₦airaland Forum

udeh3:
Owerri-base Legal Practitioner, Barr Stanley Chukwu, said: ”The present situation arising from the death of Audu, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Kogi has created an unprecedented situation
not envisaged in the 1999 Constitution of the Federation as Amended. While Section 181 of the
Constitution envisaged a situation where if a Governor elect dies before taking oath of office his
deputy is to take over. Subsection 2 of section 181 provides that where both the Governor elect
and his deputy die before taking oath of office, that there will be a flesh election.

”The Kogi situation is that the Gubernatorial candidate died at a time election has not been
concluded and supplementary election is to be conducted so that a winner would be declared. In
this scenario, APC no longer have a gubernatorial candidate for the supplementary election. In
fact, supplementary election would be a waste of time. Audu’s running mate cannot step into his
shoe. There is no provision in the Electoral Act or the Constitution that assigned any role to a
running mate upon the demise of the Gubernatorial candidate before declaration of winner. The
only option is for an a flesh election to be conducted in which APC will field a candidate. Again,
this is one scenario which our law fail to envisage and there is now the need to take care of it in
future constitutional amendment.

”The argument that it is the party that stands for election will not fly when you analogically
consider section 181(2). of the Constitution which orders for fresh election where both the
Governor Elect and Deputy Governor elects die before taking oath of office. If the Constitution
recognises the party above the candidate, it would have simply required the Party to field a new
Governor-elect and Deputy Governor elect but instead, the Constitution required a new election.
So in this case, since Audu has not been declared, his running mate can only be seen and not
reckoned with. The only option now is conducting a fresh election.”

This is the best option otherwise, some intending deputies can take advantage on this to eliminate the suppose party flag bearer knowing fully the benefit awaiting them!

doctokwus:
With the almost confirmed death of Abubakar Audu,the APC governorship candidate and with the almost certain victory of APC in the supplenentary election,destiny has seen to the emergence of Faleke , the deputy gubernatorial candidate as the defacto governor in waiting.
Faleke was rumoured to be a Lagos state indigene and was said to have been fostered on Audu by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It then implies that tinubu has got another foothold in the north central.
I feel Tinubu was setting Faleke to take over from Audu when his 4yr tenure expires, but destiny and plans seems to have come earlier than calculated!
What a life! !

dake40:
Its really a pity, its only in Nigeria people value political party/election more than human life

Priest200:
Gods people....
I discovered with dismay the current trends of pentecostal churches everybody is speaking in tongues even the fornicator and thieves speak in tongue..my bible made me understand that from the time,the apostles receive the holy ghost and spoke in tongue their lyf was transformed bt what is happening now in our church is unspeakable...some one would do alnite in d club and come to church on sunday to be forming tongue,na God go dey judge all this one after the other..

chukymoney:
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That is why she was appointed instead of well experienced Enelamah. She would just be a figure head in this government.

focus7:
Is it all about claiming or about providing evidence to your claim? Hate has eating up the common sense in you.

nickxtra:
How has Oshiomhole punished these women. Are they paying the land charge? No. Are they the Igbinedions that are war with Oshiomole? Certainly you are might be correct because they have been hired or incited by Igbinedions and Pastor Ize Iyamu to stage this protest. Quote me anywhere. In few days,you will see the really Edo aged women that will be in solidarity with their beloved Governor. ............ and the source of this post is from Igbinedion's daughter, Omonosede.

Obi411:
Why so ignorant?

doctokwus:
The fact is that the level of Nigeria's economy has been built on false parameters and fraud from illicitly gotten wealth.Whatever people saw as money flowing under gej were just illusions of an economy built on parameters that were bound to come crumbling once the right policies are put in place.
I always use this illustration:an armed robber that steals money somewhere, uses it to build a house in another location and patronizes the beer parlour and prostitutes in another area and buys a tokunbo car, also from the proceeds.These other people put food on d table from the activities of the robber, who has probably killed or sent to hospital the bread winner(s) from his activities.When he is caught, those that indirectly depended on his proceeds start facing hard times.Of course they were all living under a fraud and wud start earning their true income, which invarariably wud be far less from legitimate earning members of d society.
That is d analogy of the Nigerian situation today.All what people saw in d past were lies that have come home to roost