kcnwaigbo:

Oga the law should be amended to make sure electoral cases are concluded within 180 days.

Will the amendment stop the swearing in? Or did the amendment say the case will be disposed of before swearing in?

seunmsg:


Serous cost for wasting everybody’s time.


The APC equally argued that the petition was improperly constituted having failed to join Atiku Abubakar and PDP who were necessary parties to be affected by the reliefs sought

“By Paragraph 17 of the petition, the petitioners, on their own, stated that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar came second in the presidential election with 6,984,520 votes as against the petitioners who came third with 6,101,533 votes;

“At Paragraph 102 (ii) of the petition, the petitioners urged the tribunal to determine that 1st petitioner scored the majority of lawful votes without joining Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the petition.

“For the tribunal to grant prayer (iii) of the petitioners, the tribunal must have set aside the scores and election of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar must be heard before his votes can be discountenanced by the tribunal,” it said.


This point alone has destroyed Peter Obi’s petition. The quacks who filed Obi Obi’s petition will be sweating after reading this technical point. Wole Olanipekun is damn good in destroying cases on technical grounds.

To delusional obedients, it’s game over. Obi’s watery case has been shredded to pieces.

Very brilliant move.

seunmsg:


Serous cost for wasting everybody’s time.


The APC equally argued that the petition was improperly constituted having failed to join Atiku Abubakar and PDP who were necessary parties to be affected by the reliefs sought

“By Paragraph 17 of the petition, the petitioners, on their own, stated that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar came second in the presidential election with 6,984,520 votes as against the petitioners who came third with 6,101,533 votes;

“At Paragraph 102 (ii) of the petition, the petitioners urged the tribunal to determine that 1st petitioner scored the majority of lawful votes without joining Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the petition.

“For the tribunal to grant prayer (iii) of the petitioners, the tribunal must have set aside the scores and election of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar must be heard before his votes can be discountenanced by the tribunal,” it said.


This point alone has destroyed Peter Obi’s petition. The quacks who filed Obi Obi’s petition will be sweating after reading this technical point. Wole Olanipekun is damn good in destroying cases on technical grounds.

To delusional obedients, it’s game over. Obi’s watery case has been shredded to pieces.

You guys make me laugh. You say Obi's petition has no case and in the same breathe you're saying this bullshit from APC is a solid case?

Lolzzz..

tolue42:
In a nutshell, APC forced Obi back to PDP where he belongs.

So he doesn't have any capacity to challenge them from Labor party. Labor part votes wasted!

I love this drama..

They took him back home to where he belonged

You guys keep making same mistakes with Obi. When you think you have the upper hand, booom, you're on the floor.

There's no need to join PDP because when the real votes of the 11 states in contention is added, Obi will be first.

Venerable612:


You know the Law!

Well said!

The preliminary objections are quite punchy - sammarily:
1. Peter Obi does not have locus to contest the election and bring the petition at all;

2. failure to add Atiku/PDP to the petition is a huge miss, as PO can’t be declared winner if at all he is successful without first discountenancing Atiku’s votes;

3. no pleadings on polling units disruptions individually; and

4. PO’s petition is fraught with pre-election matters - and the Tribunal itself does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter.

Law is interesting! Let’s see how this place out and watch out for the Defence & potential cross petition.

CondenseMilk:
APC said that PO should go to court. Now that PO is in court you want the judge to dismiss the case?


Never!

they thought he won’t go to court

You're a learner. Obi is challenging the results of 11 states with proof that the votes allocated to him were substantially less than his real votes. If the tribunal agrees with him, he will be about 10 million votes, how much votes did Atiku get?

Clevite:


You're damn correct!

On another platform, I had discussed this issue of not joining Atiku and the fatal effect it may have on Obi's petition. That's even before Obi filed the petition, at the time he was only focused on challenging Tinubu.

For Obi to rightful get himself declared 1st from 3rd position, he has two hurdles to cross. That is, he has both Tinubu and Atiku to contend with.

He would have to prove that the number of votes secured by Atiku earning him the 2nd place were not validly gotten.

And he can't successfully do that without joining Atiku and PDP as interested parties. They have to come and defend themselves and their votes.

The Tribunal will never nullify a candidate's votes and 2nd position behind him. The court will not decide against the interest of a necessary party that is not brought before it. That would be a gross violation of the principle of fair hearing.

As it is now, Atiku's 2nd position remains unchallenged before the Tribunal. And that may be highly fatal to Obi's case.

See how a small lawyer like me can predict apc on the ground they will be coming... they had no case other than technicalities which will be their doom this time around 😬🤪😜. You guys are so lame even saying that failing to include PDP, he should be dismissed? 😒😮😯🤣🤣

Obi wants tribunal to throw Tinubu votes out, throw Atiku votes out, and declare Obi votes the only legitimate ones and thereby announce him the winner. Obi is a clown

Venerable612:


You know the Law!

Well said!

The preliminary objections are quite punchy - sammarily:
1. Peter Obi does not have locus to contest the election and bring the petition at all;

2. failure to add Atiku/PDP to the petition is a huge miss, as PO can’t be declared winner if at all he is successful without first discountenancing Atiku’s votes;

3. no pleadings on polling units disruptions individually; and

4. PO’s petition is fraught with pre-election matters - and the Tribunal itself does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter.

Law is interesting! Let’s see how this place out and watch out for the Defence & potential cross petition.

That number two ehhn. It set PDP and PDP Lite against each other

This is so watery and lacks merit. Have they addressed the drug trafficking case? Because that's what will put the final nail to the drug baron's aspirations.

Thats why you're a nobody, you give up your right without a fight. When this petition is done, you'll know why APC is afraid of Obi

zoedew:

I agree. However, Peter Obi lost the moment and the movement when he went to the Tribunal to contest the Tinubu victory when it was clear that he was third place.If I were in his shoes it would be more important for me to tend the movement in a manner that will make larger than the Labour Party and transcending party politics. That way, in four years victory would be sure. But he blew it!

Clevite:


You're damn correct!

On another platform, I had discussed this issue of not joining Atiku and the fatal effect it may have on Obi's petition. That's even before Obi filed the petition, at the time he was only focused on challenging Tinubu.

For Obi to rightful get himself declared 1st from 3rd position, he has two hurdles to cross. That is, he has both Tinubu and Atiku to contend with.

He would have to prove that the number of votes secured by Atiku earning him the 2nd place were not validly gotten.

And he can't successfully do that without joining Atiku and PDP as interested parties. They have to come and defend themselves and their votes.

The Tribunal will never nullify a candidate's votes and 2nd position behind him. The court will not decide against the interest of a necessary party that is not brought before it. That would be a gross violation of the principle of fair hearing.

As it is now, Atiku's 2nd position remains unchallenged before the Tribunal. And that may be highly fatal to Obi's case.

well Obi is not fighting for second position sir. Atiku can on their own join as interested or necessary party to the suit if it feels that the outcome will affect him... His case is against position number one and not second. If he successfully challenged number 1, of what use is number 2?😒🤷

SledgeHammerer:


Dismissal is part of the legal process

with a tenable reason oga

.

Lots of this issues raised in APC petition, PDP and LP petitions are matters that the INEC should have addressed prior to the election.

If someone is not supposed to be on the ballot because he was not a member of a party or unqualified.. why don't INEC screen them out prior to the elections??

Larryndelaw:
When we said Obidient are bunch of Illiterate now you confirm it. Did you just see what you wrote

Didn't you see the reason APC presented ?
does that sound tenable to you?

On top of this, the window for filing petition has closed. They can only respond to Obi's petition. This is the reason Obi filed his petition the last day so they have no opportunity for filing frivolous counter attacks

OKOATA:
God bless you, this Agbado guys don't think well at, they should counter the petition Obi laid against them rather they are trying to stall to buy more time, I don't even see how ApC will win this when they are not in labour party.

Maybe that's why they installed Lamidi Apapa has a fake LP chairman, they did that to cause disarray so Lamidi can perhaps file a petition against Obi because of not being a party member within 30days. APC is just wasting their time. The rubbish counter petition only concerns LP members to file.

DMerciful:
Thats why you're a nobody, you give up your right without a fight. When this petition is done, you'll know why APC is afraid of Obi

Typical. Incapable of having a decent conversation.

Arapmoi22:


Thank you for your answer to this.

The person who brought that case is not directly involved (lack Locus standi), it does not mean it cannot be brought by the person directly impacted by that decision.

T[b]he case you referred to did not go into the veracity of the case, it ruled based on the technicality of the case.

Drug case is 100% not an electoral matter (30 years before election) but Obi brought it because he felt it impacted his chance.

So, pre-election matters can only be entertained as a different case in Court, not in Tribunal.

Both cases can be pursued to a logical conclusion. But Obi's candidature is more of an electoral matter. The Tribunal will admit it based on Section 77(3) of Electoral act.

In Summary, if you say Tinubu does not have any right to challenge what happened to produce Obi for an election as a non-registered member of a party, I will advice you not to believe in the drugs matter too. Otherwise, you will only be talking from both sides of your mouth.[/b]

That technicality was that the appellant was not an LP aspirant, just as Tinubu is not an LP aspirant

I don't why you guys like running away from facts.

The APC preliminary objection will be thrown out, its a busy body case

Arapmoi22:


It means you did not read the preliminary objection raised on the very post we are all comenting on.

Section 77, Sub section 1, 2 and 3.

But Subsection 3 is the killer.

If you don't understand it, we can explain further only if you are open-minded.

You know there's substitution window right?

seanfer:


Does the electoral act mention waiver?
Parties give waiver to members who joined less than 6 months.

zoedew:

I agree. However, Peter Obi lost the moment and the movement when he went to the Tribunal to contest the Tinubu victory when it was clear that he was third place.If I were in his shoes it would be more important for me to tend the movement in a manner that will make larger than the Labour Party and transcending party politics. That way, in four years victory would be sure. But he blew it!

you forgot something that the difference between 1st and 3rd is just 2.4m votes which can easily be overtaking. Remember Kwankwaso saying that he will be ahead of tinubu if votes weren't allocated to him by inec. He knew still that he didn't win that's why he decided not to go to court.

Cryofigbos:


My friend dis is also part of d court process......go to court does not mean go and win and will fold my hands mumu😂😂

But you are to present facts on ground for dismissal or objection.

Did you read the statement by APC at all?

BJanta:



Did you go to school at all? Why do you people always think in this empty manner? Cases taken court can ONLY proceed IF there are sound legal grounds ,and when such are lacking, the case is outrightly dismissed. Rotimi Williams was the greatest Nigerian layers of his time, if not of all time. He won almost all his cases on preliminary objections. He would take a cursor look at the wording of a charge ,take out one or two phrases in it and declare them inappropriate and irrelevant. Then bring out legal authorities to prove his stand. The case is dead, and would be dismissed. Abubakar Malami, the AGF , has also constantly pursued this line of legal arguments in all the cases brought against the FG. But his hollow legal understanding, experience and competence has always failed him to carry through. Donald Trump's layers are pursuing, ' preliminary objections ' in the indictments brought against him. It's the cheapest way to win a legal battle. It proves the legal team of the complaints not be sound, technically deficient and incompetent. Go and read the Nigerian Law Reports to educate yourself. This is NOT a case that can be handled by any Ibo lawyers. They always leave legal loopholes in their charge sheets.

Did you read what APC presented as their reason for dismissal?

SmartPolician:
The game is getting interesting. I cannot wait for the full litigation to commence.

APC is making this appeal about Peter Obi. If the party agrees to pick him as the presidential candidate with unopposed candidates, then why should that be the concern of APC?

Besides, political parties win elections in Nigeria, not individuals. They didn't react to the claim that Bola Tinubu is an ex-druglord. I guess they intentionally ignored it or reporter didn't mention it.

You are the one saying Bola Tinubu is a drug lord not the US or Nigerian laws. There was no indictment anywhere on earth against him regarding drugs except for his forfeiture to the US - IRS which can happen to anyone including myself because in US and UK you have to keep watching over your tax remittances otherwise you will face a forfeiture. The law in Obi’s case is very technically clear, he wasn’t a member of the party 30 days before submission of the register and so being technically not a member of LP means he wasn’t qualified to contest under LP and so all his 6m votes are wasted or possibly as i would suggest those votes should be added to that of Tinubu to avoid wastage

Obi has requested for the food of lawyers that sabi how to handle his types,

PO will received another defeat in competent court of law.

OKOATA:
Oga if you like write epistle wey go back 3 pages, a druglord won't rule and an Interim govt will take over. That's the normal thing to do, you can't expect a man with certificate forgery, drugcases, money laundry etc to rule because a case will go on as long as 180 or 200years. An interim govt will be there till the cases are settled and cleared. You want a druglord to be sworn in with all the electoral fraud. Continue to make yourself happy if you believe Bat will rule you and your Irigbigi kingdom that's ok with you but not Nigeria.

Empty ranting from an unlearned and uncultured personal.

So how does substitution work?

ORIENTATION101:
you re a liar, the court dismiss APM cases against eligibility of peter obi because apm didn't present the register of labor party at the court.
Register of labor party ,both hard and soft copy according to the electoral act must be presented 30 days before primary.
APC only need to get labor party register submitted to inec then obi is a gooner

Thats not the case in this election,
INEC was bribed to compromise it and they did exactly that

nairalanda1:


Exactly, that' s what I tell Obidients and even some Atikulators from time to time, and they get abusive. They even call me a tinubu supporter, like as if I like that man.(He is even the main reason why I never vote for APC, and to be honest in 2006, when Gani was going after him in the courts, I was hoping Gani would win, and stop him now and then).

Honestly, PDP was divided in to 4 factions. APC had at least 2 factions, but APC stayed united up till Feb 25, while PDP split into 4 factions. The result turned out as expected. APC won.

Have been following some African countries elections. And the rule is always the same...divide the oppositon, and half the ruling party's work is done.

Evidence?

wayforward2grea:
The question is, why did Obi deleted the resignation letter on his twitter page today? Lol

DMerciful:
You know there's substitution window right?

Obi was not substitute.. He is the sole candidate for the primary election