₦airaland Forum

Jostoman:
Story story story. Umahi should obey court order and return the PDP mandate back to igariwey.

slowice:
Oga shut up in peace

Deltavariant:
children of rendition will come knocking on your door with their usual traits....

MonkeyMods:
Slide off

MonkeyMods:
Before nko?


Zoo passport

akus6060:
Go and read the supreme Court judgement between Rotimi Amaechi and Celestine Omehia and come back to correct your write up. That judgement was based on the premise that the votes that was cast was for PDP (principal) and not the candidate (agent) and in that judgement, Amaechi was recognised as the bonifide candidate of PDP despite the fact that Celestine Omehia was the one that contested the gubernatorial election. The implication of that judgement, is that you are voting for the party and not the candidate.

kahal29:
https://www.nairaland.com/7030490/defection-why-umahi-deputy-may

In response to the above thread, i strongly believe that Umahi and Deputy will WIN and TRIUMPH at the appeal court. This is because you cannot build something on nothing and expect it to stand.

The case of Amaechi vs Omehia as cited by Sagay does not arise in this instance because that was a Pre-election matter and in this case we neither dealing with a Pre-election matter handled by ordinary courts nor Post-election matter handled by the election tribunals.

Second, the issue before the supreme court in the case of Amaechi vs Omehia was to determine who was the lawful and rightful candidate of the PDP in the said election and the supreme court said it was Amaechi because in the eyes of the law he was never substituted.

However in this case the question is not about who is the candidate in an election but rather what happens to a candidate who participated in an election, won the election, sworn in and later changed party by way of defection of which the Nigerian Constitution is silent on such matters.

Thus, the judgement by Justice Inyang Ekwo cannot stand at the appellate court because like i said earlier you cannot build something on nothing and expect it to stand.

Which defection law in our constitution did justice Inyang base his judgement on?

The judge simply embarked on judicial voyage and activism to create a new law which does not exist and the Supreme court in plethora of cases frowns at such adventure. In the case of Attorney General of the Federation V. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (part 1041) 1. At page 124 of the report, Justice Onnoghen set down the position thus:

It is the constitutional responsibility of the legislature to make or amend the laws including the constitution, where the need arises, while that of the judiciary remains to interpret and apply the laws so made or amended. The courts can therefore not add or subtract from the law as enacted by the legislature under the guise of judicial interpretation of the constitution or statute…”

The judgement also erroneously relied on Section 221 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) as well as the judgment of the Supreme Court in Faleke v. INEC. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court decision in Faleke v. INEC does not relate to the consequence of the defection of a governor from one political party to the other.

A more apt instance will be the Atiku Abubakar scenario wherein Atiku Abubakar as Vice President, elected under the PDP, defected to the then Action Congress.

The position of the Supreme Court was clearly stated in Attorney General of the Federation V. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (part 1041) 1 where Justice Onnoghen held thus:

“There is nowhere in the 1999 Constitution where it is stated that the President or Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be removed or is removable from that office if he defects from the political party on whose platform he was elected to that office and joins another political party.”

There is also the question of Jurisdiction i.e whether a civil or criminal proceedings can be brought in the case of a sitting Governor covered by immunity clause of the Nigerian constitution.

My humble submission others are free to add theirs

Mariangeles:
There’s one who’s a nairalander.

She absorbed her brother, but not totally.

tarantino1:
It's actually 40grams, still small though and when converted to ounce, it's not even up to 1.5. But he should not have been traveling with it.

Drsnives:
Good morning nairaladers, pls pardon my errors.

I met this girl late last year, she's nice, godly and has most of the qualities i want in a wife. i love her, though her dad is late and her mum should be in her late thirties.

Yesterday we were chatting and she was like her dad didn't do the necessary rites on her mum and hence according to tradition i will have to pay her mum's bride price to her family before i will be allowed to start her own (my babe) marriage rites. I just weak cos have never heard of such. Where i won see the money for double bride price?

Pls nairaladers, have any of you come across such ridiculous tradition or she's making it up herself cos i feel like quiting the whole thing.
I just tire. Your opinions are welcomed

Modified: she's from obiaruku in ukuwani local government area of Delta State.

Osagyefo98:
Come you are really disturbing my mention. Over 80% of Agberos in anambra state are Abakiliki boys. These ones are just few cases to numerous cases.

Don't let me download you with facts here so better keep silent.

Your people are a whole load of menance in anambra state.

Osagyefo98:
Criminals day and night

Freedom fighters when caught

Soon he will start shouting Biafra

blacknoir:
Some Christian women are absolutely foolish ,going against their believe to marry some1 who is not from the faith all because of money e.t.c u will hardly ever find a Muslim woman marrying a Christian man no matter how the love is.

Joyrise:
Did you say Tunubu is desperate because of a dictator he helped to become president.

Then you sr3 really sick and people like you can nbwr fet helpers in life again just as tour stupid buhari

loosingfaith519:
I recently discovered my husband has an addiction and I can't stay married to him.
As soon as money enters his hand, he starts funding some online app and start gambling.
We got married last year Nov.
We have needs and plans we agreed to achieve before the end of March. Which a better accommodation is one of our first goal. Our present accommodation is not ok at all.
On my own part, I'm saving to meet up with our Target, but I discovered, he has nothing. He collected contributions last month, over 200k. All that money wasted. He can't account for it.
January salary has entered, he has started wasting it again.

I'm expecting him to provide 300k at the end of this month. So, that when I sum it with mine, we can have over 600k. Get a decent accommodation and invest the rest.
We need to plan, save for our baby, but his attitude with money is not encouraging me.
The truth is, my husband is stressing me for lack of accountability.

Pls, how do I go about a peaceful divorce? I'm confused, because I'm pregnant.

All the things I'm seeing him do, suffocate me.
What do I do?
Pls, advise me.