JIM OVIA ON YELE RANTING ABOUT THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND THE ZENITH BANK HE FOUNDED.

This man and his co travelers are the co conspirators that are wholly responsible for the complete economic emasculation of Nigerians.

Let’s leave aside the multiple hidden charges they defraud their customers with. Let’s leave the fact that the banking industries here in Nigeria do not finance ideas. They actually steal ideas. Let us leave aside their very reputable inside trading and doing anything but core banking as it is done all over the world. Let us leave aside their predatorial lending that cripples individuals and private enterprises.

They basically mop up our little savings and hand it over to very few import dependent companies. Then they turn around to work towards special concessions and near monopoly for these selected few that can barely compete on a level playing field to ensure that these companies rip us all off and then share the proceed with them in interest payment. It is all a scheme.

But Let us look at their partnership with the corrupt politicians is the financial malfeasance and fleecing of public funds, especially in various states and strategic government agencies.

Go and seek and read the Arthur Nwanwko committee findings on Imo state under Rochas Rochas Administration in which the Commisiosner for Finance in the first tenure also doubled as the Zeniith bank Manager.

Zenith bank allegedly overcharged Imo state by about 40 billion Naira. Zenith bank has not denied this. Instead they are seeking to cover it up through power play.

But the same Jim Ovia is on Television beating his chest that the banks are making profit. Why won’t they ? When they seek out for state accounts and run it in the most fraudulent manner.
The CBN and other agencies that should act as a restraint is now seating on the fence.
Nigeria is being destroyed in more ways than one. It is not just the political class. They have co conspirators and those who aid and abate all they’ve done.

The question is does it matter to us?

By Chris Maduka

The immediate past Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II’s lawyers on Tuesday vowed to challenge his banishment and detention by the Kano State Government.

Sanusi’s legal team led by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abubakar Balarabe-Mahmoud, at a press conference in Kano, said government should release Sanusi or face a legal action. They also raised the alarm over the deposed Emir’s personal safety and security.

The lawyers stated that they had not been able to speak to Sanusi since Monday, adding that the location of the place where the deposed Emir was being detained was meant to cause him “maximum trauma and distress.”

Sanusi, who became the 14th Emir of Kano on June 8, 2014, was dethroned on Monday by the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and banished to Nasarawa State.

The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, who announced Sanusi’s deposition and the appointment of Alhaji Aminu Bayero as his successor, said the immediate past Emir was removed because of “total disrespect to lawful instructions from the office of the state governor.”

At 5:36pm on Monday, the Emir was forced out of the palace from where he was taken to Loko in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

Criticising the treatment being meted out to Sanusi, the lawyers, at the press conference, said, “We have not spoken to the Emir since yesterday (Monday), but we understand that they are at their destination somewhere in a remote part of Nassarawa State after driving for nearly seven hours in the night and arriving about 2am today.

“We understand that the choice of the location to detain Muhammadu Sanusi II was intended to cause maximum trauma and distress. This again is illegal and unconstitutional.

“According to instructions we received from the Emir through his chief of staff, we are directed to take legal action to challenge the legality of the Emir’s detention and banishment.

“We are of the firm view that this action is illegal and unconstitutional. Section 35 of our constitution guarantees every citizen the right to personal liberty. The bases of the denial of personal liberty are set out clearly in this Section of the Constitution. None applies to the case of the Emir.”

The lawyers said the archaic practice of banishment of deposed Emirs, a colonial practice, had no basis in the country’s constitution.

They said, “The illegality of such a practice was pronounced by the Nigerian Court of Appeal in Attorney General Kebbi State v. the former emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Al-Mustapha Jakolo, and ors 2013 LPELR 22349/CA where the court pronounced it as illegal and unconstitutional gross violation of the rights of the Emir.

“This is what the court said in that case: ‘The banishment and deportation from Kebbi State by the Governor of Kebbi State of the first respondent Jokolo to Lafia in Nasarawa State and later to Obi also in Nasarawa State is most unconstitutional and illegal.

“We call on the authorities, in particular the Inspector-General, the Director General of Department of State Services and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to ensure the immediate release of Sanusi II so that he can be reunited with his family.

“We are concerned about his personal safety and security, and wish to call on all well-meaning Nigerians and the international community to bring their influence to bear to ensure that he regains his liberty immediately and to guarantee his safety and security.

“We, the legal team of the dethroned Emir, are working both in Kano and Abuja and unless he is released immediately, we will be taking appropriate legal action.”

According to them, the Kano State Emirate Council Law, which was recently enacted by the Government of Kano State, does not give the state executive council or the Governor of Kano State the powers to unilaterally remove the emir.

They said, “The reason given in the letter of deposition of the Emir dated 9th March, 2020, was alleged ‘disrespect to lawful instructions from the authorities’.

“The Emir was also alleged to have ‘refused to attend official programmes and meetings organized by the Government’, As far as we are aware, there has not been any notice of such disrespect ever given to the Emir or querry issued to him for refusal to attend official functions.

“He was never given any opportunity to defend himself against those charges. Section 13 of the Kano Emirates Council Law 2019 cited in the letter of deposition empowers the Governor to depose an Emir only after due inquiry and in consultation with State Council of Chiefs.

“We are not aware of such due inquiry nor are we aware that the Kano State Council of Chiefs was at any time summoned to any meeting much less discuss the removal of the Emir or give any advice to the Governor on the deposition.”

“Be that as it may, the decision to challenge the removal is solely that of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II. At this moment no such instruction has been given to us.”

Police threw tear gas canisters in palace

The head of the legal team also explained how Sanusi and his family were harassed after the deposition of the Emir.

He said while Sanusi was waiting for his deposition letter there was commotion in the private wing of the palace as some unauthorized persons tried to gain entry into the family section.

The SAN said, ‘’This led to some scuffle and tear-gas canisters were fired by the security operatives. Normalcy was restored after the unauthorized persons along with armed security operatives retreated from the inner part of the palace.”

He said the Emir later received the letter which indicated that he was to be moved to Nasarawa State.

Balarabe-Mahmoud stated, “We requested to know if he was under arrest and if so we needed to see the warrant. The Commissioner of Police informed us that he was not under arrest. We informed the Commissioner of Police that it was illegal and a violation of his constitutional rights to remove to Nasarawa State against his wish.

“The Emir informed the Commissioner of Police that his friends had sent an aircraft to fly him and his family to Lagos and requested that they should be provided with necessary security to the airport so that he could leave.

‘’The commissioner refused saying that was not their instruction. They were willing to allow the family to leave for Lagos but he was to be flown to Abuja then onwards taken to Nasarawa State.”

He said when it was clear that the police were bent on using force to achieve their objective, the Emir cooperated with them in order not to jeopardize his safety, that of his family and persons around.

Balarabe-Mahmoud said the Emir was taken in a private aircraft at 6:40pm, while the family subsequently boarded the aircraft arranged by his friends and departed for Lagos about 15 minutes later.

The Deposed Emir prayed for his people and Nigeria before leaving the palace.

Sanusi, in his farewell to Kano people in his palace on Monday, urged them to remain peaceful. He thanked them for their support during his reign as the 14th Emir of Kano.

In a video released in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the dethroned Emir of Kano said he accepted the dethronement as a will of God. He prayed that God bless “us with good leaders.”

He stated, “We wish to call on the public to remain peaceful, whosoever is made the Emir, we hereby instruct our family members, children and all those we have authority on to declare their allegiance to him.

“We have always said it that being an Emir is limited by time. The days Allah has willed for one to remain as Emir are limited. Once those days are completed one must vacate the throne whether he wants to or not. As a result of that, we accept whatever Allah wills. We accept, we are thankful, we are happy and we believe it is the best for us.

“May Allah bless you all, keep you alive and enrich our dear land. May He bless us with good leaders. May Allah bless this Emirate and our country at large. May He return our land to us.”

Meanwhile report has it that the deposed Emir, who arrived at Loko, a town in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Tuesday morning , was again moved to Awe town in the Awe Local Government Area of the state.

It was gathered that Sanusi was moved to Awe because of lack of amenities in Loko, a town that shares boundary with the Federal Capital Territory.

The traditional ruler of Loko, Abubakar Sabo, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday, that Sanusi had been relocated from his domain.

He said, “The emir of Kano left my domain around 1:40pm. I don’t know where they have taken him to. They came with a helicopter and took him away. He has left.”

Credit to Punch newspaper

Two Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Mr Adegboyega Awomolo and Femi Falana, faulted the banishment of Sanusi by the Kano State Government.

In separate statements, they said the banishment was a violation of the ex-Emir’s fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 34, 35, 40 and 41 of the Nigerian Constitution.

Falana noted that Sanusi was dethroned by Ganduje-led state executive council for insubordination without according him fair hearing.

The senior lawyer, who contended that the practice of banishing dethroned monarchs belonged to the era of colonialism, explained that the Court of Appeal had in 2013 in the case of a former Emir of Gwandu in Kebbi State, Al-Mustapha Jokolo, against Kebbi State Government, declared the practice as unconstitutional.

He said, “The British colonial regime got away with such atrocities because colonial powers at the material time operated outside the ambit of law and civilised standards.

“But under the current democratic dispensation in Nigeria no state government has the power to remove a traditional ruler and subject him to banishment and detention without following due process.”

He, therefore, urged the Kano State Government “to release Sanusi forthwith and allow him to enjoy his fundamental rights to personal liberty and freedom of locomotion as well as the right to contest his removal from the Kano throne if he so desires.”

On his part, Awomolo urged the Attorney -General of the state to “properly guide the governor” to the effect that the former Emir could not be banished without a court order.

Awomolo said, “I will appeal to the honourable Attorney general of Kano State to guide the governor, properly on five constitutional issues”, including the fact that “the constitutional and executive territorial jurisdiction of the governor is limited to Kano State.

There were indications on Tuesday that more troubles awaited Sanusi II, as Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission said it would not drop investigations into the N2.2bn land scam against him.

The Chairman of the commission, Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Tuesday, said the investigation into the N2.2bn land scam allegation against the dethroned Emir was going on.

The anti-graft agency had a few weeks ago begun a probe of the deposed Emir over illegal sale of landed property.

Before his removal, the anti-corruption commission had issued an invitation letter to him to appear before it on March 9, to clear himself of the allegations.

But on March 6, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano granted an interim injunction restraining the Kano State anti-commission agency from further investigating the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.

The chairman of the commission, Mr Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, in the interview with The PUNCH said the investigation had not stopped.

He stated, “Even yesterday (Monday) some companies were invited by the commission, but on the emir, the investigation will continue after the court order (has been vacated).”

He said with the deposition of embattled monarch, the commission would have what he described as ‘fertile ground’ to carry out its investigation without any interference.

We now have fertile ground to investigate deposed Emir —Commission chairman

Rimingado said, “It is now that we have the fertile ground for our investigation since the emir is not around.”

How we used police to force Sanusi out of palace –Ganduje’s aide

Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Media, Salihu Yakasai, on Tuesday said Sanusi refused to leave the palace even after he had been formally informed of his dethronement on Monday.

Yakasai said the state government had to use policemen to force him out of the place. The governor’s spokesman said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday.

He said if Sanusi had humbled himself and left the palace immediately he was informed of his removal, he would have been spared the drama.

No government can condone Sanusi’s criticisms – Ganduje’s spokesman

He also defended Sanusi’s removal, saying he was deposed because he was fond of criticising the government of Ganduje in public. He said no one in power could condone such public criticisms.

Yakasai said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday.

He said Sanusi, who had easy access to Ganduje, should have private discussions with the governor on state issues instead of criticising the governor publicly.

The governor’s spokesman said, “The emir had access to the governor and could have advised him if he wanted to but unfortunately, he only finds podiums and stages as the only means to advise the government, which is not right.

“So, you can portray it has political or whatever but the fact remains that no one would allow such disrespect and open criticism when you have access to him.”

Source: Punch

The crisis rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly worsened on Tuesday as the offices of the sacked principal officers were sealed.

The PUNCH learnt that those said to have been suspended indefinitely were also shut out of their offices.

The House had on Monday ousted the Chief Whip, Rotimi Abiru (Somolu II), and the Deputy Majority Leader, Olumuyiwa Jimoh (Apapa II).

Two other members, Moshood Osun (Lagos Mainland II) and Adewale Raheem (Ibeju/Lekki Constituency II), were suspended indefinitely for gross misconduct and insubordination.

Our correspondent learnt that late on Monday, replacements were named for the two principal positions.

The lawmaker representing Eti-Osa constituency I, Noheem Adams, was announced as the Deputy Majority Leader, while the lawmaker representing Apapa Constituency 1, Mojisola Miranda, became the new Chief Whip.

The offices of the sacked and suspended members were shut on Tuesday, with an inscription, ‘Sealed’ placed on them.

Workers and aides of the affected lawmakers were also prevented from accessing the offices.

Sources told our correspondent that the crisis was not unconnected with a disagreement between a current senator, Sikiru Osinowo, aka Pepper, and the Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.

The affected lawmakers were reported to be loyalists of Osinowo, who was a former member of the Assembly before his election to the National Assembly.

The aide of one of the affected lawmakers confirmed this, but refused to give further details.

“I am glad you have also heard. But I cannot say more,” the aide said.

Another source told our correspondent that the Assembly was embarrassed by a report on the alleged expenditure of N2.4bn on the purchase of 80 vehicles for the 40 lawmakers in the last 11 months.

Credit to Punch news papers.

History was made in owerri on Sunday March 8, 2020 marked a new dawn in the history of Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria, OMPAN, Imo State Chapter as the association Inaugurates her new Executive members in Owerri, the state capital.This is coming few months after restructuring and re- engineering the Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria in the State.The event which officially kick-started the activities of the association since the re-branding had media practitioners across the state grace the occasion.In his remarks, the Chairman of Imo OMPAN advised the newly inaugurated OMPAN Executives to remain focused and always be objective in their reportage.”I am delighted by the high level of professionalism we are all exhibiting in our various platforms”Mr Anyanwu urged the members to unite to move Imo State OMPAN forward as well as achieve its objectives.”We need to work in a more concerted effort with other executive members to move the association forward”According to him, “Imo Chapter of Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria has continued to draw inspiration from the provision of the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and independence of the media to purse media professionalism, good governance through democracy, promotion of online media accountability and self regulation and good relations with Government and the people”Taking the Oath of office, the new Excutive members of Imo OMPAN solemnly pledged to uphold the goals, mission, objective of the association.

The new Exco members includes Mr Ikechukwu Anyanwu ( Publisher of Arise Africa Magazine) as Chairman; Mr Henry Uwalaka ( Publisher of Educator Newspaper) as Vice Chairman; Amb. Prince Ukwu ( Publisher of New Media Galaxy) as Secretary; Mr Obiajulu Okwuosa ( Publisher of ObFado.com) as Treasurer and Mr ThankGod Emeh (Publisher of News Corner) as the Public Relations Officer

©️IMO OMPAN

On behalf of myself and family , ward (Izuogu Ward 2) and the entire APC family , Ideato-North LGA , congratulate you , our amiable Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma , for your double victories at the Supreme Court , Abuja recently as the Executive Governor of IMO State .Your Excellency Sir , this recent development is purly divine and not man made. We believe so much that with this victories so far , Hope has really returned to Ndi-Imo.I pray the Almighty God , to grant you wisdom , and understanding for successful delivery of the dividends of Democracy to the good people of IMO State .Once again , Congratulations my Boss .Signed:Hon Chinedu Ugboaja
( Akataobi Izuogu)

The Emir of Kano Sanusi Mohammed has been banished from Kano State to another State, this came hours after the state council announced his dethronement and ready to announce the new Emir.

But as the custom demands the old emir must be banished out of the State before the announcement of the new Emir.

So the police escorted him out to Nasarawa State before his successor was announced.

Kano now has new Emir in the person of Aminu Ado Bayero he will from henceforth perform the duties of the former Emir.

Meanwhile the for President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to the former CBN governor Sanusi Mohammed, in his letter he congratulated the For Emir for taking his path to fight for Nigerians and sad because it’s dethronement.

Earlier today it was the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Alhaji, that announced the removal of Sanusi during the State Executive Council meeting held at the Government House in Kano.

Alhaji said that the decision to remove the Emir was due to insubordination and refusal to attend meetings at the

government house and to abide by Instructions given to him by the state government

Rumours has it that there have been reports of a rowdy session in the Kano State House of Assembly shortly after the announcement of the emir’s removal.

Note that about a week ago The Kano State public complaint and Anto-corruption agency invited the Emir to come and answer to a petition against him of selling lands belonging to the Emirates which ran into billions of naira.

The Emir of Kano Sanusi Mohammed has been banished from Kano State to another State, this came hours after the state council announced his dethronement and ready to announce the new Emir.

But as the custom demands the old emir must be banished out of the State before the announcement of the new Emir.

So the police escorted him out to Nasarawa State before his successor was announced.

Kano now has new Emir in the person of Aminu Ado Bayero he will from henceforth perform the duties of the former Emir.

Meanwhile the for President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to the former CBN governor Sanusi Mohammed, in his letter he congratulated the For Emir for taking his path to fight for Nigerians and sad because it’s dethronement.

Earlier today it was the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Alhaji, that announced the removal of Sanusi during the State Executive Council meeting held at the Government House in Kano.

Alhaji said that the decision to remove the Emir was due to insubordination and refusal to attend meetings at the government house and to abide by Instructions given to him by the state government

Rumours has it that there have been reports of a rowdy session in the Kano State House of Assembly shortly after the announcement of the emir’s removal.

Note that about a week ago The Kano State public complaint and Anto-corruption agency invited the Emir to come and answer to a petition against him of selling lands belonging to the Emirates which ran into billions of naira.

The Emir of Kano has been dethroned and security agents stations in and around the palace.

It was observed that a team of security operatives on Monday stormed the palace of the Emir of Kano in Kano State.

This followed the removal of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from office by the state government under the leadership of Governor Gandudge. It will be recalled that there has been a fix between the Emir and Governor Gandudge.

The security agents seen in the palace includes the Police and men of Civil Defence with their patrol vehicle stations in front of the place.

It was the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Alhaji, that announced the removal of Sanusi during the State Executive Council meeting held at the Government House in Kano.

Alhaji said that the decision to remove the Emir was due to insubordination and refusal to attend meetings at the government house and to abide by Instructions given to him by the state government.

Rumours has it that there have been reports of a rowdy session in the Kano State House of Assembly shortly after the announcement of the emir’s removal.

A video has been trending on social media showing a rowdy session by the lawmakers which seems as though they are fighting and dragging the mace which was later taken away by a man believe to be the clerk of the house.

Note that about a week ago The Kano State public complaint and Anto-corruption agency invited the Emir to come and answer to a petition against him of selling lands belonging to the Emirates which ran into billions of naira.

But instead of responding to the petition the Emir got a court stoping the Agency from investigating him. Could it be he’s guilty?

ENTERTAINMENTNigerian singer dies in Dubai after performing at Speaker Gbajabiamila’s mother’s birthday .By John Owen Nwachukwu

Nigerian singer, Ejiro Emokinovo, has died in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, after performing at the 90th birthday celebration of the mother of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

Ejiro, who was the lead vocalist of a popular singing group, Veentage Band, died after an unsuccessful surgery.

She and her husband, Desmond Emokinovo, were in Dubai together for the birthday show.

She was said to have gone for a surgery after the party, where she passed away.

The sad news was shared on Instagram by her husband, Desmond, who shared photo of a burning candle and a video of one of her performances.

“Of a truth, there’s no justice in this world…. The worst day of my entire existence…”

“Dear Lord …You always answer any time we call. Why you chose not to answer yesterday remains a mystery..

Source Daily Post, March 8th,2020

From the preliminary investigations of what must have transpired on the fateful Night of Wednesday the 4^th of March 2020 that men on bike had unhindered access to Okigwe town environs shooting sporadically killing about 7 people and injuring 12 others ,the Imo Governor Hope Uzodinma has been quick in assuaging the fears of the people by publicly stating that it was an “ Igbo’s on Igbo’s attack” a speculation that has not gone down well with indigenes of Okigwe who believes otherwise.

A community leader in the area and former House of Representative member, Hon. Matthew Omeogara explained that gunmen who came on a motorbike stopped at one of the eateries in the area and opened fire on the people, killing three and wounding many others. He noted that the attack was targeted at local vigilante men in the area, pointing out that the security apparatus in the area needs to be re-jigged and operational vehicles provided for them for prompt response to distress calls.

Gov.Hope Uzodinma.

Facts on Ground.

The fact on ground is

1. The incident is not an act of robbery as no good or properties was stolen from the various attacks that took place on Okpara road , Elezue street, Umuchima road, Isiba lane and Owerri road (Baba Ghii joint) All in Okigwe town.

2.It is not a cult war: The victims of the attack are mostly members of the streets local security men as most of the dead are members of the local street security , young girls, and old men, none are students except for one girl, so this discourage the assumption that its cult boys on the prowl because cultists target their rival cult members who are mostly young male students ,they coordinate their attack to hit their targets and don’t shoot sporadically and attack old men, girls and street security members unless those were trying to apprehend them which is not the case this time.

3. Okigwe community is in no territorial dispute with any neighbouring town or community that will warrant such an attack and are in dispute with no one else except for herdsmen.

History of Herdsmen dispute with the community that was attacked.

So has there been any altercation between Okigwe people and herdsmen in their farms that could prompt such attack? Yes, the people of Okigwe in our investigation has confirmed that herdsmen has been encroaching on their lands and destroying their farms with their livestock over a period of time.

Several communities in Okigwe town where the attack took place has been in dispute with them for sometime now,a resident confirmed that Herdsmen has encroached on bushes and farmlands in Okigwe, places like Aku, Umulolo and Ezinachi , Alaokwa in Umuokpara and some part of Umuka has been encroached on, so altercations between these communities and the herdsmenis just a matter of time.

Communities like Aku, Umulolo, Ihube, Alaokwa in Umuokpara, Umuka, Ogii, Ezinachi and Umuawoibu have already had their lands encroached on by herdsmen and regardless of that no cow has been killed by villagers at all to prompt such an attack being suspected to have come from the herdsmen.

The attacks happened in I Umuokpara and Umuchima Ubaha which are the two communities that made up Okigwe town.

Are There Fingerprints of Suspected Herdsmen Style On The attack.

Okigwe town was attacked in a commando style on Wednesday night, the attackers had a field day came in on motorcycles at about 10pm in the night and started moving around the town and shooting people at sight, without stealing anything from anybody.

the perpetrators were never challenged by any of security agencies in Okigwe, at that time there are suppose to be security checkpoints but there was none, which is the normal modus operandi of suspected herdsmen attacks, security agencies are not always around and their absence gives the free passage. In fact after the first operation between 10 and 11:30pm, the perpetrators came back again around 2am to mop up victims and inflict more harm and cement psychological fear into the residents thereby completing their act of terror.

Non southerners constitutes the greater number of Okada men in Okigwe metropolis which of course could warrant the ease of the use of motorcycles.

Twisted Narratives from Imo Police.

When the incident happened , there was a conspiracy theory that the State Government planned to hush it and silence the story being an APC Party that needs to be in good books of the powers that be.but the former Special Adviser to the past Imo Governor Emeka Ihedioha on Security Affairs of the Okigwe Zone, Nze Chijioke Ekpunobi Aroja whose community was attacked and its people (Umuokpara) fell victims to the mayhem raised the dust and attracted the media attention to the incident.

He called the DPO, Area Commander of the zone and rushed to his village to ascertain the extent of the damage for himself and his community ,the police responded that it’s not a herdsmen attack rather criminal activities , criminal activities with no evidence of crime? More than 7 people killed at different places in Okigwe town? He asked.

“ The police later updated the public that they have a suspect, he asked to see the suspect and the police declined and rather kept on reiterating to the general public that its not herdsmen attack and said at one place the perpetrators used Igbo language to shout” where is Chinedu” and that the suspect they have is not a northerner but rather of Igbo extraction but I did not see the person nor was his name released to the public ” Nze Chijioke Ekpunobi narrated to us.

“Cult people don’t shoot sporadically they have targets, and if the people killed none is a male student, apart from a girl, then its not a cult war, and then there was no robbery so it’s not robbers and there has been recent issues between villagers and herdsmen in the communities then its likely herdsmen attacked’’ He reiterated.

Why Residents are not Happy with Governors Statement on the Issue

After the gory incident on Wednesday night, a mild cult war ensued between members of Vikings and Black Axe confraternity of Abia State University which is situated in Uturu Village ,the part of Okigwe that is in Abia State on Thursday. members of Black Axe attacked a Viking Confraternity member in Uturu village and on Friday morning a Viking member shot a black Axe Confraternity at the University’s upgate who died later. This Cult conflict in Uturu Okigwe which Is in Abia State part of Okigwe is believed to have given the Imo Governor reasons to assume and publicly state that the Wednesday night attack is not of herdsmen but rather an Igbo on Igbo crime.

The possible fact on ground is that the locals suspect herdsmen are the perpetrators of the attack on Okpara road and environs, which are all in Okigwe town on Wednesday night, which is Imo State part of Okigwe, and Cultist shot each other In Uturu on Thursday in the Okigwe Village hosting the Abia State University.

So they are murmuring on over the statement of Imo Governor, who they are accusing him of twisting the possible facts and truth of what actually happened in Okigwe to gain face with the federal powers and protect the suspected perpetrators from retaliation from the locals which will lead to more clashes and death.

But his act of trying to misinform the public, alongside his cohorts the Nigerian Police is believed to be more dangerous by Okigwe people ,truth need to be told so that relevant steps will be taken to assuage the fire of vengeance brimming in the heart of those that have lost their loved ones and also on the verge of losing their ancestral farm lands so that a lasting solution will be found for this issue before it escalates to a full blown tribal war.

By Iwuoha Cookey.

Nigeria has suffered from a very bad power supply over the years. This has amassed to the frequent and wide use of generators all over the countries. Rumor has it that some high and prominent business tycoon are in agreement with the power holding companies in Nigeria to slash the supply of power so they can make generator sales, though it’s a mere rumor but it sounds true doesn’t it?.

Everyone is directly or indirectly affected by this use of generators all around the premises causing noise and polluting the environment making it unfit for living. In places where the environmental planning is bad, the use of generators pose increased health risk coupled with the lack of power supply. Now let’s review some of the mistakes which every generator owner and user make which put their life in danger.

1. Pouring petrol when the engine is running. This is one of the most deadly mistakes most generator users make. This is mostly done because people feel it’s tiring to switch off the generator when ever they want to add fuel. When the generator run, it generates heat and it becomes very hot and flammable agent. Petrol which is a highly flammable liquid tends to splash on the running generator repeatedly even when the generator has been turned on for several hours. This can cause explosion claiming the lives of family and people around. It’s advised that the running generator engine be turned off before pouring petrol inorder to prevent this disaster from happing.

2. The smoke emitted from generators are known as carbon monoxide. Most people position their exhaust pipes close to their windows and the windows of their neighbours. This carbon monoxide smoke is capable of causing suffocation because what it simply does is to prevent the hemoglobin from carrying oxygen to the body cells. When the body cells are starved of oxygen they will no longer be alive to carry out their function leading to death.

To stay safe, the exhaust pipes should be channelled away from ventilated opening.

3. The use of mobile phones either as touch ligh or making call when the generator is turned on is a dangerous act. The heat emitted from this generator and the rays emitted from the phones are dangerous to human health. In order to prevent explosion keep your phones in the room, turn off the engine of the generator and use a handy flashlight.

4. Improper electrical connection which may cause electrocution when one come in contact with it.

The aforementioned mistakes are the major ones made in Nigeria and these mistakes have claimed lots of lives due to ignorance. It’s not a coincidence that you stumbled on this post and you’ve been educated, your attention has also been drawn to this. Please don’t neglect any of the mistakes and try as much as possible to correct them with the spelled out remedy.

Families and communities have suffered fire and explosion due to gross negligence when using their generation. Most people see these things as normal but they are very dangerous and can cause serious havoc.

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PRESS RELEASE

Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria, (OMPAN) Imo State Chapter congratulates His Excellency, Senator Hope Uzodinma on his recent victory at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as the authentic and duly elected Governor of Imo State in the 2019 Gubernatorial Election.Your Excellency Sir, Imo OMPAN prays and wishes You an outstanding governance as you pilot the affairs of our dear state in the next four years.

We pray God to grant you the best of wisdom to move Imo
State to greater and enviable heights as pleases Imolites.Your recent and final victory at the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the supremacy of the constitution of the country to abide by the books and we hereby charge you to respect the rule of law as well as put up a human face in the discharge of your duties.

In all, we celebrate you, Your Excellency Senator Hope Uzodinma (Onwa Oyoko) as your victory at the Supreme Court is a victory for Imo state and Ndi Imo and we call on you to bring on board experts to assist you in the job and as well extend an olive branch to all the governorship candidates in the state so as to give them the opportunity to contribute their quota in order to get the best for Imo people.

Congratulations!God bless Governor Hope Uzodinma, God bless Imo State, God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Amb. Prince Ukwu.
Secretary Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria, (OMPAN) Imo state Chapter.
05-03-2020.

A forth night ago history was made at Nkwoachi, Ndiakaeme Uno, Arondizuogu in Ideato North L.G.A. of Imo State.

It GOIN FOUNDATION at it again,this time it was bigger, historic, landmark and maiden and Epock. It was the formal opening of GOIN FOUNDATION fashion and beauty school.

The occasion which took place at its National office at Nkwaochi Arondizuogu had thousands of people in attendance with over Sixty (60) trainees and 10 Trainers to be specify in different training locations centres. The even which officially kicked off at about noon started with a brief church service which was coming conducted by Rev. Cannon Eliezer Okereke of the Anglican church Dioscese of Orlu.

In his sermon Rev. Cannon Eliezer Okereke reminded Christians that the power to make wealth if of God alone.

Taking text from Deut. 8:18
“And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day”.

The guest Priest made it clear that despite ones academic qualifications and how long one may have gotten on life, it’s only God who gives power to make wealth.

He also told the audience that God gives wealth to individuals so that they can use it to empower others and that is exactly what put brother Barr. Onuchuchukwu Nnabugwu (Ijere) has been doing and still doing which why we are here today!
If God gives you money/wealth and you are not using it to better the lives of others ,that is not the essence of that money, you have repent from that.

He thanked Barr. Nnabugwu or allowing God to use him to better the lives of others,he went ahead to commend the wife of the president for allowing,

supporting and encouraging her husband to answer this divine calling to serve humanity.
He concluded by saying that other well to do individuals in our midst shout emulate from from Ijere and help to eradicate poverty.

The President of GOIN FOUNDATION Barr. Green Oluchuchukwu Ijere Nnabugwu in his welcome address said that the event was another historic and landmark feat from the foundation which is poised and committed to making a positive difference in the society.

He further stated that this social impact drive started three (3) years with a little operational strength but passionately started empowering grassroot communities was known then as GOIN FOUNDATION COMPUTER INSTITUTE.

The brain behind this was to increase access to ICT Education at rural level and holding of series of Vocational training workshops as a means of promoting entrepreneurship among youths and women.

The President continued that God been on their side today story is changing for better as we continue to take giants strides they have moved from running a computer institute to setting up an entrepreneurship development Centre; which is on record to be the very first of its kind in Arondizuogu and Ideato North.

It will be recalled that it was on the 3rd graduation ceremony of GOIN Foundation computer and partnership merit award held on 31st,2019 at Home Town Resort Arondizuogu that GOIN Foundation Entrepreneurship Development Centre was formally inaugurated.

And today to the glory and help of God Almighty and sacrificially contributions of few partners of the foundation we are making the formal opening of GOIN Beauty and Fashion School.

Indeed this was yet another proof that GOIN Foundation is making undeniable, tangible and uncommon progress in pursuing her social development mandate.

To the Trilling of the audience he made it clear to their very understanding that GOIN Foundation Beauty and Fashion school (BFS) is one out of the four schools currently quartered in GOIN Foundation Entrepreneurship Development Centre and second school of the centre to into operations.

As an emerging beauty and fashion school set to equip youths and women with skills in fashion design and fashion related disciplines with the goal or intent of building a career or business in the fashion and beauty industries.

He then charged the first beneficiaries to take this opportunity serious and become Icons in their chosen career. He thanked those who came to witness and making the history with them.

The Vice-president of GOIN Foundation Lady Loveth Nnabugwu thanked everyone who made it a duty to be part of the history and charged the the beneficiaries to take this chance serous in other to pave way for other good and promises of the Foundation to come.

Other speakers at the event includes Evang. Mrs. Evangel Okeke, CEO Angel’s Insprational Skill Acquisition (a fashion school), Miss Vivian Ofoegbu CEO Glambyvivy beauty school who are facilitators in the BFS among other diginitries.

The GOIN FOUNDATION AMBASSADOR MISS. COURAGE UGBOAJA charged the first intake of BFS to strive to come out tops and promise to make the best fashion designer amongst her personal Wordrobe designer and will introduce her to places that will make her great in his/her career. She said, that she’s emotional seeing the crops of trainees and thanked the President for this kind Gesture.

Thereafter the school was formally opened and some of the machines to be used for the training and ones to be given out to the trainees after their training was Dedicated to God by Rev. Cannon Eliezer Okereke.

Note that the training is fully on scholarship and each trainee is entitled to one sewing machine for the those in fashion school and one make-up box each to those in Beauty department.

The highlights of event was the Unveiling of the Ambassador of the Foundation Miss. Courage Ugboaja and cutting of the event cake prepared by one of the partners and dedication of the school to God.

The event was well attended by career men/women from all works of life and the town of Arondizuogu went agog.

Newmediagalaxy.com reporting from Arondizuogu.

It was another Christmas to the good people of Arondizuogu as one of their illustrious son Barr. Onuchukwu the President GOIN FOUNDATION opened a school of fashion and beauty in Arondizuogu.The event which took place at the Head Office of the foundation had several dignitaries in attendance, as well as trainees and their trainers plus friends and well wishers of the President.Speaking to an online news publisher and blogger gisthub24.com who was present to give live coverage of the occasion, one of the facilitator and fashion designer of international standard Evang. (Mrs).

Evangel Chinenye Okeke said that GOIN FOUNDATION is the pride of Arondizuogu because despite that the founder is not him based yet he have the interest of his people at heart and with passion attached to it.Speaking about the president of the foundation, she said he’s a humble young man who stood out to assist the youths through an empowerment programmes which is first of its kind in Arondizuogu town.

She further said that its grace that located and made the founder to embark on this giant projects in his home town Arondizuogu and prays God to sustain him.She advised the trainees not to miss this life time opportunity to get themselves settled for life because I see the passion and zeal in the GOIN FOUNDATION PRESIDENT to get rid of poverty from his town through youth empowerment of skill acquisition and free start up material to them at completion. My joy again is that the machines are on ground already not like the political promises that trends during political campaigns which a mere lies to win votes. Advised ten to desist from such rather they should follow the foot steps of Barr. Onuchukwu to help their people meaningfully.

My prayer for him is for God to enlarge his coast and give me more resources to continue this project and keep his wife too for supporting her husband to keep the flag flying infact this is the PRIDE OF ARONDIZUOGU.

Mrs. Chinenye Okeke is the proprietor of a fashion schools known as ANGEL’S INSPIRATIONAL SKILL ACQUISITIONS in Afor Ndiawa,ARONDIZUOGU. They specialized in making “Native Wears, Senator suits,Traveling bags, mini-bags, band bags, (all both male &female), they also handles decorations(Interior and Exterior). And she is to teach all trainees in the GOIN SCHOOL OF FASHION all these in the course of their training.She can be reached through the following numbers.09021996091, 08132034373

Kehinde Olajide 32, Ayoola Richard, 23 and Felix Babalola 27 who took turns in raping their church pastor’s wife were arrested in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo state on Monday 2nd March 2020.

Reports has it that the three gang, who are members of the church (name withheld) took turns in raping their pastor’s wife in the pastor’s home and on his matrimonial bed.

One of the suspect, Richard said that while going to the pastor’s house to help with house chores on weekends and weekdays, they would usually peep and lust after the pastor’s wife, Mrs. Feyisara and wish they could have their way with her.

Richard explained to the Police that on Monday when Pastor Olajire Bayo called him and asked him to get some dirty clothes from his house to the dry cleaner, I called on two of my friends who usually go there with me to go together, meanwhile we’ve made our plans to sleep with her (pastor’s wife) whenever we we find her at home alone.

“On getting there, she had just taken her bath and still on towel, we couldn’t resist it anymore we followed her to the room and closed her mouth, shut the doors and threatened to beat her if she said a word while we took turns in sleeping with her”.

Richard said they never believed she would be able to open up to anybody or her husband because of the threat, but he knew their threat didn’t work when he saw polocemen in his house.

Richard and his friends have been arraigned mad kept in cell at the Oyo state Police headquarters while Mr. Fayesara has been taken to the Akinyele community general hospital for medical check up and possible treatment.

The police public relations officer Mr. Bello Olayemi said that the boys would be charged to court for raping and assaulting.

This should serve as a lesson and warning to the public, do not trust anyone, not even your church or mosque members

You never can tell what’s on their mind.

The world is in a turmoil, even the pastor’s wives are being lust after and raped by church members and not even outsiders.

From online reporter.

The Oyo State House of Assembly has passed the bill establishing the state security network agency, code named Operation Amotekun into law.

The Bill was passed on Tuesday, after a presentation of the report of the House Committee on Security and Special Duties at the plenary.

Dramatically clad in attires resembling leopard skin, the House deliberated and was unanimous in its decision to pass the bill which would create a security network to collaborate and assist the police and other security agencies to maintain law and order.

After deliberations at the House, the speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin said he was optimistic that the new bill would help stem the tide of banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and other criminal acts to pave way for a prosperous state, and by extention, the entire southwest region.
I hope South-East can borrow a leaf from this.

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When you see act of God,you need no prophet to tell you, this were the speech of Miss Ofoegbu Vivian, C.E.O. Glambyvivy.She said this while granting interview to NewMediaGalaxy at opening of GOIN FOUNDATION SCHOOL FASHION and BEAUTY which held at GOIN FOUNDATION Head Quarters Ndi-Akeme Uno Arondizuogu.

Miss Glambyvivy a graduate of English and literary studies from Imo State University who is one of the facilitators at the new school said she is glad to be part of the team that will impact knowledge to the young people to be independent and shun social vices. As she is to handle trainees on Bridal Make-Ups for both Traditional and White weddings, Eyebrow grooming & shaping,
Application of eyeshadow,
Application of foundation,
Highlighting & Contouring,
Gele tying and lots more.

and others.She advised the trainees to to take their training serious and always punctual to classes. And should be grateful to President GOIN FOUNDATION for this Privilege given to them be self reliance.Speaking further to our correspondence she described GOIN FOUNDATION as a gift to his generation urge him not to relent in his efforts to better the lives of people despite challenges owing to the fact that this foundation is different from other political foundation she described as SCAM because they came up during elections and disappears once the founder looses out.Describing Barr. Onuchukwu and wife as good Christians who understands the consequences of deception and as such will not dive into it, she prays God to continue to give him grace and resources to continue this divine assignment of youths empowerment.When our correspondence tries to know how fulfilled she is doing this, Her answer was in affirmation that since five years she graduated without job this has been putting food on her and she is happy and fulfilled and further advised other youths and graduates not to wait on government for jobs but look for a way to create job for themselves and be their own boss. She added that she is willing to train any serious individual or groups.Below are some of her works.

She can be reached through this line. +2347037129454.

Her Instagram handle is glambyvivy.o

Rev. Cannon Eliezer Okereke today reminded Christians that the power to make wealth if of God alone.

He took his text from Deut. 8:18
And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.Rev. cannon Eliezer Okereke made this assertion while speaking at the maiden kick off of the school of fashion and make up which is part of his enterpreneual programme held at GOIN FOUNDATION OFFICE NKWOA HI ARONDIZUOGU in Ideato North L.G.A.

In his sermon he made it clear that despite ones academic qualifications and how long one may have gotten on life, it’s only God who gives power to make wealth.

He also told the audience that God gives wealth to individuals so that they can use it to empower others and that is exactly what put brother Barr. Onuchuchukwu Nnabugwu (Ijere) has been doing and still doing which why we are here today!
If God gives you money/wealth and you are not using it to better the lives of others ,that is not the essence of that money, you have repent from that.

He thanked Barr. Nnabugwu or allowing God to use him to better the lives of others,he went ahead to commend the wife of the president for allowing, supporting and encouraging her husband to answer this divine calling to serve humanity.
He concluded by saying that other well to do individuals in our midst shout emulate from from Ijere and help to eradicate poverty.

There has been a pandemonium in imo State about the whereabouts of the Imo state Governor Senator Hope Uzodimma, verified facts has it that since February 6th,2020 Senator Hope Uzodimma has not been seen anywhere in Imo State.

It will recalled that about a month ago, he traveled with Mr. President to African summit and since then has not returned back to Imo state, thereby causing works and activities to crawl like snail and some has stood still into.

Imo is the state of lawlessness as thouts has taken over all the streets as dirts has taken over all the street and gutters filled with waste materials making Owerri environment inhabitable to the Owerri inhabitants.

Protest and counter- protest has been ongoing in the state capital. Because of the Supreme Court judgement that brought him on seat, PDP are saying that supreme court should review while APC faithfuls are saying Hope is the authentic governor.

Just yesterday the supreme court adjourned the reviews of the judgement till 2nd March,2020.

Imolites are calling on Senator Hope Uzodimma to come back to the state and see that Imo is working again.

Pscnews in Owerri.

ON FEBRUARY 27, 202011:08 AMIN NEWS
By Chuks Nwani

As the Supreme Court commences the decongestion of applications to review its judgment currently pending before it, the decision of the Court dismissing the application filed by David Lyon of APC against Governor Diri Douye of the PDP on the ground that the Supreme Court,without any error pointed to it in the original judgement, has no constitutional powers to review its judgment, has reinforced the finality of the Supreme Court as provided under the 1999 Constitution.

The Supreme Court in the said ruling held that there was no error pointed out by the Applicant that deserves reviewing its judgment and doing same will open a floodgate for parties that lose cases at the Supreme Court to bring applications for review, thereby defeating the constitutional finality of the Court. This, in my view, is a good decision to preserve the sanctity and finality of the Supreme Court Judgment.

The ruling of the Supreme Court in David Lyon’s case has made some legal pundits to conclude that the application of Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State and other applications for review currently pending before the Supreme Court should suffer the same faith.

No matter how appealing this sentimental suggestion may be, one does hope that the Supreme Court justices do not fall into it. Justice is not done by rationing or apportionment. Every case is considered on its own merit.

The quick speculation in some quarters that the Emeka Ihedioha application will suffer the same fate suffered by David Lyon’s application lends credence to the suspicion expressed by many that the application by David Lyon and his party the APC was a grand design by the APC to make the Supreme Court act against a possible avalanche of such applications and act swiftly by dismissing all applications, including that of Emeka Ihedioha. This suspicion was further helped when some APC-leaning media hyped took up the mere threat by PDP to bring more applications and hyped it to high heavens, even to the extent of giving the impression that PDP had already filed applications in respect of pother states than Imo.

The Supreme Court has so many cases held that it has inherent jurisdiction to set aside its judgment in deserving circumstance.The question therefore is, are facts and circumstances set out by the applicant able to demonstrate grievous mistake of the court that occasioned injustice or miscarriage of justice? If yes, then the Supreme Court of Nigeria that was set up to do justice must rise to the occasion and discharge its constitutional responsibilities of dispensing justice. Such is a mark courage not cowardice.

A few distinctions between the Imo application and Bayelsa application deserves to be made in the light of this confusing comparisons and to enlighten the public on the differences in the two applications and why the Supreme Court will not be expected to extend its ruling in David Lyon case to Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha’s application.

The Imo case which has raised local and international condemnation does not have the same fact as the Bayelsa case. The Bayelsa case is purely an issue of interpretation of the law which is a prerogative of Supreme Court to decide how it interprets the law and therefore asking Supreme court to reinterpret the law in certain manner amounts to re-arguing the Appeal which is not permitted under the law.

The application of RT. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is purely on the issue of facts, records of proceedings and breach of law which the Supreme Court did not advert their mind before giving judgment that has now turned out to violate the 1999 Constitution, Electoral Act 2010 (As Amended 2015) and INEC Guideline for 2019 General Election.

The Supreme Court was created to protect the laws and not to violate it and when it is brought to its attention of such unintended consequences and the court is satisfied that its decision has led to violation of law, Supreme Court will be courageous to quickly set aside such decision in order so that it cannot be used subsequently as a precedent by the lower courts.

In the same manner that the Supreme Court refused to legitimize forged certificate in Bayelsa, they are being called upon to take a second look at the elements of forgery of election result sheets in Imo case which facts were all before the Supreme Court but the Court inadvertently did not advert their minds to it and/or probably did not have enough time to read the records of proceedings and/or Judgment of the Tribunal and that of the Court of Appeal before delivery its January 14th Judgment.

The Supreme Court had in their Judgment held that the 3rd Respondent (Independent National Electoral Commission) did not call any witness or tender document to counter the falsified 388 polling unit results tendered by Senator Hope Uzodimma. This position was taken ostensibly because the Supreme Court did not advert their mind to the evidence of DW5, a staff of INEC who testified before the Tribunal and tendered INEC Form ECG40G (Incidence Forms) that were admitted as Exhibits 63RD1 to 63RD19.

The application that was filed by Ihedioha and PDP is now pointing to the Supreme Court that DW5, a staff of INEC, testified before the Tribunal that there were no elections in the affected 388 polling units because of violence and malpractices. The DW5 tendered INEC Form EC40G as Exhibits 63RD1 to 63RD19 to show that in those polling units, the election was cancelled due to electoral violence as reported by the presiding officers in those polling units.This information was recorded in the records of proceedings and the Tribunal Judgment, but the Supreme Court did not advert their minds to these facts in the trial court’s records of proceedings and/or Judgment of the Tribunal.

The Supreme Court had in their Judgment stated that there was no evidence by the RT. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha that the result from 388 polling units produced by Uzodimma was falsified. RT. Hon. Ihedioha application has now pointed out to the Supreme Court the evidence of Uzodimma witnesses admitting that the results Uzodimma scored himself in most of the 388 polling units were more than the registered voters and done in violation of Electoral Act.

Hon. Ihedioha’s application is not pointing out to the Supreme Court the pages of the record of proceedings where Hope Uzodimma admitted in his testimony at the Tribunal that in his private and personal tabulation of the votes (shown at pages 9-27 of Volume 1 of the Records) in column 69 Polling Unit 08 in Eziama/Okpalla Ward he scored 819 votes whereas the total number of registered voters was 462. In column 285 he stated that in Polling Unit 12 in Odudi/Aro Ward he scored 780 votes whereas the total number of registered voters were 449. In column 377 he stated that in Polling Unit 6 in Umuozu Ward he scored 367 votes and the Ihedioha scored 4 votes making a total of 371 votes whereas the total number of registered voters was 367. In column 384 he stated that in Polling Unit 6 in Umunkwo ward he scored 526 votes and Ihedioa scored 2 votes making a total of 528 votes whereas the total number of registered voters was 526. These are just a few examples of the fraudulent results that Uzodimma admitted awarding to himself and induced Supreme court into accepting them as a part of his votes.
Uzodimma equally admitted that in the tabulation of the votes in the 388 polling units(at pages 9-27 in Volume 1 of the Record), there was no record of any accreditation and the votes were allocated between APC and PDP whereas 70 candidates including the candidates that came 2nd and 3rdcontested the election.Without a record of accredited voters, the votes alleged to have been scored in those polling units were invalid and void because there can be no valid votes without accreditation – FAYEMI v ONI (2009) All FWLR (Pt 493) 1254 at 1309 paras F-H.

These facts are contained in the record of proceedings/Judgment of the Tribunal, but the Supreme Court did not advert their minds to it. These are facts already before the Supreme Court which if they had adverted their minds to would have assisted them in doing substantial justice.

The Supreme Court also did not advert their mind that by adding the result of the 388 polling units, the total result recorded in Imo election will be more than the total number of accredited voters in the State by over 129,039 votes. It is imperative to note that even though the Supreme Court had directed that Certificate of Return should be issued to Senator Hope Uzodimma,on the website of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) RT. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is still being retained as the candidate that scored majority of lawful votes because if INEC adds the result from the miracle 388 polling units as directed by Supreme Court, the total votes recorded in Imo election will be more than the total accredited votes by 129, 039 which will now invalidate the whole election.

This indirectly means that the Supreme sustaining the judgment has violated the provision of 1999 Constitution (As Amended), Electoral Act 2010 (As Amended) and INEC Guideline for 2019 General Election which it was created to protect.

The Supreme Court in Imo case did not also realize that Uzodimma petition was struck out by the Court of Appeal and did not revive or resuscitate the petition before going into the merit of the case. Which means that at the time the Supreme Court was determining Uzodimma case, Uzodimma had no existing petition before the Court.

Similarly, the Supreme Court did not advert their mind that it will be in violationof the Constitutional provision to declare SenatorHope Uzodimma as elected Governor of the State without the fulfillment of constitutional provision of scoring 25% of votes in 2/3 of the local government in Imo State.

These are facts which are in the record of proceedings before Supreme Court and which the Supreme Court did not advert their mind to perhaps owing to time constraint.It is not the fault of RT. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha that the Supreme Court did not see them.

These facts are too material, germane, too many and so significant that it cannot be glossed over. Its wider implication if allowed to stand is more threatening than one can imagine.

It is our view that Imo people and indeed voters in subsequent elections do not deserve to suffer the unintended consequences of the outcome of these lapses because of the finality of Supreme Court. A forger of result sheet must not be allowed to enjoy the proceeds of his criminal enterprise because the Supreme Court did not in the first instance see the evidence of falsification of result in the record of proceedings. The unintended consequences will be that the Supreme Court has legitimized forgery of result sheets.

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The Judgment of the Supreme Court in Imo State if not set aside may become the bedrock of judicial institutionalization of political violence in an election as candidates in an election is only required to cause mayhem in selected polling units, compute results that will give him/her a wining margin and approach the court that these are his results that were excluded and the court will have no choice than to accept them not withstanding the obvious irregularities on the face of the document or any incidence Form tendered by INEC that there were violence in those polling units.

Most of the electoral matters that terminates at the Court of Appeal will suffer the injustice institutionalized by the Supreme Court in Imo State if not revised as the Court of Appeal will have no choice than to follow precedent.Politicians are waiting patiently to take advantage of this judicial sanctioned election rigging in the next election and the consequences of the outcome should be of concern to the Supreme Court as references will always be traced to the decisions of these 7 wise Men made on 14th January 2020.

We wish to remind the Supreme Court of its decision ITEOGU v LEGAL PRACTITRIONERS DISCIPLINARY COMMITEE (2018) LPELR 4345(SC) at 9-10 paras D-A where it held that –

‘There is no doubt that honourable justices of this court are human beings and therefore not infallible. They can make mistakes or commit errors at any time like any other mortals, this is why the law allows for correction of errors in its judgment when called upon so to do for instance in the slip rule or pencil rule. In other words, in deserved situation or circumstances this court when invited can revisit the judgment it delivered earlier or previously if such judgment is seen not to be in accord with desired justice by setting same aside or by varying same or even overruling such judgment ….. It goes without saying therefore that in the exercise of setting aside its previous judgment this court and indeed every other court must do so only in the interest of justice which is indeed the preoccupation of all courts’

The purpose of inherent jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to set aside its judgment is for a time like this. It is not for every Tom, Dick and Harry to come to Supreme Court for review. There must be merit for Supreme Court to do so and the Imo case, where the effects of the injustice can be felt even by the deaf, dumb and blind, falls within the circumstances when the court should exercise its powers to set aside its judgment.

The outcome of the review of Imo judgement no doubt will beatest of courage, integrity and honesty of the Supreme Court.

Chuks Nwani. A Lawyer writes from Lagos.

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A Corporal of the Nigerian Army serving at the Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Army Super Camp 15, located at Malam Fatori went berserk in early hours of 26 February 2020 and opened fire killing 4 of his colleagues before shooting himself.

According to a statement by Sagir Musa, Colonel Acting Director of Army Public Relations, two other colleagues were also injured during the incident and are currently in stable condition in our hospital in Maiduguri.

Colonel Musa said efforts are ongoing to contact the families of our gallant colleagues who paid the supreme price in the line of duty. May their gentle souls Rest In Peace.

Meanwhile, an investigation into the case has since been instituted to determine the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incident.

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February 26, 2020

Press Statement

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently mounting pressure on the Supreme Court to restrain itself from reversing the flawed judgment on the Imo State Governorship election despite obvious mistakes in that judgement, which is now threatening the stability of our nation.

The party, which hailed Wednesday’s verdict of the Supreme Court on Bayelsa state governorship election, however noted that the elements and grounds for the demands by the PDP and majority of Nigerians for the reversal of Imo state governorship election judgment are completely different from those of Bayelsa.

The PDP explained that its demand on Imo is not in any way in contestation of the authority and finality of the Supreme Court but a patriotic effort to assist the Supreme Court affirm its infallibility by correcting the inherent mistakes in the judgment which came as a result of misleading presentation to it by the APC.

It is therefore instructive to note that the various election matters before the Supreme Court were brought on clearly distinctive grounds and each should be treated on its merit before the law.

The party said the only reason APC was pushing for a review of the Supreme Court’s valid and flawless judgment on the Bayelsa and Zamfara governorship elections was to cause confusion and blackmail the Supreme Court from treating the Imo case on merit.

The PDP maintained that the grounds for the reversal of Imo judgment are unambiguously constitutional and completely distinct from APC’s attempt to blackmail the Supreme Court with their demands on the Bayelsa and Zamfara states governorship election.

The party therefore urged the Supreme Court not to succumb to the threats and blackmail by APC to push it restrain itself from looking at the merit of the Imo case; correcting the mistakes and reversing the flawed judgment.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

Hajiya Turai Umaru Musa Yar’adua has revealed how her husband, former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua once told her that his relatives would quarrel with her after his death as they would think he had left so much money.

The former first lady who spoke at a memorial lecture in honour of the late president in Katsina at the weekend, also said “the late Yar’adua was not a materialist leader who believed in accumulating wealth. In fact, he shunned material things as his slogan was service to humanity.

“There was a time he said to me that ‘Turai, I pity you because when I die you will have quarrels with my relatives because they will think I have so much money in my possession”, she said.

She said the situation in Nigeria would have been better had the late president survived his ailment because he was a “focused, committed and determined leader”.

“Although my husband was sick for a long time he did his very best for Nigeria. Also as governor of Katsina State, he did his best for the state; he is an honest man who believed in service”, she said.

Extolling his virtues as a leader, Turai said the late President would not give out contract without having the money to pay for it.

“There was a time I approached him that people are complaining that the government was slow. But he said to me people can say whatever they like but I will not give out contract if I have no money to pay.

“The late Umaru was a kind of leader that would go out and monitor projects. I could recall when I used to join him to supervise the projects at Umaru Musa ‘Yar’adua University, Turai ‘Yar’adua Hospital and the roads,” she said.

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*FOOD FOR THOUGHT*

*Bill Gate was asked if there was someone richer than him. His reply will melt your heart.*
Back when Bill Gate was the richest man on earth, someon asked him ” Is there anyone richer than you in the world”?

Bill Gate replied ” Yes there’s a person who is richer than me. It was when I wasn’t rich or famous. I was at the New York airport and I saw a newspaper vendor.

” I wanted to buy one newspaper and I realized I didn’t have change. So, I left the idea of buying and returned it to the vendor. I told him of not having the change.

“The vendor said ‘I’m giving you this for free’, on this insistence I took the newspaper”

“Coincidentally, after two to three months, I landed on the same airport and again I was short of change to buy a newspaper. The vendor offered me the newspaper again. I refused and said I can’t take it as I don’t have change today too.

” He said, ‘you can take it, I’m sharing this from my profit. I won’t be at loss’. I took the newspaper.

“After 19years, I became famous and known by people. Suddenly I remembered that vendor. I began searching for him. After one and half month, I found him.

“I asked him, ‘do you know me’? He said, ‘Yes, you’re Bill Gate’.

” I asked him again, ‘Do you remember once you gave me newspapers for me?’ The vendor said, ‘Yes I remember, I gave you twice’.

“I said, ‘I want to repay that help you offered me that time. Whatever you want in life, tell me, I shall fulfill it’.

” He said, ‘Sir, don’t you think by doing so, you won’t be able to match my help?’

“I asked, ‘why?. He said ‘I helped you when I was a poor newspaper vendor but you are trying to help me now when you have become richest man in the world, how can your help match mine?

” That day, I realized the newspaper vendor was richer than I am. Because he didn’t wait to become rich to help someone”

“People need to understand that the truly rich are those who possess a rich heart rather than lots of money. Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like”.

Kindly share this beautiful piece with other to inspire them.

Introduction Of Community Policing Is A Fraud, Says Ekweremadu

The lawmaker representing Enugu West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Ike Ekweremadu, says community policing is a “fraud”.

Ekweremadu who was former Deputy Senate President, made this declaration when he featured on a Channels Television’s Hard Copy on Friday.

Reacting to various drives towards community policing, Ekweremadu said the strategy will not work in a federating unit with “so many diversities” like Nigeria.

Channel tv.

As far as Ekweremadu is concerned, Nigerians are living in denial, and the security situation is “so bad and the bad news is that it is going to get worse because we are not dealing with it at all”.

He said, “Nigeria lives as a federal state. We accepted before independence that what is suitable for our circumstance is federalism. Since we accepted federalism, we need to look at others practicing federalism”.

READ ALSO: Jonathan Signed 2015 Constitution Amendment Bill, Says Ekweremadu

“In those other places, the way they deal with security is to decentralize it. The idea of forming a federal system of government is that you have accepted that you have so many diversities.

“To respect those diversities, you have to come into a loose arrangement to do things in a way that is peculiar to the people.

“Community policing is a fraud, it is a total distraction. What they are telling us is that there is a problem between the community and the police itself and they need to address that lack of trust and confidence. That’s what community policing is all about.

“If you have a federal system, you have a complete architecture that can deal with situations in a complex manner.”

He said contrary to what most Nigerians think the police is planning through community policing, the police IG told the senate, “they are going to get volunteers who will be giving police information, find out what their challenges are, why do they not trust the police, to build their confidence”.

“Unfortunately, the federal police we have now is not working. That’s why they (south-west) came together to say let us have a security outfit to deal with our problems,” Ekweremadu said.

“Amotekun is different from what the federal government is saying about community policing. They have personnel who are going to deal with issues unlike what the federal government is proposing.”

Recently, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, again his weight behind the concept of community policing.

The IGP who believes that community policing will aid in tackling crime at the grassroots said in 2019 that President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved the concept.

At the Forum of Northern Traditional Rulers in Kaduna, IGP Adamu was of the opinion that it is a citizen-centred and community policing approach that will lead to more sustainable successes in the management of internal safety and security threats.

Conflicting Accounts As Police Order Arrest Of Officer Over Death Of Remo Stars Player

Tiyamiyu Kazeem was Assistant Captain and Defender of Remo Stars Football club until his death on Saturday, February 22, 2020. Photo: Remo Stars Twitter Account
Tiyamiyu Kazeem was Assistant Captain and Defender of Remo Stars Football club until his death on Saturday, February 22, 2020. Photo: Remo Stars Twitter Account

The Ogun State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the death of the Assistant Captain and Defender of Remo Stars Football club, Tiyamiyu Kazeem and ordered the arrest of one of its own involved in the soccer player’s demise.

According to the police, Kazeem was knocked down by a vehicle while trying to cross the expressway in order to evade arrest.

However, the club, quoting an eyewitness, said men of the police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had “pushed” Kazeem out of a moving vehicle, leading to his death.

According to Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, Kazeem’s arrest was ordered after he was suspected to be wearing a military outfit.

“A Police Inspector attached to Zonal Intervention Squad Obada-Oko in Abeokuta said to have received information about the deceased that he always put on military apparel knowing fully well that he is not a military personnel.

“Based on the information, the Inspector went to Shagamu and saw the deceased putting on a military cap consequent upon which he got him arrested.

“On the way to Abeokuta, the vehicle they were traveling with developed a mechanical fault and while the officer was trying to rectify the fault, the arrested person jumped down from the vehicle to escape.

“In his bid to run across the road, an oncoming vehicle which is on high speed knocked him down and he died on the spot.”

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Police Command, has ordered the immediate arrest of the officer for his unprofessional act of leaving an arrested person alone in the vehicle.

“A full-scale investigation into the case has commenced by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.”

The eyewitness account quoted by the Club, however, contradicted with the Police’s.

According to the account, which was posted on the Club’s Twitter account, “The SARS officer stopped Tiyamiyu Kazeem insisting that he was a Yahoo Boy, he brought out his identity (ID) card to identify himself as a player of Remo Stars FC but the officer insisted on taking him to the nearest police station in Sagamu.

“Tiyamiyu and Sanni obliged, followed the SARS officers, only for them to notice that they were driving towards Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, then the guys questioned to know were the SARS officers were taking them to, but this prompted them to stop the car and push him (Tiyamiyu) out of the car, whereby an unknowing vehicle knocked him down.”

According to the Club, Kazeem was immediately rushed to Fakoya Hospital in Sagamu where he was confirmed dead.

Channels.

Some residents of Enugu have expressed concern over the astronomical rise in house rent in the city.

A cross-section of the people, who spoke on the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Enugu on Friday, said that decent accommodations in Enugu were becoming unaffordable to low income earners.

They called for urgent government’s intervention to make accommodation affordable, especially for civil servants.

Mr Dennis Orji urged the state government to enact a law to control rent in Enugu, in order to check the arbitrary increase in rent by house owners.

“If rent control law is put in place, government will be able to regulate cost of house rents and this will make accommodation more affordable,’’ Orji said.

A trader, Mr Charles Ibe, said rent increase were rampant in the metropolis, adding that “only the state government can control the trend’’.

Mrs Chinelo Agu said that she paid N450,000 to rent a three-bedroom flat at Achara Layout three years ago, including agent and lawyer’s fees of N50,000 and N100,000 respectively.

Agu regretted that she could no longer afford such amount because of the downturn in her business.

Mr Solomon Onuh said he could not afford to pay N350,000 for a three-bedroom flat, hence he decided to relocate to his village in Agbani from where he was commuting to work daily.

A teacher, Miss Anulika Okwu, said she shared a flat with a friend at New Heaven due to high cost of rent, given that a three-bedroom flat was going for between N400,000 and N600,000.

An estate developer, Mr Gabriel Ogbu, said that high cost of rent was particularly common with newly built houses.

According to him, due to high cost of land and building materials, newly built houses command high rent.

“It again depends on where they are located. Some that are located at Government Reserved Areas or Independence Layout go for between N700,000 and N1million a flat,’’ Ogbu said

Why I conceded Defeat.

“I was fully informed about the manipulations, intrigues, intimidation and betrayals. The consequences of not conceding were only better imagined. My natural instinct for peace automatically surfaced. I was going to make a decision which reflected my commitment to that ideal. This is the foundation of my essence. In my periodic projections into the future, I did not see how I would be presiding over any kind of chaos. I was prepared to promote the peace, unity and progress of Nigeria.

“This is a huge sacrifice, but I hope my readers believe me when I say it turned out to be one of the easiest decisions I ever took while in office.

“With my mind made up, I knew it was time to inject peace into the tensed polity, especially before INEC completed collation.

“I was in my living room with some ministers, aides and friends. Among them were the Coordinating Minister for the Economy/Honourable Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, the Honourable Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka and Waripamowei Dudafa, my Senior Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs..

“They were recommending sundry alternatives, but I was quiet in the midst of their discussion. I hugged my thoughts, figuring out how to do that which was best for the country. My personal interest was receding rapidly and the interest of Nigeria looming large. I excused myself and left the sitting room.

I walked into my study. Even here, my mantra was a strong circle around me, supporting and comforting me. Let the country survive. Let democracy survive. My political ambition is not worth people being ‘soaked in blood’.

“More reports flowed in and I could not wait anymore. The announcement of the final result could take issues out of all our hands. It was time for me to take action and bring peace to the nation. I felt I was destined by God at that point in time to inject the peace serum and douse the palpable tension in the country.

“I reached for the telephone and placed a call through the State House operators at about 4:45 pm. A peace I had never felt since my political sojourn, descended on me. It showed me where I had been in the past 16 years and where I was then. I smiled at the thought of what I was about to do. I waited calmly for the person at the other end of my call to answer.

Buhari : “Hello Your Excellency!”

Me : Your Excellency, how are you?”

Buhari: “I am alright, Your Excellency”

Me: “Congratulations!”

Buhari: “Thank you very much Your Excellency …”

“For several seconds the line was seized by the loudest silence I have ever known. Then we had a brief discussion. I could sense his relief too. He knew what could have been.

“Here is a man who had contested three times and lost. Maybe my gesture humbled him against his expectations because he thanked me and we talked about the handing over processes.

“Everywhere all over Africa, Asia and other parts of the world, countless deaths have been recorded on the scores of elections and power disputes. I mentioned Cote d’Ivoire earlier, where people died in their thousands during post-election violence. A similar scenario had unfolded in Kenya. African nations are more prone to post-election violence than other parts of the world.

“Only very few African nations have not experienced post-election violence on a very grand scale or some bitter power tussle fed by tribal or ethnic sentiments.

“I hung up the phone, confident that my decision was right for Nigeria and would probably have a great impact on Africa. This may well be the beginning of a new perspective to power; a perspective which places national interest above personal preference. It should not always be about winning.

“After my conversation with Muhammadu Buhari, which lifted my spirit greatly, I felt better and lighter; it was time to break the news to my Ministers and aides. I wandered back into the living room. These are people I came to know after a period of time. I anticipated what their response would be.

“In my new found calm, I stood before them and told them what I had just done. The elections were over. I had called and congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his victory. It was time for all of us to move on.
“Stunned silence greeted the room for some time and after they overcame their shock, they all congratulated me.

“My Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, sought my permission to tweet my phone conversation with Muhammadu Buhari. I obliged and he did. The country was no longer waiting for the declaration of the election results. The nationwide tension automatically dissipated as though a red hot piece of iron had been dipped in a bowl of water.’’ –

Dr Goodluck Jonathan, My Transition Hours

In my usual way when I saw this Scarry pictured going viral online about how a man beat his wife blue and black, I became apprehensive.

In as much as I didn’t support his act in anyway but I knew it didn’t just happen, I told myself if it’s not infidelity, it’s that the man’s children is his. And I decided to wait and do more investigation before I publish.

Finally it has been verified that three of the man’s children were discovered to have he been fathered by another man after 15years of marriage and training another man’s children thinking God has blessed him.

Hmmmm pathetic Abi? How will you feel as a man after fifteen years you suddenly discover that children that calls you father are not actually from your loins?

How could a woman commit such heinous act of sacrilege yet have the mind to keep the secret for over 15years? What actually led her into this? Why not leave the man early enough instead of making his life miserable? Why not move in with the MN of her choice to have children instead of destroying another man’s life.

This is the 13th story am hearing about this not original father of children born in family and am no longer comfortable with it.
I want to suggest that National Assembly will make a law that will compel every parents to test the parthenity of their children at birth and also allow those already have children now to run same test in government own hospital free of charge.

Because with the rate it’s going now, it’s obvious that 40% of children calling a man father may not be his blood children.
Another law to be enacted to allow the man who has been training the children to continue to have their custody and let him continue to father them, while both the conspirators the woman and man involved in the adultery should be given 40years jail term.

Do I still blame this man? Your guess is as good as mine.

There has been a pandemonium in imo State about the whereabouts of the Imo state Governor Senator Hope Uzodimma, verified facts has it that since February 6th,2020 Senator Hope Uzodimma has not been seen anywhere in Imo State.

It will recalled that about a month ago, he traveled with Mr. President to African summit and since then has not returned back to Imo state, thereby causing works and activities to crawl like snail and some has stood still intoto.

Imo is the state of lawlessness as thouts has taken over all the streets as dirts has taken over all the street and gutters filled with waste materials making Owerri environment inhabitable to the Owerri inhabitants.

Protest and counter- protest has been ongoing in the state capital. Because of the Supreme Court judgement that brought him on seat, PDP are saying that supreme court should review while APC faithfuls are saying Hope is the authentic governor.

Just yesterday the supreme court adjourned the reviews of the judgement till 2nd March,2020.

Imolites are calling on Senator Hope Uzodimma to come back to the state and see that Imo is working again.

Galaxynews in Owerri.

KANU AGABI, SAN

There is no denying that this is a time of crises in our country. At this, of all times, our Supreme Court has been afforded this unique opportunity of allaying the fears of those who cast aspersions on the credibility of our courts. Those who mean well for the nation will agree that we have here an opportunity for the Supreme Court to mitigate the rising unpopularity of our courts and to rehabilitate her damaged reputation and restore the good name of the judiciary by setting aside this judgment which seems to us to be a nullity. We may be quite wrong. In that case, please, forgive us. Your verdict in this matter should match the solemn oath you have taken. Remember that every decision of this honourable court involves the good name of the judiciary. Prove to the world that this court is sacred. Let your verdict help to retain the good graces of our people.

It is owed to the work of this Supreme Court that the nation continues to survive. It is that work that give us the confidence to present this application. That you are willing to reconsider your decision gives you honour and glory. We come before you firmly convinced that you will act in aid of the cause of justice. In this application we appeal to you, we urge you, we beg you to preserve the glorious reputation of this court. We appeal to you to prove wrong all those who have an evil opinion of our judiciary. Here is a great opportunity for your Lordships to act. Free the judiciary from suspicion. Give no one cause to despise our courts. Prove to the world that you are the equals of the courts of other nations. Remember always that as you sit in judgment over us, so the nation sits in judgment over you. And you should worry, not just over the judgment of this generation, but also the judgment of generations to come when none of us will be alive to defend our actions.

There is no doubting the fact that your Lordships, being human, will from time to time fall into error. Prove to the world that when that happens you will not lack the courage to correct yourselves. That is the unique opportunity that this case offers you.

The nation thinks well of your lordships. Prove to the nation that our good thoughts of you are justified and are well deserved. There is not upon this bench a single judge who has been disloyal to his oath or who has a bad reputation. Stand up for the judiciary and for yourselves. Stand up for truth. Stand up for justice. Stand up for strict and honest interpretation of the laws. Take that stand for which the nation can praise you and commend you.

The position that you hold demands that you do so. It is the great precedents that your Lordships have established that we appeal to you to follow. The nation expects you to deliver an honest verdict, a correct verdict. Prove to the nation that here in this Supreme Court a man or woman who has lost his rights will be given the opportunity to bewail it. What is at stake in this case is not only the right that the Applicants have lost but the good name of the judiciary as well. What we call upon you to do is nothing new. It is something that you have done times without number in the past. Those occasions that you reversed yourselves in the past were not more urgent than it is now. Never in the history of this court have your Lordships delivered a judgment which evoked the protest of the public. This one has. Therefore, we urge you, we appeal to you to take a second look at it.

Those who in their wisdom established this court made it supreme thus expressing their determination that litigation should come to an end. And so this court is supreme, as you have yourselves said, not because you are infallible but because your decisions are final. Whatever you say the law is that is what it shall be. And that is why your Lordships are ever so careful to ensure that your decisions stand the test of time and are not open to any justifiable condemnation or suspicion.

The just decisions of this Supreme Court immortalize your Lordships who deliver them. It is important therefore that you commit nothing to writing that generations to come, long after we are all dead and gone, will examine and criticize and condemn as unjust and unjustifiable. That has been the lot of the Athenian jury which condemned Socrates. That has been the lot of Pontius Pilate who, having found no guilt in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, nevertheless ordered that he be crucified. It is precisely to save judges from that kind of predicament that the law allows them in appropriate cases to correct their own mistakes or set aside altogether decisions that are a nullity. It is that opportunity that we urge your lordships to take in this case and re-examine the judgment which we urge you to set aside on the ground that if you re-examine it dispassionately you will find reason to set it aside and thereby demonstrate to the world that you have courage to correct yourselves when you find that you have erred.

In this case a man who himself branded the election in which he participated as invalid has been adjudged by your Lordships as the winner of the same election. That is in the face of past and innumerable decisions by your Lordships that if such a ground succeeded it should lead to the nullification of the election. In this case, the man you declared as winner of the election specifically prayed that your Lordships should nullify the result of elections in the entire State and that your Lordships order that a fresh election be conducted.

Your Lordships also declared as winner a man who prayed your Lordships to order a re-run election in all the 388 polling units where elections and results were cancelled or not declared.

Your Lordships ordered victory for a man who admitted under cross examination that in polling unit after polling unit, he awarded to himself more votes than the total number of registered voters in those polling units.

Your Lordships accepted votes from 388 polling units presented by the 1st Respondent which had the consequence of swelling-up the total number of votes scored in the election way beyond the total number of accredited voters. The excess votes between the total votes scored and the total accredited voters are 129,340 votes – a clearly impossible situation and brazen illegality under our electoral law. (Underlining supplied)

Your Lordships declared the 1st Respondent as winner of the election when your Lordships did not satisfy yourselves that the 1st Respondent scored enough votes across the various local government areas of Imo State to satisfy the geographical spread as decreed by the Constitution.

Based on the foregoing, we submit that the judgment delivered by this Honourable Court on 14th January 2020 in Appeal No. SC.1462/2019 and Cross Appeal No. SC.1470/2019 is a nullity because –

The judgment was delivered without jurisdiction in that the court declared the 1st Respondent as the winner of the election contrary to section 140 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act (as amended)

The judgment is unconstitutional in that it declared the 1st Respondent the winner of the election without proof that the votes accredited to him met the geographical spread stipulated in section 179 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)

The judgment was obtained by fraud in that the votes upon which the 1st Respondent was declared as the winner of the election were in excess of the number of voters accredited for the election.

The judgment was given per incuriam as your lordships by this judgment unwittingly sanctioned that total votes cast at an election can be in excess of the total number of accredited voters, as in this case, the total votes exceeded the total accredited voters by 129,340 votes.

Furthermore, the judgment was given per incuriam in view of the 1st Respondent’s contention that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) whereupon he prayed that a supplementary election should be held in the 388 disputed polling units where he claimed his votes were cancelled.

We respectfully urge your Lordships therefore to set aside the judgment in Appeal No. SC.1462/2019 and Cross Appeal No. SC.1470/2019 as prayed in our motion paper because as this Honourable Court rightly noted in ADEGOKE MOTORS v. ADESANYA (supra) “it is far better to admit an error than to preserve an error”. May it so please your Lordships. ____________________
Kanu Agabi, SAN, CON
Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN
J. T. U. Nnodum, SAN
K.C.O Njemanze, SAN
S. I AMEH, SAN.
Emeka Etiaba, SAN
Chief Umeh Kalu, SAN
Emeka Okpoko, SAN
L. M. Alozie, SAN
Essien H. Andrew, SAN
S. A. Anyalewechi, Esq.
A. S. Ogujiofor, Esq.
Charles Ndukwe,Esq.
Uchenna Njoku, Esq.

(Applicants’ Counsel)
Kanu G. Agabi & Associates.

The wife of the General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Nigeria Rev. Mrs. Chidi Stella Okoroafor delivered a message Titled “The Fear of the Lord” she took her Text from the Book of Proverbs 31:30, Exodus 11:15 During the Women/Jewel and Missionette Rally at Apapa District.

A Women that fears the Lord can never compromise her faith. Our society needs women that fears the Lord and that can not be tossed through and fro. A woman that will take her stand in the service of the Lord, not a woman that will compromise with the people of the world, knowing that every deeds will be brought to judgement.

Note that the lack of the fear of the Lord can lead somebody into trouble. The fear of the Lord is seen in the way we talk, think and relate with those living with us.

A woman that fears the Lord extend a hand of help to others especially to those in the household of faith.

We should remember that we are in the end time and that Jesus is coming very soon, we all need the fear of the Lord to keep us from joining the world in committing sin.

The Jewel and Missionette are to stand for the Lord in these corrupt world so that the Lord will bless and reward them in due season.

She concluded by calling for those that want to give their lives to Christ or Rededicate their lives to Christ,they were prayed for at the Altar.

Some of the Missionettes were crowned by the wife of the General Superintendent Assemblies of God Nigeria Rev. Mrs Chidi Stella Okoroafor.

By Justice Omenuko

As I stated in a recent short essay, the conflicting wrong numbers, facts and figures have turned many into emergency mathematicians and statisticians. I happen to be one of the new mathematicians in town!

I never knew I could still catch up with calculus, algebra and equation. I never knew that my knowledge of BODMAS was still sharp but latent. The false claims of excluded 213,695 votes from 388 polling units ignited the Chike Obi in me!

But for the truth that his claims have been proved to be laden with criminality, I should have expressed gratitude for Uzodimma for turning me on mathematically!

Now, for clarity sake, let it be known that there are 3520 polling units in Imo State recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to INEC report, elections were held in 3132 polling units, with elections in 388 polling units rendered invalid for one electoral misconduct or malpractice reason or another.

Fact is that the APC and others accepted the INEC report that elections were held only in 3132 polling units and elections were cancelled in 388 polling units. Source of this information is INEC. It’s authentic!

The challenge in the petitions arose when Senator Hope Uzodimma, who ran in the election as APC candidate stated in his petition that at the 388 polling units, his votes to the tune of 213,695 were excluded.

The INEC disgreeed and showed forms signed by APC agents in confirmation that no elections were held in the 388 polling units.

Incidentally, Uzodimma insisted on his claims even when he couldn’t prove knowledge of what he was talking about at the tribunal. He as much as confessed that all he was claiming and saying were based on hearsay of his paid agents.

Yet, his few paid agents that came to bear witness, like Barr. Cyprian Akaolisa, couldn’t prove or justify Uzodimma’s claims by their witnessing. Meanwhile, only 28 party agents and no INEC appeared as witness.

The above history was necessary to state or remind where the story of Uzodimma’s tenacious claims began. As it is now, that same false claim was what the Supreme Court relied upon to deliver its misjudgement on the 2019 Imo State governorship election appeal at the apex court.

Gov. Ihedioha’s issue is that the 388 polling units and the 213,695 votes were events that never happened. They are mere false claims by Uzodimma, who was never in the first ten contenders for the office of governor of Imo State in the 2019 election.

Now, is it not worrisome that whereas in the 3132 authentic polling units, APC got 96,458 or 14%, in the 388 polling units, APC got 91.1% of total votes cast?

That can’t just be possible because the 388 polling units were drawn from across the three geo-political zones of Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe Zones, and not only from his Oru East LGA or even Orlu Zone that Uzodimma was representing at the Senate.

In fact, is it not terrible that from 3132 polling units, a total of 714, 355 votes were cast, but in Uzodimma’s 388 polling units, a total of 230,000 votes were cast?

Then this. Is it realistic that the 714,355 votes in the 3132 polling units were shared by 70 candidates, whereas the near 230,000 votes in Uzodimma’s 388 polling were shared between APC Uzodimma and PDP Ihedioha?

Yes, that’s the truth. Uzodimma in the tribunal dock confessed writing the votes written on the tabulated result sheets that he presented to the tribunal. In other words, he kept awarding votes with careless abandon.

On the whole, while Uzodimma awarded himself 213,695 votes, he showed some mercy and awarded about 1900 votes to Ihedioha, with no votes written for any of the rest of the 68 candidates.

A bird’s eye cursory look at the tabulated result sheets contained stupid events like the polling units where Uzodimma awarded himself votes that were twice the number total registered voters! This is so rife in public domain to belabour this short essay with a rehash!

Be that as it may, it’s most worrisome that after the tribunal invested full five months in hearing the petition, threw it out, and the court of appeal similarly threw out the petition after two months work, the Supreme Court from nowhere came out to uphold such falsehood as the 388 polling units and 213,695 votes.

The contravention of the law of incuriam is among the things that Gov. Ihedioha is praying the Supreme Court to set aside and reverse its misjudgement of January 14, 2019!

Indeed, Uzodimma misled the Supreme Court to give him favourable misjudgement. And that makes it fraudulent and unjust! Those form the basis of Gov. Ihedioha’s application and prayer that the misjudgement be set aside and a good judgement delivered.

I’ll end it here. I believe with those points of mine, I’ve been able to convince and not confuse you, that everything written about the fraudulent 388 polling units and 213,695 votes was false! Thank you all!

…Governor Umahi, please Tamper Justice with Mercy😥.Today, as a Human Rights group, a HURIDE delegation went to the disputed airport site in Ezza North LGA, of Ebonyi state for an independent investigation. And to be honest however, what we heard and witnessed there is better heard than seen. It is utterly humiliating, completely heartbreaking and afflictively calamitous. (See disturbing images below)😪.It is a regrettable situation to note that ancestral households in Ezza Land can be carelessly displaced just like that with their farms destroyed,including their markets, schools and economic trees with a paltry compensation offer of 17k😢, 25k😢, 30k😢, 43k😢 and stuffs like that,for them to relocate.Relocate to where with the sicks, the aged and the newborns? What type of relocation can be effected with 30k or something like that😪? And we are talking about three thousand households and about 34 thousand displaced personsToday, I shed uncontrollable tears seeing my people wallow in pains and rejectedness. I saw many aged Ezza men and women roaming homelessly. I saw newborn babies and the octogenarians lying on wheelbarrows, bare local mats, palm fonts, etc without roofs above their heads. They have no where to lay heads and their children have all dropped out of school because their local schools are all destroyed so that there will be airport😢.With pains in my heart and tears in my eyes, we dropped some words of consolation and encouragement with many villagers who besieged my team. We promised them of HURIDE’s intercession and that it’s going to be enough for them. We must keep to our promise; come what may.In the light of our tearful experience in the airport site today; we are solemnly appealing to my state governor, Engr (Chief) Dave Umahi to please consider the plights of the affected households and put himself in their shoes. These people have no other place to call their home and there’s money to rent apartments in nearby villages.The Governor should consider giving considerate compensations and possibly alternative settlements for the displaced persons of Ezza North. He should not rely on the deceptive dispositions of some stakeholders and Ezes of Ezza nation who are unfortunately stomach-driven. Senator Igwe Nwagu seems the worst of all (I stand to be corrected), The whole truth is that the affected persons are completely handicapped and may all die of bare cold and heart attacks if nothing is done to salvage their current excruciating condition.I want all merciful and compassionate hearts to share this message. It has to go viral because these displaced persons of Ezza North need urgent an attention. We are humbly requesting all Humanists and Philanthropists accross the world to come to the aids of this helpless and displaced villagers. They need food; they need shelter; they need urgent health care. Please, let’s save lives.Let the Photos speak😢😧😢😢Sampson Oko Nweke.
Senior Advocate of the Masses(S.A.M).
State Chairman, HURIDE.#BuildAkadoroBridge

15th February 2020,

HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE:

In 1999, after the election of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the governor
of Adamawa State, he was nominated by the ruling “Peoples Democratic
Party” (PDP) to run as Vice presidential candidate to President
Olusegun Obasanjo.
It should be noted that Atiku and the Deputy governor Boni Haruna had
already been elected as governor and deputy governor respectively of
Adamawa State before Atiku abandoned his position to run as Vice president.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wrote
to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that the position of governor elect of
Adamawa has become vacant by the acceptance of Atiku to become the
running mate of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) planned to organize
a fresh election in Adamawa State which led to the institution of a
suit by the Peoples Democratic Party at the Federal High Court Abuja.

In an appeal to the Supreme Court, it was called upon to determine
whether the fact that the governor elect abandoned its position
automatically affects the rights and position of Deputy Governor elect
of Adamawa. That was the scenario in the case PDP & ANOR V. INEC V.
OTHERS (1999) LPELR 24856 (SC). The Supreme Court unequivocally stated
that once elected, even though on the same ticket as the
Governor-elect, the Deputy-Governor-elect becomes sui generis.
The Court further states thus: “As shown earlier on, the second
appellant was elected together with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as Deputy
Governor. By Section 40 of Decree No 3 of 1999 “There shall be for
each State of the Federation a Deputy Governor”. This provision
emphasises the fact that the office of Deputy-Governor is not simply
an appendage to that of the Governor. Once elected, even though on the
same ticket as the Governor-elect, the Deputy-Governor-elect becomes
sui generis. Section 40 emphatically preserves the office of
Deputy-Governor-elect as independent of the office of Governor-elect;
hence the provisions in Section 37 subsection (1) of Decree No 3 of
1999 which states that when a Governor-elect “dies” the Deputy
Governor-elect should succeed him. The Decree does not provide that
when the Governor-elect “dies” the Deputy Governor elect also
automatically “dies” with him.” Per Uwais CJN at Page 29 para B-E.
A careful reading of this judgment shows that the law protects the
offices of Governor elect and Deputy Governor elect. Any misfortune
that affects one does not automatically extinguishes the rights and
position of the other.
It is unfortunate that the same Supreme Court could not remember that
it ever made a landmark decision that would have guided it in arriving
at a decision on the governorship election of Bayelsa State. The
senior lawyers who appeared before the court never remind the Court of
its’ earlier decision and the need for the Supreme Court to state its’
reasons from departing from this decision.
It is unfortunate that decisions in Nigerian Courts are now being more
guided based on public opinion and reasoning of individual judges. The
doctrine of judicial precedent and sound judgment based on judicial
authorities is gradually going into extinct thereby making the future
perilous for our legal system.
We advice the affected parties to still approach the apex court and
urged it to follow the sound judgment made by the Court in PDP & ANOR
V. INEC & OTHERS (Supra).

For: Civil Rights Realisation & Advancement Network (CRRAN):

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Olu Omotayo Esq.
President