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Mehn! Imo state is really messed up. Nigerian politicians are very useless. Bad roads, no street lights, airport is messed up and looks like a small community church.

NORSYK:
There's miscarriage of justice here

I don't see a miscarriage of Justice here. The first runner up decided at the last minute to withdraw his case , obviously the other candidate didn't think they could win. If Mr ihedioha truly wants to upturn the Supreme court judgement the he should better go hire Chief Olanipekun but I can bet you he won't take up the case, because he know it is a nullity, it is dead on arrival.

chrisxxx:
Make una let Supreme Court be. This one hang them. They were given a mandate to deliver at least a state in the east. Though they never knew the backlash would be of the present magnitude. They have nothing to explain. QED.

Just look at. You acknowledge the SC is COMPROMISED yet your attitude is to just let it be!

NIGERIANS ARE SO DOCILE!!
RISE UP AGAINST THIS JUDGEMENT BY TANKO SC!! IT GOES WAAYYY BEYOND THE PALE!!!

Never in Nigerian judicial history (or any authentic democracy for that matter) has the SC ruled against ALL lower courts AND the election authority itself in order to immediately replace a sitting governor with a 4th-place finisher - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the 4th-place finisher himself!!

Supreme Court cases set precedents that lawyers will cite ad infinitum.
Here’s the precedent set here:

A person that comes 10th can easily be declared winner and immediately replace the incumbent. All they’d have to do is present result sheets which the Supreme Court MUST accept no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!

Consider the Uzodinma documents they relied on to replace an 8-month incumbent governor with a FOURTH place finisher: not only were they full of ridiculous numbers, they were also incomplete, smudgy, full of alterations, signed only by APC, and showed results for only APC and PDP out of 70 parties!
(BTW PDP recently WON the rerun held in the same Hope’s “stronghold” where he got 99.9% of the votes with 100+% voter turnouts!)

YOU DON’T REPLACE AN INCUMBENT BY ACCEPTING CLEARLY FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS AND REFUSING TO TABULATE CLEARLY RIDICULOUS NUMBERS!!
———————————

Vanguard. Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Imo Guber: How Supreme court erred in computation of results

*Declared more votes than accredited voters
*Failed to interrogate petitioners’ evidence
*Avoided mentioning figures in a written judgment

Facts have emerged that the Supreme Court failed to do a thorough mathematical computation of the results of the election but relied only on the wrong computations submitted by Sen. Hope Uzodinma to declare him the duly-elected governor of Imo State...

Both the EPT and the Appeal Court dismissed the petition for lacking in merit.

By relying on the faulty tabulation made by Sen. Uzodinma, the Supreme Court arrived at a figure of 950,952 total votes cast at the election, which is more than the total votes cast at the election totalling 823,743.

This gave rise to 127,209 excess votes at the election as affirmed by the Supreme Court, which all through avoided mentioning figures regarding the votes cast for the disputants or the total registered voters and valid and invalid votes in the judgment.
——————-

Here are some magic numbers (remember these numbers exclude votes scored by the other 68 Parties!)

“The Guardian obtained a certified-true-copy of the record of the appeal filed at the Supreme Court by Uzodinma and APC...

On figure number 69 which shows votes cast at Eziama/Okpala (Umualum Village Square, Eziama)
total number of registered voters =492, whereas the APC scored 819 votes
and PDP scored 7 votes,
meaning 334 more votes than registered voters!

On page 22 of the record, at the polling unit 285 (Obudi/Aro, Central Assembly Square,
registered voters = 449
APC polled 780 votes
PDP polled four votes, leaving a total of 335 votes higher than the actual number of registered voters.

Also on page 22 of the petition, polling unit 282
number of registered voters = 591,
APC polled 586 votes
PDP nine votes, indicating a total of four votes higher than the registered number of voters.

Figures from page 79 of the record of appeal show:
Registered voters = 526
APC got 526 votes, while PDP was credited with two votes, indicating two votes higher than the total number of registered voters in the area.”

uruba23:
I don't see a miscarriage of Justice here. The first runner up decided at the last minute to withdraw his case , obviously the other candidate didn't think they could win. If Mr ihedioha truly wants to upturn the Supreme court judgement the he should better go hire Chief Olanipekun but I can bet you he won't take up the case, because he know it is a nullity, it is dead on arrival.

There are lots of evidences to show that there was miscarriage of justice.
But the most stand out one is the supreme Court judgement that affirmed uche nwosu as the rightful candidate of APC, thereby rendering Uzodinma's Candidature null and void, but Supreme Court blatantly ignored their own ruling and said nothing about it in their detailed judgment they made public

Some people are just naturally stup1d.

Are you the supreme court?
Is it not within his right to seek for a review?

chrisxxx:
Stop being happy with this robbery. It may affect you one day.

It won't

1Dray:
Are you from Imo state?

Yes from Deputy Governor LGA.

odiks:
*...ON SUPREME COURT AND OVERRULING ITSELF IN ELECTION PETITION CASES!*�

...Election Petitions are *suis generis*, meaning that they are unique, have a life of their own, have special character and are governed by procedures peculiar to it.

It is a time conscious trial.

Under the 1999 Constitution as amended and the extant Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the chances of the Supreme Court overruling itself in an Election Petition it has conclusively
*decided and disposed of* and in the particular case of Imo State is nil and non-existent.

We make this strong statement because among other things-

(a) there is no statutory provision for it, and

(b) the lapse of the almighty sixty days constitutional timeline within which the Supreme Court must hear and dispose of Election Petition appeals from the date of delivery of the judgement of the Court of Appeal has foreclosed any such novel window.

It is instructive that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja handed its judgement in the Imo Governorship Election Petition Appeals on 19 November 2019.

The Supreme Court in turn disposed the appeal on 14 January 2020.

Going by computation of time therefore, embarking on a street protest on 19 January 2020 and orally asking the Supreme Court to overrule itself is plain mischief calculated to embarrass and denigrate the integrity of the eminent Law Lords.

The sixty days timeline for disposing election petition appeals is a constitutional provision and a non-negotiable part of our electoral laws that must be rigidly obeyed as it is said to stand firm and unmoveable like the *Rock of Gibraltar.*

Even as the Oracle of the law, the Supreme Court is not entitled to rewrite, amend, add or subtract from constitutional provisions.

They must give effect to constitutional provisions however harsh or unsavoury the result may be.

That is what the Supreme Court held in its 2012 decision in the controversial Imo Governorship Election Petitition *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS* in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012.


It is important to further enlighten that the old case of *ADEGOKE MOTORS LTD V ADESANYA* (1989) 13 NWLR (Pt. 109) being bandied around here and there and cited as authority for the Supreme Court to overrule itself is inapplicable in the 2019 Imo Election Petition matter or any Election Petition matter.

This is because the said ADEGOKE CASE (Supra) is not an election petition matter.
It was a 1989 decision that did not have the contemplation of the mandatory requirement for conclusion of election petition appeals in the Supreme Court within 60 days as provided for in the present 1999 Constitition of Nigeria as amended.

It remains to be said that in sync with their constitutional powers and relying on clear constitutional provisions and our electoral laws, the Supreme Court has disposed of the 2019 Imo Governorship appeals and can never revisit it.

This is again supported by the decision of the Supreme Court in an Election Petition case *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012,* where Odili, JSC, held in a most profound manner and characteristic candour as follows-

*"...What is to be disposed has in a way hit the rock and can go nowhere else. That is to say the legal dispute or process has reached its final destination and is at grand finale...."*

We can then conveniently restate that when the Supreme Court finally disposes of an election petition, the legal dispute has come to a full and final stop at the last legal and judicial bus stop because of the special nature of election petitions and its time sensitive nature.

It is in public interest that there should be an end to litigation-

*Interest rei publicae ut sit finis litium* which is an alternative Latin phrase for *expedit rei publicae ut.*

Remember always that the Supreme is final but not infallible.

A new normal is possible!

*Prof Obiaraeri, N.O.*

Irrespective of whether SC will over tune it judgement or not it is important that Ihedioha seeks for the review. How do we develop our laws, is not by painstakingly testing them in court. If we continue quoting technicalities, then we should forget justice. The judgement has alot of loopholes. The SC atimes should go beyound the ordinary to ensure that justice is seen to have been done.
When the the SC was using doctrine of necessity did it not go out of normal to settle the issue facing the country then. Every case has it own uniqueness and ihedioha's own case is not an exception. SC should look at that judgement again and it many obvious flaws and find a way to be innovative, so to be seen that justice has been served. Some people will quote this case in the future to get flawed judgement.

Supreme Court has said their final verdict.

Sagay212:
Mehn! Imo state is really messed up. Nigerian politicians are very useless. Bad roads, no street lights, airport is messed up and looks like a small community church.

Hmmmm
Okorocha was a failed governor.
This is a man that wants to be president o.

NORSYK:
There are lots of evidences to show that there was miscarriage of justice.
But the most stand out one is the supreme Court judgement that affirmed uche nwosu as the rightful candidate of APC, thereby rendering Uzodinma's Candidature null and void, but Supreme Court blatantly ignored their own ruling and said nothing about it in their detailed judgment they made public

Hmmm I think you are complicating things here, let us even agree that Mr Uche Nwosu was affirmed by the Supreme court to be the Apc rightful candidate..it still doesn't change the fact that PDP and the Gentleman Mr Ihedioha have no locus standi in the matter.The onus still lies on Mr Uche Nwosu to go to the Supreme court and get a reprieve, which I doubt he would want to explore because there seems to be a gentlemen agreement between Chief Rochas, Gov Uzodinma and Mr Uche.

cana882:
Ihedioha is smart. He knew his fate from the onset that’s why he used his little time for two things: destroy okorocha’s projects and amass wealth for him and his friends (after all, his friends deserve to be rich according to auntyku).
Five words for him:
_{Four words for his sympathizers:}

Iheadioha is far better that Uzodinma. Does Iheadioha have efcc corruption cases over his neck?No. Does Uzodinma have, Yes. So, as a normal critically individual, who will you want between the two? You don't need to answer I know who choice is. Don't be blinded by party affiliation look at the persons in particular and make a wise discussion.

uruba23:
Hmmm I think you are complicating things here, let us even agree that Mr Uche Nwosu was affirmed by the Supreme court to be the Apc rightful candidate..it still doesn't change the fact that PDP and the Gentleman Mr Ihedioha have no locus standing in the matter.The onus still lies on Mr Uche Nwosu to go to the Supreme court and get a reprieve, which I doubt he would want to explore because there seems to be a gentlemen agreement between Chief Rochas, Gov Uzodima and Mr Uche.

The supreme court judgement that disqualified nwosu was supposed to disqualified Uzodinma also, because in the eyes of the law he wasn't a candidate in that election.
From a (reliable source) Currently Okorocha and nwosu are holding Uzodinma to ransom, they are demanding a certain amount of money in billions and they are also demanding to make 50% of Uzodinma's appointments.
They threatened to return to Supreme Court if their demands were not met.

NORSYK:
The supreme court judgement that disqualified nwosu was supposed to disqualified Uzodinma also, because in the eyes of the law he wasn't a candidate in that election.
From a (reliable source) Currently Okorocha and nwosu are holding Uzodinma to ransom, they are demanding a certain amount of money in billions and they are also demanding to make 50% of Uzodinma's appointments.
They threatened to return to Supreme Court if their demands were not met.

Well this are mere speculation.Politics is and would always be about interest, if Gov Uzodinma decides to seal a pact with Father in law and Son in law so be it... but the lady justice is blind I must remind you.

3Ceagle:
Iheadioha is far better that Uzodinma. Does Iheadioha have efcc corruption cases over his neck?No. Does Uzodinma have, Yes. So, as a normal critically individual, who will you want between the two? You don't need to answer I know who choice is. Don't be blinded by party affiliation look at the persons in particular and make a wise discussion.

please list ihedioha’s achievements all through his 8 months rule in comparison to uzodinma’s less than 30 days. And please, I’m a proponent of voting for individuals and not party.

odiks:
*...ON SUPREME COURT AND OVERRULING ITSELF IN ELECTION PETITION CASES!*�

...Election Petitions are *suis generis*, meaning that they are unique, have a life of their own, have special character and are governed by procedures peculiar to it.

It is a time conscious trial.

Under the 1999 Constitution as amended and the extant Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the chances of the Supreme Court overruling itself in an Election Petition it has conclusively
*decided and disposed of* and in the particular case of Imo State is nil and non-existent.

We make this strong statement because among other things-

(a) there is no statutory provision for it, and

(b) the lapse of the almighty sixty days constitutional timeline within which the Supreme Court must hear and dispose of Election Petition appeals from the date of delivery of the judgement of the Court of Appeal has foreclosed any such novel window.

It is instructive that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja handed its judgement in the Imo Governorship Election Petition Appeals on 19 November 2019.

The Supreme Court in turn disposed the appeal on 14 January 2020.

Going by computation of time therefore, embarking on a street protest on 19 January 2020 and orally asking the Supreme Court to overrule itself is plain mischief calculated to embarrass and denigrate the integrity of the eminent Law Lords.

The sixty days timeline for disposing election petition appeals is a constitutional provision and a non-negotiable part of our electoral laws that must be rigidly obeyed as it is said to stand firm and unmoveable like the *Rock of Gibraltar.*

Even as the Oracle of the law, the Supreme Court is not entitled to rewrite, amend, add or subtract from constitutional provisions.

They must give effect to constitutional provisions however harsh or unsavoury the result may be.

That is what the Supreme Court held in its 2012 decision in the controversial Imo Governorship Election Petitition *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS* in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012.


It is important to further enlighten that the old case of *ADEGOKE MOTORS LTD V ADESANYA* (1989) 13 NWLR (Pt. 109) being bandied around here and there and cited as authority for the Supreme Court to overrule itself is inapplicable in the 2019 Imo Election Petition matter or any Election Petition matter.

This is because the said ADEGOKE CASE (Supra) is not an election petition matter.
It was a 1989 decision that did not have the contemplation of the mandatory requirement for conclusion of election petition appeals in the Supreme Court within 60 days as provided for in the present 1999 Constitition of Nigeria as amended.

It remains to be said that in sync with their constitutional powers and relying on clear constitutional provisions and our electoral laws, the Supreme Court has disposed of the 2019 Imo Governorship appeals and can never revisit it.

This is again supported by the decision of the Supreme Court in an Election Petition case *PDP V GOVERNOR OKOROCHA & 10 OTHERS in Suit No. SC/17/2012 delivered on 2nd March 2012,* where Odili, JSC, held in a most profound manner and characteristic candour as follows-

*"...What is to be disposed has in a way hit the rock and can go nowhere else. That is to say the legal dispute or process has reached its final destination and is at grand finale...."*

We can then conveniently restate that when the Supreme Court finally disposes of an election petition, the legal dispute has come to a full and final stop at the last legal and judicial bus stop because of the special nature of election petitions and its time sensitive nature.

It is in public interest that there should be an end to litigation-

*Interest rei publicae ut sit finis litium* which is an alternative Latin phrase for *expedit rei publicae ut.*

Remember always that the Supreme is final but not infallible.

A new normal is possible!

*Prof Obiaraeri, N.O.*

. Prof. I disagree with you here, in as much as I know you are an APC man even va senatorial candidate in the last election before late uwajimogu rigged you out, you are a member of Hope Uzodinma ruling cabinet, what you are saying concerns a review of an alleged fraudulent judgement not the normal court time table or procedure, I know you have less to say here because as a direct benefitiary of this government

[s][s]

CanadaOrBust:
Just look at. You acknowledge the SC is COMPROMISED yet your attitude is to just let it be!

NIGERIANS ARE SO DOCILE!!
RISE UP AGAINST THIS JUDGEMENT BY TANKO SC!! IT GOES WAAYYY BEYOND THE PALE!!!

Never in Nigerian judicial history (or any authentic democracy for that matter) has the SC ruled against ALL lower courts AND the election authority itself in order to immediately replace a sitting governor with a 4th-place finisher - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the 4th-place finisher himself!!

Supreme Court cases set precedents that lawyers will cite ad infinitum.
Here’s the precedent set here:

A person that comes 10th can easily be declared winner and immediately replace the incumbent. All they’d have to do is present result sheets which the Supreme Court MUST accept no matter how outrageous and defective they may be, as long as no one can produce the originals!

Consider the Uzodinma documents they relied on to replace an 8-month incumbent governor with a FOURTH place finisher: not only were they full of ridiculous numbers, they were also incomplete, smudgy, full of alterations, signed only by APC, and showed results for only APC and PDP out of 70 parties!
(BTW PDP recently WON the rerun held in the same Hope’s “stronghold” where he got 99.9% of the votes with 100+% voter turnouts!)

YOU DON’T REPLACE AN INCUMBENT BY ACCEPTING CLEARLY FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS AND REFUSING TO TABULATE CLEARLY RIDICULOUS NUMBERS!!
———————————

Vanguard. Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Imo Guber: How Supreme court erred in computation of results

*Declared more votes than accredited voters
*Failed to interrogate petitioners’ evidence
*Avoided mentioning figures in a written judgment

Facts have emerged that the Supreme Court failed to do a thorough mathematical computation of the results of the election but relied only on the wrong computations submitted by Sen. Hope Uzodinma to declare him the duly-elected governor of Imo State...

Both the EPT and the Appeal Court dismissed the petition for lacking in merit.

By relying on the faulty tabulation made by Sen. Uzodinma, the Supreme Court arrived at a figure of 950,952 total votes cast at the election, which is more than the total votes cast at the election totalling 823,743.

This gave rise to 127,209 excess votes at the election as affirmed by the Supreme Court, which all through avoided mentioning figures regarding the votes cast for the disputants or the total registered voters and valid and invalid votes in the judgment.
——————-

Here are some magic numbers (remember these numbers exclude votes scored by the other 68 Parties!)

“The Guardian obtained a certified-true-copy of the record of the appeal filed at the Supreme Court by Uzodinma and APC...

On figure number 69 which shows votes cast at Eziama/Okpala (Umualum Village Square, Eziama)
total number of registered voters =492, whereas the APC scored 819 votes
and PDP scored 7 votes,
meaning 334 more votes than registered voters!

On page 22 of the record, at the polling unit 285 (Obudi/Aro, Central Assembly Square,
registered voters = 449
APC polled 780 votes
PDP polled four votes, leaving a total of 335 votes higher than the actual number of registered voters.

Also on page 22 of the petition, polling unit 282
number of registered voters = 591,
APC polled 586 votes
PDP nine votes, indicating a total of four votes higher than the registered number of voters.

Figures from page 79 of the record of appeal show:
Registered voters = 526
APC got 526 votes, while PDP was credited with two votes, indicating two votes higher than the total number of registered voters in the area.”

durangokid:
. Prof. I disagree with you here, in as much as I know you are an APC man even va senatorial candidate in the last election before late uwajimogu rigged you out, you are a member of Hope Uzodinma ruling cabinet, what you are saying concerns a review of an alleged fraudulent judgement not the normal court time table or procedure, I know you have less to say here because as a direct benefitiary of this government

You cannot dispute his facts.you succeeded in saying nothing

kahal29:
Yes from Deputy Governor LGA.

Story, from your moniker, you're a typical 'Bahaushe'

cana882:
please list ihedioha’s achievements all through his 8 months rule in comparison to uzodinma’s less than 30 days. And please, I’m a proponent of voting for individuals and not party.

I know some will be interested in hearing he awarded this and he awarded that. The first he did is to introduce the Treasury Single Account. Do know what this did? This eliminated the over 200 account control by the state government that encouraged corruption. Secondly, he has instilled due process within the government, sector. He awarded contract of one of the erosion site threating a major road to arab contractor, not the Okorocha quacks contractors. He has instilled confidence in Imo workers by paying up Salary and pension as at when due. He has invested into sport development by drawing a sport road map for the state and construction of sport facility in each local government. This is same thing fashola did in lagos. I was so glad with this because sport gave me focus as teenager. Ihedioha gave his policy thrust before the election, go to his website and you get there and the various things he did day by day. This is a man who has a plan. So what does Uzodinma have, corruption cases?
My position is that a man who has no efcc case against him and one who unanswered cases of corruption, rationally which will you choose.