₦airaland Forum

agabusta:
A case law does not necessarily have to be an electoral one. You guys are just giving yourselves false hopes. Historical judgements will not differ from what we'd get tomorrow.

By tomorrow, your eyes will be clear. Please I beg you, don't come here and scream bribery over your illogical interpretation, which has no precedence.


Related interpretation.

I'm not giving myself any false hope cos everyone already knows the Nigerian system is desperately corrupt and rigged to favour the highest bidder. So I'm not giving myself any hope here; I'm only just stating what is a clear fact and what the outcome should be had Nigeria been a society that reveres the rule of law. This issue is only being debated cos we're in Nigeria where anything goes...

All the legal examples you gave cited Section 299 of the constitution which happens to be a general provision. But Section 134(2) which mentions "...AND FCT..." is a specific provision specifically guiding presidential elections. I'm not a lawyer but one thing I know for certain is that general provision cannot supersede or override a specific provision.

Even Tinubu's camp knows the 25% provision to be a problem, reason why Tinubu had to warn the PEPT that overturning an election just cos of the FCT 25% clause could plunge the nation to anarchy; what he basically implied there is that "Yes the full requirements were not met, but for the sake of avoiding anarchy, let's overlook this minor issue." It's up to the courts to tell us whether emotions and subtle threats supersede the constitution.

agabusta:
Abuja residents are not more important than other people in Nigeria. You people are just clutching at straws.

The constitution stated 1/4 votes in 2/3rd states 'and' the FCT. Which can be interpreted as ...inclusive of the FCT. Try and read up mischief rule of statutes of interpretation of laws.

The constitution and judgments in the past has clearly stated that Abuja FCT will be regarded as other states with respect to its jurisdiction.

Abuja residents aren't the ones who wrote the Nigerian constitution which clearly stated in English language that they be treated as specials. 'And', 'Including', 'inclusive, we cant turn that simple English statement on its head simply because it doesnt favour some sacred cows who 'own' the system; that would set a very dangerous precedence which could rubbish a lot more things in the constitution.

Sometimes I just sit back and wonder, had it been Peter OBI was the one pronounced winner but he couldn't gain 25% in FCT, had it also been OBI was the one with the $460,000 drug kingpin forfeiture case, I cant even imagine how the smart and ferocious APC e-warriors would have shredded him to pieces. But see how you all are now preaching to Nigerians how these baggages don't matter

Meanwhile, can you kindly point me to the electoral judgment that stated that the FCT is equivalent to states in electoral matters. I'm patiently waiting!

tellsblinks:
If this happen, does Obi have a chance?

I'm 100% convinced these might be considered

unfortunately, I don't see OBI having a chance in a rerun or even a run-off. In a rerun, the powers that be wouldn't make the mistake of underrating him; they'd deploy unimaginable violence and rigging to ensure he doesnt even get up to half the votes he got before. In a run-off, it would even be worse if OBI is to run head-to-head with the other top candidates. Even if a run-off is conducted between OBI vs Kwankwaso, the entire rigging mechanism of APC and PDP would back Kwankwaso.

Only chance of OBI being president is if the tribunal outright declares him the winner of the Feb 25th election (which would be nothing short of a massive miracle). I believe in miracles though!

blaise26abj:
Haaaaaaaa! Can Nigeria ever catch a break ? Maybe that’s why they gave him the senate presidency just in case .

Of course! Every president wants a loyal ally as senate president for numerous reasons.

blaise26abj:
I doubt that . If it was frivolous , they wouldn’t wait this long to pass judgement .

However I think Tinubu will carry the day and INEC made a scape goat . Because the judiciary is as corrupt as all the other arms of government .

Question is if Tinubu’s election is voided , what happens ? Who will take over pending re-run elections ? Is there a provision in the constitution for such a scenario ? Legal luminaries should explain

If the election is voided, Akpabio becomes Ag. President pending the conduct of a run-off or fresh election.

mp3ree:
And what's the judgement that would turn the country to a Banana Republic?

Doing Nothing! i.e. if the Tribunal ignores all the clear points raised and just outrightly dismisses the case, that would set a dangerous precedent.

Without delving too deep, the 25% in Abuja is a clear basis to call for a run-off, the constitution was very clear on that. If the Tribunal ignores that, then it would be setting a very dangerous precedent which would rubbish the integrity of the Judiciary and the constitution.

Like the days prior to the Feb 25th election, I totally have no clue what to expect from September 6th.

- Would the Judiciary damn the succeeding legal consequences and perform some legal abracadabra? Or

- Should Akpabio start warming up to be an Ag. President? Or

- Would a foundation shaking judgment be passed which would send ecstatic ripples all around Africa?

Not sure I know or can predict what to expect. But if I must place a bet, I'd say they'd call for a run-off in which Tinubu would likely win again by using brutal rigging. With this, the Judiciary would save face but the powers that be would still get their way.

Whatever the case, the Judiciary shouldn't pass a judgment that would turn the country to a banana republic.

Lol.. No surprises! NURTW's now a branch of the presidency.

Hmmm... Just like the Feb 25th election, I dont even know what to expect...

Akpabio might need to start warming up as an Ag. President; or the Judiciary might just damn the legal consequences and perform some legal abracadabra?.... or a foundation shocking judgment might be passed? Not sure I know or can predict what to expect. The Judiciary should however not pass a judgment that would turn the country to a banana republic.

This girl no try all... Why should she be rewarded by anyone for being dishonest?

Anyway, our leaders past and present have always been dishonest, yet we still hail them as 'honourables' and 'heroes'. So who are we to question Mmesoma?

richie240:


Hehehehehe....nwokem if only u know!



Ndi-liar! Shey u think say na ya fellow moronic obidients u dey follow yarn abi?

Where in this world did INEC ask specifically for GCE Degree Nwokem?

Show us where INEC ask aspirants NOT TO TENDER their university certificate(s)?

**U don jam rock today!

Inec asked for minimum of waec result or its equivalent, which is what a GCE result is.... OBI submitted that and was duly cleared.... It's not my fault that you're so dumb not to understand what 'minimum requirement' means... Keep asking for UNN result! Na the people wey work hard to pay your school fees I dey pity.... You may think you're trying to be a funny troll, but you're only making a fool of yourself by repeatedly playing dumb all day.

richie240:
Shey u wan begin dey whyne yasef nau abi?
Obi submitted 'GCE Degree' to INEC and Nsukka satifikate to twitter.

Shey twitter na INEC ni??

Shebi if I say you be slowpoke now, the world would think I've insulted you?.... Inec requested waec result equivalent which he submitted and was duly cleared. So what's your noise about Nsukka result? E be like your brain dey spark...

What's the relevance of your continuous blabbings about twitter?

richie240:
Hehehehehe....nwokem my guy, u don vex nau-nau??

U for don tell us say twitter na INEC branch and we for don die dis mata tey-tey

Wetin concern Twitter and INEC?... Stay away from drugs bro!

richie240:
Bia nwokem, you nor address d koko of d mata nah!

Of course I no fit expect imbe to understand say no matter dey to address.

richie240:
Must they ask before he tenders it?
What's d point of tendering a 'GCE Degree' to INEC and UNN satifikate to twitter?

Just kukuma tell us say twitter na appendage of INEC and let's end the matter nau-nau!

You're asking why OBI provided GCE result to INEC?

I know say you be imbe wey nor fit process info, but I'll still give you the answer anyway. Perhaps after repeating the answer 100 times, it may enter your skull... OBI provided GCE result to INEC cos it was the basic requirement requested by law to contest the election....

Oya ask me the mumu question again!

richie240:
Nwannem, na wa o.
This matter nor suppose reach ds level of draggings nah

Just bcus I ask una to prevail on obi to submit his Nsukka 'certificate' to INEC instead of twitter??
Shey twitter na INEC ni??

INEC did not ask OBI for his BSc certificate. If they request it, he will gladly and speedily provide it to them today today! OBI isn't a crook like your oga who pees on himself when people ask just the name of his secondary school.

By the way, you're neither INEC nor a fellow contestant in any of the elections. So please remind us again, ehi exactly are you and what right does a nonentity have to even request OBI's certificate?

richie240:
Hehehehe....nwokem, e nor reach fight nah.
I juss reminded u say twitter nor be INEC.

Let obi use hin hand submit the Nsukka satifikate to INEC first (instead of twitter), we want to check something!

Keep asking stupid irrelevant questions...

If you want his Uni result, you're more than welcome to go to UNN, he would gladly oblige you with the permission to proceed. He's not a crook like your president who cant even tell us the name of his secondary school?

richie240:
Oh, nwannem, u meant d ochanja satifikate manufactured by ur fellow obidient?
Hehehehehe...... u funny o, I never knew 'the public' was INEC o. Obi for get small mind submit am to d right quarters nah.

Let him submit it to inec first biko, I want to check something.



So if truly d satifikate was his and he is proud to share it, what is d point of only submitting his 'GCE Degree' to INEC and UNN satifikate to Nairaland, facebook and twitter? Why not submit that one too to INEC if den born am well?

Hehehehe.... nwokem, shey u see say na una nor get 'functional brain cells now?

Mumu keeps asking the same stupid question over and over again like a zombie... INEC requirement was to submit WAEC, BSc or any other result. He submitted waec and was cleared by inec.

Dont you think you're being compulsively silly by asking him to submit another result after he's already satisfied INEC requirements?.... If you want his Uni result, youre more than welcome to go to UNN, he would gladly give you the permission to proceed. But can your own president even tell us the name of his secondary school? Ode!

richie240:
Obi get university satifikate na im he present 'GCE Degree' (whatever that means) to INEC abi?

Dey play!



Bia nwokem, he doesn't need to show us, let him present it it where it's most needed - INEC.

But you and I know say den nor born am well to try it. The best he and his obidients noisemakers can do is to present d fake satifikate on Nairaland, facebook and twitter.

Human beings dey find Tinubu certificate wey e use 10 SANs dey hide, some zombies dey here dey claim to find OBI certificate wey dey publicly available and accessible to all.

Anyone with functional brain cells should have since comprehended the elementary INEC rule that gives a candidate the choice to provide any one of his certificates, be it WAEC, BSc, MSc or PhD. But obviously, how can 'sense' be expected from someone without sense?

richie240:
Obidients must sha defend nonsense with every iota of their breaths.

All these treatise just to justify why obi hid his Nsukka'certificate' from INEC.

Peacemaker5128:
What was he hiding?

So after all explanations, you guys still dont understand what 'minimum requirement' means? Wow!... We really have an educational problem in Nigeria. Too many dumbos on the loose!

Someone is asked to provide any of his educational results; be it WAEC, Bachelor's, Masters, PhD etc. He provided his WAEC result yet you guys think something is missing?

If you're interested in his higher degrees, they are all public documents yet you guys are stiill visually and mentally handicapped to acknowledge that. Keep searching for OBI's certificate!

beerfraud:
why did he not tender his University certificate if it is genuine?

flokii:
Might be that the Obi didn't even graduate from UNN and is parading a fake certificate about.. or why else would he be hiding it from INEC?

Iamgrey5:
Yet, you don't address a single point he raised?

MTNnews:
Address the issue about Pandora. Obi fraudulent result n leave the messenger.

What a dumb question! Not even sure who is dumber between RENO and some of you guys masturrbating over the trash he spewed. This is clear reason a Pass in English is mandatory before anyone can proceed to tertiary education.

INECs minimum requirement is to submit "at least a WASSCE result", which is exactly what OBI did. The Law did not say he must submit his other certificates, but if you want his other certificates, they're littered all over the internet and you're more than welcome to go to his schools CKC or UNN to verify! They will gladly oblige you with his full result and transcript, unlike some other fellows you guys worship who would rather call 10 SANs to block anyone from asking for his result.

Not surprising that some agbero and desperate political lackeys dont comprehend the meaning of the term "minimum requirement".... Afterall most supporters of TINUBU and even ATIKU were cut off from the illiterate demographic.

onuman:
You understood nothing from my take you are replying to.

You're unarguably the one who has zero understanding of the topic under discussion and has chosen to infuse misplaced regional and ethnic sentiments into a discourse where it's unnecessary and unrelated. Like I said earlier, it's not in every topic that you must bring in your emotional and sentimental activism. Lagos airport cannot be compared to the airport in Delta and Keyamo being a Delta man isnt a reason he should turn logic on it's head.

The new international terminal at the MMIA has since been commissioned but international airlines are unable to use the new terminal cos the taxiway to the apron is obstructed by private hangers. Clearing the obstructing hangers is a necessity that needs to be done for the newly commissioned terminal to be put to use. I still cant figure out how you brought Delta airports and Keyamo being a Delta man into this issue! Wake up man!

sunboy:
Exactly! These days we have clearly lost common sense and subscribe to political sentiments every single time.

How did a private jet hanger even managed to have a build right beside the public us terminal? Who even approved that in the first place. They should be moved away completely, maybe close to the local airport or wherever. If it’s blocking a much needed expansion then smach it down ofcourse.

The private terminals have been there long before they even conceived the idea of building the new international terminal so we cant really fault them for that. But the solution is simple; now that we have the new international terminal, relocating some of the private terminals has become a necessity.

12inchess:
Actually this is not true. I have been to Delta airport and it can do with some expansion the runway is very small. When i took a flight from Asaba the pilot had to reverse the plane all the way to the end of the runway almost on the grass area and had to speed up very rapidly and mistake a sharp takeoff (rip) because the runway is very short. Im sure the money the airport makes can offset these expansions.

Hmm... Which Asaba airport are you talking of exactly? The Asaba airport I know has a 3.4 km runway, which is one of the longest runways in the country (only 200m shorter than the Abuja runway). 3.4 km under standard conditions can comfortably land a Boeing 747; heck! that's more than enough length to land an A380 super jumbo. Asaba airport runway absolutely needs no expansion, and besides, the airport doesnt even have up to 1% of the Lagos airport traffic.

Besides, the expansion in question at the Lagos airport isn't even the runway; rather it's just the taxiway. Half of the apron spaces at the new international terminal cant be used because the private jet hangers obstruct the taxiway for larger aircrafts.

Anything that can be done for the new terminal to start full operation is welcome cos that old terminal building is a nightmare.

onuman:
Festus Keyamo, there is an airport in your Delta state which should have been expanded now to accommodate any type of International flight.
Why demolish in Lagos to expand in an already congested Lagos? Why were you appointed minister representing Delta state?

Lagos is Lagos, Delta is Delta! Lagos is the economic hub of Nigeria, not Delta! The airport in Lagos needs this expansion, the airport in Delta needs absolutely no expansion cos it doesnt even have up to 0.1% of the tradfic of Lagos airport. No be for everything dem dey use take argue equality abeg!

Why exactly must everything in Nigeria be misconstrued and turned to politics and pointless sentimental arguments?

Clearly the positioning of the Dominion and Evergreen hangers block the taxi path for big airplanes to the new MMIA terminal. Since the brand new MMIA terminal was completed and commissioned, numerous international airlines have refused to use the new terminal for the same excuse... "we cant maneuver our big planes to the apron of the new terminal."

Smash the damn hangers, expand the way and compensate the owners of the hangers appropriately. Why does this have to be repeated or dragged endlessly?

IconicR:
Nairalanders please is it fair for a mother to suspend her own daughter for fighting her staff?

My friend's mother owns a large company with lots of staff, so she recently completed her nysc program and waiting to be called up for a job so she had to put up at her mum's company as an intern and she was doing her job well to see things done.

Most of the staff do not like to take instructions from her and this has resulted to altercations with most of them, they keep reporting to her mum till a meeting was finally called.

The staff seems to have connived against her and without even bothering to hear her side of the story her mum said she knows what she can do and she won't allow her to cause problems in her company, so she immediately suspended her and ask her to leave and go home.

The staff were happy with this judgement and some made some snide remarks while she was leaving.

This thing has really troubled her recently and she's thinking maybe her mom doesn't like her as she stated that if it were her brother she won't give such judgement.

Was she wrong in trying to put things in order which resulted to most of those fights with the staff?

Was the mum right to have passed such kind of judgement before her staff ?

My friend's mom told her to go resume next week on the condition that she'll behave well but my friend told her mum she's not stepping foot in her company again.

Nairalanders please without being biased who is at fault here?

Without meeting her, your friend already sounds like a spoilt entitled brat! From the tone of your voice, you also seem to see nothing wrong with your friend's insubordination? Are you a spoilt brat too?

On the highlighted bit, you say "most staff do not like to take instructions from her". The question is, why should they take instructions from an intern? Is she their boss? Was she hired as a boss? On what authority exactly is she dishing out these instructions to her superiors? Why should she insult the long serving staff of the company by dishing out instructions?

The mum must have raised a brat but is smart enough to want to correct her mistake. Better late than never!

Beenibroz:
What is your opinion about this?

TRUE OR FALSE

Not sure I see the point here..... So is the author of that tweet saying because a lot of Igbos are into the drug trade, then it automatically makes it okay for a person with a drug tainted past to be the president of Nigeria?

Isnt this just a dumb attempt at justifying nonsense?

After 4 years this useless case is still in court?

APOPTOSIS:
Hello,
I write this today, with respect to my previous thread, where I did promise I was going to pay my wife back.

Her Sin;
For those who may not recall what she did, she placed a Rock Python inside our WC & watched me scream 2d roof to her amazement.
I recovered and made a promise.
Little did she know the PROMISE would be fulfilled today after many months of oblivion.

I got back this morning from work without the primary intention of doing such, however when I realised how favourable the ambience for such was, I had to perfect my plans immediately.

I wore my newly acquired monastery costume and headed straight for the bedroom where my wife was snoring deeply.
On arriving, I went for her face which was my desired site of action.

Her Response;
I immediately stood still and waited for my shadow to reflect my presence to her.
Lo & behold, the appointed time ensued and there was this thunderous yelling, calling on JESUS to swiftly come for her aid.
No one could have imagined how she would have screamed. But as we may have it, it was so loud and power packed that I had to hold her in assistance because anything could have happened at this time. Neighbors could call 911.

For the fact that I drew closer to assist her, even aggravated the whole matter, as she continued yelling at the sight of this horrendous creature.
At this point I resolved never to attempt such again. .
Afterwards, she regained sanity and took these pictures of me.

Lol... I need this costume!

Useless African leaders!

Father Omar Bongo leads the country for 42 years and hands over to son Ali Bongo who has been ruling for 14 year now. Everyday they conduct sham elections and win with stupid landslides because "the people love the Bongos so much!".... Stupid African leaders always believe their people are idiots!

When will the Cameroonian military wake up from their slumber and move on that cadaver in their seat of power?