HABA JANAR - LET IT GO MANA

[HUSNAA]

If I am not mistaken, Oct 23 has been scheduled for the day
both parties are going to adopt their briefs of argument at
the Supreme Court where Buhari and Atiku are challenging the
legitimacy of this government.  On that day, the supreme
court is going to (may be) announce a definite date for its
ruling:

PREDICTION:
The Supreme Court will upheld the election of Yar'adua and
proves it legitimacy - this will brings us to the end of the old
Janar's boasting that the election will be cancelled or he will



be declared winner of the election.

@ YAR'ADUA
When this case is over, I advise you give this man PTF to
handle so that he will not be a problem when your TAZARCE
comes. ;)

Ala sitirubukwi DB!! ;D ;D ;D

[Dan-Borno]

of course, its a way of compensating him all
the troubles his talakawa's has caused him,
kuma tunda juninsa yi wa talakawa aiki ne,
ai sai bimillah, after all all the roads he laid
have turned from bad to worst.  yazo ya gyara.

[Muhsin]

DB,

Baka bamu mun sha what happened yesterday at court?

[Dan-Borno]

The Old Janar should learn from John Mccain pls,
kada ya bata lokacin mutane a kotu

[Muhsin]

Gaskiyane, DB. Hakan zai sa siyasarmu ta cigaba.

[Muhsin]

Nigerian court to rule on presidential election

The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ABUJA, Nigeria: The Supreme Court will hand down its verdict Friday in a lawsuit by top Nigerian political opposition leaders who seek an annulment of the 2007 election won by President Umaru Yar'Adua, lawyers involved in the case said.

Mike Ahamba, a lawyer for one-time military strongman Muhammadu Buhari, said Wednesday that the top court had indicated in a filing that it will hand down its ruling Friday.

Festus Keyamo, a lawyer for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, said he had yet to receive official notification, but that he understood the verdict was to be handed down on Friday in the capital, Abuja.

Buhari and Abubakar placed second and third in the April 21, 2007 vote that was marred by rigging and intimidation and deemed not credible by European Union election observers.

A lower court ruled earlier this year that the opposition leaders had failed to prove that the fraud was so pervasive that the official results should be discarded.

If the Supreme Court were to overrule the lower court and order new elections, a caretaker government led by the speaker of the House of Representatives would arrange a new vote. But many Nigerians fear chaos in the ensuing power vacuum.

The vote was meant to cement democratic rule in Africa's most populous nation of 140 million people, which had never before seen power peacefully transferred between two civilian leaders. But thugs openly stuffed or stole ballot boxes, purchased votes or intimidated voters.

Yar'Adua, who wasn't involved in setting up the balloting, has acknowledged voting deficiencies and has ordered his administration to strengthen electoral practices.

Nearly a dozen governorship elections held a week before the presidential ballot have been overturned and several new races run.

Nigeria has been beset by military coups d'etat and corrupt rule since its independence from Britain in 1960. While the country boasts Africa's biggest oil industry, most Nigerian people live in abject poverty.

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=18557210

[Dan-Borno]

thanks muhsin for updating this page

[Dan-Borno]

Yar'adua yasha da kyar - wai بهمري كما سي اكوم دورا

[Bajoga]

Yar'adua yasha da kyar - wai بهمري كما سي اكوم دورا

Ubangiji ya kyauta

[Muhsin]

The suprime court upholds Yar-Adua's election? Lol ;D That hasn't come to me with an iota of surprise. Exactly what we darned well know would certainly happen. And it did. Very funny yet sad.

[bakangizo]

So the daylight robbery was upheld ;D No mamaki there. It's what we all know would happen. Allah ya isa. Allah mai yi wa azzalumi jinkirine zuwa wani lokaci. Abin da na sani shine, Allah sai ya damke su daya bayan daya. In ba a duniya ba, a lahira.

[HUSNAA]

No comment.. too speechless with disgust

[gogannaka]

Here is what i find most interesting about the judgement.
The minority verdict as delivered by Justice Ogundade.

"The inevitable conclusion I arrive at, is that the failure of the 1st and 2nd Respondents (the Independent National Electoral Commission and Maurice Iwu) to use serialized ballot papers bound in booklets is clearly a non-compliance which shows that the 2007 presidential elections were not conducted substantially in accordance with the principles of the Electoral Act, 2006.

"The court below should have nullified the said elections for this reason.

"The court below went on to say that the petitioner/appellant did not show that the failure to use serialized ballot papers and have same bound in booklet substantially affected the result of the election. With respect to their Lordships of the court below, they were wrong in their view.

"They failed to bear in mind that the printing of serialized ballot papers and bound in booklets was an act to be performed before the elections were conducted.

"The said act therefore was a condition precedent to the holding of the elections. When a provision of the law requires an act to be performed before taking any further steps and that act is not performed, the further steps taken may amount in law to a nullity.

"The reasoning of the court below would appear to be curious. They proceeded on the basis that the elections conducted with ballot papers unauthorized by law was valid; and then turned round to ask the petitioners/appellants to prove that the same election was invalid for non-compliance.

"They unwittingly put the cart before the horse. That was a strange way to reason for a court. A court could not first assume that a disputed act was valid and then place on the plaintiff the onus of proving the invalidity of the same act when what was in dispute was the constitutive elements which would lead to a pronouncement of the validity of the Act.

"Even on the supposition that the burden to prove that the failure to use the ballot papers which did not conform to the law did substantially affect the result of the election was on the petitioner/appellant, it is my firm view that the petitioner/appellant discharged the burden.

"A ballot paper not in conformity with Section 45(2) in prima facie an act of non-compliance. It is therefore an invalid ballot paper. Since it is the same invalid ballot paper that converts later in the process of an election into a vote, the resulting vote must also become an invalid vote."

"It was never the case of the respondents that the unserialised ballot papers were only used in some of the States in Nigeria. If that were their defence and the court below had found that this was truly the case, that would have placed on the court below the duty to determine what percentage of the votes cast at the election was valid or invalid. "If the 4th and 5th respondents (Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan) would still have won by a majority of the valid votes, the petition was liable to fail. But in this case, all the ballot papers used to cast votes for all the candidates in the election were invalid," he said.

"According to Oguntade, the result is that each of the candidates at the Presidential elections 2007 scored zero or no votes. An invalid ballot paper cannot yield a valid vote. Clearly therefore, the petitioner/appellant in my view succeeded in making the case that the non-compliance with Section 45(1) of the elections Act, 2007 substantially affected the result of the election.

He ruled: "Let me reiterate very respectfully that the lower court erred by not coming to the conclusion that each of the candidates at the election scored zero as no valid votes were recorded for any of them."

It is rather sad that the Ballot papers are not serialised.How could one then identify if it is government issued or otherwise?
INEC must serialise the ballot papers of the next election if not the same thing will happen.
Yar'adua narrowly escaped because he got 4 out of the 7 votes of the Judges.

[Dan-Borno]

GGNK, judgements delivered at the SC is God-Intervened
Judgement and shouldnt talk too much about it.  Lets now
concentrate on what will come next in 2011.  As for me
I will join the crusade against the Presidency of Buhari
along with Sule Lamido of Jigawa State:

this is what he says:

''If any meaningful and good citizen of this country is given a chance to choose between Atiku, Buhari and Yar'Adua, I am sure he would go for Yar'Adua,because it is not an emotional thing, it is a real thing.You cannot compare Buhari and Yar'Adua in terms of capacity, content and intellectuality,''

'Yar'Adua is a very focussed, pronounced and committed leader who Nigerians are looking up to for the progress of our country economically and politically. He really knows what is law and order and he respects them beyond your imagination, And he was never a tyrant, but Buhari is a  tyrant. If you look between Buhari, Atiku and Yar'Adua, it is very clear just like heaven and hell.''

''Thank God that the Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal's verdict and the decision of the Supreme Court is final and the election of Nigeria is a very clear issue that needs to be supported by all good Nigerians,"

[Dan-Borno]

resurrecting my old thread instead of giving birth to a new
one, especially when it relates to the old janar and his own
way of doing politics.

the news is everywhere, though many expected him to leave
ANPP long before now.  


despite pressures from other parties, the old janar refused to
any due to the fear of repeating the same mistakes as he said.

congress for progressive change CPC is the new party janar is joining
and very soon the party will spring into action and only god knows
how the party is going to survive the team of draculars waiting
for him.

as far as politics is concern in nigeria, buharis political ambition has
come to an end, because this new party cant even win the seat of
councillorship as the founders and leadership of the party are all
men and handy work of the old janar - su baba galadima Allah ba
da sa'a.

mu kam muna nan daram a ANPP and we are going to prove to the
whole world by presenting our unanimous candidate Sardaunan
Kano Malam Ibrahim Shekarau that our overwhelming victory is
not all about Buhari but the visions in the party.

enjoy the weekend brothers.