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Many nigerians mostly pdp apologists are still confused about the pept judgment or ruling.some are saying that only an affidavit is needed to show that one is qualified and that one can just swear affidavit and lay claim to any qualification.they even went further to allege that the judges said that no qualification or certificate is needed to even contest for an elective post or to apply for a job.
This goes to show that most nigerians maybe superficially educated but do not know much about our electoral laws,laws in general or even political events.they believe in perception rather than fact.the perception is that buhari doesn't have waec and is therefors not qualified.this is an erroneous belief.they also believe that the judges were induced not minding the quality of the judgment.


To set the record straight,the tribunal simply followed constitutional provisions in arriving at their ruling.the constitution gave three qualifications one can have which are education up to ssce level or its equivalent and it went ahead to give us a clue about what the equivalent are.the judges rightfully said that being educated in any military school is an equivalent of scce and buhari is qualified.it also said primary school certificate in combination with being literate or serving in any public capacity for up to 5 years or overseas training or seminars.on this ground,buhari is qualified.it also said any other qualification accrptable to inec.inec and the judges said buhari being a retired general,a former head of state and even attending staff college jaji form part of this.


Looking at the case of the affidavit,the judges said that atiku didnt prove that buhari lied.moreover the affidavit was sworn in 2014 and the timeline has elapsed plus the army were never called to testify in court and they never said that buhari never submitted his documents to them.

Some people even said that the judges took side with apc and spoke like buhari lawyers and even went to look for evudences for buhari.this shows that nigerians do not follow election tribunals nor read past judgments.legal procedures demands that once a judge or judges take a position,they must adduce enough reasons and quote several authorities and precedents to justify it.in many cases when the supreme court gave their rulings,they usually fix another date to provide their reasons since giving reasons is not a tea party.

Personally,the ruling is 95% correct and will easily be upheld.the only issues i have with it are minor and are not fatal.i feel that the judges shouldn't say that aged oeople cannot lie,this is erroneous and false.i also feel that the judges could have cancelled a few units which had fictitious ruling instead of saying that the electoral act prohibits them from doing that afterall a high court judge in 2014 struck out that particular subsection and it was never contested.but since the pept is a superior court,there in order here.kudos to the judiciary.

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senatordave1:
Many nigerians mostly pdp apologists are still confused about the pept judgment or ruling.some are saying that only an affidavit is needed to show that one is qualified and that one can just swear affidavit and lay claim to any qualification.they even went further to allege that the judges said that no qualification or certificate is needed to even contest for an elective post or to apply for a job.
This goes to show that most nigerians maybe superficially educated but do not know much about our electoral laws,laws in general or even political events.they believe in perception rather than fact.the perception is that buhari doesn't have waec and is therefors not qualified.this is an erroneous belief.they also believe that the judges were induced not minding the quality of the judgment.


To set the record straight,the tribunal simply followed constitutional provisions in arriving at their ruling.the constitution gave three qualifications one can have which are education up to ssce level or its equivalent and it went ahead to give us a clue about what the equivalent are.the judges rightfully said that being educated in any military school is an equivalent of scce and buhari is qualified.it also said primary school certificate in combination with being literate or serving in any public capacity for up to 5 years or overseas training or seminars.on this ground,buhari is qualified.it also said any other qualification accrptable to inec.inec and the judges said buhari being a retired general,a former head of state and even attending staff college jaji form part of this.


Looking at the case of the affidavit,the judges said that atiku didnt prove that buhari lied.moreover the affidavit was sworn in 2014 and the timeline has elapsed plus the army were never called to testify in court and they never said that buhari never submitted his documents to them.

Some people even said that the judges took side with apc and spoke like buhari lawyers and even went to look for evudences for buhari.this shows that nigerians do not follow election tribunals nor read past judgments.legal procedures demands that once a judge or judges take a position,they must adduce enough reasons and quote several authorities and precedents to justify it.in many cases when the supreme court gave their rulings,they usually fix another date to provide their reasons since giving reasons is not a tea party.

Personally,the ruling is 95% correct and will easily be upheld.the only issues i have with it are minor and are not fatal.i feel that the judges shouldn't say that aged oeople cannot lie,this is erroneous and false.i also feel that the judges could have cancelled a few units which had fictitious ruling instead of saying that the electoral act prohibits them from doing that afterall a high court judge in 2014 struck out that particular subsection and it was never contested.but since the pept is a superior court,there in order here.kudos to the judiciary.

Mynd44
Fergie
Kahal
Seunmsg
Xmml33
Nativedoctor
Oghenaogie
Christianeast
Christiannorth
Enginerboat
Midolian
Omenka
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Sanromeo

God bless you for this write up.

BroOptimist:
God bless you for this write up.

Yes oh

keep deceiving yourself by planting the fruit of backwardness

fake cert cannot be real cert.

Pdp are only wise when they are about to loot to chop.

They simply did all that to loot Atiku money and the dundee kept on giving. Now they are bankrupt and require funds injection to keep their scam going

Stalwert:
Pdp are only wise when they are about to loot to chop.

They simply did all that to loot Atiku money and the dundee kept on giving. Now they are bankrupt and require funds injection to keep their scam going

Always say the truth the way it is cos what is bad is bad, this certificate affidavit stuff is a new low and I tell u bro is not going down anytime soon cos individual's will continue to exploit the system with it citing Buhari's case as a case study.

Everything starts one day .

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Adonko:
Always say the truth the way it is cos what is bad is bad, this certificate affidavit stuff is a new low and I tell u bro is not going down anytime soon cos individual's will continue to exploit the system with it citing Buhari's case as a case study.

Everything starts one day .

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Liar liar pants on fire. Where you in coma when adeleke contested for elections?

mbos:
keep deceiving yourself by planting the fruit of backwardness

fake cert cannot be real cert.

Seems you didnt read the post before jumping in ignorantly

887 views and less than 10 comments should have told you that what you wrote there is utter rubbish.

Don't mention me in stupid threads again.

Thank you

The thread is for intellectual understanding and discussion. If you simply can't provide a superior argument to his, kindly go to other threads where your tribal bitterness is needed

Cattle colony is confused.

senatordave1:
Many nigerians mostly pdp apologists are still confused about the pept judgment or ruling.some are saying that only an affidavit is needed to show that one is qualified and that one can just swear affidavit and lay claim to any qualification.they even went further to allege that the judges said that no qualification or certificate is needed to even contest for an elective post or to apply for a job.
This goes to show that most nigerians maybe superficially educated but do not know much about our electoral laws,laws in general or even political events.they believe in perception rather than fact.the perception is that buhari doesn't have waec and is therefors not qualified.this is an erroneous belief.they also believe that the judges were induced not minding the quality of the judgment.


To set the record straight,the tribunal simply followed constitutional provisions in arriving at their ruling.the constitution gave three qualifications one can have which are education up to ssce level or its equivalent and it went ahead to give us a clue about what the equivalent are.the judges rightfully said that being educated in any military school is an equivalent of scce and buhari is qualified.it also said primary school certificate in combination with being literate or serving in any public capacity for up to 5 years or overseas training or seminars.on this ground,buhari is qualified.it also said any other qualification accrptable to inec.inec and the judges said buhari being a retired general,a former head of state and even attending staff college jaji form part of this.


Looking at the case of the affidavit,the judges said that atiku didnt prove that buhari lied.moreover the affidavit was sworn in 2014 and the timeline has elapsed plus the army were never called to testify in court and they never said that buhari never submitted his documents to them.

Some people even said that the judges took side with apc and spoke like buhari lawyers and even went to look for evudences for buhari.this shows that nigerians do not follow election tribunals nor read past judgments.legal procedures demands that once a judge or judges take a position,they must adduce enough reasons and quote several authorities and precedents to justify it.in many cases when the supreme court gave their rulings,they usually fix another date to provide their reasons since giving reasons is not a tea party.

Personally,the ruling is 95% correct and will easily be upheld.the only issues i have with it are minor and are not fatal.i feel that the judges shouldn't say that aged oeople cannot lie,this is erroneous and false.i also feel that the judges could have cancelled a few units which had fictitious ruling instead of saying that the electoral act prohibits them from doing that afterall a high court judge in 2014 struck out that particular subsection and it was never contested.but since the pept is a superior court,there in order here.kudos to the judiciary.

Mynd44
Fergie
Kahal
Seunmsg
Xmml33
Nativedoctor
Oghenaogie
Christianeast
Christiannorth
Enginerboat
Midolian
Omenka
vedaxcool
Topmaike
Couragemurphy
Tonyebarcanista
Ekpeitit
Wirinet
Duwdu
Zoedew
Ejimatic
Sanromeo
Buhariguy
Amaniro
Ojiofor
Gandollar
Afamed
Yarimo

So what should we do about this now.

Why not apply as one of Buhari counsel at supreme court.

You said Atiku should not go to supreme.

Then what is the essence of this rubbish now.


Keep confusing yourself and your fellows menors

Zombies are scared of Supreme Court so they type all manner of gibberish to support their fake certificate/false affidavit swearing, lying fulani president.
It gives them nightmares that the Supreme Court will not want to bring itself to disrepute by upholding the useless judgement of the PEPT.
Nigeria is a disgrace today because a liar, thief and a certificate forger is the president.

engineerboat:
So what should we do about this now.

Why not apply as one of Buhari counsel at supreme court.

You said Atiku should not go to supreme.

Then what is the essence of this rubbish now.


Keep confusing yourself and your fellows menors

You this nigga again? I expected a superior argument. Not this thrash you put up there

FreddyKruger:
Zombies are scared of Supreme Court so they type all manner of gibberish to support their fake certificate/false affidavit swearing, lying fulani president.
It gives them nightmares that the Supreme Court will not want to bring itself to disrepute by upholding the useless judgement of the PEPT.
Nigeria is a disgrace today because a liar, thief and a certificate forger is the president.

Supreme court has not opened the case / defense, you can still join Atiku team of lawyer at the court. Gladly show them the forged Buhari certificate evidence that's the easiest way to disqualify him.
Even when over 30 SANs could not substantiate their evidence of Buhari not having certificate in a competent court of law, the half baked PDP will come on line to still force it on us that PMB has not certificate
Most of you have just decided to wail without any reason

FreddyKruger:
Zombies are scared of Supreme Court so they type all manner of gibberish to support their fake certificate/false affidavit swearing, lying fulani president.
It gives them nightmares that the Supreme Court will not want to bring itself to disrepute by upholding the useless judgement of the PEPT.
Nigeria is a disgrace today because a liar, thief and a certificate forger is the president.

I can assure you that ALL the 7 Supreme Court justices who will hear Atiku's appeal will dismiss it without much Ado. Even the PDP leaning justices like Mary Odili and that one from Adamawa state will join the others to throw out the case. Buhari's affidavit is being over flogged on social media by wailers without any concrete argument or informed facts of the issue. I don't know what they stand to gain by distorting the judgement or what transpired at the tribunal. PMB will be your president until 2023. All you can do is wait on social media.

For example, the same judiciary was overwhelmingly hailed as the last hope of the common man when the court’s gavels, one after another, stopped APC from fielding candidates in Rivers, Zamfara, Bauchi, Sokoto and Cross River states recently which made PDP to sweep the entire polling units. Be that as it may, appraising the poll verdicts demands legal reasoning and critical-thinking in determining if justice is actually done as adumbrated by Lord Hewart CJ in the Appeal Court in R v Sussex Justices, ex-parte McCarthy (1924) – “Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.”
To do this profoundly, the two contentions which bordered on Buhari’s eligibility to contest elections without the school certificate and also the purported polls results tracked from the commission’s server which the court refused to accept, are germane. Convincingly, the two are the major causes of actions.
Seriously, the contentions vis-à-vis educational qualification ought not to be stretched too far to the Court of Appeal as it is settled ab initio. In fact, it isn’t supposed to go beyond a village square as Part IV of the 1999 Constitution (FRN) as amended which serves as the Interpretation Act clearly dealt with it in a simple language.
From that, it is noteworthy that issues bordering on educational qualification as far as general elections are concerned are exclusive duties of the commission as it is statutorily clothed with discretionary powers to even go beyond certificate holders for all elective offices, including office of the President.
By implication, a candidate or political party lacks powers to challenge another on ground of academic qualification as long as it meets the satisfaction of the commission. This may sound witty but that is the law.
Section 318 (1) (supra) provides: In this constitution, unless it is otherwise expressly provided or the context otherwise requires – “School Certificate or its equivalent” means (a) a Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent, or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or (b) education up to Secondary School Certificate level; or (c) Primary Six School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent and (i) service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the clothed with powers to reasonably take judicial notice of Buhari’s status in the Nigerian Army as a retired Major General in government’s payroll to determine his eligibility vis-à-vis education up to school certificate level. Judicial notice enables a judge to accept a fact without the need of a party to prove it through evidence on account of notoriety: things of common knowledge.
On the purported results tracked from INEC server which was the basis for the botched action to upturn the election victory in favour of Atiku and PDP, it sounds absurd in the sense that a serious contention should have been anchored on original results obtained, recorded and signed by all accredited party-agents alongside designated INEC officials at the polling units accordingly.
As a matter of fact, the results authenticated by accredited party agents supersede any results found anywhere whether in the server or INEC records. Thus, any results that are inconsistent with the one duly signed by all the party agents are invariably unacceptable. To leave the results from the polling units and accept whatever data inputted by someone in the server is not a just action.
Instructively, in manual elections, the results from polling units are the primary evidence of scores unlike online voting that the server is a primary source. Thus, where results in the servers don’t correspond with scores obtained at polling units in a manual election, it shows the server’s data were manipulated.
Holistically, the verdicts are profound and distinctively anchored on points of law instead of emotions and sentiments. Thus, I bow to your Lordships.