₦airaland Forum

chubinwa:
It's a pity BATists can't differenciate between AND. If the statement had said including the fct, that would have been different. But AND is an additional word to a content

Nigeria is defined as 36 states and FCT, not 36 states including FCT.

That section of the law is not just a statement but defining all of Nigeria, hence, all states and FCT.

a4cube:
How can and follow comma? Which kind of English is that? Ok what is 2/3 of 37?

2/3 of all of Nigeria is currently 2/3 of 36 states and FCT, that is 2/3 of 37.

Minimum of 25 states goes above it already.
24 states is still short.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Quit being clever by half!

2 and 3 repeat what 1 has already said, but with a bit more turenchi!

You are an illiterate.

1 is different from 2 and 3.

Nigeria is known to be comprised of 36 states and FCT, so if a statistic is required from the sample population that is all of Nigeria, it would read that all the states and FCT because the FCT is part of Nigeria.

So 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria is 25% in all the states and FCT.

That is 36 states and FCT, totalling to 37 units from which 25% is required from 2/3.

If there was a comma before AND as written below,

25% in 2/3 of all states, and FCT

That would be the same as number 3 written by Tesppidd.

President and Party Chairman cannot come from the same South.

Kukutenla:
Where's the sense in this post
When will the ministerial list be released
Seems you've accepted things as they are

Yes!

All Nigerians must keep asking their President to keep to the promises set by his close advisers to release the already overdue Ministers list as ae have entered the 8th week, while a serious government would have done so within 1month a la Dele Alake's and Bayo Onanuga's assertion.

However, APC internal matter is a matter for its members and supporters.

The sense you missed is that there is always reward for loyalty and support, as such, Niger State is more deserving to represent North Central within APC's power structure.

Kukutenla:
You guys are shamelessly turning politics and political positions to booty hunting.
This is how corruption festers and the country suffers for it

Is it your party that you want to dictate how loyalty and support should be rewarded?

If PDP rewarded the loyalty and support of Igbos with presidential ticket for the 2023, Obi will not be lost in the evil forest looking for mandate to steal.

Zupay:
Building castles in the air...........Napoleon was once invincible, time flattens man.

But what Tinubu began building slowly, sacked an incumbent PDP federal government and eventually put Tinubu himself in power.

This is good news for Nigerian motorists.

Nobody should stop when signalled to do so by those doing illegal job on state roads.

In fact, we should start effecting a citizen's arrest whenever we find them on state roads doing illegal work.

Tainted by voter intimidation in the SouthEast and rigging by Cynthia Okeke.

Despite all their shenanigans, Tinubu still beat them silly.

He got his votes from where he won.

Or are you too mentally handicapped to understand that as Obi and Atiku won some states, so did Tinubu win some states?

You Igbos should give it a rest.

Stop applying your IPOB logic to everything that is not within your power alone.

LOVEALAIGBO:
You, Olanipekun, Tinubu and the rest of the mob are twisting and giving your own deceptive meaning to what the constitution clearly states in black and white!

Two things:

*The constitution states that 'a candidate must score 25% in 2/3 of the states of Nigeria AND the FCT'!.....Couldn't have been stated any more clearly in plain english! If for the purposes of this particular rule, the framers of the constitution had intended Abuja to be treated same as the 36 states of Nigeria they could have stated '25% in 2/3 of the component units of Nigeria' as you're now editorialising to suit your own narrative! Or they could have stated '25% in 2/3 of the states of the federation INCLUDING Abuja', and this would have definitively shown that, for the purposes of this rule, Abuja was to be taken as a 37th state to be INCLUDED in the rule!

*More importantly, the President is de-jure and de-facto Governor of the FCT....in law and in fact, so it stands to reason that a Governor gets at least 25% in the state he wants to govern! It wouldn't be fair on the inhabitants of Abuja if this wasn't the case!

Yes!

2/3 of all the states and FCT is describing the whole of Nigeria that is the sample population where 25% is required.

All the States and FCT is the totality of Nigeria.

Nigeria is made of all (36) states and FCT.

There is no comma before the AND (and), as such the rules apply at once to what has been described.

If there was a comma before the AND (, and), the rules will apply individually firstly to all the states, and individually secondly to the FCT.

The comma being absent means the (all states and FCT is together as one description of Nigeria).

Omisore is a Tinubu man.

He is very well aware of whatever plans that Tinubu has planned for the APC leadership.

Validated:
Sorry, you are the deluded one. Peter Obi submitted 18000 mutilated and blurred results. The estimated votes recorded for Tinubu on those mutilated results were over 1.8m. Once the results from the mutilated and blurred results are deducted, and the supressed votes from Lagos, Rivers, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, etc are retallied,Tinubu will go home with less than 6m

And the votes of Obi and Atiku on those same mutilated sheets will remain?

Ignoramus!

udeh3:
Oga, Nigeria is made up of 36 States simple! The FCT was defined as the second component of the Constitution. It also went on to discuss the formulation. It was clear on it definition of Abuja as an Area Council which is headed by the president

Nigeria is made up of 36states and FCT.

That is the geographical components within Nigeria.

2/3 of Nigeria is 2/3 of 36states and FCT.

The rule is for 2/3 of all states and FCT.

The rule is not for 2/3 of all states, and FCT.

The comma is not for fun, hence its absence in that rule.

delpee:
There's nothing special about Abuja. It's considered as the 37th State with regards to elections. Besides, the sentence in the constitution states so when read from the English grammar perspective. Commas have their inferences. Same when there's an absence of it.

I have harped on the comma issue, but it seems many are too dull to understand that since (, and FCT) is different from ( and FCT), Tinubu nor any candidate do not need specific votes from FCT.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Abuja is not a state dude!

It is part of the 37 geographical units that make up Nigeria.

The purpose of that rule of 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria is to ensure national spread, and not to make any particular unit more important than the rest of the 37.

Did Tinubu get the required national spread in the 37 geographical units?

Yes he did.

29 units out of 37 units is already more than 2/3.

udeh3:
Abuja in the Constitution isn't a state. FCT was defined in the Constitution. Please, get your facts right.

Nigeria comprises of two components in the Constitution;
1. The states
2. The FCT. One must get 2/3 of the two components

The Constitution defines the meaning of the states which are 36 while it went forward to define what FCT means. FCT is regarded as an Area Council headed by the President as the governor. So, if you must be the president of the council, 2/3 is the requirement

So, the Constitution isn't wrong to always state and FCT. So, get 2/3 in 24 states and 2/3 of the Area Council which is FCT Or do you win a state as a governor without winning 25% of the state, if we so consider FCT as a compulsory state? This is the council that houses all the Federal bodies

The constitution isn't wrong to always mention the FCT after the states.

Both the States and FCT is the totality of federation units in Nigeria.

That is 37 units.

So that is why the rule is to secure national spread in Nigeria that is made up of all states and FCT.

25% in 2/3 of Nigeria is 25% in 2/3 of all states and FCT.

Did Tinubu get this mark in the 37 units that make up Nigeria?

Yes!

Cloudflare:
Use your brain.

Obi's votes were drastically reduced by INEC and was added to Tinubu. obi proved this in court and he also submitted 18,000 pu results sheet as evidence. Oga Tinubu did not win up to 6 states in the last election. Of course FTC being a determinant factor here also goes to Obi.

This is a clear indication that obi is already the president in waiting

You are deluded by the propaganda discussions in your obidient WhatsApp groups.

I reckon Obi won Kwara state and Kogi and Oyo and Ogun and Borno?

You are a loser just like Obi.

Your pain shall double by the time the tribunal gives it verdict, and it shall triple by the time you lose appeal up to the highest court.

TheBillyonaire:
Winning 25% in Abuja is nonsense.

Abuja is like 37th State, so if any Candidate won 25% of 37 States, it should be fine.

What is special about Abuja that residents must know Candidate enough to give 25% votes.

Makes no sense.

In fact, 0 votes in Abuja can never stop the candidate with the highest votes who has already attained 25% in 2/3 of our 37 federation units.

The federation units are all states and FCT which is currently 36 states and FCT.

Tinubu already has that in 29 States out of the 37 units.

Tinubu's victory is unshakable.

Nothing for the loser trying to steal a mandate he could not win.

Stop increasing the potential of obidients' misery.

Tinubu is the President and does not require a single vote in FCT to be validly declared the winner of the election he won.

25% of 2/3 of all states and FCT is the totality of Nigeria, as Nigeria is made up of States and FCT.

Did Tinubu score 25% in 2/3 of that totality of 37 units?

Yes!

The zombies should move on with their loss.

Stop increasing the potential of your misery.

Tinubu is the President and does not require a single vote in FCT to be validly declared the winner of the election he won.

25% of 2/3 of all states and FCT is the totality of Nigeria, as Nigeria is made up of States and FCT.

Did Tinubu score 25% in 2/3 of that totality of 37 units?

Yes!

Move on with your loss.

beerfraud:
nobody is stopping you
We are just reminding you that Peter Pand0ra Obituary’s government in Anambra was a failure

We certainly don't need the hypocrites to agree, but to remind them that they are hypocrites.

No be Nigerians again?

A people who think only fools are upright.

Abi no be this Nairaland some Nigerians were condemning a Muslim pilgrim for returning some US Dollars cash that was found while on pilgrimage in Mecca?

We no longer have a soul or national conscience.

Emusan:
Why mentioned "AND FCT" when he didn't get 25% or above 25% in FCT?



We know that



But this is not what that statement says"

The statement read "The 2nd respondent polled more than 25% in total votes cast in 29 states of the federation and FCT"

Why inserting"AND FCT" when the statement isn't about 36 states of the federation and FCT?

Keep defending rubbish!

Because the and FCT is part of the totality of Nigeria.

If you are required to get 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria, that is 25% in 36 States and FCT.

Tinubu got it in 29 of (36 States and FCT).

Emusan:
But that's not what the statement above says.



But it's not 36 states that was mentioned only 29 states.



You're the one reading it that way.

That's not what the above statement says.



But he didn't get it in FCT.

Yes 29 (states and FCT) was mentioned because that is what Tinubu got out of (all states and FCT).

The Nigerian federation is composed of States and FCT.

Did Tinubu get 25% in 2/3 of the federation of Nigeria (36 States and FCT)

Yes he did.

Emusan:
You're just a pure illiterate!

That statement is too straight forward.

"Having score above 25% in 29 states of the federation and the FCT."

Why are you people like this without conscience?

This is a technical point being raised here.

what the Tinubu team did is to restate what is in the constitution, which is 25% in 2/3 of all states and FCT.

All states and FCT is 36 States and FCT which is what makes up the federation of Nigeria.

Has Tinubu achieve 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria's federation?

The answer is Yes.

No candidate needs any particular state and FCT, only to get the requirement in 25% of (all states and FCT).

seunmsg:
Is the federation made up of 36 states and the FCT?

Truly, the federation is made up of 36 States and FCT and Tinubu has overshot the requirement of 2/3.

The olodos in LP will get sense las las.

Penguin2:
Understood that judgments are the opinion of the judge.

But the question now becomes, how objective is that opinion?

A judge’s opinion is supposed to be an objective one informed by facts, the letters of the constitution, the spirit of the constitution and other relevant statutes.

But it becomes a problem when a judges decision/opinion is subjectively informed by his biases or other things unknown to law and judicial precedents.

You people should stop talking as if Nigerians and the rest of the world are brainless.

You are a bird of delusion.

You are ready to believe any fake news however outlandish, as long as it is suitable propaganda for your lost cause.

You deserve a lengthy ban for breaking the below rule.

8. Don't post false information on Nairaland

Beremx:
I loved the way US shocked them. That was the reason the US refused to disclose their names when they announced the Visa ban.

E seriously shock them

You are a confirmed mumu if you believed that the American government has the rights to interfere with the Judiciary of a sovereign country.

The news is as fake as Aba made merchandise.

...not until i've been disgraced, said the tortoise.

Nigerians are a biological nuisance to sanity and civilization.

zoedew:
And Ibori ruined the good work Econet started in telecommunications in Nigeria when in furtherance of his corrupt ways he sought to steal Delta State shareholding but Strive Masiyiwa of Econet wouldn’t let him. He stomped Econet out of Nigeria thereafter using his huge political influence. Strive Masiyiwa was ready and testified against Ibori in UK Court. Ibori was convicted of criminal theft and money laundering and sentenced to a jail term and deported to Nigeria. Our Supreme Court was a let down in the Ibori trial before them.

Very true.

He wanted to play a fast one on Econet, but Strive really put up a stubborn resistance to corruption.