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slivertongue:
OBIDIENTs are indeed a nightmare to folks like you.

Angelfrost:
Lol... What a joke.

Una never dey serious.

The Kogi State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Dino Melaye, said he will not challenge the electoral victory of the All Progressives Congress before the state election petition tribunal.

The PUNCH reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the APC candidate, Usman Ododo, winner of the November 11 governorship election in the state.

The PDP governorship candidate, who came third in the election, on Wednesday alleged that the judiciary is no longer independent but a department of the APC.

Dino stated, “Judiciary is no longer the last hope of the ordinary people, it is now a department under the All Progressives Congress. Why should any responsible person go to the tribunal when the APC have captured the judiciary?

“I have lost complete confidence in the judiciary.”

Dino said the judiciary is supposed to be the last line of defence of democracy and the rule of law

“Regrettably, however, the judiciary itself has been on trial due to its tragic and glaring inability to inspire confidence and trust in its handling of electoral matters.

“No discerning observer, no matter how charitable, can avoid the conclusion that the Judiciary seems to have become a willing and potent tool in the hands of powerful forces that are bent on subverting democracy in Nigeria,” he added.

The PDP Kogi State Governorship candidate said the common saying that the judiciary is the last hope of aggrieved citizens is now an empty slogan because the judiciary is rapidly turning into the lost hope of the people of Nigeria.

He stated, “That is why I will not dignify a captured judiciary by filing a petition over Kogi Governorship election where majority of the results were written before the election day by INEC officials under the watch of Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

“Why should any reasonable Nigerian go to the tribunal when the Judiciary has been captured and members of a Political Party openly dare the would-be victims of their infernal rigging machine to go to court?

“Why should other political parties and Nigerians participate in future elections with the consolidation of grip and total control of INEC through the appointment of APC card-carrying members as Commissioners into INEC who will recruit APC supporters as poll officials?

Dino alleged that the way the State Independent Electoral Commission is constituted by governors with party members and supporters is what is now being brazenly applied to INEC at the federal level.

He stated, “In the light of the foregoing, I Senator Dino MeIaye have decided in good conscience not to submit myself to a judiciary that has become an instrument of political tyranny. Just as Pa Awolowo declared after the 1983 rigged elections when asked why he refused to go to the tribunal. Our sage said that he would not because “the judiciary is corrupt and will not do justice”

“I will not go to court because justice has been murdered by the judiciary in Nigeria.

“I use this opportunity to call on all opposition political parties of Nigeria to forthwith boycott all future elections unless and until the current INEC constituted by APC members is dissolved and a new set of nonpartisan, Chairman and Commissioners are appointed into INEC.”

President Bola Tinubu has assured that the student loan will commence in January 2024.

The President stated this during the presentation of the 2024 Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja today, Wednesday.

According to him, the 2024 budget tagged Budget of Renewed Hope will achieve job-rich economic growth.

He said it will address long-standing issues in the education sector with the student loan to begin in January.

Tinubu began the presentation of the N27.5 trillion Appropriation Bill at 11. 40 a.m. He promised that when passed, the government would start the implementation on January 1, 2024.

Meanwhile, prior to the arrival of President Tinubu to the National Assembly complex, there was a high turnover of federal lawmakers at both the Senate and House of Representatives.

LikeAking:
How is it false?

Their is black out everywhere..

At the end of the collation at 08:30 am on Sunday, Fashina announced that the collation centre would go on an hour break and reconvene for the winner's announcement.

Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 local government results announced in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State

Collation of results at the State Collation Centre started around 02:30am on Sunday in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, as the state Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the election.

Though 18 parties fielded candidates in the poll, this year’s governorship election in Imo State has been described by analysts as a four-horse race between APC’s Uzodimma who is seeking re-election, Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party’s Achonu Nneji and Jack Ogunewe of the Action Alliance.

According to INEC, the number of registered voters in the state for the poll was 2, 419,922 with 2,318,919 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) collected.

At the end of the collation at 08:30 am on Sunday, Fashina announced that the collation centre would go on an hour break and reconvene for the winner’s announcement.

None of the other candidates won any local government.

Like Imo, governorship elections were held in Kogi and Bayelsa on November 11, 2023, though the collation of results from the two states has been adjourned to Sunday morning.

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— Imran Muhammad (@Imranmuhdz) October 26, 2023

obaidan:
i love that we won and scored 4.......but let's not lie to ourselves ....we are still mediocre the way we play and move the ball around, sterling still carries d ball and run aimlessly and give to opponents........we can get away doing this with burnley, we cant even try this with a team like brighton not to talk of liverpool or city.....this is not it yet......we cant be winning because the opponent doesnt have much to give, we should be winning because we can actually play and move the ball and not be giving balls to the opponent

victorclean:
Very pathetic and on point. Why must State and Local Government workers, bankers etc join the strike that only benefit federal workers.

There mumu don do

sweetgala:
The problem with Joe Ajaero is that he has made the NLC a political tool and therefore is exposed to political manipulations, Tinubu is not Buhari who is happy to act aloof, Tinubu is constantly thinking one step ahead, that N25k increment gazzumped Joe and the NLC because their members wouldn't follow them into a strike action if they suspect a measure of good faith from the government.

We saw it some weeks back when they called a strike and some workers refused to participate in several states.

MrsTwrite:
Private sectors are not in competition with federal government they know where they belong.

Who is going to negotiate for Private sector, State and LG workers now? It's bad decision to always jump like herds and join federal workers to strike.

It's obvious State Governors are foot dragging on the planned increase in minimum wage so FG will just go ahead and take care of its workers.

Let them all continue. Just like state University joining ASUU strikes on what will likely not be binding on them. Many state workers are still owed salaries oooo but NLC won't do shishi to that!

Federal Governments don't owe money, unionism feeds fat on FG workers rebellion, I'm still waiting for NLC to go to private factories and say they don't like the working conditions of people doing factory work there

This is happening live at the Federal Ministry of Works Headquarters, Mabushi, Abuja where Engr David Umahi locked workers outside the Ministry and gave a directive that nobody should enter. The union are demanding the Minister to come and address them.

Protesting workers in the Ministry of Works have locked the minister, Dave Umahi, inside his office on Thursday morning.

The workers, who accused Umahi of highhandedness, adding that the minister prevented workers who were late to work from gaining access to the ministry.

The union members comprising the Housing and Works Ministry decided to lock up the ministry.
The workers also blocked entry and exit into the building thereby preventing the minister from leaving the office premises.

They also claimed that Umahi “stopped engineers and directors from doing their work, and has been breaking public service rules since his appointment, by bringing in consultants to run the affairs of the ministry”

A union official, Williams Kudi, said that the minister has refused to grant them an audience to express their c

Video: 'He must go', workers protest after Works minister Umahi locks them out over lateness

Kingsnairaland:
Real estate prices are not stable and you have the right to inflate prices when selling or buying lands.

So what is exactly the judge basing his theory on.