₦airaland Forum

DomPerignon:
Someone has provided a better interpretation and that ADC's failure to meet the minimum threshold of at least scoring 25% in the last Presidential elections in at least one state, has automatically disqualified the party from the Presidential race.

In short, ADC don enter relegation.

Meaning NDC will also be disqualified

The higher courts will not allow this judgement to stand. The de-registration of any political party ought to have done before INEC issue guidelines for election, prospective candidates can then join the parties that INEC did not de-register. If the parties are de-registered now that they have candidates, you are denying these candidates the right to be voted for as contained in our constitution. Judgment dead in arrival!

kinibigdeal:
Meaning NDC will also be disqualified

NDC has yet to contest any elections in Nigeria

The coming elections is what will be used to determine if the party continues existing.

That's why Dickson gave Obi free ticket so that Ibo people in the SE will give NDC more than the minimum performance threshold in the coming presidential elections

Dickson is using the tribalistic voting pattern in the SE by fielding Obi to ensure his party remains recognized post 2027.

Shey obi like free ticket and using and dumping of people and parties - now he has been used and will be discarded like used tissue paper by Dickson.

a. breach of any of the requirements for registration;

Not all

Politicstoday:
Yes, it's true that the appeal court ordered a stay of proceedings at the trial court in the Forum of Legislators v ADC, Accord & 3 others matter. But the order was belated. It was issued on May 22 when the Justice Lifu court had concluded hearings or proceedings in the case and in fact announced a date for judgment since May 18. And according to legal luminaries, a judgment can't be arrested, or stayed once a date has been fixed. So in my own humble opinion, the high court has not disobeyed the order of a higher court but whether Judge Lifu erred or otherwise as regards the constitutional provisions for the delisting of political parties after a general election is another subject matter entirely. I will leave that to the courts to determine. But as it stands, any vote to Accord in the Osun governorship election is a waste. To be on the safer side, voters are advised to choose the APC. Yes, appeals might favour the affected parties and could still go against them but remember, no one can preempt the courts and the judgments will not be written by us. VSI-A.

This is the most stupid thing I've read in a very long time. So because there's a judgement that might affect a party, people should vote for a party they don't want so their votes won't "waste"... Omo, desperation is a bad thing.

immaculatesense:
What this means is that:
1. A political party cannot contest for the next Presidential election if he fails to win 25% in at least one state of the federation. It may contest for other elections but the presidential election.

2. A political party cannot contest a governorship election if he failed to win at least 25% in at least one local government of that state.

Others follow suit.

The summary of this shows us that some political parties may be qualified to contest house of representatives elections but may not be allowed to contest for Presidential election or governorship elections in some states where it failed to meet the minimum requirements.

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:
1. Can Justice Lifu disregard the stay of proceedings as instructed by Appeal Court (a higher court)?

2. Should Justice Life have asked INEC to remove ADC and other parties involved from participating in SPECIFIC elections rather than outrightly deregistering them across the board.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

You don't even know the Law ,nor the Rules, you just come to entertain the gaulible audiences.
So shameful 😁

Penguin2:
ADC won 2 House of Representatives in 2023.

ZLP won 15 LG seats in Abia.

APP won all the LG seats in Rivers in 2024.

So, on what basis were they ordered to be deregistered?

I think parties must meet a combination of the requirements and not just one.

faoogoke:
Sowore and his party ought to have been dilisted.

He never won anything. Even a ward

They were not joined in the suit, hence they can’t be deregistered

Politicstoday:
Yes, it's true that the appeal court ordered a stay of proceedings at the trial court in the Forum of Legislators v ADC, Accord & 3 others matter. But the order was belated. It was issued on May 22 when the Justice Lifu court had concluded hearings or proceedings in the case and in fact announced a date for judgment since May 18. And according to legal luminaries, a judgment can't be arrested, or stayed once a date has been fixed. So in my own humble opinion, the high court has not disobeyed the order of a higher court but whether Judge Lifu erred or otherwise as regards the constitutional provisions for the delisting of political parties after a general election is another subject matter entirely. I will leave that to the courts to determine. But as it stands, any vote to Accord in the Osun governorship election is a waste. To be on the safer side, voters are advised to choose the APC. Yes, appeals might favour the affected parties and could still go against them but remember, no one can preempt the courts and the judgments will not be written by us. VSI-A.

fergie001, if this is the true position of what happened, then Justice Lifu is in order.

Abia LG Poll: ZLP wins 15 chairmanship seats, as YPP wins 2

https://nigerianobservernews.com/2024/11/abia-lg-poll-zlp-wins-15-chairmanship-seats-as-ypp-wins-2/

quote author=immaculatesense post=139731912]
What this means is that:

1. A political party cannot contest for the next Presidential election if he fails to win 25% in at least one state of the federation. It may contest for other elections but the presidential election.

Professor Amupitan calm down ...thats not what the law says ... Its ALL option .. If you can meet All fine Buh @least meet one ...this law are not knew, Nigeria did not start under Tinubu so dont insult our intelligence & experiences

2. A political party cannot contest a governorship election if he failed to win at least 25% in at least one local government of that state.

Na you write that law, not in our constitution.

The summary of this shows us that some political parties may be qualified to contest house of representatives elections but may not be allowed to contest for Presidential election or governorship elections in some states where it failed to meet the minimum requirements.

I must ask how did you come up with these wack reasoning, lemme guess you love Tinubu.
Ok backup what you just said with a reference since 2017 the law was enacted, Sowore party [AAC] never met any of this requirement nd til date he as not being deregistered.

Tell me why ACC qualify and ADC did not 🤣 Tinubu is really biting more

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:

1. Can Justice Lifu disregard the stay of proceedings as instructed by Appeal Court (a higher court)?

yes, becos the appeal judgement explicitly outlined the case file before justice lifu nd gave a ruling

2. Should Justice Life have asked INEC to remove ADC and other parties involved from participating in SPECIFIC elections rather than outrightly deregistering them across the board.

by rank of appellate court, what justice lifu should have done is stall nd let the appeal court decide since it the order was "stay" , later judgement wil tell if FHC stil have decision to make or not

I will give a reference, in case of Bala Gombe n ADC, the appeal court re introduce FHC to decide, go back to FHC court, if the order was " maintain statuo quo" till appeal court decide, FHC position stays on " judi'o'pause"

The appeal court was directed explicitly on the file before justice lifu pre - hearing ..no excuse .. These is contempt

Read 1

Penguin2:
ADC won 2 House of Representatives in 2023.

ZLP won 15 LG seats in Abia.

APP won all the LG seats in Rivers in 2024.

So, on what basis were they ordered to be deregistered?

They must all the requirements listed in that section of the constitution not only LGA or House of Assembly seat alone. The law doesn't give them the option of only one.

Read again:

INEC may deregister a party if it fails to win:

• Presidential election: At least 25% of votes cast in one state of the federation •

Governorship election: At least 25% of votes cast in one local government area of a state •

Chairmanship election: At least one ward •

Legislative elections: At least one seat in the National Assembly or State House of Assembly

• Councillorship election: At least one seat

SlavaUkraini:
Peter Obi Dodge this bullet

All thanks to Senator Dickson and the NDC.

It's could have been any other party without blemish..not just NDC!
What was imperative was having the foresight to leave when it mattered most!

DomPerignon:
Someone has provided a better interpretation and that ADC's failure to meet the minimum threshold of at least scoring 25% in the last Presidential elections in at least one state, has automatically disqualified the party from the Presidential race.

In short, ADC don enter relegation.

But barring from presidential election is quite different from deregistration.
So going by this your interpretation now,who is misinterpreting the law?
The Justice Lifu's court or you people here in Nairaland?

Labour Party should be grateful to Peter Obi. NDC too.

Anything that guy touch is blessed

Penguin2:
ADC won 2 House of Representatives in 2023.

ZLP won 15 LG seats in Abia.

APP won all the LG seats in Rivers in 2024.

So, on what basis were they ordered to be deregistered?

Interesting

Why ADC etc no present this on court

naptu2:
This is the Nigerian pendulum. I posted this on March 10, 2019.



Nigerians keep bouncing back and forth


1. Government limits the number of political parties to two, or, much later, government prescribes stringent conditions that political associations must adhere to before they can be registered as political parties (you must have an office in every state capital, etc.)


Nigerians: This is undemocratic and unconstitutional. You cannot limit the number of political parties. The constitution guarantees freedom of association. Government is trying to prevent people that it doesn't like from creating political parties.

Gani took INEC to court and won.

───

So INEC registers all the political associations as political parties. We have 90 political parties and 70 presidential candidates. There are 200 more associations waiting to be registered as political parties.


Nigerians: This is a joke! How can we have so many presidential candidates? What is INEC doing? They need to deregister some of these mushroom parties! It is a deliberate ploy by the government to divide votes!

---

Nigerians: We cannot have politicians going to the polling booths with their police and military escorts. They will intimidate voters and election officials. Their security escorts will compromise the security officials on election duty.


Inspector general of police and chief of defence staff: No uniformed security official should follow any politician to the polling unit. We shall withdraw most of the police and military guards of politicians 24 hours before the election, to ensure that politicians cannot use them to affect the conduct of the election.


Nigerians: The government has withdrawn the security guards of governor ***** because they want to attack him during the election. Hold the federal government responsible if anything happens to governor *****. How can you withdraw a whole governor's security. That tells you that they want to rig the election.

---

Nigerians: We need to do away with moneybag politicians. Moneybag politicians destroyed our democracy in the first and second republics. They become godfathers, determine what happens in the party and the people will have no say.


Babangida: Government will provide subventions to political parties to ensure that they are not dependent on any moneybag politicians.


Nigerians: If government provides subventions to the parties, then that means that the parties are no longer independent organisations. It means that they are now arms (slaves) of the government and dependent on government and will do whatever government wants.


Nigerians: Some people go into politics solely to get government subventions and not to serve the people.

INEC: We will limit government subventions to political parties that have won at least one election.


Nigerians: That means you are supporting strong parties against weak parties.

Also Nigerians: You are wasting tax payers' money. These politicians only create political parties in order to steal government subventions.

INEC: We will stop giving subventions.

Nigerians: Parties that control federal/state governments have an advantage because they have access to government funds. Why doesn't the government help smaller parties?

---

Nigerians Why are our elections so militarised. There are armed policemen at every polling unit. This could scare voters away. You don't have armed policemen at polling units in the US and UK.


The electoral act is amended to ban armed security agents from being within a certain distance from polling units.

Heavily armed thugs attack polling units and the policemen at the polling units can't do anything because they are unarmed.

Nigerians: The politicians did this deliberately. They posted unarmed officers to the polling units so that their thugs can easily disrupt the process.

Pacesetter123:
But barring from presidential election is quite different from deregistration.
So going by this your interpretation now,who is misinterpreting the law?
The Justice Lifu's court or you people here in Nairaland?

I have not read the court judgement .

Let's wait and see it.

kinibigdeal:
Meaning NDC will also be disqualified

On what ground?

DomPerignon:
I have not read the court judgement .

Let's wait and see it.

Try and read it.

Pacesetter123:
Try and read it.

It's one thing to latch on the ADC's cries and interpretation of the judgement ruling and it's another thing to actually read and understand the ruling as it is

Point me to the final court ruling.

naptu2:
This is the Nigerian pendulum. I posted this on March 10, 2019.



Nigerians keep bouncing back and forth


1. Government limits the number of political parties to two, or, much later, government prescribes stringent conditions that political associations must adhere to before they can be registered as political parties (you must have an office in every state capital, etc.)


Nigerians: This is undemocratic and unconstitutional. You cannot limit the number of political parties. The constitution guarantees freedom of association. Government is trying to prevent people that it doesn't like from creating political parties.

Gani took INEC to court and won.

───

So INEC registers all the political associations as political parties. We have 90 political parties and 70 presidential candidates. There are 200 more associations waiting to be registered as political parties.


Nigerians: This is a joke! How can we have so many presidential candidates? What is INEC doing? They need to deregister some of these mushroom parties! It is a deliberate ploy by the government to divide votes!

---

Nigerians: We cannot have politicians going to the polling booths with their police and military escorts. They will intimidate voters and election officials. Their security escorts will compromise the security officials on election duty.


Inspector general of police and chief of defence staff: No uniformed security official should follow any politician to the polling unit. We shall withdraw most of the police and military guards of politicians 24 hours before the election, to ensure that politicians cannot use them to affect the conduct of the election.


Nigerians: The government has withdrawn the security guards of governor ***** because they want to attack him during the election. Hold the federal government responsible if anything happens to governor *****. How can you withdraw a whole governor's security. That tells you that they want to rig the election.

---

Nigerians: We need to do away with moneybag politicians. Moneybag politicians destroyed our democracy in the first and second republics. They become godfathers, determine what happens in the party and the people will have no say.


Babangida: Government will provide subventions to political parties to ensure that they are not dependent on any moneybag politicians.


Nigerians: If government provides subventions to the parties, then that means that the parties are no longer independent organisations. It means that they are now arms (slaves) of the government and dependent on government and will do whatever government wants.


Nigerians: Some people go into politics solely to get government subventions and not to serve the people.

INEC: We will limit government subventions to political parties that have won at least one election.


Nigerians: That means you are supporting strong parties against weak parties.

Also Nigerians: You are wasting tax payers' money. These politicians only create political parties in order to steal government subventions.

INEC: We will stop giving subventions.

Nigerians: Parties that control federal/state governments have an advantage because they have access to government funds. Why doesn't the government help smaller parties?

---

Nigerians Why are our elections so militarised. There are armed policemen at every polling unit. This could scare voters away. You don't have armed policemen at polling units in the US and UK.


The electoral act is amended to ban armed security agents from being within a certain distance from polling units.

Heavily armed thugs attack polling units and the policemen at the polling units can't do anything because they are unarmed.

Nigerians: The politicians did this deliberately. They posted unarmed officers to the polling units so that their thugs can easily disrupt the process.

I don't know of any time when Nigerians spoke unanimously as you seem to imply in this post. There are always divided opinions among Nigerians on any matter. And it is always difficult to know what the dominant opinions are. So this your narrative of Nigerians saying things is rather ignorant. Those are just the opinions of some Nigerians . How representative those opinions are of what ALL Nigerians want is highly debatable.

AlbertNewton has just told me that he doesn't know anything at all.

🤣

kinibigdeal:
Meaning NDC will also be disqualified

This should not affect NDC, because NDC is a newly registered party. It can only affect it, going forward, if it fails to meet the criteria for continued existence. For instance, if it fails to achieve 25% in any state in any 2027 presidential election, it may be re-registered before the 2031 presidential election.

Penguin2:
ADC won 2 House of Representatives in 2023.

ZLP won 15 LG seats in Abia.

APP won all the LG seats in Rivers in 2024.

So, on what basis were they ordered to be deregistered?

... that is why the appeal court is there to overule the federal high court judgement..so they should take the case to appeal court

Kdon2:
ADC didn't win 25% in presidential election that's the kicker

This is an impossible condition.

Only APC, PDP ad and LP met 25 percent in the Presidential in 2023.

So you're obviously mixing it up somewhere.

ddippset:
This is an impossible condition.

Only APC, PDP ad and LP met 25 percent in the Presidential in 2023.

So you're obviously mixing it up somewhere.

That's what qualify any of them as a serious party. Anyone that can't meet that threshold is not fit to be a party. It's not tea party.

amaridigital:
They must all the requirements listed in that section of the constitution not only LGA or House of Assembly seat alone. The law doesn't give them the option of only one.

Read again:

INEC may deregister a party if it fails to win:

• Presidential election: At least 25% of votes cast in one state of the federation •

Governorship election: At least 25% of votes cast in one local government area of a state •

Chairmanship election: At least one ward •

Legislative elections: At least one seat in the National Assembly or State House of Assembly

• Councillorship election: At least one seat

What I understand is that it is at the discretion of INEC.
INEC can decide on their own to deregister them or not.

And INEC sometime ago declared that they were not going to deregister them.


So why should the court be forcing INEC to deregister them?

seunmsg:
fergie001, if this is the true position of what happened, then Justice Lifu is in order.

justice lifu is in order.

amaridigital:
They must all the requirements listed in that section of the constitution not only LGA or House of Assembly seat alone. The law doesn't give them the option of only one.

Read again:

INEC may deregister a party if it fails to win:

• Presidential election: At least 25% of votes cast in one state of the federation •

Governorship election: At least 25% of votes cast in one local government area of a state •

Chairmanship election: At least one ward •

Legislative elections: At least one seat in the National Assembly or State House of Assembly

• Councillorship election: At least one seat

So, you’re telling me that if a party satisfies all other requirements and doesn’t win a councilorship seat then it should be deregistered?

DomPerignon:
Big lie

The Wikipedia page you want to use as reference was edited in late May of this year, a few weeks before the court pronounced it's final ruling.

Why didn't ADC provide proof that they met the minimum performance threshold with this your claim?

So you are saying ADC didn’t win House of Representatives seats in 2023?