₦airaland Forum

garfield1:
The problem with most of you pdp fans is that you are not conversant with the law.according to the electoral act,once results are declared at thr polling units,only the courts can nullify them.please update yourself with the electoral act and stop strezsing us.also,see doma vs inec 2012 and hashidu vs goje 2004.i can send it to you to clear your doubts.these are settled laws.stop bringing your layman reasoning here,we are dealing with legalities.
The presiding officers are part of inec,there are the alpha and omega at polling units in the eyes of the law.

The country is a now the world capital of poverty and corruption because of APC and PDP. And you are still being partisan as they run they country to the ground.
How will your future generation survive in the Nigeria they are destroying all institutions.

garfield1:
The problem with most of you pdp fans is that you are not conversant with the law.according to the electoral act,once results are declared at thr polling units,only the courts can nullify them.please update yourself with the electoral act and stop strezsing us.also,see doma vs inec 2012 and hashidu vs goje 2004.i can send it to you to clear your doubts.these are settled laws.stop bringing your layman reasoning here,we are dealing with legalities.
The presiding officers are part of inec,there are the alpha and omega at polling units in the eyes of the law.

1. I'm not PDP.
2. Send it pls. I remember yakub saying any polling unit where the presiding officer witnesses irregularities or was forced to write results, all he needs do is to fill the incidence forms detailing what happened there and inec will do the rest. So I'm interested in seeing what the law says

RuudVanNisteroy:
The country is a now the world capital of poverty and corruption because of APC and PDP. And you are still being partisan as they run they country to the ground.
How will your future generation survive in the Nigeria they are destroying all institutions.

Thank you. I like the way you think. The problem with most APC goons is they've been programmed to see anyone who doesn't agree with them as PDP. It's like an obsession. You're in power and should know that ur moves will be appraised by both opposition and ordinary citizens alike. But they're too infantile to understand that.

garfield1:
How can you say i dont have a clue about the whole judgment when o was the first to foresee it? I remember you even attacked me severally.go back to my previous posts and see rationale,am very busy and not ready to entertain your usual insults.

But you dont need to be told that the votes of other parties in the disputed units are insignificant and wont dethrone that of hope and moreover hope was the only one that challenged those results therefore his own takes preeminence.
Talking of precedent,i dont know any yet because almost all election cases are based on electoral malpractices and not incorrect collation hence this.there's always a first time for everything.a calm perusal of the electoral act will show you that the court were trite.moreover,the decision was unanimous and taken on same day of hearing to show you how easy it was.i hope i dont regret indulging you.warm up to hope

The more you try to spin a web of falsehood and crass inanities, the more quixotic you look.

Take time to read what you wrote up here and tell me where it has a place in natural justice, rectitude and legality.

Stop embarrassing yourself dude. Your life should not be welded to trying to defend the indefensible...

maestroferdi:
The more you try to spin a web of falsehood and crass inanities, the more quixotic you look.

Take time to read what you wrote up here and tell me where it has a place in natural justice, rectitude and legality.

Stop embarrassing yourself dude. Your life should not be welded to trying to defend the indefensible...

I knew you will resort to insults n the end as usual.this is the last time ill reply.
As for the precedents you asked,the cases of ajasin vs omoboriowo and nwobodo vs onoh in the 1980s should curb your ignorance.
Please,take time to read the electoral act very well.i can even give you a soft copy but i know it will amount to nothing as you hate anything apc

Im no Lawyer, but when the number of votes surpasses the number of those accredited to vote, it is fraud

garfield1:
I knew you will resort to insults n the end as usual.this is the last time ill reply.
As for the precedents you asked,the cases of ajasin vs omoboriowo and nwobodo vs onoh in the 1980s should curb your ignorance.
Please,take time to read the electoral act very well.i can even give you a soft copy but i know it will amount to nothing as you hate anything apc

You had better stopped wasting my time because you not contributing anything to the discourse at hand.

The issues of contention are very clear. Try and address them and stop deflecting responsibility by throwing up a fusillade of cases which have no bearing to the subterfuge which all men of goodwill are decrying.

RuudVanNisteroy:
The total number of votes in the Imo state Governorship election held on March 2, 2019 prior to the Supreme Court ruling was 675456 as announced by INEC. And the number of accredited voters was 823,743.
Here is the breakdown:
Ihedioha - *273,404*
Uche Nwosu - *190,364* .
Ifeanyi Ararume - *114,676*
Uzodinma - *96,458*
Ohakim - *527*
Other candidates 39,453
Total = *675,456*
The total registered voters is 2,221,008; Accredited voters is 823,743.
https://punchng.com/breaking-ihedioha-wins-imo-gov-elections-polls-273404/

By the new computation, Uzodinma recorded additional 236,600 votes in the 318 units based on the Supreme Court ruling, thus bringing his total votes to 333,058, more than the 273,404 votes declared for Ihedioha.
Here is the new breakdown after the Supreme Court Ruling:
Uzodinma-333058
Ihedioha - *273,404*
Uche Nwosu - *190,364* .
Ifeanyi Ararume - *114,676*
Ohakim - *527*
Other candidates 39,453
Total=950955
The total registered voters is 2,221,008; Accredited voters is 823,743.
Total number of votes is now more than the number accredited by INEC.

In the Presidential election held on Febuary 23, 2019 the number of voters that came out and were accredited in Imo state was 585741 just a week before the Govership election.

Two facts expose the blatant rigging in Imo state:
1)Number of accredited voters almost recorded a 100% increase from the numbers that came out for the Presidential election within a one week span.
2) The total number of voters in Imo state is now more than than the accredited numbers of voters by INEC in the Governorship election in Imo state based on the Supreme Court ruling.

The vision Mbaka saw was not from God, who is not an author of confusion. He had insider information and knew the abracadabra they were about to pull.

The supreme court judges need to be more cerebral
They should have ordered a rerun.
How can they make a "legal" pronouncement that contradicts both constitutional and mathematical laws

pharmagba:
The supreme court judges need to be more cerebral
They should have ordered a rerun.
How can they make a "legal" pronouncement that contradicts both constitutional and mathematical laws

Nigeria anything goes

Agboriotejoye:
Thank you. I like the way you think. The problem with most APC goons is they've been programmed to see anyone who doesn't agree with them as PDP. It's like an obsession. You're in power and should know that ur moves will be appraised by both opposition and ordinary citizens alike. But they're too infantile to understand that.

They will see black and call it white because of 30k monthly stipends

garfield1:
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

You are just saying rubbish. How can you explain the fact that the result of Hope added to the other contestant is more than the accredited voters.Note, not all electorates will turn up for the election among the accredited voters and don't forget the voided votes as well. Learn to call a spade a spade. The young lion that kill other people items and you hail will very soon devour you when its matured.

Stanweezy:
If u never witness miracle b4, come to Nigeria and see wonders in their judiciary system, they can make eleven look like Roman numeral ii

indeed miracle prevail in Nigeria

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

Do you believed Mbaka's vision?

Cchuks27:
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.

but his prophecies has been consistent to a large extent

RuudVanNisteroy:
The people praising Mbaka forgot this false prophesy he made. Nigeria is now the poverty and corruption capital of the world.

Since PMB came corruption has reduced but it may not be visible now because of some bottle neck

edoairways:
Since PMB came corruption has reduced but it may not be visible now because of some bottle neck

Joker!Corruption reduced where?

edoairways:
but his prophecies has been consistent to a large extent

Mbaka is a fraud

Cchuks27:
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.

100... he also made this false prophesy