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Hmmmmmmmm how will he win when all this calculated attempt couldn't allow him to do enough campaign. Well, I wish him all the best.

Egungun be careful na express you dey go

With this whole stuff flying around, I can boldly say that APC has lost Ondo State before the election. AD & PDP are to fight for the seat.

Naija always on point

Our lives should be a source of blessing to others around us and beyond our neighbourhood. No one knows tomorrow, so kindly help change someone's story. R.I.P. Padre John Adeyi

Atol Atol, Hmmmmmmmm You impacted lives both within and outside, R.I.P Big brother. I, Nick & Julius will always remember your advice. A Great Man in the making is Gone.

Don't politicise KSU strike, you and I know that no tangible thing has happened in Kogi State after the tenure of Prince Abubakar Audu. imagine a state with a secondary school in a Commentary with Roughly 50 staff but can only be found on paper but not on ground. So dead bodies too attend schools? I am in support of the clean up exercise in all sectors before the salary back log are paid. O.P, if I may asked, has there been any developments in KSU after Prince Audu tenure? KSU was created the same year with AAUA but in term of standard, KSU has dropped drastically from it's best position to know where? let the clean up continue until then, no salary for anybody. My parents are affected so I am also affected, so let Yahaya Bello Clean up the State from the mess of Captain Wada & Ibrahim Idris.

"Fixing Nigeria will require more than just a good man especially as we in Nigeria seem to equate goodness with prayer, building private churches and mosques which tend to become shelters and places of refuge criminals and thieves who should really be in prison. In the final analysis, I do not really care what faith our President professes, if he professes any at all. All we need is a man who can fix our problems with the precision of the Chinese who are atheistic, not praying but getting results." - Bishop Kukah.

yeye dey smell. hmmmmm Nigeria is shambles of politics.

Tuale :PTuale

Make una adapt o, because una gather give free sex rump because PMB won last year, this part of the devident of Change. no complain o. As your customers no see free flow of money unlike GEJ administration, una need to adapt fast because no free money for them again.

HAUSA people on rampage since the advent of PMB, why? just last week, they same thing occur in Abuja. Fulani's people own too dey there o. Nigeria is in a terrible State.

Na by force to be a Muslim? this guy's are not after winning souls for Allah but after virgins who dey will be enjoying. Stupidity of the highest order. why not wait till aljana where the virgins promised you by Allah will be delivered to you by truck.

Radical teachers are becoming rampant in the Islamic Religion, hope the Sharia Law will cater for it sooner not later.

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeshola. State Of Osun in Action.

Before the coming of Jesus Christ, the church was in existence, when Jesus came he change some of the churches teaching but not all, after Jesus left, he handed over the church to Peter who the Catholic named as the first Pope. As long as people worship him in spirit and in truth and there prayers are answered, I don't have issues with them. Tithe giving is tied to your faith, no church forces you to give it, it depends on your faith. The Birth of Jesus Christ (who we Christian's called our saviour) is worth celebrating the same goes with His Resurrection. Either Dogmatic or not, get it clear that the Bible does not keep record of everything that Jesus did when He was on earth, so how will know some of the things he did and places he went to? what if some of the things you mentioned above are approved by God, how will you feel when you get to heaven and realise you have led many astray and what will become of you? I am not judging you but just worship God in spirit and truth and advice others to do so, so that Holy Spirit can ministered on to them. The Old and New Testament are both of almost importance, don't dump the old for the new.

It baffles me when I saw the larger number of students taking the UTME exams in FUTA centre here in Akure. The first thing that came to my mind was "WHERE IS THE JOB AFTER GRADUATION?"_I can't imagine millions of graduates joining the tens of millions of unemployment graduates yet many are still applying to become an educated person, Though it's very good to acquire more knowledge but where are they going to put it in to use?. No wonder a youth once said at a symposium that he would have preferred to invest the money spent on his education in a meaningful business, which would have been generating better income by now. His comment is out of frustration, Where are we going in this nation. Good leaders are becoming a scarce commodity in our society because the system is very bad, therefore the products from such system can't be wholly certified to be extremely good. For as many who thinks there is a white collar job out there, please kindly get something doing like entrepreneurship or learn a trade because the direction the country is heading can't be predicted, you kind get started from there are still aiming at your dreamed career. Even if this present administration will create jobs, it cant cater for up to 5% of the unemployed graduate apart from the unemployed youth ( both graduate and non graduate). An idle hand they say is the devil's workshop so please start from somewhere. despise not a little beginning. God bless you all. Goodluck to the prospective applicant (jambite).

ok now

see what increase in dollars has caused.



o ma se o

Yet one idiot in SW will be complaining. when he refuse to save for the dry season. See better Pikin from a better papa dey show us wetin he fit offer.

E no possible for naija because some lecturer go frustrate the babe until she grace their beds.

Awon onijekuje. Remain in your party and stop prostituting about. Good politics is not about the party but the people involved.

Change is what we voted for, so no complain.

Mr. lia, but it's still the same substandard weapon that are soldiers are using to defeat boko's guyz technically. Either Standard or Substandard, just clear those idiots off our land.

Yeye dey smell.

The Lord will see you guyz through.

I don lost tey tey, so na de meaning be this. chisos. Alright. Lalasticala nko o......... Nairalanders you are the best.

Eni fe fa werey loyan, eni duro wo tan. most of you guyz are not bin sincere @Governors Forum.

I tried as much as possible to stay clear of this controversy all the while it was rising but my conscience couldn't let me and my mind kept troubling me thus far. It has become incumbent to join into the discourse and may be, one's opinion could count more so that the All Progressives Congress has taken the Path of perdition by making the pronouncement that it would conduct a fresh primary election in order to fill the vacancy created by the demise of Prince Abubakar Audu, (may his soul rest in peace) the gubernatorial candidate of the APC.
For the ordinary man on the street to have a perfect understanding of the whole issues involved in this, I would not be too legalistic but rather plain and simple.
Everybody knows that for one to contest an election in Nigeria, he must be sponsored by a political party and in this case, the late Prince Abubakar Audu contested for the APC Ticket with a host of other aspirants whom he defeated and emerged victorious thus becoming the flag bearer and Candidate of the APC for the Gubernatorial election for Kogi's Lugard House. We also know that for one to be a proper Candidate before INEC, his name must be submitted with another as his running mate. This other person may be selected single handedly by the Candidate or in consultation with the Party or other stakeholders depending on the prevailing circumstances of the time or place in issue.
Now, having done that, INEC would display the names of all Candidates of political parties contesting the election showing their ages, educational qualifications, parties under which they are contesting and of course their positions ie Governorship or Deputy Governorship positions amongst other things. The purpose of this display is to let the general public know that these are the 'people' they will be entrusting their mandates to into the various offices against their names and perhaps if the public have objections as to whether the candidates lied about their ages or qualifications or their state of being, they can forward same, go to Court or where INEC itself omitted certain facts about the Candidates, the Parties or such Candidates can get back to INEC to rectify. Candidates may also withdraw their candidature within specified time and parties may replace the candidates, the death of Candidates before election, etc.
Now, we must not forget that all these stages from Party nominations, submission of names of Candidates by Parties to INEC, display of names of Candidates by INEC and the date for elections as enumerated above are all provided for by the Law and in this case, sections 85 (1) & (2)(b), 87, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).
All the above provisions were made to ensure smooth and peaceful conduct of elections and to ensure fairness at all the stages and to protect Candidates from the arbitrariness of Parties as we have seen in the case of Amaechi v Omehia in Rivers State in 2007 where Amaechi was validly nominated but Obasanjo then said he was having issues so Omehia was handed his ticket to contest as PDP candidate. The tenacity and doggedness of Amaechi put paid to his struggle as he was given back his mandate even though the Hawks then argued that he did not contest the general election!
In my Home State of Adamawa, the water was first tested in the case of Boni Haruna, the running mate of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (as he then was) where INEC fixed a date for a fresh election after Atiku was nominated as the running mate of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo (as he then was) having won the Governorship of the State. The Supreme Court came to the rescue of His Exellency Boni Haruna Equitably and Legally too to the effect that the running mate to a Candidate is a joint owner to the ticket. They sink and swim together. Where a declaration is made after a valid election, whatever becomes of the Governor elect, whether death or abdication as the case at hand, the Deputy Governor Elect steps into the shoes of his Principal and takes oath! It was this singular decision of the Court that brought about the insertion of Sections 136 and 181 into the 1999 Constitution respectively
Several other occurrences brought about changes in our Constitution like the provisions of Sections 145 and 190 respectively where the hitherto practice of a Governor appointing an acting Governor other than the Deputy in his absence was squarely addressed and of course the drama that transpired during Late President Yar'adua's ailment was adequately addressed by this provision.
Now we are going to see and address the Kogi issue from this same simple prism. The Governorship election was conducted on Saturday, 21st November, 2015 wherein the late Prince Abubakar Audu of the APC garnered 240, 867 votes as against Captain Idris Wada of the PDP and incumbent Governor's 199, 514 votes. The election however, was declared inconclusive because elections were cancelled in about 91 polling units with a combined total of about 49, 953 registered voters. The sole reason for such a declaration by INEC was because the difference between the two leading Candidates was a total of 41, 353 votes of which 49, 953 votes can change the outcome of the election. In this process, the leading Candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, may the Lord bless his Soul and grant him eternal rest, breadth his last and left the scene of uncertainties! Tongues started wagging, interests started showing, muscles started flexing as well and in the midst of all these, reason took flight because no one was bothered with it but everyone was looking at the opportunity that becomes open unmindful of the fact that election took place, valid votes were set aside awaiting the conclusion of just a fraction of the polls!
Like I said, I will resist the temptation to be too legalistic but assuredly, in this simplicity, we shall arrive at the most informed and equitable legal solution to this quagmire! Let me remind us all that the 49, 953 are only registered voters. In these numbers, many are dead and still many will die before 5th December, 2015, the new date for the bye election in the 91 polling units. Many would be sick that the cannot vote. Many registered but they won't be opportuned to cast their votes as the are away from Kogi, there would be void votes and certainly many would stay away from voting for fear of violence, loss of interest and some simply because they just obtained the voters card to fulfill all righteousness but they don't vote! Now give or take modestly, about 4, 953 votes out of the 49, 953 from the 91 polling units outstanding. We are ending up with about 45, 000 votes to be struggled for by 22 parties with one already having a wide margin of 41, 353 against its closest rival.
Back to the issue at hand. The law has provided that for a candidate to contest for election as either President, Governor or Chairman of a Local Government, he must have a running mate. The makers of our laws could simply have provided that after election, the winner could appoint his Vice or Deputy as he so wishes or rather, the Party could appoint a Vice or Deputy for the winner since it is the owner of the mandate! Why did they insist on going into the race with a running mate? The reason is simple! To eliminate unhealthy competition after polls and to also give the electorates the opportunity of assessing their candidates vis a vis their running mates with the intention of making informed choices in the event of unforeseen circumstances like the one at hand! Let us not forget that the Party has the right to change its candidate in the event of death or withdrawal only before election but once election took place, conclusive or not, that window becomes sealed!
Here again, many are arguing that the election is not conclusive so the Party can still organize a Primary election and bring another candidate! The question here is, what becomes of the 240, 867 votes already cast for the Party in the names of the Late Prince Abubakar Audu and Honourable James Falake? Late Prince Audu is no more and so the sole owner of the 240, 867 votes thus far in store now is Honourable James Falake and the Party is just a trustee of these votes! Given the circumstance above and you are to sit in judgment, honestly and sincerely, what would be your decision?
Legally, equitably, politically, morally and otherwise, it would amount to the greatest fraud on both Honourable James Falake and the good people of Kogi State for APC to think of organizing another Primary election in the first place when Honourable James Falake is alive and kicking! This judgment must not come from the Court alone! We all have common sense to draw analogies and inferences from the past and the present to forecast the future. The Supreme Court said the Candidate and his running mate are joint owners of the votes cast for them as their votes cannot be separated one for another. What makes this one different? Because the election was inconclusive? In the event that another person other than Honourable James Falake emerges as the APC flag bearer, can he lay claim honestly and sincerely to the 240, 867 votes already in store? No wonder Orphans are growing up with bottled up anger against their late father's relations for taking over their inheritance and leaving them on their own!
From the above scenario, it is clear that APC is at a cross road. To do what is right and noble in spite of whatever and save us a lot of trouble as well as demonstrate fairness and justice or follow the path of perdition and end up being disgraced ultimately. Lawfully, Honourable James Falake is to step into the shoes of his Principal, late Prince Audu, as the Candidate of the Party and in the Circumstance, the Party may take the sole prerogative of appointing a running mate for Falake on liberal terms in order not to bring someone that may be a disaster for the Government and the Party in the long run. Anything short of this is evil and cannot stand in law.
The Kogi case has opened a new vista in our legal and political development. It has now become imperative for electorates to insist on having competent and credible running mates they can trust with the affairs of their states in the event of situations like this. I equally call on the APC leadership to make a difference by calling off the Primary election they are about holding as it is needless as it is unlawful. Honourable James Falake is the equitable and legal candidate and flag bearer of the APC in Kogi State and anyone that may be brought in to take the place of Prince Audu other than Falake would be an impostor and usurper that would certainly be placed in his place by the Court appropriately!

Even Nigeria Police Force has join the gosple of anti-corruption.





BUHARI ADMINISTRATION DEY MAKE BRAIN ON PAPER WORK




HOPE WE WILL GET IT IN REALITY.




TO BUILD A NATION WHERE PEACE AND JUSTICE SHALL REIGN.

If BUHARI is sincere by opening up all probes that have been carried out since 1999, I tell you solemnly, most people who where singing at the top of their voice on Key D upper octave that Jonathan administration was corrupt won't also escape the rot of the incoming Government. E.g OBY, Soludo, Even Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. 70% of people who have participated in nigeria politics from 1999 are all corrupt.

Jumabee! A pal and friend @ Sacred Heart Nursery/Primary School in those days. This guy is a gentle and good guy till graduated from FGC Ugwalawo. Well, there is Nothing the Music World can't make people to do. All the Best dude.

Alhaji Olanusi is not a grassroot politician why? As the deputy governor, all political appointment from your local government is done without ur consent for the past 6years yet you did not complain, Even if lawmakers from all other constituency agree to impeach you, the one from your own constituency shouldn't have agreed, yet u said u didn't complain all this while because u are not after riches. If that is ur conclusion then the impeachment shouldn't move you a bit. Any politician working under Gov. Mimiko should always think deeply twice before he take a decision because the guy is a maradona in the game.