Mixty:
I am not an APC groupie. Neither am I a PDP zombie. I have been a strong critic of the Buhari govt. I have opened threads to lambast the current APC government.

However. The truth must be told. It is shameful that the supreme court will affirm elections that both the national and international communities have condemned for the mindless rigging that the marred the election.

Two case studies are the Rivers and akwa ibom state governorship elections that were marred with electoral malpractices. both the tribunal and the court of appeal validated the fact thar bothe elections were rigged without an iota of conscience. yet the supreme court shamelessly validated those rigged elections to the surprise of Nigerians and the world at last.

The supreme court judgement of late has become a national and international embarrassment. And our highest court in the land is beginning to lose their reputation.

The supreme court is beginning to emerge as the greaest threat to free and fair elections in Nigeria.

Mixty

Dominiquez:
By their fruit you will know the zombies

Ezenwammadu:
Go hug a transformer

Mixty:
I am not an APC groupie. Neither am I a PDP zombie. I have been a strong critic of the Buhari govt. I have opened threads to lambast the current APC government.

However. The truth must be told. It is shameful that the supreme court will affirm elections that both the national and international communities have condemned for the mindless rigging that the marred the election.

Two case studies are the Rivers and akwa ibom state governorship elections that were marred with electoral malpractices. both the tribunal and the court of appeal validated the fact thar bothe elections were rigged without an iota of conscience. yet the supreme court shamelessly validated those rigged elections to the surprise of Nigerians and the world at last.

The supreme court judgement of late has become a national and international embarrassment. And our highest court in the land is beginning to lose their reputation.

The supreme court is beginning to emerge as the greaest threat to free and fair elections in Nigeria.

Mixty

CACAWA:
that is not how jurisprudence works.

You can't punish a Trial Judge because you do not agree with his opinion.

If proof of bribery is substantiated, so be it. But to say because he felt party A was right, and you at the supreme court feel part B was right, so the juniour judge must be punished...what impetus.

The only reason the Supreme court is arm twisted into making this sort of decision is because of the mistake it made in the Rivers case.

In the Rivers case, they held that the use of Card reader was not a constitutional provision and so cannot be tendered as evidence as to whether or not an election truly held or didn't.

That opinion was enough to make all riggers win their case.

This opinion is against what the Tribunals and appeal Courts held, and although one may argue that truly the card reader was not mentioned in the electoral act or constitution, it is understandable that the act grants INEC the right to organise it's affairs. Hence, any method it deems fit for Identifying a registered voter should become Law and Binding.

When I heard that Fmr Gov. Peter Odili's wife is a Justice of the Supreme Court...I just LAUGHED

kingphilip:
Hmmmmm anytime I hear about the Supreme Court just one saying flashes my mind first and which is that made by justice Oputa the Supreme Court Justice.

"we are final not because we are infallible but we are infallible because we are final"

This is always bound to occur where someone or an institution becomes the highest authority without a checkmate from another body.

Though I'm not vast in legal matters to determine whether or not the cases they affirmed was right or wrong but I think the only way to avert any form of suspicion is to ensure that the body in charge of appointing supreme Court judges have credible individuals as members so as to appoint people of high credibility and avoid all these confusion arising from judgements been passed by the highest court in the land


In my opinion also, I think when and where judgments are upturned by higher courts or same courts, the former presiding judge/s should be tried so as to serve as deterrent to others who might want to tow the path of boycotting justice for whatever gain they might get

Long live the federal Republic of Nigeria
Long live Ogun State at 40

Mixty:
I am not an APC groupie. Neither am I a PDP zombie. I have been a strong critic of the Buhari govt. I have opened threads to lambast the current APC government.

However. The truth must be told. It is shameful that the supreme court will affirm elections that both the national and international communities have condemned for the mindless rigging that the marred the election.

Two case studies are the Rivers and akwa ibom state governorship elections that were marred with electoral malpractices. both the tribunal and the court of appeal validated the fact thar bothe elections were rigged without an iota of conscience. yet the supreme court shamelessly validated those rigged elections to the surprise of Nigerians and the world at last.

The supreme court judgement of late has become a national and international embarrassment. And our highest court in the land is beginning to lose their reputation.

The supreme court is beginning to emerge as the greaest threat to free and fair elections in Nigeria.

Mixty

dukecharles:
Op, I copied this for another tread, please read it before you condemn SC.
updates (AKWA IBOM) :
"The so called security reports alleging
pockets of violence, were dumped at the
tribunal and the makers of the exhibits
were never invited to be cross examined
in line with the Evidence Act.
They didn’t call witnesses polling unit by
polling unit.
MY LORD FROM WHICHEVER WAY YOU
LOOK AT IT , THEY HAVE FAILED AND WE
URGE THEIR LORDSHIPS TO ALLOW
THEM TO FAIL .”
-Counsel to PDP

"They (APC) also alleged that there was
no voting, yet they tendered ballot
papers as exhibits.
Form EC8A(result sheets) used
throughout the state was tendered by
the petitioner (APC) yet he said there was
no collation of results.
No explanation was given for this
contradiction.
That “No voting” was used by the tribunal
to nullify elections in 18 local
governments while the appeal court ruled
that there was over voting and nullified
the elections in the entire state, relying
on the information gathered through the
card reader "
-Counsel to PDP


“The petitioner (APC) alleged that no
accreditation took place in the Akwa
Ibom governorship elections, but the
judgement of the appeal court had it that
there was over voting.
It is illogical that over voting could be
realise in an election where there was
disenfranchisement ".
-Lawyer to PDP


"The court of Appeal refered to 448,307
As the number Of Accredited Voters and
used that to declare that there was over
voting. It did not refer In Its Judgement
were It got that figure. No one knows the
source. It was the evidence of a pw49.
The tribunal had rejected the evidence of
Pw49 and all the evidences tendered by
him... The court of appeal overlooked the
decision of the lower court. PW 49 did
not prove that 448,307 represented the
total number of accredited voters in the
state.
The court of appeal did a grave injustice
to us by using a simple fraction of the
total number of voters to nullify the
result in the state. My lord please correct
this injustice and uphold the result as
announced by INEC”
_Counsel to PDP.

Mixty:
I am not an APC groupie. Neither am I a PDP zombie. I have been a strong critic of the Buhari govt. I have opened threads to lambast the current APC government.

However. The truth must be told. It is shameful that the supreme court will affirm elections that both the national and international communities have condemned for the mindless rigging that the marred the election.

Two case studies are the Rivers and akwa ibom state governorship elections that were marred with electoral malpractices. both the tribunal and the court of appeal validated the fact thar bothe elections were rigged without an iota of conscience. yet the supreme court shamelessly validated those rigged elections to the surprise of Nigerians and the world at last.

The supreme court judgement of late has become a national and international embarrassment. And our highest court in the land is beginning to lose their reputation.

The supreme court is beginning to emerge as the greaest threat to free and fair elections in Nigeria.

Mixty

MonPro:
Whem will the supreme court invalidate the elections in the north which were rigged with underaged voters in the full glare of the world.

CACAWA:
that is not how jurisprudence works.

You can't punish a Trial Judge because you do not agree with his opinion.

If proof of bribery is substantiated, so be it. But to say because he felt party A was right, and you at the supreme court feel part B was right, so the juniour judge must be punished...what impetus.

The only reason the Supreme court is arm twisted into making this sort of decision is because of the mistake it made in the Rivers case.

In the Rivers case, they held that the use of Card reader was not a constitutional provision and so cannot be tendered as evidence as to whether or not an election truly held or didn't.

That opinion was enough to make all riggers win their case.

This opinion is against what the Tribunals and appeal Courts held, and although one may argue that truly the card reader was not mentioned in the electoral act or constitution, it is understandable that the act grants INEC the right to organise it's affairs. Hence, any method it deems fit for Identifying a registered voter should become Law and Binding.

When I heard that Fmr Gov. Peter Odili's wife is a Justice of the Supreme Court...I just LAUGHED

CACAWA:
that is not how jurisprudence works.

You can't punish a Trial Judge because you do not agree with his opinion.

If proof of bribery is substantiated, so be it. But to say because he felt party A was right, and you at the supreme court feel part B was right, so the juniour judge must be punished...what impetus.

The only reason the Supreme court is arm twisted into making this sort of decision is because of the mistake it made in the Rivers case.

In the Rivers case, they held that the use of Card reader was not a constitutional provision and so cannot be tendered as evidence as to whether or not an election truly held or didn't.

That opinion was enough to make all riggers win their case.

This opinion is against what the Tribunals and appeal Courts held, and although one may argue that truly the card reader was not mentioned in the electoral act or constitution, it is understandable that the act grants INEC the right to organise it's affairs. Hence, any method it deems fit for Identifying a registered voter should become Law and Binding.

When I heard that Fmr Gov. Peter Odili's wife is a Justice of the Supreme Court...I just LAUGHED

ProfessorPeter:
See "painment". So supreme court has erred? If the election had gone to APC it would ve been a "victory for democracy" i am from Akwaibom, i can authoritatively say that most of violent recorded during the last election in Akwa Ibom were perpetuated by APC.

odeotito:


Very very incisive, cogent, apt, informed and aposite analysis. The Supreme Court of Nigeria says the need to do substantial justice and not technical considerations should guide Judges in delivering judgments yet it went ahead to deliver a manifestly unjust decision. The common man who witnessed first hand the happenings during the Governorship elections in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States know so and must have scant, if any regard, for The Supreme Court. Justice must not only be done but be seen to have been done! INEC is now in a quandary as to what to do with the card readers that had done so much to sanitise and validate our electoral process. Isn't Buhari correct, in retrospect, that The Judiciary is a cog in the wheel of the fight against corruption in Nigeria?