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Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Ofunaofu: 1:04pm On Jun 17, 2023
.Say, Situation Room, Agbakoba confused



A coalition of civil society organizations under the aegis of Nigerian Youth Network for Good Governance and Sustainable Democracy NYNGGSD has accused the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and the Labour Party LP of employing underhand tactics to armtwist the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT.

In a statement issued Saturday in Abuja, the coalition also accused the Civil Society Situation Room and legal luminary, Olisa Agbakoba of inconsistencies in their assessments of the 2023 general election.


“While the elections produced a President, Vice President, 28 State Governors (minus the six states where elections are off-season), 109 Senators and 360 Members of the House of Representatives, supporters of the Labour Party LP and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP have been inconsolable, employing both conventional and unorthodox means to prove that the 2023 Presidential Election was rigged.


“At the same, both parties have filed their respective petitions at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT which is currently sitting. One would have expected that as law abiding citizens seeking to truly serve the country, the Presidential candidates of the LP, PDP and their supporters would refrain from canvassing the issues raised in their petitions outside the Tribunal”, said Constantine Ikechukwu, Chairman, Board of Trustees BoT of the coalition.

The coalition noted that unfortunately, both the petitioners, their lawyers and supporters have continued to make disparaging remarks about the outcome of election in public.

“In fact, their lawyers, who are Learned Silks, have continued to make unsavory comments to the media about the outcome of the election which they are challenging. Besides, LP supporters, referred to as ‘Obidients’ have turned the social media, especially Twitter, to a battleground where they abuse, curse, and denigrate anybody no matter how highly placed, that disagrees with their position. Supporters of the All Progressives Congress APC have sadly joined them in this spectacle of shame.

“Some foreign observers and local civil society organisations have also been making subjective and unsubstantiated comments about the election, even when none of them observed up to half of the 176,606 Polling Units where the election took place. Everything is beginning to look like a playbook.

“The other day, the disunited Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room released a politically motivated Report on the election, with the Convener, Ene Obi, asking the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to apologize to the nation, only for three members of the same body to openly disagree with her comments, which they insisted were not contained in the Report.

“Interestingly, while the self-contradictory Report applauded INEC’s preparations for the polls and acknowledged the immense security and extraneous challenges it faced, the group wrongly blamed the Commission for political violence, acrimonious, monetised party primaries and bitter political party campaigns which are outside the Commission’s control.

“Also recently, Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in a tweet, congratulated President Bola Tinubu on winning the election, but asked the President to sack the INEC Chairman that conducted the election. We consider his position as self-contradictory, dishonest, and patronizing. You cannot congratulate a man for winning an election and then ask him to sack the person that conducted the same election.

“The Federal Republic of Nigeria is greater than any individual or his ambition. In furtherance of our strong belief in one indivisible and prosperous Nigeria, we strongly condemn the continued disregard for the rule of law by the LP, PDP, and their supporters with their unmitigated and disparaging comments on the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election even when the PEPT is busy hearing their petitions.

“You cannot seek redress in court and at the same time continue to resort to self-help. We regard the blitzkrieg method employed by the LP and PDP lawyers to use the media to convict INEC in the arena of public opinion as a disservice to the rule of law and the legal profession. We also strongly condemn the blatant threats being made by LP, PDP, their lawyers, and supporters against the Justices of the PEPT hearing the petition, to either give a judgement favourable to them or be damned.

“We also view the incessant virulent attacks on INEC and its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as condescending, emotive, subjective, and irrational. While we agree that the 2023 Presidential Election was not perfect, there is no concrete evidence to show that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu rigged the election in favour of the APC as alleged or broke any electoral law.

“After a careful study of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act 2022, we are convinced that in declaring Ahmed Bola Tinubu as President-Elect at the National Collation Centre, Prof. Yakubu only performed his statutory role and did not break any known law. On the contrary, he would have broken the law with serious consequences if he had failed to make that declaration. Thankfully, the law also gives aggrieved parties the opportunity to challenge the outcome of the election in court, which they have rightly done.

“All aggrieved parties must now sheath their swords, stop the ongoing verbal war on the social media, and allow the Tribunal to conclude its assignment in peace. More importantly, Nigerian politicians should learn to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship in politics instead of crying foul each time an election result did not favour them. There is no gain in do-or-die politics”, the coalition added.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/tribunal-pdp-lp-employing-unorthodox-means-to-prove-rigging-claims-csos/

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by EyeCumInPiece: 1:06pm On Jun 17, 2023
No be una say make dem go to Court.

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Isobug: 1:09pm On Jun 17, 2023
What do you want them to do? To go through the orthodox way? So that you people will ambush them there as usual.

Why not channel your blame to the Electoral Umpire that conducted the most disputed election.

They said go to court, they have gone to Court, why the complain? At least they haven't go against any court law, Have they?
You people should park well oo. Concentrate on your Messiah who is signing everything that comes to this table all in the name of claiming to be performing. The law must take it's place whether he's performing or not

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Mahul: 1:09pm On Jun 17, 2023
Blame our electoral body for Nigeria's underdevelopment and backwardness. They have contributed 90% of our problem in Nigeria

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Tntsi: 1:17pm On Jun 17, 2023
All these crooked, criminal and hired groups hiding under one name or the other to destroy Nigeria hard earned democracy.
Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by olisaEze(m): 1:19pm On Jun 17, 2023
Just imagine a thief complaining over lack of decorum and politeness from his victims after being caught!🤣🤣. We have seen how you guys comported yourselves during the 2015 polls na! At the very least, no one has posted a pic of a goat with the tag, "my name is Tinubu!"

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Mjshexy(f): 1:27pm On Jun 17, 2023
In an unjust society, silence is a crime cool

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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Pythagoras001: 1:37pm On Jun 17, 2023
Clowns. Even after the SEN. ADAMU BULKACHUWA confessions you still want them to be quiet.
Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by respect80(m): 2:16pm On Jun 17, 2023
Ofunaofu:

.Say, Situation Room, Agbakoba confused



A coalition of civil society organizations under the aegis of Nigerian Youth Network for Good Governance and Sustainable Democracy NYNGGSD has accused the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and the Labour Party LP of employing underhand tactics to armtwist the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT.

In a statement issued Saturday in Abuja, the coalition also accused the Civil Society Situation Room and legal luminary, Olisa Agbakoba of inconsistencies in their assessments of the 2023 general election.


“While the elections produced a President, Vice President, 28 State Governors (minus the six states where elections are off-season), 109 Senators and 360 Members of the House of Representatives, supporters of the Labour Party LP and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP have been inconsolable, employing both conventional and unorthodox means to prove that the 2023 Presidential Election was rigged.


“At the same, both parties have filed their respective petitions at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT which is currently sitting. One would have expected that as law abiding citizens seeking to truly serve the country, the Presidential candidates of the LP, PDP and their supporters would refrain from canvassing the issues raised in their petitions outside the Tribunal”, said Constantine Ikechukwu, Chairman, Board of Trustees BoT of the coalition.

The coalition noted that unfortunately, both the petitioners, their lawyers and supporters have continued to make disparaging remarks about the outcome of election in public.

“In fact, their lawyers, who are Learned Silks, have continued to make unsavory comments to the media about the outcome of the election which they are challenging. Besides, LP supporters, referred to as ‘Obidients’ have turned the social media, especially Twitter, to a battleground where they abuse, curse, and denigrate anybody no matter how highly placed, that disagrees with their position. Supporters of the All Progressives Congress APC have sadly joined them in this spectacle of shame.

“Some foreign observers and local civil society organisations have also been making subjective and unsubstantiated comments about the election, even when none of them observed up to half of the 176,606 Polling Units where the election took place. Everything is beginning to look like a playbook.

“The other day, the disunited Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room released a politically motivated Report on the election, with the Convener, Ene Obi, asking the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to apologize to the nation, only for three members of the same body to openly disagree with her comments, which they insisted were not contained in the Report.

“Interestingly, while the self-contradictory Report applauded INEC’s preparations for the polls and acknowledged the immense security and extraneous challenges it faced, the group wrongly blamed the Commission for political violence, acrimonious, monetised party primaries and bitter political party campaigns which are outside the Commission’s control.

“Also recently, Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in a tweet, congratulated President Bola Tinubu on winning the election, but asked the President to sack the INEC Chairman that conducted the election. We consider his position as self-contradictory, dishonest, and patronizing. You cannot congratulate a man for winning an election and then ask him to sack the person that conducted the same election.

“The Federal Republic of Nigeria is greater than any individual or his ambition. In furtherance of our strong belief in one indivisible and prosperous Nigeria, we strongly condemn the continued disregard for the rule of law by the LP, PDP, and their supporters with their unmitigated and disparaging comments on the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election even when the PEPT is busy hearing their petitions.

“You cannot seek redress in court and at the same time continue to resort to self-help. We regard the blitzkrieg method employed by the LP and PDP lawyers to use the media to convict INEC in the arena of public opinion as a disservice to the rule of law and the legal profession. We also strongly condemn the blatant threats being made by LP, PDP, their lawyers, and supporters against the Justices of the PEPT hearing the petition, to either give a judgement favourable to them or be damned.

“We also view the incessant virulent attacks on INEC and its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as condescending, emotive, subjective, and irrational. While we agree that the 2023 Presidential Election was not perfect, there is no concrete evidence to show that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu rigged the election in favour of the APC as alleged or broke any electoral law.

“After a careful study of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act 2022, we are convinced that in declaring Ahmed Bola Tinubu as President-Elect at the National Collation Centre, Prof. Yakubu only performed his statutory role and did not break any known law. On the contrary, he would have broken the law with serious consequences if he had failed to make that declaration. Thankfully, the law also gives aggrieved parties the opportunity to challenge the outcome of the election in court, which they have rightly done.

“All aggrieved parties must now sheath their swords, stop the ongoing verbal war on the social media, and allow the Tribunal to conclude its assignment in peace. More importantly, Nigerian politicians should learn to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship in politics instead of crying foul each time an election result did not favour them. There is no gain in do-or-die politics”, the coalition added.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/tribunal-pdp-lp-employing-unorthodox-means-to-prove-rigging-claims-csos/



That useless coalition can go to hell for all I care!
No amount insult, threat or defamation can be worse than what eyenec chairman and APC did to nigeria and nigerians in this 2023 presidential election so that rubbish coalition can take the back seat and fasten their seat belt because all good will nigerians will continue to lend their voices whether on social media or any platform available against that fraud called an election.
Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by Nenye16(f): 4:08pm On Jun 17, 2023
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Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by vowiski(m): 4:14pm On Jun 17, 2023
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They are beginning to read the hand writing on the wall cheesy
Re: Tribunal: PDP, LP Employing Unorthodox Means To Prove Rigging Claims – Csos by prophetfire: 9:04pm On Jun 17, 2023
Isobug:

What do you want them to do? To go through the orthodox way? So that you people will ambush them there as usual.

Why not channel your blame to the Electoral Umpire that conducted the most disputed election.

They said go to court, they have gone to Court, why the complain? At least they haven't go against any court law, Have they?
You people should park well oo. Concentrate on your Messiah who is signing everything that comes to this table all in the name of claiming to be performing. The law must take it's place whether he's performing or not
Performing what? When people say Tinubu is performing,I say how exactly?
Just because he's signing bills passed into law by the parliament? My uncle's dog can sign. Yes. A dog but it can sign.
Just because he removed Emefiele and Bawa? Of course everyone that's vindictive will do that. Emefiele and Bawa were used by the cabal in trying to truncate his presidential election efforts.

He removed petrol subsidy without putting things in place?
He hasn't done anything but Nigerians are easily taken in, easily swayed by nonsense.

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