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"Those are not proven because if they were, it was up to their counsel to provide evidence that it was more than the registered votes, not to go and say it on television.

Bunch of hypocrites, I still wonder which other evidence you seek when the imolites made it obvious whom they voted for, as if the opinion of an average Nigerian survives in this country. Even when an evidence is being provided, what would have stopped it from being swept under the carpet as usual?..Nonsense! What stopped the court to order for a rerun.

042icloud:
"Those are not proven because if they were, it was up to their counsel to provide evidence that it was more than the registered votes, not to go and say it on television.

Bunch of hypocrites, I still wonder which other evidence you seek when the imolites made it obvious whom they voted for, as if the opinion of an average Nigerian survives in this country. Even when an evidence is being provided, what would have stopped it from being swept under the carpet as usual?..Nonsense! What stopped the court to order for a rerun.

which people are imo lites I am from IMO i did not vote for Ihedioha .oga ihedioha want to rule imo state with mbaise rigged vote ,he have tried this two times but have failed ,it happens in 2015 when rochas was busy winning all local government in imo state ihedioha want to rule imo state with rigged votes from just 3 local government

Nice submissions from the APC national chairman to be quite honest...Though such recommendations would never have sufficed had APC won Bayelsa!

It's a shame to see the way Nairalanders let sentiments rule their brain.

Oshiomole was on point in all his accounts.

1: if indeed there was discrepancies in the results, why did they not present it in court?

2: Do you believe that the winner of a government by the people, of the people, and for the people should be decided by the courts?

3: Do you believe that a man who won 3 local governments should be Governor of a state with tens of such LGAs?

4: Do you believe that idehioda**? should become governor on a total vote less than 30% of the possible votes of the state? where in the world is a 30% election valid?

Whether you like him or not, oshiomole was right, and the supreme court had really rubbished itself with that Bayelsa judgement.

But you can impose candidates on your party people, you this Monkey.

Hope of oshemole...

Why are Nigerians like this?
All he said is true but some people deny it because he is of APC. If Uche secondus of PDP say the same thing they will cheer him.

Nigerians should learn to support what is right not who they want to support. These are the factors affecting us. People know what is good but support what is wrong.

chiemmanuel:
IF By oshiomole explanation, then ihedioha should remain as the governor, because he was the people choice, Hope became Governor by technicalities,
What is food for the goose is food for the gander

Bro its GOOD not FOOD. You too like food. Moreover, goose and gander don't eat the same food

helinues:
Why can't this loud mouthed Oshiomole let the sleeping dog lies.. The judgement is in your party's favour..

And this same Oshiomole got his mandate through same court oo

Which kind of hypocrisy talk be this?...

yes but the one in zamfara and Bayelsa were against in him and if you read his message very well and not thinking in pdp ways you will also reason that will need serious electoral reform in the country

The former Edo State Governor said, “You have made an assumption, which is not supported by fact, mainly by the speculation and the roadside talks by some elements in PDP, suggesting that there was over-voting if you add the votes that were ignored. “Those are not proven because if they were, it was up to their counsel to provide evidence that it was more than the registered votes, not to go and say it on television.

word

Well said by the APC chairman.

lilprinze:
Says someone who also became a governor through the court, when the State election tribunal nullified the election of Oserheimen Osunbor, and declared Oshiomhole the winner, On 11th November 2008.

Always endeavor to read contents and understand issues before vomiting comments.

Becoming a governor through the court determining the actual lawful votes,is different from becoming a governor by default through the court's disqualification of the actual winner,based on name descripancy.

Iyiataata92:
Bro its GOOD not FOOD. You too like food. Moreover, goose and gander don't eat the same food

food and good, you get the explanation

LosC:
https://dailypost.ng/2020/03/03/ihedioha-vs-uzodinma-court-shouldnt-impose-governors-on-people-oshiomhole/

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has described the arguments that votes in the Imo State governorship election that gave victory to Senator Hope Uzodinma was more that validly registered votes as “an assumption which is not supported by fact.”

By Clever Advertising According to Oshiomhole, what Nigerians should rather worry about is to see amendment to laws that will ensure candidate who was rejected by the electorate does not find his way to the government house, aided by the court.

The APC National Chairman pointed out that lawyers to the applicants failed to provide evidence that the votes declared for Uzodinma was more than the registered votes in court. Oshiomhole spoke to State House Correspondents after his brief visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

The former Edo State Governor said, “You have made an assumption, which is not supported by fact, mainly by the speculation and the roadside talks by some elements in PDP, suggesting that there was over-voting if you add the votes that were ignored.

“Those are not proven because if they were, it was up to their counsel to provide evidence that it was more than the registered votes, not to go and say it on television.

“Matters before the court are canvassed before the court. Issues not raised in the court cannot be raised on television. I assume your question is informed by those uninformed, self-serving speculations. They don’t merit my reaction.

“What I think that we must discuss as a people, which concerns you and I as Nigerians, who believe in democracy, is that the law should be amended, such that no matter what happens, when people have voted, they cannot be dismissed as ‘April Fool’.

“You can’t say that although you have voted, and at the time you did so, you voted in good faith, believing that the candidates before you on parade were competent to be so paraded and as a Nigerian voter you voted, then at some other time some other person tells you that the man you voted for is not qualified either because of error in his name or because of chieftaincy title or whatever reason as to lead to disqualification, that cannot be the reason why a man who was rejected by the electorate would be imposed on the electorate.

“Courts should not impose. If the court finds out that the preferred candidate did not win, for me the only democratic option, legal option will be to repeat the exercise.

“Nothing should empower the court to impose a man rejected by the people, on the people. That goes to the heart of democracy and it destroys the fabric of our democratic process.

“So in amending the Electoral Act, one of the things I’ll like to see the parliament do and we are going to make a representation, is that in the unlikely event that the people have voted in good faith, for a candidate that was validly put before them by INEC, and looking at the faces of the candidates they opted for a particular one, if anybody has any issue with that one that the people prefer and has won, the court cannot impose the person that was rejected.

“The very best the court can do is to order that the exercise be repeated because in a democracy, nobody, other than the people, can choose who governs them, not the courts. For me this is fundamental when it comes to who actually won the election.

“The issue of whether Muhammed, Muhammadu or Momoh, whether they are one and the same person is too technical for the real electorate to bother about, when there are no two people parading themselves as to suggest whether there’s a case of impersonation. This system should not be determined by technicalities.

“At the heart of every judicial pronouncement on elections must be who actually won the majority of lawful votes and if for any reason they found themselves compelled to nullify that person, they should not be empowered to award governorship to a man rejected by the electorate, otherwise, what is democracy about?

“Now, the man in Bayelsa is going to govern a state that did not mandate him, purely on technical grounds. Nations are not governed by technicalities, they are governed by people popularly elected. That is the democracy we chose. This is not partisan issue at all, it’s about democracy. Court cannot impose losers as winners, for me it’s too fundamental.

“They must take advantage of the amendment to make it impossible for anyone to be so imposed on the basis of technicalities.

“We can do a rerun 10 times, but only the man popularly elected can govern, otherwise, in a democracy, as they say, the people deserve the government that they have. In this case you are going to have a government didn’t vote for superintending over your resources and presiding over your life. I think that is the kind of amendment I’ll like to see.

“It is not true that the votes Uzodinma were more than the accredited votes, those are PDP propaganda.”

Mehn, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is one of the most eloquent and smart politicians a political party could ever hope to have in the Nigerian political space.

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OgunLaakaye:
Well said by the APC chairman.

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IWTBAB:
these are true words up there only pigs will disagree, if ur name na pig, quote me. along wit ur overzealous bald head here

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Is the man beside himself? A governor by court order sometime ago is now suffering from oral diarrhea.

Why

All these old men sha 0 time shall tell.

All these old men!!! hmmmm PackTune