Kukutente23:

Unfortunately, allegations of ballot papers stuffing is not like before. It is not about calling witnesses.
Refer to 1 above. INEC educated everyone about how to know fake ballot papers from the originated original. There are watermarks, seals and embellishments on each ballot paper. Apart from that, the ballot papers allocated for each PU are serially marked. It is also a requirement of the Electoral Act section 42. So if a ballot paper does not match a serial number allocated to a PU, it is automatically fake.
If it is within the serial number, the question of ballot paper snuffing no longer arise as long as total votes does not exceed accredited voters on BVAS.
In any case, it is farfetched to claim that a state ruled by APC was rigged against APC in the presence of security agents controlled by same APC govt.

The bolded ref.

You will agree with me that a ballot paper itself can be very original & yet its vote not valid. The ballot paper might have been original & even for the polling unit & yet the vote casted on it not valid.. How? Thugs can come, hijack clean/unused ballot papers, steal the ballot boxes, thumbprint the snatched ballot papers, bring them back & get counted.. Now it is easy for the Petitioners to prove such irregularities since the resultant clear over voting due to BVAS accreditation which will be lower to the vote cast. Any ballot not signed by the Presiding Officer will be definitely invalid.. if 166k of them go to a particular party, then. it is easy to prove

Which is fake?

PoliteActivist:




Did you hear him say anywhere that anybody won??

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So why the shout about "our stolen mandate"? Have you not been hearing that?What does this ttell you about it the state of minds of Peter Obi, LP & OBidients?

okeysoninv:
In the year 2024 . Be ready for bloody revolution and coup by NIGERIA army. The corrupt politicians shall witness wotowoto in the hand of army. #prophesy.

Swear with your live that God has shown or told you this then case close...

Dblack:
The petitioners case was made weak because the election umpire cunningly denied to provide sufficient documents for them to prove their case. They could only bank on disqualification of BAT and INEC Guidelines.
So in their final addresses they dwelled on peripherals rather that the election itself.

A serious minded Petitioner who truely wants to win a litigation at the Tribunal will not depend on the Respondents in the same suit to give him evidence to argue his case.. It just doesn't make sense..

Emmapub:

Once he gets the evidence about Tinibu certificate, he Tinibu will be disqualified and that gives way for a fresh election because him (Atiku)too didn't get the constitutional requirements.

😂
There sha must be reasons to be more hopeful for the delusionals.

lonelydora:
I maintain that PEPT will favour Peter Obi or Atiku, but Supreme Court will hand back to Tinubu.

On which ground?You think the Judges are Father Christmas?

This way to some, the judiciary has not been compromised... I hope it will be the same music tomorrow.

kevwemike:
From my point of view the tribunal we favour opposition against The president, then the president we go to the supreme court, at the supreme court the president we be favoured. mark my words

I had the privilege of seeing the final written submissions & responses of both the Petitioners & the Respondents, if I were a Judge who wishes to adjudicate on the merit of the cases based on evidences presented & from the point of Laws, I will throw out the Petitions and award cost against the Petitioners.. they proved nothing.. I marvel at the ignorance of many when shout a "stolen mandate" because the Petitioners never argued about a certain "stolen mandate" their Arguments were basically on technicality most of which have been resolved. In fact, it will amount a miscarriage of Justice if the judgement goes against Tinubu, It must have been that the headless mob succeeded in the blackmail of the Judges

OGHENAOGIE:
which one be born again... The king of England is a Christian and they still find balance between culture and religion

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Actually, in England Christianity is their own traditional religion i fact,the Arch Bishop of Centerbury occupies a top protocol steps ahead of British PM in hierarchy in the UK.But here we only slavishly embraced same here ni during colonization.. Same can be said of Islamic Religion.

MrRhymes101:
You're lucky it's not the national orthopedic hospital (igbobi) in Lagos. I had a terrible experience there late last year when I had a car accident, it was so bad i had to transfer to Ikeja medical center. Una d enjoy government benefits for north sha

Nigeria will get better only if most Nigerians want it.The difference between the National Orthopedic Hospital in Kano & that of Lagos is just the People.

Incognito403:

Even single people are begging and suffering.


It can even get worse for married with football team size children.?



Even couples without children are struggling.


Imagine the ones with football team size of Children



How did you arrive at this correlation between number of children and level of poverty?..



Father & Mother who give birth to children they are not able to properly cater for in terms of feeding, sheltering & education is an invitation for poverty.. In Nigeria, we have this category of family plenty, that is the multiplicity of poverty! It's that simple.




My father had eight children and we're all doing good. And he was just a middle class.

Your father a middle class, was able to educate you & that's why you can definitely say "we are all doing good" Moreover I didn't say " All"parents rather I said " There's nothing wrong in giving birth to 50 if you have the capacity but how do we determine who & who have the capacity.

Incognito403:

I'm not a northerner but I don't think anyone has any right to tell me how many children I should have if I'm not begging him to cater for them.

Many aren't begging directly to cater for the many children they gave birth to, but what can't be denied is the obvious facts that many are indeed giving birth to children they can't properly cater for in terms proper Nutrition, Shelter, Clothing & Education. You see these categories of Children looking manourished, wearing clothes next to Rags(These are true reflection of poverty)& become serious security threats to the society & yet we all blame the Government for every of such ill.Most of such family believe it is their right for Government should feed,school,health care & shelter their [b]football team of a family for free. [/b]If the Blames must go to the Government for every ill of the Society, they it has the right make policies for the good of the Nation & educate or enforce for its implemention.

Honestly people should be asking the right questions.. Folks like Obaseki can be bold enough to manipulate the intelligence of people to shift blame.. I hope someone would ask this man to account for more allocation now accruable to Edo State as a result of the removal of subsidy.. Edo State Govt & other States should use the extra fund for the benefits of Edolites.

Expected!I would have been surprised if it didn't happen..

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A plane said to be carrying notorious warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner group launched a failed coup against president Vladimir Putin in June, has crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg, according to Russian officials.

All 10 people on the plane, including three crew members, died in the crash, Russia’s emergency ministry said, according to state newswire RIA Novosti.

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You are very correct but while policies will be put in place to encourage productivity locally, which impact may not be immediate, the proposed policy of the FG I believe is aim at immediate solution against the ever rising inflationary trend

Jostoman:
All Eye on judiciary


Obedient no get time for tribal thread

Kindly identify what is tribal about the thread

Prior to the 2023 Presidential elections, a lot was said about the dangers & otherwise of a Tinubu's Muslim/Muslim Ticket.

So many Appointments & Policy descisions have been made in the new regime of Tinubu, what is/are your sincere observation(s) on the impact so far on Tinubu's Administration?

Thank you.

Someone should ask the promoter of this "prophesy" the likely verdicts of the Judges if they were not influenced. This will help us all to be able to ascertain whether or not the Judges give their verdicts under any such influences. I reserve my comment on whether or not this should be a Prophesy.

"The Court of Appeal cannot collect evidence from the market overt; for example from the Balogun market, Lagos; Dugbe market, Ibadan; main market, Jos; Central market, Kaduna; Central market (former Gwari market), Minna; Wuse market, Abuja. On the contrary, the Court of Appeal, has to wait for evidence, as the court did, in the court building duly constituted as a court qua adjudicatory body. Courts of law being legal and sacred institutions do not go on a frolic or on a journey to collect inculpatory or exculpatory evidence. On the contrary, they deal only with evidence before them which is procedurally built on arid legalism. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not saying by this judgment that all was well with the conduct of the Presidential Election conducted in 2007. What I am saying is that there was no evidence before the Court of Appeal to dislodge section 146(1) of the Electoral Act.

It is sad that so much has been said in the newspapers of this country on the case. The new technology of internet reporting has added to the comments, some of them doubting our integrity to do justice according to law. I regard them as blackmail and I will not succumb to blackmail, I swore on that eventful day as a High Court Judge to do justice to all manner of persons without fear or favour. I have never departed from that oath and I will not, God helping. It is too late in the day to do so. Nigeria is a country where suspicion of wrong doing is the past time of the citizens. Nigerians should realise that some public officers should be trusted to do the right thing. Why not the Judges!

Nigeria is one vast and huge country made up of so many diversities in terms of tribes, cultures, sociology, anthropology and above all, quite a number of political parties (some large, some small). These diversities, coupled with the usual aggressiveness of Nigerians arising particularly from the do or die behaviour in politics; there must be irregularities. Courts of law must therefore take the irregularities for granted unless they are of such compelling proportion or magnitude as to “affect substantially the result of the election.” This may appear to the ordinary Nigerian mind as a stupid statement but that is the law as provided in section 146(1) of the Electoral Act and there is nothing anybody can do about it, as long as the Legislature keeps it in the Electoral Act. The subsection is like the rock of Gibraltar, solidly standing behind and for a respondent to an election petition. I am not saying that a Presidential Election can never succeed in the light of section 146(1). No. It can if the petitioner discharges the burden the subsection places on him.

The way politics in this country is played frightens me every dawning day. It is a fight to finish affair. Nobody accepts defeat at the polls. The Judges must be the final bus stop. And when they come to the Judges and the Judges in their professional minds give judgment, they call them all sorts of names. To the party who wins the case, the Judiciary is the best place and real common hope of the common man. To the party who loses, the Judiciary is bad. Even when a party loses a case because of serious blunder of Counsel, it is the Judge who is blamed. Why? While I know as a matter of fact that in every case, the Judge makes an additional enemy, if I use the word unguardedly, I must say that the Judge does not regard the person as his enemy. The Judge who has given judgment in the light of the law, should not be castigated in the way it is done in this country. That is a primitive conduct and I condemn it. It is a conduct that does not help the promotion of the administration of justice. It is rather a conduct that is likely to affect adversely the administration of justice in this country. I feel very strongly that Nigerian Judges should be allowed to perform their judicial functions to the best of their ability. I should also say that no amount of bad name-calling will deter Nigerian Judges from performing their constitutional functions of deciding cases between two or more competing parties. Somebody must be trusted in doing the correct thing. Why not the Nigerian Judge?

In sum, this appeal fails and it is dismissed. Accordingly, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Dr Jonathan Goodluck are the President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, respectively. I make no order as to costs.

Horus:


Who are you trying to fool?. The African Union (AU), is [b]opposed [/b]to any military intervention in Niger by ECOWAS (Read the news )

Kindly show the communique regarding the stand bolded.

ehikwe22:


What about the proposed NEDC ? You mean it was never created but they were already functioning?

Oh! I believe you mixing things up.
NEDC an equivalent of NDDC was created by an act of the National Assembly, this is not same as a Government Ministry like Niger/Delta Ministry.. infact NDDC is not Niger/Delta ministry. So NEDC mentioned is not a Ministry.

ISLAMBAD:
A minister, especially the one with a good portfolio

Minister heads a ministry..

They steal through inflated costs of projects..

A senator is just there depending only on his income ..

As a minister if 200Billion is allocated to your ministry annually, there is chances you will corner 50 billion then use the rest to work..

But a senator depends on their 36 million naira monthly salary and 1.2 billion naira annual constituency allowance.. Unless if you are a Senate President..

Infact all of them are criminals!!

@the bolded.
The OP asked a good & innocent question.. why not answer the question without the assumption they would steal, just purely on the job description of the two offices.


@OP... I think the executive arm of Government part of which is a federal minister in case of FG is more influential given the fact that the minister represent the President in ministry for implementation of Govt policies which will have impact all through the whole Nation... A senator as an individual may not be as influential as a Minister.. Senators are influential more only when they take a decision as "Nigerian Senate". My take

ehikwe22:
Even if Niger Delta gets 5 ministries, it's never too much. Didn't they create a ministry for NE? What do they contribute to Nigeria's Commonwealth apart from terrorism, illiteracy and extreme poverty/begging?

@ the bolded.
No ministry was or is created for North East...

GO0DHardDick:
Damnit!

This is exactly what African leaders need. The corruption in Africa is too much. Africa leaders deserves to be executed one after the other for sanity to restore back to Africa.

In a sane country like China, Tinubu, akpabio, all Nigerian senators amongst others would have since been executed on national TV by firing squad for massive corruptions and public funds embezzlement

And in your view a Military Leader can not be as corrupt as a civilian Leader?

tungamaje:

Maybe Algeria has agreed to supply them with electricity for free. Who knows. This means very soon they would no longer be dependent on Nigeria as a landlocked country

Electricity will not be supplied for free... if there's going to be a supply at all, then it will be paid for. Moreover the logistics to make that happen cost billions of Dollars & Years

MS247:


As for Northern leaders... Only National Assembly can decide through votes

The Votes of National Assembly is needed when Nigeria is going to war with another country.. e. g Nigeria Vs Niger.. but Nigeria isn't going to War with Niger.. It's ECOWAS vs Niger Juntas... and if there will be millitary intervention to restore constitutional order, it will be standby forces of ECOWAS Nation.. I want to believe the force has always been in place with its own commanding structures, it's not as if Nigeria will just be deploying

ernest2019:
Meet the 5 Most Respected Anambra Persons


Their influence stands them out even beyond Anambra State. They are the pride of the State, projecting its name in a positive light through their services, positions, and partnerships. Attacking any one of them feels like an attack on the state itself. Meet the 5 Most Respected Anambra Persons.


Peter Obi:

Peter Obi is a well-respected politician and businessman from Anambra State, Nigeria. He served as the Governor of Anambra State from 2006 to 2014 and has since been recognized for his outstanding performance in transforming the state. Under his leadership, Anambra experienced significant improvements in education, healthcare, infrastructure, and economic development. Obi implemented various policies and programs that had a direct positive impact on the lives of the people, such as the Anambra Integrated Development Strategy (ANIDS). His prudent management of resources, transparency, and accountability gained him a reputation as a selfless leader who prioritizes the welfare of the people above personal gain. Due to his achievements and integrity, Peter Obi is widely respected both within and outside Anambra State.

Bianca Ojukwu:

Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of late leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, is a highly respected figure in Anambra State and beyond. She is admired for her poise, grace, intellect, and advocacy for social justice. Bianca Ojukwu has been vocal in fighting for the rights of the Igbo people and seeking justice for the injustices suffered during the Nigerian Civil War. She has shown remarkable resilience and leadership by actively participating in politics, representing the Igbo people in various capacities. Bianca Ojukwu's unwavering commitment to the welfare of her people and her efforts to preserve her late husband's legacy make her highly respected in Anambra.

Francis Cardinal Arinze:

Cardinal Francis Arinze is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and one of the most respected religious figures in Anambra State. He served as the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, one of the highest-ranking positions in the Vatican. Arinze's humility, intellect, and deep faith have made him an inspirational figure not only to Catholics in Anambra but also to people of various religious affiliations. He is respected for his commitment to promoting interfaith dialogue, advocating for peace, and upholding Catholic teachings. Cardinal Arinze's contributions to the church and his profound impact on the spiritual lives of many have earned him immense respect.

Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe:

Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe is the traditional ruler (Obi) of Onitsha, one of the prominent kingdoms in Anambra State. As a custodian of the Igbo culture and tradition, Igwe Achebe is respected for his wisdom, leadership, and dedication to preserving the rich cultural heritage of the Igbo people and promoting unity among them. He has actively engaged in community development, promoting education, healthcare, and entrepreneurship. Igwe Achebe's influential voice has been sought on matters of national importance, and his commitment to peaceful coexistence and progress has earned him respect from his subjects and the wider Nigerian society.

Emeka Anyaoku:

Emeka Anyaoku, a diplomat and statesman, is well respected for his outstanding contribution to the international community and his native Anambra State. He served as the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1990 to 2000, playing a crucial role in advocating for democratic principles, good governance, and human rights across member countries. Anyaoku has consistently demonstrated strong leadership, integrity, and diplomatic skills throughout his career. He has also remained committed to supporting development projects in Anambra, particularly in the areas of education and healthcare. Emeka Anyaoku's accomplishments on the global stage, coupled with his continued dedication to the well-being of his people, have earned him immense respect and recognition.



https://anambrapeople.com.ng/2023/08/09/meet-the-5-most-respected-anambra-persons/

Every other person on list earned their popularity & prominence dated decades & the accolade accorded them are well deserved except PO who got popular through instrumentality of the social media influencers... infact his popularity is among the social media enthusiasts... go to the interlands outside the South east today, he is not known their.. he is equally not known by those not in the social media.. He should enjoy his celebrity status while he still on the screen of entertainment..

Bunkbars:
This one too went to school . It's one Nigeria when the suffering of tribal support hits negatively.

Most of the yoruba youths, work like peasants in Lagos. And you are here typing nonsense. When it's time to beg for money for transport, you won't remember who was fair to each other during the election.

No I didn't go to school, i learnt spare parts selling in Onitsha..

But it is honourable to be ready to face the consequences of your actions & inaction especially when you put all your eggs in one Basket..

Two petitions against him now.. ok.. his Cup will soon be full.