₦airaland Forum

Hmmm

This kidnappers and bandits should be careful oo

CBN will freeze their accounts oo

They should also avoid lekki toll gate.

The new training ground for our army recruits to use Nigerian youths as target practice.

Lol... Where are those cursed souls in Nairaland.

What a disgrace to them and their pay masters

Silly Ohaneze

They are just waking up

They are as guilty as wike

If all the people doing this are caught.

All our embassies will close.

Don't tell me it's this chief in the picture

Woke will answer for his crimes

It will just take time

Hand of Dave

Voice of Umahi

He is just coming to terms

Shebi he was talking tough.

No single word on using police cars to bring thugs to attack #EndSARs protesters.

No word on confirmed videos of police killing unarmed people in broad day and shaking themselves after.

No arrest of a known thug that attacked #EndSARs protesters.

The police have lost the trust completely.

And if they don't retrace their steps.

Any unrest in Nigeria, they will always bear the blunt.

Let him not investigate his men and apologise to Nigerians.

This IG is even occupying the position illegally

He should proceed on retirement already.

This wanna be again

Did men complain to UN?

Its children ooo

Cos I can see some grown men here salivating already.

The next governor of Lagos state

Clown

A liar can't be trusted

As in

Ndi nwuru anwu

Ndi jebegoronu

But

Just voting?

We give dead people presidential federal appointments here.

You dont even have to exist to vote in our own election

One person can deliver thousands of votes.

BabaOwen:
He might become a senator or minister.

Kiss the truth

Where?

Its you that dont know the truth.

If APC dont give him the president he desires, its over for him.

Every state have how they play their politics.

He is under Buhari's protective custody.

He did not protest against SARS too.

So nothing will happen to him.

Even his account won't be frozen.

Protest against government is the terrorist act in town.

fergie001:
Bayelsa Gov Poll: Supreme Court affirms Diri’s election

…as appellants withdraw cases

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, dismissed six appeals that sought to nullify the election of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State.

The apex court, in a unanimous judgement by a seven-man panel of Justices led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, upheld the election of governor Diri and his Deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, after all the appellants withdrew their cases against them.

Those that applied and withdrew their appeals on Wednesday were the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party, Alliance for Democracy, its governorship candidate, Owei Woniwei, Liberation Movement, its candidate, Vijah Opuama, as well as the Accord Party.

It will be recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja had in a judgement it delivered on October 2, upturned the verdict of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal that nullified Diri’s election.

The appellate court had in a unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices, voided the majority judgement the tribunal delivered on August 17, which ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a fresh election in the state within 90 days.

The tribunal had based its decision on the ground that INEC unlawfully excluded one of the registered political parties, ANDP, from the governorship election that held in the state on November 16, 2019.

While two members of the tribunal panel, Justices Sikiru Owodunni and Yunusa Musa, upheld ANDP’s petition, Chairman of the panel, Justice Ibrahim Sirajo gave a dissenting judgement that upheld Diri’s election.

Dismissing the petition for being statute-barred, Justice Sirajo said there was evidence that ANDP was disqualified from the election for fielding an ineligible candidate.

He noted that the party nominated an underaged deputy governorship candidate, who admitted that he was 34 years old, instead of the 35 years age bracket the Constitution stipulated.

Meanwhile, dissatisfied with the majority judgement of the tribunal, governor Diri, his party- the Peoples Democratic Party- and INEC, separately lodged appeals to set it aside.

Governor Diri contended that the judgement of the tribunal occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice against him, insisting that it was “manifestly against the weight of evidence”.

Upholding the appeals, the appellate court panel led by Justice Adzira Gana Mshella, held that the majority verdict of the tribunal that invalidated Diri’s election was “perverse” and “contemptuous of the law”.

Justice Obande Festus Ogbuinya who read the lead judgement of the appellate court held that the tribunal wrongfully evaluated the petition of the ANDP and thus reached an unjust conclusion in the Bayelsa governorship dispute.

The appellate court said there was enough evidence before the tribunal to prove that ANDP nominated underaged candidates for the election, in breach of sections 177, 182 and 187 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

Besides, it held that the petition was not only statute-barred but equally a pre-election matter that was outside the jurisdiction of the tribunal.

It noted that whereas section 285(9) of the Constitution made it mandatory that the issue of disqualification of candidates, being a pre-election matter, must be filed within 14 days after the cause of action arose, ANDP, filed its petition at the tribunal, five months after its deputy governorship candidate was disqualified by INEC.

According to the appellate court, INEC had in two separate letters dated September 13 and September 27, notified the ANDP that it made invalid nominations.

It held that the cause of action begun to run from the date the party became aware that its nomination of candidates was invalidated by INEC.

The appellate court held that the case of ANDP had become “stale” and “soured” as at February 26 when it filed the petition at the tribunal.

More so, the Appeal Court ruled that the issue of disqualification of candidates, being a pre-election matter, could only be ventilated before a regular court and not a tribunal.

Likewise, in four other separate judgements, the appellate court dismissed appeals that were lodged by candidate of AD, Woniwei, that of LM, Opuama, and candidate of Accord Party, Ebezimo Diriyau.

The appeals were dismissed for being statute-barred and for containing pre-election matters that are beyond the scope of an election tribunal.

The appellants had among other things, sought governor Diri’s disqualification on the premise that his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, submitted forged documents to INEC.

They alleged that the Bayelsa deputy governor gave false information in the Form CF001 he tendered to INEC for the purpose of the governorship election.

The appellants specifically challenged the authenticity of Ewhrudjakpo’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Exemption Certificate allegedly issued in 1998.

The Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of the appellants’ petitions, by the tribunal.

VANGUARD

lalasticlala mynd44

Its over

umahi shot himself

BabaOwen:
The governor will be more important for the APC during the 2023 presidential election than all this lightweight politicians

Ebonyi dont do light weight politicians

You don't joke with even development centre coordinator.

They know that leaving with him will even hurt them too.

Now he will struggle till his tenure ends and he goes home.

Eyaaaa

Account freezing loading

You can't fight crime with gun and win.

Dansuqi:
Unlike akpabio and uduaghan,umahi has total control of ebonyi politics.he dominates ebonyi.akpabio never dominated akwa ibom,his power lay in pdp and he had a team that usually helped him to control power.they refuses to defect with him.no one can totally dominate akwa ibom.
As for uduaghan,he was never strong my friend.all his exploits was because of ibori.even as a governor ,he was politically humiliated. Not everyone will defect with umahi but most will move with him.ebonyi is apc

Dominate where?

Say what you know

ChangetheChange:

Governor Umahi don enter one CHANCE.

He planted his relations to remain in Ebonyi PDP exco in order to fall back to PdP when APC denies him Presidential ticket.
But PDP dissolved the Ebonyi Party Exco yesterday

Most dont understand any of the move

He had stake in both regional and state exco.

They crippled it.

Our silly police will put him cell

They have stolen everything

Borrowed

And looted it

When you see any clown vomiting this.

Just know the clown is based in Abuja.

NASS won't lift a hand to even help because all of them stay in Abuja due to insecurity in their states.

On fools have long term plan of fighting crimes with guns.

Good governance have been shown to be cheaper.

Good move

when will they use it to trace those thugs that attacked protesters?

Most importantly, there was a video of policemen shaking their hands after killing an unarmed civilian, when will they trace those policemen

When will they use the video to trace that police truck that brought Abuja thugs

Good move

Which injustice?

With 12 Nigerian police kidnapped