₦airaland Forum

Eteka1:
When the issue came up at the High Court, the APC Deputy Governorship candidate showed proof that he had sworn affidavits in respect of the name changes.

See below a screenshot of a news story published last year when the high court ruled.

The question is, are sworn affidavits no longer valid?

Liposure:
INEC has committed a great electoral blunder by violating the electoral provisions of d constitution which states dat a fresh election be conducted if d next party with d highest votes does not have d required geograhical spread like PDP

Doyin2:
Perhaps you need to go back to school to understand the meaning of forgery.

So if my Bsc certificate reads John Mark and MSc reads John Chidi Mark Adamu, backed by affidavit of change of name,I am a forger,abi??

And the court was unable to prove that I stole or forge the two certificates.

Clowns every where on Nairaland!

Doyin2:
I am also asking same question my brother.

Where is the forgery or false information of fundamental nature

mushystuff:
First, I have edited my post. Secondly, please fill me in on the Bauchi scenario. I don't quite have the details so I can't comment just yet.
Back to this issue, for Kogi, silly as that was, the greater common sense would have been for Faleke to become the governorship candidate and not nominate one over him just as would have been the case if Audu had died after they had been sworn in. Placing Yahaya over him was based on religious and tribal considerations plus the working relationship would have definitely been sour so that is why Faleke turned it down. Bottom line though is that there was no disqualification and elections had yet to be concluded.

For Bayelsa however, this issue was a pre-election matter. Again by the electoral law, a ticket is joint except that of legislative positions. The fates of both parties are tied and what affects one affects the other too. Like I said, grounds for disqualification do not include death. If the Bayelsa deputy candidate had died(God forbid), we would not be having this scenario. However, he's been caught in a crime of forgery! Since they haven't been sworn in, they are still joined together. Even if they had been sworn in, because it's a pre-election matter, it would have still affected them both because the implication of the judgement is that APC did not have any candidate.

No party can nominate a governorship candidate without a deputy, INEC will not accept such incomplete nomination. The court is therefore saying that since the deputy was not qualified, he was not a candidate ab initio. APC therefore did not have a candidate so their participation in the election is an exercise in futility.

ejimatic:
PDP Candidate Can't Be Sworn-In

The nation is still stunned by the Supreme Court judgement delivered on the November 2019 governorship elections held in Bayelsa. The five-member Supreme Court panel
had invalidated the candidacy
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, David Lyon and his running mate and ordered that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, issue a fresh certificate of return to the candidate of the party with the next highest votes who meet the constitutional requirements.
While the People's Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate have rushed to the street and the media to celebrate, a close perusal of the election results of the actual elections last year shows that the candidate of the PDP, Duoye Diri, and his running mate also failed to meet the minimum constitutional requirements to be sworn-in as governor. This may mean that's it's too early to celebrate.
The constitution is quite clear that to be declared winner of a governorship election, such candidate must have garnered at least 25% votes in at least two-thirds of the total number of local government areas of the state. Two-thirds means that for a candidate to be sworn-in, he must have garnered at least 25% votes in at least 66.7% of the total local governments in the state. The PDP candidate fell agonizingly short, at about 63 percent.
Bayelsa is quite peculiar in this regard with only 8 LGAs, the winner of a governorship election must garner at least 25% of votes in at least six Local Government Areas, LGAs. This means that 25 percent votes in five out of eight LGAs that the PDP candidate got in this case is not enough to have him sworn-in. According to the constitution he needs 25 percent in six states. Even if sworn-in, a strict interpretation of the constitution will have him removed before long.
This is surely going to bring up a constitutional crisis because you can be sure that APC and PDP are in for another round of anxious returns to the courtrooms.
A summary of the governorship elections results are as follows
Ekeremor LGA results: Passed
APC: 21,489
PDP: 18,344
Southern Ijaw LGA results: Failed
APC: 124,803
PDP: 4,898
Ogbia LGA results: Failed
APC: 58,016
PDP: 13,763
Yenagoa LGA results: Passed
APC: 24,607
PDP: 19,184
Brass LGA results: Passed
APC: 23,831
PDP: 10,410
Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA results: Passed
APC: 8,934
PDP: 15,360
Nembe LGA results: Failed
APC: 83,041
PDP: 874
Sagbama LGA results: Passed
APC: 7,831
PDP: 60,339

Jones4190:
Why Diri cannot be sworn in as Bayelsa state Governor despite supreme court verdict

Results of the Bayelsa guber election.
1. Ogbia LGA:
APC - 58,016 *80.8%*
PDP - 13,763 *19.2%*
2. Yenagoa LGA:
APC - 24,607 *70.3%*
PDP - 19,184 *29.7%*
3. Brass LGA:
APC - 23,831 *69.6%*
PDP - 10,410 *30.4%*
4. Okuma/Opokuma LGA:
APC - 8,934 *36.7%*
PDP - 15,360 *63.2%*
5. Nembe LGA:
APC - 83,041 *99%*
PDP - 874 *1%*
Sagbama LGA:
APC - 7,831 *11.9%*
PDP - 60,399 *88.5%*
7. Southern Ijaw LGA:
APC - 124,803 *96.2%*
PDP - 4,898 *3.8%*
Now ⅔ of 7 LGAs is 7x ⅔ = 4.7
This means the person to be declared winner must score 25% votes in at least 5 LGAs. But from the above results PDP scored 25% in only 4 LGAs. So no one may be sworn in in Bayelsa tomorrow.
INEC will have to conduct fresh elections for Bayelsa.

wirinet:
Don't mind them, they talk as if USA is heaven or entering USA will ensure heaven.

What will geriatric supreme Court justices with lifetime privileges be looking for in USA?

garfield1:
Pdp will take back imo as apc will take back bayelsa

ThisCouldBeUs:
I'm eager to know. Please move this to frontpage. Nobody is talking about it.

meum:
Abeg Enjoy the judgment.

SonofDevil:
the case has not ended, the ruling was for pre-election matters, apc can still sponsor another party in election tribunal.and the have a good case

adanny01:
When Kogi state APC guber candidate Abubakar Audu died before he was declared elected, expectations was that his deputy based on the joint ticket was going to assume the position of governor elect. It never happened.

Now we have a situation where a deputy governor elect whose candidacy was removed and the governor himself removed with him based on joint ticket.

But we also have several deputy governors removed from office via impeachment, it will be logical that any deputy removed from office based on impeachment, the governor must also leave office based on joint ticket.

The only option here is to say when both candidates are sworn into office, their joint ticket seize to exist but before then, they have a joint ticket.

But? Why does the deputy governor takes an independent oat of office if the ticket is joint?

I think this is the most controversial supreme court verdict of all time.

Am not learned, just a confused Nigerian thinking aloud. What are you thinking?

masterflowx:
Victory for Democracy!

Kogi and Imo next.


and his dead meat crew right now...

Powersurge:
The victory of APC in Bayelsa was a victory backed up by the formal president, Goodluck Jonathan.

APC sees Lyon as a mole planted by the formal president into APC to undermine the party's agenda. APC could not have that.

In addition, APC needed to send a message to the formal president that he doesn't call the shots. By allowing PDP to win (whom the formal president was against), it would weaken the formal president's influence the state.

danot1030:
You can imagine

PDP is worse than Boko Haram

When supreme Court sack them in Imo state they trooped our everywhere in Imo state distrubting the peace and now the table turned in their favour they are still displaying their terrorist nature.

Akiika:
Are you kidding me? Nigeria's democracy is a joke! Why not just disqualify the running mate and have him pick someone else? Instead of of usurping the people's mandate? Money has obviously exchanged hands. For you indomie generation that loves to heap every blame on the president, is he the one that ask this obviously compromised judges to render this ridiculous judgment? I know it's APC vs PDP to you, but the real issue here is the compromised judiciary.

AlhajiImam:
Justice Mary Odili is a pdp judge and don't deserve to be in the Supreme Court.

bumi10:
I don't understand the judgement.
Was David Lyon disqualified because his deputy presented a false information INEC on his behalf? Or on behalf of the deputy himself.
Cuz the law cannot punish David Lyon on the travails of his Deputy.
Some thing is not panning out.

BlackfireX:
What is wrong if boko haram members are been pardoned... Is anything wrong with it