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Stop this thread.

I am disappointed that people are believing this poster. Do you think Ibori can stoop so low? I have said it before, and I am saying it again, Nairaland, please remove this thread. This is not good. Lets remain fair to all. Where a case is established against any, we give him a piece of justice, and show him where their likes belong. For a mad man to claim to be Ibori, this is the height of insanity. Poster, indeed you are looking for unnecesary attend, and only mad people does. nairaland, once again stop this thread.

james_ibor:
May I use this opportunity to introduce my humble self. I am Chief James Onanefe Ibori, former executive governor of Delta state. I have been under attack for sometime now and this attack has been led by Saharareporters for the mere reason that I refused to secure a top contract for Sowore. This is cheap blackmail and I want to assure all my followers that I shall not waver in my zeal to serve our fatherland to the best of my ability.

Hence forth, I shall be posting evidences here to prove my self innocent of all allegations. I shall overcome.

Thank u

Long live Nairaland!
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!

MAIRALAND PLEASE REMOVE THIS THREAD. THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR THIS FORUM. OBVIOULY THE POSTER IS A MAD MAN, WAITING TO BE CAUGHT BY YABA OFFICIALS. YOU CAN TAKE IT TO MAD MEN SECTION, PLEASE.

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egbeocha:
wat actually is happenin in d dredgin of d river niger.Notin is goin on there again.is lyk they ve gone.i believe dat cargo airport was awarded long ago even not 2day.

Yes, the airport talk and approval has been on long before now, but bureaucratic bottle-necks delayed it.

Andy Uba Plans to Buy Justice - News


Re: unprecedented abuse of judicial process and mischievous ploy to manipulate the justices of the court of appeal by Mr. Andy Emmanuel Uba.



1. Mr. Andy Uba’s inordinate quest to rule Anambra by hook or crook is now public knowledge, and his desire to use his enormous wealth to purchase anyone on his way to the Government house is also known. When Andy Uba had tried for the third time to ridicule the Supreme Court by trying one trick after another and boasting of his financial inducements to the justices, the Chief Justice personally intervened in the matter and thoroughly berated Andy Uba and his lawyers for abusing the court.

2. Andy Uba has now moved to the Court of Appeal, apparently to get what the Supreme Court has denied him. He wants the Court of Appeal to declare him “Governor in waiting” and for him to take over from Mr. Peter Obi on March 17, 2010 . In terms of the law and the Nigerian Constitution, this is obviously ridiculous, but for a man with excess cash, nothing is impossible with money!

3. He has boasted to many people that Justices of the Court of Appeal are “more amenable”, and that he has concluded arrangements with the President of the Court of Appeal (who retires in a month’s time and Uba claims he would guarantee him a life of bliss) and the Justices to deliver ‘suicide’ judgment on the matter. According to him, if the current Justices in Enugu prove difficult, the President of the Court would set up a new panel of his choice. Anambra people are worried and scared not only about the prospects of an Andy Uba as governor, but more so about the possible scandalisation of the judiciary.

4. We therefore petition your Lordships to please save the good names you have personally built for decades and also save the Nigerian judiciary. Several Justices and police who tried to soil their hands with Andy Uba have received natural justice (what happened to Justice Okechukwu Opene; Justice Wilson Egbo Egbo; AIG Ralph Ige who masterminded Ngige’s abduction to make way for the Ubas, etc). We petition you to intervene now, and for President of Court of Appeal to reassure Nigerians that the wild boasts by Uba are not true.

5. We raise the following issues which border us as ordinary people and wonder how in spite of these, the Court of Appeal could go ahead to deliver what Uba calls “suicide” judgment since the President of the Court would retire soon.

(a) Can the Court of Appeal override the judgment of the Supreme Court IN SC. 123/2007 MR PETER OBI(GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE ) V. INEC &ORS.?
The landmark judgment of the SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA as the apex court in this country which was acclaimed as one of the highpoints of the enduring contributions to the growth of democracy in Nigeria is reported as OBI V. INEC & ORS 2007 NWLR (PT 104) 560
As your lordship will remember, by the said judgment in OBI V. INEC, the Supreme Court of Nigeria authoritatively determined that as at 14 APRIL 2007, the tenure of Mr PETER OBI as the Governor of Anambra State was not vacant and in accordance with the provisions of Section 180(2)a of the 1999 Constitution, the tenure of the office of Mr OBI as Governor of Anambra State will EXPIRE ON 17 MARCH 2010. Indeed the leading judgment of the Supreme Court per ADEREMI,JSC clarified the position “that as at 14 th April 2007 when the 1st Respondent (INEC) was conducting gubernatorial election in Anambra State , the seat of the governor of that State was not vacant. The election was a wasteful and unnecessary exercise” .

Since the delivery of the above final judgment in OBI V. INEC, Andy UBA has repeatedly made spirited efforts to thwart the final decision of the Supreme Court by the filing of one motion after the other intending to hoodwink the Supreme Court into setting aside its binding decision. It is, to the eternal reputation of your lordship, that the Supreme Court ably presided by the Chief Justice boldly told Andy Uba and his team of lawyers that they cannot ridicule the judicial process and that the mischief propelling their motion before the Court was condemnable. In clear, but stringent terms, your lordship in open court reprimanded Uba’s lawyer.

Since the Supreme Court could not play ball, Andy Uba has now moved his theatre down to the Court of Appeal, and is confident that he has captured a willing segment of the Judiciary.

Andy Uba has changed from one Senior Advocate to as many as his enormous wealth can purchase. Having realised that the Supreme Court came down very heavily on his lawyer when he tried his gamble, he has before the Court of Appeal engaged about two Senior Advocates of Nigeria.

Before the Court of Appeal Enugu, Uba’s newly engaged Senior Advocate of Nigeria has brought a motion pretending to be asking the Court of Appeal to VARY ITS JUDGEMENT in Appeal No CA/E/EPT/7/2007 DR EMMANUEL ANDY UBA V. DAME VIRGY ETIABA&ORS which was delivered on 18 February 2008 .

However, in reality the present motion before the Court of Appeal Enugu is aimed at mischievously obtaining through the back door what has been rightly refused Uba at the front door. In the motion filed before the Court of APPEAL on 10th September 2009, Uba is once again seeking to be granted “consequential Order upholding him as the Governor of Anambra State vide the election held on 14th April 2007” which the Supreme Court described as “a wasteful and unnecessary exercise”.


(b) Is Section 178 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria no longer valid?
Section 178 (subsections 1 and 2) state as follows:
(1) An election to the office of Governor of a State shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission. (2) An election to the office of Governor of a State shall be held on a date not earlier than sixty days and not later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder of that office. If the Supreme Court has declared that Peter Obi’s tenure expires on March 17, 2010, how can Andy Uba replace him following the result of an election held almost THREE YEARS earlier? By virtue of Section 178 of the Constitution, no election held earlier than 60 days before March 17, 2010 would be valid for the purpose of replacing Peter Obi. Of course, in Andy Uba’s mind, money can do anything.

© Is Peter Obi not entitled to a second term in office since the Supreme Court ruled that his legal term comes to an end on March 17, 2010 ?

If the stupid request of ‘Governor in waiting’ is answered, would Peter Obi’s right to contest for a second term not be impeded?

(d) If Andy Uba’s request is answered, what happens to the result of the forthcoming elections scheduled by INEC for February 6, 2010 in compliance with the Supreme Court Ruling and Constitutional Provisions?

Following the Supreme Court judgment that Peter Obi’s tenure ends on 17 March, 2010 , and constitutional provision about time table for valid elections into office of Governor, INEC has scheduled the next election for February 6, 2010 . By law, the election must hold within 60 days to the expiration of Obi’s tenure. Would the winner of that election then be ‘Governor in waiting’ also, and to take over after Andy Uba? This would be ridiculous!

(e) Even Andy Uba knows that his case before the Court of Appeal is baseless and frivolous.
Even while Andy Uba was praying the Court of Appeal to give him what the Supreme Court refused, he was busy lobbying the PDP to adopt him as the party’s candidate for next year’s election. He wrote a letter to the PDP pleading with the party to adopt him as the candidate since his 2007 election was botched, and by virtue of Section 178 of the Constitution is now a nullity. Of course, the PDP refused his request since he did not participate in the processes for the selection of a gubernatorial candidate. If Andy Uba was convinced that he had a genuine case in court, why would he be requesting for automatic ticket of PDP or making arrangement with a small political party to offer him a platform to contest the election?

(f) Has PDP as a Political Party not explicitly abandoned the Andy Uba’s quest?

By the Supreme Court ruling on Amaechi’s case, it is clear that it is the Political Party that wins the election and not the candidate. Thus, the Andy Uba’s ‘victory’ was PDP’s victory. But PDP has, in compliance with INEC’s call for nominations, fielded a candidate for next year’s election. Is Andy Uba fighting for the ticket as Andy Uba or on behalf of the PDP which is the bona fide owner of the mandate?

(g) What happens to all the candidates in that election of 2007 who dropped their legal challenges of the election following Supreme Court’s judgment and subsequent judgment by the Election Tribunal?

As you may be aware, there was literally no election in Anambra on April 14, 2007 . Major candidates for the election such as Dr. Chris Ngige were excluded from the ballot for no reason. Other candidates had petitions on accounts of irregularities and illegalities trailing the election. At best, the election would have been cancelled and a re-run ordered if the legal processes at the Tribunal and Court of Appeal went normally. However, once the Supreme Court pronounced its judgment in June 2007 in respect of Peter Obi’s tenure, there was no longer a life issue to determine at the Tribunal and Court of Appeal, and hence several of the candidates abandoned the legal processes. Recall that the Tribunal threw out the case on the basis of the Supreme Court judgment. Now, if Uba wants the Court of Appeal to award him the Governorship, would it not be common sense that the case be sent back to the Tribunal to be tried on its merit, if possible, as there are many parties to the case?

There are several other issues that border us but enough of this for now. We have heard that money is the root of all evil but the good name and integrity of the Nigerian Judiciary is priceless. ANDY UBA SHOULD BE TOLD THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY NOR RUBBISH THE JUDICIARY!
PLEASE URGENTLY INTERVENE BEFORE UBA SCANDALISES AND MAKES A MOCKERY OF OUR JUDICIARY.

Thank you.



http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4099:andy-ubas-plan-to-buy-justice-open-letter-to-the-chief-justice-of-nigeriachairman-national-judicial-council-and-the-president-of-the-court-of-appeal-&catid=116:sr-readers-letters&Itemid=393

maedan:
@Mpele, and what do you mean by that?? Any country should be happy that a Nigerian even wants to step foot into their borders - to speak less of the "overweight, corrupt govt officials".

Good talk!, but in reality, is it good talk?

chidichris:
soludo helped obj in safeguiding his loots and protecting his criminal activities while he was the cbn gov so this time arround obj has decided to reward him by handing over anambra to soludo.
this diea of transforming anambra to dubai is old fashioned and boring.
he shld be thinking of other stories as what he has is out of fashion.

Don't let Soludo's supporters catch you oh!.

At last, they finally accepted N20million. Na wah oh!

God will shame looters in this country.

queenesthr:
Which cheap drug are you taking?
Do you know the volume of Cargo that comes into Anambra State on a daily bases?
Do you know the amount of risk Anambra business men have to take to transport their goods into Onitsha  because there is no airport in Anambra state?
Wake up from your own sleep first.

Now I know there some educated fools around. I dont blame this gay!

I just hope this matter is resolved amicably.

Latest NewsNov 4, 2009
By Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA—The suit by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the April 14, 2007 election in Anambra State, before the Court of Appeal, Enugu, in which he is praying the court to declare that his 2007 election stands, has divided the people of the state.
While the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, a civil society organisation, argued that the matter was capable of generating judicial anarchy, a chieftain of the PDP in the state, Chief Edwin Okwuosa wants the party to reflect on the contributions of Uba towards the development of the party.
The former presidential aide is seeking for an order of the court, confirming him as the duly elected Governor of Anambra State by virtue of the April 2007 election, when the tenure of Governor Peter Obi elapses on March 17, 2010.
He had predicated his latest application on the earlier decision of the court, which had ruled that his election stands.
According to the chairman of Intersociety, Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, “it is very obvious that supremacy contest now exists between the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, with respect to the said subject matter. While the Supreme Court had invalidated the said governorship election, the Court of Appeal says it stands.”

16 Responses for “A’Court: Uba’s suit divides Anambra”. Gotten from the same source:

C. OFOMA says:
November 4, 2009 at 10:28 am
pdp should have re-fielded andy uba in their 2010 election if they and inec are not having skelleton in the cupboard.
Obasanjo moulded many chains of warms and hung it on Yar adua neck during handover ceremoney at eagle square,but it is left for Yar adua to remove the chains one by one,Anambra is however the heaviest of the chains…the niger delta conflics have not thought aso rock any lesson.
Yar adua personally is not crooked,but pdp is bent on making sure that all good people in nigeria shall regret ever being good from birth when they succed in turning the nation into on party state. GOD FORBID!!



Johnson Ini says:
November 4, 2009 at 10:26 am
First it was Chris Uba that held Anambra nay the whole nation to ransom during the Ngige abduction saga. Now it appears it is going to be turn of Andy Uba to to capture and hold Anambra hostage once again.Now my question; Who will rescue our dear Anambra state from these blood brothers OR is Anambra under a curse?



slimfeet says:
November 4, 2009 at 10:08 am
common this fool is fighting in vain…. Anambra are not meant for UBAH”S family , they’ve really ruined this great state… please go in and build your house first before coming out to the masses…. Just look at what Chris ubah is wasting his energy on soludo who is already the governor of Anambra state…. this family is caused already so there is no way they can rule my state



igweokala says:
November 4, 2009 at 9:57 am
Please can Vanguard choose to give an embargo of news from Anambra my state.
Vanguard seem to have stationed a bad reporter at awka to feed its revered readers all kinds of speculative journalism.
Please let us read good news other than this Uba laundering you guys at the Cannal have ‘codedly’ embarked upon.



vindave says:
November 4, 2009 at 9:53 am
But what is wrong with some people self? Don’t they know that there is seniority in the judiciary.
The Suprem Court according to its name is the APEX Court – Senior to all other courts in the Land. The next senior court is the APPEAL Court which decision can be over ride by the Supreme Court…. just as the Appeal court can over ride the High Court or Federal High Court.
So if the Supreme Court says Andy Uba is not the Governor of Anambra state who are the block head Judges in Appeal court that want to take over the supremacy of the Supreme court. Some of these stupid Judges in Appeal court may one day find themselves in the SUPREME COURT and I wonder how they will feel if a lower court tell them that their rulings cannot over ride their (Lower court) own.
Na wa for Naija.



Udoka frank says:
November 4, 2009 at 9:40 am
Be it Andy uba or Pdp, we the people of anambra dont need you. The election uba claim he won,was rigged.Pls for the love of God, give peace a chance in my belove state



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/04/acourt-ubas-suit-divides-anambra/

koolchicco:
The most irrational post I've read on NL lately.

This guy reminds me the need to ask Nairaland again to screen contributors. Some people like this dude, are just unfit for this forum, please.

chidichris:
why are people very stingy even with the spending of other people's funds?
the funds in question belongs to the people of nigeria and you are finding it difficult to spend it.
soludo pls give the kidnappers the money bcs it is our money.
pls let the old man be free.
if a person does not get trouble for himself, someone else will get the trouble for him.
the man who wants to transform anambra to dubai is finding it difficult to spend funds in releasing his own father.
i am becoming suspicious of his intentions.

What if the funds are for bribing the electorates . Funding kidnappers is not lucrative you know.

KnowAll:
why are u guys shouting, it happened in phc and abuja and all the okada men have found new jobs to do, some are taxi drivers and etc, and no body is complaining anymore.calabar has a more organized road network unlike phc, so it wont be a burden on the citizens, motorcycles are a nuisance and easiest way to broken limbs and death.



It is good to think outside the box, the problem with some of us is we are looking at the small picture, those irritating uncontrollable and unruly motorcycle riders bellowing polluted air into horizon; it is a good riddance to bad rubbish. What we have failed to realise is the net effect and the repercussion of the ban.

The obvious consequence of this ill thought and hastily endorsed policy in Port Harcourt is of 2 folds, firstly, kidnapping incidents in eastern region in particular and the whole Nigeria in general has increased by 1000%, secondly the size of the insurgency in the creeks has quadrupled.

It doesn’t help when States like Imo and Abia went down the same inglorious route by copying an ill conceived policy from Rivers State, what we now have is an endemic problem that is about to consume the whole nation.

Today the militants who use to be a few disorganize marihuana smoking crazed youths with guns have swollen in size and can now be classified as a brigade. A Brigade in military parlance means having between 4000 to 5000 men under arms in a command structure.

Naija delta militants are no more restricted to Bayelsa and Rivers State but have a western command that stretches all the way to Ondo State. I will not be surprise to know that they have even infiltrated the lagoons and creeks of Lagos State.

If this is not the wholesome effect of the ban of Okada bikers in PH, then what could be further from the truth?

What could have led young able men into a struggle which could culminate in the loss of their own life if not hunger, desperation and despair?

That is the long and short of the story.

But the Police are finding this case a hard nut to crack.

There is no point, it will happen someday, but what measure will be put in place to assist the ex okada riders will determine the new face of Lagos. Either increase crime rate, or life goes on normally.

Why are we like this in Nigeria? Airports everywhere, how many of them are viable. Besides, Asaba is nearly completing their airport cant Anambra people use that? Is airport what they really need now?.

The Federal Government has given approval for the construction of a Cargo/Passenger airport in Anambra State. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Maja Umeh said the approval had been conveyed to the state government, adding that the Peter Obi administration had resolved in its weekly executive council meeting held yesterday to proceed to acquire land for the establishment of the airport.
The state government he said went through the processes required and passed the various tests set for it by the federal ministry of Aviation befor the approval was given. The airport project which is to be cited at Ifite Umuleri in the Anambra East Local government area of the state, the Commissioner said is to be built in partnership with Orient Petroleum Ltd.
He added that the approval will now enable the state government to go into the field and start construction works.


http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=158866

Even in the the circumstances faced by Soludo?

Any idea about Soludo's father whereabout?

I learnt his cohorts are going there to visit him. They had better start looking for how to refurbish our prisons, becos very soon, it will be their turn.

You need to hear house the House of Rep member called those bumps, "Aliero Bumps". Where on earth will you see those useless bumps in a nation's capital city?.

Senate orders FCDA to remove speed-breakers in FCT

Clement Idoko, Abuja - 04.11.2009

THE Senate, on Tuesday, expressed disgust over the construction of speed-breakers all over the streets of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and ordered the Federal Capital Territory Administration to remove them.

The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekeremadu, speaking while commissioning the three new heavy duty tow trucks and facility tour of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Call Centre, in Abuja, described the speed-breakers in a city like Abuja as not only backward but irresponsible.

He also disclosed that the National Assembly would soon review the FRSC Establishment Act 2007 to enable the commission to perform optimally in the discharge of its duty of ensuring safety on the Nigerian roads.

Of particular concern, according to the senator, would be the need to empower the FRSC to keep back some percentage of its revenue to address some of its financial challenges.

On the speed-breakers, he said: “Those bumps are completely irresponsible. You can’t see this in any city in the world. This is the first time I’m seeing it. If the FCT administration is anxious of the safety of people, they should be able to put speed cameras, deploy people to monitor the movement and speed of drivers and putting those nasty bumps does not look well in cities such as Abuja and they should be removed”.

The Federal House of Representatives had, last week, gave similar order for the FCTA to remove the speed-breaker but that directive was yet to be carried out before this new order by the upper legislative chamber.

Ekeremadu, commending the FRSC management as one of the best managed government agency in the country today, assured that the “National Assembly will continue to render the necessary support that will enhance the capacity of the FRSC and prepare it to render its services as the lead agency in traffic safety in the country most efficiently”.



http://www.tribune.com.ng/04112009/news/news18.html

But life will be hard with many there.

No one will support sustainance of Okada riding, but there should atleast be a remedy before embarking on it. If you see the famous "Sanyang Ward" at UCTH Calabar, water will come out of ones eyes. I dont wish my enemy to go there. It is not a good place.

These might go for the list of Nigerian corrupt leaders, and their proposed jail term:


1. Ibrahim Babangida --- Life imprisonment.
2. Tony Anenih --- 25 years in prisonment
3. James Ibori --- Life at Guantanamo Bay
4. Abdulsalam Abubakar --- 75 years in prison Kirikiri
5. OBJ --- To be judged by GOD Himself
6. Nuhu Ribadu ---- 98 years for aiding and abating OBJ.
7. El-Rufai --- 100 years for deceiving many to be a Saint. Go to Maiduguri.
8. Yar'Adua --- Be allowed to go free (because is already a living corpse)
9. Al-mustapha ---- Be shot ( for killing many)
10. Akala ---- 200 years for wanting to turn graduates into Taxi Drivers
11. Omisore ---- 100 for aiding the highest assassination in the land of Nigeria
12. Andy Uba --- 75 years for wanting to serve the people of Anambra by force.
13. Chris Uba ---- for turning himself to one of the youngest god-father in politics

The list is endless, and is even subject to addition.



NB: El-Rufai, we cannot wait for your December date, please. Please proceed to your apportioned prison and serve your jail term.

OAM4J:
I agree these commercial cyclists can be nuisance sometimes. But come to think of it, like someone said, they are necessary evil. How many people here can truly say they have not used okada before?

We have had many plane crashes, but it has not stopped us from flying on planes, we have had many road accidents, we still drive on those roads. The solution is not to ban (that is a cheap solution), but to improve them, put measures in place to reduce those accidents.

Those jobless commercial cyclists are potential armed robbers, kidnappers, etc. An idle hand they say is the devil’s tool.

I will like to concur here. Stopping these riders is making it look as cheap solution. If there is need to stop these people, why not have more than enough solution on ground, and making sure that, it will be beneficial to both. Also, it deosnt mean that, they cannot ride their bikes of the major roads, if some so wishes. Providing 250 cabs to 100,000 people shows how unserious Nigerian leaders can be. Besides, the cost of these cabs, will soon send many to join miscreants and arm-robbers faster.

Where is Chris Uba getting the allegation from? Anyway, in Nigeria evrything is possible. Nigerian politics, the dirtiest game ever.