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I see buhari's hand in all these. Bello was the highest donor of buhari's presidential bid in kogi. Buhari is trying to reward him. He is just a scammer

ijija:
Faleke maybe but bello God almighty forbid

naso

If we must follow the law of morality & conscience,I think the man who contested along with his boss ( Faleke ) should win this case. They shared the same ticket .Except it is the deputy that died,APC has no moral right to give that ticket to Bello. Learned men over to you..I know you can confuse even a whole professor of logic in his career if given the room

ijija:
Who is a dead man? Do you want to kill wada or faleke? Because the judgement will be for one of them

You!! make sure you commit suicide after AYB Complete his Tenure. In sha allah

MadCow1:
Is Kogi still a state in Nigeria sef?



All these yeye states wey no dey contribute any thing to our National Bank account..

yo mate dis d state all yu want but theyve got madt naturale' resources......

bello knows his destiny is hanging on the fence


he clearly knows he will not last on that seat.

smogup:
I see buhari's hand in all these. Bello was the highest donor of buhari's presidential bid in kogi. Buhari is trying to reward him. He is just a scammer

So I hear but do you think buhari will collect money from bello who made his billion from embezzlement and corruption as an accountant with revenue mobilization. That will be totally against buhari anti corruption stance. I hear he declared 64 billion naira asset. Wow

Iamsane:
You!! make sure you commit suicide after AYB Complete his Tenure. In sha allah

So in other words you are predicting I will kill myself in a few months time when bello tenure must end. In that case it means I will die a happy man

ijija:
So in other words you are predicting I will kill myself in a few months time when bello tenure must end. In that case it means I will die a happy man

which ever way, By God's Grace your death is near. And that thought about dying a happy man, Forget it...Your death will be as miserable as your llife is now.

seunlayi:
Kogi and Konji what is the difference

what are you saying......smh of some people with empty brain,they can't keep queit. Gosh!

Yahaya Bello will cruise in victory any day any time because he is God ordained, keep on critizing Bello he has 3 courts to pass through and the God that brought him there will protect him and see him through this hurdles.

uloewa:
By Ochereome Nnanna

GOVERNOR Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is the most insecure of the 36 state governors right now. The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal will, any moment from now, pronounce its verdict on the winner of the governorship rerun election that took place on February 28th, 2016.

Or more appropriately, the verdict will pronounce the person who will be governor between Bello, former Governor Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the late flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the original governorship poll which took place on November 22, 2016, Hon. James Faleke.

All three are tenaciously laying claim to the coveted seat, and there is no clear indicator as to where the “cat” is going to jump until the Tribunal makes its voice heard.

The Kogi governorship poll under contest was one of the most complicated in the seventeen years of our renascent democracy. Kogi is one of the states that fell outside the general electoral calendar as a result of earlier complications. Here is a recap of the story.

The governorship election took place on Saturday, November 22nd 2015. Audu woke up on Election Day and started complaining of stomach pains. He managed to vote and went back to his home for treatment. He remained there while the vote counting went on, and by the end of that Saturday, it was obvious he was in the lead. But by 9.00am the following morning, he died, and the drama of the Kogi polls took on a complicated plot.

Eventually, it turned out he won the majority of votes, according to Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, the Returning Officer of the Kogi governorship poll, with 240,876 compared to Governor Wada’s 199,514.

However, the election was declared inconclusive because, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the 41,353-vote difference between Audu and Wada was less than the 49,953 registered voters who did not vote. At this point there was confusion everywhere.

Many commentators opined that INEC should still have announced the winner since the elections had been concluded before Audu died, meaning that his running mate, Hon. James Faleke, should have been pronounced governor-elect. This is Faleke’s main ground for going to the Tribunal and stubbornly refusing to act as Bello’s Deputy Governor in defiance of his party’s entreaties. But Wada’s camp and independent observers note that Audu’s death before the formal announcement of the results presented a big constitutional lacuna.

It only provides that if the flag bearer dies before an election, his deputy will not automatically step in as flag bearer since he did not participate in the primaries of his political party. Rather, the party will be allowed to produce a new flag bearer. And if the death occurs after the results are announced, the deputy automatically assumes the mandate of the people, having participated in the campaigns.

This difficult situation was further worsened when the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, advised the APC to shop for a replacement for Audu to contest the rescheduled election to give the 49,953 voters on the register the opportunity to play the tie-breaker between APC and PDP candidates. APC found itself in a quandary and went back to the candidate who had come second during its primaries which Audu had won: Yahaya Bello. They ignored Faleke (who argued that Audu’s votes also belonged to him as both of them had worked for them) and asked Bello to stand in the place of Audu.

At the end of the rescheduled election of December 5th 2015, Bello, riding on APC’s victory crest, polled 6,885, while PDP’s Wada got 5,363. The problem here is that Bello was sworn-in as governor based on the “transferred” votes the Kogi electorate gave to the late Audu and Faleke.

The constitution and the electoral law have no provision for the “transfer” of votes from a dead candidate to a living one. Secondly, Bello is carrying the additional burden of going into the rescheduled election without a running mate, as Faleke declined his invitation to join the ticket. The constitution and the electoral law insist that for a governorship ticket to be valid there must be a flag bearer and a running mate.

When you look at this with the eyes of a layman, it seems that Bello might well be on “an excursion” in the Lugard House, as some of his own disgruntled party men have put it. It will be very interesting to see how the Tribunal will deal with this issue. Faleke, on the other hand, will not have it as easy as his camp may wish. He is haunted by the unfortunate albatross of his principal dying before the result was announced.

If Audu had died after the poll was declared inconclusive, Faleke would have taken up the flag for APC in the rescheduled election without stress. We would then not be talking about “inherited” or “transferred” votes. If “transferred” votes are validated, it could open a new, bloody chapter in Nigerian politics where popular candidates will become endangered species and targeted for murder by every conceivable means just before they are officially pronounced winners.

Wada, on the other hand, might well surprise most pundits by finding himself favoured by the complex odds that have bedevilled the APC. It will, however, be surprising if the Tribunal will award victory to a candidate and party that did not win a majority of the Kogi electorate’s mandate.

However, Wada’s camp appears not to be banking heavily on benefiting from the calamities of the APC. They seem convinced that the forensic examination of ballots which showed that Audu benefited from a lot of electoral irregularities could swing back the majority of valid votes to their candidate, Captain Idris Wada.

Indeed, the next few days to the verdict of the Tribunal will be a period of great tension and expectations among the three contending camps in the Kogi governorship poll. We wait to see how it ends.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/kogi-tribunal-anything-can-happen/

This is my state and hate it. I find the shitery going on there really troubling. Hope we are merged with another just to put an end to this.

ijija:
So I hear but do you think buhari will collect money from bello who made his billion from embezzlement and corruption as an accountant with revenue mobilization. That will be totally against buhari anti corruption stance. I hear he declared 64 billion naira asset. Wow

The strategy is to declare way more than his real asset value and make up for the difference via stole funds, just so that when he leaves office (which will certainly happen any moment from now) he may just be able to wiggle himself out of probes by declaring a lesser asset value, and then turn around to claim that he actually spent his resources on the State. Remember that he is an accountant by training, who had also worked in the civil service and is very skilled at manipulating the system to his benefit.

I was opportuned to participate in a meeting which he chaired recently, and really felt sorry for the situation he finds himself in. It was clear that he lacked proper grasp of the issues at hand, and most importantly lacked the professional and personal gravitas required to manage an office of that magnitude.

While his predecessor Idris Wada had his own shortcomings, especially on the makeup on his team, every fair minded person who had come in contact with him would certainly vouch for the fact that he was a top class performer who had a firm grasp of issues an was able to contribute intellectually to the benefit of his environs.

I admire Bello's courage in wanting to take on the Civil Service heads on, which is certainly ill advised in a Country like Nigeria where the Civil Service remains the oldest civilization in existence (even older than the Military). The timing of this move was ill advised and would ultimately end up being his undoing.

afla:
From the positions juxtaposed between the three camps , Wada deserves declaratory judgment.

REASONS
The certificate of returns issued Bello transferred Audu's vote to Bello. That's action is in nulity.

That he entered the race without a defined deputy, he also acted in nulity.

That Yahaya Bello or Bello Yahaya is not a registered voter in Kogi State makes his decoration as governor most bizzarre

Faleke my man.
A dodged fighter,
a man of principle
and loyal deputy Governor to Audu, your case ended with the demise of Audu but you are material for the future.

As for Capt. Idris Ichalla WADA, victory is in the air.
The people are waiting, The expectations to your coming back with the loyal Deputy Awoniyi is palpable /thick in the air that it can be held both hands physically.
BECAUSE
If the faltered faulty footsteps of APC in the whole political lacuna vice-a-vise
the illegal substitution or nomination of Bello;

encouragement of Bello to enter the race without a defined deputy;

Allowing Bello to contest without ascertaining his voters card status;
Does not give the needed victory.
Then you will nail them through judicial precedence of forensic evidence. Oshimole, Mimiko, Aregbesola are serving governors by virtue of this legal window of prudence.

God shall manifest that from a true heart cos there is power in my tongue.

It's better for kogi to join Biafra than for that mentally retarded son of men to rule kogi state...I have never seen a more stupid and foolish man as that wada..

OnucheAdams:
The strategy is to declare way more than his real asset value and make up for the difference via stole funds, just so that when he leaves office (which will certainly happen any moment from now) he may just be able to wiggle himself out of probes by declaring a lesser asset value, and then turn around to claim that he actually spent his resources on the State. Remember that he is an accountant by training, who had also worked in the civil service and is very skilled at manipulating the system to his benefit.

I was opportuned to participate in a meeting which he chaired recently, and really felt sorry for the situation he finds himself in. It was clear that he lacked proper grasp of the issues at hand, and most importantly lacked the professional and personal gravitas required to manage an office of that magnitude.

While his predecessor Idris Wada had his own shortcomings, especially on the makeup on his team, every fair minded person who had come in contact with him would certainly vouch for the fact that he was a top class performer who had a firm grasp of issues an was able to contribute intellectually to the benefit of his environs.

I admire Bello's courage in wanting to take on the Civil Service heads on, which is certainly ill advised in a Country like Nigeria where the Civil Service remains the oldest civilization in existence (even older than the Military). The timing of this move was ill advised and would ultimately end up being his undoing.

Pls if you want to kill me ..kill me. But don't ever mention that wada guy alongside any good thing

anthoniosp:
Pls if you want to kill me ..kill me. But don't ever mention that wada guy alongside any good thing

I have interfaced with Kogi State both as an internal and external stakeholder for 10 years and can say with all confidence that Wada is the most prudent Governor Kogi has ever had (with Bello inclusive). His downfall was an impotent media team and his desire to run an all inclusive setup.

anthoniosp:
It's better for kogi to join Biafra than for that mentally retarded son of men to rule kogi state...I have never seen a more stupid and foolish man as that wada..

Your opinions can't influence the outcome of the court process, which may end up favoring Wada. The reality of today is that the debacle that led to Bello's emergence has created an atmosphere of instability in the State, which certainly needs to be addressed in order to restore sanity to the polity.

APC and lawlesness when will it stop,Kogi Una Need Change,Change has come haha!

OnucheAdams:
I have interfaced with Kogi State both as an internal and external stakeholder for 10 years and can say with all confidence that Wada is the most prudent Governor Kogi has ever had (with Bello inclusive). His downfall was an impotent media team and his desire to run an all inclusive setup.

Why are you wasting time responding to his empty rant

OnucheAdams:
Your opinions can't influence the outcome of the court process, which may end up favoring Wada. The reality of today is that the debacle that led to Bello's emergence has created an atmosphere of instability in the State, which certainly needs to be addressed in order to restore sanity to the polity.

An atmosphere of instability, insecurity and impunity. #bellout

Ozid:
Yahaya Bello will cruise in victory any day any time because he is God ordained, keep on critizing Bello he has 3 courts to pass through and the God that brought him there will protect him and see him through this hurdles.

The same God that watched him lose the assembly battle?

anthoniosp:
It's better for kogi to join Biafra than for that mentally retarded son of men to rule kogi state...I have never seen a more stupid and foolish man as that wada..

Then look in your mirror you are bound to see the reflection of someone who is a million times more silly and foolish than wada

ijija:
Then look in your mirror you are bound to see the reflection of someone who is a million times more silly and foolish than wada

hehehe..e pain am..

Bro ... Don't try to test me on that insultive lane..I rule there..

Growing up is a beautiful thing..don't let it get to your head..

OnucheAdams:
Your opinions can't influence the outcome of the court process, which may end up favoring Wada. The reality of today is that the debacle that led to Bello's emergence has created an atmosphere of instability in the State, which certainly needs to be addressed in order to restore sanity to the polity.

bro..think well..if a wrong choice is made on this matter e.g declare wada d winner.. Then it means kill your opponent if you can't win has been introduced into Nigeria's political system..the same applies to that fair plus gut..if you should loose the primary ..kill the winner and take up the position has been introduced..I pity faleke because I hardly see him coming into the office..cos..fair plus has been sworn in and the only possible way out might be a new election..

OnucheAdams:
I have interfaced with Kogi State both as an internal and external stakeholder for 10 years and can say with all confidence that Wada is the most prudent Governor Kogi has ever had (with Bello inclusive). His downfall was an impotent media team and his desire to run an all inclusive setup.

bro..have you ever stayed in kogi?.. Did you see the situation of lokoja during wadas rule..if not because of fair plus that is now fixing the roads there..lokoja was looking like a dump site

ijija:
So in other words you are predicting I will kill myself in a few months time when bello tenure must end. In that case it means I will die a happy man

anthoniosp:
bro..think well..if a wrong choice is made on this matter e.g declare wada d winner.. Then it means kill your opponent if you can't win has been introduced into Nigeria's political system..the same applies to that fair plus gut..if you should loose the primary ..kill the winner and take up the position has been introduced..I pity faleke because I hardly see him coming into the office..cos..fair plus has been sworn in and the only possible way out might be a new election..

Nonsense Analysis

ijija:
So in other words you are predicting I will kill myself in a few months time when bello tenure must end. In that case it means I will die a happy man

Offcourse, in a few months time.

anthoniosp:
bro..have you ever stayed in kogi?.. Did you see the situation of lokoja during wadas rule..if not because of fair plus that is now fixing the roads there..lokoja was looking like a dump site

The contracts for those roads were awarded by Wada. The roads were 50% complete before Bello came in so it's wrong for you to attribute them to his administration.