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I said it in the morning, PDP is going to win both Bayelsa and IMO


IT'S NOW OFFICIAL: Supreme Court upholds Bayelsa Guber judgement, orders APC, Lyon to pay N60m

I see PDP winning both IMO and Bayelsa!

The same costume he wore when he fought Ortiz and won.

Fury beat hell out of him!

Nbote:
Ur pride went before ur fall... No make excuses... Fury wildly beat u up like who stole fone.. Dis second pix depicts it all

Correct! You nailed it!!

antidisestablis:
I was thinking is only me. Very useless network.

So pathetic!

It shall never be well with MTN Nigeria. What a poor network! Can't even enjoy the match!!

I am more than happy seeing the mouth runner received the beating of his life from experienced smart boxer. Fury taught Wilder some lessons. Bye bye to Wilder!

Two of them are olodo! They are of the same category!

RedBlackPepper:
Wow...both are great boxers but Fury has the advantage of height and long arms, most boxers with this rare advantage are very difficult to defeat. I still give it to Diontay Wilder my guy any day.

You really resemble him

Reference:
Tyson came with a fearsome reputation of not only knockouts but timely ones. If I am not mistaken the time he spent in the ring in his first half dozen fights was not up to the period of a 12 round boxing match. His knockouts were timed in seconds not boxing rounds.

So the day he lost to Buster Douglas all the big man had to do was to survive one round after the other and with a confused and tiring Tyson, boom, a 50 to 1 shocking upset. Watched that one too on NTA.... when NTA was a real tv station.

On point!

Reference:
I remember the days of the Great Sugar Ray and the deadly southpaw, the 'Merciless' Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

Na so the hype be. I was too sure the softie Sugar Ray was no match for man who was undefeated up to that point in title matches, dispatching all who came his way with devastating knockouts even the feared Mexicans.

But the Sugar Man danced and danced his way round the ring to win a split in 12 rounds ending Marvin Hagler's career (he retired after that) and my interest in boxing for about a decade until Mike Tyson came around. We know Tyson's story.

The fact is that boxing is a whole lot more than punch power. It is not brawling. It is an art and a serious mental exercise. There are no superstars. Everyone will evenrially get beat badly.

After the Hagler and Sugar Ray match which I watched live I will never again say, 'A cannot beat B.

You made a strong point here

SillyeRabbit:
Wilder is coming back stronger.

Says who? He knows his mate. Fury beat the hell out of him.

Prettyvita:
Congrats to him! Good fight it was.

Yeah, Wilder got the beating of his life from round 1 till the seventh round before the match was stopped.

“A big shout out to Deontay Wilder. He came here tonight and he manned up and he really did show the heart of a champion. I hit him with a clean right that dropped him and he got back up. He is a warrior. He will be back. He will be champion again.

“But I will say, the king has returned to the top of the throne!”

I have said it times without number that Wilder is not an experience and good boxer. He only has punch power!

Fury is Better, he is an experience fighter.

AJ is the Best!

Since the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) signalled its intention to seek a revisit, review and reversal of the January 14, 2020 misjudgement by the Supreme Court on the 2019 Imo State governorship election, the Illegitimate beneficiaries of the misjudgement, Senator Hope Uzodimma and All Progressives Congress (APC) were making a very big music out of the idea that once the Supreme Court delivers judgement, nothing on earth or in heaven can make the Supreme Court revisit, review and reverse its judgement.

That was before the Supreme Court judgement on the appeal by the APC on the judgement of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, that disqualified the deputy governor candidate of the APC in the November 2019 election in Bayelsa State, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, resulting in the disqualification of the governor-elect, David Lyon.

That judgement by the Supreme Court saw a sharp twist in fate, as the PDP was returned as the eventual winners of the election, earlier won by the APC. In political equations, that was a major loss by APC and its candidates, hence they protested and kicked against it.

That Supreme Court judgement was on Thursday February 13. To the surprise of concerned members of the public that have been observing the trend in the controversial and contentious judgement by the Supreme Court on the Imo appeal, the APC has filed an application for the review of the judgement on the Bayelsa appeal.

That was barely few days after the disqualification of Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo and by association, David Lyon. Many still can't believe that APC could seek a review of a judgement by the Supreme Court.

It was a hypocritical turn of events. How could APC that had few days, previously, argued that against review, be approaching the Supreme Court, praying for a revisit, review and reverse its February 13 judgement on Bayelsa State?

That has incidentally left some implications for the January 14 misjudgement by the Supreme Court on the Imo appeal.

First, APC seems to have thrown in the towel in its fight against Supreme Court revisit, review and reverse of its concluded judgement. That implies that the APC has conceded all its tenacious position and now sees reason that, as human beings, the Supreme Court justices are human beings that have capacity for making mistakes and errors, which they can correct!

Two, the APC application for the review of the Bayelsa judgement has indicated that APC has faith, trust and confidence in the Supreme Court to deliver judgement in situations where a party in the matter saw misjudgement and not judgement, injustice and not justice.

Three, it's no longer an issue, as the APC tended to drive in the early days of the PDP application for the setting aside of the misjudgement of January 14, that election matters must be conclusively heard within 60, after which it can never be revisited.

In its six-point summary objection and defence to the PDP application for setting aside the January 14 misjudgement, the APC stated as follows:

"Summary of Senator Hope Uzodinma's Preliminary Objection and Defence against the application for judgment review by Hon. Emeka Ihedioha.

"1. Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules 2014 prohibits this Honourable Court from reviewing its judgment once given and delivered, save to correct clerical mistakes or accidental slip.

"That is to say that the Supreme Court can review its judgment but only on issues that do not torch on its judgment and that is applicable to civil jurisprudence.

"2. The Supreme Court has discharged the burden placed on it by the law in section 285 of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act within the sixty days stipulated by law for the court to conclude and election matter.

"This Constitutional burden which has been undertaken by the court cannot be changed as the matter has become sui generis.

"In other word, by virtue of section 285 (9) of Nigeria's Constitution, the supreme law in the country, Hon Emeka Ihedioha's matter undrer any guise or name, has become statute barred, lifeless and dead on arrival having spent the maximum 60 days allowed by law in the court.

"3. When the Supreme Court has given its verdict and it has been executed by way of swearing in of the executive governor of a state, the only way to vacate its decision is through an election petition which will no longer be possible in this case.

"4. Facts raised in the review are facts that issues were joined and decided during the pendency of the election petition. Inviting the Supreme court to take a look at those facts again is asking the court to reopen the case which is not tenable at this time."

From the foregoing, it becomes very significant that soon after its so-called points of objection and defence, the APC made a swift detour and recant few days after to sing a different tune that roundly contradicts its original stand!

Certainly, this must be the most innovative moment in the annals of pre-election and post-election petitions and appeals in Nigeria nay the Supreme Court, since 1999! It's been so expository and enriching, yet still counting!

There's no doubt that by the time the Supreme Court finished with the 2019 election and appeals, a new chapter would have been written in the books of democracy and judiciary in Nigeria.

Source: Opera News

Moderators, Pls! push this to the front page

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Source: opera news

This is lying Muhammad!

JusticeSeeker:
You should equally tell us how it was possible for Ihedioha to amass 64000 votes in when the accredited voters in Aboh Mbaise were 22000 +. In Einihite Mbaise, accredited voters were 11000 but he polled over 33000. Also in Ahiazu Mbaise, accredited voters were 9434 but he polled over 30000.

Bring forth your proof!

Myself2:
Aand even if any were ommited, INEC has the right to omit fraudulent results but there is no way of saying if they were not ommitted then only one candidate would have got ALL the votes and the remaining four candidates will score zero each

Yeah. You said it all

JusticeSeeker:
Your reasoning is very infantile. Is INEC ready to produce the results from those polling units now? Hope defeated pdp and their INEC members because his results couldn't be counteracted by any original produced by PDP INEC officials, not because they didn't have but because they lacked power to cancel those results as they did. Some of you think a lawyer like Ikpeazu is stupid when he never cared to defend this? Let's see the magic Agabi will use to secure victory for PDP except he's not using the constitution again.

You need to tell the whole world how it is lawful for police officer to keep custody of ballots and submit results to court.

Someone who can't secure up to 100k in over 2,600 polling units now telling us he has over 200k votes in just 300+ polling units.

Let him proof to the world that other parties did not secure any vote in the polling units.

Stop defending what is too clear to the world.

Bekool:
I dont see him going to jail if he has buhari's backing. Buhari himself rigged himself to office he doesnt even have basic qualification to contest for the presidency yet he manouvred his way into the villa.

Hahaha. You are absolutely right!

aremuforlife:
Was any result omitted?
Why was it omitted?
On whose favour was it omitted?
These are some of the question and answer we need before deciding who should go to prison.

No result was omitted, some were cancelled due to over voting

Should The Supreme Court Reverse Itself on The Imo Gubernatorial Ruling?

Court To Look Into The Miraculous Results In The Omitted 388 Polling Units.

The Imo State 2019 Governorship Election is just far from over, as the Supreme Court sets to hear the case brought before it f by Imeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a review.




Ihedioha is asking the Supreme Court to reverse its decision sacking him as the Imo State governor on January 14, 2020.

Recall that the Supreme Court in a judgement still raising dusts in both the Nigerian Judiciary, among political parties and the international community, declared Hope Uzodinma of the APC, winner of the election after he presented a controversial results before it, and the panel horridly accepted without thoroughly looking into the matter.



After the declaration, Nigerians troop to the street to demand that the Supreme Court reverse itself, and therefore, Ihedioha went back to the court to ask for the Supreme Court to correct itself and give him back his mandate.

Uzodinma and controversies



Before the Imo State Governorship election, Hope Uzodinma was indicted by the Presidential Task Force for diverting $11 million (N3,960,000000 billion) meant for sea dredging and currently has a bench warrant for his arrest issued by an Abuja Magistrate Court.

Uzodinma is also facing a criminal charges for issuing a dud cheaque of N200 million.

The results in 3,135 polling units.

Ihedioha - 273,404

Uche Nwosu - 190,364

Ifeanyi Ararume - 114,676

Hope Uzodima - 96,458

The Miraculous Results In The Omitted 388 Polling Units.

Ihedioha - 0

Uche Nwosu - 0

Ifeanyi Ararume - 0

Hope Uzodima - 213,615

Where did Hope get 213,615 in just 388 PUs and other candidates scored 0?

The Supreme Court will have to tell Nigerians.



Should The Supreme Court Reverse Itself on The Imo Gubernatorial Ruling?

The first question that should be asked is, "can the Supreme Court reverse itself?



Nigerian legal system gives room for a reversal in a certain circumstances including where the judgement was obtained fraudulent representations in the case herein.

And it is on this base stakeholders and Nigerians are asking that the Supreme Court review the judgement and reverse itself

Nigerians are also calling on the National Judiciary Council (NJC) to sanction the justices involved in the matter, alongside the CJN

Nigerians are waiting patiently.

What do you think about the issue?

Source: opera news

dlondonbadboy:
Mtcheew. PDP in their usual manner wanted to steal another man's mandate.... rubbish.

I blame the judiciary for even giving these jokers audience...rubbish..

Did you read through what he wrote? Have you make some findings?

Pls do more research on the case. Result shows total votes is 120k more than the total accredited voters after the addition of acclaimed 200,000+ votes accrued to UZODINMA. Proof to me how the lawyer, IHEDIOHA or PDP is stealing another person's mandate here.

ABUJA – Ahead of today’s review of the Supreme Court judgement delivered on January 14 on the Imo State Governorship Election Petition between Hon. Emeka Ihedioha And Senator Hope Uzodinma, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, lead counsel to Ihedioha, had presented his final written address to the Supreme Court.

Below is the address:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA

HOLDEN IN ABUJA

FINAL WRITTEN ADDRESS……….

“CONCLUSION”

~ KANU AGABI, SAN

There is no denying that this is a time of crises in our country. At this, of all times, our Supreme Court has been afforded this unique opportunity of allaying the fears of those who cast aspersions on the credibility of our courts. Those who mean well for the nation will agree that we have here an opportunity for the Supreme Court to mitigate the rising unpopularity of our courts and to rehabilitate her damaged reputation and restore the good name of the judiciary by setting aside this judgment which seems to us to be a nullity. We may be quite wrong. In that case, please, forgive us. Your verdict in this matter should match the solemn oath you have taken. Remember that every decision of this honourable court involves the good name of the judiciary. Prove to the world that this court is sacred. Let your verdict help to retain the good graces of our people.

It is owed to the work of this Supreme Court that the nation continues to survive. It is that work that give us the confidence to present this application. That you are willing to reconsider your decision gives you honour and glory. We come before you firmly convinced that you will act in aid of the cause of justice. In this application we appeal to you, we urge you, we beg you to preserve the glorious reputation of this court. We appeal to you to prove wrong all those who have an evil opinion of our judiciary. Here is a great opportunity for your Lordships to act. Free the judiciary from suspicion. Give no one cause to despise our courts. Prove to the world that you are the equals of the courts of other nations. Remember always that as you sit in judgment over us, so the nation sits in judgment over you. And you should worry, not just over the judgment of this generation, but also the judgment of generations to come when none of us will be alive to defend our actions.

There is no doubting the fact that your Lordships, being human, will from time to time fall into error. Prove to the world that when that happens you will not lack the courage to correct yourselves. That is the unique opportunity that this case offers you.

The nation thinks well of your lordships. Prove to the nation that our good thoughts of you are justified and are well deserved. There is not upon this bench a single judge who has been disloyal to his oath or who has a bad reputation. Stand up for the judiciary and for yourselves. Stand up for truth. Stand up for justice. Stand up for strict and honest interpretation of the laws. Take that stand for which the nation can praise you and commend you.

The position that you hold demands that you do so. It is the great precedents that your Lordships have established that we appeal to you to follow. The nation expects you to deliver an honest verdict, a correct verdict. Prove to the nation that here in this Supreme Court a man or woman who has lost his rights will be given the opportunity to bewail it. What is at stake in this case is not only the right that the Applicants have lost but the good name of the judiciary as well. What we call upon you to do is nothing new. It is something that you have done times without number in the past. Those occasions that you reversed yourselves in the past were not more urgent than it is now. Never in the history of this court have your Lordships delivered a judgment which evoked the protest of the public. This one has. Therefore, we urge you, we appeal to you to take a second look at it.

Those who in their wisdom established this court made it supreme thus expressing their determination that litigation should come to an end. And so this court is supreme, as you have yourselves said, not because you are infallible but because your decisions are final. Whatever you say the law is that is what it shall be. And that is why your Lordships are ever so careful to ensure that your decisions stand the test of time and are not open to any justifiable condemnation or suspicion.

The just decisions of this Supreme Court immortalize your Lordships who deliver them. It is important therefore that you commit nothing to writing that generations to come, long after we are all dead and gone, will examine and criticize and condemn as unjust and unjustifiable. That has been the lot of the Athenian jury which condemned Socrates. That has been the lot of Pontius Pilate who, having found no guilt in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, nevertheless ordered that he be crucified. It is precisely to save judges from that kind of predicament that the law allows them in appropriate cases to correct their own mistakes or set aside altogether decisions that are a nullity. It is that opportunity that we urge your lordships to take in this case and re-examine the judgment which we urge you to set aside on the ground that if you re-examine it dispassionately you will find reason to set it aside and thereby demonstrate to the world that you have courage to correct yourselves when you find that you have erred.

In this case a man who himself branded the election in which he participated as invalid has been adjudged by your Lordships as the winner of the same election. That is in the face of past and innumerable decisions by your Lordships that if such a ground succeeded it should lead to the nullification of the election. In this case, the man you declared as winner of the election specifically prayed that your Lordships should nullify the result of elections in the entire State and that your Lordships order that a fresh election be conducted.

Your Lordships also declared as winner a man who prayed your Lordships to order a re-run election in all the 388 polling units where elections and results were cancelled or not declared.

Your Lordships ordered victory for a man who admitted under cross examination that in polling unit after polling unit, he awarded to himself more votes than the total number of registered voters in those polling units.

Your Lordships accepted votes from 388 polling units presented by the 1st Respondent which had the consequence of swelling-up the total number of votes scored in the election way beyond the total number of accredited voters. The excess votes between the total votes scored and the total accredited voters are 129,340 votes – a clearly impossible situation and brazen illegality under our electoral law. (Underlining supplied)

Your Lordships declared the 1st Respondent as winner of the election when your Lordships did not satisfy yourselves that the 1st Respondent scored enough votes across the various local government areas of Imo State to satisfy the geographical spread as decreed by the Constitution.

Based on the foregoing, we submit that the judgment delivered by this Honourable Court on 14th January 2020 in Appeal No. SC.1462/2019 and Cross Appeal No. SC.1470/2019 is a nullity because –

The judgment was delivered without jurisdiction in that the court declared the 1st Respondent as the winner of the election contrary to section 140 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act (as amended)

The judgment is unconstitutional in that it declared the 1st Respondent the winner of the election without proof that the votes accredited to him met the geographical spread stipulated in section 179 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)

The judgment was obtained by fraud in that the votes upon which the 1st Respondent was declared as the winner of the election were in excess of the number of voters accredited for the election.

The judgment was given per incuriam as your lordships by this judgment unwittingly sanctioned that total votes cast at an election can be in excess of the total number of accredited voters, as in this case, the total votes exceeded the total accredited voters by 129,340 votes.

Furthermore, the judgment was given per incuriam in view of the 1st Respondent’s contention that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) whereupon he prayed that a supplementary election should be held in the 388 disputed polling units where he claimed his votes were cancelled.

We respectfully urge your Lordships therefore to set aside the judgment in Appeal No. SC.1462/2019 and Cross Appeal No. SC.1470/2019 as prayed in our motion paper because as this Honourable Court rightly noted in ADEGOKE MOTORS v. ADESANYA (supra) “it is far better to admit an error than to preserve an error”.

May it so please your Lordships.

________
Kanu Agabi, SAN, CON
Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN
J. T. U. Nnodum, SAN
K.C.O Njemanze, SAN
S. I AMEH, SAN.
Emeka Etiaba, SAN
Chief Umeh Kalu, SAN
Emeka Okpoko, SAN
L. M. Alozie, SAN
Essien H. Andrew, SAN
S. A. Anyalewechi, Esq.
A. S. Ogujiofor, Esq.
Charles Ndukwe,Esq.
Uchenna Njoku, Esq.

(Applicants’ Counsel)
Kanu G. Agabi & Associates.

Some people here only read and comment nonsense. No judge will ruin his/her career/reputation carelessly.

How will the judges proof to the world the 100,000+ votes that exceed the total accredited voters? How will they proof to the world the 400+ votes exceeding the total registered voters in some polling units?

Remember the numbers of seats the APC won at the general election too

Diligentnigga:
Good morning Nairalanders, I will make this as short as possible and please don't mind my punctuation as I am typing this in a rush

I am a graduate, though unemployed but doing one or two menial jobs to keep mind and soul together

I have this girlfriend I have been dating for almost two years now. We both love each other but the issue at hand is she's a stubborn, anger driven person that insults my parents. In fact hit me sometimes and says all manner of words at me.

Of recent, I found out she's pregnant this February. Now the issue is she's a finalist in the University as she will be serving this year October, but we had plans of not doing abortion but she's so ashamed of everything and just irrational and saying all manners like what people will say this and that, and I have told her I will stay by her through everything. I informed my mum and my immediate siblings about the pregnancy, they were angry but they were like it's fine sha since she's loved in the family

Now the issue is
1 She's very stubborn
2 she insults my parents at every small argument
3 she's anger driven, yes am anger driven to an extent also but I have never used my anger to do stupid things like hitting her before compare to many times she has Slapped, locked my shirt and punched me.
4 we had an issue last night and it was in public and she was just shouting at me, passers by and onlookers were just amused that why would a lady be like this that she now had to take a big stone and throw at me, though I dodged the stone all because i was gearing her to let's leave the public scene and go home
5 A baby is on the line cos she's pregnant and even if you will advise me to leave the relationship as it's toxic, what about the unborn child.
6 I am currently unemployed and in fact am still at home not yet balanced up well enough, but she has used nags to kill me, saying all manners at me

All insults are welcomed. Please I am in die need of advise thank you.

You have failed to use your head right from the beginning. You are still failing right now. You may still fail at the end. Just because the lady is pretty. Hmmmm!

Learn to use your head!

Remember, the stone you managed to wave killed someone in South Africa not long ago. I pray none of you get killed by the other in future.

This guy will be disgraced soon!

chatinent:
Well served.

May you experience such soon.

Why are you so heartless, is this the right thing to do? Can this change the court judgement? Was he the judge or the court?

The fools who are supposed to accuse their candidate who cut short the joy of a beloved, innocent and worthy man (Lyon) left their senses in a dust bin, now going around to disturb people's peace.

I blame the court system. The matter should have been decided before electioneering.

Watin concern me now?