₦airaland Forum

I wonder how people arrive at these opinions especially with this PDP/APC lens through which people view things on the national scene nowadays.

The personality of the judge over any matter is not in doubt but his training confines him and in fact binds him to the letters n spirit of the law. If the op is conversant with a little bit of our legislation as far as evidence is concerned then he may be aware that until 2011, when the Evidence Act was amended, the courts could not countenance digital evidence therefore things like emails, text messages, call records and so on would have no probative value attached to them by the courts. On this alone, if evidence before the court was only of this nature in support of one's case, the courts would not identify or accept them because they were not provided for in the law.

This is the same position on the Electoral Act. At the time this was passed into law in 2010, the card readers were not envisaged and therefore not made part of the electoral process by law. Therefore, the courts as evidenced in the reasoning of the Supreme Court, will not attach value to it over and above the Voters Register which is clearly provided for by the Act.

Judges are not makers of law. They interprete them and there are laid down rules of interpretation. The most a court can do in its judgment or ruling is suggest an action be taken in the context of making legislation. That is why it has directed INEC to see to the inclusion of the card readers in subsequent Electoral legislations. It is circumstances like these not previously envisaged that enrich our jurisprudence.

Coming now to state that the SC justices passed their judgements because they were appointed by the PDP is myopic at this time and this is me being charitable. If I am not mistaken, the current administration has not appointed any new federal judges at the Court of Appeal either so how then were judgments made in favour of the APC?

The same Supreme Court gave judgment in favour of APC in Lagos and a few others still based on the card reader and its inadmissibility so why the outcry over Akwa Ibom and Rivers?

On the issues of violence and killings, those were all based on hearsay. He who alleges must prove and hearsay is not evidence in the eyes of the law. The security officials who testified could not point to anyone arrested neither did petitioners present evidence that people were killed. The courts are also not bound to attach value to the opinions of electoral observers if they do testify especially when their testimony is discredited on cross-examination.
The Courts/Judges are trained to be dispassionate and follow the law as it is. None of the reasons for their decisions were taken without relevant provisions of the law guiding them. Substantive law takes precedence over guidelines so even the INEC guidelines will not supersede the extant Electoral Act.

Please do not disparage the laws and our institutions just because of political inclinations. Attacking the personality of the judges is also uncalled for. They have done their jobs and justice has been served.

Exactly how much time did respective ministers need to scrutinise the budgets of their ministries and identity as well as correct loopholes? What is d meaning of not having enough time? Unless they are all incompetent with grossly poor comprehension skills otherwise even the most cursory of glances will immediately throw up obvious problems like identical sums proposed for different line items repetitively!

Buhari, unless he admits he's unfit, should have been able to study the state house budget at least even if not the entire document. That way he'd have been able to query the purpose of state house rent and exotic wild life for the Presidency for instance.

These attempts at passing the buck will not work. He and his saintly ministers have been caught in blatant attempts at theft and embezzlement, nothing more or less. It is an indictment which they must honorably admit and work to make sure it is properly dealt with.

Good development. The state government must also not be lax in security measures to avoid sabotage particularly of the nature of destruction of farmlands and attacks on innocent, hardworking citizens.

obailala:
The Amaechi and NCAA ministry issue is even irrelevant. Can someone please explain what kind of connectivity will cost N9bn? Could it be a connection to heaven? or is this supposed to be N9million?

As they said N10 billion in the Education budget was a typographical error, maybe 'b' entered instead of 'm' with the requisite zeros.

Op! Please it is not fatal unless a death occurs. It may be ghastly or terrible or very serious with any level of injury but provided there's no death, it's not fatal.

@topic: I wish them speedy recovery.

AntiIPOB:
Why must Ameachi case br different?
Did they discover any discrepances in the budget under his ministries?
why were they silent when other minister appeared to defend their budget?
What have they done concerning the qustionable budget?

What are u talking about? Is it not questions that elicited the denials by the Ministers of Health and Information? Different Senators make up different committees, is it the same people that quizzed Amaechi that handled the others?

Besides ur mindset shows ur bias because all the Ministers are Buhari appointees and therefore enemies to PDP members on principle ss u would have us believe. Yet here u are saying it is only Amaechi that has a different case...do u imagine that thus committee is made up of only PDP? Joker!

All the questions that have been raised about this caricature of a budget does it not show that attempts at fraud and embezzlement, contrary to the stand of impeccable integrity espoused by Buhari and crew, are being exposed?

The PDP is in the minority so the ones that have the power to 'do something' is the same APC that authored this sham of a budget so ask them!

Iroh88:
Typical Ipod mentality. Even without looking at the signature, their comments alone reveal where they're from.

Had these Goats you people defend so much not gone close to our precious Yams, perhaps you wouldn't be talking about falling Naira, electricity or jobs.

By the way, who the hell is distracting you?? Did anyone force you to open the thread or visit the forum?? Why don't you simply limit your attention to those kind of news you imagine don't constitute "distractions"??

#all these Orubebe wannabes sef.

Continue calling and wanking over IPOB. All the generals and officers listed there how many are from the region u love to hate? We can see who the real yam thieves are...

Someone states her opinion and u come in to bash and insult people who have a different ideology from urs and desire to be independent and sovereign. Well done!

AntiIPOB:
Iam not supprised as the questions came from the ipobs in the house,it pained them alot anytime they see Ameachi.

You lots amaze me....these are the same people u point at and ask whether IPOB members have heard any of their Igbo leaders support their cause. Now they are doing their jobs in 'one Nigeria' u still label them with intent to cause mischief.

Are u really a patriotic Nigerian as u would like people to believe? Do u not care that questions are asked and proper scrutiny deployed to ensure bogus items are not inserted into the budget for the same people u support to steal?

Whynotthetruth:
kedu ije?

Nna a dim mma o! Ke k'imere?

At the end, people will see the truth for themselves and take their decisions.

This is the problem with this country o! When will political affiliation give way to diligent oversight especially at this level? Unless the questions asked were clearly malicious but in as much as they are meant to ensure that this much ridiculed budget is justified and the custodians of each ministry can defend their budgets, I don't see why party membership and supremacy should come into play in exercises such as this unless of course the majority are seeking to preserve obvious areas of waste and leakage which still smacks of corruption they have supposedly come to fight.

The right to fair hearing is sacrosanct and in fact the bedrock of any legal exercise along with requisite jurisdiction. For those disrespectfully castigating the Supreme Court and its Justices, can you cast your mind back as to the major reason why the former Governor of Adamawa has just had his impeachment upturned by the same court and all his benefits reinstated? It is also because he was not granted fair hearing!

It is also the law that the onus of proof lies on the petitioner/complainant. The Court has ruled that the APC did not sufficiently discharge this burden...this is over and final. There's a lot more to deal with than all these vituperation and insults I see here.

Anyone that thinks it is a reason to misinterpret the reasoning of the courts and perpetuate electoral malpractises will also have the same court throw them out of any fraudulently occupied offices provided the petitioner is able to diligently prove its case.

Congratulations to the winner! I would have wondered how a pre-election matter would form the basis of an election petition and the tribunal exercised jurisdiction over same!

Congratulations to the winner! I would have wondered how a pre-election matter would form the basis of an election petition and the tribunal exercised jurisdiction over same!

Okay then!

Diplomacy is the name of the game as far as the international scene is concerned. Do your homework at home but never throw your people under the bus no matter what! Especially when u are the face and representative of said people.

WHAT I WISH BUHARI SAID

(1) A number of Nigerians use the migrant routes to come to the UK to claim asylum, saying their lives are at risk from Boko Haram. Is is legitimate for them to do so?

BUHARI SAID: "Some Nigerians claim that life is too difficult back home, but then again some Nigerians have also made it difficult for Europeans and Americans to accept them because of the number of Nigerians in different prisons all over the world accused of drug trafficking or human trafficking. I don't think Nigerians have anybody to blame. They can remain at home. Their services are required to rebuild the country. If their countrymen misbehaved, the best thing for them is to stay at home and encourage the credibility of the nation."

WHAT I WISH BUHARI SAID: “Yes, Colin, it is legitimate for them to do so; as legitimate as it was for a number of Britons to use the Atlantic route to come to West Africa 400 years ago claiming to be bringing civilization. I think what human history shows is that people – Nigerian or British, black or white – tend to go, borders or no borders, wherever they feel life would be better, hence, once upon a time, the UK itself exported a mass of migrants to places like America and Australia. How legitimate was the treatment meted to the original inhabitants of these places so your own settlers could be accommodated? In our case, our settlers are arriving at your shores, not with guns and chicken pox, but with a genuine desire to live in peace with you, to work hard and contribute to the development of your society. This is not something I think should be wantonly criminalized in a world that claims to be modern and humane. Now, this is not to say that we, on the other side, are standing at our borders, gleefully herding our citizens into rickety dingies heading for Europe. No. But neither is our vision of the modern world that of a collection of prison states, where the role of African governments is to act as wardens, whose primary responsibility is to keep their wards out of Europe.”

(2) Do you think that Nigerians have an image problem abroad?

BUHARI SAID: Certainly. But we are on our way to salvage that. We will encourage our countrymen to stay at home, work hard and make a respectable living at home."

WHAT I WISH BUHARI SAID: “I think Nigerians are a creative, resourceful and highly energetic people, and a day and a night in any Nigerian city, Colin, I am certain will prove this to you. But unfortunately there are these negative stereotypes of Nigerians that the West seems to have grown quite fond of. But my government is committed to working hard to remind the world that Nigeria is also the country that gave it Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Fela Kuti, Jay Jay Okocha and your very own Chuka Ummuna. And, believe me, there are a lot more where those came from. So, tell me, is it too hard to ask you to judge us for the care workers and dentists, the athletes and teachers that are getting up every day, going to work and contributing their quota – alongside the many upstanding members of other nationalities – to keep multi-cultural cities like London ticking?”

…………

Please, we can speak in prose to each other, but when we meet the world, let us speak in poetry.

DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE

And the op is not concerned that having identified Nigeria as being turned into a banana republic as he claims, the APC jumped in ostensibly to save the situation and yet has no Marshal Plan? They will need? Is a plan not supposed to be drawn and analysed to identify possible pitfalls before embarking on a project?

Almost one year in and there is no identifiable economic, foreign or national blueprint in place. Even the budget is riddled with gross incompetence and blatant corruption!

How does one then claim to be a better alternative when nothing has been done differently from what we had? Beyond in-your-face tribalism that is?

Orikinla:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan had a so called transformation agenda for Nigeria which he wanted a second term to accomplish his masterplan. But instead of transforming the country, he was turning Nigeria into the biggest Banana Republic in Africa. The new administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will need a Marshall Plan for the nation building of a New Nigeria of our Nigerian Dream.

gigabyte13:
Na dem again, Kenndy lzeagbu? The name says it all, the protector of looters.

Stereotyping is a foolish thing to do moreso when u engage in such without any research and from an uninformed point of view.

Kennedy Sule Izuagbe is from Edo state and last I checked, anyone with locus standi is eminently qualified to go before the courts with any grievances. We are not in an era of lawlessness all in a bid to 'fight corruption'.

Wonders shall never cease!

Ena Ofugara! May your days be long! These are practicable solutions that when implemented will bring about palpable and positive differences within a very short period of time.

This will be the real change Nigerians yearn for and expect. It is not all about mopping up monies everywhere to the detriment of the people, weakening their purchasing power and shutting down legitimate income because of fighting corruption.

Deep down, we all need Nigeria to succeed and the people need to be involved as well. Reduce the over dependence on the FG, devolve power to self federating geopolitical zones. For once, create the enabling environment for the regions to generate revenue and pay the FG practicable percentages instead rather than this obsolete means of sharing money.

Criticisms are meant to draw the attention of a person before, in the course of or after an error to ensure prevention or correction. When people turn around to attack the person of a critic without calmly weighing his message it only creates chaos and preventable loss. Branding them wailers or going tribalist because of wholesale support without consideration will only end up causing more harm.

I hope the President and his handlers really take note and wake up. Blame GEJ and PDP all u want but the problems still remain so get to work fixing them! Take responsibility for bald mistakes, own up and correct them! Engage and communicate with the people more personally, it mustn't all be left to media aides. Let there be healthy competition among the people along their natural lines, raise the bar for all to encourage performance rather than spoon feeding in the name of quota system n federal character. Once the people are directly engaged at their regional level there will practically be no need to compensate a section to the detriment of others!

We cannot keep recycling same systems and practices. It is time to think outside the box and make Nigeria work! When people call for a separation it is because component parts are deliberately collapsed into coma and they don't work! So if u must defend the entire territorial dignity of Nigeria then look into issues and grievances and work towards resolution rather than suppression!

sameer1212:
Don't know any of his family member jailed anywhere around the world. If what Mr president said pain you,Tell your brothers to stay away from drug trafficking. Thank you.

Not surprised at all... You failed to comprehend a post, u were helped out and here u are falling all over urself just to support the utterances of a person who sells his people short at every given opportunity. Where else does that happen? U may need to extend same advice to urself and members of your family.

Thank you!

Bamsupremacy:
Oh.. So because my views differ from bigots like you all, that means i'm from a particular ethnic group? This goes to show your hatred for other people. @ the topic it shows clearly why he has been transferred after 20yrs of service to another parish. Why should the thought of sending him to sambisa come up if it wasn't for hatred

I don't play that game of conferring a tribe on one who hasn't said where he's from. Read my words clearly...
If you don't understand Igbos and the Catholic Church, steer clear and don't get involved to the point of misinterpreting things. Whatever tribe you're from is none of my business. Even if he's been there from his birth till date, it is no permanent posting. Only the Pope remains permanently at the Vatican till he dies or voluntarily steps down.

sameer1212:
Keep quiet there. What do you know? Where have you been? The bitter truth is,Nigeria has a bad image in many western countries.

He spoke for himself and his family. Do u know them better than he does?

Bamsupremacy:
But this south easterners really baffle me. So out of unwarranted hatred for others, they are ready to crucify one of their own regardless of what he has done. What happened to all the miracles and people that have been saved through his ministration? I honestly feel sorry for all the reasonable igbos whose opinions are over shadowed by the un educated bigots that spam the internet with their narrow minded opinions. Please all you guys should look inwards and change your views, if not don't blame any one for leaving you guys out of the scheme of things in the name of marginalization

He wasn't barred or suspended from running the Adoration ministry. He was simply transferred to another parish which is standard practice in the Catholic Church. How is that 'crucifying one of their own'? Does the transfer rob him of spiritual powers and abilities to attend to the spiritual needs of the people?

If u don't understand Igbos or the Catholic Church, please don't get involved and end up misinterpreting things.

kpogede77:
This is how you people praised Jonathan and his " eloquent" wife back to Otueke. We warned Jonathan against his corrupt and anti-peoples policies. Praise singers like you were praising him to high heaven. You people are minority that is why your Jesus of Otueke failed. We will demand the removal of those anti people's judges and they must be sacked before they turn this country to Afghanistan.

Lol...very funny. Go and find out the procedures for removing a serving Judge and decide for yourself whether u and ur kind actually have what it takes to meet those requirements. You think it will be a summary dismissal? How dull...u all support d despotic tendencies of ur tin god but just like fire, such tendencies will consume all and sundry that lie in its path...

simpleseyi:
Anyone that promotes, propagates or encourages the division of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is an enemy of the State and will be treated as such. So, for anyone to be carrying Nigerian International Passport, Nigerian Drivers' License, Nigerian National Identity Card and still doubting his Nationality, such a person is a Saboteur and should be treated as such.

And how does this bunch of emptiness relate to ur rudeness and obvious desire to pull down others just to make u feel better as u clearly demonstrated in ur previous post?

simpleseyi:
I respect your resistant to reply me accordingly. That is worth emulating. But stop speaking evil about Nigeria. If Nigeria is good, you and I will equally enjoy it. Yorubas were grossly marginalized during the ineffective buffon's regime, yet, we never prayed for Nigeria to fail. We criticized Jonathan because we want a better country for everyone. Can you also recall that Yorubas were the toughest critics of the Obasanjo' government despite the fact that Obasanjo is an Oduduwa son? We don't really care who is ruling, all we want is a better Nigeria for everyone.

I am happy the op chose to be the bigger person. Rather than actually emulating his steps as u say is worth doing, u still emit so much venom! If he had chosen to reply 'accordingly' as u stated what aim would be achieved? So why sling mud in the first place?

You complain of Yorubas being marginalized yet u gladly call an area inhabited by humans erosion ravaged and blanket them all as kidnappers and all the unprintables u vomited here. Do u really want a 'better Nigeria for everyone' or just want to continue the dead one-upmanship politicians use to degrade their subjects? As in 'it's my time to shine and all others can burn'? Rather than toe such a path then it is better to part ways as u can deduce from the op's post.

Op! You need a major health check!!!

Last I looked, Nigeria is so not a one party state and will never be. Are u and ur kind more Nigerian than the supporters of those vindicated by the Supreme Court? U support those u prefer and naturally there must be opposing views so why do u feel the sack of SC justices or dissolution of the institution will properly mirror the feeling of a supposed majority?

Do you have any idea how the law and legal processes work? You just sit behind whatever device you've got, gorge yourself on one-sided sentimental crap and then post trash. Did any sane person call for the sack of judges when APC was declared winner in states where d PDP originally won or challenged?

You better educate yourself properly and learn to have a dispassionate outlook not clouded by blind support. The law is the law! This is the same way u all support this parody called corruption fight where the President with d agencies under his control decide who is guilty and who isn't and already punish them whilst trying to tamper with the sanctity of the courts!

kpogede77:
If their inability to reason well is age, then they should retired immediately.

Look at you talking of their age...what of that of your tin god? You consider a near octogenarian wise and fit, who jets out on 'vacation' in the middle of national crises while u question the ages of those whom by the same law u think is a switch u throw on and off at will, are mandatorily required to retire upon attaining the age of 70! See ur grammar sef at this 'young' and 'sound reasoning' age of urs! 'They should retired immediately'?

Get a life!