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Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by z07ion: 3:52pm On Sep 21, 2019
The over eight-hour land-mark judgement of Wednesday, 11th September 2019, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja, by a five-member panel of eminent, articulate and proven jurists of the Nigerian Bench, headed by his lordship, Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba, which gave a resounding victory to President Muhammadu Buhari, has sent a very strong judicial signal to appellants, that electoral disputes/litigations could never be settled in the courts of public opinions, social media or pages of newspapers but in Constitutional Courts of competent jurisdiction, legally constituted for such duties!


But before that judgement which dismissed all prayers of the petition "in its entirety", the major litigant, Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate, in his characteristic desperation, wrote to the President of the Appeal Court on 5th September, 2019, on the need not to allow his petition to be caught up by constitutional timeline since the Tribunal had on 21st August, 2019, reserved judgement after the petitioners and respondents - INEC, President Buhari, and his Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), adopted their final written addresses!

However, when the deed was done, head of the opposition PDP legal team had no choice than to eat the "humble pie", acknowledged the professionalism, thoroughness, legal prowess and outstanding conclusions of the cohesive team of the legal luminaries, who were united to dismiss in entirety, all of the three prayers sought by the appellants to nullify the victory of the winner of the Presidential Elections of 23rd February, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, and declare the runner-up, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as winner in his stead!


RUMBLINGS BY PETITIONERS BEFORE THE D-DAY!
Weeks before the D-Day, PDP in frenzied desperation to sway public opinion in favour of Atiku Abubakar, the social, print and electronic media was orchestrated with all manner of postulations that negative reports by international observer groups, which alleged electoral malpractices, vote buyings, ballot boxes snatchings, security agents interventions at polling stations etc, should sway judgement in favour of the candidate who lost woefully!
Their three-pronged appeal was predicated on the following planks:
That the election was marred by irregularities;
That Atiku received more votes than Buhari and:
That the president did not have a secondary school certificate, a basic requirement to contest the election. PDP said it would appeal against the ruling at the Supreme Court!
President Buhari, according to the results released by INEC, garnered 61% of the votes as against the 41% of Atiku Abubakar at the 23rd February, 2019, election but that the 35.6% turn-out of the electorate was lower by 8.6%. compared with the 44% in 2015, and Atiku rejected the results hours after Buhari was declared winner with a promise that he would challenge the results at the Appeal Tribunal while his Party described it as a "direct assault on the integrity of our nation's justice system"!

*Contrary to PDP's stand, Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike, congratulated President Buhari for his second victory over Atiku through a live broadcast because, he would not pay the nocturnal visits to Aso Villa like other opposition governors and party stalwarts - though he neither liked the President nor his policies!

SUMMARY OF THE LAND-MARK JUDGMENT THAT WOULD STAND THE TEST OF TIME!
The Jury was very painstaking in reading out the judgement through the lead Judge who initially decided pre-trial applications which favoured Atiku and his lead counsel before advancing into the main prayers of the appellants. The lead counsel's name which were abbreviated in some documents were accepted as genuine while ATIKU WAS DECLARED AS A BONA FIDE NIGERIAN AND NOT A CAMEROONIAN AS ALLEGED BY THE RESPONDENTS!
With analytical precision, one after the other, all arguments raised by the petitioners: from the crime of perjury in a sworn affidavit; to the existence of an INEC website/server; alleged electronic transfer of results through Card Readers to INEC's central server; vote-buying; criminal intervention by security agents (especially soldiers and policemen), to support electoral rigging by the APC; malpractices through ballot boxes snuffing/snatching at the polling booths with the connivance of policemen, etc, etc, were all succinctly treated without giving any room for ambiguity or controversy!

The lead Judge, Justice Garba, who took over from President of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, who was initially rejected by the PDP, for probable vested interests, adduced and quoted copiously from a plethora of decided cases ranging from the lower courts through to the Apex court in a manner of a jurist who knows his onions and conversant with extant laws in the terrain of legal jurisprudence! The English definitions of some contentious words were not left to doubt as the learned judge employed the Webster/Oxford and other dictionaries to lend credence to the judgement!

And the "coffin" of the judgement pronouncements which did not favour Atiku Abubakar, was finally nailed by two other distinguished judges of the panel, who further buttressed the conclusions of the lead judge on the prayers in respect of Perjury and Vote-Buying, which were unsubstantiated by neither evidences nor witnesses by the petitioners, according to the law!

ALL FIVE JUDGES DISMISSED THE APPEAL IN ITS ENTIRETY, STRESSED THAT THE ONUS OF PROOF RESTED SQUARELY ON THE APPELLANTS WHO FAILED TO PROVE THEIR ALLEGATIONS BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBTS!

ATIKU'S LEGAL TUSSLES BEFORE 2019!
The PDP Presidential Candidate at the 2019, General Elections, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, (1999-2007), suffered public disgrace/humiliation in the hands of his principal, Chief Aremu Obasanjo who accused him of alleged crimes of official corruption, aggrandizement and abuse of office during their second term, all in a bid to scuttle the ambition of the former from succeeding him in office and he (Obasanjo), succeeded!
Obasanjo instituted official panel of investigation and found Atiku guilty of impropriety in the handling of sales of Federal Government's critical assets, of which he was chairman; in his alleged involvement in a $500,000 bribery scandal involving a US Congressman, William J. Jefferson; and in the manipulation of the Petroleum Trust Development Fund, (PTDF), accounts, in other to castigate, reduce him to odium and unfit to further hold any public office - especially, his obsessive ambition to become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, denied all allegations and got redress in over seven case which he instituted against Obasanjo and the Federal Government between 2006-2007, and was cleared by the Supreme Court as suited and qualified to contest the 2007 Presidential Election as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), candidate, but lost to late President Umaru Yar 'Ardua!
Political observers strongly expected, Alhaji Atiku to institute legal actions of libel, slander, defamation of character, etc, against his boss years after they both lost the immunity shield, but that never happened; instead, Atiku sent emissaries to placate Obasanjo and subsequently travelled to personally beg for pardon and obtain assurances to shore up his dented political clout.

ATIKU HAS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT!
But in this trending matter, Alhaji Abubakar has the fundamental right to go the whole hog in the belief that he still had a good chance of upturning the verdict of the Appellant Court at the Apex Court!
Atiku, whose penchant for litigation had become obstinate is poised to proceed to the Supreme Court, which would finally arbitrate on the judgement of the Appeal Court and lay the case to permanent rest within the constitutional 90 days window allotted to the excercise from September 11, 2011!
Incidentally, the Abuja Presidential Appeal Tribunal judgement coincided with the18th anniversary of September 9/11 catastrophic terrorists bombings of the New York Twin Trade Center Towers, and other strategic government structures which humbled America, the most powerful global nation, which had won several battles ( civil wars, world wars), in its 233 years of independence! HE WHO THAT THINKS HE STANDS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS, LEST HE FALLS! HERE LIES THE LITMUS TEST FOR ATIKU WHO STRONGLY BELIEVES HE WOULD NEVER LOSE ANY LITIGATION AT THE SUPREME COURT!

Atiku Abubakar's determination to further launch his appeal at the Apex Court for a final and logical conclusion should not be constrained that the outcome may further strengthen not only our DEMOCRACY, but also establish the much-desired foundation for STRONG INSTITUTIONS and become a REFERENCE POINT for future LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE!

"Whatever has a beginning MUST SURELY have an end!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by holyDaniel: 4:18pm On Sep 21, 2019
I dedicate this to those that believe in the words " mind your business".
For Atiku and Buhari case I reserved my comments.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Captaincee(m): 4:18pm On Sep 21, 2019
Atiku iscumming

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Sunofgod(m): 4:19pm On Sep 21, 2019
What else can he do to recoup his investment?

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by NaijaWebDesign(m): 4:20pm On Sep 21, 2019
shocked
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by crownwealth: 4:20pm On Sep 21, 2019
Stolen mandate

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by jasmine1600: 4:20pm On Sep 21, 2019
He helped bring this deaf and dump to Nigerians.
He should enjoy his Buhari.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by sanny1(m): 4:21pm On Sep 21, 2019
i doint blame him sha becaues of www.9jagistbase.com make him the behave
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Nobody: 4:21pm On Sep 21, 2019
atiku you are well come

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by solmusdesigns: 4:22pm On Sep 21, 2019
cool


I wish to buy the DVD of that sweet judgement and watch it again, and i also wish all similar cases could be telivised so that PDP piglets wont complain about anything since it would be clearly on video..

They rejected Justice Bulkachuwa Only to get Justice Garba who completely showed Nigerians how stupid PDP thinks, he finished them point for point and used their own evidence to show how stupid they really were


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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by akikanju(m): 4:22pm On Sep 21, 2019
Nice one
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Jalabase(m): 4:23pm On Sep 21, 2019
They are sha giving this guy false hope

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by PureFace1(m): 4:23pm On Sep 21, 2019
Project scam Atiku Alcamerooni grin

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by manontree: 4:23pm On Sep 21, 2019
Sychophants. So in all these rambling paid dictum you claim that it is perfectly legal to contest a presidential election in Nigeria with a sworn affidavit as evidence of having graduated from secondary school when the constitution stated otherwise

Iranu

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by asobo: 4:24pm On Sep 21, 2019
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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by EmptyCoconutHead(m): 4:24pm On Sep 21, 2019
I don't know how hard is it for this Cameroonian Citizen to accept his fate and move on.
Buhari has fvcked u front and back, defeated u home and away and we Nigerians don't want u as our president.
Accept the bitter Truth, deal with it and move on with life.
Stop being deceived by Ipob and Pdp losers.
If he still wanna rule then go contest for election in biafraudland

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by DeviIhimseIf: 4:24pm On Sep 21, 2019
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solmusdesigns:
cool


I wish to buy the DVD of that sweet judgement


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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Stalwert: 4:25pm On Sep 21, 2019
This man is just fooling the clown emeritus.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by salbis(m): 4:26pm On Sep 21, 2019
I would advise AA to throw in the towel, because i don't see the biggest scammer of the century relinquishing power.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by elishaelijah: 4:26pm On Sep 21, 2019
But before that judgement which dismissed all prayers of the petition "in its entirety", the major litigant, Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate, in his characteristic desperation, wrote to the President of the Appeal Court on 5th September, 2019, on the need not to allow his petition to be caught up by constitutional timeline since the Tribunal had on 21st August, 2019, reserved judgement after the petitioners and respondents - INEC, President Buhari, and his Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), adopted their final written addresses!

when you are writing an article be neutral, especially on political issues. You started and after the first 2 paragraphs it was clear which side you are. I like reading articles where the writer is balanced or neutral or non partisan.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by israelmao(m): 4:27pm On Sep 21, 2019
Yes indeed!I am on the same page with you.
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by A305: 4:28pm On Sep 21, 2019
Persistency is key plus see my sig.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Tonymegabush1(m): 4:28pm On Sep 21, 2019
This everton team na full agidi, na so una wan wound my ticket



Okwa ya........

Even norwich city pukki don go on sabbatical......



Bunch of ticket cutters

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by valentineuwakwe(m): 4:29pm On Sep 21, 2019
My dear this is Naija, his persistence will not do anything. Remember its the APC rolling and controlling both the Legislature and worst still the Judiciary!
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by StaffofOrayan(m): 4:29pm On Sep 21, 2019
That we voted for Atiku and Buhari shows we are crazy in Nigeria

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by IamaNigerianGuy(m): 4:29pm On Sep 21, 2019
Rubbish write-up.
N30,000 BMC fee at work

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Num07033711115(m): 4:30pm On Sep 21, 2019
Make una no 4get wetin i been talk, at the point of finish buhari's time atiku will be declare the winner
Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Bolustical: 4:31pm On Sep 21, 2019
Una no dey tire to dey scam Atiku?

Atiku has no case and those who surround him in the PDP know that, only that they want more dollars from Maidollar.

There 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act as amended don't recognize electronic voting and transmission of results not to talk of an imaginary server.

Atiku can keep wasting his money.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by Bolustical: 4:31pm On Sep 21, 2019
Atiku, IPOB Terrorists, PDP and self-deceit

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by 35824L: 4:32pm On Sep 21, 2019
I am only interested in the cost that the Supreme Court will award against Atiku. At least 100 million naira will not be a bad start for someone willing to spend his stolen loot. PMB must collect his own share too.

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Re: Atikus Persistence Could Ignite Fresh Desire For Justice At The Court- Dr Olufon by hisexcellency34: 4:35pm On Sep 21, 2019
Prof Sagay said the result will be the same

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