₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
Why won't people (including fellow lawyers) misinterprete the judgment? Instead of the judges using simple English to explain their judgement, they always use jargons to pass their verdict. I don't know who they are always trying to impress with those terminologies.

Moventist:
That case was before their defection

richmond500:
the court won't use simple words, it will use words peculiar to it's field

richmond500:
the lower court case cannot stand cos the budget has already been spent.
Wike lost

Hushpuppy20:
Oga you are not a lawyer nau. How can you say what a confirm SAN said is misleading ? Blood don enter where he no suppose enter for your brain.so na your own we go hear abi..

zero8zero:
The court of Appeal upheld the judgement of the lower court. Spent or not, Fubara's action was illegal.

OpinionCounts:
If the words are peculiar to it's field, how come people in thesame field still conflict it's interpretation.

Abeg they should use simple English words understandable by all to avoid all these controversies.

SmartPolician:
Why won't people (including fellow lawyers) misinterprete the judgment? Instead of the judges using simple English to explain their judgement, they always use jargons to pass their verdict. I don't know who they are always trying to impress with those terminologies.

OpinionCounts:
If the words are peculiar to it's field, how come people in thesame field still conflict it's interpretation.

Like Helpfromabove1 said, they better use simple English words understandable by all to avoid all these controversies.

zero8zero:
Very funny set of lawyers. If the court ruled that spending 2024 budget without the approval of the 27members was illegal, is it the 2025 budget that was taken before the 4 members that will now be legal?. If they had lost their seats, will the court asked you to present the budget to them?.

blacknp:
U don’t need to be a Senior Advocate to have common sense to know that 4 is not greater than 27.

zero8zero:
The court of Appeal withheld the judgement of the lower court. Spent or not, Fubara's action was illegal.

Smartcitizen:
My friend stop saying Rubbish, this kind of case has been decided long ago in Ondo state years back.

You people should stop saying what you don't know for goodness sake.

richmond500:
Fubara action is not illegal.

First the lawmakers defected and at such they automatically lost their seats by the constitution, necessarily, this is a direct constitutional case and need not to go to court. The governor had to pass 2024 budget so he passed it to those who haven't defected yet but the appealate court told the governor to re-pass the budget to the defected lawmakers.
Note that the judge didn't reinstall them, Omotosho politically asked the governor to pass it to them, but the gov took the case to the supreme court and later dismissed the case cos the budget has already been spent and hence it became academic.
The governor did the right thing

richmond500:
Fubara action is not illegal.

First the lawmakers defected and at such they automatically lost their seats by the constitution, necessarily, this is a direct constitutional case and need not to go to court. The governor had to pass 2024 budget so he passed it to those who haven't defected yet but the appealate court told the governor to re-pass the budget to the defected lawmakers.
Note that the judge didn't reinstall them, Omotosho politically asked the governor to pass it to them, but the gov took the case to the supreme court and later dismissed the case cos the budget has already been spent and hence it became academic.
The governor did the right thing

Smartcitizen:
My friend stop saying Rubbish, this kind of case has been decided long ago in Ondo state years back.

You people should stop saying what you don't know for goodness sake.

blacknp:
U don’t need to be a Senior Advocate to have common sense to know that 4 is not greater than 27.

blacknp:
Please stop exhibiting your lack of common sense.

zero8zero:
Very funny set of lawyers. If the court ruled that spending 2024 budget without the approval of the 27members was illegal, is it the 2025 budget that was taken before the 4 members that will now be legal?. If they had lost their seats, will the court asked you to present the budget to them?.

Hushpuppy20:
Which means a carpenter can know more than a judge if he has a common sense abi, infact common sense is not common.

blacknp:
If u automatically lose your sit, how come Ned Nwoko is still parading himself as a Senator?

Only a Federal High Court can declare a sit vacant after hearing the reason for the defection, you cannot assume & take the law into your own hands.

It is a democrazy we practice in Nigeria, if 27 say a, & 4 say b, the 27 that said a, irrespective that you disagree with their opinion, they are right in the eyes of the law.

SmartPolician:
Why won't people (including fellow lawyers) misinterprete the judgment? Instead of the judges using simple English to explain their judgement, they always use jargons to pass their verdict. I don't know who they are always trying to impress with those terminologies.

richmond500:
I don't know if u are ignorant or outright manipulative.
The state lawmakers and Ned Nwoko case is 100% different.
Just like election, this 27lawmakers fiasco is a constitutional case and is automatic except there are grievances that needs interpretation and then the court or tribunal will come in.

Also this is not "A and B" case, constitutional duties will not be stopped because of the lawmakers.
By defection, they have lost their seat until the court says otherwise, in this case, even the court cannot bring them back because that will be a mutiny against its own laws. That is why they wanted to Fubara to pass the budget so they can use it against him that he recognized them and use politics to hold the state ransom.
Fubara was wise

zero8zero:
Omotosho politically asked him to pass it , the Appeal Court also politically asked him to pass it , then Fubara politically withdrew the case and the SC politically dismissed the case. Clap for yourself. E be like your own law chamber na under the tree.

blacknp:
You claimed the law makers defected so they lost their sits automatically by the operation of law, Ned Nwoko also defected why did he not automatically lose his seat in the Senate?

richmond500:
It was a political exercise because the court cannot reinstate them, nothing can bring them back.
It's only the governor that could recognize them.
In this case, whoever the governor recognize is the authentic members as long as they were elected

blacknp:
Even when u go to a court of law, there are some cases that annoy a judge, that could have been settled by common logic, why come & waste the time of the court?

I.e a person dies intestate by law his estate is vested in The Chief Judge of the state until the letters of administration is granted, why come and argue otherwise in front of a judge of competent jurisdiction?

Only oblivious minded mumus will argue that 4 is greater than 27 in a democracy.

richmond500:
Ned Nwoko is not the same case as the state lawmakers please.
I am not a lawyer but this topic was stressed and it was explained.

blacknp:
There is nothing to reinstate, when did the same court declare their sits vacant, before you in your ignorance is talking of reinstatement?

blacknp:
The lawmakers claimed they defected because of crisis in the Pdp, same as Ned Nwoko claimed problems in the Pdp is his reason for cross carpeting.

So why in your imagination will the lawmakers by the operation of your own law lose their sit, but Ned Nwoko by the operation of your own law in your own mind shouldn’t lose his?

They are both legislators, one state, the other federal.