₦airaland Forum

Mogidi:
Fayose will one day rule Nigeria and hopefully imprison Buhari and Tinubu.

Mogidi:
Fayose will one day rule Nigeria and hopefully imprison Buhari and Tinubu.

Mogidi:
Fayose will one day rule Nigeria and hopefully imprison Buhari and Tinubu.

Amack:
This propaganda government will not achieve anything. Na only talk talk dey sabi. Gallery of thief's. Amechi, Rochas, Fashola, oshoimhole, Thiefunubu even there so called Messiah PMB.

chuna1985:
Ur a very big foooooool

hinwazaka:
The APC lawyers did not request for the judge to award the mandate of the election to their client, Alhassan. All they requested, was for the elections to be nullified, but the tribunal judges helped them with a bonus, by cancelling the election and awarding the mandate to the APC candidate.

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

porka:
[size=13pt]Professor of budget and national disaster, is this how you are running your family?

Did you go to school at all?

By seeing the last administration's budget's 'life out' and bringing up theirs, will it make the deficit turn to surplus? Will it make those debts suddenly disappear?

Is this a magical reasoning or what?

Do you mean Buhari will wait till March or April next year before any action? How did you come to this state of mind my friend? On a normal day, budgets prepared and presented around this time of the year still spend more than 3 months with the legislature, how much less a very abnormal period such as this - that ministers are just doing orientation at this time, that the minister of finance is not even known.

Who did this to you?

Budgetary oil price benchmark is not cast in stone. The same benchmark was adjusted once by the finance ministry and NASS with the understanding that further downward or upward adjustments would be made giving the realities of the oil price.

Supplementary appropriation could be used to address your 'offensive' oil price benchmark too. Supplementary appropriation can be used to redress the 'perceived' lapses, it's not just for 'pork'.

Government is not in the business of deliberately waiting for an appropriation to expire, smart governments act and they act fast. Buhari was not elected to come and wait for Jonathan's budget to expire before he acts.

Government don't inflict pain on the citizens because they don't know what to do, they seek for help or resign.[/size]

porka:
[size=13pt]You are even sounding very pathetic.

The food he is eating and his upkeep and his family's, are they not in the same budget? Why didn't he refuse that as well because he didn't plan the budget?

Are you this dumb?

What stops him from submitting a supplementary appropriation bill for the past 5 months? [/size]

porka:
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Has Buhari given them any 'capital funds' since May 29th, 2015?

You are sounding very pathetic. Did they sack them in 2014? If the firms have been given money since 2014 and about 65,000 are being employed right now, won't you come out and shout sai Baba as usual?

65,000 Nigerian workers are reportedly sacked and you are not showing any empathy. Are you a sociopath?[/size]

But i hope u understood what i said, english language not meant to said emotionally, but just to understand, since am not in exam hall..hummm. and same you u failed d 3time waec coz of english language... abeg go away people are not behind you.

Youngtony:
Am not in supported any masses party, but i think APC will killed nigeria.... how come state and have high votes during presidential election....Something is wrong somewhere... from day one i know APC don't have anything to offer.. Let take a look what going to happen in Oyo state...2maro mayb apc election will be uphold. even the earthworm Know they are bad...

seunmsg:
This will create a very serious constitutional crisis. If the supreme court finally affirms the judgement of the tribunal and the governor, speaker and 20 members of the assembly vacates their seats, who will take over the government of Rivers state pending when elections will be held?

intbizoil:
My sister your man is cheating. Like I always say all men are divided into two those that cheat and those that are violent. Your man falls into the first category. Never you think he will change because he will get worse. So if you care about what people say then go ahead but know that those people will leave you to face your marriage woes alone.

EgusiSoup:
Is this what the dullard APC Government having to offer? Senior citizen die and die everyday? Is this the CHANGE we requires?

How does we even cope with this dullard without the delinquent of cost?