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vicdom:
Bookmark this now :- WHEN THE MOTION OF REVIEW IS MOVED IN SC, NONE OF THESE CASES FOR REVIEW WOULD SEE THE LIGHT OF THE DAY. RANGING FROM IMO-ZAMFARA-BAYELSA WOULD ALL BE STRICKEN OUT.

fergie001:
You and I know the law dont look at morality but at the academic precincts of the law.

Uncle Wole is good, not a magician.

He accepted the case because lawyers Wang to crack a nut. Agabj also took the Imo case. If Izinyon can fake the Ekwunife case in 2016 to the SC, lawyers will do anything to get away with something.

A clear case is a clear case. Degi's lawyers goofed by accepting Usman's view of the processes associated with affidavit and certifications.

Uncle Wole won't bring a new case like the Faleke case. His submissions that the FHC didn't disqualify the party is like asking the SC to interprete the Zamfara judgement.

That is the only loophole...in this case. Unless, he is saying it's not a joint ticket....I will wonder if the case goes the other way.

Thanks....dansuqi...you can look at Kahal's submissions.

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose, to perish the thought of defecting to the APC.

The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Ade Ajayi, said this in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday.

He said the party was not a dumping ground “for failed politicians,” adding that Fayose was not wanted in the party because of his antecedents.

This was contained in a statement he signed. Ajayi described the APC as “a disciplined, refined and integrity-inclined type which would not tolerate people like Fayose,” adding that “Fayose is not qualified to be a member of the APC in the state.”

The party, which was reacting to a statement allegedly credited to Fayose to the effect that he would defect to the APC if his ordained Peoples Democratic Party state chairmanship aspirant failed in his bid for the job.

To this, Ajayi said, “We will not welcome him to the great and decent family in the state.

“It is better he stays back in his PDP to get it more destroyed instead of coming to a principled, disciplined, transparent, law-abiding and organised party like the APC.

“The Ekiti APC members know the people behind the masquerade and thereby warn people like Fayose not to turn the APC to a dumping ground where they can defect to.”

Esseite:
If they are not candidates, the votes are voided.

EdoBoy90:
"That both candidates disqualified be and are hereby deemed not to be candidates at the governorship election conducted in Bayelsa State;"


Did you read this at all?

ojikeebere12:
Olanikpekun where are you?

ojikeebere12:
This one na Appeal and should read..... Ihedioha Appeals Supreme Court judgement

Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma has said he is unperturbed by the return of ousted governor, Emeka Ihedioha to Supreme Court to seek a review of the judgment that removed him from office.

He described such move as based on falsehood, adding that as far as he was concerned the case has been done and dusted. Recalled that the court had on January 14, 2020 sacked Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the ground that he did not score the lawful majority votes in the March 9, 2019 governorship election.

The apex court, after adding the cancelled results of the 388 polling units to the votes scored by Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ordered that he be immediately sworn in as the duly elected governor.

But speaking to State House Correspondents after he was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, he said the 60 days left for Supreme Court to look into that matter has already expired, hence Ihedioha was wasting his time.

Asked if he was not worried that based on Supreme Court’s computation of votes outnumbered those who voted and that it mightily likely reverse itself, Uzodinma said: “Well, I am not concerned, reason being that going back to the Supreme Court is based on falsehood. Because, the number of accredited votes outside the excluded votes is what we are talking about. But if you are going to court, you must go to court to discuss or talk about number of accredited voters including the excluded polling units. If you compute the number of accredited voters inclusive of the accredited voters, the figures are correct.

“We went to court with the issue of exclusion, we didn’t go to court with the business of election malpractices, violence and all of that. So, it is a peculiar case. My case can be likened to that of Jim Nwobodo and Onoh, and Omoboriwo and Ajasin. The position of the Supreme Court is that where an election has been announced in a polling unit, INEC is bound to collect the result and enter the result into the form EC8B.

Also speaking on the issue, Oshiomhole said the electoral body has been getting away with blue murder because Nigerians are not interrogating its processes that beg for answers.

According to the ruling party national chairman, “I think there is something the media has simply refused to focus on. With all due respect, a lot of the views that people parrot are derived from what I call electronic media lawyers.

On the opposition protesting the Supreme Court judgement, Oshiomhole said the ruling party has suffered a number of injustices from both the INEC and Supreme Court, but has chosen to ignore for the sake of democracy.

He said: “When I see people protesting, that is my primary constituency, to do protests but I don’t run after mad man when he is naked and I have to join him to run because I want to make a point. That is the reason we just allowed them to do the sort of thing they were doing. Have you also found out what happened in Sokoto? There are a lot of issues there that INEC cannot defend but we have to leave with the pain. Look at Rivers, for some technical reasons we were told we cannot even have candidates, and nobody asked questions. But because we are ruling party, we cannot just begin to go to the streets and begin to protest those things. You also know of another state Zamfara, where we won governorship, Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court said our primaries were not perfect, therefore those who were not on the ballot box were declared, so we live with that pain.

“If it is about mobilizing people to attack, we would have mobilized our supporters to the Supreme Court but that will not be a responsible behaviour in a democracy. So we live with the pain because we understand that, we operate under the principle of separation of powers. So please don’t accept those half truths that PDP is parading. We have stomached all of these because as they say two wrongs don’t make a right. If we chose to question on the streets of Nigeria, all of the impunity we have seen that have affected APC negatively coming from our courts, there will be no peace anywhere.

“But we have said that somebody must bear the price of peace, that is why we chose to keep quiet, it doesn’t mean PDP has any valid case. Ask Emeka Ihedioha how many local government areas did he score 1/4 votes, these are not classified matters.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State suffered another major blow, yesterday, following the defection of eight of its lawmakers to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Speaker of the Imo State Assembly, Chiji Collins, who led the defectors, was silent on reasons, while announcing at plenary that seven other lawmakers of the PDP extraction were defecting with him to the ruling party in the state.

So far, 17 lawmakers elected on the platforms of the PDP, Action Alliance (AA) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have defected to the APC.


Yesterday’s defection came barely two weeks after the party’s victory in the March 2019 governorship election was nullified by the Supreme Court and its candidate, Emeka Ihedioha, sacked as governor of the state.

The lawmakers who dumped the PDP for the APC alongside the speaker are Dominic Ezerioha (Oru West), Chigozie Nwaneri (Oru East), Kanayo Onyemaechi (Owerri West), Kennedy Ibeh (Obowo), Uche Ogbuagu (Ikeduru), Michael Njoku (Ihitte Uboma) and Eddy Obinna (Aboh Mbaise).

This brings the total number of APC lawmakers in the state to 18 as nine other lawmakers had, on January 21, dumped the respective platforms through which they were elected for the APC that had just one member in the state Assembly before the January 14 judgement of the Supreme Court that sacked the PDP-led government.

Yesterday’s defection of the eight lawmakers also brings to 11, members of the Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP, who have dumped the platform since Hope Uzodinma took over from Ihedioha.

Amarachi Iwuanyanwu (Nwangele), Chidiebere Ogbunikpa (Okigwe) and Okoro Hercules had, last week, dumped their party for the APC.

The development equally hands the APC, control of the 27-member state Assembly. The PDP that formerly led the Assembly now occupies the minority position with nine members, with one lawmaker of the AA, who emerged in last Saturday’s supplementary poll, yet to be sworn in.

Other lawmakers, who had earlier dumped their parties for the APC, are Arthur Egwim (Ideato North), Obinna Okwara (Nkwere), Johnson Duru (Ideato South) and Ngozi Obiefule (Isu) all of Action Alliance (AA).

Paul Emeziem (Onuimo) and Ekene Nnodumele (Orsu) of the APGA, also dumped their party for the ruling APC.

The Imo PDP had also, in a dramatic turn of events, lost its chairman, Chief Charles Ezekwem, to the APC. Ezekwem dumped the PDP for the ruling party on Monday.

Reacting to the development, the State Secretary of the PDP, Nze Ray Emeana, said there was no crisis in the PDP to necessitate the defection except for the fact that the affected lawmakers and other defectors were merely playing transactional politics devoid of any value or principle.

His words: “We were engaging most of them before they defected and they told us that Governor Hope Uzodinma offered to pay them N50 million each with additional two plots of land with a ready Certificate of Occupancy for each of the lawmakers if they defect. We do not know what was eventually given, but we know they have been meeting with Governor Uzodinma. We have also been informed that they were given N20 million, but whatever be the case, they must realize that the money belongs to Imo people.”

On whether the party has been depleted with the recent gale of defection, Emeana said PDP in Imo State is very much intact.

“On a very serious note, no substantial person has left the PDP, except the gullible few the party brought to relevance. Nevertheless, the party will be meeting on Wednesday (today) to look at the issues and take a decision. We will reorganise our party and it will be as if nothing happened,” he told New Telegraph.

Imo State chairman of the APC, Daniel Nwafor, on his part, said the massive defection to his party is good for democracy.

He said: “It is a new dawn in Imo as many, who have seen the light will naturally defect. This is also bearing in mind that the PDP put Imo in reverse gear and inflicted retrogressive policies on the state.

“From what has been happening, it is easy to see that Governor Uzodinma means well for Imo and we are duty bound to support him. So, every progressive-minded politician will not wait for too long to dump PDP for APC as Imo is back to the mainstream.”

kahal29:
What goes around comes around

Nine lawmakers of the Imo state House of Assembly, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, just as the Deputy speaker of the House, Okey Onyekanma, resigned his position.


Vanguard in Owerri, was at the House of Assembly to capture the defection drama, as more lawmakers are said to have prepared to move to APC, soonest.

The defection started around 15:30 pm when the Speaker of the House, read the letters of the decampees at the floor of the House.

Apart from the announcement of the defectors the speaker announced the screening of the Attorney General of Imo State, Cyprain Akaolisa, as appointed by the governor, Hope Uzodinma.


However, reasons of their defection was comprehensively caputued by Vanguard.

Details coming……

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has lashed Peoples Democracy Party (PDP) members planning defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he is “100 per cent APC.”

Umahi, who spoke when the people of Ishielu and Onicha Local Government Areas paid him Christmas homage, enjoined such people to stop” jumping from here and there” because they might be caught in anti-party activity web.

He said: “Stay in one place. Don’t run from here to there and from there to here. E no make sense. If you say you dey there (APC), know I am already there. If you go to APC, I am an APC member. If you go to PDP, I am there.

“I am the only person that does anti-party and nothing will happen. Any other person that does anti-party is gone. So, I am representing you in APC while you all stay in PDP. If you like, go and write it on social media.

The governor’s younger brother and PDP National Vice-Chairman (South-East), Austin Umahi, joined members of the delegation in clapping and laughing at the event which held in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area.

The governor buttressed his claim to being an APC member by saying that he sent handsome Yuletide gifts to the ruling party’s leaders.

The governor thanked the Muhammadu Buhari administration for making Ebonyi the only state in the Southeast to be listed among the states to have a new Federal Colleges of Education.

He told the people of Ishielu local government that the college would notbe located in their zone. He, however, promised them a technical school.

The candidate of the APC in the last governorship election in Ebonyi State, Sonni Ogbuoji , said last year that Umahi was set to dump the PDP for APC.

“The information we have now is that while the governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, had acted as a mole in PDP all along, he has started making moves to ditch PDP and cross over to the APC,” Ogbuoji claimed.

“We are aware that the votes that enthroned Umahi were procured with the connivance of the system, a reason there are gloomy faces all over the state after the announcement of the claimed victory,” he added.