Penguin2:
Judgment will be quashed by the Appeal Court.

No aspect of our law said new members cannot be registered after register has been submitted to INEC.

And no punishment was prescribed for anyone whose name is not in party register.

EmeeNaka:
Hmm
That's sad.
Why would this happen to LP?
Well, she will seek redress at higher court.
This is exactly how LP will crush APC at Presidential tribunal

Tareq1105:


1. Our law doesn't approve of Independent Candidate.

2. Do you still give Admission to students after Admission had closed and Matric held? Matric is the final final closure of Admissions.

3. If you forward the names of students in your school for WASC exam to WAEC, that's the final.

4. I'm a proud Yoruba man, if the stool of Oba is vacant and it's the turn of your family. The Head of the Family would asked all interested family members to express their intention. The Head of the Family would then forward their names to the Kingmakers for screening. If your name is not there, it means you don't belong to the family.

Enice:
funny man . You don't know that this exact scenerio is what's playing in the PEPT. Obi was not a member of labour as at the time of the primaries. his name was not found on the members register submitted by the LP.

seanfer:


Don't blame the Lawyers, blame LP that didn't follow the laid down rules about candidate sponsorship.. You can't build on a faulty foundation and expect the building not to collapse..

EmeeNaka:
Hmm
That's sad.
Why would this happen to LP?
Well, she will seek redress at higher court.
This is exactly how LP will crush APC at Presidential tribunal

ORIENTATION101:
you re liar, the appeal court matter against obi dismissed the case against obi because the petitioner didnt provide inec register as Evidence.
In elumelu case inec provided lp register as evidence that's why the LP lawmaker was sacked

EmeeNaka:
Hmm
That's sad.
Why would this happen to LP?
Well, she will seek redress at higher court.
This is exactly how LP will crush APC at Presidential tribunal

Yj090:
Some people needs to not be in Nigeria, they need to just go and stay in Sierra Leone

IfnobeGod20:

I just laugh at the judgement because it is against the Nigerian constitution. Having name on the register or not is not a prerequisite in the constitution. The constitution is clearer and unambiguous. What the constitution says is that you must be sponsor by a political party. The judgement will be quashed at the Appeal Court because no part of 1999 constitution stipulated submission of membership register to INEC as a prerequisite and no window period to join political party. Below is what constitute qualification and disqualification of candidates.

"Qualification for Election in Nigeria

The basic qualifications to be met by political aspirants into the political offices at the Federal and State levels of governments must be in line with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These basic qualifications for the various categories of the election are provided under Chapter VI, Part 1, Section 131 of the 1999 Constitution and it is common to all Elective Offices in the Federal and State Government levels with little variations.

The Constitution provides that a person is qualified for the election to the office of the President or the National Assembly if;

Citizenship- to qualify to contest for any political office, the aspirant must be a Nigerian citizen by birth.
Age– the age requirement to qualify as a political aspirant into any political office is different as follows;
– To qualify for the office of the President and Vice-President, the age requirement is 40years and above.

– Office of the Governor/Deputy-Governor- 35 years and above.

– Senate- 35 years and above.

– House of Representative- 30 years and above.

– State House of Assembly- 30 years and above.

– Chairman of Area Council- 30 years and above.

– Local government/ Councillor of Area Council- 25 years

Education- the basic education requirement to qualify as an aspirant for an electoral position in any area of government is School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent.
Party- to qualify as a political aspirant to contest for the office of the President and other political offices, the aspirant must be a member of a political party and be sponsored by that political party.
The candidate must be of sound mind
The candidate must have no death sentence or imprisonment or fine for offences involving dishonesty or fraud.
To qualify as an aspirant for any political office, the candidate must not be convicted within the period of 10 years for offences involving dishonesty or contravention of the code of conduct.
An additional qualification is that the candidate has evidence of tax payment for three (3) years immediately preceding the year of election.
As earlier stated, all the basic qualifications for the President listed above also apply to the qualification for the office of the vice-president of Nigeria. Section 142 of the constitution provides that the provisions relating to the qualification for election, disqualification shall also apply in relation to the office of the vice-president.

Basic Disqualification for Elections in Nigeria

According to the provisions of Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution, a person will be disqualified to be elected as a political aspirant if he does not meet the above qualifications and where he is found wanting of the following;

He has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or has declared allegiance to such other party.
He has been elected to the office of the President or Governor at any two previous elections.
Under the law in any part of Nigeria, he has been adjudged to be a lunatic or declared to be of unsound mind.
The candidate is under a sentence of death imposed by a competent court or tribunal in Nigeria or is under a sentence of imprisonment or fine for an offence involving dishonesty or fraud or for any other offence imposed on him or her by any court or tribunal and no appeal is pending in respect of such a conviction.
Within a period of less than ten (10) years before the date of the election to the office of the President, they have been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty.
Has been found guilty of contravention of the code of conduct
He is an undischarged bankrupt, having been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in Nigeria or any other country.
Being a person employed in the civil or public service of the federation or state and does not resign, withdraw or retire from the employment at least 30 days before the date of the election.
Is a member of any secret society
Has been indicted for embezzlement or fraud by a judicial committee of inquiry or an administrative panel of inquiry or a tribunal and which the indictment has been accepted by the Federal or state government.
Has presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Has been dismissed from the public or civil service of the Federation or of a State or of a Local Government or Area Council.
Has been found guilty of an offence involving narcotic drugs or any other psychotropic substance by any court or tribunal in Nigeria or any other country or
Has been adjudged guilty of treason or treasonable felony by any court or tribunal in Nigeria."

The judgement is dead on arrival.

Omenlon:
the truth of the matter is that majority of LP candidates were emergency candidates. A lot of them either failed in their party primaries or were abruptly denied tickets by their parties. Abure was just cashing out on them selling the tickets to the highest bidders.

highness25:
Is Sierra Leone not better than Nigeria now?

Penguin2:
Judgment will be quashed by the Appeal Court.

No aspect of our law said new members cannot be registered after register has been submitted to INEC.

And no punishment was prescribed for anyone whose name is not in party register.

FreeStuffsNG:
smh.

Mr Obi was not a member of LP as at the deadline time LP submitted its membership register to INEC. No court waved aside that fact for Obi as it's now clearly shown that what Obi did was an infraction on the Electoral law. Not even the court judgement Obidatti is using to confuse you waved it aside for Mr Obi or recognised him as a candidate beyond his name featuring on a list of candidates INEC published! Read the judgement of the AC that Mr Obi is clawing on as a straw :

The Appeal Court waved aside the argument by both Obi and the LP that the suit was statute barred.

The appellate court noted that whereas Obi resigned from the PDP on May 24, 2022, INEC published his name as candidate of the LP on September 20, 2022.

It further observed that following the publication of Obi’s name, the APM, being a registered political party that also has a candidate for the presidential election, filed its suit on September 30, 2022.

The court held that since the suit was filed exactly 11 days after Obi’s name was published by INEC, it was not caught by the 14 days limitation stipulated in Section 285 (9) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and therefore not statute barred.

However, it held that Sections 29 (5), 84(14) and 142 of the Electoral Act, as well as Section 285(14) of the Constitution, clearly defined a person that could lodge a pre-election case to disqualify a candidate in an election.

The appellate court stressed that under section 157 of the Electoral Act, only an aspirant could challenge the nomination of a candidate to INEC.

It held that APM did not qualify as an aspirant, adding that the duty of INEC was to publish names submitted to it by political parties.

The court held that by INEC publishing Obi’s name, “it has done no more than comply with provisions of the Electoral Act”.

More so, the appellate court held that though the APM alleged that Obi’s name was not on the register the LP submitted to INEC, it failed to tender the said register in evidence.
Now, every candidate and LP aspirant challenging LP mandate 'place holder' in court is presenting the LP register in every court. Even the few seats LP got from the illegality will be lost.

LP register is now hot cake. Trust Mr Arabambi and co who are the real owners of LP to by now be mass producing it for anyone who needs it to prove their case in court and claim back the mandate illegally obtained by LP impostors a.k.a Mandate Thieves
Mr Obi ti lule pi sir. Check my signature for free stuffs!


The tribunal in a judgement on Monday, held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the Labour Party as he was not a member of the party as at May 28, 2022 when the primary purportedly held.

Same ruling awaits Mr Obi.

These few days ahead of the PEPT judgement, the way and manner the back to back court judgements have been peeling away the LP illegalities and landing heavily to crush and destroy the evil unpatriotic house built with saliva from the lying tongues in LP and its mob is a forerunner of what awaits the lies-laden low budget petition of Mr Obi at the PEPT. Arabambi and Pa Apapa are vindicated. Even that our Igbo brother ,Chinedu of LP in Lagos, will receive his own reality check soon too.O ti zeh!

By now,INEC, APC, PDP and the Pa-Apapa faction should start demanding for damages from LP and their impostor candidates or press for their committal to prison for perjury, impersonation and electoral crimes. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Tareq1105:


Is Atiku PDP and LP Obi not seeking to disqualify Shettima despite the judgement?

That judgement was bcoz it was a pre election matter. Now they Obi and Atiku can challenge Shettima double nomination bcoz Shettima victory affected their chances.

However, where they would fail is that Shettima participated in only one primary. There was no primary election for VP position. Rather he was picked for VP, therefore double nomination doesn't arise.

I recall the Lord Justices asked Atiku lawyers to show evidence that Shettima participated in 2 primary or seek 2 nominations, to which Atiku lawyers couldn't respond.

FreeStuffsNG:
smh.

Mr Obi was not a member of LP as at the deadline time LP submitted its membership register to INEC. No court waved aside that fact for Obi as it's now clearly shown that what Obi did was an infraction on the Electoral law. Not even the court judgement Obidatti is using to confuse you waved it aside for Mr Obi or recognised him as a candidate beyond his name featuring on a list of candidates INEC published! Read the judgement of the AC that Mr Obi is clawing on as a straw :

The Appeal Court waved aside the argument by both Obi and the LP that the suit was statute barred.

The appellate court noted that whereas Obi resigned from the PDP on May 24, 2022, INEC published his name as candidate of the LP on September 20, 2022.

It further observed that following the publication of Obi’s name, the APM, being a registered political party that also has a candidate for the presidential election, filed its suit on September 30, 2022.

The court held that since the suit was filed exactly 11 days after Obi’s name was published by INEC, it was not caught by the 14 days limitation stipulated in Section 285 (9) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and therefore not statute barred.

However, it held that Sections 29 (5), 84(14) and 142 of the Electoral Act, as well as Section 285(14) of the Constitution, clearly defined a person that could lodge a pre-election case to disqualify a candidate in an election.

The appellate court stressed that under section 157 of the Electoral Act, only an aspirant could challenge the nomination of a candidate to INEC.

It held that APM did not qualify as an aspirant, adding that the duty of INEC was to publish names submitted to it by political parties.

The court held that by INEC publishing Obi’s name, “it has done no more than comply with provisions of the Electoral Act”.

More so, the appellate court held that though the APM alleged that Obi’s name was not on the register the LP submitted to INEC, it failed to tender the said register in evidence.
Now, every candidate and LP aspirant challenging LP mandate 'place holder' in court is presenting the LP register in every court. Even the few seats LP got from the illegality will be lost.

LP register is now hot cake. Trust Mr Arabambi and co who are the real owners of LP to by now be mass producing it for anyone who needs it to prove their case in court and claim back the mandate illegally obtained by LP impostors a.k.a Mandate Thieves
Mr Obi ti lule pi sir. Check my signature for free stuffs!


The tribunal in a judgement on Monday, held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the Labour Party as he was not a member of the party as at May 28, 2022 when the primary purportedly held.

Same ruling awaits Mr Obi.

These few days ahead of the PEPT judgement, the way and manner the back to back court judgements have been peeling away the LP illegalities and landing heavily to crush and destroy the evil unpatriotic house built with saliva from the lying tongues in LP and its mob is a forerunner of what awaits the lies-laden low budget petition of Mr Obi at the PEPT. Arabambi and Pa Apapa are vindicated. Even that our Igbo brother ,Chinedu of LP in Lagos, will receive his own reality check soon too.O ti zeh!

By now,INEC, APC, PDP and the Pa-Apapa faction should start demanding for damages from LP and their impostor candidates or press for their committal to prison for perjury, impersonation and electoral crimes. Check my signature for free stuffs!

linearity:



Also, I think this is also one of the ‘internal party matters’ that the Supreme Court has always ruled in favor of that party against external parties or individuals.

Same as the double nomination of the VP which though against the law but an internal matter.

The only people that have standing to sue in this cases are internal individuals from the party.

FreeStuffsNG:
smh.

Mr Obi was not a member of LP as at the deadline time LP submitted its membership register to INEC. No court waved aside that fact for Obi as it's now clearly shown that what Obi did was an infraction on the Electoral law. Not even the court judgement Obidatti is using to confuse you waved it aside for Mr Obi or recognised him as a candidate beyond his name featuring on a list of candidates INEC published! Read the judgement of the AC that Mr Obi is clawing on as a straw :

The Appeal Court waved aside the argument by both Obi and the LP that the suit was statute barred.

The appellate court noted that whereas Obi resigned from the PDP on May 24, 2022, INEC published his name as candidate of the LP on September 20, 2022.

It further observed that following the publication of Obi’s name, the APM, being a registered political party that also has a candidate for the presidential election, filed its suit on September 30, 2022.

The court held that since the suit was filed exactly 11 days after Obi’s name was published by INEC, it was not caught by the 14 days limitation stipulated in Section 285 (9) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and therefore not statute barred.

However, it held that Sections 29 (5), 84(14) and 142 of the Electoral Act, as well as Section 285(14) of the Constitution, clearly defined a person that could lodge a pre-election case to disqualify a candidate in an election.

The appellate court stressed that under section 157 of the Electoral Act, only an aspirant could challenge the nomination of a candidate to INEC.

It held that APM did not qualify as an aspirant, adding that the duty of INEC was to publish names submitted to it by political parties.

The court held that by INEC publishing Obi’s name, “it has done no more than comply with provisions of the Electoral Act”.

More so, the appellate court held that though the APM alleged that Obi’s name was not on the register the LP submitted to INEC, it failed to tender the said register in evidence.
Now, every candidate and LP aspirant challenging LP mandate 'place holder' in court is presenting the LP register in every court. Even the few seats LP got from the illegality will be lost. PDP and APC will gain more seats following this judgement.

LP register is now hot cake. Trust Mr Arabambi and co who are the real owners of LP to by now be mass producing it for anyone who needs it to prove their case in court and claim back the mandate illegally obtained by LP impostors a.k.a Mandate Thieves
Mr Obi ti lule pi sir. Check my signature for free stuffs!


The tribunal in a judgement on Monday, held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the Labour Party as he was not a member of the party as at May 28, 2022 when the primary purportedly held.

Same ruling awaits Mr Obi.

These few days ahead of the PEPT judgement, the way and manner the back to back court judgements have been peeling away the LP illegalities and landing heavily to crush and destroy the evil unpatriotic house built with saliva from the lying tongues in LP and its mob is a forerunner of what awaits the lies-laden low budget petition of Mr Obi at the PEPT. Arabambi and Pa Apapa are vindicated. Even that our Igbo brother ,Chinedu of LP in Lagos, will receive his own reality check soon too.O ti zeh!

By now,INEC, APC, PDP and the Pa-Apapa faction should start demanding for damages from LP and their impostor candidates or press for their committal to prison for perjury, impersonation and electoral crimes. Check my signature for free stuffs!

eldoradoxx:
Nigerian judiciary is a disgrace. I thought that in recent decision of the Supreme Court as we all read in PDP case against Shettima, they said PDP cannot question the nomination of Shettima since only a party member can question the internal matters of a political party. Now they have changed their mouth.

linearity:



Also, I think this is also one of the ‘internal party matters’ that the Supreme Court has always ruled in favor of that party against external parties or individuals.

Same as the double nomination of the VP which though against the law but an internal matter.

The only people that have standing to sue in this cases are internal individuals from the party.

FreeStuffsNG:
smh.
Statute barred... pre election matter.
Mr Obi was not a member of LP as at the deadline time LP submitted its membership register to INEC. No court waved aside that fact for Obi as it's now clearly shown that what Obi did was an infraction on the Electoral law. Not even the court judgement Obidatti is using to confuse you waved it aside for Mr Obi or recognised him as a candidate beyond his name featuring on a list of candidates INEC published! Read the judgement of the AC that Mr Obi is clawing on as a straw :

The Appeal Court waved aside the argument by both Obi and the LP that the suit was statute barred.

The appellate court noted that whereas Obi resigned from the PDP on May 24, 2022, INEC published his name as candidate of the LP on September 20, 2022.

It further observed that following the publication of Obi’s name, the APM, being a registered political party that also has a candidate for the presidential election, filed its suit on September 30, 2022.

The court held that since the suit was filed exactly 11 days after Obi’s name was published by INEC, it was not caught by the 14 days limitation stipulated in Section 285 (9) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and therefore not statute barred.

However, it held that Sections 29 (5), 84(14) and 142 of the Electoral Act, as well as Section 285(14) of the Constitution, clearly defined a person that could lodge a pre-election case to disqualify a candidate in an election.

The appellate court stressed that under section 157 of the Electoral Act, only an aspirant could challenge the nomination of a candidate to INEC.

It held that APM did not qualify as an aspirant, adding that the duty of INEC was to publish names submitted to it by political parties.

The court held that by INEC publishing Obi’s name, “it has done no more than comply with provisions of the Electoral Act”.

More so, the appellate court held that though the APM alleged that Obi’s name was not on the register the LP submitted to INEC, it failed to tender the said register in evidence.
Now, every candidate and LP aspirant challenging LP mandate 'place holder' in court is presenting the LP register in every court. Even the few seats LP got from the illegality will be lost. PDP and APC will gain more seats following this judgement.

LP register is now hot cake. Trust Mr Arabambi and co who are the real owners of LP to by now be mass producing it for anyone who needs it to prove their case in court and claim back the mandate illegally obtained by LP impostors a.k.a Mandate Thieves
Mr Obi ti lule pi sir. Check my signature for free stuffs!


The tribunal in a judgement on Monday, held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the Labour Party as he was not a member of the party as at May 28, 2022 when the primary purportedly held.

Same ruling awaits Mr Obi.

These few days ahead of the PEPT judgement, the way and manner the back to back court judgements have been peeling away the LP illegalities and landing heavily to crush and destroy the evil unpatriotic house built with saliva from the lying tongues in LP and its mob is a forerunner of what awaits the lies-laden low budget petition of Mr Obi at the PEPT. Arabambi and Pa Apapa are vindicated. Even that our Igbo brother ,Chinedu of LP in Lagos, will receive his own reality check soon too.O ti zeh!

By now,INEC, APC, PDP and the Pa-Apapa faction should start demanding for damages from LP and their impostor candidates or press for their committal to prison for perjury, impersonation and electoral crimes. Check my signature for free stuffs!

EmeeNaka:
Hmm
That's sad.
Why would this happen to LP?
Well, she will seek redress at higher court.
This is exactly how LP will crush APC at Presidential tribunal

HardBishop:

Hmm the future beholds events when NIGERIA will beg southeast region to vote in the next presidential election. I can't wait when no elections will be duly observed there. Meanwhile obi has to draw back sic is a taboo for igbos to rule NIGERIA.

fergie001:

Our Appeal Courts could be reckless.... The Tribunal and Appeal Court also sacked a Plateau House of Reps member, Musa Agah, last year on issues surrounding his sponsorship and nomination.

I also gathered Okolie did not resign his previous appointment before taking on the LP ticket.

So, like I said in the home page, let's await the details and hope there are consequences.

seanfer:


Don't blame the Lawyers, blame LP that didn't follow the laid down rules about candidate sponsorship.. You can't build on a faulty foundation and expect the building not to collapse..

Penguin2:
Judgment will be quashed by the Appeal Court.

No aspect of our law said new members cannot be registered after register has been submitted to INEC.

And no punishment was prescribed for anyone whose name is not in party register.

EmeeNaka:
Hmm
That's sad.
Why would this happen to LP?
Well, she will seek redress at higher court.
This is exactly how LP will crush APC at Presidential tribunal

IfnobeGod20:

I just laugh at the judgement because it is against the Nigerian constitution. Having name on the register or not is not a prerequisite in the constitution. The constitution is clearer and unambiguous. What the constitution says is that you must be sponsor by a political party. The judgement will be quashed at the Appeal Court because no part of 1999 constitution stipulated submission of membership register to INEC as a prerequisite and no window period to join political party. Below is what constitute qualification and disqualification of candidates.

"Qualification for Election in Nigeria

The basic qualifications to be met by political aspirants into the political offices at the Federal and State levels of governments must be in line with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These basic qualifications for the various categories of the election are provided under Chapter VI, Part 1, Section 131 of the 1999 Constitution and it is common to all Elective Offices in the Federal and State Government levels with little variations.

The Constitution provides that a person is qualified for the election to the office of the President or the National Assembly if;

Citizenship- to qualify to contest for any political office, the aspirant must be a Nigerian citizen by birth.
Age– the age requirement to qualify as a political aspirant into any political office is different as follows;
– To qualify for the office of the President and Vice-President, the age requirement is 40years and above.

– Office of the Governor/Deputy-Governor- 35 years and above.

– Senate- 35 years and above.

– House of Representative- 30 years and above.

– State House of Assembly- 30 years and above.

– Chairman of Area Council- 30 years and above.

– Local government/ Councillor of Area Council- 25 years

Education- the basic education requirement to qualify as an aspirant for an electoral position in any area of government is School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent.
Party- to qualify as a political aspirant to contest for the office of the President and other political offices, the aspirant must be a member of a political party and be sponsored by that political party.
The candidate must be of sound mind
The candidate must have no death sentence or imprisonment or fine for offences involving dishonesty or fraud.
To qualify as an aspirant for any political office, the candidate must not be convicted within the period of 10 years for offences involving dishonesty or contravention of the code of conduct.
An additional qualification is that the candidate has evidence of tax payment for three (3) years immediately preceding the year of election.
As earlier stated, all the basic qualifications for the President listed above also apply to the qualification for the office of the vice-president of Nigeria. Section 142 of the constitution provides that the provisions relating to the qualification for election, disqualification shall also apply in relation to the office of the vice-president.

Basic Disqualification for Elections in Nigeria

According to the provisions of Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution, a person will be disqualified to be elected as a political aspirant if he does not meet the above qualifications and where he is found wanting of the following;

He has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or has declared allegiance to such other party.
He has been elected to the office of the President or Governor at any two previous elections.
Under the law in any part of Nigeria, he has been adjudged to be a lunatic or declared to be of unsound mind.
The candidate is under a sentence of death imposed by a competent court or tribunal in Nigeria or is under a sentence of imprisonment or fine for an offence involving dishonesty or fraud or for any other offence imposed on him or her by any court or tribunal and no appeal is pending in respect of such a conviction.
Within a period of less than ten (10) years before the date of the election to the office of the President, they have been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty.
Has been found guilty of contravention of the code of conduct
He is an undischarged bankrupt, having been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in Nigeria or any other country.
Being a person employed in the civil or public service of the federation or state and does not resign, withdraw or retire from the employment at least 30 days before the date of the election.
Is a member of any secret society
Has been indicted for embezzlement or fraud by a judicial committee of inquiry or an administrative panel of inquiry or a tribunal and which the indictment has been accepted by the Federal or state government.
Has presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Has been dismissed from the public or civil service of the Federation or of a State or of a Local Government or Area Council.
Has been found guilty of an offence involving narcotic drugs or any other psychotropic substance by any court or tribunal in Nigeria or any other country or
Has been adjudged guilty of treason or treasonable felony by any court or tribunal in Nigeria."

The judgement is dead on arrival.

linearity:



Also, I think this is also one of the ‘internal party matters’ that the Supreme Court has always ruled in favor of that party against external parties or individuals.

Same as the double nomination of the VP which though against the law but an internal matter.

The only people that have standing to sue in this cases are internal individuals from the party.