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OnankpaBa:
Dokpesi claimed that his company submitted a proposal for media-related job to former President Goodluck Jonathan, which was approved, executed and paid for through the office of the National Security Adviser. And Jonathan is denying of having any knowledged of. I think its high time EFCC invite Jonathan as well.

Dokpesi said with his social status, the court could grant him bail on liberal terms. Or on self recognisance as he has no criminal antecedents or record. He promised to attend court if eventually he is formally arraigned.

eyaa...i pity him thou but no pity in law court. I hope FG will tamper justice with mercy.

They promise us change, we are not seeing the change

GOD WILL BLESS YOU

#NoToSocialMediaBill

nice one...Saraki and his boys cant close our mouth

Former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was released on bail Tuesday after his conviction for his girlfriend’s murder, as his lawyers said they would launch an appeal to South Africa’s constitutional court.

“The case is postponed until April 16 2016. The applicant is released on bail of 10,000 rand ($690),” judge Aubrey Ledwaba told Pretoria High Court.

Ledwaba said Pistorius would continue to be under house arrest, but would be able to leave the property in Pretoria with permission from the investigating officer.

Pistorius will be put under electronic monitoring, the judge added.

Judges last week found him guilty of murder and overturned his earlier conviction on the lesser charge of culpable homicide for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

Pistorius, 29, was released from jail in October to be placed under house arrest in Pretoria after serving one year of his five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide — the equivalent of manslaughter.

His lawyers had earlier said he could not afford further legal battles after paying huge bills.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/12/pistorius-granted-bail-after-murder-conviction-judge/

APC cannot win all the the time. Buhari led government should not turn nigeria into civil war please. Kogi is still burning due to APCs manipulation.

Or are they now controlling INEC?

good

T051N:
they are APC members

i believed you dear

OnankpaBa:
wetin dis one sef dey yarn?

no vex sir

Season of Probe. I hope APC is not on a revenge mission?

Abductors demand N40 million ransom



na wao. For Kogi here?

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more

Five Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) reportedly engaged by INEC have stated their position on the Saturday’s supplementary election for the Kogi governorship race.

According to them, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may regret conducting the election, which has been scheduled to hold in 91 polling units of the state.

The lawyers, in a letter they jointly wrote to INEC, insisted that the All Progressives Congress(APC) could not present a candidate to replace its deceased candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu.

DAILY POST obtained the document on Thursday.

The legal practitioners that include Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN); A. B. Mahmoud(SAN); Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN); Hassan M. Liman (SAN) and Ahmed Raji (SAN), noted that any recourse to the application of the “Doctrine of Necessity” will impugn on Section 1(1) of the 1999 Constitution.

They asked INEC to countermand the November 20 governorship poll in Kogi State and conduct a fresh election in all the 21 Local Government Areas.

The consortium of lawyers said their legal opinion followed a meeting they had with the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu and his National Commissioners on November 23.

The 10-page advice reads in part: “We are of the opinion that the best option in the circumstance is to countermand the election to the office of the Governor of Kogi State, call for a nomination of another governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) and schedule another date for election in all the 21 Local Government Areas.”

The lawyers warned INEC against going to court to seek any interpretation because the legal process might prolong the political stalemate in Kogi State.

“In a normal situation, especially in a legal system which assures speedy disposal of matters, it may not be out of place for the commission to proceed to Court to seek clarification on what appears novel.

“However , proceeding along that course will no doubt attract several interest groups who may simply employ the system of incessant applications for joinder, not only to frustrate what may be a an attempt to attain a lofty objective by the commission, but defeat the course of democracy,

“There is a clear likelihood that such a case will proceed to the Supreme Court, which will obviously be protracted for such duration that will expose the Commission to attacks of being partisan.

“Whatever decision the Commission arrives, may be challenged, but it is important that all decisions be made on the foundation of law.”

On recourse to Doctrine of Necessity, the lawyers said: “There will be no room, however for applying such a doctrine in a situation such as the present case where the Constitution has made it categorical that without candidates for the Office of Governor and Deputy Governor, there can be no valid nomination.

“Implied necessity though may be used to fill a lacuna, will not be applied in such a way as to impugn any of the provision of the constitution.

“By Section 1(1) of the 1999 Constitution, the provisions of the Constitution are supreme and no law, practice or procedure may be applied in breach thereof.”

“The constitution did not capture the scenario in this matter but rather dealt with a situation where a candidate had been declared duly elected.

“Section 181 (1) of the 1999 Constitution provides as follows: “If a person duly elected as Governor dies before taking and subscribing the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office or is unable for any reason whatsoever to be sworn in, the person elected with him as Deputy Governor shall be sworn in as Governor and he shall nominate a new Deputy Governor who shall be appointed by the Governor with the approval of a simple majority of the House of Assembly of the State”.

“With emphasis on the term ‘duly elected’. it does appear that in the situation at hand, nobody was declared duly elected as the election was effectively inchoate. There was no declaration made at the election. The 1999 Constitution is categorical of the term duly elected.”

On the substitution of governorship candidate, the lawyers said APC cannot forward the name of any candidate to replace Audu as in the case of Yahaya Bello.

“The political party cannot forward the name of another person to fill the position for the purpose of completing the process.

“This is for the reason that the Electoral Act envisages only a situation where the candidate who must be declared elected must have taken part at all stages of the election. this means, both the process of nomination and the election itself.

“Section 141 of the Electoral Act stipulates as follows: ‘An election tribunal or court shall not under any circumstance declare any person a winner at an election in which such a person has not fully participated in all the stages of the said election.’

They insisted that contrary to the position of APC leadership, the governorship ticket does not belong to the party.

They said the ticket, by the Supreme Court judgment on CPC Ombugadu(2013) 18NWLR (part 1387)66, belong to the candidates of a party.

“It must be noted that the cliché that it is the political party that contests election, which originated from the determination by the Supreme Court in Amaechi v, INEC(2008) 5 NWLR(Part 1080) 227, has been reversed in very certain terms in Supreme Court case of CPC Ombugadu(2013) 18NWLR (part 1387)66.

They quoted the Supreme court as declaring: “In other words, parties do not contest, win or lose election directly, they do so by the candidates they sponsored and before a person can be returned as elected by a tribunal or court, that person must have fully participated in all stages of the election, starting from nomination to the actual voting.”

http://dailypost.ng/2015/12/04/kogi-guber-5-sans-engaged-by-inec-warn-against-supplementary-poll-letter/

ok

“An accused may be convicted on his own confession alone as long as the court was satisfied. Based on the confessional statement of the accused, the court found him guilty as charged. Besides, the prosecution has also proved his case beyond reasonable doubt by providing seven witnesses.



After confessing? they for forgive am na

OnankpaBa:
If they no hang Dasuki and all other people involved in the arms deal, i swear God will send this Judge straight to Hell.

are you serious? for how much?



lalasticlala you need to see this oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

By Kingsley Fanw
Protesters clamouring for the declaration of Hon. Abiodun Faleke today, laid siege to the INEC headquarters in Abuja.

They called on the electoral commission to shelve its proposed supplementary poll in the state and declare Faleke as governor-elect.

The protesters who arrived the commission’s headquarters at about 11:00am on Thursday, said the scheduled supplementary poll was an afront on democracy.
One of the protesters who is a lawyer, Hajia Halima Alfa said Audu had won the election before his death.

She said that margin between the two leading parties was more than the number of voters with PVCs in the affected polling units and that INEC erred by not declaring the late Audu as the winner of the election.

“INEC was not sincere with democracy and the Kogi people.

Only 25,000 voters have PVCs in the 91 polling units where elections were cancelled. Going by the 41,000 margin with which the APC was leading, the party had won the election.

“We are in a situation in which even if all the 25,000 voters cast their votes for PDP, the election had already been won by the Audu/Faleke ticket.

INEC should not toy with the destinies of the over 500,000 people that voted during the election. Faleke should therefore be declared the governor-elect of the state”.

Vanguard gathered that majority of the protesters were supporters of the deceased politician and his running mate, Hon. Abiodun Faleke.

It would be recalled that INEC declared the Kogi governorship poll inconclusive before the demise of Audu. The commission said there are about 49,989 votes to be contested for.

The APC has also replaced the late politician with Alh. Yahaya Bello who came second during the August 29 governorship primary of the party.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/pro-faleke-protesters-lay-siege-to-inec-office/

RIP

RedArrow:
Are you there to receive him?

you wan enter there?

oshe11:
SEE DEM.......








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