₦airaland Forum

So na so Khosi go take win this show be that

Massiveglory:
So you mean mahood yakubu is greater than the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria?

Yakubu acted in the capacity of the INEC chairman and he believes he did the right thing. His actions can be nullified by the tribunal. Secondly, did the constitution say a declared winner be removed other than a tribunal?

After INEC has declared a winner whether rightly of wrongly, it is only the tribunal that can nullify or affirm such declaration. How will people be saying he can’t be sworn in and at the same time are in court to reclaim their alleged stolen mandate?

iCauseTrouble:
In Portable's voice

I work for APC
Akoi Tinubu
Na we dey government now.

Just imagine the lawlessness that will be in Nigeria if Tinubu is sworn in as president

When not if.

Baba talk another thing. U should be used to this every election circle. Abeg leave the sense for Obi to prove his case. U na customer dada

Lauryn41:
Oh really
Wow

I thought this was big brother mzansi with a sprinkle of green white green

Is that the title your television showing u? Mine is showing me Big Brother Titans

Lauryn41:
Why should she play Naija songs in a South African show

Point of correction it’s not a South African show. It’s a show housing both Nigerian and South African contestants.

Abeg this dj no get naija songs for her playlist?

Hope say Yemi dey see wetin dey happen so? Next time when u enter somewhere, observe first before u jump. See who u dey follow like fly.

Normal thing. At least after Supreme Court everybody go rest

Apology not accepted. He should be dealt with. It takes just a comment or tweet to set a country ablaze. Why can’t people just let the judiciary do their job? After a “looser” in an election has submitted himself/herself to jurisdiction of the court by filing a petition, then all these comments on social media as well as media interviews are no longer relevant.

Must clients are dull and their lawyers are just using them to cash out. The lawyers already know there’s a judicial precedent on a particular issue but they will still tell their client that they should try their luck.

Una no dey tire? Every day with new style. There is only one way to change the mandate given to Tinubu and it’s through the court. All these protests cannot work and Buhari or INEC lacks the power to cancel an already declared result. Make una please rest.

Abeg which kind lawyers these parties get? There’s something called substituted service. Apply for that and paste it on his last known address. U people are disturbing us ooh

Datti stop making noise. It is only the tribunal that can alter the outcome of any election. All ur evidence and option should be presented through ur lawyers in the court.

Parachoko:
The US embassy have made it clear Asiwaju was never found guilty of any drug related case in the USA.

Asiwaju court case in the US happened more than 25 years ago and is not within the jurisdiction of Nigeria.

The tribunal go throw away this particular case.

I wonder what always excites these obidient folks. They read the law and give it an interpretation that suits them thinking that the law runs with emotions. Tinubu was indicted and not convicted neither was he fined. Legally, there’s a different between an indictment and a conviction. In the case in question, after the indictment, parties decided to settle out of court and agreed that the sum of 450,000 dollars found in his account be forfeited.

Forfeiture is different from a fine. A fine arises after a conviction whereby the court can ask the accused to pay as an option for a term sentence. A fine can only be imposed after a trial is completed in which the accused was declared guilty.

Someone should show us the judgement where the term “conviction” or “sentence” was used in the case against Tinubu.

So the section cited doesn’t apply to Tinubu

Dead on arrival. Prayers are meant to be specific. U can’t ask for cancellation, declaration that u are the winner, return of certificate as well as declaration that the president elect is no qualified to contest all in one petition.

Blue tears looks more original than that of Khosi.

I no watch again

fergie001:
A follow-up to this: Six States Ask Supreme Court to Declare Tinubu’s Victory Null and Void



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Sometimes I wonder where all these lawyers learn their law. It is trite law and procedure that it’s only the election tribunal that has the jurisdiction to entertain a post election matter. U cant just run to the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the pronounce of a candidate by INEC is illegal. Bar. Mike SAN knows better

Katcall:
a candidate must secure 25% in 24 states, and fct not 25% in 36 states plus fct. use your brain for christ sake

Keep deceiving yourself. Learn to converse intelligently and stop using rudeness to showcase ur ignorance

Cyberterror:
False narrative. FCT is considered a state in this regard and does not have a special 25% of its own.

Exactly. The word used was “and” which didn’t give the FCT a special recognition of its own. It only sees FCT as an addition of the 36 states. So the 25% puts all of the 36 states and Abuja altogether

DMerciful:
He said it before election so couldn't have change in the middle of the game

The interpretation of any section of the constitution lies with the courts and not with even the INEC section to interpret. Mike was giving his own personal interpretation and not speaking for INEC. The said Section 134 (2) of the constitution doesn’t form part of any policy or election guideline to be interpreted by INEC.

At the end of the day, I guess it’s the court that will settle the matter.

mayor02:
All the strongholds of Tinubu have been declared yet the margin is not much

Now let the game changers start coming in
States like delta, Edo, Anambra

Tinubu should be scared

Pls has borno being announced?

DMerciful:
Mike Igini of INEC already cleared this before election

Mike Igini interpretation must be in line with the intent of the drafters of the section of the constitution. And I think that the section should be amended so as to clear what people might call ambiguous.

However as it stand now the right interpretation should be that the FCT must be included as a State in the Federation for the calculation of the two-thirds. That’s the only way the conjunction of “and” can make sense. The two-thirds of the Federation should stand at 24.7 States of the “36 + 1” States” in consideration. Going by the mathematical rule of approximation when a figure is higher than 5, it then means that for a candidate to be declared the President, the candidate must have the majority of votes cast at the election; and also has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in at least 25 of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

DMerciful:
Falana was interpreted wrongly. Nobody said the candidate must win Abuja but must get 25%

Falana got it right. What the law says is “….36 stars and the FCT” meaning all put together. There’s no way u would expect the drafters of the constitution to say “37 states”. The section isn’t isolating Abuja as a separate unit.

Alba3:
This is just grammar. In every context, whether in nysc, census, etc, Nigeria division is referred to as 36 states and fct. If they now say something (24) in 36 states and fct, that means if you won in 23 states + fct making 24, then you're qualified because fct is seen as one of the states. It doesn't mean fct is a mandatory or compulsory.

Leave them let them be interpreting the law wrongly. The law doesn’t say u mush have 25 percent in Abuja to be declared the president. What the law says in the constitution as well as in decided cases is that, joining all the 36 states together with Abuja, a candidate must in addition to having the highest number of votes, he much also have 25 percent spread altogether.

Secondly, even if there is going to be a rerun, it would be between the two candidates with the highest scores. And as it stand it’s APC and PDP that has the highest scores.

Na so Royals take go house

What type of stupid question is Biggy asking? How will partners choose to nominate two people and u are giving her the opportunity to change what’s been agreed up cos of crocodile tear?

JUDGEJUDITH:
No be only vibe na vibrator!

😂 na u talk am ooh