ipob wailers will not see this one.abeg make them come remove them and this Cameroonian looter from Naija make them go form their own republic.we don tire for them.

Hahahahaha.

This drama is a foolish one.
He is not a Nigerian but he was the formal elected vice president of Nigeria?

Let's see if the case will be decided by any dummy.

gracious4real:
ipob wailers will not see this one.abeg make them come remove them and this Cameroonian looter from Naija make them go form their own republic.we don tire for them.

One of the game apc is subtle playing is to waste time and frustrate atiku's petition.time will run out without him presenting enough evidences.they did it in edo between obaseki and pdp.one month has elapsed since the case started and no formal court proceedings have begun while cases guber cases that started later have forged ahead.atiku will not present up to 100 witnesses who will contradict themselves and will present few evidences.he wont even have time to argue the claims on buhari qualifications.infant,his team may end up defending atiku from the counterclaims filed by buhari.they will be series of adjournments and time wasting.before atiku realizes,180 days will elapse and his case will fail

Naijageak:
Hahahahaha.

This drama is a foolish one.
He is not a Nigerian but he was the formal elected vice president of Nigeria?

Let's see if the case will be decided by any dummy.

(1) The following are ways to gain citizenship in Nigeria
By Birth
By Registration
By Naturalisation
By birth-namely - (a) Every person born in Nigeria after the date of independence (October 1, 1960), either of whose parents or any of whose grandparents belongs or belonged to a community indigenous to Nigeria;
Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of Nigeria by virtue of this section if neither of his parents nor any of his grandparents was born in Nigeria.
(b) Every person born outside Nigeria either of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria.
(2) In this section, "the date of independence" means the 1st day of October 1960.
By registration: 26. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, a person to whom the provisions of this section apply may be registered as a citizen of Nigeria, if the President is satisfied that -
(a) He is a person of good character; two people to testify to that which one should a Religious minister...
(b) He has shown a clear intention of his desire to be domiciled in Nigeria; and
(c) He has taken the Oath of Allegiance prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution.
(2) The provisions of this section shall apply to-
(a) Any woman who is or has been married to a citizen of Nigeria or every person of full age and capacity born outside Nigeria any of whose grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria.
By naturalization: 27. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, any person who is qualified in accordance with the provisions of this section may apply to the President for the same of a certificate of naturalisation.
(2) No person shall be qualified to apply for the grant of a certificate or naturalisation, unless he satisfies the President that -
* (a) He is a person of full age and capacity;
* (b) He is a person of good character;
* (c) He has shown a clear intention of his desire to be domiciled in Nigeria;
* (d) He is, in the opinion of the Governor of the State where he is or he proposes to be resident, acceptable to the local community in which he is to live permanently, and has been assimilated into the way of life of Nigerians in that part of the Federation;
* (e) He is a person who has made or is capable of making useful contribution to the advancement; progress and well-being of Nigeria;
* (f) He has taken the Oath of Allegiance prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution; and
* (g) He has, immediately preceding the date of his application, either-
(i) Resided in Nigeria for a continuous period of fifteen years; or
(ii) Resided in Nigeria continuously for a period of twelve months, and during the period of twenty years immediately preceding that period of twelve months has resided in Nigeria for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifteen years.
28. (1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his Nigerian citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires or retains the citizenship or nationality of a country, other than Nigeria, of which he is not a citizen by birth.
29. (1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation.
(2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria.
(3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if-
(a) The declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or
(b) In his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.
(a) "full age" means the age of eighteen years and above;
(b) Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.
30. (1) The President may deprive a person, other than a person who is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or by registration, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied that such a person has, within a period of seven years after becoming naturalized, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than three years.
(2) The President shall deprive a person, other than a person who is citizen of Nigeria by birth, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied from the records of proceedings of a court of law or other tribunal or after due inquiry in accordance with regulations made by him, that -
(a) The person has shown himself by act or speech to be disloyal towards the Federal Republic of Nigeria ; or
(b) The person has, during any war in which Nigeria was engaged, unlawfully traded with the enemy or been engaged in or associated with any business that was in the opinion of the president carried on in such a manner as to assist the enemy of Nigeria in that war, or unlawfully communicated with such enemy to the detriment of or with intent to cause damage to the interest of Nigeria.
31. For the purposes of this Chapter, a parent or grandparent of a person shall be deemed to be a citizen of Nigeria if at the time of the birth of that person such parent or grandparent would have possessed that status by birth if he had been alive on the date of independence; and in this section, "the date of independence" has the meaning assigned to it in section 25 (2) of this Constitution.
32. (1) The president may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Chapter, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Chapter, and for granting special immigrant status with full residential rights to non-Nigerian spouses of citizens of Nigeria who do not wish to acquire Nigerian citizenship.
(2) Any regulations made by the president pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be laid before the National Assembly NIGERIA
CITIZENSHIP: Citizenship is based upon the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dated 1989. (UKC-Commonwealth Nation) Those born before or on the date of independence, October 1, 1960, whose parents or grandparents were born in Nigeria and who were legally residing in Nigeria at the time, are considered citizens of Nigeria. BY BIRTH: Birth within the territory of Nigeria does not automatically confer citizenship. BY DESCENT: Child, at least one of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria, regardless of the child's country of birth. REGISTRATION: The following persons are eligible to become citizens through registration: A foreign woman who marries a citizen of Nigeria. Person who is of adult age (17), born outside Nigeria, any of whose grandparents is or was a citizen of Nigeria. A foreign child adopted by Nigerian parents. BY NATURALIZATION: Nigerian citizenship may be acquired upon fulfillment of the following conditions: Person is of full age (17), has resided in Nigeria for at least 15 years, is of good character, plans to remain in Nigeria, is familiar with Nigerian language and customs, has a viable means of support, and has renounced previous citizenship.

Does he hold second citizenship of another country? I don't understand ....



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nijabazaar:
APC is supremely dumb.

This is absurd. Totally

Go and read the Constitution of The Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (As Amended)then you would realize how supremely ignorant and dumb you really are.

gladisa7:
na wetin they ask them?? the question na WHY UNA Rig presidential election

Against a null and void candidate initio that was not qualified to contest?

garfield1:

(1) The following are ways to gain citizenship in Nigeria
By Birth
By Registration
By Naturalisation
By birth-namely - (a) Every person born in Nigeria after the date of independence (October 1, 1960), either of whose parents or any of whose grandparents belongs or belonged to a community indigenous to Nigeria;
Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of Nigeria by virtue of this section if neither of his parents nor any of his grandparents was born in Nigeria.
(b) Every person born outside Nigeria either of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria.
(2) In this section, "the date of independence" means the 1st day of October 1960.
By registration: 26. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, a person to whom the provisions of this section apply may be registered as a citizen of Nigeria, if the President is satisfied that -
(a) He is a person of good character; two people to testify to that which one should a Religious minister...
(b) He has shown a clear intention of his desire to be domiciled in Nigeria; and
(c) He has taken the Oath of Allegiance prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution.
(2) The provisions of this section shall apply to-
(a) Any woman who is or has been married to a citizen of Nigeria or every person of full age and capacity born outside Nigeria any of whose grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria.
By naturalization: 27. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, any person who is qualified in accordance with the provisions of this section may apply to the President for the same of a certificate of naturalisation.
(2) No person shall be qualified to apply for the grant of a certificate or naturalisation, unless he satisfies the President that -
* (a) He is a person of full age and capacity;
* (b) He is a person of good character;
* (c) He has shown a clear intention of his desire to be domiciled in Nigeria;
* (d) He is, in the opinion of the Governor of the State where he is or he proposes to be resident, acceptable to the local community in which he is to live permanently, and has been assimilated into the way of life of Nigerians in that part of the Federation;
* (e) He is a person who has made or is capable of making useful contribution to the advancement; progress and well-being of Nigeria;
* (f) He has taken the Oath of Allegiance prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution; and
* (g) He has, immediately preceding the date of his application, either-
(i) Resided in Nigeria for a continuous period of fifteen years; or
(ii) Resided in Nigeria continuously for a period of twelve months, and during the period of twenty years immediately preceding that period of twelve months has resided in Nigeria for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifteen years.
28. (1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his Nigerian citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires or retains the citizenship or nationality of a country, other than Nigeria, of which he is not a citizen by birth.
29. (1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation.
(2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria.
(3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if-
(a) The declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or
(b) In his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.
(a) "full age" means the age of eighteen years and above;
(b) Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.
30. (1) The President may deprive a person, other than a person who is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or by registration, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied that such a person has, within a period of seven years after becoming naturalized, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than three years.
(2) The President shall deprive a person, other than a person who is citizen of Nigeria by birth, of his citizenship, if he is satisfied from the records of proceedings of a court of law or other tribunal or after due inquiry in accordance with regulations made by him, that -
(a) The person has shown himself by act or speech to be disloyal towards the Federal Republic of Nigeria ; or
(b) The person has, during any war in which Nigeria was engaged, unlawfully traded with the enemy or been engaged in or associated with any business that was in the opinion of the president carried on in such a manner as to assist the enemy of Nigeria in that war, or unlawfully communicated with such enemy to the detriment of or with intent to cause damage to the interest of Nigeria.
31. For the purposes of this Chapter, a parent or grandparent of a person shall be deemed to be a citizen of Nigeria if at the time of the birth of that person such parent or grandparent would have possessed that status by birth if he had been alive on the date of independence; and in this section, "the date of independence" has the meaning assigned to it in section 25 (2) of this Constitution.
32. (1) The president may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Chapter, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Chapter, and for granting special immigrant status with full residential rights to non-Nigerian spouses of citizens of Nigeria who do not wish to acquire Nigerian citizenship.
(2) Any regulations made by the president pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be laid before the National Assembly NIGERIA
CITIZENSHIP: Citizenship is based upon the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dated 1989. (UKC-Commonwealth Nation) Those born before or on the date of independence, October 1, 1960, whose parents or grandparents were born in Nigeria and who were legally residing in Nigeria at the time, are considered citizens of Nigeria. BY BIRTH: Birth within the territory of Nigeria does not automatically confer citizenship. BY DESCENT: Child, at least one of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria, regardless of the child's country of birth. REGISTRATION: The following persons are eligible to become citizens through registration: A foreign woman who marries a citizen of Nigeria. Person who is of adult age (17), born outside Nigeria, any of whose grandparents is or was a citizen of Nigeria. A foreign child adopted by Nigerian parents. BY NATURALIZATION: Nigerian citizenship may be acquired upon fulfillment of the following conditions: Person is of full age (17), has resided in Nigeria for at least 15 years, is of good character, plans to remain in Nigeria, is familiar with Nigerian language and customs, has a viable means of support, and has renounced previous citizenship.

Atiku was not born in Nigeria so simple he can’t be President of Nigeria,same law applies in the United States.

ChristianNorth:

I think Buhari is dumb but you own worse pass. I have never seen someone so dumb.

Mumu, this constitution was passed in 1999 by the military it doesn't recognize plebiscite, before then we were using the 1979 constitution which Buhari suspended.

The 1961 pleb was based on a colonial law, the same way the Almagamation was a product of the colonial law. That law automatically made anyone living within the Southern and Northerner protectorates, Nigerian and subsequently, everyone born after 1914.

Smack down!

nonsobaba:
Atiku started it by turning his petition into a comedy circus by asking the tribunal to cancel the whole election because Buhari does not have a certificate because his school wasn't existing in 1949, so the APC are playing along. When atiku gets serious with his petition, I am sure APC will also get serious with its defence.

So how is Atiku wrong on this ? If Buhari has no certificate he should be disqualified. Similarly, if Atiku is not a Nigerian, so should he.

greatermeme:
Thanks, bro! Good analysis!

You and other pdp fellows here are dumb and empty.you can now see that apc is superior to pdp in everything or perhaps your just being mischievous.do i need to activate your commonsense before you know that this is just one out of several grounds of replies apc prepared against pdp? Do i need to tell you that even atiku's petition has several claims and charges and they were posted here one by one inorder to create sensationalism? So you cant use your discretion to declduce that more counter claims will be published in the coming weeks im piecemeal? You havent even seen the full petition and you are yapping.you havemt even seen that of atiku and you are spitting salivaall over this forum.i even offered to send you the petition,you panicked and fled.
Deep down you,you know that atiku lost but out of hatred for buhari,you are creating an imaginary hope.you were nowhere to be found when we argued about the inec server hacked result.i asked you to give an instance of how atiku won based on polling unit results,you resorted to abuses and childish tantrums and i expect same.atiku's loss at the court will obviously induce a heart attack

Someone already answered you

ChristianNorth:

The petition is that Buhari lied under oath so he is not qualified. Since Buhari was APC's sole candidate, it will disqualify APC from the election.

Anyway, that petition is meant to achieve other things and one of them is 14 years for Buhari.

. I have bn reading your comments here from the page you started. Why are you getting yourself worked up over nothing. This is a legal battle. And na battle dem call am. Leave the SANs to their job nah or you are one of them. What even makes you think that if Atiku is disqualified, pdp wins but if Buhari got disqualified, apc loses.
No sentiments in law court jare. You accept the fact that Buhari sec school did not exist before independence but find it hard to accept that Atiku home town was not part Nigeria as at then. Some are even arguing if apc wasn't aware of Atiku nationality in 2015 as if Atiku did not support a Buhari who had no sec sch cert then. Comical individuals.

Then he should be deported to Yaounde or Douala.

This is very funny. You mean the APC legal team brought this as a claim?

Even if Atiku wasn't a Nigerian by birth, his Vice Presidency has automatically made him a qualified Nigerian.

garfield1:

Guy sorry boy,you are actually the illiterate here.am happy people are seeing me burst your below capacity and near empty brain.according to you(a nobody)our constitution from 1960 till date doesn't recognize plebiscites and needs amendment which means atiku is not a nigerian.save your saliva and tears.you will join him when they deport him to csmeroun

Is that the way apc will defend its 'stolen mandate' ? Chaii kwakwakwakwa

And he was vice president.. Same way Jubrin isn't. Scam every where. Naija na scam

DivideUs:


It's called a ticket for a reason, also can you tell me why it says elected on the VP's return cert?

Oga u didn't answer my earlier question

Sunsets:
Please stop misinforming people.

If I lose belt for u dis morning ehn

If jada was northern Cameron in 1946 but now northern Nigeria in 2019,then APC’s defense is lurid.

this shows that atiku truly won the election

TOPCRUISE:
That you are not a citizen by birth does not disqualify you in contesting

Really..
Lolzz

courage89:
Very nice defense if you ask me. How do you prove that Atiku is not from Cameroon? What negative information (personal, political and other secrets) will make it to the public light in course of disputing this defense? What effect will these unfolded secrecy have on the political career of Atiku going forward?

Is this defense about winning, or about retiring Atiku politically?
Let's see how this movie unfolds.

You are very smart..

Let me add Nigerian constitution chapter 6..


Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999

CHAPTER VI

THE EXECUTIVE

Part I

Federal Executive

A - The President of the Federation

130.

(1) There shall be for the Federation a President.

(2) The President shall be the Head of State, the Chief Executive of the Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation.

131. A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if -

(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;

(b) he has attained the age of forty years;

(c) he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and

(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.

Now the question is, is Atiku a citizen of Nigeria by birth?

This tribunal go sweet o

MetaPhysical:


That does not impeach their claim on his foreing birth and citizenship. He could have been a past president if judgement is given against his qualification then he can no longer stand for any future elective office.

I had not imagined a noncitizen can become vice president

DrtroubleM:


You are very smart..

Let me add Nigerian constitution chapter 6..


Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999

CHAPTER VI

THE EXECUTIVE

Part I

Federal Executive

A - The President of the Federation

130.

(1) There shall be for the Federation a President.

(2) The President shall be the Head of State, the Chief Executive of the Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation.

131. A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if -

(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;

(b) he has attained the age of forty years;

(c) he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and

(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.

Now the question is, is Atiku a citizen of Nigeria by birth?

This tribunal go sweet o

Guy wait,are you saying that if one is a citizen by naturalization or registration,he cannot be president of nigeria

Ikpongiton:
this shows that atiku truly won the election

It shows nothing.you truly dont know anything about the judicial system

Trapping:



Smack down!

He smacked down himself unknowingly

olalat:
. I have bn reading your comments here from the page you started. Why are you getting yourself worked up over nothing. This is a legal battle. And na battle dem call am. Leave the SANs to their job nah or you are one of them. What even makes you think that if Atiku is disqualified, pdp wins but if Buhari got disqualified, apc loses.
No sentiments in law court jare. You accept the fact that Buhari sec school did not exist before independence but find it hard to accept that Atiku home town was not part Nigeria as at then. Some are even arguing if apc wasn't aware of Atiku nationality in 2015 as if Atiku did not support a Buhari who had no sec sch cert then. Comical individuals.

What do you expect from bihari haters? Its what happens when you cant grow above defeat and hatred