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TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

INTROVERT:
As usual Barcanista doesn't disappoint ... I expect a rejoinder on this issue from the other political party...

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista:
PDP is already in Appeal Court to challenge the ruling in Benue state and will challenge that of Taraba state. One MUST be given PDP or we shall formally declare the judiciary as an arm of All Progressive Congress.

TonyeBarcanista:
There is No way the court will contradict itself. It is either we lose Taraba and gain Benue or we retain Taraba and lose Benue.

NgeneUkwenu:
This "jejune" and emotional article can only sway the herd of illiterates following you on Nairaland.

Let us for the Sake of argument assume the cases to be same:

The questions you should have asked yourself before coming up with this crap, you called opinion, were:

Did the PDP candidate in Benue State file his ground of petition on the "in appropriateness' of the primary election that brought up Otorm as a candidate?

If he did above, was INEC as an Observer, invited to testify?

If he did the above, did INEC aver at the Tribunal that no primaries actually took place?

Did he submit all the relevant documents to prove his case beyond doubt?

Or do you think the Tribunals are Father Christmas who decides cases based on hearsay?

Abeg Go sit down!

chukkiephil:
wow!! Really, now this is funny, was it not the same INEC that cleared the candidate to contest for election? So why did INEC allow him to contest for the election? This Government is now turning INEC into a joke

TonyeBarcanista:
Beside, it formed part of PDP's prayer before the Tribunal
www.leadership.ng/news/462233/tribunal-dismisses-pdps-petition-upholds-ortoms-election



Modified...

jstbeinhonest:
Did PDP go to court on such grounds?.

AZeD1:
Law is not mathematics so you can't use the situation in one case to judge another.
Have you ever wondered why some people steal and are given 6 months while the same crime committed by another person gets 5 years?

faithfancy:
So true, PDP in Benue do the needful.

NgeneUkwenu:
This "jejune" and emotional article can only sway the herd of illiterates following you on Nairaland.

Let us for the Sake of argument assume the cases to be same:

The questions you should have asked yourself before coming up with this crap, you called opinion, were:

Did the PDP candidate in Benue State file his ground of petition on the "in appropriateness' of the primary election that brought up Otorm as a candidate?

If he did above, was INEC as an Observer, invited to testify?

If he did the above, did INEC aver at the Tribunal that no primaries actually took place?

Did he submit all the relevant documents to prove his case beyond doubt?

Or do you think the Tribunals are Father Christmas who decides cases based on hearsay?

Abeg Go sit down!

dustmalik:
Read the following

What this judgement means is that PDP never had a candidate in the election, due to the emergence of its candidate. In fact, PDP was ineligible for that election. Therefore, it's only logical that the only eligible candidate with the highest votes was Aisha Alhassan.

By the way, even if a rerun was ordered, the PDP would still be ineligible to contest.

koboko69:
2 dundees.

2 cases against PDP.

1. Primaries not conducted in the state as required by the law.
2. Primaries were even conducted after the time stipulated for primaries had elapsed.

APC chose a consensus candidate b4 mid night of the time stipulated the same way Jonathan was chosing as a consensus candidate. As long as there is no law frowning again consensus candidates. ...you can go hell and burn to ashes!!!

PassingShot:
Different scenarios! It was Amaechi that challenged his party on the grounds that he was in fact the authentic candidate and not Omehia, not any other party. As such the court was right to declare him the bonafide candidate in that election having proved his case beyond reasonable doubt.
In Taraba, no other PDP candidate took Ishiyaku to court for the conduct of the primaries. If any had done that, the tribunal could have as well decided such person as the winner of that election.

TonyeBarcanista:
I'm not wrong! PDP raised in in their petition against Orthom
www.leadership.ng/news/462233/tribunal-dismisses-pdps-petition-upholds-ortoms-election. But the tribunal acting on a script dismissed it on technical ground.

TonyeBarcanista:
Guy forget this distraction. Both parties raised it in their respective suit against the INEC declared winners. This is not even the matter on ground.

hinwazaka:
Was there a prayer to award the MANDATE to the APC. Can't you people read. Tomorrow a lawyer will raise this issue and make all of you look like fools.

dustmalik:
Your argument makes no sense, given my submission. Maybe you should read it again

PDPwayoo:
@Barcanista has no brain. he is just a crier. PDP forget so early. PDP should learn how to be opposition and shut up.

1. Jame Ibori was an ex-convict b4 he became a governor, he stole ply wood. THE SAME COURT/JUDICIARY UNDER PDP FOUND HIM NOT GUILTY.

2. Jame Ibori was cleared of more than 200 corruption charges b4 he played himself into the hands of UK by THE SAME COURT/JUDICIARY UNDER PDP.

3. Lucky igbinedion was found guilty of embezzling billions and the THE SAME COURT/JUDICIARY UNDER PDP GRANT HIM BAIL WITH JUST 1 MILLION NAIRA

4. People were still voting in 2003 election, some are yet to be accredited when Ibori was celebrating election victory.

5. Under PDP, Okadigbo carry NAS mase to his home and the same PDP lead govt. went to Benin to purchase new mase.

6. Under PDP govt. the First lady PEJ was appointed as a permanent secretary in Bayelsa state while her office was in Abuja.

7. Under PDP we lost Bakassi to Cameroon. Since then, Cameroon became arrogant to Nigeria and Nigerians

How many we go fit count? anybody crying for PDP is enemy of Nigeria.

anonimi:
Have you heard the words:

- Precedence
- Equity




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airfinance:
This is the best and sensible comment ever on this subject matter,you just nailed it simplified,accurate,intelligent and concise. I dnt knw why people will never understand despite their claims of being educated. Thumbs up man

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

bashydemy:
Did you read the news of the link you provide very well? The justice Karatu said the petitioner did not provide any evidence to proof that Ortom did not qualify. So you just want the tribunal to disqualify Ortom without proper evidence to back up their claims? Like I said next PDP should get a good lawyers to defend them very well like the APC is doing.

leanalyst:
My question with this Taraba state judgement is that if he wasn't a valid candidate, why did INEC clear him to run as the PDP candidate? That should be an INEC and Jega question not grounds to sack a governor voted in by his people. This judgement was just a sham.

TonyeBarcanista:
Just yesterday, the Taraba state governorship election petition tribunal that sat in Abuja nullified the election of Governor Ishaku Darius of the PDP in favor of Hajia Aisha Alhassan of APC. The decision was based on the ground that Architect Ishaku Darius was not validly nominated by the PDP in contravention of Sections 78, 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act(EA 2010). Specifically, the tribunal held that the PDP never had legal candidate for the Taraba poll.

If we are to go by the judgement, then it will be fair for the Benue state election tribunal to nullify the election of Governor Samuel Orthom of APC because his nomination contravened S 78(b)(1)(2), 85(1) and 85(2) of the Electoral Act as well.

Governor Orthom's Illegitimate Nomination:
According to INEC's timetable for 2015 General election, primary election of candidate was slated for October 2 and December 11, 2014.

The APC Governorship primary election for Benue state was originally slated for December 4/5 2014, but it wasn't held. It was again shifted to December 11, 2014(deadline) but NO primary election was held on the said day. No report that any delegate participated in ANY primary election on that day. The party 'elders' settled for a consensus candidate before the midnight of the day. Even the pro-APC Nations Newspaper reported that;

"Chief Ortom emerged after other governorship aspirants stepped down for him at the end of a close door meeting brokered by the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, in Makurdi."
www.thenationonlineng.net/benue-apc-settles-ortom-governorship-candidate/

In fact, the five other APC aspirants including, Emmanuel Jime, Mike Iordye, Akange Audu, Sen Joseph Waku and Prof Steve Ugbah released a statement on December 12, 2014 to REJECT the arrangement of the so-called party elders in Benue state (see here www.leadership.ng/news/394871/benue-apc-primaries-5-guber-aspirants-reject-ortom).

Further more, INEC was NOT present at the dead of the night to witness the illegitimate arrangement that was held inside somebody's parlour. Let us no forget that Goodluck Jonathan though a PDP consensus candidate, went through formal primaries to fulfill the Electoral Act.

APC Has No Legal Gubernatorial Candidate For Benue state:
Going by the above, the arrangement that brought Samuel Orthom as the APC candidate for Benue state governorship election contravenes sections 78(b)(1)(2) and85(1)(2) of the Electoral Act 2010.

Section 78 (b) (1)(2) of the Electoral Act states: In the case of nomination to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall where they intend to sponsor candidates:

(i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates.

(ii) the aspirant with the highest number of vote at the end of the voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant’s name shall be forwarded to the commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular state.

The arrangement that brought Orthom never met the above condition. Hence, the APC technically has no candidate for Benue state governorship election 2015. There is no record that APC Benue delegates endorsed Samuel Orthom as candidate through voice votes or ballot box. There is also no record that INEC witnessed any Benue APC governorship primary election on or before December 11, 2014 which is in contravento to S85 of the Electoral Act.

The PDP candidate Terhemen Tarzor should have been declared as the legitimate winner of the election by INEC and the Tribunal.

INEC's and Judicial Glaring Hypocrisy:
The position of INEC on Taraba and Benue states reeks double standard. While they testified that they never witnessed ANY primary legitimate PDP primary for Taraba state governorship contest, the FAILED to testify same for Benue state. This issue though part of PDP's petition, must be seriously pursued by the PDP at the Court of Appeal to reclaim Benue state to the people.

The Petition tribunal in Benue state unfortunately dismissed the issue on "technical" ground in the rulling on September 21, 2015 in order to keep Orthom in power. This is double standard from the Judiciary. You can't nullify A and Uphold B when they bother on the same matter. I'm optimistic that the Court of Appeal will upturn the verdict.

What is good for Taraba should be good for Benue.!!!


May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista:
Watch how we will handle the case at the Appellate court

NgeneUkwenu:
This "jejune" and emotional article can only sway the herd of illiterates following you on Nairaland.

Let us for the Sake of argument assume the cases to be same:

The questions you should have asked yourself before coming up with this crap, you called opinion, were:

Did the PDP candidate in Benue State file his ground of petition on the "in appropriateness' of the primary election that brought up Otorm as a candidate?

If he did above, was INEC as an Observer, invited to testify?

If he did the above, did INEC aver at the Tribunal that no primaries actually took place?

Did he submit all the relevant documents to prove his case beyond doubt?

Or do you think the Tribunals are Father Christmas who decides cases based on hearsay?

Abeg Go sit down!

hinwazaka:
Read your own submission

billyG:
Even if all case are d same,d judges & lawyers cannot b d same.To Hell with ortom pdp can hav his head! he is still 1 of them.