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garfield1:
I have tackled all these issues issues,if you took time to read,you won't utter this nonsense.
Inec did not hurry,they declared a winner three days after elections as they have been doing since 1999.tinubu met the constitutional requirements as he got 25% in the federation.
The supreme court has killed the double nomination matter.
What he forfeited wasn't his money plus it is not a conviction.
Atiku failed to prove that he has dual citizenship.the case is dead

garfield1:
Notwithstanding the headline,this is surely how the court will rule.this is based on what the petitioners tendered in court,their final written address and replies.just as the court combined or consolidated atiku and obi petitions,I will attempt to do so.the petition is hinged on five grounds namely;

1) That obi and atiku won the elections and that their votes were suppressed.

2) That there was massive violation of inec guidelines necessitating in irregularities which calls for outright cancellations and a rerun.

3) That tinubu should be disqualified based on a conviction or punishment by u.s court

4) That Shettima is guilty of double nomination

5) That 25% requirement in FCT is mandatory

6) That Tinubu is not qualified by being a citizen of guinea and he is also guilty of perjury and inconsistencies in his educational qualifications

Ground one: Peter obi has not proven that he won the election and has not brought any proof to that effect.all his evidences points to the fact that tinubu won and that there was irregularities.even the mathematician prof ofoedu's analysis showed the only difference in the overall results was in benue,rivers and 18,000 units that were blurred.no evidence points to peter winning.it is safe to say that obi has abandoned this prayer and wants fresh polls.
For atiku,most of his evidences points to irregularities.a watery report akin to the 2019 server debacle focusing on 26 states tendered by Sam oduntan showed he won but did not give details as to how and was based only on irev data.atiku is focusing on disqualifying tinubu and declaring himself winner or a rerun.infact,evidences presented by both petitioners shows that election was conducted peacefully and the only issue was just upload which is supposed to be manual or electronic as provided by section 60-65 EA.

Ground 2:It is settled law that one will not only prove irregularities but do so substantially and show how it affected the overall results.Lp lawyers claim Inec promised electronic transmission but has failed to prove that inec failed to transmit electronically.the only called one witness to that effect who claimed that elections was free and fair.Atiku called five adhoc staffs who also testified to that effect.this unfortunately only affects the polling units they worked as evidence in election cases are restricted to each units.inec can easily call 10 staffs who will testify that results were sucessfully transmitted.in any case,the electoral act plus a fhc judgment gives inec the leeway to transmit anyhow.The court of appeal recently ruled that by virtue of section 60 of the EA,inec can choose,vary,change it's manner of transmission at any point.In other words,both manual and electronic transmission are allowed.those witnesses that said they couldn't transmit didn't blame inec but the bvas and eventually sent the results to the collation units.the purpose of electronic transmission by virtue of section 60-65 of the EA2022 is to aid collation.no collation officer was called to testify.again,the law says the collation officer will compare the hardcopy with the transmitted results.the transmitted result that was uploaded is still on the bvas in image form so the collation staff can easily look at the bvas image and form ec8a.The EA clearly specified transmit or transfer.transfer mainly has to do with manual activities while transmit is electronic.further reading of the manual guidelines will expose more on this.

Lp also called an amazon staff to show that there was no glitch.apart from the fact that she is partisan and on her own frolic without AWS permit,she confirmed that they could be localized glitch within inec. she had no letter of employment or ID but presented a letter of work history which was downloaded a day earlier plus it was unsigned rendering it inadmissible.even if there was a glitch,it does not prove anything.the adeleke vs oyetola supra 2022 case placed reliance on physical evidence and tagged online evidences as thirdhand and unreliable.inec director provided incontrovertible evidence showing localized glitches and network issues
The only quarter concrete evidence of irregularities obi provided was from 18000 units of blurred results which was based only on irev which are secondary results.lp lawyers should have verified with primary hardcopies.if they could be a leeway, it will be from here as 9 mil voters are domiciled here and 2.5 mil voters came out during the last polls.in another rerun,fewer will come out.outside this,no substantial infraction has been proven.nothing compelling has been tendered.see okereke vs umahi 2015 supra.obi petition is full of mere allegations and averments and these are not evidence.see uzodinma vs pdp supra 2020.most of the evidences tendered were not pleaded.see the above case laws.Lp failed to provide inec top copies and a comparison with top copies from rivers showed that the irev was unreliable.in adeleke vs oyetola,jsc Agim clearly stated that the bvas and server materials could be affected by network issues,printer error,scanning issue,bad camera etc which further proves it's unreliability
To further destroy obi's case,the apex court has severally stated that guidelines cannot be a ground for election petition.see wike vs dakuku, okereke vs supra,pdp vs yari...

Ground three: No arguments has been canvassed on the fct matter so it can be seemed abandoned.but if not,a community reading of section 28,section 42 and 299 of the constitution has placed fct as a state.the body language,orbiter dictum,innuendoes of the court has shown where they will stand.again,the principle of legal ambiguity presupposes that where an ambiguity in law exists,the jurists will choose the most sensible, meaningful option for the lawmakers are not confusionists or intend to create chaos.Again,all the laws quoted by the Lp lawyers support this position.
In reality,fct is less than a state and cannot all of a sudden be elevated above a state without bringing equality first.moreover,other similar democracies do not practice such absurd voting system...section 134 of the constitution provided 2 requirements.if it intended to make Fct mandatory,a third requirement would have been separately provided below as no 3.
Again, section 22-28 states that all persons have equal voting rights likewise all voting areas.no place is superior to another.this supercedes whatever 134 may be implying because an earlier provision of the constitution supercedes a later one.section 299 sees fct as a state.the courts have severally stated that the fct is neither superior or inferior to a state.


Ground three: section 182 d and e clearly says within a period of 10 years,he has been imprisoned or convicted by any court in nigeria.tinubu forfeiture wasn't a conviction and even if,10 years has elapsed and the judgment wasn't registered in Nigeria.that subsection further states that he must be under imprisonment or a sentence flowing or arising from a conviction and tinubu is not under any conviction.civil cases do not lead to convictions.moreover,he was never charged,arraigned or found guilty of any thing.what happened was that three of his accounts were frozen via an exparte order by us authorities with links to two convicts.he now proved to the court and fbi that money in two accounts were his and the one belonging to the other remaining account wasn't his.so,in a mutual agreement supervised by the court,two accounts were unfrozen and one forfeited as part of a compromise or out of court settlement.
The Lp quoted Austin vs USA to support their case but this case was a criminal case where there was a trial and conviction.in Tims vs Indiana,the accused pleaded guilty in court and was convicted.therefore,this is inapplicable here as section 68 of the evidence act States that a foreign law will be subjected to a municipal court.the reciprocal agreement has made it mandatory for all foreign judgments to be registered.this prayer is dead.let me kill it further by stating that Obi failed to call a lawyer vested in American law.barr nwakaeti only visited america once and provided scant knowledge of the US system.he also failed to call witnesses from the us judicial or prosecuting authorities.current evidences like the 2003 letter from us embassy and his recent visits to the USA shows he has no issues there.

Ground four; the shettima issue has been buried by the supreme court.they clearly stated that it was a pre election matter and internal to a party and that it can only extend beyond if he was nominated by 2 parties.section 84 of the electoral act clearly makes nomination a pre election matter and only aspirants have locus standi.double nomination is not a constitutional matter and only constitutional matters pertaining to qualifications can be raised at a tribunal.again,the apex court found out that shettima was never guilty of double nomination and lp has no new evidence necessitating a review.

6) concerning perjury,the inec form has two questions on nationality.whether one has ever changed nationality? This is a No for tinubu.secondly,whether tinubu has ever voluntarily acquired citizenship elsewhere.this is a no because he never sought for guinean citizenship,he was only conferred and given a diplomatic passport to that effect.
On the so-called evidences supplied by atiku witness,the witness a lawyer rubbished most of them in what we call hostile testimony. Again,it is settled law that an expired document in law is inadmissible Atiku failed to call a witness from Guinea or someone vested in guinean law to testify .
The Female gender was recorded in his transcript and he never submitted transcript to inec as it's not a constitutional requirement. Again,the documents was gotten from a lawyer Mr kowtals who has no links with the schools tinubu attended.he should have called witnesses from the issuing documents as only the maker can competently prove it's authenticity.pdp and lp quoted degi vs diri to support their case but the court recently in edevbie vs sheriff stated that they have departed from that judgment.in oyetola vs adeleke,they stated that when a dispute about a document arises,the testimony of the issuing authority will settle the tie.Adekunle has been in his name and the apex court has severally ruled on name variations.Atiku failed to prove that it is not part of his name.the age differences is of no effect as the apex court noted that as far as a candidate is up to 40 years,he is good to go.see AGI vs ayade supra..

This matter will be dismissed with 1 billion naira fine to be paid by the petitioners each to each of the respondents.cooouurrrt.


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Esitemi:
Because you can't call these ones Igbos, you're now calling them CAN. Your true colours are coming out

pineed:
Since the coup in Niger, a number of NL posts have been springing up be mischievous individuals calling/wishing for coup in Nigeria.

Just see below an unfortunate post put up yesterday by one fellow AfricanColumbus.

https://www.nairaland.com/7789894/coup-nigeria-6-things-expect

Many more of these treasonable posts have been put up lately. Why should certain fellows let our democracy be destroyed because of their selfish agenda; because their candidates didn't win elections!

This highly treasonable offence perpetuated by these unpatriotic individuals is unacceptable and denounced by all well meaning Nigerians.

This treasonable posts can put this forum into trouble with the National Security/DSS.

I think Nigeria should be the only country in the world that people can just post anything online, especially treasonable posts.. You DARE NOT try this abroad.. both in Europe & US. You'll be found, caught and tried immediately!

Seun, pls I advise you to put a reign on these individuals immediately! Thanks

Odewaleadesoye:
Treason is simply defined as "the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government."

In this context, "Treasonable Posts" means "any write-up or images that attempts to destroy or overthrown the sovereign or government of Nigeria."

The Nigerian criminal code for the South provides for Treason related offenses in its S. 37 to Section 49 whilst it is embodied in Section 410 to Section 415 of the Penal Code for the North. The offense of treason is punishable with death, while that of treasonable felony is punishable with life imprisonment.

Dear Nairalanders and Nigerians, especially youths, kindly avoid treason in promoting any so-called “coup in Nigeria” , as it is a high crime, on the same scale as joining Boko Haram, ISWAP, or any terror group.

Severe actions will also be taken upon any member of this forum who initiate such post.

Be warned.

For: Nairaland Forum.

maasoap:
Haba!! Comparing Niger and Nigeria is an insult, at Op needs a job ASAP

Rossikk:
Nonsensical post.

Do you say the same thing when the USA spends decades fighting one rag tag terrorist group like ISIS or Taliban?

Fighting terrorism is very different from conventional warfare.

You cannot bomb your way out of terrorism threats without incurring huge civilian casualties.

So, very different tactics are necessarily employed!

Rossikk:
Niger Military (Army & Airforce)

World Rank: 119 out of 145

Total Military Personnel - 13,000

Tanks - 0

Armoured Vehicles - 728

Self-Propelled Artillery - 0

MLRS (Rocket Artillery) - 0

Towed Artillery - 0

Aircraft total - 16

Fighter Jets - 0

Helicopters - 7
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Nigeria Military (Army & Airforce)

World Rank: 36 out of 145

Total Military Personnel - 215,000

Tanks - 177

Armoured Vehicles - 15,748

Self-Propelled Artillery - 30

MLRS (Rocket Artillery) - 37

Towed Artillery - 339

Aircraft total - 144

Fighter Jets - 38

Helicopters - 67

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https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php

IconicR:
Can we all now rest, it's not easy but let's be patient. God bless you all.

phatriqk:
Lets hear it….

I believe he will do the same, bend to the West.

Acekidc4:
Absolutely Nothing To Hide 👌 The Last Election was Seamless and Without Blemishes. It's only Losers that Spread Lies and Propaganda around like a Prostitute who decided to share free Kpekus.

Beremx:
are you so daft you failed to comprehend what FIFA said? Simple English written said the Super Falcons will be paid directly because NFF has been owing the players for two years. Just like seunmsg, learn to defend the useless government with your senses intact

StudyBarn:
Loving your country is different from holding briefs for it's rapacious politicians something I wouldn't expect you to understand bumbling dunderhead.

Image123:
They need it, so government can take care of them for free since they feel freedom is too expensive.

nairalanda1:
At the end of the day, it is the common man that suffers more under army rule than the big men

I saw it firsthand, so don't tell me otherwise.

No be the same Nigerians.?

Good evening. Work within the system. People died so that you have the rights you have now.

Aquila99:
Pity ur family

nairalanda1:
Like I said earlier, I have never liked our democratic governments either. But was army better? The answer is capital NO.

You never experienced life under army rule. That's why you think it would all be right.

Wainey:
in military rule obey the command of one person, there is no checks and balances, there is no legislative power.
The head of state does whatever he likes, and God help you that a very wicked man rules you.

nairalanda1:
Back in 1966, your grandad said the same thing when the army came into power. By 1974, he was probably crying when Gowon said that Nigeria is not ready for civilian rule. And people were still poor.

Back in 1983, your dad was angry and tired about the whole Shagari jamboree government, and people branding expensive wine with their name. By 1995, he was probably wondering what we had gotten into.

We have tried army rule twice , several times over. And Nigeria got poorer and poorer and poorer. When the Army took over in 1966, we were exporting a lot of stuff...even by 1970, oil was just 26% of our earnings. By the time they left permanently in 1999, not only had we lost all our export powers in other stuff, oil was now 97% of our earnings, we were no longer exporting anything else, and we were broke.

And you think army rule would change it again? No be the same army that is made up of Nigerians? People like you and me? Army that engages in brutalizing civillians for nothing?

Army rule never improved any African nation. Am serious.

JagabanB:
Bring the election on again and we wón't hesitate to give Obi a harder kick out.

Prolificgiant:
What's the usefulness of military government Let me your sure plug for data ,a trial will convince you check my signature for my contact

Aquila99:
So d only right judgement is d one dat Favours ur Candidate. No problem, it will be against him. Den u can start dey Coup from ur house.

thesicilian:
With Tinubu in charge, there's no cause for concern

Puss360:
Lol . Funny enough, almost all are landlocked countries

Perfectbeing:
One thing OBJ did that benefits us today is splitting our military command structure so that it's almost impossible for a coup to be planned and executed in Nigeria without news of it spilling out before hand..

That said, the clamor by some political actors for military takeovers, is just another attempt to gain political power on the back of someone else's effort, instead of doing the work of politics themselves..

Buhari could've tried to lead the North out of Nigeria after losing 3 elections, the last one being so badly rigged that the winner, Umar Musa Yaradua, all but admitted it...
Tinubu could've done the same with Lagos and most of the SW, instead of slug it out with PDP from a position of weakness..

Today we have riff-raff nonentities like Igboho and Ekpa trying to drive to power using the lives of young foolish people as fuel..
90% of civil society actors operating in the political advocacy space seem to have no work besides stirring up internal destabilisation, especially in the states where we have a semblance of good governance.. They camp in Lagos and Kaduna, opposing everything the governors there do, but unlook Abia, Oyo, Rivers, Taraba, Benue and all the states that are either failed, failing or run like autocracies..
Useful idiots playing their part to scatter our nation, with the daft notion that the pieces will be rearranged in a way that favors them... They could look to Libya, or Yemen to realise that the pieces of scattered nations, never come back together..

ENDSARS people abandoned the hard work of building a political movement to take the momentum of their protests and channel it in the only legitimate direction of obtaining power... They instead chose the easy route of insurrection, thinking they could chase away over 1000 elected officials with hashtags and emojis. Once more relying on some outside savior like JackTwitter to 'help' them gain power..

The lack of responsibility and awareness will never cease to amaze.

The latest savior is the military..
Grown men hoping that a few, misguided, corrupt soldiers will somehow lead Africa out of our shrunken, shrivelled state and into greatness..
It would be surprising if the same thing had not been attempted just a few months ago with Peetobi..

The truth is that good things take time and effort.. You cannot throw 10 blocks and 2 bags of cement into the air and hope they build themselves into a mansion as they fall down.. You need architects and builders for that, not soldiers or failed politicians promising you heaven when all they've ever built is hell.

Life can be cruel sometimes... She will watch you grow old and die in frustration if you refuse to apply wisdom in your dealings with her..

If by some magic our democracy is toppled by soldiers, very few politcians operating today will lose their jobs, relevance or access... 3 or 4 big names will be dealt with ceremoniously to fool you, but Nigeria is too big for 40 soldiers to run without help.. Politicians will politick and you will be left in the cold, again, except this time the constitution will be suspended along with your fundamental human rights...

My advise... Go and register a company... Go in your hundreds of thousands if not millions.
Apply for these loans.. Seek advice.. Set up businesses.. GROW.. Become financially independent individuals first, then pool your new power together to build political movements, either parties or pressure groups. Use your combined resources to sponsor candidates who you direct to build a sample of the Nigeria of your dreams, using an LGA or 2 as test cases.. Demonstrate this superior governance ability that you claim to possess.. If it works you will win over converts, and your new ideology will turn into a true political movement, based on productivity and a promise of a better life, not on anger, depression, negativity and threats of violence and death..

This is the only real way to gain lasting power... Anything else is a lie.

Good morning.

aswani:
You tink say if I bi greedy politician, una go dey see my brake light for dis Nairaland.

aswani:
Millitary rule doesn't guarantee good governance, never has in Nigeria's case. You as a civilian don't even have the ability to remove them so they just ride roughshod over you anyway like ours have.

Refuse to give a military man road when you are driving and see the reaction. A typical military man doesn't have enough skills to interact with civilians at length never mind rule over them.

If you want to replace a bad civilian administration with a good military one, I will agree with you. Sadly in Nigeria, we have never seen that happen.

It even got so bad with the military at some point that Abacha believed he had a right to rule the country after Babangida curtailed the democratic will of the people.

If you want to be under the military, feel free to join the army. The rest of us will continue to prefer elected governments.

Wainey:
most of you aren't interested in learning, you just open mouth and say rubbish cos you have data.

If you want military rule, you can go to Sudan and live there

seanfer:
Get a life.
How do you know I’m suffering or my life is not better than yours?

Quenncee:
You talk too much. Did you die during abacha regime. Infact compare abacha regime and this current administration which is better?

Oya run for your life

aswani:
Well said Wainey.

These pro-millitary rule people don't realise the constitution is suspended when there's a coup-de-tat which effectively denies them of their basic rights.

Under martial law, you can be picked up at any time by the milliary regime, have your assets seized and have zero recourse to the courts.

Abacha and Babangida tó name But two were even more corrupt that any civilian administration and they are meant to be disciplined military people.

We should be very careful what you wish for just because our candidate lost elections.