₦airaland Forum

People who say the Supreme Court cannot review its own judgement if it finds very fatal errors therein, make me laugh.

So a simple question: if the Supreme Court sentences a man to death for murder based on evidence before it; and then developments later proves that the evidence upon which the SC relied on was false, will the SC allow that man to die just cos it cannot review its judgement?

Davash222:
Having buhari as a president is Nigeria's greatest mistake.

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

Even the most ardent Buhari supporter know this now.

Both APC and PDP are madd.

Altho na APC own pass.

Useless parties!!!

SMDH

BuhariAdvocate:
This government is working.

SMDH

Simplyleo:
Stop deceiving yourself. That is the gov recognised by ipob miscreants. And as such, he alone has access to the state treasury, tyrant Maj gen Buhari is just wasting his time.

You will not understand now. When ohamadick lamidi cownu, the supreme god of ipob miscreants land for naija, you go know how far.

No Principles, whatsoever.

And those are the most dangerous set of persons.

These Buhari Supporters!!!

SMDH

seunmsg:
In as much as I condemn the illegality of dissolving elected councils and replacing them with caretaker committees that are unknown to law, I must also state that the AGF doesn’t have the power to issue directive to the governor on the matter. At best, he can offer his legal opinion on the matter and nothing else. The right thing is for the lawfully elected council members to institute legal action against the governor.

Agreed Completely.

All Govs must obey the order of the Supreme Court without exception and in this particular case is for a very good reason.

However, it is strange that an AG is "directing" a State Govt. The same AG under whose purview some of the most outrageous disobedience to court orders have been be recorded

yarimo:
You will soon pity yourself when HOPE finally apply the same constitution you apply for OKOROCHA.

Do you have or follow any principle??

Officialgarri:
This Onu had been dishing us lately some appetites that might not happen even in his own lifetime

Just to mention a few Promises from the Uburu man

-‘Nigeria to start methanol production soon’

--FG inaugurates committee on establishment of science data bank

-Nigeria to produce agric machinery soon, says minister

-Minister explains FG’s strategy for saving N3.6tn from raw materials


This is just to mention a few.... but nothing is forthcoming from that ministry, but waste of Salary on a "soon" minister.

Now if My president decides to reshuffle and sacks this man, and replace with a competent person, some will begin to cry marginalisation

All Buhari ministers are as incompetent as Onu you so succinctly described above.

Heck! Buhari himself is the exact definition of Incompetence.

Classic case of Like attracting like

garfield1:
Guys,whats your problem? Must you always wail? Its becoming annoying boy.listen,even onnoghen will have given same judgment.please,do me a favor.read supreme court judgment on 2003,2007 and 2011 polls and also read the electoral act very well.i believe this will clear her doubt

Who is this??

Some people still do not know what is happening in and to Nigeria yet, as regards its Supreme Court and the entire justice system.

1st, it was the bizarre removal of a sitting CJN by Executive fiat and then it is this brazenly flawed judgement by the highest court of the land, a court that should be near infallible.

People think this is politics.

E go soon clear for all our eyez

garfield1:
Like you and ihedioha.losing is now part of your nature

Am losing? You think am losing here? You call this "victory" for you or Hope or the APC??

You do really have a small mind. And short eyes too.

You have no idea who is losing here!!!

garfield1:
Yes,i copied it for ignorant fellows like you.you are one of those spreading hate and falsehood here.you are the one always inflicting yourself with pains.from presidential polls where i rubbished you to kogi and now in imo,you dont learn your lessons.if you read those cases,it will clearly show that the are almost the same.solid facts ofcourse never makes sense to intellectually inept fellows.ihedioha has recovered,please follow suit

Just a bunch of NONSENSE

garfield1:
Oga,the law globally and especially our electoral law has a lot of flaws and an intelligent hope took advantage of these loopholes.imolites may not have given him those votes but like all politicians who rig,he crafted means of rigging in those polling units using original inec result sheets,found a way to authenticate them at the units bearing in mind that you canjot cancel results emanating from units.
He got a smart lawyer who proved and convinced the apex court that the results were genuine and unlawfully excluded.that's the summary.
In those 388 units,votes from other parties doesnt matter because they didnt petition plus it will not stop hope from winning.you grab it?

You are speaking the truth little by little now.

No matter how you danced before, the above ia close to what happened. No other explanation possible.

The Supreme Court for whatever reason(and this will be know soon) just perpetuated possibly the greatest assault to the electoral process in Nigeria.

By the way, I dislike the PDP before now. But I will regard them as totally USELESS if they accept the nonsense that just happened in Imo. By now, they should be leading protest every where including Abj and Imo. They should boycott the national assembly, the Presidency till further notice.

We have Clowns for politicians in this country.

Am so pained!!!

garfield1:
Elections held. Polling unit results were declared and issued to agents and police. At Ward collation, valid results from 388 polling units where Uzodinma got over 200k votes were not collated in the Ward results without any legal basis. So it is basically, votes in 388 valid Form EC8As were not included in preparing Form EC8Bs, which greatly affected the final result and placed him 4th. At the Tribunal, these original duplicate copies given to the party agents and the police were tendered and spoken to by persons who witnessed the unlawful exclusion.

The case at the Tribunal was simply for the Court to exercise its power to include votes from these 388 polling which were ignored at the point of collation without a legal basis, in the final result.

That is all the Supreme Court did. When you add the excluded votes, Uzodinma had over 300k votes. That makes him the winner.

The last time the Supreme Court gave a decision like this is in Omoboriowo v Ajasi and Nwobodo v Onoh in 1984. So I'm not surprised that it's sounding new.

As a lawyer, I don't speak to the politics behind decisions. I speak to the legal basis behind decisions. There was legal basis for this decision. But let the politics continue.

Just ShUT it!!!

You are NOT a lawyer. That you are equating those cases with this particular one clearly shows so.

And every other thing written in your comment does not make any sense

garfield1:
Oga parties are bounded by their pleadings and a court can only accept or reject prayers distilled for determination.the matter before the court was to determine the legality of only hope's hitherto excluded votes and not any other voterls.get it.the only way to get real accredited votes tally is to use voters register and not the card readers

You didnt answer my question. Just dancing about.

And NO!! The court cannot "restore" the votes of a particular candidate/party and refuse to "restore" the votes of other candidates in same units in same elections only cos those other candidates didnt seek such determination.

What do some of you chaps think the the judicial process is or works?

Anyways, we await the written reasons for this judgement from their Lordships cos at this point nothing makes sense

garfield1:
Inec didnt do their calculations well.according to the electoral act,overvoting is calculated using voters register.the number you are seeing is from only card readers but legally,people can vote without card readers

So the number of accreditated voters increases or changes?

You mean 236,000 persons were not accreditated with card readers but manually and they ALL belonged to only one candidate?

If it was the persons in the 338 units that were accreditated manually, is it that EVERY single voter in those units voted for one candidate?

You guys should fear God!!!

goroman:
PDP and INEC did. the highest rigger being pdp miscalculated. they weren't smart with it. so technically the no of votes dubiously generated by pdp were added to apc candidate. that's a retribution.

So PDP was controlling INEC?? Clap for yourself!!

By the way, bo votes from PDP was removed and added to the APC candidate. Apparently, non collated votes were added to the APC.

No retribution here Bros. Stop using terms too generously

GidiWoodsMan:
PDP & APC are two sides of the same useless coin, so neither deserves any form.of solidarity or pity. But 388 polling units, isn't that like half the entire votes cast all over the state. Why were they excluded, were they invisible, or were they quarantined becaus of malpractice (implausible on that scale though).

Anyone with a bit of commonsense knows that the police & other officials did the bidding of APC during the last polls. So did they all go to sleep during Imo elections, and allow PDP to rig? God knows Nigerians are not as stupid as Buhari's govt thinks they all are...except the zombies though....

My point exactly!!!

It is so incredulous, it is almost funny. Only that it is damn serious

OVIHINNO:
I was taken aback with the supreme court judgement initially until I read the details of the judgement.
What's strange about the judgement? The facts of the case has been made bare, Votes in favor of HOPE wrongly cancelled were added back by the Supreme Court. He(Hope) now has the highest number of Votes consequently returned elected!
The question that arises then is, does the supreme court has power to add back votes already cancelled by INEC? From a layman's point view I think answer is YES. Hopefully in the days ahead legal luminaries will elucidate on this matter and the whole contentious issues will be adequately addressed

The Supreme court has the power to add back cancelled votes if they hold that it was cancelled illegally?

But these vites were not cancelled by INEC. If not INEC would not have declared the election conclusive in the 1st place. I am reading now that the SC says that they were not collated!!!

So who deliberately did not collate such a huge number for a single candidate?

INEC? I hardly doubt that cos we are talking about INEC against the ruling party here!

So again, who did?

seunmsg:
Except my memory is now failing me, Imo election was never declared inconclusive.

Please read my initial response very well and get my message. I blamed INEC and PDP for the mess. INEC should take more blame because they have the duty of conducting credible election. I’m very sad that those that cancelled over 200,000 valid votes almost got away with it. Unfortunately, nothing will happen to those that committed the crime.

Exactly! It was never declared inconclusive.

Bros, we are not talking about 1000 or 5000 votes here or there but 236,000 votes in 388 units( what is the total number of valid voters and no of units in Imo state).

How is it possible that such a huge number and from such a huge units is cancelled for only one candidate? And none was cancelled for other candidates in these 388 units?

Who cancelled it?

INEC?

Again, does that make any sense to you?

Assuming this happened, it would be the most outrageous crime i.e political fraud, ever conducted in the history of elections in Nigeria and maybe even the world.

How could INEC have been able to succesfully done that?

goroman:
it's a technical verdict. a retributive judgment so to speak

Lolz @ retributive justice!!

Who comitted a crime here? And where is the proportionality in this judgement?

seunmsg:
There is nothing strange in the judgement. What I actually found strange today is the information that INEC declared Ihedioha winner after cancelling APC votes in 388 polling units. They cancelled the voice/voted of over 200,000 voters just to be able to declare Ihedioha. I’m really disturbed that it took the intervention of the Supreme Court to stop such a fraudulent move.

Who cancelled over 236,000 votes(hope you know what that means) in 388 units( again i hope you know what that number is) in a single state?

INEC?

And was it only Hope's vote that were cancelled?

If 236000 votes were actually cancelled, how come the election was declared conclusive in the 1st place?

Some many questions. And you and I are just guessing

[quote author=seunmsg post=85802859][/quote]This is not about the PDP.

Fucck them!!!

It is about a judgement that is strange. Very strange. And capable of putting the judiciary into serious disrepute.

What was the reasoning behind the judgement?

This is really sad!!

Was Wike drunk or what?

Enice:
inec is not controlled by the fg. Inec is independent.

Stop deceiving yourself, Mr man.

Ohh!! So it is the PDP or AA(read: Okorocha) that was able to control INEC enough to make 236600votes in 338 units in a single day within a single election to disapper and so not counted? Not least the votes of the party in power in the Federal level?

Does this make any sense to you??

layzie:
Don't u think this your question would have been asked and answered in the course of this case from tribunal to appeal and then to SC. These governorship candidates are represented by top lawyers so they would have trashed it and evidence duly presented.

My opinion

Mr man,

It is not my job to be guessing the minds of judges and lawyers, etc.

And that is exactly my point: this judgement is so consequential and at face value can essily be misconstrued by so many people, not least some people that may want to ferment trouble. And in a big way.

Shouldnt their Lordships have taken the time to write the decision and share so the guessing game is reduced?

CallMeDrino:
Hope Uzodinma's case was that the 388 polling units spread across the state which he won was wrongfully excluded during collation by INEC.

The Supreme Court merely gave him back the units which skyrocketed his score over Ihedioha and fulfilled the geographical spread.

It’s that simple

#Copied

If these units were actually excluded i.e 388 units(how many units are there in Imo again?), didnt other candidates win a single vote from these excluded units?

Then, who excluded them?

Then, where are these units located in Imo?

If the SC wasnt irresponsible in this case knowing the huge shock in declaring a person who came out as 4th as the winner, it ought to have released the written opinion so every one is guided and nobody is guessing.

This decision is so consequential for Gods sake for us to be guessing

Mynd44:
This is the explanation.

Deji is smarter than this

Where did these HUGE 236,600 votes come from? Which units did it come from? Didnt other candidates score votes from those units? Who "excluded" it from Uzodinma? Was it INEC, a body controlled by the FG?

Thought you were smarter than this, Bros??

itsme01:




Makinde is like any other politician, and his local government election would be a fruadulent selection



..

Such a shame. All of them have made a complete mockery of LG elections.

But must we continue to support such by our silence.

Ikpeazu is truly one of the most disastrous Govs in Nigeria.

Dont understand how Nigeria is so cursed with political leaders as these from across all divides.

codedguy1:
What kind of question is the bolded?

It is very hard to declare his assets PUBLICLY because he intends to steal recklessly or he has stolen recklessly.

How do you want somebody who all thought had just one 1 Volkswagen to explain that he now has 3 Lamborghinis, 5 houses, home and abroad, 30billion in his akant after being in a PUBLIC position for just 4 years. And he is to enjoy another 4years.

It is a very hard thing to do oo.

I see what you are doing.

Such a shame i swear

Woo!!!!

And some people are still holding on to the dubious notion that Buhari is incorruptible, supposedly his only redeeming trait?

What is hard in publicly declaring your assets and asking your aids to do same too like you promised yourself publicly.

If i still held unto a small believe or hope that he is not corrupt, it completely dies today.

What a Scam!!!!