₦airaland Forum

majamajic:



when the home country didn't welcome u ,


u have no choice than to welcome yourself

Lmaooooo. This is crazy..

Lol... Akpabio you can't be replaced in a re-run Sir, stop pushing another candidate to go and waste his time.

Gowon actually have regrets just like Danjuma but can't bring himself to say it. His people in the middle belt are bearing a huge brunt because of his actions today. Many of them are buried in mass graves multiple times every year. It has even become a 'national ritual' that Aljazeera and CNN no longer report it.

It's the reason he has turned to pastoral work, gallivanting from church to church and organizing hopeless crusades called 'Nigeria prays'. The blood on his hands are too thick and will never be washed away.

There is a reason God kept him alive to see the fall and rise of the people he massively murdered, blossoming all over the world and even winning political elections in European countries.

I want to see what pro-Amotekuns who have been insulting 'one Nigeria' since Arewa stood against it suddenly think.

It will be interesting to read their comments.

Every human right NGO and civil society should do everything to fight this matter till heads roll in the polic. The policemen involved must not go scot-free.

Amnesty International, SERAP, Behind Bars Initiatives, Mechanic association, Town union of the decease must drag this matter and continue to update us in the media about the media till justice is seen to be done.

Take this legal fight direct to the I.G's office, police council and police service commission. Breath down their necks till the justice is done and the family of the deceased handsomely compensated in dollars. If even if it means taking all the monies in the account of the policemen involved, including their pension and gratuity, so be it.

executive12:
I hope that this security issue would help unite the SE, SW, MB and SS to jointly demand for holistic restructuring of the country or jointly insist on organizing a referendum to allow Nigerians the opportunity to choose whether to remain one or go their separate ways.
The Fulani should not be allowed to continue to have their way at the expense of the other ethnic groups.

I think every region should fight for it's own interest seperately. Just as was done during presidential elections in 2015 and 2019.

The night club should file a suit in court, they can also do it jointly with a civil society or human right organization. This is toxic for legitimate night club owners.


Stop being a sitting duck, go to court and get a perpetual injuction restraining EFCC from ever entering your office to effect arrests without warrant. Serve them a copy and paste a copy on the building of your office.

If they prove too stubborn, go to the court of public opinion and file a suit on online medium and newspapers if you can afford it. They are not supposed to arrest anyone without a petition except an officer is right there when the crime was committed.

I won't tolerate that kind of nonsense, doing business is hard enough in this country, having antagonist federal agencies making it tougher, even when you pay taxes should not tolerated.

Publish the stories about their impunity, find out their names and publish it online too. If you are seen as weak, in this country every idiott will trample on you.

Fake news, old video. Buyers beware.

ambassadorgozie:
be serious guy, my mind didn't go dia at all

You told to her come and eat twice, she refused, you still went to her to 'touch' her in order to 'convince' her. Onye oma CY, why didn't you just mind your business after trying failing twice to get her to rest.

I want to believe you Mr nice guy, but I find it hard to.
Next time mind your business, it's cheaper.

michlins:
Let's just get some things clear. The VP is the second most powerful person in Nigeria and should be accorded the respect. In USA, whenever the president or the vice president is on the move, it's a military operation and you can be shot on sight if you misbehave. Airways are blocked and cell signal completely jammed. If you see the convoy of an elected official, kindly clear road because they can kill you and there's nothing anyone can do about it

This is a big lie Sir.

The Nigerian embassy should take over the case and stop Nigerian students from attending that university in Ukraine. Go to Russia instead.

The remaining Nigerian students should ask for their transcripts and leave that university. The Ukrainians seem to be becoming full of themselves. Nigerian students school fee is what feeds their economy to a large extent..
The international student community should bring down hell on the university.

exenxe1:
mbaise can't rule me




I rather spend d rest of my life harboring snakes




*spits*

I am a proud son of Orlu and I think you are sound sick in the head. Please, stop creating troubles for us in Imo, find another region where you can go fight and kill yourself with hate.

Ickes:
It seems you know the place.

I'm actually a proud son of that zone.

This might be a blessing in disguise. He should embark on a massive development campaign starting with Orlu, Orsu and Oru environs, his own zone.

The ever-dilapidated and neglected Ihiala-Orlu federal road should be fixed immediately and if possible dualized. Since I was born that road have remained a hell for motorists. He should attract Buhari's attention to that road. People coming from Abia, Akwa Ibom, Calabar to Onitsha and Lagos see hell on that road.

That area have produced more Governors but still too slow in development. Charity must now begin at home before the zone lose this opportunity forever.

Lol

IYANGBALI:
one of his friends must have tooked the pics

Hei!!!! This Ogbunigwe wey you drop for here! Anyway....

IYANGBALI:
one of his friends must have tooked the pics

Hei!!!! This Ogbunigwe wey drop for here! Anyway....

Wonders are many on earth but the greatest of these is man.

itsme01:
stop being a coward... there is nothing like cabal.. Aba kyari Tony Elumelu's former staff, or Maman Daura a useless failed journalist cant do anything to Akeredolu SAN

you Ibos should stop fearing imaginary cabals, where are Yaraduas cabal today?

Ok Sir.. I hope you are right.

Akeredolu might be dealt a heavy blow in the APC primary. The cabal may be cooking something for him. He should tread softly.

Marakajaakkli:
Eyassssssssss


He went too far...bye bye.


See you later maybe never

This did not happen yesterday. Stop spreading fake new please.

Wetin be 'Ehiodioa', na which language be that?

The PDD-led house may start thinking of impeaching him in few weeks, using any excuse in the books, since they have the power.

This matter has not ended. Expect more drama in the coming weeks.

That can't be true. Obama remains the most useless US president to Africa. Even Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Bush were more friendly to Africa than Obama.

garfield1:
You are not an apc or hope fan,stop masquerading as one.when zamfara went to apc,did pdp have any seat in the assembly? Pdp were careless in their rigging

Seems are very emotional, even when I was starting to think you are objective.

I did not say I am an APC member, neither am I even a PDP. I am from Orlu zone, a zone that is more like a 'born to rule' zone in Imo. Uzodinma put my close relatives in the Aviation sector when he oversaw that ministry as a Senator, so why should I be angry about his victory? I have benefitted from him. But should I throw away my critical thinking cap because of that like some of you do here? I am not illiterate!


I am a business man and and if there any policy, law, factor in my business that I do not understand, even if it favours me, I might feel agitated until I understand it wholesale. Understanding issues fully, gives me the edge to use it at my advantage. Else it might come around to use be used against me in future. That's the situation.

As a political pundit that you claim you are, you should explain issues without emotional rancour and with thorough objectivity.

I still maintain that even some hardcore APC members are still perplexed by the judgement. Take a tour around NL and read from your comrades like helinus on the thread below.

https://www.nairaland.com/5632011/numbers-dont-add-up-imo

Good day.

garfield1:
Funny enough no

But don't you think it is bizzare that Hope Uzodinma of APC is declared winner, yet not a single seat in the Imo House of Assembly was won by APC. Doesn't it negate common sense?

Even some hardcore APC members are perplexed and shocked.

garfield1:
THE IMO GUBERNATORIAL JUDGMENT - A PAINFUL BUT LEGALLY CORRECT VERDICT!

It is indeed a perplexing paradox: Hope Uzodinma may not have won the 2019 Imo State gubernatorial election, yet the Supreme Court, on the facts, was right in declaring him the winner of that election in law. The error was not the Supreme Court's, but that of Governor Emeka Ihedioha's legal team; and it was a crucially fatal error.

What happened was this: During the governorship election in Imo State, apparently concocted results, perhaps not having any basis whatsoever in reality, BUT SIGNED BY INEC PRESIDING OFFICERS, were turned in from more than 350 polling units, giving Hope Uzodinma of the APC an incredibly unassailable lead. When those results were transmitted to the wards collation centres, the collation officers, who had no power in law to cancel or reject them, rejected the said polling units results, and refused to collate them, thereby effectively excluding them from the total tally of the governorship result that was eventually declared by the Returning Officer. In the aftermath of the said exclusion, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Governor Ihedioha the winner of the election.

The exclusion of the results of those polling units was the fulcrum of the petition presented at the Tribunal by Hope Uzodinma. Ever since David Mark V. ABUBAKAR USMAN, and DOMA V. INEC, the law has been settled that neither collation officers nor a returning officer, has the power in law to exclude a polling unit result duly signed by the presiding officer at the polling unit; only the election tribunal possesses the power to cancel or exclude such a result. So, at the point of its presentation, Senator Uzodinma's petition was potentially viable, in spite of the apparent dubiousness of the polling units results on which it was anchored, there being a REBUTTABLE presumption of regularity and correctness, by virtue of both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act, enuring in favour of any result declared by a presiding officer.

The backbreaking and fatal error made by Ihedioha's legal team was not filing a CROSS PETITION fiercely challenging the integrity of the suspect polling units results upon which Uzodinma was relying, and praying the election tribunal to formally nullify the said results. Without a cross petition, none of the grounds under section 138 (1) of the Electoral Act for questioning the elections conducted in those polling units in which Uzodinma "won" could have been competently raised by Governor Ihedioha in his defence to Uzodinma's petition. This was the ratio decidendi of the old Court of Appeal decision in IDRIS V. A.N.P.P.(2008)8 NWLR(PT.1088) Page 1. In the recent Court of Appeal decision in ATIKU ABUBAKAR V. BUHARI, the Court of Appeal again invoked the principle in dismissing Buhari's contention that Atiku ABUBAKAR was born in Cameroun to parents who originally were Camerounians, and thus disqualified from contesting the election. Dismissing the contention, the Court of Appeal held that the issue was incompetent, since Buhari did not file a cross petition.

Ihedioha indeed did set up facts in his Reply to the petition rehashing the serial infractions that led to the exclusion of the results of the said 300 plus polling units. But that was legally not enough, in the absence of a cross petition. Besides, such renditions by a Respondent in a mere Reply or Statement of Defence are clearly incompetent. The reason for the incompetence was was made clear by the Court of Appeal in NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL & ORS V. HON. JUSTICE JUBRIL BABAJIDE ALADEJANA & ORS(2014) LPELR - 2413 (CA) Page 31, paras C - F, at ratio 3 thus -

"The law is that it is a plaintiff who by his statement of claim primarily nominates issues to be tried in a suit and which he relies on to have the judgment of the Court. For a defendant, it is only necessary to resist the plaintiff's claim on the facts pleaded. It is not for a defendant to set up facts which would convey that it is not just setting up a defence but setting up a new case of his own. He can only do so by way of a counter claim..."

Shorn of the legalese, what the above authority is simply saying is that since the issue nominated for trial by Hope Uzodinma was the unlawfulfulness or otherwise of the exclusion of the results of the 300 plus polling units by the ward collation officers, Ihedioha's defence was therefore necessarily restricted by law to showing that those who excluded the results had the power in law to exclude them. Without a cross petition praying for the nullification of those results, the law forbids Governor Ihedioha as respondent from raising the issue of the alleged serial corrupt practices and irregularities marring the said results, in a mere statement of defence; that was a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma as petitioner. Ihedioha, being a Respondent, could only have competently raised them via a cross petition, being a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma, the petitioner.

Tragically, Ihedioha's legal team forgot to include the pivotal cross petition. And in the absence of a cross petition, the Supreme Court was right in law, painfully though it may seem, to rely on the presumption of regularity and correctness enshrined by both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act in favour of the said results, and to reckon with them and add them up to the final result, since Ihedioha's legal team had woefully failed to effectively attack the results and rebut that presumption. For the Supreme Court, this was the legally correct conclusion to come to, having found that INEC had no power in law to exclude polling units results duly affirmed by the various polling units presiding officers.

Thanks a lot for the clarifications.

Are you a lawyer by the way?

Was Maj. Wale Ademoyega among the murderers?

Now that's another bizzarre one.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Even though my Orlu zone is the biggest beneficiary of the judgement.

I'm sure even some of the staunchest APC supporters can't really understand the judgement.

Obason22:
U are not serious.

Can you make the judgement more explanatory to some of us who though are happy but are nonetheless confused?

The Supreme court should release a detailed white paper explaining how and why they came to the conclusion of having Uzodinma declared as winner.

I am from Uzodinma's town, he is a family friend and was very helpful during his days as senator. Many of us from Oru, Orsu, Orlu are happy but confused at the same time. Mixed feelings. It was unexpected I must say. Even legal luminaries and SANs seem to be confused about the judgement too.

In order to make it very clear and unambigous to everyone, from laymen, to law students and law teachers, the SC should publish a detailed report and help Nigerians understand better, because every judgment is a law and sometimes sets a new precedence. Many cases in future will refer to this case as authorities when fighting their own matters in court.

The SC should do the needful and help to make Nigerians understand. Afterall, Man and Law are supposed to be inseperable.