₦airaland Forum

President Bola Tinubu says he is working with Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, for the growth of the state.

Tinubu on Thursday arrived in Anambra for his first official visit to the state since he became president.

During the visit, the president inaugurated the newly constructed Anambra government house, Soludo Fun City, and other projects.

While speaking at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Tinubu applauded Soludo for laying a good foundation in the state, adding that Anambra is on the rise.

The president said the massive infrastructural projects in the state aligns with Soludo’s vision for Anambra to become the Dubai, Taiwan, Silicon Valley of Africa.

Jokingly, the president asked Soludo, who he described as his friend, to get him a land in Anambra for him to build his retirement home.

“I have just commissioned two landmark projects—the Solution Fun City and the government house mini-city as part of the initial steps on the path towards your audacious vision of Anambra as African-Dubai-Taiwan-Silicon Valley (ADTS),” Tinubu said.

“Together with the massive infrastructural transformation and human capital development, these are bold statements of vision and what leadership can achieve in such a short time.

“A few years ago, Dubai was largely a desert. Today, it is a global hub, because one man dared to dream. I remember when Soludo wanted to consolidate the Nigerian banks, and many said it was impossible.

“It was done and Nigeria became better for it. I also recall when we dared to tame the Atlantic Ocean, and many naysayers doubted it. But we made it happen. Anambra has huge potential and with Soludo, we can all work together to fast-track the vision.

“Going forward, we are not just friends: I am now a bona fide son of the soil — one of you, your own son! Maybe my friend and your governor, Charles Soludo, should find me a plot of land for my retirement home, after service.”

BluntCrazeMan:
INEC had found it so comfortable to continue to deliberately refuse to fully abide by the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022.
The INEC selects only some few portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 to abide with, while they discard the rest.. And therefore, it becomes necessary for the INEC to be forced to obey those portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 which they continued to discard and disrespect.

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I am of the opinion that any of the Opposition Political Parties should just wake-up, and step-up, and brave-up and approach any of Federal High Courts in the country in order to obtain ’A Court-Order that mandates the INEC officials at every Collation Center at all levels of Collation to “COMPLETELY TREAT ALL THE DISPUTES THAT WERE RAISED BEFORE THEM -- AND THEY MUST DO THIS BY CALLING-UP FOR ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THE AFFECTED/DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS” -- in accordance with the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022‘.

The Court-Order should also state it clearly that “any results which emanated from a Collation Center where the INEC’s Collation Officer did not COMPLETELY treat all the disputes according to the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 shall be Null-and-Void”

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Here below is the context for the above opinion of mine.

...Any of the Opposition Parties should approach court (with the Attorney-General and INEC as the defendants ad usual) and then, urge the Court to read the whole of Section:47 and Section:64 of the Electoral-Act-2022 and determine whether there is a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022 if any of the following occurrences happen:

a. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to treat the disputes that were raised at that Collation Center -- according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022.

b. The Collation Officer at any intermediate Collation Center, instead of treating the disputes raised at that Collation Center (according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022), goes ahead to announce that “all the raised disputes would be fully treated at the final collation center”.

c. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to call for the BVAS-Machines (or any electronic Accreditation Device used for the Accreditation in the election) of the affected polling-units that were raised in the disputes.

d. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center could not completely treat and conclude ALL those disputes that were raised at that Collation Center before transmitting or transferring or conveying the collated results to the next-level collation officer.


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If the court determines that the above acts constitute a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022, then the court should also go ahead to determine whether such breaches could be enough reasons to render the collated results emanating from the Collation Exercise at that Collation Center as Null-and-Void.

Furthermore, If after the Final Results of the election had already been announced and declared, and such breaches at some Collation Centers were established during the Election Petition Tribunal, the court should also determine whether such established breaches (at the Election Petition Tribunal) are enough to render the collated results emanating from those Collation Exercises at such Collation Centers as Null-and-Void.

And consequently, the court should determine whether those “supposedly faulty collated results” which emanated from those Collation Centers where breaches were established be Expunged from all the Subsequent Collated Results that emanated from the upper-level Collation Centers? -- (That is, assuming that there were no such similar breaches that were established at the upper-level Collation Centers in question)

After the whole interpretations, the court can now issue an order to the INEC in order for them to strictly abide during Collation of Results.

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