KanwuliaExtra:
He was working for ELU P of course.
How can one be so DAFT?

Glad TIEFNUBU, INEC or APC did not call any more witnesses o.
The ones they called just destroyed them kpatakpata!

I am so glad NIGERIANS did not get this election wrong. . . INEC DID!

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent

KanwuliaExtra:
He was working for ELU P of course.
How can one be so DAFT?

Glad TIEFNUBU, INEC or APC did not call any more witnesses o.
The ones they called just destroyed them kpatakpata!

I am so glad NIGERIANS did not get this election wrong. . . INEC DID!

FSU:


We don't need a drug pusher as president.

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent

Burob:
Over an issue that lacks jurisdiction? The statute of limitation says 10 years from conviction, if any? Same issue that was thrashed in 2002? This KanwuliaExtra, you will never learn, keep deceiving yourself.

FSU:


We don't need a drug pusher as president.

Anyiamaka:


What nonsense bold steps exactly? Is Nigeria better today than on 28th May, 2023? Sycophancy, not corruption will destroy this great country. Tinubu is not good for Nigeria. His lifetime ambition is to be president. That has been fulfilled. The judiciary should do the right thing and sack the sick, old, super corrupt drug baron and mandate thief.

FSU:

No mind them. Typical of some YORUBA to hype non-performance. In any case his presidency is illegitimate, and the court would see to that.

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent

jumobi1:


So what happens when one violates the constitution by running for and winning governorship in 1999, less than 10 years after conviction? Ignorance is not an excuse. Should he be allowed to benefit from his time as governor and use it to run for a higher office or should he be barred from running for any other public office?

jumobi1:


So what happens when one violates the constitution by running for and winning governorship in 1999, less than 10 years after conviction? Ignorance is not an excuse. Should he be allowed to benefit from his time as governor and use it to run for a higher office or should he be barred from running for any other public office?

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent

Burob:
Over an issue that lacks jurisdiction? The statute of limitation says 10 years from conviction, if any? Same issue that was thrashed in 2002? This KanwuliaExtra, you will never learn, keep deceiving yourself.

ExudeLoveToAll:



It wasn't trashed, the court only said no one has the right to prosecute a serving Governor because if immunity.

Or you are referring to the house of assembly clear bill of health? That has nothing to do with judicial pronouncements.

Bimpe29:
Copied and shared so as to help those with emotions in respect of the petition before the PEPT.

Tinubu's Defence, A Masterstroke!!

Few months ago, when the Court of Appeals began hearing of the presidential election petition brought before it by the Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I told a friend that the mistake LP/PDP would make is to not focus on the real issues of the election.

I opened that if they try to bring extraneous issues like Tinubu’s academic certificate, and the allegef US drug case, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, would make them look like fools by summarily dispatching those issues when APC/Tinubu start their defence.

I am not a lawyer, but commonsense should tell anyone that not staying on real issues of the election before the tribunal would be an exercise in futility.

What the LP/PDP ought to do is to prove their cases with incontrovertible evidences that showed that the conduct or the result of the election contravenes the Electoral Act 2022 in such a way that makes the election a totally flawed, and thereby rendering the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, invalid, bill and void.

Until the LP/PDP closed their petitions, I did not see anything they brought to court to change the course of the election result as declared by INEC.

As usual, and because our people deploy emotions more than reason on every matter, just like you see in the young girl who allegedly forged JAMB result, they would keep making noise over non issues. Emotions don't win cases. Incontrovertible evidences that are above every REASONABLE DOUBT win cases.

By yesterday, when the All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu started their defence, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, unarguably the most successful senior lawyer in Nigeria when it comes to election petition cases, dropped only few certified documents to dismiss the two non-electoral matter LP/PDP brought before the court.

For their ground of Tinubu's non-qualification, based on non academic status, Olanipekun submitted copies of Tinubu's admission letter, degree certificate and a letter from the Chicago State University confirming that he was a student, and graduated from the university with honours and was actually the best student in his department.

Concerning the celebrated and hyped drug petition, Olanipekun also responded by dropping just TWO LETTERS. One written by the Nigerian Police to the US Embassy requesting for criminal record of the defendant, and the other, a reply from the United States Embassy, dated this year confirming that Tinubu never had any record of drug-related case or criminal conviction record in the USA.

The petitioner also alleged that Tinubu cannot enter the US. Wole Olanipekun also dropped other documents, including PBAT's visa entries to the USA up to 2021, showing US immigration entry stamps at the US points of entry.

Now, the tribunal, even in the face of objection from the petitioners admitted those evidences as good enough for defence.

Now, to the real matter of the elections, LP/PDP spent all these few months bringing witnesses to prove that the iRev server had no glitches or technical problem as alleged by INEC, and that INEC only conspired with the APC by not transmitting the result live unto the iRev server in real time.

See, this is no case. The question is, does the not transmitting the result of the election to the iRev in real time change the result of the presidential elections as recorded in the form EC8, and as witnessed by all party agents in each polling units all over the country, which all the parties have a copy of the said form EC8? The answer is No!

Is transmitting of result live in real time a legal and constitutional requirement in the Electoral Act 2022 as amended? The answer is No! The law only empowered INEC to use whatever means administratively to make sure elections are held in a transparent manner and results are declared accordingly.

In other words, INEC is the only body legally backed by law, that can determine how it wants result of the election from the polling units, wards, local governments and states transmitted to the National Collation Centre.

It is INEC's prerogative. While they planned to transmit, but unfortunately could not, it does not invalidate the result of the election in any other way, especially when all parties already have the results in their hands, ab-initio, through their polling agents.

Finally, is there anything major that could have invalidate the result of the election as announced by INEC? The answer is No!

Let's keep following the case in court, but remember that I told you LP/PDP has no case, and they both knew it.

Selah!

Bimpe29:
Copied and shared so as to help those with emotions in respect of the petition before the PEPT.

Tinubu's Defence, A Masterstroke!!

Few months ago, when the Court of Appeals began hearing of the presidential election petition brought before it by the Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I told a friend that the mistake LP/PDP would make is to not focus on the real issues of the election.

I opened that if they try to bring extraneous issues like Tinubu’s academic certificate, and the allegef US drug case, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, would make them look like fools by summarily dispatching those issues when APC/Tinubu start their defence.

I am not a lawyer, but commonsense should tell anyone that not staying on real issues of the election before the tribunal would be an exercise in futility.

What the LP/PDP ought to do is to prove their cases with incontrovertible evidences that showed that the conduct or the result of the election contravenes the Electoral Act 2022 in such a way that makes the election a totally flawed, and thereby rendering the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, invalid, bill and void.

Until the LP/PDP closed their petitions, I did not see anything they brought to court to change the course of the election result as declared by INEC.

As usual, and because our people deploy emotions more than reason on every matter, just like you see in the young girl who allegedly forged JAMB result, they would keep making noise over non issues. Emotions don't win cases. Incontrovertible evidences that are above every REASONABLE DOUBT win cases.

By yesterday, when the All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu started their defence, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, unarguably the most successful senior lawyer in Nigeria when it comes to election petition cases, dropped only few certified documents to dismiss the two non-electoral matter LP/PDP brought before the court.

For their ground of Tinubu's non-qualification, based on non academic status, Olanipekun submitted copies of Tinubu's admission letter, degree certificate and a letter from the Chicago State University confirming that he was a student, and graduated from the university with honours and was actually the best student in his department.

Concerning the celebrated and hyped drug petition, Olanipekun also responded by dropping just TWO LETTERS. One written by the Nigerian Police to the US Embassy requesting for criminal record of the defendant, and the other, a reply from the United States Embassy, dated this year confirming that Tinubu never had any record of drug-related case or criminal conviction record in the USA.

The petitioner also alleged that Tinubu cannot enter the US. Wole Olanipekun also dropped other documents, including PBAT's visa entries to the USA up to 2021, showing US immigration entry stamps at the US points of entry.

Now, the tribunal, even in the face of objection from the petitioners admitted those evidences as good enough for defence.

Now, to the real matter of the elections, LP/PDP spent all these few months bringing witnesses to prove that the iRev server had no glitches or technical problem as alleged by INEC, and that INEC only conspired with the APC by not transmitting the result live unto the iRev server in real time.

See, this is no case. The question is, does the not transmitting the result of the election to the iRev in real time change the result of the presidential elections as recorded in the form EC8, and as witnessed by all party agents in each polling units all over the country, which all the parties have a copy of the said form EC8? The answer is No!

Is transmitting of result live in real time a legal and constitutional requirement in the Electoral Act 2022 as amended? The answer is No! The law only empowered INEC to use whatever means administratively to make sure elections are held in a transparent manner and results are declared accordingly.

In other words, INEC is the only body legally backed by law, that can determine how it wants result of the election from the polling units, wards, local governments and states transmitted to the National Collation Centre.

It is INEC's prerogative. While they planned to transmit, but unfortunately could not, it does not invalidate the result of the election in any other way, especially when all parties already have the results in their hands, ab-initio, through their polling agents.

Finally, is there anything major that could have invalidate the result of the election as announced by INEC? The answer is No!

Let's keep following the case in court, but remember that I told you LP/PDP has no case, and they both knew it.

Selah!

Kcdojoto:
He is doing all these hoping that there will be a re-run so that Nigerians will see him as a person ready to work, but the truth is that a thief is always a truth.
Tinubu stole our mandate and we are getting it back

Lotanna2:


Still,10 years has elapsed.he wasn't even convicted to begin with

allthingsgood:
OP you must be joking. Peter obi that is not on the list of members of Labour Party Lmao. Pls go and sleep. Tinubu remains President for the next 8years

Raskimonojendor:
I have searched everywhere and can't find where bamidele quoted section 18 U.S.C. § 982.

Only result that showed up with the section and Senator bamidele is OP's Nairaland topic.

AfonjaConehead:
Obi should take down his challenge and let Tinubu be.

Obi has good intentions but Tinubu has shown that he is the person we need now.
No past presidents have taken the bold step he has taken so far.
Tinubu is the real change agent