers State is more than some of the governors in South South.

SAMBARRY:
then WHO killed mohbad, you can tell us since you know the 2 demons didn't kill him

How do they killed Mohbad whereas when the young man died the duo were three weeks out of the country.

FREEMADNESS:


I personally don't think Naira Marley killed Mohbad but let's discuss the issue of treat and bullying he received from them?

Isn't bullying a punishable offence by law?

Oga, what do you mean by bullying? And how does bullying related to the way and manner surrounding his dead? At what point was he been bullied?
What people fail to understand is that music industry is like a street fight, you need to be strong every time to await uncertainty. There is always a disagreement between managers and artists... If my memory takes me well, MJ had it with Sony music, 50 cent with Dr. Dre, 2pac with Westside, kiss Daniels with Gworld, 2face with Keniss music, Timaya with K-solo, Wizkid with Bangi W, d'banj with Mo'hit, Harry song with five star music, K'bello with Marvin record, the list in endless.

Sorry,

Nigerian youths are so sentimental. Anyone that thinks Naira Marley or Sam Larry killed Mohbad must visit the next psychiatristic hospital to mental evaluation.

lexy2014:
https://www.tekedia.com/nigerias-supreme-court-sacks-lawmaker-for-defecting-from-one-party-to-another/

Hahaha, why supreme Court has not been sacking various cross carpeting existing before!!! Especially in the national assembly.
Let me tell you, maybe the said law maker didn't have any reason of defecting tht is why he's the only one been sacked by the SC.