The new trend were over 500thousand Nigerians will elect their representative then just 7 justices of supreme Court will gather and elect their own is very worrisome .the power that belong to the people have been finally elected by supreme Court .it was obvious that the bayelsa people don't want to associate with anything Dickson but the supreme Court entroned someone rejected by the people

The best thing to do, is to treat all pre-election matters before the election. With that, we can really know who we are voting for.

How I wish we could have more Northerners like Dr Farooq, Nigeria would have been far better than it is now.
God bless my country ��

Staro:

We now have the worst set of Nigerians heading the
Executive and Judiciary

What of the rubber stamp legislature

sodiqapril:
Farook is intelligent

your are still misspelling the name

Farouk abi na Umar abi na Sabi wrote a full page editorial on the assumption that Muhammadu Buhari's real name is Muhammadu Buhari Danbafale without any proof whatsoever.

It also became convenient for him suddenly that Buhari has a certificate. Though I know what he's trying to push towards, I must submit that the article is trash to say the least.

I will suggest he drops his obsession with Buhari. I'm sure there are better examples of chameleonic name changes around like Evan/Evans or James O. Ibori/ James A. Ibori.

The SC based their judgment of Degi on the fact that his affidavit was sworn to by an unnamed notary public which makes it suspicious. That's what the writer should have dwelt on. It has never been a crime to change names or spell variants in Nigeria.

Spoke sense

The unfortunate thing is that TANKO WILL BE IN THE SUPREME COURT TILL 2023 TANKOING the shit out of our lives and killing our democracy to the pleasure of his PAYMASTER, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( rtd ).

Really

today i saw clearly where there is re-run in imo state and i saw ihedioha reclaiming his lost mandate.there will be a re-run election in imo state after supreme court review where ihedioha will win the election and reclaim his lost mandate.

The ruling is in line with the our silly constitution, the same should have been applied to Buhari's case.

TGM2015:
SC is very very wrong on Bayelsa ruling and review.

The way and manner the judges treats the review confirmed my suspicion that the judgement was bought. Is this the first review that SC Court is receiving? Why is it that this very review is the one that get the lead lawyers heavy fine of N30 million paid to the defendant? Did the defendant request for it? When has Supreme Court become Father Christmas awarding financial benefits to defendants without requesting for it? Why N30M and not N300k? Why should the fine starts with this Bayelsa review?

Seriously, our Court should not destroy the basic of our electoral values where electorates decide who should rule them. Whether the electoral votes were manufactured, manipulated, etc is another case entirely, if petitioners cannot prove it was manipulated, like that of Imo Gubernatorial, it should be held valid. Making votes counts is the major responsibility of the Voters and INEC. Jega has help us, all votes as announced at the pooling unit is legally recognised as the authentic vote results. If Voters can stand firm and stand with their votes, it will result to announcing real votes (bought or natural conscience) or cancellation of entire result. It is more difficult to imposed/manipulate votes at pooling unit level if stakeholders (voters, party agents, traditional/community leaders, etc) are not compromised.

In my personal opinion, the ground of disqualification in Bayelsa is total wrong based on the principle of tradition and patterns of life. Because, critically looking into that issues, in Nigeria context, such irregularities in names is common. It is not only common but also a significant trends of people in the age/generation category of the Deputy governor. It is evidently clear to all, including PDP, that the state overwhelming voted for APC. If the purpose of election is for people to choose their political leaders, then the Bayelsa judgment do not and never fulfil that purpose.

The fair thing, in worst case scenario, is to allow the state to re-elect their political leader if the last one was not qualified in the eye of the law. The judgement do not give justice and fairness to the people of Bayelsa state and the review rulings was harsh/vindictive to the party who filed the review.

I will beg to disagree with your postulations, fine your name is spelt wrongly, we should not open room for unscrupulous people including politicians to explore. All you need is DEED POLL, I never knew this before but i learnt from the case, if i want to contest all i need to do is get my lawyer and make sure i didn't fall into any trap of my opponent because that's the avenue to come in. The supreme Court did a great job.

jlinkd78:
Everything u wrote here are completely in order. Despite my bias in favour of PDP being in charge in Bayelsa, I honestly feel sorry for d Degi guy after reading this. My opinion about your writeup from now will be straight as I now believe that u are not only intelligent but apolitical and a master in churning out unbiased essays. I will read your columns more from now cos truly truth is infectious.

I begin to respect him when he began to criticized Buhari same way he did on GEJ . It shows he was just out for good governance and not party or tribal lines

Tanko Supereme Ice cream

charles614:
today i saw clearly where there is re-run in imo state and i saw ihedioha reclaiming his lost mandate.there will be a re-run election in imo state after supreme court review where ihedioha will win the election and reclaim his lost mandate.

He will lose heavily

Agboriotejoye:
Farouk abi na Umar abi na Sabi wrote a full page editorial on the assumption that Muhammadu Buhari's real name is Muhammadu Buhari Danbafale without any proof whatsoever.

It also became convenient for him suddenly that Buhari has a certificate. Though I know what he's trying to push towards, I must submit that the article is trash to say the least.

I will suggest he drops his obsession with Buhari. I'm sure there are better examples of chameleonic name changes around like Evan/Evans or James O. Ibori/ James A. Ibori.

The SC based their judgment of Degi on the fact that his affidavit was sworn to by an unnamed notary public which makes it suspicious. That's what the writer should have dwelt on. It has never been a crime to change names or spell variants in Nigeria.

Farooq was just being sentimental because he also has a retinue of mispelt names too.

If your name is mispelt at the point you want to pick your certificate, you can ask for it to be corrected so that all your certificate will reflect your correct names, correctly spelt.

How did Degi or Adegi enter a sch with one name and graduate with another name without properly documenting the name change if their was any.

He also used an unnamed notary public for one of the name change which invalidates that process. This was even the main issue that affected him.

It affected Lyon because the law recognises them as a joint ticket and as such will affect both. The law wasn't made to witchunt Lyon.

For me the consistent thing would have been that Buhari himself should have been disqualified and that would have made this disqualification also correct. But Tanko is head of the SC. What do I know.

Why has Lawan killed the electoral amendment bill?

I guess some block heads won't realize these infected anti people can't win an election in the 21st century with their stupid ways...

Thanks Farooq but the inconsistency would confuse any judge

codedguy1:


Farooq was just being sentimental because he also has a retinue of mispelt names too.

If your name is mispelt at the point you want to pick your certificate, you can ask for it to be corrected so that all your certificate will reflect your correct names, correctly spelt.

How did Degi or Adegi enter a sch with one name and graduate with another name without properly documenting the name change if their was any.

He also used an unnamed notary public for one of the name change which invalidates that process. This was even the main issue that affected him.

It affected Lyon because the law recognises them as a joint ticket and as such will affect both. The law wasn't made to witchunt Lyon.

For me the consistent thing would have been that Buhari himself should have been disqualified and that would have made this disqualification also correct. But Tanko is head of the SC. What do I know.

This isn't about being sentimental, supreme court of recent has been inconsistent with thier ruling, amaechi vs omehia and faleke cases made us to know that it's party that wins an election not individuals,also supreme court acted based on assumption,as none of the institutions involved in the certificate issuance has claimed that the results are not genuine

Oh

striker07:
This isn't about being sentimental, supreme court of recent has been inconsistent with thier ruling, amaechi vs omehia and faleke cases made us to know that it's party that wins an election not individuals,also supreme court acted based on assumption,as none of the institutions involved in the certificate issuance has claimed that the results are not genuine

Is it the institutions that will come exonerate him or for him to do the right thing.

Did he call the institutions to defend him?

What really nailed him was that he didn't do the right thing as per his name change. Its not a crime yo change name if you read what Agboriotejoye wrote.

Why use an unnamed notary public for the name change, that already renders what he did as null and void.

My concern is if this was a pdp Government will he say thesame thing?? We can’t have double standards on the Truth.

charles614:
today i saw clearly where there is re-run in imo state and i saw ihedioha reclaiming his lost mandate.there will be a re-run election in imo state after supreme court review where ihedioha will win the election and reclaim his lost mandate.

Is this a prophesy or an educated prediction?

Very intelligent