₦airaland Forum

dearpreye:
All their pens and voices have suddenly drowned as tyranny rages on.

Afriplay:
I'm sincerely touched! I'm ready to join you with 30k.
Who knows what the cost would be?
This wish really need to be fulfilled. We must not wait for the government. We can get this one done!

arresa:
The SC should have kept quiet and enter grave with this laughable and shameful judgement instead of coming up with this thoughtless, corrupt and unintelligent excuse that ridicules the SC, renders the SC worthless and frivolous..

maslong:
shatap d ya gutter.

diasporaman:
Briefcases has changed hands.

odepacy:
Case close

The supreme court on Friday explained why it declared Nyesom Wike, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 11 2015 governorship election in Rivers state, as the duly elected governor of the state.

The court held that the judgment of the appeal court affirming the judgment of the election petition tribunal sacking Wike was a nullity because the governor did not get a fair hearing as the facts he presented were not considered by the tribunal.

It said the tribunal was improperly constituted, explaining that Suleiman Ambursa, chairman of the tribunal, passed judgment in error because he did not sit over the initial hearing of the case.

Ambursa replaced Mu’azu Pindiga, who was removed in the middle of the hearing of the Rivers governorship election petitions.

It held that Dakuku Peterside, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship poll and respondent in the appeal, was unable to prove that an election did not take place in Rivers state on April 11.

The supreme court explained that the burden of proof was on Peterside to prove that the election was marred by wanton violence, and that it did not take place.

The court had upturned the judgment of both the election petitions tribunal and the appeal court nullifying his victory at the April 11, 2015 poll.

In October 2015, the Rivers state governorship election ‎petition tribunal sitting in Abuja nullified Wike’s election, and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh poll.

On behalf of the three-man panel, Suleiman Ambursa, the chairman, said Wike was not duly elected governor of Rivers state, adding that the election was flawed based on evidence presented to it.

The tribunal held that the testimonies of Wike’s witnesses were weak, and as such could not prove the governor’s case beyond reasonable doubt. It also held that Wike’s witnesses made contradictory statements, further complicating the defendant’s case.

It dismissed the governor’s petition over the power of the tribunal to entertain the case.

Wike appealed the judgment, but he lost again two months later, when the appeal court unanimously dismissed all the seven issues he raised, and upheld the decision of the tribunal on the conduct of a fresh governorship election in the state.

He had asked the appellate court to set aside the judgment of the tribunal, arguing that‎ the lower court failed to consider the evidence – that a proper election took place in Rivers state on April 11 – tendered before it.

On January 27, when the supreme court sat over the case, Wike emerged winner for the first – and most important – time.

In a lead judgment by Justice Kekere-Ekun, the court unanimously validated his election on the grounds that he won with the lawfully valid votes.

However, the panel, led by Justice Mahmoud Mohammed, chief justice of Nigeria, did not explain the reasons for its judgment. Instead, it said they would be given on February 12.

ajebuter:
If north Korea decide to fight, I go just give them map of Daura in Katsina

TonyeBarcanista:
Lamido should shut up! He was a Minister under Obasanjo and later Governor for eight years! His achievement as Governor and Minister was nothing to write home about. His greatest achievement was looting the treasury of Sokoto state with his sons. He should face his corruption case and keep shut!


As for Buhari government, I will address that later!

ajebuter:
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CzarRex:
APC shit..they're so full of hypocrisy!

Dutse—Former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Dr. Sule Lamido, on Wednesday, dismissed President Muhammad Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC-led government change mantra.

The former governor insisted that with over 80 percent of APC members being Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members who had served in various capacities during the PDP regime, Nigerians should not expect anything exceptional.


Lamido argued that with the caliber of PDP defectors who were at present occupying various positions in the Buhari’s administration, it would be difficult for him to fulfill the promises he made to Nigerians because they joined the APC to achieve their personal ambitions.

According to him: “How can President Buhari say he is fighting corruption when he is surrounded by people of questionable characters, a group of people who were part of the government he is criticizing.

Lamido, who spoke while addressing Global Watch members who paid him a visit, said the problems of Nigeria: “Is not only corruption. We as leaders have failed the nation and the ideologies of our founding fathers that fought for our independent. The many years of illegal military regimes and political eras where people joined politics for personal reasons are the bane of our current predicament.

Today, the APC government is fighting only PDP members; they are being persecuted for alleged corruption, when there are records that past military administrations who took over government by force and civilian administrations who ruled before PDP also abused their position. The challenge before us is not about politics, it is about the chemistry of our nation. What are we not doing right as a people that needed to be corrected? Unless they are corrected, things will continue to deteriorate”

The former governor accused the APC led government of putting fears in Nigerians, pointing out that a leader was supposed to make people feel secured not to put fear in them by allegedly imprisoning people indiscriminately.

According to him: “Democracy should be able to address our problems, unite us and not to put fear in the land, compelling people to be pretending to be what they are not because they don’t want to be imprisoned.”

Earlier, the secretary of Global Watch, Yahaya Idris, said they were in former governor Lamido’s office to seek his fatherly blessing in their effort at promoting democracy and unity among the Nigerian youth.

wealth123:
innocent indeed. I think you guys supporting impunity on NL need medical attention urgently. How can you say Metuh is innocent when he converted $2m of state money into a personal investment according to the confession of witnesses and the company that handled the investment. God will punish all those supporting thieves in this country because of ethnicity and tribal sentiments.

jagalboy:
Where is d source of this information? I found d source unreliable as it is not known to any of us here. I also found d writer biased and he succeeded in shooting himself in d leg by displaying d act he claimed d defendant complained about in court by publishing d court proceedings too.

Flexherbal:
Metuh, pay back our money.

LuchoLyon:
EFCC OFFICIALS are now on the run?

chukwudi44:
Gradually the truth is comming out!! Buhari and his vindictive EFCC would soon be disgraced !! I cant wait to see Metuh mount the docks!!

They are not happy that the EFCC statement did not reflect the fact that the prosecution witness also read out a section in the ONSA document wherein it was expressly stated that the N400m payment to Chief Metuh followed due process.
The EFCC operative had also stated, that in the cause of his investigation, he did not come across any evidence that Chief Metuh had any personal relationship and/or direct dealings with the former NSA Sambo Dasuki.
Also he confirmed that he has no documentary and/or oral evidence to back his claim that Dasuki withdrew N10b and changed it into dollars and distributed to top PDP leaders during their national convention, as well as his claim that the $2m given to Nneka Ararume actually came from the sum allegedly withdrawn from Dasuki.