iokpebholo:
Oga was there a valid primaries?was the primaries witnessed by inec?was the APC candidate part of the so called primaries??This is clearly a pre election matter that should have originated from the high court before the election and secondly,the APC candidate does not have the locus standing to challenge it as he was neither a PDP member and did not take part in the primaries of the PDP.He does not have the right to question another party on the nomination of it's candidate

The judgement of the court of appeal was very clear. Conduct another ward congress or lose the right to field candidates for election. This is not about primaries. If there is a judgement preventing PDP from participating in the election, it can be used both as a pre and post election matter. Next time, PDP should do the right thing by complying with the judgement of the court. It happened to APC in Zamfara and heaven did not fall.

onadana:





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casualobserver:


It appears that PDP is a victim of internal fighting (as usual). The congress that produced their candidates were not recognized by INEC or in breach of a court order (likely filed by aggrieved PDP members). Therefore since the congress is not recognized anything produced by the congress including primaries is also not recognized by law.

it's a pre election matter and should have originated from the high court.Bayelsa and zamfara cases we love to cite as examples originated from the high court.The tribunal last the jurisdiction to entertain the case sir

iokpebholo:
I knew the judgment will surely go this way when I saw the name justice jca Dawodu as the lead judge.A native of surulere Lagos and an ally of the president

Na native of Surulere instructed the PDP to ignore the high court order?

Una go just open mouth waaaaa

Most critics of the judiciary seem to be oblivious of the fact that the right to contest an election is based on the electoral guidelines and laws which must be strictly adhered to to avoid ones political opponents from exploiting any loophole.



If a candidate is not validly nominated to contest, such a candidate cannot hide behind the claim that it's an internal matter of the party.



Although, the parties are at liberty to nominate whosoever they desire, such a nomination must follow due process.



Adieu, Muftwang!

Triplerg:
What did the supreme court say on the double nomination of Shettima? This case can only be instituted by the PDP and nobody else.

It said nomination was a political party affairs.

2ndly, that Shettima never contested for nomination as VP, that he was picked. Therefore, double nomination did not arise.

In this Case, it's like there's no PDP in Plateau state. Do you get it? It doesn't have EXCO in the state.

So, PDP killed itself. Just as Court said APC doesn't have legally recognized EXCO in Rivers State in 2019 and as such couldn't present candidates for election.

Common open your mindset and stop the sentiment bcoz of your hatred for APC. You all laughed at APC Rivers State then. Now, it's PDP and you're shouting Tinubu up and down.

Law is not about sentiment or entitlement but justice.

iokpebholo:
Oga was there a valid primaries?was the primaries witnessed by inec?was the APC candidate part of the so called primaries??This is clearly a pre election matter that should have originated from the high court before the election and secondly,the APC candidate does not have the locus standing to challenge it as he was neither a PDP member and did not take part in the primaries of the PDP.He does not have the right to question another party on the nomination of it's candidate

You either forgot or did not know: it was PDP vs PDP that led to the judgment wherein the court held that ANY candidate the PDP fronts is invalid until the court order to hold proper internal elections was obeyed.

Since the court says no PDP candidate is valid, it is therefore a POST election matter as well and any party has the right to challenge it.

Alphagan:
Who’ll furnish us with the details of the judgment?

The basic details is PDP's refusal to follow court order. The Judge stated further:

“It is a joke taken too far for a political party to disobey an order of court,” he added.

He noted that a court of law has jurisdiction to entertain a matter bordering on a political party especially if that party disobeys a subsisting order of a court.

Spandau:


His point, Kadoso, is that the people's choice should be made sacrosanct. That is what democracy is. It's not about who has more connected backing and machinery to steal the mandate. That's gangsterism and cultists. OK, Kadoso?

I am from Jos myself and will definitely prefer a law abiding party.

seunmsg:



The judgement of the court of appeal was very clear. Conduct another ward congress or lose the right to field candidates for election. This is not about primaries. If there is a judgement preventing PDP from participating in the election, it can be used both as a pre and post election matter. Next time, PDP should do the right thing by complying with the judgement of the court. It happened to APC in Zamfara and heaven did not fall.

Eh? Kadoso Mutairu aka seunmsg! Awon eleyi tun le gan o. Gbogbo e ni won mo pa.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

seunmsg:



The judgement of the court of appeal was very clear. Conduct another ward congress or lose the right to field candidates for election. This is not about primaries. If there is a judgement preventing PDP from participating in the election, it can be used both as a pre and post election matter. Next time, PDP should do the right thing by complying with the judgement of the court. It happened to APC in Zamfara and heaven did not fall.

Zamfara case was APC vs APC and it originated from the federal high court and not the tribunal.The tribunal lacks jurisdiction

Triplerg:
The APC has no locus standi here. That's where their case will be thrown out. People keep referring to Zamfara's case in 2019 as the basis for this case, forgetting that it was APC vs APC that led to the supreme court verdict.

The lawyer for APC said something in his press conference. I think people confuse the right of another party to meddle in the nominee of another party versus a party that does not exist in the yes of the law.

From what I understand from what he said, the argument was not in how PDP chose its candidates, that is not APC’s business. The challenge was that by law PDP did not conduct a valid congress in plateau and therefore they do not exist in the eyes of the law. Since they do not exist, they cannot field candidates.

SaLongs1:
I am from Jos myself and will definitely prefer a law abiding party.

Toh! OK o.

God1000:
The sacking of governors and federal lawmakers this time is unprecedented, I blame INEC for everything that is happening

Honestly it's crazy, I was in plateau when this election was ongoing. Caleb won on every level.

I don't know what kangaroo judgement these fools want to give now.

It seems unrest is what some people want to plunder this country into.....

This is a season of Judiciary- affimation of Laws and Facts - that have been seriously abused by ALL the Political Parties in Nigeria,thinking that the Judiciary will follow Politicians ways of anything goes!
Even in America ,former President Trump-was told by the Judge in a Civil Fraud Case recently in New York 'to comport himself because ,the Court is not a Political arena,neither should he be making Political Statements '
We want to hear from their gaulibles audiences,in Nigeria especially, the paid agents- deceitful ones,who don't understand,how the laws works,but because they seat in their Comfort Zones and believe that,since they lost elections conducted on Social Media,then, everything is rigged!
Una go explain tire!

iokpebholo:
Zamfara case was APC vs APC and it originated from the federal high court and not the tribunal.The tribunal lacks jurisdiction

But the court still interpreted the law which benefited the PDP?

So why should you now blame the court for doing their work at this time?

God1000:
The sacking of governors and federal lawmakers this time is unprecedented, I blame INEC for everything that is happening

money dey work.

FreeStuffsNG:
It has nothing to do with INEC. It's the parties. The electoral law doesn't give INEC the power not to publish the names submitted. If INEC insists to stop these candidates, they and their parties will go to court and attempt to scuttle the process so INEC will rather let the courts deal with them. Check my signature for free stuffs!

What are you singing?

APC just setting Nigeria on a time bomb... the more they keep using their federal might to alter the people's choice the more they are pushing the citizens to take over which will be bloody

It should just kuku be a military system. APC wants Nigeria to be a one party state.... APC is pure evul..

Anyway, may God punish paid APC Nairaland e-r0dents with thier fake bot "likes"..

fergie001:
My brother, that's how it has been post-1999.

it's only getting worse by the year. The reason many will argue that we don't have the likes of Nnamani, Iguh, Oputa, Eso etc.

barrister fergie001, you are very right here. It’s very unfortunate. Both Kano and plateau are pre and post election matters. Appeal Court of justice shouldn’t allow the Appeal in the court of justice

Spandau:


Toh! OK o.

There was an election under the Lalong administration for local government chairmen and councillors in which the PDP was legally barred for the same reason, I would have thought that they would have set their house in order from then but I guess arrogance couldn't let them do the needful.

SaLongs1:
There was an election under the Lalong administration for local government chairmen and councillors in which the PDP was legally barred for the same reason, I would have thought that they would have set their house in order from then but I guess arrogance couldn't let them do the needful.

Alright.

Triplerg:
The APC has no locus standi here. That's where their case will be thrown out. People keep referring to Zamfara's case in 2019 as the basis for this case, forgetting that it was APC vs APC that led to the supreme court verdict.

they forgot that one ooo. Supreme Court of justice will do the needful by strucking out the pre and post election matters presented in the court.

garfield1:



But there was a time pdp controlled 31 states and you didn't raise alarm.apc only controls less than 25 states

No lie in your submission

But we all had it far far far better under them despite the massive corruption

Plus the judiciary was not this totally collapsed and compromised

Best of all, we enjoyed better economics and better quality of life under them despite their thievery

We can't say that under APC

Something is balling in the north.

splendournoni:
APC just setting Nigeria on a time bomb... the more they keep using their federal might to alter the people's choice the more they are pushing the citizens to take over which will be bloody

So APC held the PDP's ✋ hands- not to Conduct their own- Primaries, that the Courts had earlier directed them to do,abi?
Indeed,some people are too dirty to be in Politics, even where facts are confronting them,they will still cry blues! Shame!

seunmsg:



The judgement of the court of appeal was very clear. Conduct another ward congress or lose the right to field candidates for election. This is not about primaries. If there is a judgement preventing PDP from participating in the election, it can be used both as a pre and post election matter. Next time, PDP should do the right thing by complying with the judgement of the court. It happened to APC in Zamfara and heaven did not fall.

in Zamfara you are referring to, it’s between APC faction and APC faction. On plateau case, the Supreme Court of justice will do justice in the matter cos’ it’s a pre election and post election matters. It will be struck out for lacking merit.

fergie001:
I had often wondered why Dongban is often mentioned. Everyone seems to be pointing at her direction. I knew Lalong played a big role in her getting the PCA position but I find it hard to believe she is involved in any of this kind of things.

They have boasted they will use their connect in the judiciary to take power. Infact they said d governor won't last beyond mid January. imagine someone saying over his dead body and swearing with the grave of his father. The PDP house of assembly members will go and if the governor wins at the supreme Court then instability and impeachment is the next option. So with a given set of judges overseeing the Plateau case suspicion is rife. of course you can't accuse the judges of 'par incuriam', they know what they are doing. Do you remember Isa Salami & Katsina Allu brohaha over Sokoto in 2007? it happens but most lawyers pretend as if they don't know what is happening.

Yusufisraelj:


Honestly it's crazy, I was in plateau when this election was ongoing. Caleb won on every level.

I don't know what kangaroo judgement these fools want to give now.

It seems unrest is what some people want to plunder this country into.....

I am in Jos at the moment and just a stonethrow from the government house and I am politically neutral but the PDP really f...up for not doing the needful despite all the time in the world they had at their disposal. I don't see anyone willing break sweat over this judgment.

iokpebholo:
it's a pre election matter and should have originated from the high court.Bayelsa and zamfara cases we love to site as examples originated from the high court.The tribunal last the jurisdiction to entertain the case sir

Apc did not challenge the right of PDP to choose its candidates. Precedence on this subject has already been established….it is not on their business.

What APC said is that as far as the law is concerned, since PDP did not follow the guidelines for its plateau state congress and disobeyed a court order ( which I assume was filed by aggrieved members of PDP in plateau) PDP plateau state does not exist in the eyes of the law.

What does not exist cannot produce something, therefore all candidates of PDP are unrecognized in the eyes of the law.

It is not the choice of candidates, that APC challenged, what APC pleaded in court is that there is no PDP in plateau state. And the judges agreed.

As for pre election and post election matters he cited section 134 (1). The grounds for disqaualification being that PDP did not exist is plateau state since they breached the rules for congress. Therefore the entire structure of PDP in plateau is null and void and does not exist under the law.