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CanadaOrBust:
Mention another instance in Nigerian judicial history where the SC ruled against all lower courts AND INEC itself in other to immediately remove a seating governor - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the plaintiff himself!!

Jack500:
PDP is a dead party as at now.

Although that is good for APC, but it is bad for Nigeria/Nigerians, will need a strong opposition, which only PDP can provide for now.

But for 2023, it is Osibanjo

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Buhari has finally killed democracy in Nigeria..

zoedew:
Sir, carefully read the judgment and it should soon be clear that as you lay your bed do you will sleep on it!

zoedew:
To protest what? Read the judgment. It is sound in law and logic. Very sound. Ihedioha‘a Lawyers are not infallible. They alleged Uzodinma results were forged and didn’t prove it. INEC said it had the genuine results results but never presented them in Court. Issues were joined on the exclusion of Uzodinma results and shown by the production of Forms EC8A and B. Since Issues were not joined on whether elections held at the places from where the excluded results emanated therefore there was no need to call all the polling agents as the Supreme Court had laid down previously. It was sufficient for the policeman who did to tender the results in the light of the dissenting judgment of the lower court. Judges are not guided by sentiments but law applied to facts presented to them by Lawyers whose duty it is to ensure a thorough presentation. Put differently, Judges are still water! The Supreme Court did a Good job.

CanadaOrBust:
Mention another instance in Nigerian judicial history where the SC ruled against all lower courts AND INEC itself in other to immediately remove a seating governor - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the plaintiff himself!!

Wickedtruths:
It's been a long time I heard from Pachukwudi44.
Chief Legal adviser to thieves and looters.

CanadaOrBust:
I read the judgement. No where does it say that any attempt was made to establish the authenticity of the documents even when INEC (who supposedly issued them) had clearly stated they were not authentic AND it was clear that including them would make for impossible math!

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Buhari has finally killed democracy in Nigeria..

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Buhari has finally killed democracy in Nigeria..

Iamgrey5:
Wike vs ABE In 2015

Zamfara in 2019

zoedew:
See, the way it goes in law and in court is this: you say a thing and provide evidence in support and it is taken as proved unless your opponent denies what you say and provides something to discredit your evidence. Neither INEC nor Ihedioha did so. The result in law is that Uzodinma has proved his case. In the law of evidence it is called the burden of proof.

Wickedtruths:
It's been a long time I heard from Pachukwudi44.
Chief Legal adviser to thieves and looters.

CanadaOrBust:
In which of those cases was a seating governor immediately removed and replaced by the appellant because the appellant supplied clearly questionable documents that INEC itself had sworn were not authentic??!!

ChoCho54:
Osunbande 2023? Who dash monkey banana?

CanadaOrBust:
Mention another instance in Nigerian judicial history where the SC ruled against all lower courts AND INEC itself in other to immediately remove a seating governor - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the plaintiff himself!!

Goldencheese:
The opposition in Nigeria is growing weaker and weaker and even disunited. Nigeria needs a robust and virile opposition to put the ruling party in check and push it to stay the course of good governance.

berrystunn:
No other party got vote from the 388 unit?

Iamgrey5:
Zamfara !

A sitting governor was removed

In Rivers

The judgment was very questionable because even international election observers claimed that no election took place.

frankson1:
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No need for the explanations because they won't understand.
Point at the bolded out in very large uppercase they won't see it.

Their way of thinking is just one way.

zoedew:
That is not before the court. See, in law and in court Judges and the parties are bound by what is filed in court. The law is then applied to the facts proved from what is filed and you have the output commonly known as judgment. That is it Sir. Ihedioha and INEC in fact said no election held at the 388 unit and that the results were a fraud but provided no proof of those assertions. In law it is the person who says a thing that has the burden to prove it. To say the results tendered by Uzodinma is a fraud is a criminal allegation which must be proved beyond reasonable doubt. Ihedioha legal team made a tactical error in saying so because it is near impossible to prove. In my view better to simply say no elections held and depend on INEC to show none indeed held! Meanwhile INEC further made a mess of the tasteless broth when in the same breath it said it had the genuine results but did not produce it! In the circumstances the Supreme Court could not have decided that case differently than it did. I pity the Supreme Court Judges who can’t say anything in defence of themselves except to watch their names pilloried and scandalised by folks who could be better informed. Matters are made worse when Lawyers who are expected to speak up to protect the integrity and sanctity of the Supreme Court are in conspiratorial silence or say things to mislead non Lawyers.

Neoteny:
There's always a first time for everything, the entirety of legal history is made up of precedents.

Just because it happened for the first time does not make it invalid.

CanadaOrBust:
Mention another instance in Nigerian judicial history where the SC ruled against all lower courts AND INEC itself in other to immediately remove a seating governor - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the plaintiff himself!!

CanadaOrBust:
Precedents have to at least make some sense. In this case even the primary school arithmetic does not add up!