Kabirudeen25: We urge any Party or individual who wish to challenge the outcome of this process to do so peacefully and through the appropriate legal channels. We will be observing the course of legal challenges made
This statement will give some people cardiac arrest
...observing the course of legal challenges made
The bold looks pregnant to me.
You're been watched ... you judges ... you lawyers ... you SANs
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Tony O. Elumelu
This is the pit; the abyss.
No place for mere mortal. Proceed at the risk of your mental health.
That's the truth. We shouted our voice hoarse here saying INEC has no business announcing someone without the requisite lawful votes, including 25% in FCT as winner of the election. But it seems Mahmood just wanted to do the bidding of his paymasters. He, in the dead of the night, surreptitiously announced Tinubu winner, even when the first result is yet to trickle into the vaunted IReV servers, contrary to his countless assurance.
Then the clown of a chairman, had the audacity to shout 'Go to court' as if they have already bought the judges with their change.
SReporters: I have just carefully gone through this Peter Obi’s election petition and I have come to the conclusion that Peter Obi is the most dangerous man in this country called Nigeria.
Not only is he challenging the fraud for an election, but he is putting the entire country on trial for allowing a drug baron qualify to run and thereafter proceeded to rig the election.
Tinubu has for the longest refused to address his drug past and because of that, he refused to attend unscripted interviews and INEC and the Nigerian courts refused to disqualify him even when it was obvious that he has a drug past. The storm is now gathering!
Fast forward to “GO TO COURT”.. Peter Obi has now placed Tinubu’s drug records front and center of his petition by front loading the certified true copies of his drug related asset forfeiture as required by the evidence act and stating that Tinubu ought not to have been qualified to stand for the election.
The twist is that since PO is not the author of the said document, someone from the US justice department must be subpoenaed to be led in evidence to present the document in court and I am 1000% sure that the US department of Justice has assured PO’s lawyers that with a subpoena, they will fly in DEA special Agent Moss to come authenticate the Tinubu’s drug related forfeiture court documents.
Perhaps Nigeria is about to be jolted on an international level embarrassment that will be beamed worldwide. This was avoidable if Nigerian courts had done the needful by disqualifying Tinubu!
APC members of this forum should get ready to watch the DEA special agent Moss who arrested Tinubu testify in the tribunal about Tinubu’s drug past and we will assess how the criminal minded Nigerian judges will surmount that embarrassment and still rule that Tinubu is qualified.
You missed another important aspect of this case - he's also putting the United State criminal justice system on the spot. Everyone will answer their father's name.
As for those who have no father (or/and mother), well, na them sabi.
Afonja2: In other words, even if you win all the 36 states of the federation and you did not score 25% in FCT, you can not become a president?
You think the drafters of Nigeria constitution are so daft? What is the big deal about FCT that unless you win 25% of it's total votes, you can not be president?
Agbakoba and his ilks know they are just being mischievous. Senior Advocates of Nonsense
I just pose your first question to ChatGPT (verbatim, without context), below is the AI's take. Maybe you will have to go and argue with ChatGPT.
Formularcr7: I don't think 25% in FCT will be a must because in future if we have 5 strong candidates, definitely none of them might have 25%. The 25% is only visible when we have few contestants
That's why there is provision for run-off election. Mahmood, the INEC Chairman, is perhaps trying to pocket the funds meant for run-off. That's why he hastily declared a winner and passed the bulk to the court.
abdul23: So we in the FCT have this so much power. On a second note it's ridiculous. How can Abuja be a compulsory requirement. It's too absurd. No where in the world that happens.
Well, it's something that could be subjected to constitutional review. Maybe that status should be given to Onitsha or Owerri. We have no problem over there with such.
NaijaCowFarm: Does Nigeria constitution regard FCT as a state? No!
2. A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election a. he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and b. he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Let's even for the sake of argument say that the constitution recognise FCT as a state , the AND on it's own is a conjunction. It says whatever else you might have achieved in the election you need to obtain 25% vote cast in FCT. Whether FCT is a state or Capital Territory is, for the purpose of the conjunctive clause, immaterial.
I see no way out for Tinubu in the case, unless there is a miscarriage of justice.
flokii: Peter Obi is playing with a law suit and lengthy jail term.. the man he is falsely accusing of drug related offenses visits the US and no arrest whatsoever has been made in that regard.
Obi on the other hand has refused to explain to the world how he became a dollar billionaire considering his average background.
I hope this man won't end up in jail or six feet below with the kind of politics he is playing.
Obaaderemi2: Which mumu button did you press? You that every five year old child can read like a book. Your agenda was exposed, that's why you are still crying up and down and tearing your passports.
Obaaderemi2: This is too harsh. How can you wish starvation on an entire region? Why is the heart of man so dark?
But at the same time, it's also wrong for Chiedu to be supporting ipob a terrorist group and be clamouring to be governor of any state in Nigeria, especially Lagos .
But it's not wrong for an old agbado munching, frail, senile drug baron, and corrupt king of urchins to run for highest office in the land? See logic! APC bigot are very easy to spot. It's very easy.
0monnak0da: This tendency to talk taunt provoke is at the core of Ibo psyche and what led up to Saturday's events Nothing has been learnt
So you guys basically disgraced yourself globally, thinking you were teaching Igbos a lessson. Now you're getting the gist. The scale is falling off your eyes gradually. Let me laugh in Swahili.
Now read this slowly.
Lagos is No Man's Land! Igbos will interfere in Lagos election. Igbos will take over Lagos, Benin own Lagos!
What are you going to do, you little emotional man?
Disown your chilldren? Insult your fathers? Assault your brothers? Burn a market? Attack Igbos?
What are you going to do, little emotional man, cos Igbos are not your mate. You cannot tame us.
We will keep pressing your mumu button; emotional lots.