₦airaland Forum

Bill Gate:
mckren leave my lady T alone oooo, before i kill someone,abi you don dey chase my woman?

I was about to say that I am not read to die yet when I realised that your e-mail contains a woman name. However am even feeling safer knowing you live in Quebec.

He does not have any economic programme, prominent on his manifesto is stability of Nigeria.

People are dieing of hunger, he is talking of stability. Are we fighting any civil war in fact the war we have today in Nigeria is that of lack of food, electricity, unemployment and he hardly talks about them.
OBJ has said it all, the man still thinks he is a military man, "he wants to re-structure Nigeria"

Someone should tell Buhari that this is 2007 not 1967.

ishmael:
Stop generalizing. If you don't like him some of us Love him, and i think those of us behind Buhari are majority, so he's winning the presidential election.

Do you want to start up a poll here??

A. For Buhar B. Against Buhari
lets see who wins

5 ANPP Governors have left him in the cold, so how does he hope to win?? He wont even win Katsina, Sokoto is out of question as Bafarawa is contesting, Governor of Kebbi Adamu Aliero thinks the ANPP has lost focus, Kaduna is a PDP state and Markafi will deliver his state to PDP. Buhari has lost the North West already, no one wants to vote him in the south.


In the North East Modu Sheriff of Maidugiri is already romancing the PDP and has always been an OBJ man, Buka Abba Ibrahim of Yobe thinks Any lucky political party should win yet he is an ANPP governor.

In north central, he has already lost Niger State because the Minna Born General will not live to see a Buhari Presidency so how will he win?
So how will he win?

@MT

While you are trying to find out the truth, I like you to have this at the back of your mind. Those who back Atiku never quote the constitution, they only summarise it or at best they quote sections of the electoral act which offers half truth. The electoral act is only a fall out of the constitution and in case where for any reason where there seems to be conflict the constitution should take precedence. It is like expecting a departmental policy to overide a companywide policy in an organisation

AT THE RATE HE IS GOING WE WILL REGRET SULTAN MACCIDO'S DEATH FOR A WHILE

HIS FIRST PRONOUNCEMENT WAS ABOUT RELIGOUS INSCRIPTIONS ON NAIRA

NOW IT IS WHY INEC ADHERED TO THE CONSTITUTION

THIS IS NOT WHAT BEING A SULTAN IS ALL ABOUT, HE IS SIMPLY TOO DESPERATE FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT. HE WANTS TO BE SEEN AS REPRESENTING THE INTEREST OF THE NORTH.

For you info, Buhari will not win any free and fair election in Nigeria. He is bad news to the electorate. No one likes him

If INEC or whoever has the right to disqualify Atiku, what happened to Kalu? I thought
they were both indicted by EFCC

Kalu got a court ruling to quash his indictment, Atiku has not been able to do that. Instead of going for his own he was hoping to benefit from a court case that he is not the plaintiff or party to.

What offence has Peter Obi committed to be
disqualified? Just by the abuse of power by INEC and whoever, Andy Uba is the only
candidate in Anambra and all roads have been cleared for him to march to the government
house, unperturbed.

What a sad situation this is but the fact remains that Obi did not meet the deadline for substitution of candidates and INEC had no choice but to recognise Etiaba as APGA candidate. Ngige on the otherhand refused to present himself for verification and was also indicted by Government white paper, so technically he is out. Take emotions out of this INEC can only work on facts on its table and as much as the situation is not that to be desired INEC still got to its decision in respect to the law.
I personally do pray and hope that Obi wins his court case claiming he has more 3 years in office. That looks the only way Uba will be stopped. However blaim the Presidency for the dramma in Anambra and not INEC.


On the whole, people should stop blackmailing INEC, I have simply not seen what they have done wrong. They have got such a very difficult job at hand. The INEC spokesman was quoted as saying that sometimes they get 3 court orders on the same issue, you respect one you disobey two and you simply cant obey the three. Our courts are part of the problem, they operate on the principle of FLEXIBLE PRONOUNCEMENTS  where verdicts are customised to plaintiff's specifications.

It is victory for constitutional democracy

Where are you guys stressing yourselves?? Buhari will definitely contest in the coming presidential elections and will obviously get more votes than any other candidate. But i attach a condition to my statement "if and only if the election is going to be free and fair". PDP can only stop him with their normal rigging.

What a precedent, if Buhari wins it is free and fair but if PDP wins it is rigging.

[size=16pt]INEC WORKED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE LAW. THEY SIMPLY ADHERED TO THE CONSTITUTION[/size]

dayokanu:
Are we not setting a bad precedence?? when the court vindicated the man of all charges and he was still disqualified. If we are hailing INEC for flouting court orders where would we now go for justice in Nigeria. As long as OTA farm is satisfied the court can go to hell?? so the highest court in the land is OBJ's thinking. If Nigerians don't want the man why should we not get at him at the polls instead of encouraging lawlessness. Are we not being part of the plan to promote executive gangsterism and lawlessness?
God bless Nigeria.

Have you read the court verdict yourself//A court today threw out a case by Atiku prosecuting Iwu for contempt of court. People please get your facts right.

That was not my conclusion, I was only saying as much as education of electorate is longterm best practicewe need a short term solution. Otherwise the effects of not getting it right now will nullify the benefits of the education process.

Disqualification of corrupt persons is in order.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday released the lists of candidates for the presidential and National Assembly elections with the exclusion of the name of the vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. INEC, through its commissioner in charge of media and publicity, Mr. Philip Umeadi, had explained on Wednesday that the vice president would have to await the outcome of a suit filed against a ruling by the high court that it had no power to disqualify any candidate from the election.


The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Yar’Adua and his counterparts in the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Fresh Party, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and Pastor Chris Okotie, were among other presidential candidates cleared for the April polls.


Other candidates include Professor Pat Utomi of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Alhaji Atahiru Bafarawa of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Major (Dr.) Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo (MMM), Orji Uzor Kalu of the Peoples Progressives Alliance (PPA), Adebayo Adefarati of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and Alhaji Aliyu Habu Fari of the National Democratic Party (NDP)


Others include Mallam Aminu Gabati Abubakar of the National Unity Party (NUP), Galtima Baboyi Liman of the New Nigerians Peoples Party (NNPP), Prof Isa Odidi of Nigerian Democrats (ND), Maxi Okwu of the Conference of Political Parties (CPP) and Arthur Nwankwo of the Peoples Movement Party (PMP).


The rest are Dr. Iheanyichukwu Godswill of BMPP, Chief Emmanuel Osita Okereke of African Labour Party (ALP), Chief Sunny Joseph Okogwu of the Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN), Chief Ambrose Owuru of the HDP and Dr. Brimmy Asekharuagbom Olaghere of the Nigerians Peoples Congress (NPC).


Others are Dr. Olapade Agoro of the National Action Congress (NAC), Mr. Lawrence Adedoyin (APS), Dr. Akpone Solomon (NMDP) and Mr. Osagie Obayuwama of the NCP. Addressing the media in Abuja before the release of the list, the INEC chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, explained the reason for the exclusion of the name of the vice president from the list.


Iwu said although Alhaji Abubakar stated the fact about himself in his presidential nomination paper, his commission did not include his name on the list because he failed to meet constitutional requirements on qualification of candidates for the April poll. INEC, he explained, did not disqualify Atiku but only did not include his name among the qualified presidential candidates because of his case of indictment by the Federal Government and the issuance of a White Paper on the case.


He referred to an earlier ruling by the court which he said affirmed the power of INEC to verify documents submitted to it by candidates and screen the candidates, adding that the court also affirmed that it had the authority to exclude candidates who he said failed to meet constitutional requirements. He said candidates whose names did not appear in the presidential list had violated some relevant sections of the constitution guiding the qualification of candidates for elections such as sections 65, 66, 131,137 for the office of president.


“It may be pertinent to also point out that section 32(5) of the Electoral Act refers to disqualification of candidates who have deposed to false information in their affidavit. It does not in the opinion of the commission and in the opinion of all the legal experts we have consulted refer to those who had given correct information, but who are precluded or disqualified by constitutional provisions”.


Iwu said that with the release of the list of presidential candidates and those seeking election into the National Assembly, the commission was set to conduct the freest and fairest elections in the nation’s history. He dismissed speculations about the possible postponement of the April elections, stressing that the constitution did not make provisions for such a postponement.


In another development, Vice President Abubakar also on Thursday lost in two federal high courts sitting in Abuja, in his battle to quash the indictment for corruption hanging on his neck, and make him constitutionally fit to run for president in the April polls. In one of the cases decided by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako, a motion filed by Atiku challenging his indictment by the Administrative Panel of Inquiry headed by the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), wherein President Olusegun Obasanjo was listed as one of the nine defendants, was thrown out.


The second loss was before Justice Babs Kuewumi, who refused an application filed by the vice president, seeking to commence contempt proceedings against the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu and the commission’s Head, Legal Department, Mr. Oluwole Osaze Uzzi, over their alleged refusal to comply with the court’s order that the commission lacked the power to disqualify him from participating in the forthcoming presidential election.


Justice Nyako struck out Atiku’s motion following obvious confusion in the legal camp of the vice president, which culminated in its decision to withdraw the motion, on which the permission of the court had earlier been sought to amend. The legal team of Atiku had made it impossible for the hearing of the suit to commence at the last two adjourned dates, with the Federal Government having to complain to the court on the perceived lack of seriousness on the part of the plaintiffs to prosecute the matter.

After Atiku’s counsel got the permission of the court to amend their motion the first time the case came up for mention, the next adjourned date saw the group asking the judge to disqualify herself from the suit on sundry grounds, as her hearing the case, which they alleged, would make fair hearing and justice impossible before the court.


The definite hearing of the matter that was expected to begin yesterday brought another surprise package from the Atiku legal team, as it applied to the court to have the matter withdrawn, claiming that the interests of the vice president had been taken care of in the judgment delivered by Justice Kuewumi last week, to the effect that the electoral body could not disqualify candidate presented by a political party for the general election.
Justice Nyako later struck out the suit.


However, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), who held the brief of the Federal Government, insisted that the plaintiff must be compelled to pay cost for “deliberately” wasting the time of the court and the defendants. Toeing the same path, counsel to the INEC, Mr. Joe Gadzama (SAN), asked for N50,000 cost, while Ojo asked for N100,000. Justice Nyako, however, cut the cost to N2,000 each for the nine defendants.


In the suit before Justice Kuewumi, the court refused to grant a prayer by Atiku that the notice of disobedience to court order and other processes in the suit should be served on Iwu and Osaze, through substituted service, by way of publishing them in a national newspaper. Atiku’s counsel, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), had told the court while moving the application that the duo had held the judgment of Kuewumi that INEC could not disqualify any candidate in contempt, by refusing to recognise Atiku as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC).


He added that granting the substituted service application would make it possible for the court to ask the duo why they should not be committed to prison for refusing to obey the order of the court. After a brief adjournment, Justice Kuewumi came back to tell the applicant that more efforts should be made to get the INEC chiefs served personally, holding that failing in his first attempt to sever the defendants would not be enough for him to grant Atiku his prayer for substituted service.


The suit on the indictment was brought by the Action Congress {AC}challenging the indictment of 27 of its candidates for the general election in April by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Federal Government, in its reply, had insisted that the party’s candidates were not in any way higher or different from other Nigerians indicted in the gazette. Meanwhile, Vice President Abubakar on Thursday arrived Abuja on board Nigeria Air force Jet with registration number 5N FGS after undergoing a surgery on his broken right knee in a London hospital .


Vice President Abubakar had arrived aboard the jet at 4:20p.m. and alighted at 4:35p.m. in crutches. He wore brown jacket over white shirt and black trousers. He was received on arrival by dignitaries including the AC national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; Chief Yemi Edu, AC National scribe, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) National Chairman Chief Alexis Anielo and former Minister, Chief (Mrs) Funke Adedoyin, among others. Addressing newsmen at his private residence, Vice President Abubakar said his disqualification was not surprising and unexpected.


He said all attempts had been made by the presidency to prevent him from running in the 2007 polls, citing cases of his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which he helped established and his alleged sack as the vice president by President Olusegun Obasanjo. Other instances he mentioned included the sacking of his staff and withdrawal of his privileges. Vice President Abubakar promised to fight his disqualification by the INEC in court up to the Supreme Court level.


According to him, if the court should pronounce that he had been illegally and unconstitutionally prevented from contesting the 2007 polls, any election conducted under such instance would become a nullity. Vice President Abubakar has, therefore, sued INEC for unlawful exclusion. Atiku, in an originating summons supported by four paragraphs affidavit deposed to by one Kolawole Olowokere, filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, shortly after the release of the list, also joined the INEC chairman, Professor Iwu, as a defendant in the suit.


In the suit, the vice president is seeking, among other reliefs, “a declaration that the defendants can only exclude the 1st plaintiff from contesting election to the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria upon pronouncements of a competent court in that respect.”


He, therefore, sought an order of the court restraining the defendants from “excluding and/or attempting to exclude the name of the 1st plaintiff as the presidential candidate of the 2nd plaintiff into the office of the president except upon the pronouncement of a competent court of law.”

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my response in another thread

@BigB1

What you simply got to understand is that western model democracy will simply not get us out of the dolldrums, how do you hope to educate the electorate in a country where the same set of people you want to educate the electorate against control at least 60% of the media and what they say. In a country where the same set of people have successfully through media propaganda make it look illegal to implement what the constitution say especially when it is not in their favour?
What electorate do you even want to educate, an electorate that have been so impoverished that they no longer know what they want, give them N1000 they throw all you have taught them to wind because they need to eat for that day. Some of those who will make up this so called electorate you talk about include those who placed priority over inscription of religious signs on naira over its purchasing power.

In a situation like this what do you do leave this people to be exploited forever?? or look for perculiar solution to our perculiar problems.
BigB1 you see, supporting what OBJ does have these days become politically incorrect and I don't wish to engage in that argument but I have no doubts in my mind that 10years down the line we will look back in history and glorify this political dramma and confusion playing out in our country because it is one of those rare situations where the grass tends to benefit from a fight between elephants.

Anonymous2:
He won the cases filed against him, so what disqualified him? I havent read the papers yet maybe u can help me out.

Now I know what the issue is, you got to be careful what to believe about Atiku and the Newspapers. The guy is a gangster and him and his cohorts control the media. They feed the public with half, claiming to be protecting democracy and rule of law when in principle all they are doing is exploiting the loopholes in the constitution.
Talking about winning all his cases in court  you have to be also careful because the man goes about bribing Judges to pronounce for him customized verdicts, sometimes he even distorts and re-interpretes verdict to suit him when a Judge pronounces an ambigous verdict so as not to tell a blatant lie. A fact which recent statement by Justice Kutigi, the Chief Justice of the Federation, that "Judges must avoid taking bribes from politicians" corroborates.

Some of the court cases he won you are talking about include,  a Judge ruling that in a democracy where people during elections clearly vote for political parties not individuals that it is right for the VP to  change party and remain in power. Gani criticized that verdict openly, even the Senate President (Nnamani) has spoken about the dangers of cross-carpeting and how wrong it is. (Thats a clear example of customized verdict)

The latest court victory he claims is that by Justice Kuwumi, Which stated that INEC has no powers to disqualify candidates but INEC has powers to verify or screen candidates. Funny enough this has always been INEC's claims but as soon the pronouncement was made AC ran to the media claiming to have won another court case just to confuse issues. (Thats a clear example of re-interpreting court verdict)

Watch them very well, when they argue about the contitution they quote aspects of the constitution that supports their claims and sumarise aspects that dont.

now on the latest issue,
Section 137 of the constitution provides that those indicted of fraud by an administrative panel of enquiry are not elegible to contest. Atiku was indicted by the Bayo Ojo led panel on PTDF fraud. Now Atiku claims that indictment has been quashed  by a Lagos high court when the truth of the matter is even if the Judgement were to stand and had not been appealed by the EFCC, the plaintiff in that case was Fasawe and not Atiku. How can Atiku benefit from a legal proceedings he is not party to?/

The truth is that, as a result of propaganda spearheaded by Turaki Vanguard/AC no one knows the truth anymore in this country.

He stated that Nigerians should disregard the claims by the opposition that he wants to postpone the elections because in the real sense the opposition does not want the elections to hold simply because they do not want their immunities to end and that they are afraid of what might happen after their immunties are gone.

OBJ mouth na bomb, na once in a blue moon him dey drop his own.

firstborn:
GUYS I THINK THAT THE PICTURE IS BECOMING CLEARER AS TO WHO WILL CONTEST THE 2007 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

WITH THE BATTLE BTW YARADUA,KALU,OKOTIE,ATIKU,UTOMI,BUHARI AND THE REST;

WHO WILL U VOTE FOR?

It is not getting any clearer with your list. There is an illegal name on your list

Anonymous2:
@McKren

But I am, he won all his cases in the court so why can't he contest? I am not on his side o, just trying to reason out what's fishy.

Simply cant figure out what you getting at

He won all his cases in court so he should be handed a trophy of a place in election when he is not eligible to contest?

@BigB1

You simply have not told us how you and your US plan to avert any danger if there was going to be one. The most any country will want to do is to send election monitors who will stay only in expensive hotels in Abuja, Lagos and PH.
They will simply avoid the creeks of Okrika and mbiama in Niger-Delta, they will not even near the hills of Udi or Nsuka in Enugu let alone the deserts of Bodinga, Fika or Potiskum of the North.

What difference will they make?. There were international observers when Abel Goubadia conducted his charade it did not change anything. I believe there will still be international observers during this one but the manner in which you are calling USA to conduct our election sounds so suspicious.

Or do you want 20,000 troops deployed because naija wants to have election/

This is no breaking news, all who knew the provisions of the contitution are surely not suprised including the VP

All of you making noise, if you all believe in the power of the electorates why did we not allow amendments of third term bill in the hope that we will vote OBJ out at the polls

The truth is that Atiku should lick his wounds, Atiku and OBJ are going simple. Nigerians obviously want something new come May 29.

Buhari has started failing already!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahmed Sani of Zamfara has resigned chaimanship of his campaign organisation on health grounds. That to me is an exit strategy

Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe State was spotted this week saying publicly in Yobe that the luckiest Presidential candidate from any political party should win.

Adamu Aliero of Kebbi State thinks the ANPP has lost focus and has backed out

Modu Sheriff of Bornu State is secretely romancing the PDP

Bafarawa who used to be an ANPP governor is contesting under DPP

Thats five potential ANPP strongholds gone, tell me how Buhari hopes to win this eletion?
Buhari may not even win in his state as the front runner is the imcumbent governor of his home state, who will vote him in the south?? he simply does not appeal to southerners
I have said it in this forum before that ANPP endorsed PDP Presidency the day they chose Buhari

the beauty of it all is that this issue is turning an issue of national debate, and in the next dispensation politicains will not be having flamboyant medical check ups abroad. it will not be something to celebrate anymore and I think its a step in the right direction. Maybe for this reason Atiku might sneak into the country after his own treatment, but Tinubu must remember that he is part of the failure, he as Governor of Lagos could have taken the lead to make a difference in his state but he has not.

Afam:
Bush of Africa indeed. That may be correct sha given the fact that Bush has been a monumental failure as the president of the US. I hope his supporters are not indirectly mocking him without his knowing.

Spot on. Bush is a collosal failure, so if Kalu is referred to as Bush of Africa then there is not much to argue about.

@Jaybaby

80% of Men Are Impotent

How did you come about that statistics

Big B1:
McKren is drunk as usual, but he's a cool dude. He's allowed to be bad as he wants to be for just today.

the truth is, I am totally bored

kellofish:
mckaren, i think we'd be able to read your posts, without the hugeness of it



who said anything about moving it over to cameron?

Feeling like a star, succeeded in winding you up

[size=16pt]all this people wey won move Nigeria forward, make una no move am over to cameroon sha.[/size]