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Supreme Court has said it cannot reverse itself. PDP and APC are just enriching Lawyers by going to court for review, it is pure wastage of time and funds.

truthfulparrot:
Imo state is very dicey

Nothing tangible will come out of it.Ihedioha should move on.

CanadaOrBust:
Ok; could u please elaborate sir. Can u tell us exactly what is “stupid, if not mad” about the post or the people mentioned

Once again, you are stupid if not mad as long as you join me with topic or posts of no interest to me.

bender79:
The number of accredited voters doesn't arise here because of the excluded votes in the units mentioned. It is is simply logical. Besides I don't think supreme Court will want to temper with that judgement irrespective of error. They judges will simple make technical statements and closed it.

My fear is that other Judges shouldn't make reference to the Imo judgement , because it makes it looks like the Court Supreme court is the HEAD OF INEC...I fear for the future.

gaskiyamagana:
Once again, you are stupid if not mad as long as you join me with topic or posts of no interest to me.

CanadaOrBust:

That Supreme Court Magic Judgment
This Day (Lagos) 17 FEBRUARY 2020

... According to summary of trial materials, no ward collation agent was called to show that at the collation center results were brought from the 388 polling units where the alleged exclusion took place...

The petitioner, rather called 28 polling unit agents who came to identify some of the results tendered by the petitioner from the bar. All the electoral documents were tendered from the bar and thus dumped on the court without anybody giving evidence correlating the contents of the result forms with the tabulation done by the petitioner himself.

Each of the 18 polling unit agents under cross-examination, manifested ignorance of the contents of the documents and never convinced anybody of being present in their claimed polling units...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had in their reply to the petition disowned those result sheets and averred emphatically that NO RESULTS WERE GENERATED from those polling units as elections in those polling units were cancelled by presiding officers as a result of violence, over voting, snatching of electoral materials, etc. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated that any result from those polling units presented by any of the candidates, in this case, the petitioners, must be fake.

When confronted with the purported result sheets tendered by the petitioners, each of the witnesses admitted as follows:
i. The names and signatures of the Presiding Officers are not well found on those results.
ii. The names and signatures of other party agents did not appear on the result sheets, neither could they mention even one party agent of the other political parties in those booths.
iii. The result sheets do not contain the total number of ballot papers used and number of ballot papers unused or invalid. The scores of political parties are not clear on the face of the documents.

Based on the above, it appears the Supreme Court was desperately working to an answer in favour of the ruling party... and the only opening to do that was to accept the fictitious results of the 388 polling units willy-nilly. And instead of doing substantial justice on the matter, it ended up delivering one of judiciary's greatest infamies which even a kid learning arithmetic can see through. The judgment turned logic on its head, rewrote the basic universal laws of arithmetic and did grave and substantial injury to our democracy and the power of the people to choose who governs them. With this judicial precedent, the Supreme Court has inevitably rubber-stamped political rascality and the judgment could shape our democratic future.

The court has widened the opening which politicians exploit and manipulate to get into elective offices. All one needs to do is to stay somewhere, maybe in one's room, probably with one policeman or so, write one's own results, submit to INEC for counting and if it refuses, don't worry, bid your time till you get to the court. With supreme arrogance, the final court of appeal will recognise the results as legitimate, credible and authentic and pronto, you will be declared duly elected.

...Even more perplexing was the fact that in some of the polling units, voter turnout was more than the registered voters. How is this possible?
In Uzodinma's result sheets, there was no voided vote and only two parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APC participated and were reflected in the election results of the 388 polling units. Yet, 70 political parties participated in that election and were all reflected in the INEC declared results of other polling units all over the state. ..,Does it mean that other parties such as All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Action Alliance (AA), etc., did not participate in the election in those 388 polling units contrary to INEC's results in other areas of the state?
Why did the result sheets reflect only two parties when so many parties participated in the said election? Apparently, Senator Uzodinma concocted those results that fly in the face of the basic laws of arithmetic and common sense between the PDP and the APC after the fact that the PDP had won the election and he only scored his party a vote figure higher than the PDP vote. The corollary to that is that if it was any other party that was on the cusp of victory, Uzodinma's results would have been between just the APC and that party! Yet our almighty Supreme Court glossed over all these fundamental anomalies in Uzodinma's result sheets which had been rejected by even INEC... and accepted same as authentic.
A further assessment of the result sheets of the disputed 388 polling units showed that the said units are all in the Orlu Senatorial Zone where Uzodinma and the candidate of the Action Alliance Ugwumba Uche Nwosu come from. So even if the 388 polling units were concentrated mostly in Uzodinma's ancestral home, surely, Nwosu who emerged second in the March 9, 2019 election in Imo State and was backed by the incumbent governor at the time, Rochas Okorocha, his father in-law, must have amassed some votes from the units. But these votes were curiously missing, for the simple reason that they forged the results, and very badly at that.
Furthermore, Uzodinma of the APC scored an average of 98% of the total votes cast in the 388 units, whereas he scored an average of 13% in the remaining polling units in the state. How could this be? Why was it that it was only in these 388 units throughout the state that the voter turnout was either more than the registered voters or achieved 98 to 100 percent of the registered voters? Please note that emphasis is NOT on the number of accredited voters which is usually far less than the number of registered voters. Uzodinma's fake results validated by our Supreme Court defy reason. The pattern of the results from the disputed 388 polling units clearly shows the improbability of such an occurrence. And on the basis of the testimony of one policeman, and 28 discredited polling units' agents who gave contradictory statements at trial, the Supreme Court accepted the results.

In declaring Uzodinma governor of Imo State, the Supreme Court simply annulled a valid mandate freely given to an individual and transferred it to another person who came fourth in the election.

R u ok sir? Read the above again and patiently explain to us how it’s of no interest to u that a precedent is being set that will curtail your right to have a say in who governs u!

CanadaOrBust:
R u ok sir? Read the above again and patiently explain to us how it’s of no interest to u that a precedent is being set that will curtail your right to have a say in who governs u!

It is of no interest to me and bother not joining me.

gaskiyamagana:
It is of no interest to me and bother not joining me.

U r weird sir

CanadaOrBust:
Here is what I don’t understand about people like u: Can’t u forget having a sentimental favorite for a second, and just step back and broadly look at what it is u r supporting??
Can’t u see that if this embarrassment of a judgement is let stand it diminishes every Nigerian including you yourself? Because it blatantly rewards clear cheating and forgery that even kids can tell is cheating and forgery. How can u teach children about not cheating when they can see for themselves that the final court in the land rewards cheating and forgery?? Also, at the very least, it greatly reduces your ability to have a say in who governs u because it allows for any ruling party to “win” any election it wishes, which will inevitably lead to a one-party country.

A Supreme Court overrules all lower courts plus INEC in order to replace an 8-month gov with a 4th place finisher, all based on clearly fraudulent documents. And here u are, gloating about it!

Anyway, whatever happens, the leaders of thought in the country, the concerned international community and the United States are watching the case. They understand what is at stake and have made their positions clear.
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Prof. Pat Utomi, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association, others, to monitor Supreme Court Imo judgement review.

Ihedioha Vs Uzodinma: Civil Society Leaders Urge Supreme Court To Reverse Judgment

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, FEB 11, 2020

Leaders of civil society in Nigeria have asked the Supreme Court to set aside its judgment pronouncing Hope Uzodinma as duly elected governor of Imo State...

The group posited that the court erred in its judgment and faulted the process through which the apex court arrived at the decision.
In the statement signed by Dr Olusegun Awe Obe, the Concerned Leaders of Thought and Conscience in Project Nigeria, highlighted reasons the court should not have pronounced Uzodinma as winner of the election...

salient, deep and insightful comment - but the zoneBs will not understand the implication of th supreme court gaff.

obiekunie2:
salient, deep and insightful comment - but the zoneBs will not understand the implication of th supreme court gaff.

Thanks but I’m really neither political nor partisan, just that this particular judgement goes waaay out of bounds

CanadaOrBust:
Thanks but I’m really neither political nor partisan, just that this particular judgement goes waaay out of bounds

these are issues bedeviling our country - good men keeping quiet is one of the reasons why we are were we are today.

there is no more time to sit on the fence and be claiming "non-political and non-partisan" the evil may end up affecting each and every one of us in one way or the other.

obiekunie2:
these are issues bedeviling our country - good men keeping quiet is one of the reasons why we are were we are today.

there is no more time to sit on the fence and be claiming "non-political and non-partisan" the evil may end up affecting each and every one of us in one way or the other.

But it is exactly by being non-partisan that u r able to speak up and call a spade a spade. Imagine if I were APC, how can I say Imo is a travesty and an embarrassment; or if I were PDP how can I say what I think - that Bayelsa punishment is a bit too severe

CanadaOrBust:
But it is exactly by being non-partisan that u r able to speak up and call a spade a spade. Imagine if I were APC, how can I say Imo is a travesty and an embarrassment; or if I were PDP how can I say what I think - that Bayelsa punishment is a bit too severe

yea! totally agree with you - especially on the bayelsa case.