₦airaland Forum

CFCfan:
Saraki is still a Nigerian citizen by birth. The fact that he is a naturalized British citizen does not negate his Nigerian citizenship by birth, according to section 66 of the 1999 constitution.
Therefore, he is qualified to hold public office in Nigeria

hennesseykrane:
white hawkers!!! N jon sow is dead. So who save d north

Joysmart:
If he's not Nigeria fine let him resign so that Ekweremadu will become the Senate president

Section 28 (1):
subject to other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires or retains the citizenship of or nationality of a country, other that Nigeria, of which he is not a citizen by birth.

Section 66 (1) No person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or the House of Representatives if-
a) subject to section 28 of this Constitution he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or, except in such cases as may be prescribed by the National Assembly, has made a declaration of allegiance to such a country;

Thes case of Dual Citizenship and the right to contest for a political office in Nigeria is already settled in the law suit filed (SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/28/07) at Federal High Court in 2007 between:

PROF. ISA ODIDI, HON. OLUWAFOLAJIMI AKEEM BELLO (NEW DEMOCRATS PARTY)……PLAINTIFFS

VS

INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC)
PROFESSOR MAURICE IWU (CHAIRMAN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION)……DEFENDANTS

Bottom line, if you are a citizen of Nigeria by birth, the law of the land allows you to hold dual citizenship, and your dual citizenship does not disqualify you from contesting for any political office in Nigeria. However, if you are a naturalized citizen of Nigeria and hold dual citizenship with other country, you are not allowed to contest for any political office in Nigeria. I hope this answer your question.

See the verdict render by appeal court and federal high court below.

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/important_documents/?u=Odidi_Bello_Dual_Citizenship_Judgement.htm

In the case of Ogbeide vs Osula [2004] 12 NWLR part 886 page 86 at 138

Adeniji (JCA) Justice Court of Appeal delivering lead Judge held as follows

at page 127.



B. Section 29 deals with the issue of renunciation of a persons Nigerian

citizenship while Section 25 deals with categories of Nigerian

citizens. In other words, a person who is a citizen of Nigeria by birth

cannot have such citizenship forfeited or become ineligible to



C. contest such elections under any circumstances even where Section

65(1) is read with Section 1 37, a person who is not a citizen of

Nigeria can he so registered, but where he is not a citizen of that other

country by birth, his registration will be conditioned on the

renunciation of his citizenship of that other country. In other words,

renunciation of



D. citizenship does not apply to a citizen of this country by birth.

The tribunal however held on page 121 paragraph 2 of the record that

a Nigerian citizenship by his acquisition as the citizenship of another

country, he would stand disqualified from being a member of the



E. National Assembly if he holds such dual citizenship or has subscribed

to an oath of allegiance to any other country. That I must say with

due respect, is not contained in the Section under scrutiny. What one

can make of that Section read with Sections 25, 26 and 27 of the 1999

Constitution is that a citizen of this country by birth never loses his

citizenship even where he holds dual citizenship of another country

and cannot be disqualified from contesting election into the House of

Representative for reasons only that he holds such dual citizenship.



Section 137 provides for instance of disqualification while section 28 deals

principally with the question of dual citizenship. By the decision of His

Lordship Adeniji (JCA) Justice Court of Appeal page 127, "a person who is

a citizen of Nigeria by birth cannot have such citizenship forfeited or

became ineligible to contest election under any circumstance even where

Section 65(1) in the present case Section 28 is read together with section 137

of 1999 Constitution.



The above case is in all fours with the present suit and by the doctrine of

stare decises I am bound by the decision of the appellate Court. I adopt

same as mine and hold that the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of

Nigeria recognizes dual citizenship and same cannot be a hare for Plaintiffs

to contest election especially when they are Nigerians by birth. I so hold.


Accordingly reliefs 1, 2, 3 and 5 are granted, while relief 4 is refused.

CFCfan:
Sir, according to section 25 of the constitution a Nigerian kid born outside Nigeria by, at least, one Nigeria parent is a Nigerian citizen by birth.
So Sen Saraki is a Nigerian citizen by birth.

jaybee3:
How can he be a Nigerian citizen by birth if he was born in London?

doctokwus:
He is playing dirty so he should expect dirt thrown back at him.The day is just dawning on Saraki, soon court cases and allegations will soon start flying.
He is now in d kitchen, so he should be ready for the heat.

citizenisb:
A lot of times we try to project the image of the benign, peace loving drunk from Otueke to cover up the complete rot his administration represented. It is just a repeat of history as most of us know that Shagari is a good man but his administration was very corrupt.

I stay in Abuja and I know that the corruption under the GEJ administration was monumental and the enormous revenue accrued to the government was wasted even much more than Abacha, Babangida and Obasanjo combined. Why are we so wicked to keep on defending his administration.

Buhari has a lot of personal flaws but if we can remember this election was a referendum on GEJ not necessarily about Buhari in the swing states of the South West and North Central.

Whether he appoints Ministers this night or next year it is a huge relief from the madness we just went through for six years.

It will take a lot for us to recover with the depleted external reserves, crash of crude prices, a possible Greek default, reduction in summer travel and GDP/ Oil use due to terrorism fears, a huge slowdown in China, 30 million barrels of stored Iranian crude about to hit the market with the removal of sanctions and two possible interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve.

We are in interesting times no matter who is at the helm and the earlier we all hunker down and pray to weather the storm without terrible social unrest that will come with job losses, subsidy removal, Naira devaluation and corresponding hyperinflation adding to the Boko Haram insurgency decimating the North East and the bankruptcy of the states.

Let me give you a brief example; Buhari told the governors to negotiate longer loan tenors with the banks up to 20 years to reduce the strain and inability to pay salaries, do you know how that will affect bank profits and systemic liquidity. What will happen to their Oil and Gas loans if oil prices dip further.

May God help this country but please it is sheer wickedness to bring up the previous administrations records. In other climes they would have been shot by now.

Maxymilliano:
So after 8 years as Kwara State governor, and over 4 years as a Senator, Sahara Reporters just discovered that Saraki hold dual citizenship ?


Destructive journalism at its beat ...

edoyad:
But just because the previous administration was reckless with our democracy and we opted for change doesn't give the man the mandate to return us to a Military style of Govt. Have you ever fallen into a situation with the Nigerian Army before ? What gives him the power to decide that the presidential villa, one of our foremost symbols of democracy should be shielded by his band of Zombies rather than the constitutionally assingned sentinels ? What is so difficult in assembling a cabinet ?
Tomorrow we will hear of Nigerians being locked up in Military barracks because he doesn't trust our police system. We will start to get decrees instead of bills because legislators are corrupt.
Better we fight this from the start before it is too late.

citizenisb:
A lot of times we try to project the image of the benign, peace loving drunk from Otueke to cover up the complete rot his administration represented. It is just a repeat of history as most of us know that Shagari is a good man but his administration was very corrupt.

I stay in Abuja and I know that the corruption under the GEJ administration was monumental and the enormous revenue accrued to the government was wasted even much more than Abacha, Babangida and Obasanjo combined. Why are we so wicked to keep on defending his administration.

Buhari has a lot of personal flaws but if we can remember this election was a referendum on GEJ not necessarily about Buhari in the swing states of the South West and North Central.

Whether he appoints Ministers this night or next year it is a huge relief from the madness we just went through for six years.

It will take a lot for us to recover with the depleted external reserves, crash of crude prices, a possible Greek default, reduction in summer travel and GDP/ Oil use due to terrorism fears, a huge slowdown in China, 30 million barrels of stored Iranian crude about to hit the market with the removal of sanctions and two possible interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve.

We are in interesting times no matter who is at the helm and the earlier we all hunker down and pray to weather the storm without terrible social unrest that will come with job losses, subsidy removal, Naira devaluation and corresponding hyperinflation adding to the Boko Haram insurgency decimating the North East and the bankruptcy of the states.

Let me give you a brief example; Buhari told the governors to negotiate longer loan tenors with the banks up to 20 years to reduce the strain and inability to pay salaries, do you know how that will affect bank profits and systemic liquidity. What will happen to their Oil and Gas loans if oil prices dip further.

May God help this country but please it is sheer wickedness to bring up the previous administrations records. In other climes they would have been shot by now.

wachakuta:
His from Niger

adebisicutie:
The Constitution does not allow one to hold a political office with dual citizenship however I expect he is smart enough to have officially renounced his British critizenship as you are allowed to do that. If not he is in yawa

Sunofgod:
Saraki is a British-Hausa/Yoruba Man,

HRich:
When he was ordinary and ordinary APC senator, he was a Nigerian. And now that he has become a Senate President out of APC wish he's no longer a Nigerian. SarahaReporters are confuse. APC are now looking for people's personal details, yet when PDP was looking for Buhari's CV everyone of them was insulting him. For all i know and care. Saraki is a Nigerian.

citizenisb:
A lot of times we try to project the image of the benign, peace loving drunk from Otueke to cover up the complete rot his administration represented. It is just a repeat of history as most of us know that Shagari is a good man but his administration was very corrupt.

I stay in Abuja and I know that the corruption under the GEJ administration was monumental and the enormous revenue accrued to the government was wasted even much more than Abacha, Babangida and Obasanjo combined. Why are we so wicked to keep on defending his administration.

Buhari has a lot of personal flaws but if we can remember this election was a referendum on GEJ not necessarily about Buhari in the swing states of the South West and North Central.

Whether he appoints Ministers this night or next year it is a huge relief from the madness we just went through for six years.

It will take a lot for us to recover with the depleted external reserves, crash of crude prices, a possible Greek default, reduction in summer travel and GDP/ Oil use due to terrorism fears, a huge slowdown in China, 30 million barrels of stored Iranian crude about to hit the market with the removal of sanctions and two possible interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve.

We are in interesting times no matter who is at the helm and the earlier we all hunker down and pray to weather the storm without terrible social unrest that will come with job losses, subsidy removal, Naira devaluation and corresponding hyperinflation adding to the Boko Haram insurgency decimating the North East and the bankruptcy of the states.

Let me give you a brief example; Buhari told the governors to negotiate longer loan tenors with the banks up to 20 years to reduce the strain and inability to pay salaries, do you know how that will affect bank profits and systemic liquidity. What will happen to their Oil and Gas loans if oil prices dip further.

May God help this country but please it is sheer wickedness to bring up the previous administrations records. In other climes they would have been shot by now.

edoyad:
But just because the previous administration was reckless with our democracy and we opted for change doesn't give the man the mandate to return us to a Military style of Govt. Have you ever fallen into a situation with the Nigerian Army before ? What gives him the power to decide that the presidential villa, one of our foremost symbols of democracy should be shielded by his band of Zombies rather than the constitutionally assingned sentinels ? What is so difficult in assembling a cabinet ?
Tomorrow we will hear of Nigerians being locked up in Military barracks because he doesn't trust our police system. We will start to get decrees instead of bills because legislators are corrupt.
Better we fight this from the start before it is too late.

samueld0:
This is a confirmation that Tinubu owns Sahara reporters.
They can finish someone politicaly

Gej was a victim and example


Saraki be ready for social media warfare with Sahara reporters

modhream:
Which Constitution are you quoting?.Your piece of akara paper?.The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 as amended allows anyone with multi-citizenship to hold political office in so far as he or she is a citizen by birth.Citizenship by birth being defined as having a Nigerian parent at birth regardless of place of birth or being born in Nigeria and having only one grandparent who is a Nigerian.See Section 25(1)a,b,c

citizenisb:
A lot of times we try to project the image of the benign, peace loving drunk from Otueke to cover up the complete rot his administration represented. It is just a repeat of history as most of us know that Shagari is a good man but his administration was very corrupt.

I stay in Abuja and I know that the corruption under the GEJ administration was monumental and the enormous revenue accrued to the government was wasted even much more than Abacha, Babangida and Obasanjo combined. Why are we so wicked to keep on defending his administration.

Buhari has a lot of personal flaws but if we can remember this election was a referendum on GEJ not necessarily about Buhari in the swing states of the South West and North Central.

Whether he appoints Ministers this night or next year it is a huge relief from the madness we just went through for six years.

It will take a lot for us to recover with the depleted external reserves, crash of crude prices, a possible Greek default, reduction in summer travel and GDP/ Oil use due to terrorism fears, a huge slowdown in China, 30 million barrels of stored Iranian crude about to hit the market with the removal of sanctions and two possible interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve.

We are in interesting times no matter who is at the helm and the earlier we all hunker down and pray to weather the storm without terrible social unrest that will come with job losses, subsidy removal, Naira devaluation and corresponding hyperinflation adding to the Boko Haram insurgency decimating the North East and the bankruptcy of the states.

Let me give you a brief example; Buhari told the governors to negotiate longer loan tenors with the banks up to 20 years to reduce the strain and inability to pay salaries, do you know how that will affect bank profits and systemic liquidity. What will happen to their Oil and Gas loans if oil prices dip further.

May God help this country but please it is sheer wickedness to bring up the previous administrations records. In other climes they would have been shot by now.