Isobug: You mean Okechukwu Nwali? All these Rivers people trying to run away from their origins. By next Century , the whole names and culture would have been changed completely. It's well.
Meanwhile, We, the good people of Nigeria appeal to the abductors to release him unconditionally with no harm. I don't know why insecurity is worsening in Nigeria
you would think a "Wali" is necessarily a northerner. to be one comes with advantages in Nigeria.
Recall that Wali, was abducted by unknown gunmen on October 11, 2014 in his community, Rumualogu, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. He was later released at about 11p.m. after 13 days in captivity.
The 64-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria was kidnapped along the East-West Road, his driver killed and two Policemen injured.
How well his community cherish and love him in return for all done by him for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjlq03O3Uo We have always questioned which of the three levels of government is most to blame for the hardships and sufferings that Nigeria as a nation endures.
Is it correct to state that our governors truly have the best interests of the people in heart after this assessment of Okowa's huge severance, which is currently making the rounds on the internet?
Okowa is entitled to a fully furnished duplex in Delta State or any other state in Nigeria, as well as medical treatment for himself and his immediate family, two vehicles per year, including a utility vehicle, two armed police officers, and one Department of State Security official.
15 days of annual vacation in any location of his choice, as well as additional incentives. Similar benefits are available to the deputy governor.
The law stipulates that ex-governors receive allowances and other perks valued at N50 million each year.
damosky12: Man! How does one have such a dirty mind like this! Must you lots always be this dark towards pastors?
Your tithe dey inside? The people wey give the tithe complain give you?
Some of the members that "don't even have where to sleep" came to you to lament?
Only small, insignificant minds do nothing but complain when others do. This same church has free housing programs for many people (Google is your friend). The man has many young people on scholarship.
CartelKenneth: Sorry o Honda CRV!!!! Try again in 2027!!!
With the Declaration of Independence sort of that he just made his goose is cooked! Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour will never be Lagos State Governor and will remain politically bitter (as they usually are) the rest of his days. Only God, in his sovereignty can change that forecast.
So we have 37 States in Nigeria!🤔🧐. Truth is that the FCT is a creation of statute which has a special status ranking with that of a State given that it is the Capital of Nigeria. You must win there to have won 25% in two thirds of the 36 States. The issue of Electoral College is inapplicable here given that the express mention of a thing ( provision for a rerun) is the exclusion of other things not mentioned. Solution is a rerun but that would be creating a constitutional crisis and vacuum in government plus it comes at a great cost to our fragile economy to have the money it would take to have the rerun. What to do? On grounds of public policy and the doctrine of necessity the Interpretation to be given is to say that a win is not mandatory in the FCT!
9jahotblog: Nice job from Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke. You are doing extremely well in infrastructural development in Osun State. God will continue to protect you and guide you in Jesus Name.
Where are the three hundred plus boreholes allegedly done for n14m each!🧐🤔
Oloniyan: Fayose was never a problem in Ekiti but a problem solver, the only time Ekiti was dormant is during JKF regime.
CSO and Fayose developed Ekiti to the level it is now but BAO is really trying with some strides recently and i hope he won't take off his feet off the pedal.
I DO SINCERELY HOPE AM WRONG. YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT THE HUGE TOURIST POTENTIAL WASTING AWAY AT IKOGOSI WARM SPRINGS.
Just like Ofonagoro, Chukwumerije, Maduegbunam, Reuben Abati, et al your name has gone to the dogs! A million Arise TV Media could not launder the tarred image of Reuben Abati. One expects Jonathan and his embarrassment of a wife to feature regularly on Arise Tv where Oseni the other was all over the internet strutting around like a peacock when he was accosted for using the bus lane while driving in a private car!😷
squash47: Recently Ekiti has been making developmental waves on social media. Looks like the state just woke up from deep slumber. Seems like this new governor is working
May the likes of Fayose never make it to Oke Ayaba again!
Jeffy1206: you forgot something that the difference between 1st and 3rd is just 2.4m votes which can easily be overtaking. Remember Kwankwaso saying that he will be ahead of tinubu if votes weren't allocated to him by inec. He knew still that he didn't win that's why he decided not to go to court.
nairalanda1: Exactly, that' s what I tell Obidients and even some Atikulators from time to time, and they get abusive. They even call me a tinubu supporter, like as if I like that man.(He is even the main reason why I never vote for APC, and to be honest in 2006, when Gani was going after him in the courts, I was hoping Gani would win, and stop him now and then).
Honestly, PDP was divided in to 4 factions. APC had at least 2 factions, but APC stayed united up till Feb 25, while PDP split into 4 factions. The result turned out as expected. APC won.
Have been following some African countries elections. And the rule is always the same...divide the oppositon, and half the ruling party's work is done.
Plus Atiku was already a tired contender who has little at stake in Nigeria. He wanted a Trophy! Power for its very sake!
Clevite: If Peter Obi had stayed in PDP, he wouldn't have secured the ticket in the first place. The best he could have got is to be a running mate to Atiku. And there wouldn't have been anything like Obidient movement.
I agree. However, Peter Obi lost the moment and the movement when he went to the Tribunal to contest the Tinubu victory when it was clear that he was third place.If I were in his shoes it would be more important for me to tend the movement in a manner that will make larger than the Labour Party and transcending party politics. That way, in four years victory would be sure. But he blew it!
Clevite: The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect in the 25 February election.
The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja.
The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost on the grounds that it lacked merit and was frivolous.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner, had sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and APC as 1st to 4th respondents respectively.
The petitioners are seeking the nullification of the election victory of Messrs Tinubu and Shettima in the 25 February presidential poll.
NAN reports that while former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with 6,984,520 votes in the election. Mr Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes.
Atiku and the PDP are also challenging the outcome of the poll.
In the petition marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 filed by Mr Obi and LP’s lead counsel, Livy Ozoukwu, they contended that Mr Tinubu “was not duly elected by majority of the lawful votes cast at the time of the election.”
The petitioners claimed there was rigging in 11 states, adding that they would demonstrate this in the declaration of results based on the uploaded results.
Mr Obi and LP said INEC violated its own regulations when it announced the result despite the fact that at the time of the announcement, the totality of the polling unit results had yet to be fully scanned, uploaded and transmitted electronically as required by the Electoral Act.
Among other prayers, the petitioners urged the tribunal to “determine that, at the time of the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, the 2nd and 3rd respondents (Tinubu and Shettima) were not qualified to contest the election.
“That it be determined that all the votes recorded for the 2nd respondent in the election are wasted votes, owing to the non-qualification of the 2nd and 3rd respondents.
“That it be determined that on the basis of the remaining votes (after discountenancing the votes credited to the 2nd respondent) the 1st petitioner (Obi) scored a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election and had not less than 25 per cent of the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of the states of the federation and the FCT and satisfied the constitutional requirements to be declared the winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election.
“That it be determined that the 2nd respondent (Tinubu), having failed to score one-quarter of the votes cast at the presidential election in the FCT was not entitled to be declared and returned as the winner of the presidential election held on Feb. 25.”
Responding, the APC asked the court to dismiss the suit on the ground that Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, lacked requisite “locus standi” to institute the petition because he was not a member of LP at least 30 days to the party’s presidential primary to be validly sponsored by the party.
It said: “The 1st petitioner (Obi) was a member of PDP until May 24, 2022.
“1st petitioner was screened as a presidential aspirant of the PDP in Apni 2022.
“1st petitioner participated and was cleared to contest the presidential election while being a member of the PDP.
“1st petitioner purportedly resigned his membership of PDP on May 24, 2022 to purportedly join the 2nd petitioner (Labour Party) on May 27, 2022.
“2nd petitioner conducted its presidential primary on May 30, 2022 which purportedly produced 1st petitioner as its candidate, which time contravened Section 77(3) of the Electoral Act for him to contest the primary election as a member of the 2nd petitioner.”
The party argued that Obi was not a member of LP at the time of his alleged sponsorship.
The APC argued that “by the mandatory provisions of Section 77 (1) (2) and (3) of the Electoral Act 2022, a political party shall maintain a register and shall make such register available to INEC not later than 30 days before the date fixed for the party primaries, congresses and convention.”
It stated further that all the PDP’s presidential candidates were screened on 29 April 29, an exercise Mr Obi participated in and cleared to contest while being a member of the party.
It argued that the petition was incompetent since Mr Obi’s name could not have been in LP’s register made available to INEC at the time he joined the party.
The APC equally argued that the petition was improperly constituted having failed to join Atiku Abubakar and PDP who were necessary parties to be affected by the reliefs sought
“By Paragraph 17 of the petition, the petitioners, on their own, stated that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar came second in the presidential election with 6,984,520 votes as against the petitioners who came third with 6,101,533 votes;
“At Paragraph 102 (ii) of the petition, the petitioners urged the tribunal to determine that 1st petitioner scored the majority of lawful votes without joining Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the petition.
“For the tribunal to grant prayer (iii) of the petitioners, the tribunal must have set aside the scores and election of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar must be heard before his votes can be discountenanced by the tribunal,” it said.
The party said the petition and the identified paragraphs were in breach of the mandatory provisions of Paragraph 4(1)(D) of the 1st Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2022.
According to APC, Paragraphs 60 — 77 of the petition are non-specific, vague and/or nebulous and thereby incompetent contrary to Paragraph 4(1)(d) of the Ist Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2022.
It said that the allegations of non-compliance must be made distinctly and proved on a polling unit basis but none was specified or provided in any of the paragraphs of the petition.
“Paragraphs 59-60 of the petition disclose no identity or particulars of scores and polling units supplied in 18,088 units mentioned therein,” it added.
The party, therefore, argued that the tribunal lacked the requisite jurisdiction to entertain pre-election complaints embedded in the petition as presently constituted, among other arguments.
The APC urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost as the same was devoid of any merit and founded on frivolity.
Populism of the blind and headstrong slant have no place in the dispensation of Justice. Peter Obi was a member of LP within the 30 day period prior to the election. If he had stayed in PDP Tinubu would have found it near impossible to win.
SenatePresdo: Nigeria won't survive another Civil war.
And secondly, countries don't do business out of likeness. They do business out of interest.
You dont exactly get my point. The word in the world of business is "attractive". As you rightly said FDI dont come to a country out of likeness unless it is an attractive business destination. By "Interest" is meant TRUST, HONOUR, SAFETY OF INVESTMENT, ROI etc.! SE (BIAFRA) as presently constituted lacks those items. As far back as 30 years ago i was at alábà international market ojo lagos to buy a vhs video player. looked brand new. set it up at home and it showed blurry pictures. opened it up to discover cobwebs all over. it was fraudulently sold as new! that has not changed. Akunyili lost her life to the antics of the fake drugs industry czars who are largely igbo(Biafra). It is said that even amongst thieves there is honour.
i sincerely pray it does not start. it is an ill-wind. it will blow no one any good. the igbo will be badly hit again as it happened in the north which led to the civil war and abandoned property in rivers state they couldn't get back till date. the igbo will get more distrusted by other ethnic groups and the farther away they will be from Federal power. i sincerely hope the voice of reason will prevail. even when they get Biafra few nations would be willing to do business with them the way they are presently perceived.
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