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Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by AndroBlaze: 6:45pm On Mar 05, 2025
ddippset:
I agree that only the house can declare a seat vacant.

But in a case where the speaker refuses to do that, any aggrieved member of the house can approach the courts to compel the speaker to declare the seats vacant according to the provision of the constitution.

Can't nobody tell me nothing,

I don't need the Supreme Court to teach me this.
Based on the current constitution and the way it is worded, I believe you are right

Fubara's biggest sin was never allowing the House to function once he started quarrelling with Wike. People are conveniently choosing to forget that he started fighting the House way before they announced they were decamping. This was his error. He violated the constitution then and when they announced they were decamping as a result, it was never going to be enough for learned Judges not to want to punish him for doing so in the first place..... and obviously Wike is a favourite to them so that helped too.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by CaptainGo: 6:45pm On Mar 05, 2025
Inspirer1:
If they are not registered with the APC, did they write to resign their membership of the PDP,?? I think that's another angle to it
Same question I'm asking?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by bixton(m): 6:45pm On Mar 05, 2025
franugo:
They did sworn affidavits and wrote resignation letters bro
You are still holding to what is not tangible.
Affidavit and resignation written and attestesd to.....Yes.

But was it even submitted to their various Ward chairmen or any unit of the PDP?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by CaptainGo: 6:46pm On Mar 05, 2025
SendoSendal:
The Supreme Court judges made brilliant submissions

1. Fubara already demolished the Assembly Complex. From that point onward, there were no valid sittings

2. Since you cannot build something on nothing, all the defection stories thus became DEAD on arrival

3. The killer punch was that their names were not in the register of the APC.

I said all these in my last article. FUBARA is back to ground Zero. From this point onward, he needs to find a cleverer way to navigate his political journey.
Based on Number 1, is the HOA the building or the elected legislators?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Eriokanmi: 6:48pm On Mar 05, 2025
Kewtt:
grin

Brutality.

No high court will put body in this matter as e be



The fact that I held Spanish flag during euro league and declared myself a Spaniard doesn't make me one!!
Court dwells on evidence to adjudicate as you know. They all submitted a written letter with their signatures well appended to Fubara, ceasing to be members of the PDP. Even if they're not card carrying or registered members of the apc or any political party, the road is clear enough. That will be used against them.

It's just like you resigning from working with a company. Whichever company you joined or whatever you do with your life subsequently is none of your ex-empkoyer's business. You cannot resign and now want to come back to work. That letter you submitted is enough to nail you, should you wish to play smart.

When the supreme court said the law makers aren't members of the apc, the court was right. They're also not members of the pdp. The letters they submitted is a proof.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by bixton(m): 6:48pm On Mar 05, 2025
Acidosis:
How do you obtain an affidavit? From akara sellers, yes? Telling a lie under oath (affidavit) is a crime, no?

Supreme Court justices have shown over the years that there's no case under the sun that cannot be twisted in your favour if they really want to work in your favour.

If they told a lie under oath then let then let Gov. Fubara and the other 3 legislators take it up at the HC.....that is a case on its own and it can stand so we see what the Courts will sa about it?

Resigning from the PDP is one issue; joining the APC is another issue. Any judge with a functional brain can knock you out depending on which side of the argument he chooses to embrace.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 6:48pm On Mar 05, 2025
bixton:
We all know that their names are still in the register of the PDP in their respective wards and no one from there have come out to debunk that?

Even Gov. Fubara knows that.

Those who even joined the APP from the PDP for the LG elections still have their names on the PDP register in their wards and units.....
Therefore you have admitted yourself that the names on party register doesn't and should never be used as a criterion for defection.

People never go back to their wards when they defect, it is the duty of their ward chairmen to strike out their names during the next party membership registration.

So the fact that a name is still on the party register doesn't imply that they are still members.

I insist that the method of quitting a party in Nigeria has always been by word of mouth.
And a declaration on the floor of the house of parliament.

Amaechi, Atiku, Saraki, Kwonkwoso did not return to their wards or write resignation letters when the stormed out of the PDP convention in 2014.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by SendoSendal: 6:49pm On Mar 05, 2025
Like I said earlier, the Supreme Court deliberately decided to punish Fubara for demolishing the Assembly complex. And I think their decisions were justified


CaptainGo:
Based on Number 1, is the HOA the building or the elected legislators?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 6:50pm On Mar 05, 2025
Eriokanmi:
Court dwells on evidence to adjudicate as you know. They all submitted a written letter with their signatures well appended to Fubara, ceasing to be members of the PDP. Even if they're not card carrying or registered members of the apc or any political party, the road is clear enough. That will be used against them.

It's just like you resigning from working with a company. Whichever company you joined or whatever you do with your life subsequently is none of your ex-empkoyer's business. You cannot resign and now want to come back to work. That letter you submitted is enough to nail you, should you wish to play smart.

When the supreme court said the law makers aren't members of the apc, the court was right. They're also not members of the pdp. The letters they submitted is a proof.
That's the mischief the Supreme Court did

They clearly stated "They are not members of APC"

But did not state

"They left PDP"


Cus the whole world knows they left PDP.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by bixton(m): 6:51pm On Mar 05, 2025
ddippset:
Therefore you have admitted yourself that the names on party register doesn't and should never be used as a criterion for defection.

People never go back to their wards when they defect, it is the duty of their ward chairmen to strike out their names during the next party membership registration.

So the fact that a name is still on the party register doesn't imply they are still members.

I insist that the method of quitting a party has always been by word of mouth.
And on the floor of the house.

Amaechi, Atiku, Saraki, Kwonkwoso did not return to their wards or write resignation letters when the stormed out of the PDP convention in 2014.
I have admitted to nothing.

So those who have been writing resignation letters till date with letter headed papers , why do they do such?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Teenaira: 6:52pm On Mar 05, 2025
Chegesnd:
Data is still very cheap!
Please withdraw this statement before MTN sees it.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 6:53pm On Mar 05, 2025
SendoSendal:
Like I said earlier, the Supreme Court deliberately decided to punish Fubara for demolishing the Assembly complex. And I think their decisions were justified
I hope they will also deliberately decide to punish the 27 lawmakers for swearing false affidavits and lying under oath too
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by SendoSendal: 6:53pm On Mar 05, 2025
No Court will adjudicate on the defection of the 27 lawmakers again. Whatever is left of that matter has become merely academic. The Supreme Court already pronounced that from the point Fubara demolished the State House of Assembly, all subsequent actions of the lawmakers, including their purported defection never happened. You cannot build something on nothing.



Eriokanmi:
Court dwells on evidence to adjudicate as you know. They all submitted a written letter with their signatures well appended to Fubara, ceasing to be members of the PDP. Even if they're not card carrying or registered members of the apc or any political party, the road is clear enough. That will be used against them.

It's just like you resigning from working with a company. Whichever company you joined or whatever you do with your life subsequently is none of your ex-empkoyer's business. You cannot resign and now want to come back to work. That letter you submitted is enough to nail you, should you wish to play smart.

When the supreme court said the law makers aren't members of the apc, the court was right. They're also not members of the pdp. The letters they submitted is a proof.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 6:54pm On Mar 05, 2025
bixton:
I have admitted to nothing.

So those who have been writing resignation letters till date with letter headed papers , why do they do such?
Not all of them do.

Infact very few do!

90 percent do it by a verbal declaration during plenary.

The Supreme Court has been on Wike/Tinubu's side.

Even a circus clown knows this.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Omozeez1(m): 6:55pm On Mar 05, 2025
Did they actually go to court to swear an affidavit?
franugo:
I do have issues with the supreme Court judgement, does it mean that they no longer recognize a sworn affidavit from a valid court as a legal document? The part about the lawmakers not being in apc member register is not really important here, the issue at hand was about whether there is evidence that they defected from pdp, not on whether they're registered in apc. Nevertheless, the supreme Court have given their judgement, however flawed it is, and has to be obeyed.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by SendoSendal: 6:55pm On Mar 05, 2025
As far as the supreme court is concerned, all the alleged swearing of false affidavits never happened from the point when Fubara demolished the House of Assembly complex
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by EXOUSIAng: 6:55pm On Mar 05, 2025
onuman:
APC court says so.
In the open, those legislators joined APC.
I will soon come an declare ownership of your father's house and it will automatically become mine since I did it in the open.
No need for documentation.
As soon as I stand on the street and shout that I own the house it will automatically become mine.

Even illiterates know better than this your ignorance
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by franugo(m): 6:56pm On Mar 05, 2025
Omozeez1:
Did they actually go to court to swear an affidavit?
I believe so, yea
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Beautifulday: 6:57pm On Mar 05, 2025
Dawn91:
What surprises me is the way these Yoruba and ibo pigs put mouth in River state matter ehn .

See the pigs all over the front page praising the court judgment. these barbaric pigs won't face their ekiti or Lagos state where their speaker was impeached and reinstated illegally o.

Or they won't face the unknown gunmen killing People in the Akpu munchers Republic .

Two cursed tribes that have no shame or dignity. undecided
You talk like a fool. Rivers state is not in Nigeria? No the supreme Court is the supreme Court of rivers state.

Illiterate
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 6:57pm On Mar 05, 2025
SendoSendal:
As far as the supreme court is concerned, all the alleged swearing of false affidavits never happened from the point when Fubara demolished the House of Assembly complex
Meaning what?

At least we all have brains to reason for ourselves.

This one is not law not but logic.

How does this make sense to anyone?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Bulleye(m): 6:57pm On Mar 05, 2025
vanitybutiwanti:
From The Supreme court
Most Nigerians are superstitious and cannot separate emotions from facts. This is the reason many people keep saying the 27 house members have defected to APC . Court activities are based on facts and evidence and not feelings.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by bixton(m): 6:57pm On Mar 05, 2025
ddippset:
Not all of them do.

Infact very few do!

90 percent do it by a verbal declaration during plenary.

The Supreme Court has been on Wike/Tinubu's side.

Even a circus clown knows this.
Was the SC not on Wike/Fubara's side when he was declared winner of the election?

Is there anything hidden in all of it?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Eriokanmi: 6:58pm On Mar 05, 2025
Mynd44:
This has rendered whatever is coming from the high court useless.

Those assembly members by word of mouth alone cannot be said to be APC members, they have not registered to have joined APC neither is their names in the APC register or collected APC membership cards
Are you aware they tendered a resignation letter and well signed, ceasing to be members of the pdp? That is enough evidence court will use to deal with tthem.When the supreme court said they're not registered members of the apc, the court did well cos no record of their membership with the apc.

The whole scenario can be likened to an employee who angrily or willing resigned from his job. Whatever he does with his life afterwards (whether he's unemployed,self-employed or joined another employer)is none of the former employer's business. The same employee can't claim to be a bona fise staff of the same company anymore because the resignation letter which was duly accepted still subsists. This is where the lawmakers missed it. Fubara accepted those letters and signed the acknowledgement copy which were also sent back to them.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by franugo(m): 6:59pm On Mar 05, 2025
bixton:
You are still holding to what is not tangible.
Affidavit and resignation written and attestesd to.....Yes.

But was it even submitted to their various Ward chairmen or any unit of the PDP?
But it was publicized, a case can easily be made that once such was publicized by the defectors themselves, it became legally binding, whether they forwarded to their wards or not ....truth is that Wike/Tinubu just had more pull with the SC judges then fubara ever could, which is why he lost. Once the issue got to SC, I already knew he was most likely going to lose, I'm sure he also knew to some extent that he'd lose which is why I'm eagerly anticipating his next step, this one sweet pass anything wey dey Netflix now cheesy
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by SendoSendal: 6:59pm On Mar 05, 2025
How do we rationalize Fubara demolishing the State House of Assembly complex?

The Supreme Court is a policy court. They have the capacity to punish rascal politicians. That was exactly what they did to Fubara.





ddippset:
Meaning what?

At least we all have brains to reason for ourselves.

This one is not law not but logic.

How does this make sense to anyone?
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by Guestmale: 7:00pm On Mar 05, 2025
Chucks13:
Fubara and his uppporters should rest we are warning you all again as we did few months ago but ypu all turned deaf ears and today you are rmbarrassed at the Suprem Court and now we are telling you now let this matter rest to give Fubara a chance but you all still defiats no wahala by the time they kick Fubara out then all of you body will rest.

A word is enough for the wise..
At times it is all these unsolicited supports that makes things worse than it should be.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 7:00pm On Mar 05, 2025
EXOUSIAng:
I will soon come an declare ownership of your father's house and it will automatically become mine since I did it in the open.
No need for documentation.
As soon as I stand on the street and shout that I own the house it will automatically become mine.

Even illiterates know better than this your ignorance
Very stupid analogy...

It's just as basic as an age affidavit or state of origin affidavit.

Try swearing an affidavit that you are from Ekiti whereas you are from Kaduna.

They tomorrow say you were joking, and see if you don't end up in prison.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by franugo(m): 7:01pm On Mar 05, 2025
erniok:
On what ground did PDP sue them. For leaving the party only or for leaving PDP and joining APC?
I don't have the judgement ctc but I'll like to think fubara was at least smart enough to put their detection from pdp alone, not their destination
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by franugo(m): 7:02pm On Mar 05, 2025
bixton:
We all know that their names are still in the register of the PDP in their respective wards and no one from there have come out to debunk that?

Even Gov. Fubara knows that.

Those who even joined the APP from the PDP for the LG elections still have their names on the PDP register in their wards and units.....
So it's a normal occurrence for names of defectors to still be in the ward registry...this makes the SC judgement all the more strange
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by drstranged: 7:03pm On Mar 05, 2025
The point is not whether they joined APC or another party,but about whether they left the party which sponsored them to their positions. That's the question that needs to be resolved. Whether they joined APC or not is irrelevant and is not the matter at hand but whether they resigned from the PDP which sponsored them.
So in essence, that clause in the supreme court judgment has not proven anything or answered the pertinent question.
Re: The 27 Members Of Rivers Assembly Are Not APC Members - Supreme Court by ddippset(m): 7:03pm On Mar 05, 2025
SendoSendal:
How do we rationalize Fubara demolishing the State House of Assembly complex?

The Supreme Court is a policy court. They have the capacity to punish rascal politicians. That was exactly what they did to Fubara.
This is not the first time in Nigeria that a governor is doing that under the pretex of renovations..

Obaseki pulled down the roofs in Edo.
Wike pulled down roofs at NLC secretariats in 2023.

Supreme Court should look for better alibis abeg.


Even at that how does that nullify an affidavit?

Even if he demolished Senate building or Akpabio's house, house does that nullify an affidavit?
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