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ejimatic:
The reliance on the blurred downloaded online results in bags is like fetching water in a basket.
We will soon see.

We, really, will soon see.

We will see if INEC has right to ignore the provisions of the Electoral Act and its own guidelines.

We will see if Nigeria is a banana republic where people can pick and choose which law to obey and which to disobey; and there won’t be consequences.

Okhuadams:
this argument might take forever with each of us wanting to prove how right we are I must say ienjoy it

My intention is not to argue with you but to make you understand that you have been taught the wrong history for a long time.

So when you see old men like Pa Clark finally speaking up to correct the lies that have been propagated for so long, don’t attack them but keep an open mind to learn from them.

Don’t hold onto anything as though it was a dogma that cannot be questioned because you can never know anything for sure.

ejimatic:
They have forgotten that the IREV results they brought are irrelevant in this case. The original EC8 results declared by INEC at the polling units are accepted in election petition
SC judgement Adeleke vrs Oyetola 2022

Are you talking about same Osun judgment that even quoted from INEC’s Guidelines on the upload of election results and the significance of IREV?

It even went further to tell INEC that IREV was different from Election Results Portal which is like INEC’s electronic warehouse for storing votes?

tribalmall:
Where did you get the fake names you published as the coup plotter ?

If the coup was not an Igbo coup why was the Yoruba Hausa premier killed but Igbo premier was not killed ?

Why was the Hausa prime minister Tafawa Balewa killed but the Igbo ceremonial president not killed ?

You can save you father the cork bullshit about Azikwe travelling out of the country n shove down whatever lame excuse down your mother's throat why the Igbo premier of the Igbo region was also not killed but the Hausa n Yoruba leaders were killed successfully with Igbo tying their dead bodies to a vehicle and dragging it around town.

So all Igbos had a meeting where they collectively decided to organize a coup against Nigeria and kill the leaders of other tribes, abi?

BOYS2MEN:
Same here after I used a picture to describe a ronū miscreant and as usual they banned their papa wey no b me...since then I no dey fit post pictures again

You could be right.

Maybe I was banned from posting pictures.

But I don’t remember posting offensive pictures. Maybe they just wanna frustrate every dissenting voice. But we are not going anywhere until Nigeria is saved from the vampires that are currently sucking her blood.

Devil1Messenger:
Point of correction, kaduna Nzeogwu is not igbo. He is from delta state, born and raised in the North.

ThankGod for social media

Kaduna Nzeogwu was Igbo. Full fledged Igbo man. His village, Okpanam, is an Igbo land till forever.

garfield1:
Up till now, you don't know politics.you still don't know how Nigerians reasons.
So if tinubu want to influence judges,it is wike he will use? The increase in fuel price is a child's play compared to what Nigerians faced during the cashless policy era.that they are complaining doesn't mean they won't vote the government.moreover,there is palliatives in almost all the states.
As far as obi is involved in the rerun,the margin will be bigger.they will be more money to buy voters obviously.in SS, akpabio is now fully inchsrge of aks politics.the people of CRS are pleased with the gov.the influence of owan enoh is mighty.dansuki the only person obi has is now aligning with apc.pdp in CRS is weaker and aks gov is fighting at the courts.in rivers, low voters turnout.obi will still take Edo and delta with less turnout.
In SW,tinubu lost osun and Lagos by 10,000 votes.thar won't happen again.most yorubas who voted against tinubu regrets due to how se voted obi and how they were mocked.
In benue he will win with a bigger margin.kwara,Niger,kogi are no go areas.obi will limit himself to plateau and nasarawa.in ne,with the recent palliatives in borno,it will be bloc.tinubu will take yobe this time.he would beat obi in taraba.no change in gombe and adamawa.
In nw, kwankwaso will align with tinubu.it will be a burial for opposition.sokoto,katsina,kebbi that went with atiku narrowly will switch.it will be easier

You really think Nigerians are goats who cannot think, right?

Make that time reach first sha.

Dtruthspeaker:
No! not Hobbs opinion but the other option i believe you know and you can glean from my posts.

However, it cannot be resorted to as people have become fixed in their ways and actually do like the injustice. Their only complain is whenthey are the receivers of it but nevertheless, even when its their turn to do justice, they would not do it. And neither would the powerholding and violent men allow it to be done.

Just for the sake of answering you, i hereby state that solution is The Law which man did not make to wit Natural Law! And actually the constitution and all the laws men make are all stealing and taking power from Natural Law, to wit The Law of good relations with thy neighbor aka "customary law", law of the familiars (familee, family) contract and law of the off-fences, trespss, what is called civil and criminal law)

These threads arose when i was searching then when I was trying to find what was causing the injustices in the "law" despite all the effort and pronoucemernts meant to prevent injustice.

https://www.nairaland.com/5846357/mans-laws-court-orji-uzor

https://www.nairaland.com/6989896/lawyers-not-deceit

How will these laws you suggested be obeyed if they are not enforced by man with punishments for failing to keep them introduced?

Okhuadams:
Hmm for the ikwerris and others that has, not too similar language to the igbos, I might say migration. But the bitter truth is, that they were the ones chased out of igbo land due to the OSU saga in those days, . Some even return as teachers to igbo land cos they got educated first. The Okrikas in Rivers chase them when they came b4 they settled were they are now.they have similar names but all the language is even a bit differ . For the rest u mentioned they are also have their different language they don't here thereselves on like the igbos who have a general language. But the Kalaharis, Ogonis and others are Ijaws I still maintain my belief they are not igbos even the Ikwerri man will not agree

Ikwerres, Ahaoda, Etche, Opobo, etc, these guys are Igbos. Talking about not understanding there language is just similar to the Abakaliki and Nsukka people. If an Abakaliki person is speaking, an Anambra, Imo or an Abia person will not understand except he speaks the central Igbo.

Let me even tell you, do you know that an Anambra or Abia or Imo person would understand the Ikwerre dialect more than he would understand the Abakaliki dialect?

Would you now say that Abakaliki and Nsukka people are not Igbos because they have dialects not intelligible to the rest of Igbos?

Okoroawusa:
Penguin2 zukwanike

The downfall of Tinubu is a task that must be achieved, and I will not rest until that task is accomplished.

leokid866:
lol which empirical data? They told you that the 8.7 Million of us that votes him into power no longer have our voters card or what?

You mean 8.7million ghosts?

Because the 8.7 million people don’t seem to exist anywhere. Not online, not offline.

You can’t even influence a trend table on Twitter. Neither can you mobilize offline.

Where una dey exist gan gan?

helinues:
Why using if again? Are you afraid of making unconditional statements without if

Say it authoritatively

Why would I say it authoritatively, am I the judge?

Or you think I’m you people that make outlandish claims with so much authority as if you are God?

Relax, every dynasty has an end; and this is where Tinubu’s dynasty ends.

Tinubu will be disgraced at the market square.

jconsulting:
Mr Penguin, let me cast your mind back, before the election some low I.Q people like you predict Tinubu to be 3rd but you are dwarf in you scheme.

Anyways no rerun anywhere, rerun is not budgeted for, but you are free to do rerun on who inherit you father's farm land in your family house.

A drop my pen here

And he did come third but INEC shut down collation system to conjure numbers for Tinubu.

That’s why I’m here to tell you that this time around, his loss will be too scandalous that not even INEC can help him.

I will be here to say I told you so.

ronalmagic10:
Look at the long epistle you're typing early Monday morning? You're a big disappointment to your generation.

Think about your life!

Oshey, Bill Gate.

I can see you that is so busy making billions, yet you are here dragging first to comment on a Monday morning. How are you different from what you accused me of?

helinues:
If , a conditional statement

Unfortunately, there won be re-slow not to talk of rerun

Penguin, a bird of chirping wailing

“If”, meaning it could happen or may not.

Now what if it happens?

A search on the website of Chicago State University now returns result for “Gloria B. Tinubu” and not “Bola A. Tinubu”. This is after it was alleged that the university pulled down the record of the class of 1979, which Tinubu is among, from its website, possibly to make whatever corrections.

Again, David Hundeyin is reporting that Tinubu only joined the Alumni Association of Chicago State University in August, 2023 (this year). Isn’t that suspicious for someone who graduated from the school since 1979?

Again, recall that in the popular CSU year book that Tinubu’s picture has always appeared, which his supporters latch onto to defend him, Tinubu’s name was rendered as Bola Thubv. I do not know the correlation between Tinubu and Thubv.

Please, this is not about Tribe, party, religion, sentiments or whatever primordial considerations, Nigerians need to know who the man in Aso Rock is. Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

The #Tinubugate saga has taken a very interesting and rather sinister turn, as if it wasn't already sinister enough, with 1979 graduates of @ChicagoState now the latest victims of a deep and long=running criminal conspiracy worthy of its very own @netflix crime series. It has all the ingredients. Drugs, fraud, politics, international dimensions, murder and cover ups.

Elnora Daniel, it would seem, has more questions to answer than just the issue of certificate forgery. The 1979 Yearbook of Chicago State University, which would normally contain the names and photographs of that year's graduates has disappeared from the Ancestors.com website. As you can see from the attached screenshot, 1978 is there, 1979 is not, but 1980 is there. Can we attribute this to Lagos State IGR, or Drug Money?

In a related curious development, a search for B. Tinubu on the university website for 1979 turns up a Gloria B. Tinubu. Who is this woman, and where is she?

The man who calls himself Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have far more skeletons in his cupboard than initially thought, and with the passage of time, and further digging into his past, it is becoming more and more obvious that he is probably the most unsuitable Nigerian alive to be President of Nigeria.

The Nigerian Judiciary need to do their job and do it fast, to save an already badly embarrased nation from further embarrasment. @OfficialABAT brings nothing to the table but immense and deep national shame to diligent, hard-working, highly skilled Nigerians around the world.
#AllEyesOnTheJudiciary
#AllEyesOnChicagoStateUniversity
#TinubuMustBeDisqualified
#JailTinubuNOW

https://twitter.com/bogbadams/status/1695956254991003846?s=46&t=2AB_wrBea-oBYJf5ZCFV-A

Hmmm!

I’m not comfortable with these guys choosing to deliver judgment on the last day of the life span of the Tribunal.

The implication is that if anything happens and they are not able to deliver that judgment that day, then whatever they do thereafter will be statute barred and amount to nullity.

Why not on 14th? So that if there’s any eventualities, they will still have 15th and 16th.

I’m saying this because knowing the characters we are dealing with in Tinubu and APC, no one can rule out the extent they can go to subvert due process. We might wake up on morning of September 15th and hear that one of the judges has either been arrested or kidnapped. And anything the remaining 4 do will amount to nullity. Just like waiting for him to return will mean that the Tribunal has exhausted its lifespan and anything they do from them will be nudum partum which will now give room for technicalities at the Supreme Court.

All Eyes On The Judiciary sha!

Our God is bigger than them.

Hopefully by then, Tinubu’s Chicago record must have been released to the world.

Peter Obi is coming!

With the way evidences keep propping up against Tinubu almost on a daily basis, it is becoming increasingly likely that the most favourable judgment Tinubu might get from the Tribunal is a rerun that he would participate in.

Ordinarily, and as it might happen, with the volume of evidence against Tinubu, ranging from forgery to perjury to double nomination to invalid nomination to fine from drug, Tinubu should be disqualified from even participating in a rerun (that’s if the court is not returning a new winner). But this is Nigeria where nothing is ever as it should be.

So, let’s assume the Tribunal orders a rerun and allows Tinubu to participate in it, what are his chances?

I can categorically say that Tinubu will lose a rerun election scandalously, and here are my reasons:

1) Uncoordinated and Brutish Subsidy Removal

One of the the harshest things that Tinubu did to Nigerians was the manner he removed fuel subsidy. It has thrown every Nigerian into pauperism and made even his most ardent supporters say “had I known”.

I know Tinubu supporters like to say he had no choice with subsidy removal because Buhari government already decided to end subsidy, but that’s a lie. First, the Buhari government made provision for payment of fuel subsidy till the end of June, Tinubu removed it on the 29th of May. Again, being the president, he had powers to even extend the subsidy payment till Christmas and make adequate provisions for palliatives towards the removal of subsidy by January of 2024. But he chose to go with impulse rather than calculated approach.

So, the effect of subsidy removal is one of the greatest things that will work against Tinubu if a rerun is ordered. How do you convince the hungry peasant to vote Tinubu again when s/he knows the hardship Tinubu has caused him or her within a short period?

Fun Fact: Did you know removal of fuel subsidy was not part of Tinubu’s speech at inauguration?

2) We Have Seen His Almighty Team

One of Tinubu’s campaign points then was that he has eyes for talent and will assemble the best brains to solve Nigeria’s problems like he did in Lagos. It was a point that appealed to a lot of people. But having been inaugurated and he chose his team, Nigerians have been left scratching their heads and asking, “are these the best brains?”

Tinubu appointed a lawyer as Aviation Minister.

Appointed two failed governors as Ministers of Defence.

Appointed Abacha’s bagman as Minister of Budget and National Planning.

Installed a thief, captured taking bribe on camera, as the chairman of his party. Just to mention a few.

What’s inspiring about this team that Tinubu will campaign with again? So, the stale line of “he will assemble the best brains” will no longer work because we have seen what he gathered.

3) No More Senators and House of Reps Candidates.

One concept that featured prominently during the electioneering campaigns was “structure”. And by structure they referred to the fact that they had candidates for every post in all the states. So, in the last election, you had Senatorial and House of Rep candidates who vigorously campaigned for APC, not because of their love or believe in Tinubu but because their own destiny was tied to the party’s success. So, a lot of these candidates who were popular in their constituencies garnered votes for APC in their regions which ultimately rubbed off on Tinubu as well. The National Assembly candidates were so helpful to the party that even those who lost, still garnered considerable votes in their name and for the party which helped add to the numbers.

Another candidate that enjoyed a similar privilege is Atiku. Because PDP with its spread fielded candidates for all elective positions in the election and the performance of these candidates helped shore up the numbers garnered by the party.

Only Peter Obi didn’t have this privilege. If anything, he was actually the reason a lot of National Assembly candidates on the Labour Party platform won their election, and not the other way round.

Now, if a rerun is ordered, the National Assembly candidates will no longer be there. The implication is that voters will approach polling units with only the names of the presidential candidates in mind. Can the voters in the core north choose Tinubu over Atiku and Kwankwaso considering other exigencies? I think not.

4) INEC Cannot Have “Technical Glitches” Twice

One of the most controversial things that happened in the last election was the shutting down of the INEC’s Electronic Result Viewing Portal (IREV) in the name of “technical glitches” which many believe was done to enable INEC manipulate the outcome of the election to favour a particular candidate.

Till date, almost 6 months after the election, INEC has not been able to explain the nature of the glitch they encountered. Not even in court were they able to demonstrate it.

But if a rerun is ordered, I refuse to even imagine the possibility of INEC telling Nigerians that they had another “technical glitches” again. If anything, if a rerun is ordered, Mahmoud Yakubu may have to give way for someone that Nigerians can trust to supervise the election. People in the level of Emir Sanusi or Bishop Kukah.

Now, if IREV works, Nigerians would be able to monitor the votes as they come in IN REAL TIME, which will eliminate or at least drastically reduce the chances of the votes being manipulated anymore. Unlike what we had in the previous election where we were seeing tipexed result sheets everywhere with figures manipulated and altered to assign numbers to candidates who didn’t score them.

5) Disgruntled APC Members

A lot of APC members that worked for Tinubu with a lot of vigour in the last election will no longer be doing that again having seen themselves sidelined after Tinubu emerged ‘victorious’.

I do not see people like Tanko Almakura, Omisore, Omo-Agege, Abdullahi Adamu, El-Rufai, Bayo Onanuga, and other numerous people who are already sheathing in pains of neglect, investing the same kind of vigour they invested in the first election. And what’s worst? Tinubu has not gained any new supporters that can replace these people in their respective states. Well, maybe except Asari Dokubo.

6) Niger Crisis
The way Tinubu has handled the Niger crisis has left a lot northerners apprehensive of Tinubu’s intentions for the north. Because if the senate had not pulled the plug on Tinubu’s request for military action in Niger, and had northern stakeholders not gotten involved in finding a diplomatic solution to the problem, coupled with the pushback of a lot of well-meaning Nigerians, Tinubu would have invaded Niger Republic and thrown the northern states that border Niger into humanitarian crisis. With this, if a rerun is ordered, a lot of northern stakeholders will be very skeptical in confidently campaigning for Tinubu again.

7) Some Former APC States Are Now In The Hands of Other Parties

During the last election, states like Kano, Zamfara and Plateau States were APC states. Tinubu won in Zamfara with the help of Mattawale’s unflinching support. He got about 300k votes (whether real or cooked) in Plateau due to Simon Lalong’s influence who was his campaign DG and sitting governor. Then he got over 700k votes in Kano due to Ganduje’s influence, whether real or cooked. But with Plateau and Zamfara now in the hands of PDP, Tinubu will obviously not do close to 20% of the numbers he did in those states in the last election. Similarly in Kano, except Kwankwaso decides to support him in a rerun, Tinubu is not likely going to do above 300k votes in Kano. And I say 300k votes because I don’t want to rule out the little influence that Ganduje still holds.

Bonus: Comment On Kwankwaso
It is necessary I mention Kwankwaso because he seems to have openly started this on-and-off relationship with Tinubu that we don’t know what it is yet. A lot of us expected him to make it into Tinubu’s cabinet but he didn’t, for whatever reason.

Now, the comment on him became necessary because in the event of a rerun, some alignments and realignments are likely to happen. And in these suspected likely alignments, Kwankwaso is the only one most likely to align with Tinubu. But can he?

Can Kwankwaso, who prides himself as the “Manduga”, the patron of the masses, look at the faces of the suffering northern masses and tell them to choose Tinubu despite the hardships he has caused them in the past few months?

Can he go against the general opinion of northern stakeholders should they decide not to support Tinubu due to so many factors including his shady existence and his activities in Niger? Can he?

Even if he decides to, how much influence can he bring? In the last election, he only won Kano. Would that be enough to help Tinubu in a rerun?

Conclusion

So, you see why Tinubu might struggle to even make third position should rerun be ordered? And as always, these are realistic points informed by empirical considerations and devoid of any emotions or bias. But feel free to to point out whatever you think is not as it was stated.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

We are now blabbers Abi?

Don’t worry, rerun dey come.

You will still come to ask blabbers for votes.

NewDea4:
Mostly wild unsubstantiated speculation. If they wanted political power for themselves, why the plan to make Awolowo head of government?

And the fact of Igbo coup or otherwise is just immaterial; if it walks like a duck, looks and quacks like one...then it's a fúcking duck. The manner with which Aguiyi Ironsi totally mishandled the aftermath of the coup also contributed hugely to the pogroms that later ensued...

They are quoting from Ademoyoga’s book and you dare call it unsubstantiated speculation?

When would it qualify as substantiated? When you read it from MC Oluomo’s book?

Racoon:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/ademoyega-leader-of-first-coup/%3famp=1 Lalasticlala

The kind of truth some people don’t like to hear. But we must continue to reinforce this truth until all the falsehood propagated for ages are extinguished.

Error401:
I'm Yoruba and thats very true, I have never seen anyone bear BOLA. It should be Bolanle, Bolade, Bolatito, Bolatiri, Gbolagade,

Thank you jare!

The problem is that a lot of these Tinubu supporters will never use their brains.

They suspend reason in everything and degenerate to insulting everyone who dares question the obvious inconsistencies of the man they worship as god.

But reading through a lot of comments here, it has become apparent that “Bola” is not a standalone name. And what’s more interesting, it’s borne by a man. Tinubu cannot be the first in history, which is why we must never rest until the Bola A. Tinubu jigsaw puzzle is solved.

I see this as a duty we must do for both the present and incoming generation. To make sure that sanity reigns supreme in our society. We cannot be having crooks fall from the sky, acquire illicit wealth, buy certificates, lie about everything and about their lives and then go ahead to be rewarded with the highest office of the land, and we will keep quiet and watch it go unchallenged.

If we let this go, it will serve as a dangerous precedent that might never be undone. Because criminals will be emboldened, and hardwork and sincerity will become meaningless.

pandoragirigory:
He should have done it without done without, some he lack manners like you, well you are igbos

I didn’t see him display any ill manner towards you before you insulted him. All he did was post a documentary evidence that countered all your falsehood and then you went hysterical and started insulting his mother.

What brought his mother into the discourse when he never called any of your parents?

00FFT00:
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Nobody in their right mind would want to be infused with Tinubu's expired, contaminated blood. Their generations will lie, cheat, steal, even off their opponents. What legacy would it be to be known as a drug dealer and Shylock?.

Lol!

Accepting to take Tinubu’s blood is like accepting suicide.

garfield1:
A rerun in which he would still lose? Lol

Lol!

If a rerun is held today, Tinubu will lose scandalously and you know it. Tinubu knows it, and his men know it. Which is why I believe those who are saying that Wike has been trying to buy all 5 judges to give unanimous judgment in Tinubu’s favour to rule out any dissent that the Supreme Court may rely on to give a contrary judgment.

Like, what will Tinubu campaign with in a rerun?

That he would assemble best brains? We have seen the thieves he gathered.

That he would tackle insecurity differently? Nigerians are still getting slaughtered, 3 months into his administration.

Add that to his brutish and uncalculated removal of fuel subsidy that has made the average Nigerian a pauper.

Add the fact that INEC will not be stupid twice to have another “technical glitches” again (dem no born dem well to repeat that nonsense).

Then add the fact that there would no longer be senators and House of Rep members campaigning for votes which was what helped Tinubu garner considerable votes in the first election.

So, tell me how he would win again.

aswani:
Blurred results won't matter because INEC has the paper based results which are not blurred and which Peter Obi (sensibly) refused to pay for in order to bring to court knowing the numbers on there would not support any of his outlandish claims.

Peter Obi submitted the INEC result sheet for all the polling units he’s disputing their result.

But what did the Electoral Act say in times of dispute? It says that IREV result will take precedence.

Now, there’s dispute because Obi doesn’t trust the figures on INEC result sheets and the only way it would have been settled (according to the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022) would have been to compare the physical results with IREV results, but IFEV results are now blurred, 18,088 of them, what do you now compare INEC’s physical results with to settle the dispute that has arisen from the election?

Okhuadams:
Growing up in school we were thought history about the Kalabaries they are from the Ijaw tribe I was never thought that they were igbos they don't speak igbo they don't bear similar names. The language is never the same as well as many other tribes in Rivers. Kalahari is no igbo weather you agree or not . I may not be as educated as Pa Edwin Clerk but in this case they are not igbos

Were you born before or after the Civil War?

I’m asking because after the war, a lot of history was deliberately rewritten to expunge Igbos from the lives and subconsciousness of a lot of their brothers.

All Igboid groups outside of Southeast was taught to deny their Igboness as the only way to find favour in eyes of the government of the day.

That’s how an Ikwerre man (a full fledged Igbo) started denying he’s Igbo just so the Federal Government won’t treat him same way they are treating Biafrans who were recently defeated in war. But it was not just the Ikwerres, Ahoada, Etche, Opobo, Kalabari, Anioma, Ika, etc, a lot of these people were taught to deny they have anything to do with Igbo just so they won’t receive the same punishment with Igbos.

So, since after the war, it became a systematic thing where history was deliberately altered to fit the new reality to make sure the children born after the war are taught their concocted history.

But men like Pa Edwin Clark were around when it was happening and they know the truth and they know the right history.

So when they talk, you listen, he has nothing to gain in deceiving you; he just didn’t wanna die with the truth.

pandoragirigory:
I am not responsible for your frustrations, better approach fast moving trailers instead of looking for who to blame

You cited 3 examples as evidence that there are people that bear Bola as a standalone name, but he he has disproved the 3 names with documentary evidence and instead of you to accept that you were wrong, you are still blabb!ng?

Beverlyjean:
They dint say if u support someone , u should throw ur brain into the lagoon

He has 2 Bola in his name ...both have the full name

Thank you for bursting their lies.

It’s now obvious that the name “Bola” is not a standalone name, but these Tinubu supporters are just too brainless.

Error401:
Chief James Ajibola Idowu Ige SAN (Yoruba: Bọ́lá Ìgè ( Listen); 13 September 1930 – 23 December 2001), simply known as Bola Ige, was a Nigerian lawyer and politician. He served as Federal Minister of Justice of Nigeria from January 2000 until his assassination in December 2001.

OPONU ni opolopo ninu yin seh!!!
Why dont you people have sense at all Thats Wikipedia incase you want to cry!

Thank you for this.

Dtruthspeaker:
I understand why you say this but that is because you like every other person in the world like and enjoy the idea of holding the world in your hands and being your own god and ruling your own life and self.

And you do not want any person whether God or man ruling you.

Thus you like the idea and the lie sold to you that you can rule yourselves, since nobody wants anybody ruling them, so this sounds like a very good arrangement and compromise.

Therefore, in line with that compromise, you like the idea of making your own law for yourselves and doing whatever you please without any one to sanction and control and stop you.

And guess what when you make your own law, it never lasts. it is weak and can not accomplish what you all want from it.

Eg Using.your own house as an example saying "every adult including you, your mother, father, uncle, cousin agree that everyone must be in the house by 9pm," how long will your pact and agreement (constitution) last?

You already know that it would break down and one by one each individual will disregard and cast it aside. And the only way to enforce compliance is by the use of harm and violence (assault/battery) and death (murder). Which means you have to break The Law to enforce your law.

And that is the flaw and inadequacy and injustice inherent in all man made laws (constitutions or whatever name they choose to call it). And why it would never ever solve man's problems nor guarantee just is, equity and equality. And we would always live in the world as rightly captured by George Orwell in "Animal Farm" and more men are always going to be more equal than others.

Meanwhile, This is the pronouncement of Law

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--"

You wrote quite a lot.

But what I took away from your piece is that you have huge reservations for man made laws; to you, they will never solve man’s problems.

And that leads me to ask, what do you then suggest? What’s your alternative to man made laws/constitution?

Or do you suggest we go back to Hobbesian State of Nature?

ejimatic:
. INEC however did not release assumed results.Neither did LP nor PDP present another results before the AC. Is handwriting not on the wall already?
Apart from Obi ,any Igbo man who contests for Aso Rock will be denied entry by the North!
It is a bitter truth!

I know why Obi didn’t give the court figures… Because it would have been problematic and introduce a lot ambiguities and technicalities to his case.

Giving the court a figure means he would have calculated for the whole of the 18 candidates who contested the election, failure of which it would be an avenue to attack his case.

Not giving the court a figure was a smart move.

What’s important is that they were able to prove that the number of votes entrapped in the blurred 18,000 polling units is enough to overturn Tinubu’s winning margin.