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CanadaOrBust:
All newspapers in the country are also watching and many have noted what a travesty Imo is. I don’t see how the SC can let the judgment stand and still look Nigerians in the eye:

The following is from the actual summary of trial materials as presented in a major reputable newspaper.
Pay special attention to the bolded.
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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.

Vernor:
Stop misinformation, pls read supreme court judgement not these peoples opinions, they went as far as obtaining the Nigerian Police copy to verify the authenticity of the results, i can bet his fine tomorrow will be bigger than you think. When coming to court come with facts not what one news paper said or group of people said read facts, I'm not igno and i dont support any of these parties but why was exclusion of some results in the first place? The current Governor marshalled his points to victory not sentiment being pulled here many can vote but if proper documentation is not done it will be tantamount to null and void abinitio.

Badguy89:
Nigerian Police na d new INEC?

senatordave1:
Prepare your fine

Sufisunni:
Emeka didn't even have 25% of votes cast in 2/3 LGA of Imo state. Worst case scenario will be to cancel the entire election and order new one.

Psoul:
Court case is not about "what it should have bn" rather, it is "what it is."

Emeka lost the judgement base on the mistakes of his lawyers.

If I bring in 10 allegations against you and you dwell on 7 out of the 3, the court will take it that you do not have defense for those three. That means that you are guilty of the 3 even if the Judge knows that you are not guilty of them.

Court cases are all about logic, argument and defense.

Supreme Court will still throw this case away and fine Emeka and his Lawyers.

Alwaysachick:
This is another case.

kahal29:
Oga no need for plenty talk........ Just dey arrange the 100 million fine una go pay tomorrow

Sunnymatey:
Jst arrange your N60m come monday.

kahal29:
You mean induced media opinions and write ups? Don't worry by tomorrow your eyes will clear.

sapientia:
Tanko Supreme Ice Cream knows all these.

HOPE is now INEC collation centre.

How he came to be in the possession of such sensitive materials was not questioned.

How else do snatched ballot boxes end up?

DSoj:
Supreme court will be stupid to tell PDP Bayelsa that it's judgement cannot be reviewed but review Imo's own.

That will be grand Dumb Double Standard

kahal29 poshit=87068964:
If this is what is contained in Ihedioha's application for review then the amount of FINE he is going to pay tomorrow has just increased.

The Supreme Court cannot RE-LITIGATE .

The Supreme Court do not permit litigants who failed to diligently prosecute their case to re-litigate their appeals, under the euphemism of application for review

Ihedioha and his team of audio lawyers failed to put up a good defense at the trial stage only to wake up from their slumber after the Supreme Court have given judgement.

This evidence they are challenging now was not challenged at the lower court by his lawyers now they want to turn Supreme Court to a trial court.
Oga wait 4 2morrow day don break

Justice Kekerekun had this to say

fabre4:
All PDP has to do is to prove is that they and INEC sufficiently contested the results Hope Uzodimma presented in court. If they can't do that well no amount facts will change the decision of the supreme Court

kahal29:
He has no case but a HUGE FINE awaits him tomorrow.

Alwaysachick:
So what is tomorrow's meeting about?

mrphysics:
Stop wasting your time and energy. There's nothing at stake. The supreme court will let you know again that No court on "Earth" will review it's judgement.

Maybe a Canada Court will

greggng, ntyce, chigo4u, Openbusiness, MoIbrahim, Euegene100001, linqzs, Badguy89

ejimatic:
. The Supreme court judgement is the final.....It is not the duty of the SC to compute the results of all candidates.INEC has the responsibility.... The previous decision is irreversible.

Vernor:
Stop misinformation, pls read supreme court judgement not these peoples opinions, they went as far as obtaining the Nigerian Police copy to verify the authenticity of the results, i can bet his fine tomorrow will be bigger than you think. When coming to court come with facts not what one news paper said or group of people said read facts, I'm not igno and i dont support any of these parties but why was exclusion of some results in the first place? The current Governor marshalled his points to victory not sentiment being pulled here many can vote but if proper documentation is not done it will be tantamount to null and void abinitio.

bkool7:
You ppl are ridiculous

Did Pdp win the election in Bayelsa?
Yet the SC jettison the people's mandate regardless and gave victory to the loser.
What happened to, " The candidate is only a representative of the party?"
Ameachi never contested but was given victory because his party won and he was the legitimate candidate of the party.
SC will not reverse it's verdict.
Since you people accept the Bayelsa and Zamfara verdict where Pdp clearly lost the people's mandate but was given victory, you ought to accept this too

Sunnymatey:
Jst arrange your N60m come monday.

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 and international community 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...