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You spoiled it with the Mbaka vision. You would have simply ignored it

The Tanko Mohammed-led SC is nothing but a disgrace

total vote now bigger than number of people accredited. seven wonders of APC supreme Court. Imo people need massive protest. is obvious this is miscarriage of justice.

Staro:
I hate to see anyone being cheated so brazenly.
It hurts deeply
This is wicked ... man's inhumanity to man

This is not fair
Buhari ... you will not remain in power forever

the judges deserve some slap for being a tool,look at osun and Kano total disgrace to the current judiciary,they must be sent to jail after current government,the judges are abusing their powers and privilege to dish out flawed judgements

The Supreme court should release a detailed white paper explaining how and why they came to the conclusion of having Uzodinma declared as winner.

I am from Uzodinma's town, he is a family friend and was very helpful during his days as senator. Many of us from Oru, Orsu, Orlu are happy but confused at the same time. Mixed feelings. It was unexpected I must say. Even legal luminaries and SANs seem to be confused about the judgement too.

In order to make it very clear and unambigous to everyone, from laymen, to law students and law teachers, the SC should publish a detailed report and help Nigerians understand better, because every judgment is a law and sometimes sets a new precedence. Many cases in future will refer to this case as authorities when fighting their own matters in court.

The SC should do the needful and help to make Nigerians understand. Afterall, Man and Law are supposed to be inseperable.

If the figures you presented are true then I can say this is one of the seven wonders of the world.

From the moment uche Nwosu stepped down he transferred all his votes to Hope Uzodinma.

That's one of the reasons for APC winning

Doesn't work that way. AA is a different party whose votes cannot be transferred

Coldie:
From the moment uche Nwosu stepped down he transferred all his votes to Hope Uzodinma.

That's one of the reasons for APC winning

The rigging no be here. However, the person that is annoying me the most is Mbaka. This man is a fraud and he is being used to con and steal the mandate of the people. The man is a brazen thief I tell you.

[quote author=RuudVanNisteroy post=85806736]How did the accredited number of voters increase by almost 100% after the Presidential election in less than a week is one of the questions I raised. The election was a massive fraud regardless of who won.
I am impartial.[/quote
Tell me which state(s) in the south that doesn't have an exponential increase during the gubernatorial elections...
And how is your figures almost 100%.. as in almost doubled..?

RuudVanNisteroy:
How did the accredited number of voters increase by almost 100% after the Presidential election in less than a week is one of the questions I raised. The election was a massive fraud regardless of who won.
I am impartial.

Its possible Voters accredited on Presidential Election will always differ from Gov. Election reason is people are more concerns about GE maybe you were talking of voters registered that can't be changes within weeks on till when new registration commence

Coldie:
From the moment uche Nwosu stepped down he transferred all his votes to Hope Uzodinma.

That's one of the reasons for APC winning

Haha. What nonsense. Please reason like an educated fellow.

Mynd44:
And you have every right to ignore and read the ones that are not gibberish.

Imo state House of Assembly composition:
PDP = 13 members
AA = 6 members
APGA = 6 members
APC = Zero
Supreme Court said APC won. What kind of species are imo people. They "massively" voted for APC in Guber election, but voted other parties in HoA elections that took place same day. They must have assumed that we're all stupid, don't they?

Does this make sense to you? APC won the Governorship and on the same people that voted for APC refused to vote for any of their candidates to represent them in the House of Assembly on the same day.

crackhouse:
If the figures you presented are true then I can say this is one of the seven wonders of the world.

100

joyandfaith:
it is shameful.pdp was leading APC with about 180000 votes. Results of 188 polling units were cancelled by inec. most likely apc won with minimum of 1000 votes in each PU. 188 x1000=188,000. how can a party won with 1000 votes difference in a polling unit ?that is interesting

Akpabio and oshiomhole,ortom and wike won thier units with 1000 plus votes

RuudVanNisteroy:
How did the accredited number of voters increase by almost 100% after the Presidential election in less than a week is one of the questions I raised. The election was a massive fraud regardless of who won.
I am impartial.

Commonsense should tell you that more people were interested in the guber polls.imo paraded several heavyweights in the guber polls and this attracted high interest from the electorate.atiku and buhari are both northerners who doesn't titillate imolites.i have a video from youtube before the elections conducted by ait and majority of imolites said they will not come out to vote during the presidential votes but will come out during the guber votes

afroniger:
There seems to be a lot of question marks surrounding this judgment. Too bad that it was delivered by the supreme Court which makes it incontestable.

There is no question mark except for those not conversant with electoral cases.before the judgment,i took pains in explaining how the case will go.where were you

garfield1:
Commonsense should tell you that more people were interested in the guber polls.imo paraded several heavyweights in the guber polls and this attracted high interest from the electorate.atiku and buhari are both northerners who doesn't titillate imolites.i have a video from youtube before the elections conducted by ait and majority of imolites said they will not come out to vote during the presidential votes but will come out during the guber votes

So, that was responsible for the almost 100% increase in registered voters within a week. Where else have you seen this happened except in Nigeria. It just exposes the massive fraud that happens in elections in throughout the country.

garfield1:
Commonsense should tell you that more people were interested in the guber polls.imo paraded several heavyweights in the guber polls and this attracted high interest from the electorate.atiku and buhari are both northerners who doesn't titillate imolites.i have a video from youtube before the elections conducted by ait and majority of imolites said they will not come out to vote during the presidential votes but will come out during the guber votes

So, that was responsible for the almost 100% increase in registered voters within a week. Where else have you seen this happened except in Nigeria. It just exposes the massive fraud that happens in elections throughout the country.

majamajic:


Once u hear the judge is sick and couldn't continue , infact once u hear change of judge


just run !!!

something is about to happen

It was only one judge.6 against 1 and will make no difference.go back to primary school

RuudVanNisteroy:
So, that was responsible for the almost 100% increase in registered voters within a week. Where else have you seen this happened except in Nigeria. It just exposes the massive fraud that happens in elections throughout the country.

I can cite several instances where votes of guber polls were far more than that recorded during the presidential polls if you will give me time.by the way,between 4 imo sons and 2 northerners,which of them will the imo voter be more likely to turnout for

Racoon:
The Tanko Mohammed-led SC is nothing but a disgrace

THE IMO GUBERNATORIAL JUDGMENT - A PAINFUL BUT LEGALLY CORRECT VERDICT!

It is indeed a perplexing paradox: Hope Uzodinma may not have won the 2019 Imo State gubernatorial election, yet the Supreme Court, on the facts, was right in declaring him the winner of that election in law. The error was not the Supreme Court's, but that of Governor Emeka Ihedioha's legal team; and it was a crucially fatal error.

What happened was this: During the governorship election in Imo State, apparently concocted results, perhaps not having any basis whatsoever in reality, BUT SIGNED BY INEC PRESIDING OFFICERS, were turned in from more than 350 polling units, giving Hope Uzodinma of the APC an incredibly unassailable lead. When those results were transmitted to the wards collation centres, the collation officers, who had no power in law to cancel or reject them, rejected the said polling units results, and refused to collate them, thereby effectively excluding them from the total tally of the governorship result that was eventually declared by the Returning Officer. In the aftermath of the said exclusion, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Governor Ihedioha the winner of the election.

The exclusion of the results of those polling units was the fulcrum of the petition presented at the Tribunal by Hope Uzodinma. Ever since David Mark V. ABUBAKAR USMAN, and DOMA V. INEC, the law has been settled that neither collation officers nor a returning officer, has the power in law to exclude a polling unit result duly signed by the presiding officer at the polling unit; only the election tribunal possesses the power to cancel or exclude such a result. So, at the point of its presentation, Senator Uzodinma's petition was potentially viable, in spite of the apparent dubiousness of the polling units results on which it was anchored, there being a REBUTTABLE presumption of regularity and correctness, by virtue of both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act, enuring in favour of any result declared by a presiding officer.

The backbreaking and fatal error made by Ihedioha's legal team was not filing a CROSS PETITION fiercely challenging the integrity of the suspect polling units results upon which Uzodinma was relying, and praying the election tribunal to formally nullify the said results. Without a cross petition, none of the grounds under section 138 (1) of the Electoral Act for questioning the elections conducted in those polling units in which Uzodinma "won" could have been competently raised by Governor Ihedioha in his defence to Uzodinma's petition. This was the ratio decidendi of the old Court of Appeal decision in IDRIS V. A.N.P.P.(2008)8 NWLR(PT.1088) Page 1. In the recent Court of Appeal decision in ATIKU ABUBAKAR V. BUHARI, the Court of Appeal again invoked the principle in dismissing Buhari's contention that Atiku ABUBAKAR was born in Cameroun to parents who originally were Camerounians, and thus disqualified from contesting the election. Dismissing the contention, the Court of Appeal held that the issue was incompetent, since Buhari did not file a cross petition.

Ihedioha indeed did set up facts in his Reply to the petition rehashing the serial infractions that led to the exclusion of the results of the said 300 plus polling units. But that was legally not enough, in the absence of a cross petition. Besides, such renditions by a Respondent in a mere Reply or Statement of Defence are clearly incompetent. The reason for the incompetence was was made clear by the Court of Appeal in NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL & ORS V. HON. JUSTICE JUBRIL BABAJIDE ALADEJANA & ORS(2014) LPELR - 2413 (CA) Page 31, paras C - F, at ratio 3 thus -

"The law is that it is a plaintiff who by his statement of claim primarily nominates issues to be tried in a suit and which he relies on to have the judgment of the Court. For a defendant, it is only necessary to resist the plaintiff's claim on the facts pleaded. It is not for a defendant to set up facts which would convey that it is not just setting up a defence but setting up a new case of his own. He can only do so by way of a counter claim..."

Shorn of the legalese, what the above authority is simply saying is that since the issue nominated for trial by Hope Uzodinma was the unlawfulfulness or otherwise of the exclusion of the results of the 300 plus polling units by the ward collation officers, Ihedioha's defence was therefore necessarily restricted by law to showing that those who excluded the results had the power in law to exclude them. Without a cross petition praying for the nullification of those results, the law forbids Governor Ihedioha as respondent from raising the issue of the alleged serial corrupt practices and irregularities marring the said results, in a mere statement of defence; that was a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma as petitioner. Ihedioha, being a Respondent, could only have competently raised them via a cross petition, being a new issue not nominated by Uzodinma, the petitioner.

Tragically, Ihedioha's legal team forgot to include the pivotal cross petition. And in the absence of a cross petition, the Supreme Court was right in law, painfully though it may seem, to rely on the presumption of regularity and correctness enshrined by both the Electoral Act and Evidence Act in favour of the said results, and to reckon with them and add them up to the final result, since Ihedioha's legal team had woefully failed to effectively attack the results and rebut that presumption. For the Supreme Court, this was the legally correct conclusion to come to, having found that INEC had no power in law to exclude polling units results duly affirmed by the various polling units presiding officers.
Read this anti buharist

garfield1:
I can cite several instances where votes of guber polls were far more than that recorded during the presidential polls if you will give me time.by the way,between 4 imo sons and 2 northerners,which of them will the imo voter be more likely to turnout for

The numbers are cooked and there is no rational to explain the 100% increase. Elections has been reduced to a joke in the country. Which other country in the world do you see this happen?

[quote author=RuudVanNisteroy post=85812289][/quote]Are you paid to wail?

okeyglm:
total vote now bigger than number of people accredited. seven wonders of APC supreme Court. Imo people need massive protest. is obvious this is miscarriage of justice.

Inec didnt do their calculations well.according to the electoral act,overvoting is calculated using voters register.the number you are seeing is from only card readers but legally,people can vote without card readers

RuudVanNisteroy:
The numbers are cooked and there is no rational to explain the 100% increase. Elections has been reduced to a joke in the country. Which other country in the world do you see this happen?

You are obviously not rational or reasonable so no need to press further.wailing mode

garfield1:
Are you paid to wail?

Are you paid to defend corruption and injustice. Is this the kind of justice and election that produced the leaders you see in UK and Canada that have created the greatest civilizations?

RuudVanNisteroy:
Imo state House of Assembly composition:
PDP = 13 members
AA = 6 members
APGA = 6 members
APC = Zero
Supreme Court said APC won. What kind of species are imo people. They "massively" voted for APC in Guber election, but voted other parties in HoA elections that took place same day. They must have assumed that we're all stupid, don't they?

Does this make sense to you? APC won the Governorship and on the same people that voted for APC refused to vote for any of their candidates to represent them in the House of Assembly on the same day.

It's a different thing to ask for explanation, it's a different thing to be wailing over a SC judgement.

What if the people actually voted for "candidacy" and not "party"

Afterall, in the East, APC is not liked. What if that's what happened?



i also think, if PDP were robbed, really robbed like you people are portraying it to be, by now, they would have come out with proves as to how they were robbed, as to how SC ruled against them


we don't know what happened in house, and PDP themselves haven't proved in anyway they are robbed, except crying as usual that they were robbed, where's the proof that they were?

Why on Earth would INEC exclude APCs vote from over 300 PUs, only APC, not the other parties, as it's not in your favor, you're not bothered, no?


Ask the real question abeg. Why did INEC exclude only APCs vote from 300+ PUs. Why not declare the whole PUs inconclusive?


And also, why has the PDP not "proved" in actuality that they were robbed? na only complaints dem put for ground

LaMujer:
It's a different thing to ask for explanation, it's a different thing to be wailing over a SC judgement.

What if the people actually voted for "candidacy" and not "party"

Afterall, in the East, APC is not liked. What if that's what happened?



i also think, if PDP were robbed, really robbed like you people are portraying it to be, by now, they would have come out with proves as to how they were robbed, as to how SC ruled against them


we don't know what happened in house, and PDP themselves haven't proved in anyway they are robbed, except crying as usual that they were robbed, where's the proof that they were?

Why on Earth would INEC exclude APCs vote from over 300 PUs, only APC, not the other parties, as it's not in your favor, you're not bothered, no?


Ask the real question abeg. Why did INEC exclude only APCs vote from 300+ PUs. Why not declare the whole PUs inconclusive?


And also, why has the PDP not "proved" in actuality that they were robbed? na only complaints dem put for ground

How on earth will voters that voted 'massively' for APC in the same polling booth in the Governorship election now vote for another party in the House of Assembly election a second later?