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Shekau is now a goner. Trump will do anything possible to retain US position as d world police. Am sure this foreign scholarship for supposed repentant Boko Haramites must have angered d West. Whereas Buhari was quick to label IPOB whose leader Nnamdi Kanu even attends Trump's Republican party meetings, it is clear he has been pampering d stamping out of his brother real terrorists. With American involvement now in this fight a lot of conspiracy theories will be unearthed and d masks unveiled as who d real sponsors are.

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I pray Ihedioha gets justice

Good. He has got d intelligence to play any role

Very intelligent

Am very happy for d SW for coming this far in pushing forward this Amotekun project despite d shenanigans of d FG and dia Fulani collaborators. It's a shame dat Dave Umahi and other SE governors are being pan Nigeria when Nigeria oneness is expired spiritually. The Northern gladiators never saw this ever happening that their supposed partner in crime d SW will wake up one-day and systematically assemble a regional security organ that intends to protect d lives n properties of people of Oduduwa nation. Nnamdi Kanu saw all these coming but it's painful dat d SE efulefu governors are weak, cowardly and shortsighted. Thumb up d SW governors and all d "ndi ofe '.

If truly there is a leader in charge there would have been a media broadcast from d President. But here we are someone posted for Bubu on Twitter

All hail d Punch newspapers for being fearless in d face of a tyrannical govt

Confederation with a central government was d best option then and still now but If I say it d way it's in my mind then secession is d best now. Biafra comes to mind. If u read this OBJ lines with a matured reasoning brain u will understand that somehow he is fed up with one Nigeria and his usually Pan Naijaphilic tendency waning. Words like self determination for d first time is gaining ground and even OBJ doesn't want a one Nigeria wia his ppl will be second class citizen. My advise, OBJ u are old enough be courageous enough and say it without euphemism, Nigeria is over. History will be fair to you if u suggest and support self determination.

Has he any choice before

Good n informative

Everything u wrote here are completely in order. Despite my bias in favour of PDP being in charge in Bayelsa, I honestly feel sorry for d Degi guy after reading this. My opinion about your writeup from now will be straight as I now believe that u are not only intelligent but apolitical and a master in churning out unbiased essays. I will read your columns more from now cos truly truth is infectious.

Great. Something is definitely wrong with journalism in this country in d area of copy and paste syndrome. A mistake made by one is replicated across all tabloids. The mathematics aspect of d computation that yielded N1872 per month was not making meaning until I read d original press release by NERC and saw it was N24 per kilowatt hour and not d N48 per kilowatt hour that all media houses including Punch has been writing.
Back to topic: I sincerely believe that if this policy guideline is implemented d way meters will be made available to customers will surprise you. They were actually manipulating d system to ensure metering is not achieved thru estimated billing diaby reaping us all off.

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When u bungled d Aburi Accord dat proposed confederation with a central government u never envisaged that a day like this would come. Enjoy one Nigeria

Igbo bu so mma. I salute Nairàland admin for eventually pushing this to Fp not just because am Igbo but cos it's really novel to see d whites wear d original Isi agu regalia that some Igbo one Nigerians like Ekweremmadu wore d adulterated one to iri ji Germany when he superimposed d coat of arm in place of d traditional isi agu.

Biafra on d rise

This Farooq is a highly cerebral writer and he has once not disappointed. He is fearless and I must say I greatly admirer his literary prowess

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CanadaOrBust:
Some of u folks are either ignorant or being intentionally deceptive.
You forget there are people who are paid to dig up and analyze this stuff. The following is from the actual summary of trial materials as presented in a major reputable newspaper. It answers all your questions.
Pay special attention to the bolded.
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That Supreme Court Magic Judgment
This Day (Lagos) 17 FEBRUARY 2020

... According to summary of trial materials, no ward collation agent was called to show that at the collation center results were brought from the 388 polling units where the alleged exclusion took place...

The petitioner, rather called 28 polling unit agents who came to identify some of the results tendered by the petitioner from the bar. All the electoral documents were tendered from the bar and thus dumped on the court without anybody giving evidence correlating the contents of the result Forms with the tabulation done by the petitioner himself.

Each of the 18 polling unit agents under cross-examination, manifested ignorance of the contents of the documents and never convinced anybody of being present in their claimed polling units...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had in their reply to the petition disowned those result sheets and averred emphatically that NO RESULTS WERE GENERATED from those polling units as elections in those polling units were cancelled by presiding officers as a result of violence, over voting, snatching of electoral materials, etc. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated that any result from those polling units presented by any of the candidates, in this case, the petitioners, must be fake.

When confronted with the purported result sheets tendered by the petitioners, each of the witnesses admitted as follows:
i. The names and signatures of the Presiding Officers are not well found on those results.
ii. The names and signatures of other party agents did not appear on the result sheets, neither could they mention even one party agent of the other political parties in those booths.
iii. The result sheets do not contain the total number of ballot papers used and number of ballot papers unused or invalid. The scores of political parties are not clear on the face of the documents.

Based on the above, it appears the Supreme Court was desperately working to an answer in favour of the ruling party... and the only opening to do that was to accept the fictitious results of the 388 polling units willy-nilly. And instead of doing substantial justice on the matter, it ended up delivering one of judiciary's greatest infamies which even a kid learning arithmetic can see through. The judgment turned logic on its head, rewrote the basic universal laws of arithmetic and did grave and substantial injury to our democracy and the power of the people to choose who governs them. With this judicial precedent, the Supreme Court has inevitably rubber-stamped political rascality and the judgment could shape our democratic future.

The court has widened the opening which politicians exploit and manipulate to get into elective offices. All one needs to do is to stay somewhere, maybe in one's room, probably with one policeman or so, write one's own results, submit to INEC for counting and if it refuses, don't worry, bid your time till you get to the court. With supreme arrogance, the final court of appeal will recognise the results as legitimate, credible and authentic and pronto, you will be declared duly elected.

...Even more perplexing was the fact that in some of the polling units, voter turnout was more than the registered voters. How is this possible?
In Uzodinma's result sheets, there was no voided vote and only two parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APC participated and were reflected in the election results of the 388 polling units. Yet, 70 political parties participated in that election and were all reflected in the INEC declared results of other polling units all over the state. ..,Does it mean that other parties such as All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Action Alliance (AA), etc., did not participate in the election in those 388 polling units contrary to INEC's results in other areas of the state?
Why did the result sheets reflect only two parties when so many parties participated in the said election? Apparently, Senator Uzodinma concocted those results that fly in the face of the basic laws of arithmetic and common sense between the PDP and the APC after the fact that the PDP had won the election and he only scored his party a vote figure higher than the PDP vote. The corollary to that is that if it was any other party that was on the cusp of victory, Uzodinma's results would have been between just the APC and that party! Yet our almighty Supreme Court glossed over all these fundamental anomalies in Uzodinma's result sheets which had been rejected by even INEC... and accepted same as authentic.
A further assessment of the result sheets of the disputed 388 polling units showed that the said units are all in the Orlu Senatorial Zone where Uzodinma and the candidate of the Action Alliance Ugwumba Uche Nwosu come from. So even if the 388 polling units were concentrated mostly in Uzodinma's ancestral home, surely, Nwosu who emerged second in the March 9, 2019 election in Imo State and was backed by the incumbent governor at the time, Rochas Okorocha, his father in-law, must have amassed some votes from the units. But these votes were curiously missing, for the simple reason that they forged the results, and very badly at that.
Furthermore, Uzodinma of the APC scored an average of 98% of the total votes cast in the 388 units, whereas he scored an average of 13% in the remaining polling units in the state. How could this be? Why was it that it was only in these 388 units throughout the state that the voter turnout was either more than the registered voters or achieved 98 to 100 percent of the registered voters? Please note that emphasis is NOT on the number of accredited voters which is usually far less than the number of registered voters. Uzodinma's fake results validated by our Supreme Court defy reason. The pattern of the results from the disputed 388 polling units clearly shows the improbability of such an occurrence. And on the basis of the testimony of one policeman, and 28 discredited polling units' agents who gave contradictory statements at trial, the Supreme Court accepted the results.

In declaring Uzodinma governor of Imo State, the Supreme Court simply annulled a valid mandate freely given to an individual and transferred it to another person who came fourth in the election.
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Am optimistic that Ihedioha will laugh last. I was at Ihitte Uboma today for d burial proceedings of d Late Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu and d mood in d camp of d APC is with mixed feelings. Even Hope Uzodinma composure wasn't strong. A hard core APC chieftain told me dat March 2nd is pregnant and with d international attention already attained by d Ihedioha supreme court review that he sees PDP getting a favourable adjudication. Their only hope is dat should d supreme court order for a rerun dat APC as d govt in power will use all state apparatus to rig. Surprisingly he confessed that Ihedioha has a better pedigree to develop d state than Uzodinma but dat APC being in power will favour him personally.

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There might be more to d kidnap saga that we know not yet.

Shame to all those frustrating free press

Onyendu

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All hail Nnamdi Kanu