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Excellent, i will provide e-food and e-drinks and e-chicks and e-guys and e-music and e-moms and e-dads and e-birthday for you. Abi i no try?

Yee pa ri

Madam Waziri has lost track.
Just listening to her these days tell you we are heading to no where.
Under her leadership, EFCC has turned to debt recovery commission for the CBN and now she wants to make the commission a psychiatric hospital for testing level of madness. I think she has also gone mad. Well, it takes a mad person to recognize another mad person.

I think the problem with this country lies with the fact that our leaders speak from both side of the mouth. Onovo is not the first IG who would say good things about the police why in actual fact, he is part and parcel of the rotten bunch called POLICE. If a fish wants to rotten, it starts from the head. The only way out is for Doctor to rise to the occasion of challenging the police (suing them). The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) should as a matter of urgency set-up a committee to look into this issue and also further a bill to the National Assembly for it to be an offense for any police officer to harass or intimidate any doctor for carry out his legitimate duty. After all, the first duty of any doctor is to save life (though Doctors demand for money before commencing treatment but that is another issue altogether).

sorry poster, i think you miss-typed 32 (not 23). Sure, Timaya is not 23, i know that. He looks more than 30 and if you check out what he filled as age in "the street to fame" project in which he contested, you will be shocked. He grew up in Port Harcourt. Except Music age don dey shaa

modern day girls are not satisfied, they complain about nothing and everything, by the time they clock 30, they begin to look for any kind of man for man (hence there would be no need for good, nice, boring and bad distinction/class)

poster, link please

Well, Kudos to Fashola but he needs to do more on curtailing touts (Agberos) in Lagos. Apart from that, he has performed well.

Fellow Nigerians (As Abacha usually says),

It is a known fact that our national currency (the Naira) is only in note forms, that is N5, N10, N20, N50, N100, N200, N500 and N1,000.
Why is it that the CBN does not want to re-introduce the Kobo (coins) yet transactions including the nations budget are done in Kobo? Is the Kobo only for the pages of papers? Is it not proper for the CBN to re-introduce the coins and reduce the circulation of higher denominations.
I was told that USA has other denomination above $100 but it is hardly in circulation (i am not very sure of this), hence the cents is still very active.
NLders, what is your take on this issue? Can't this measure reduce corruption?

Common sweets (candys) cannot be purchased with kobo because it does not exist.

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How often do you update the version it? You can also delete expired tickets from the database. Presenly, i use version 12.3NA Trinity series for the client while the server is version 10. You can download it free from their website www.cyberklock.com or call them.

Best of luck

Spyker:
Thank you moderator for restoring my access to reply this thread. Just had to change my password cos someone messed with it.

Back to the topic, there is this saying, when your desirable is not available, then you make your available your desirable. Shame on you poster, what you sow, you reap. I hope when you have a 14-16 year old daughter, someone should do same to you. Village or no village, first of all she is a teenager and need proper advise and guidance which you refused to give to her.

Secondly, you can't conclude she is good in bed just because she satisfied you. If another girls happens to sleep with her, his opinion might be different from yours. That means, sexual satisfaction is a thing of the mind. period.

Sorry i mean guy!

Thank you moderator for restoring my access to reply this thread. Just had to change my password cos someone messed with it.

Back to the topic, there is this saying, when your desirable is not available, then you make your available your desirable. Shame on you poster, what you sow, you reap. I hope when you have a 14-16 year old daughter, someone should do same to you. Village or no village, first of all she is a teenager and need proper advise and guidance which you refused to give to her.

Secondly, you can't conclude she is good in bed just because she satisfied you. If another girls happens to sleep with her, his opinion might be different from yours. That means, sexual satisfaction is a thing of the mind. period.

He that find a wife find a good thing and obtain favour from the Lord. This scriptural view point connotes a basic truth that marriage ought to be a blessing.

Good or bad, Coca Cola for life.
What is happening in this world is competition. People will give all kinds of excuses to sell their product even if they spoil other people's businesses.
Coca Cola is a worldwide brand. So forget this analysis. People will continue to drink it because it will change nothing.
Doctors would tell you too much of every thing is bad. Correct.
Less of every thing is also bad. Correct also. So why do we have to live base on these assumptions.
Cigarette smoking is dangerous to health yet people continue to smoke even more.

LAck of this causes something, excess of this also causes another. Please let people make a choice.
If you look at the world today, the more you label something negative the more people want it.

Please when will too much of sex or lack of sex be discussed. At least this has not been discuss much. Abi (Moderator, please take note)

Good lord, This is a win or loose situation for you.
Let us analyze the situation.
Your fiancee (not wife yet) is earning more, good for you. Less dependence on you for money. My question is, is she God fearing? What kind of friends does she has and what kind of parents does she have. These persons will determine the way her cash gets to her head.

On the other hand, start watching out for change in attitude. She starts complaining about every little thing you does. Men start to pack your bags, she is getting fed up with squaring up with a poor (even though you might not be) guy. Her friends will ask her if she will be the one to marry you or not.

My brother, personally i see no threat except she is influence by (1) Friends (2) Family (3) Her money

Good luck

I don't blame Yobo or any of the super eagles players. Personally, these players are good individually. If you watch their club matches, you will find out that they are good. What is really lacking is commitment to Nigeria. Talking about commitment, who would be committed to Nigeria when they look at how the country treated heros like Sam Okwaraji. They are just there for their money. See the commitment they put in the Clubs and you will scream. I blame the  Coach of the Super (*EAGLES*) chickens, sorry Super vultures Amodu Shuaibu who does not know shit about coaching and his full of shit technical team. Damn, i feel like stoning him with a bottle.
What was the tactics he adopted? None. The first match with Mozambique, he features five (5) strikers in one match, Shooo. We lost 2 - 0 if not that the referee disallow legitimate goals. The second one against Kenya was a lucky one. The first leg against tunisia in Tunis was a lucky draw. See, no tactics.
This brings me to conclusion, if teacher say 1 + 1 = 3, you write 1 + 1=3 in exam, you go fail. Amodu taught the Super Eagles 1 + 1 = 3. So the result is what we have today.

Sack AMODU and bring in a foreign coach, that is the solution. England has the best league in the world yet their present coach is a foreigner. Ericsson (hope this spelling is correct) was also a foreigner. The entire NFF should also be sacked, fired, dismissed, terminated.
I am very angry. Frank Oliseh in his days at Newsline said " if you take away football from Nigerians, we would be left with one thing, POVERTY". See,how Amodu has impoverished the entire nation.

Don't even bother knowing the "TRUE" character of a lady because you can't know.

This is how i described ladies

"They act before thinking" and then regrets later.

So, how can you know her character if she keeps acting new series for you. Just love her for who she is and don't forget to understand her misgivings.

My Elder brother is getting married on the 12th and this was the advice he got from a friend who said his father gave him 7 DUCKS to take care of. He was adviced to keep the ducks in his sitting rooms and take care of them. It sounded crazy but his (my brother's friend) Dad said if he couldn't take care of the Ducks, then he was not ready to get married. He agreed and took the ducks home, kept them in his living room. Barely had he settled down that they began messing (passing faeces) up and down. He kept on cleaning and cleaning their shit. He continue and tried that for two additional days (making three days). On the morning of the forth day, he carried the ducks and returned them to his father with an angry and frustrated look.

The old man laughed and said, my son, you are ready for marriage and he replied, ready for what? I can't stand these ducks messing up my house every second. My wife to be ran away, she complained that the ducks keep passing faeces every second even as she was cleaning up one mess, another mess is added. Finally, she said, it is either me or the ducks.

Finally, his dad said, you have passed the test. If you can stay with these ducks messing up your house, then you can stay with a woman because they behave like ducks. They keep messing up even when you just cleared one mess.

So poster, just forget about knowing the character of woman because they are unpredicatable, just prepare to clear their mess 

What do you mean abroad? Ghana na abroad, Cameroon na abroad, kenya, bokina faso, somalia and other poorer countries na abroad. What this thread should be about is studying overseas (USA, UK e.t.c.), then we can say.
Poster, my village na abroad ooh.

Please Nlders, it is good to discuss peoples private life but i thing the poster did not give us any source. Please Poster, where is the source of your story? If you witnessed it,  i am sure that the paparazzi in Lagos would have witnessed it. Apart from that, its really a disgrace for Empress and Timaya is they want to replicate Segun Arinze and Ann Njemanze kind of marriage/relationship.
Musicians and Stars are supposed to be role models for others to emulate and not a disgrace as the story presumes.
My advice to Timaya, if the girl (Empress) is not ready for marriage, forget her and find yourself a homely faithful lady to cling to. If he must marry a star like himself, well pray so that yours will be like Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs kind.

Reform you say, Not in Nigeria. The police can only be reformed if we operate it like the USA did. Examples are

a. National or Federal Police eg.National Guard/FBI
b. State Police eg. NYPD, LAPD etc like in the US
c. Local Police eg. County Police

One each locally has it police, why would criminals come to Lagos and kidnap somebody yet ransome would be demanded from another state. If the local police does not flush out the criminals from the locality, the Federal Police as we have their are just wasting tax payers money.
How can you send an Aboki man to police in Bayelsa state, a region he knows little or nothing apart. Most persons always say this method won't work, they politicians who hijack it. Good thought i would say, but if a politician hijack the local police, can he escape the one of the state and federal ones. Crime is Crime and must be treated as such. If the general populace is secured, who cares if the politicians want to hijack it. The present situation is worse because the police is now meant for the man who has the money to pay for them. Is it not the same politician who has hijacked it.

Please for any reform to be meaningful, local policing is the key to all crime solving. Use the locals, their are many communities in Nigeria surviving by using vigilantes'. How long are we going to leave in a country where policing has become for the rich and the influential.
We don't have a database as a Nation, so what would spending billions for equipment be for, a ware house?
Please reform the structure of the Police first, gradually the corrupt ones would have be sent to their locally. They won't be able to abuse their own brother's and sister's right.

My thoughts shaa.

Well, I don't really care how they spend their money in as much as they would stop the criminality in the name of fighting for freedom and resource control amongst others.
By the way, why is Boyloaf behaving exactly the same way Asari Dokubo behave when he was granted amnesty by the Obasanjo administration? What message is he sending to all unemployed graduates roaming the street for job, to join militancy and make money or what.
Why would one spend 4 or 5 (Excluding ASUU strike) years in the University only to end up jobless, poor and wretched while One STACK illiterate enjoys a lot of wealth for carry arms against a country.

Naija na wa ohh

A picture says a 1000 words. Is she MOURNING her husband already? How come he wears WHITE and she wear BLACK. black is for mourning.

"President Yaradua is a good man but being good is not enough to lead this nation, he has to do more that being good"= Obasanjo on BBC Hard talk. I think Yaradua should just go and rest after first term before we bury another President.

I have been reading several opinions concerning this issue but to say that there is nothing fishy in the action(s) of the CBN (Sanusi) is to say that "this is not Nigeria".

It is only in Nigeria that "a man NEVER CONTESTED and election, yet becomes a Governor of a State.
it is only in Nigeria that investigations are done in part (why not investigate the 24 banks) and action taken.
It is only in Nigeria that borrowing money becomes a FINANCIAL CRIME otherwise why not the EFCC seize the collateral used in securing those loans.

What ever the case may be, this CBN issue is a way of making people forget about the BOKOM HARAM genocide (that is almost dead) and also a fall out of the Clinton hammer on the YARA"DULL" government.

NAIJA, Na wa oh. God help us

CALL HIM OOH, ABEG, Marriage is for better for worse. You are in the position of setting things right. A simple call might settle your quarrel. Don't create room for another woman to get to him since you said he is not seeing anybody. Come to think of it, why don't you send him a text message apologising and in it tell him you would call him at a particular time (choose a time that you know he is less busy or not busy). Remember, what dialogue can achieve between you guys, not even your entire village can achieve it.

Also, learn to use proper words for your husband if he is hot tempered, he might also be regreting his actions only that his ego will be hurt if he calls you first.

Send him at least 10 romantic text messages before you call him, this will surely cool him down and also remind him of the good old romantic days.

Goodluck

Pentecostalism, protestanism, catholism and so have one thing in common, they preach Christ. But what is different in them is that some have lost the identity of Christianity. You may ask, what is the identity of Christianity and i will tell you "the cross" or "the crucifix". What we find these days is either the face of the founder of the church or the pastor and his wife and lots more. They have assumed the identity of Christianity which is that Christ died on a cross.
Please Nigerians, help us so that the wrath of God will be light on us. Compare christianity to other religions, for instance Islam, you must see the moon and star symbol. Same for many other religions. Why are our Pastors making mockery of Christianity. They are preaching and advertising miracles because of greed. They want money.
How many of this so called churches use their money to build non-profit institutions and homes like the missionaries did. For example, in Port Harcourt, all the homes (Home for the Elderly, Compassion home, Cheshire home (for disables), the Child (for mentally retarded persons)) and many more belong to the Catholic church. We here pastors building schools with high fees, buying private jets. It is all greed and love of money and not love of God.

Our pastors should look at the life of christ and his apostles and emulate them because they are leading million(did i say millions) billions to damnation and they must account for the souls they end up decieving.

I really frown at advertising miracles anyway

Nlders, i got this piece from the Vanguard newspaper, my question is, can this be true? If so, we are being governed by certain cabal(s) as alleged in some sectors.

Group plots takeover of five top banks
BANKING CRISIS: FOR THE RECORDS Aug 25, 2009 By Omoh Gabriel & Emeka Mamah

LAGOS — LAGOS— Vanguard , your best-read newspaper, 23 March 2009, did a world exclusive on alleged plot by a group of individuals to take over five banks in the country.

Two weeks ago, the new Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi sacked the chief executives and boards of five banks, therefore confirming our scoop of March 23.

The story:ANTI-CONSOLIDATION forces have regrouped with the hope of dismantling the structures and forcing a takeover of the top five banks in the country, Vanguard can now reveal. The grand plan by the group is to cause panic and uncertainty in the industry and make the target banks look unsafe for depositors

Meantime, indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may announce the names of a new Governor of the Central Bank (CBN) and the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) in April just a few weeks before the tenure of the incumbents run out.

However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to make public information on causes of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.


The Exclusive report on the present banking crisis shown here as published by VANGUARD March 23, 2009.
Vanguard investigations revealed that the aim of the anti-consolidation forces is to cause loss of public confidence in the banking industry and compel the Federal Government to move in by injecting funds. Further, they ultimately plan to instigate government to take equity holdings in the targeted banks.

Vanguard gathered that the group at work is made up of former bank owners who lost out during the consolidation exercise, a powerful clique in the present government, and some aggrieved persons in three of the six geopolitical zones in the country who felt left out in the consolidation exercise.

Presidency sources disclosed that those who felt left out in the consolidation exercise are up in arms to recoup what they felt they lost during Obasanjo years.

Part of the plans hatched by the group is to ensure that the incumbent Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, does not get a second term. The plan is also to ensure that whatever gains consolidation recorded are discredited.

This, it was learnt, was meant to force the President to act quickly in the matter of appointment of a successor to Soludo as they anticipate that the president’s slow move may scuttle their dreams and cause the renewal of Soludo’s re-appointment for a second term.

The group’s second game plan is to make Nigerian banks look unsafe in the eye of the banking public. Part of the game is to spread rumours that some banks are unsound and are on the verge of collapse. They send out text messages to individuals and account holders passing wrong information on their target banks. At the moment, the group’s target is one of the high-flying new generation banks where they have sent out several messages.

New CBN Gov, Auditor-General to emerge April
The tenure of the CBN Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. O. R. Ejenavi from Delta State will lapse in May 2009.

Naming nominees for the top jobs, according to a presidency source, will afford the Senate ample opportunity to work on them before they assume office.

While Soludo will complete his first term in office as CBN governor by May 29, Ejenavi will be due for retirement on age grounds on May 18.

However, among those being considered for the position of CBN governor include the Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman from Kano, who was a former Finance minister and deputy governor at the apex bank; another former CBN deputy governor, Obadiah Mailafia from Nassarawa, Mallam Isa Hayatudeen from Borno, a former managing director of FSB International Bank, incumbent Managing Director of First Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, also from Kano, and Mallam Falalu Bello from Kaduna, Managing Director, Unity Bank.

But the most touted name so far is that of Mallam Isa Yuguda, the Bauchi State governor who won election on the platform of the All Nigeria peoples Party, ANPP, but defected to the ruling PDP last week. Yuguda is also an in-law of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Yuguda was also a former Managing Director of Inland Bank, a legacy bank in post-consolidation FinBank.

Past CBN governors include late Dr. Clement Isong (Akwa-Ibom), Alhaji Adamu Ciroma (Yobe); Mr. Ola Vincent (Lagos), late Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed (Bauchi); Mr. Paul Ogwuma (Abia), Dr. Joseph Sanusi (Ondo) and the current Professor Charles Soludo (Anambra).

It was also gathered that strict obedience to civil service rules will be observed in the appointment of a new Auditor General for the Federation going by the constitutional provision.

Section 86 Subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution states: “the Auditor-General for the Federation shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Federal Civil Service Commission, subject to the confirmation of the Senate.”

That of the CBN may be determined by other factors, mostly political considerations which are at the pleasure of the President without recourse to the commission.

The most senior director in the office of the Auditor-General currently is Mr. Ogunsina G.F from Ekiti State who may be appointed unless there is political maneuvering. Having been a director since 2004, it may not be smooth sailing for Ogunsina because, there is another senior civil servant Mr. Osonuga T. A. from Ogun State who was promoted a director in 2007 and is being propelled by other forces to occupy the office.

It’s unfortunate top 5 banks are targeted, says official
A CBN official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that it is unfortunate that top five banks are the target. The banks, he said, are sound. The CBN had mistaken in the past the ongoing move as de-marketing by competitors in the banking industry, saying it is unhealthy competition.

The group is using this means to make depositors panic and undertake massive withdrawal of funds from the targeted banks in an attempt to cause liquidity problem in the bank. In that state they hope to cause a take over by the government which may buy a stake in the bank and later sell to members of the privileged group who may be appointed in the interim into the board of the banks.

Arewa worries over liquidity problem
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to inform the people the cause of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.

ACF said that the commercial banks must have obviously lent too much money to people who either invested them in buying stocks or in the importation of petroleum products in the country, but are unable to repay such loans.

A statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani however blamed the CBN for enquiring “into the volume of the so-called toxic assets of the commercial banks while refusing to tell Nigerians how or why in the first place, the banks found themselves in trouble.

The statement reads “The Working Committee of the National Executive Council of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) held its meeting at its national headquarters in Kaduna on Tuesday, the 17th of March 2009. In attendance were all National officers of the ACF drawn from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). General IBM Haruna, the Chairman presided.

“Among other things, the meeting reviewed and discussed a number of issues and other troubling developments in the country. At the end, it resolved to issue the following statement.

“The ACF deliberated on the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and observed that Nigerians are feeling increasingly frustrated by the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to disclose the true the true nature and the scale of the crisis.

“Even members of the National Assembly, despite their best efforts, have been unable to get to the truth of the matter.
According to Arewa consultative forum “All that seem obvious is that our commercial banks had lent out too much money to too many people who had invested them in stocks or petroleum importation but who are now unable to pay back. Beyond that, the public has no clear idea as how or why the loans were given and on what terms.”

Can i date a 16 year old? No.
Poster, i frown at such age even getting involved in relationship. 18 is the ideal and legal age accepted world over. Forget about the Nigerian attitude towards it. For me, just because every one in Nigeria does what he or she likes does not mean i should do so.

From experience, many girls start dating by 12 or 13 but sometimes it is only for the excitement attached to it. stuffs like exchanging love letters, text messages, cards, flowers etc. It does not culminate into intercourse. But when an OLD MAN (this i mean above 17) is involve with them, they corrupt their thoughts with sexual talks.

I had my first sexual experience at 25. Presently, my relationship is purely between me and my God cos you just don't trust ladies anymore because that relationship lost its meaning. I waited for this girl for 5 years only to find out that she has been enjoying herself but it doesn't mean all ladies are bad.

MY SUGGESTION TO YOU POSTER, You claim you love her, then wait for her till she is 18 otherwise, forget her. Don't corrupt her. What you sow, you rip.

Best of luck

NLders, i read this piece from http://www.independentngonline.com/oped/article02 and would prefer you to react to this, your opinions as very important because i think if we are not careful, our civilian democracy is nothing but a military democracy in camouflage.

READ ON!


I have no problem with the Central Bank Governor - or anyone for that matter - exercising the power accorded his office by an Act of the National Assembly. But I deplore the language employed by Mr. Sanusi Lamido in dismissing from their duty posts the managing directors and executive directors of the Intercontinental Bank, Afribank, Finbank, Oceanic Bank and Union Bank of Nigeria on Friday, 14th of August, 2009. I watched with horror on a national television station as Sanusi employed, five times, a militaristic, anachronistic, egoistic and grossly undemocratic phrase of 'I hereby remove from office, ' Such a phrase is reminiscent of the military's days and offends the sensibilities of those who suffered horrendously in order to see the back of the military. I would therefore caution all those in positions of authority to be mindful of the language they employ at all times. There is need to purge the psyche of Nigerians, especially the youth, from certain terms and culture associated with the military, who, during the many years they were in power, flung to the winds all civilized norms.

A statement from the office of the Central Bank Governor could have read, in part: 'The Central Bank Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 1991, has removed the managing directors and executive directors of the following banks, ' Or if Sanusi felt it was inevitable for him to address the press/nation by himself, he could have said: ', In exercise of the powers conferred on the Central Bank Governor (which I head) by the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 1991, the following managing directors and executive directors have been relieved of their positions, '

Without employing the I hereby remove language, the point could still have been made. Of course, there are those who may even argue that the manner in which Sanusi announced the sack of the MDs and EDs could lead to a run on those banks, which could hurt the economy in the long run.

Please listen to Sanusi again: "I have not charged anyone or accused anyone of anything. My action of yesterday (Friday) was based purely on a judgement that the banks are in grave danger and I need to take this action. I need to put in money, and if I put in money, I cannot have the same management to run the money." (Punch 19/08/09) Imagine the number of 'I's' in this statement. Note that Sanusi could only have exercised the power of removal of those MDs and EDs after 'securing the consent of the Board of Directors of the CBN'. This shows that the use of 'I' is comprehensively reprehensible. He speaks like a sole administrator, reminiscent, once again, of the dark days of the military.

So much for Dr Sanusi and his scalpel. One only hopes he would ensure the recovery of all the unpaid loans by 'a plethora of personalities, otherwise called the Cabal, who have deliberately refused to make returns in respect of facilities from which they have benefited.' (Guardian 13/08/09) Failure to do that might fuel the speculation or suspicion that the governor of the apex bank has acted or is acting on behalf of the Cabal now sitting on over N1.25trn of depositors' funds.

The 'impeached' deputy governor of Bauchi State is actually a governor-in-waiting. If I were he, I would travel abroad, as Rotimi Amaechi did, while my lawyers pursue the case up to the Supreme Court - which is the swearing-in of Alhaji Muhammad Garba Gadi as the authentic governor of Bauchi State. The defection of his boss from the party that brought him to power (ANPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can only result in the loss of his seat as the governor. Yes, the legal battle may take months or years but I think victory is certain. Those Bauchi ANPP lawmakers, having decamped from their party to the PDP, have no power to conduct an impeachment process. In fact, in the eye of the law, they have ceased to be legislators. (See Section 109 (g) of the 1999 Constitution)

Even when conditions existed for the then Plateau State legislators to decamp from the PDP to AC, INEC had, with the speed of light, declared their seats vacant and gone ahead to conduct by-elections to fill those seats (of course, in contravention of a court order). I think Alhaji Gadi wasted too much time. Now he's been forced to fight from outside the Government House. But then one must understand his fears - this is Nigeria. He should have adopted a two-pronged proactive approach: go to court and seek a mandamus to compel the Chief Judge of Bauchi State to swear him in, on the premise that the Supreme Court's ruling in Amaechi v. Omehia had already settled the issue of mandate. Then he should have stopped the lawmakers in their tracks via a mandamus: the first limb of which would be to compel the Inspector General of Police to stop the former ANPP men from parading themselves as lawmakers, and the second limb to compel INEC to perform its constitutional duty by conducting by-elections to fill the vacant seats.

But it's not too late, by any means, for Gadi to commence legal proceedings that will see him eventually sworn in as the Governor of Bauchi State.