₦airaland Forum

garfield1:
For the last time,only lawmakers are forbidden from defection

So what stops lawan or gbajabiamila from declaring their seats vacant?

Abi is it only when they defect from apc to pdp before lawan or gbaja will invoke the lwas on them?

In this case, let the law do the needful...

All i want is justice and an end to all these political rascality by our politicians.

If party A gives u platform to an exalted seat, stick with it. If u want to defect cos of ur personal ambition, resign and handover the mantle to the owner.
Thabo mbeki and zuma were all disciplined by their party, they didn't defect to another party to continue their stay in office.
We all want strong institutions and not strong people, how will we strengthen institutions and the political parties if we keep bending laws to suit our selfish reasons...

seunmsg:
The right to freedom of association is a constitutional right that can’t be denied. All over the world, elected politicians defect for various reasons. Nigeria is not an exception.

Again, the Supreme Court already ruled on this matter in Atiku’s case. The president, vp, governors and deputy governors cannot lose their office for simply changing parties.

There is a clause to that effect.
U only defect if there is crisis at the national level of the party.

Umahi was elected under pdp, if he thinks he is so popular, resign ur post and contest election.

It's as simple as that.

This matter will not just benefit pdp if it comes to conclusion but the entire system.

Where in the world do people defect aimlessly like its been done in Nigeria?

Show me where even in africa.

Havent heard about defections in ghana or South Africa..
Jacob zuma even while being tried for corruption hasnt deem it neccessary to defect.

Thabo mbeki never defected, in kenya uhuru Kenyatta and his old rival raila odinga are still in the partt they got prominence..

In Nigeria people defect for no reason, the party now r fighting this, u r here talking rubbish.

seunmsg:
Wike is nothing but a clown. Umahi is not the first governor to decamp and won’t be the last. He will remain in APC and complete his tenure without any problem.

The useless judgement that was given by PDP judge cannot stand any serious legal scrutiny. Appeal court will trash the judgement and the silly high court judge who seriously overreached himself will be punished in due course.

Always writing bunkum...


See as wike dey arouse ur silly ego.

People defect, but its high time we put a lid to the gale of political prostitutes acting like mama aisha.

Olawrites:
There's high cost of living everywhere, like recently in the US, the cost of gas moved from $2 to $5 per liter.

Just know this fact before thinking of travelling.

Don't be caught unaware.

We've had enough stranded Nigerians in the diaspora already. Don't add to it.

Have enough money SAVED before you think of travelling.

Move this to front page please

Actually it is 5dolls per gallon not litre.

U dey US and don't know anything about US.

Gallon is more than litre.
3.785 litres make a gallon.
Even though it is still high considering the cost if change to naira, but don't comparr ur situation to what is happening here.
Am 30+,bsc holder, no work.
Now i can't apply for any govt jobs cos I'm above employability age.
Minimum wage in US is 6dolls oer hr in some states, California jacked theirs to 8dolls per hr.
If u work for 8hrs that is 64dolls equivalent to 30thousand naira daily. In a month that is 900k.

Igbofam:
The judgement by the Federal High Court had legal reference from other rulings with the same foundation while that of PDP had absolutely no legal reference and was just manufactured out of thin air.

We can clearly see who bought judgement there

Am sorry, was talking to an illiterate.

Once again sorry for disturbing ur silence.

itsene:
Tinubu told Oshiomohle to fight Obaseki...
Your Machiavellian dislike for Tinubu is hampering your views. Whatever is bad for him is good for you. That's just miserable on your part.
Buni was supposed to be there for 6 months for essentially clerical purposes ONLY,a fact many seems to have forgotten.
Then he started membership validation, reconciliation committee, welcoming crooks to the party . Activities clearly beyond the mandate.
You should be concerned about these NOT Tinubu's fortune.

Were u not happy when Umahi, ayade and matawale join ranks?

Ffk even projected more governors from pdp will defect, u guys were ecstatic..

My brother all those were the product of Mai Mala Buni...

Rejoice not just in good but also in trying times.

Odidigboigbo:
As a good guy, I'm only giving my little political advice. They can only persuade Buni not bullying him. Another alternative is to find a willing tool in his state, his ward chairman to be precise to suspend him , for them to have their way. If not, the Gutman will be dribbling them.

What if his ward chairman dey dubai with am?

Forget northerners, those guys r too smart for my liking.

Na we dey think say dem mumu, those wey we even think say dem be sophisticated peepoos, dem no sabi nada...


They r consoling themselves with the way senate threw the electoral act away from amendment.
When therr is provision for that clause in the constitution already.
When it comes to electoral act and constitution, which is superior?

ityP:
Exactly. Buni has them by the balls . Very wise man. But he isn't working alone sha. He has Buhari's backing

Wo even know whether sani bello is part of the plan to delay things....

Indispensable85:
I don't expect a dead brain like yours to think beyond it capacity. I'm not a Buhari fan just as every sane Nigerian won't but his failure doesn't mean I should hate everyone contesting under the APC if I'm convinced that person has the capacity to do better. Make your choice and follow it. It's democracy and stop being useless in public space. Party is not Nigeria's problem. We voted obaseki in Benin under PDP eventhough most of us like oshiomhole. There are terrible governors and excelling governors in both APC and PDP. More than 90% of political actors today have been in the both parties at one time or the other. Who's APC and who's PDP? I've picked my choice,pick yours and stop acting like a fool from the womb.


Hope it's oshiomhole that is still causing the present crisis in the APC now? Mumu

But he picked his choice na...


BuNi

buNi

buNi

BUni

BuNI

PrinceOfLagos:
It's over for Tinubu

Princeeee...


U wee not make heaven oooo

Truthisunique2:
pain is beclouding your thinking

Tinubu told oshomole to fight obaseki, obaseki got a lower court order to sack oshomole from his ward (he failed to file an appeal in the stipulated time because of his pride and couldn't be apc chairman by such court order)

Hillary ETA and Giadom challenged individually to act in oshomole space, giadom won the decision

Giadom by himself legally dissolved his committee and handed power to a caretaker committee of buni

Where did buhari scatter apc in all of this, it was tinubu that scattered apc because of greed of controlling edo

In summary, the problem of APC started in Edo...

So true true Edo no be Lagos

Igbofam:
Why should he wait? Why didn't the PDP speed up their own?

So we now know who bought the judgment...

lexy2014:
Aso rock has been relocated to London

Nigeria my Nigeria..

Yesterday i told my friend we really need WAR in Nigeria.
The injustices, corruption and everything evil is too much.
The ratio between the Have and the Have not is so so unbalanced.
And they act as if they r gods, oppressing us like we did a grave mistake being birthed in Nigeria.

They won't deliberate what affects us, they don't want to restructurr cos it will slightly bring governance to the people, they insert things in the constitution that doesnt even add values to the common man...

We beg to survive, even with ur qualifications, u still need someone up there for you to be qualified probably before given a job.

War will change things though thru the hard way, but it will balance things naturally since we r scared to make the neccessary change possible.

HenryThegreat1:
https://thenationonlineng.net/buni-malami-emefiele-to-confer-with-buhari-in-uk/

Thought buhari handed over to osinbajo abi na me no dey see well?

Isn't emefiele suppose to meet with osinbajo on the energy crisis?

Parachoko:
I didn't know about this before. The Nigerian President wield a lot of power.

So u never knew...

He controls the entire security architecture in the country.

fergie001:
I have corrected you before that no Party takes a case to a Judge.

The case file is assigned by the President of the FHC....Why not ask Justice Tsoho why he likes to assign cases to Ekwo.

The President before Tsoho also hands over case files to Ekwo, why not ask them?

I have told you this is something you are not suppose to say. So, even Supreme Court Judges like Rhodes-Vivour, Ariwoola, Adamu Augie who have concurred with his earlier judgements are part of the billionaire contract?

This comment of yours no balance abeg.

U r wasting ur time on a zombie.

Whether matawale or ayade or umahi leaves or stay, those that will replace them will still be from their respective states and not someone from yoruba or the Battalion pee poos.

What am interested in this case is for judiciary to lay to bare the issue of defections by our politicians.
U don't sleep as an apc and wake up as a pdp the next day without any problems in ur party that gave u the mandate and platform to lead.

I wish this case will be speedily adjudicated so our laws will be updated for reference purposes.

Reinvented:
With Justice Inyang Ekwo on the block, Mattawale is gone.

He is a just justice...

U don't expect him to see 2 and call it z.
What happened in zamfara was clear case of stupidity by matawale.

Apc lost out in court, pdp were installed as next runner up, instead of being magnanimous in victory, u defected to the party that was barred from participating in that electoral processes.
U even went ahead and induced the state house members to impeach the deputy just because he didn't defect to ur new party...

tamdun:
Two edge sword, this judgment will affect pdp too

In the case of obaseki, he lost primaries or was schemed out by oshiomole he defected to Pdp and got the ticket.
He stood election as a pdp candidate and won.
Same as in benue.
What happened in zamfara is a unique case.
Apc won ll the elections but due to party issues they lost everything.
Apc was barred from presenting any candidate in that election, the 1st runner up being pdp were installed.
Matawale defecting to apc makes the judgement of 2019 look like we play too much in this country.

By right he should have seen thru his governance in 2023 and then defect to a new party if he so wishes.

Parachoko:
Governors have immunity.

Efcc can probe governors,their immunity doesnt stop efcc from probing them.

Parachoko:
EFCC can't go after Governors.

Who can EFCC go after?
Only yahoo boys?.

QuotaSystem:
Well played

Buni thought he had successfully left a banana peel on the way to the success of APC’s top presidential aspirants before he raced to Dubai, only to slip and fall on the same banana peel ending up with a bloodied nose. The road to victory has been cleared again for Osibanjo/Tinubu.

Goodbye Buni, Goodnight Akpanudodehe.

Buhari fired oshiomole and the NWC, appointed buni and co..
He fired buni n appointed bello.
What this means is that ApC is being run like a Private Liability company headed by a CEO/buhari that can hire and fire at will.

It also mean that buhari will be the sole delegate that will appoint the next presidential candidate..
Am sorry to this, tinubu will not be the one!
And the entire govrs will have no say than to accept it. Or else EFCC...

Kingpele:
Wow coming from pdp lawyer wahala deyoo I kept telling myself ,is it not the candidate that was returned as winner, is it the party,he returning officer will say Mr this and that having pulled the highest number of vote is hereby returned as a winner, that judge should refund pandemic development party their stollen funds and proceed to any psychiatric hospital

Why didnt deputy governorship candidate of apc not inherit the late governor's vote after he died?
Can u explain...

kahal29:
This is the correct position of the law. The judgement by Justice Inyang can't stand at the appellate court because you cannot build something on nothing and expect it to stand.

Which defection law in our constitution did justice Inyang base his judgement on?

The judge simply embarked on judicial voyage and activism to create a new law which does not exist.

The Supreme court in plethora of cases frowns at such adventure. In the case of Attorney General of the Federation V. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (part 1041) 1. At page 124 of the report, Justice Onnoghen set down the position thus:

It is the constitutional responsibility of the legislature to make or amend the laws including the constitution, where the need arises, while that of the judiciary remains to interpret and apply the laws so made or amended. The courts can therefore not add or subtract from the law as enacted by the legislature under the guise of judicial interpretation of the constitution or statute…”

The judgement erroneously relied on Section 221 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) as well as the judgment of the Supreme Court in Faleke v. INEC.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court decision in Faleke v. INEC does not relate to the consequence of the defection of a governor from one political party to the other. A more apt instance will be the Atiku Abubakar scenario wherein Atiku Abubakar as Vice President, elected under the PDP, defected to the then Action Congress.

The position of the Supreme Court was also stated in Attorney General of the Federation V. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (part 1041) 1 where Justice Onnoghen held thus:

“There is nowhere in the 1999 Constitution where it is stated that the President or Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be removed or is removable from that office if he defects from the political party on whose platform he was elected to that office and joins another political party.”

So how did yahaya bello became govr of kogi state?
Why didnt this same law apply to that case?
Why did yahaya bello inherit the votes the dead candidate had instead of transferring those votes to his deputy who was on a joint ticket with him?

See there r 2laws i have Nigeria, laws for one section of people and another law for other section.

FreeStuffsNG:
I think you should read my comments slowly since it is obvious you did not comprehend it sir.
Once again,NBA will be in order to call for investigation of the judge as well.

Because he interpreted the laws well and it affected apc?

What if matawale bought his own judgement, what if inyang ekwo is right on this?

Umahi should appeal, definitely it will get to supreme court, that is when we will get the final judgment whether just or unjust. Xause we know even supreme court gives unjust judgement like in the case of uzodinma n ihedioha. Where number of votes didnt tally with total number of accredited voters.
But all in all, i want proper interpretation of this judgment so it will lay to bare every form of indiscriminate decamping by our politicians.
If u want to decamp, resign from the post u were and decamp. Inec will always do by-election, u contest with ur new party.

densiks:
The NBA should as well make a public statement to demand judges to stop making a mockery of the judiciary through dubious judgments that have no basis in the constitution.

I have also read and heard from a number of very senior and respected members of the bench who have condemned the judgment and stated its lack of constitutional basis.

By inference, It therefore suggests that there is the possibility that court judgments are now for sale to the first buyer or highest bidder as the case may be.

The judiciary must not destroy our democracy, this is the message I expect to hear from the NBA ,I believe Umahi was outraged ,hence his decision to lecture his supporters about the existence of another judgment from a court of concurrent jurisdiction in order to forestall breakdown of law and order which that vexatious and unconstitutional judgment was capable of causing.


Pray tell, is it not in this country that the NJC has severally sacked or demoted judges for giving questionable judgments because of perceived patronage here and there?

I believe we must stop all these stupid professional correctness especially when it stands in the face of equity,constitutionalism and justice.

So how r we sure matawale didnt procure his own judgement?

These cases were filed at the same time, zamfara delivered judgement earlier, fed high court delivered their judgment yesterday.. Had it been PDP files the case of ebonyi after zamfara had delivered judgment, then we can say justice inyang ekwo erred, u don't expect inyang to throw the case out when he didn't give his own judgement.
What the counsel to apc would have done was to cite the zamfara judgment as reference...

BeeBeeOoh:


The same people that denied Sunday Igboho while in Benin republic prison, the same people that told us here that never sent him to liberate them are still the same people boasting about his release; how they don't do these and that blah..blah...blah

#TableShaker

[img]https://i./3OK0g.gif[/img]

WAtch as TMC will go pay him visit on behalf of their pee poos man.. Just for the glams

If you really need a true definition of hypocrisy, just go to the west you will get a full picture.

MadamVanessa:



Udom ado ata useme governor. Iniehe se ebot ubom ado anam ke Akwa Ibom ikan adisio Umoh Eno yak a'succeed enye. Nton governor.


I leave Ohio, come back home to come and see nonsense.

Mbok ama ayam imana nka Ohio, create space for 2.
Nya kene ndi...
Uyo ankak ndien

Mercychen:
What do you recommend for this skin blemish? .

Advice, please.

Ur legs r clean already, u need to dirty am.

Just go work as scavenger.

illuminutty:
And what exactly is your point sir?

Am not making points but sentence...

illuminutty:
A big lesson to all those that would start talking bad about Nigeria once they leave the country. At the end of the day, no place like home. Let us work to make this country work because when kasala burst for yankee, home is always the only place to go. You wey dey UK, Canada, US and other 1st world European countries and bragging, looking down and saying unprintable things about Nigeria, the day e go choke you for yanke - dead or alive - Nigeria would be the only place to return to.

JUst pray this crisis don't escalate to a full blown war.
If it happens, we will all be involve.
Infact in the coming days things will start repositioning so you know the world is at war.
Even in Nigeria today that isn't at war, the number of deaths recorded surpasses what we r witnessing in Ukraine.
Just yesterday, someone @mercywig made a post how her friend is missing since Saturday. She boarded BRT bus enroute oshodi, till today she hasn't been seen.
The driver of the BRT is no way to be found. The manager of BRTfleets doesn't know much about his employee...

This is Nigeria and u r proud to say no place like home

Insecurity everywhere, even ukraine that is at war is more secured than this country.

Michelle70:
Jonathan in time of plenty was wasteful.

As a business man, I know that the time of plenty is the time to plan for the future.

Nigeria case is lack of progressive leaders and tribalistic youths.
Lagos is what it is because of leaders that plan for the future.
look at China, when they were busy producing China phones, we make mockery of them that there products doesn't last, but today I am typing this with China phone and u are probably reading with Chinese phone.

2moro, ur children will still blame govt while ur voursemates could be millionaires

Please do lagos have any foreign reserve account and how much is in thr?
Lets start from there.

SmartPolician:
Lekki/Ajah axis in Lagos: Normal price but whenever it's available, the filling station is turned to a market square and you are charged 100-300 for buying in Jerry cans.

Someone should tell DPR officials to start patrolling to make sure that filling stations sell petrol at approved prices. Those people receive fat salaries for doing practically nothing. That's why their top officials develop potbellies; they do nothing!

DPR was disbanded with the signing into law the PIA... Formerly PIB