₦airaland Forum

Gozzzy:
Caveat Emptor.... Ikpeazu is trying, but he shouldnt work with a stolen mandate. It will be an honourable thing to step down, if he loses... and as for ngwa people, let them not stupidly do what will cause the influx of soldiers into aba o... buhari dey find any slight excuse to send soldiers into a core south east city, either Onitsha or Aba... make these ngwa people pretend as if them don learn how to use their heads.

He is trying to appease people.. ta orji did same when he entered first tenure. Leave talk. Relax until he wins...and besides Okezie cannot prob TA orji that brought him to seat.

Bigchief46:
Sure, I want Ikpeazu to win but my reporting will be factual, unbiased and unembellished

Alex must win or else....

Op....I hate lies in my life and hate it

As I type,umuojima road he started stopped work after covering the road with red mud(laterite). Bro, over a month plus,the people of that road are in hell. The whole place is covered with dust as motorist use the road..I passed there and I felt for them. That's wickedness!
The osisoma road just by ngwa high school same thing. They stopped work and dust fills the air.

Umuocham road you mentioned was only patched!!!!!!!. He curbed some part and filled it, so how did that become road building?


Let me not vomit venom on you!

You guys should have left those people in UMUojima with bad road than fill the air with laterite..that's bad for their health and you think they are happy?
And part of it is already wearing away...what sort of wickedness is that?

Which faulks road was completed? Was there road building there? TA orji taught you guys 419 and Abians will ever hate PDP for that!

Let me even ask,which company is doing this work?
What is the name of the company?

How can you build major and minor road in a big city with road side bricklayers and bricklayers looking for daily chop.

I haven't seen a machine there for ones,I only see boys that are told to carry sand and pour here and there



Silly Gov!!

Kikikikikkkk


Sweet sweet news everywhere

1. Metuh to dash us 400m for eating paper..lololol
2. Metuh to balance us 1bn after eating our yam
3. PDP in abia DON cripple.


Oh good day

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i still dont understand this bikonu..
We go start to keep money for house o

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SENIOR lawyers have praised the courage of the Justices of the Court of Appeal on the judgment delivered on December 31, last year, which declared the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate, Dr Alex Otti as winner of the Abia State governorship election. The court, presided over by Justice Oyebisi Omoleye, nullified the declaration of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu as winner of the election. Also on the panel were Justice Chinwe Iyizoba, Justice Samuel Oseji, Justice Tijani Abubakar and Justice Jamilu Tukur.
Otti and APGA were the appellants, while Ikpeazu, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were the respondents. The Court of Appeal declared Otti as winner of the gubernatorial election and supplementary poll held on April 11 and 25, 2015.

The appellate court nullified the declaration of Ikpeazu as winner of the election and held that Otti scored the majority of lawful and valid votes cast and satisfied the constitutional requirements of one quarter of votes in at least two-thirds of the 17 local government areas.

Several senior lawyers including former Abia State Attorney-General, Chief Awa Kalu (SAN), agreed with the decision, adding that that the justices cannot be faulted. The lawyers praised the courage of the appellate court which looked at the substantive evidence and merit of the case beyond the reasoning of the election petition tribunal. Kalu said: I have read the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abia State election dispute. I totally agree with the reasoning and conclusions of the Justices. I align myself with the decision. Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Felix Fagbohungbe, said it is uncharitable for anyone to criticise the appellate court justices.

Testimonies and processes

Fagbohungbe said: The panel has taken a position, and the Supreme Court should be allowed to decide. It can agree with the appeal tribunal, so how will the critics feel if the Supreme Court says the appeal tribunal was correct? The justices read all the exhibits and all the testimonies and processes, and in their wisdom, they felt this (Otti’s declaration as winner) is how it should go. So, it is uncharitable for anyone to criticise such a judgment. They should wait for the Supreme Court, which is the final court to take a position.

What if the Supreme Court says the appeal tribunal is right? So it will be uncharitable to the justices of the Court of Appeal to be criticised at this stage. Also, you cannot be playing to the gallery at this level and undermine what the Supreme Court will say. Also, a former Ikeja Branch chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Onyekachi Ubani, faulted those making unfounded allegations against the justices, saying it was wrong to attack their integrity without proof. saying It is wrong to make an allegation that one has no proof of, such as that they have taken bribes or they are corrupt just because the judgment does not favour you.

A Lagos lawyer and activist, Toluwani Adebiyi, said an appellate court judgment was less likely to be overturned by the Supreme Court. He said: “What I know that Court of Appeal judgments are more reliable. You can have more confidence in a Court of Appeal decision that a lower court decision. This is in the sense that Court of Appeal decisions are not just by one person, but in the case of Abia State, but a panel of five justices.

“When you look at the ruling of individual judges, you may see some inconsistencies, but Court of Appeal justices are more experienced. A lower court judge can easily be bribed, but it’s not always easy to compromise all justices on a panel. So, their judgment is more reliable. “The Court of Appeal Justices also feel more sense of responsibility, that is why the higher you go, the more likely you will get justice. I am 100 per cent sure that those Court of Appeal justices cannot decide something that cannot hold water. It’s not possible.”

Justice Omoleye in the lead judgment added: “It is hereby ordered that the Certificate of Return already issued to the first respondent, Ikpeazu, by the third respondent (INEC) is set aside.” It was the appellant’s contention that Section 140 (3) of 2010 Electoral Act states that if a tribunal or court determines that a candidate who was returned as elected was not validly elected on the ground that he did not score the majority of valid votes cast, the tribunal shall declare as elected the candidate who scored the highest number of valid votes and who satisfied constitutional requirement.

To be declared the governor, a candidate must satisfy two conditions, namely: the constitutional requirement of spread in two/third of the Local Government Areas, and the highest number of lawful votes, which refers to those cast in accordance with the Electoral Act. Otti and APGA’s prayer was that the votes recorded for Obingwa, Osisioma and Isiala Ngwa councils were characterised by malpractices, and were therefore, invalid and should be cancelled. The appellate court agreed with the submission, contrary to the tribunal’s position that there was a rerun in those areas and that Otti and APGA participated.

On whether Otti’s reliefs were grantable, the appellate court said it found it quite perplexing that the tribunal, instead of reading and considering carefully the pleadings and evidence adduced in Otti’s petition and determining all the issues raised, seemed more concerned with getting rid of as many of the reliefs as possible by striking them out for one “unacceptable” reason or the other.

Plausible and definite reasons

“All the reasons given are untenable and at the end of the day amount to depriving the appellants of fair hearing guaranteed under the Constitution. These generalisations that the claims of the appellants/petitioners were not grantable without giving plausible and definite reasons are unacceptable in law. The view of the tribunal that the claims of the appellants were not grantable is clearly misconceived in law and facts,” Justice Omoleye held.

On the issue of over-voting, the appellants had complained that the tribunal wrongly concluded that there was proper accreditation of votes and that there were other modes of accreditation recognised by INEC. Upholding the appellants’ arguments, the appeal court held: “The finding of the tribunal that the card reader data is not the primary and sole source and record of number of accredited voters was wrong.”

On annulment of elections in Obingwa, Isiala Ngwa North and Osisioma, the appellate court faulted the tribunal for not going ahead to consider the appellants’ grievances on merit after holding that the state Returning Officer had no power to annul and de-annul the election results.

“In what appeared to be a conscious resolve to avoid and evade the determination of the petition on the merit, (the tribunal) chose to embark on swinging forward and backward, delving into imaginations that results were cancelled and elections declared inconclusive and that re-run elections were held in the disputed three LGAs. The conclusion does not represent the correct position of the law, based on the evidence before the tribunal,” the Court of Appeal held.

Having established that there was over-voting in Isiala Ngwa, Obingwa and Osisioma councils, the court said the entire votes recorded there would be deducted from the overall result declared by INEC.

The appellate court held: “Following the deductions of the unlawful votes garnered from the disputed three LGAs, the first appellant (Otti) having scored 164,332 valid votes, as opposed to the first respondent (Ikpeazu) who scored 115,444 votes, ought to have been declared the winner of Abia State Governorship elections conducted on April 11 and 25, 2015.”

The Court of Appeal, therefore, set the tribunal’s judgment aside. It held: “Having resolved all the above issues other than the issue relating to the powers of the Returning Officer with regards to cancellation and de-annulment of election results in favour of the appellants, we hereby hold that this appeal has merit and out to succeed. “The appeal is accordingly allowed. The judgment of the tribunal delivered on the 3rd of November, 2015 is hereby set aside.” Legal observers say the weight of evidence by the appeal court and the issues raised are such that the verdict may not be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Mchtewwww. The mumu was running from camera and not knowing he is already caught.

Please officals should do the needful

Jail OBJ!!!!!!
Jail TA ORJi!!!!

I will rest

Is these really serious and true?

I am going to be celebrated one day
I am going to give back to my society just like these men
In Jesus name

Rubbish!

Team Alex Otto

PDP go and die!!!!

oliverkelly:
oga go through my posts,i nvr mentioned d amount i ws credited with,i mentioned only their name and that's all,,i said i hv bn able to raise through sm pple here,minor wrk and my mentor.. Did i mentn anytn oda dan dat?

This guy is just a top criminal, give us the real names of the ones that paid money into your account. In the alert you got, there should be names and amount.

I am still waiting for all your account numbers not just this one. I will run a check on them

oliverkelly:
bro i dnt stay alne,i hv a roomate bt i hv askd hm to hlp he said he doesn't have the finance to do so,we pay 100k,so it is 50k each,, there is no apartment that is 50k in eziobodo unless u hv to go down to eziobodo elu,then cnsider transport going and cming everyday,it's nt mney wise.. Those who graduated frm futo or who are undergraduates there nw cn attest to what i said.

Shutup guy! You lie a lot! Which lodge in futo is 100k? Since when? Which lodge is that? Guy wiseup you ain't talking to lads. You can get lodges for 30k 40k 50k 60k.... Eziobodo elu isn't costly to futo,its still same price with those along futo road.

People prefer staying to futo road because its closer to sch and they can trek home and where most good lodges are.
I schooled in futo and know all that.

oliverkelly:
ok,i will do exactly as u said..gimme ur email let me snd everything u require,abt sch hostel,futo nw made it cmpulsory that u must pay ur sch fees b4 u get a hostel form,it doesn't favour sm pple like me cos i save up frm my weekend wrk

Please post them here.

I took time to read and check this OP, I don't know why our youths are so comfortable in begging. I mean it baffles me.
I passed through the sch-futo and let me tell you 9)OP, I paid all my fees from yr 2 to final year.I never begged from uncles or parents.
You said you wana pay for rent and you now subject your self, humiliated yourself to begging. What happened to hostels in sch? Squatting? Even making small small chips?
I feel you are not different from any of the scammers. Now I am going to help if you provide all these I asked you now

1. Screen munch the alerts you got from other Nairalanders with name of the banks, I will check it up via my banker friends- any bank whatsoever.(if your phone doesn't munch, look for someone's and snap the message,make it vivid and post here
2. Give me all your bank numbers with names, I will run a check on them, if they are real. You will get the money.
But iI advise you, crush that mindset of begging for house rent. If is sch fees or other thing, I can understand. I squatted a friend when he couldn't raise fees. People manage in schools.
I feel you ain't serious though

this people can lie eeee
Farmers with 18 guns
una wan use gun operate vegetables?

TA ORJi promised heaven and earth, when he entered after a year what happed?
ITs not by having meeting and drawing proposals
IKPEAZU is a good man, no doubt but he came in through the wrongest PARTY!!!
PDP CANT RULE ABIA!

MCHTEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW nonsense!!!!!!!!
AS long as PDP is behind it, its wash.

#OTTIWEKNOW
#ORJIMUSTLEAVE
#OTTIWILLDOBETTER

@OP please contact your OGA to pay you your salary for this, you have tried, he has less than a month to leave there

Omg!

Ponponkon:
This judgement clearly show that appeal court erred in the Abia election verdict. Supreme court will old Dr Ikpeazu's victory unless Buhari is the one that tells them whom to sack and whom to leave.

How on earth can supreme uphold such election where 3 LGA had vote more than other 13lga? PDP is still learning and Apga ApC will deal with them, Appeal court na small, come to supreme,we are waiting.

Lol

247Dior:
Op please don't deceive people by posting rubbish here... Abians are protesting the kangaroo judgement.... in ikpeazu we trust

any day we start saying the truth,the better for us, how can you say they are protesting and some are wearing clothes written "Otto" with his pic?
Are you blind too?
Sentiments kills bro

WisdomCanada:
Now lemme educate u a little, these LGAs makes up Aba,... Ugwunagbo,(some parts of Porthacourt Rd and Flyover), Osisioma (from Aba owerri Rd to Osisioma junction down to PH/xpressway,) Obingwa (some part of Ogborhill), then Aba north and South where almost all the non indigenes reside, now all the areas that I mentioned that makes up Aba city are all developed areas and non indigenes mainly resides all over there, furthermore, 75% of non indigenes resides in Aba while 25% are the Ngwas, now out of these 75% of non indigenes, 70% voted Apga and 5 voted PDP, that is to say, the spoils were shared 70/30 in Aba, the Aba I mean includes all those areas in the LGAs that makes up Aba, so telling me that PDP won Osisioma is a conclusion intended for morons cos we all know how PDP rigged all those places, bye

gbam!!

betterABIAstate:
even non-abians didn't believe otti lost the election.

Do you know even some Abians voted Alex Otti? Very many....
PDP should know that days of election rigging is over

EasternPride:
It even shows that the dude don't know the road itself or where it is. To tell you I know Aba very well, the same work is going on beside that Catholic church by Azikiwe road, the Azikiwe road that leads to Ama Ogbonna.

Truth be told, Dude is doing well, he is doing well but...
Think back
Same thing orji uzor did, he was impeccable first tenure And first year and later turned round.
TA orji was awesome first Tenure then turned devil.
People voted party and not person,its unfortunate that ikpeazu found himself in PDP and no right thinking person in Abia will vote PDP...same set of rogues...

Now compare this, ikpeazu was in the government tram of TA orji,what did he do?
Have you check CV of OTTi? Trust me, that man will change Abia, even a blind man knows it.
#change!!!!

Militants, Biafra...over to you.....Agriculture and ICT, here we come

mirabel001:
Ok

Didn't Dasuki eat the money?
So why did he say he will call names?
Who didn't know how david mark won?
Why is david mark suddenly building roads and his people stoned the workers?
If you wana know what happens in Taraba,ask few corpers that worked there
Even Abia was the worst.
Justice shall prevail
My people said, a free conscience fears no accusation and not troubled
When tribunal ruled in favour of PDP,no noise was heard, Alex didn't talk,Abians were quiet and moved the case to a neutral ground and now Alex won
1. Social media won't rest
2. Protest everywhere
3. Traits every where

Why are PDP and ngwa acting like kids

Make una wait, as soon supreme give final verdict,let them cone and fight the law.
Ndi ara

mirabel001:
ikpeazu dnt panic...u ar our governor....all i knw is dat d judiciary is confused since buhari took over.....their judgement has been ridiculous.....e.g taraba, river, akwa ibom, david mark, kanu, dasuki case....am waitin 4 them 2 nullify d 1 of enugu state......buhari is d chief judge....

That's not true. Say the truth for once.

I wonder why this ngwa man is so desperate. He should learn from others. This no be how to play politics.