Advancedman:


They have aborted the party in it craddle.

fergie001:

You are not correct.

The SC has said it plenty times that only an Aspirant in a Primary can contest same Primary.
PDP v Sylva 2012
Daniel v INEC 2015
Tarzoor v Ortom 2016

Primary elections are in-house matters of a political party. A non-member of the party has no locus to raise the issue and no member of the party who was not an aspirant can raise the issue. See Section 87(9)(a) of the Electoral Act.

Even in the Zamfara issue, PDP via a press conference insisted there was no Primary in Zamfara, yet could not take it to Court.

YPP has no locus.....Whether INEC has to follow its rules and procedure, has been decided in Zamfara v APC.

Ezewuzie01:
This your argument is watery. You just mentioned three cases and you call that plenty. Those pronouncements are not law. You can only be sure if there is a law backing that up in the electoral act. Maybe you need to read carefully where I stated that every case is treated on its own merit and the argument of lawyers. It is not once, twice or thrice that the Supreme court has given judgements contrary to precedence when confrontedd with superior arguments. You just need a good lawyer and a good argument. And YPP has a very solid case.

Ezewuzie01:

Don't run faster than your shadow. I am not a fan of Ifeanyi Ubah or YPP but he has a very strong case. No supreme court pronouncement on a particular case is etched on stone. Every case is treated on its own merit and the argument of lawyers. Many examples abound where the supreme court has flipped over on similar issues. YPP can easily argue that the INEC report which shows non compliance with the electoral act in the primaries APC and PDP conducted directly affects its candidate because those parties ought not to participate in the election where every vote is precious and should not be wasted on parties that would otherwise not have participated ab initio. The case is very strong. PDP and APC are in very big trouble.

vicdom:

Did INEC complain about non compliance of any of these party primaries??

Ezewuzie01:

His lawyer must have briefed him that APGA did everything right. INEC monitored the primary that produced Soludo unlike the sham in APC and PDP. You know Ifeanyi Ubah is desperate to be governor, if APGA was at fault he would have included the party in the suit. Btw you didn't show up in the thread where a case was brought against Andy Uba seeking his disqualification by his fellow aspirants. What happened

vicdom:

Did INEC complain about non compliance of any of these party primaries??

vicdom:

I can see you are indeed partisan, so I wouldn't engage you. How could you say that INEC didn't monitor PDP primary?? You must be an APGA's apologist, so no need.

Ezewuzie01:


Are you Garfield? I quoted Garfield.

fergie001:

No case.
If 3 isn't many, cite 1 that has gone according to what you have said. There are still some that dates back to the 2000s, have you heard of precedence?

You saw 87 (10) of the Electoral Act 2010, You saw the cases...read them, then you can start coming from my position.

Ezewuzie01:
OK let me cite one case to tell you that hoping on precedence is just nonsense. In this recent case Uche Nwosu of AA was disqualified by the supreme court because his nomination was challenged by the candidate of a rival party APP. The link is below. After reading, come and explain it to me

https://dailytrust.com/imo-govship-polls-supreme-court-quashes-uche-nwosus-candidature

Ezewuzie01:
OK let me cite one case to tell you that hoping on precedence is just nonsense. In this recent case Uche Nwosu of AA was disqualified by the supreme court because his nomination was challenged by the candidate of a rival party APP. The link is below. After reading, come and explain it to me

https://dailytrust.com/imo-govship-polls-supreme-court-quashes-uche-nwosus-candidature

vicdom:

Did INEC complain about non compliance of any of these party primaries??

garfield1:
Inec complained about apga congress

Ezewuzie01:
Garfield please quote me with your known Garfield APC moniker. Don't go and bring your PDP monikers just because Andy Uba and APC are on the verge of being disqualified
That your explanation up there is too wack to quote biko. Let me read the defence from fergie moniker first

fergie001:

I have seen the 21 days issue.

The SC said: if INEC were not intimated about the Congress, the fact that INEC observed the Primary....it is good.

garfield1:


Where is it?

fergie001:

Thank you...I didn't read because this is my case. Garfield1

The Originating summons is the lifeblood of existence of this case.

That is a different matter from this one. The AP accused Uche Nwosu of the AA of double candidature.

In this case, YPP is challenging the APC & PDP of the validity of Primary. The validity of Primary is embedded in S. 85 & S.87 of the Electoral Act.

I will reproduce both;
Section 37 of the Electoral Act;

7. 'Where a candidate knowingly allows himself to be nominated by more than one political party or in more than one constituency his nomination shall be void.

This portion does not tell you who should challenge it;

But severally the SC has stated that Sections 85 & 87 are internal workings of a Party, only an Aspirant can challenge. Try to read those cases I typed earlier or should I send the links?

Ezewuzie01:
I waited for you to shoot yourself and you just did. There is nowhere where it was stated in the electoral act that only an aspirant within a party can legally challenge his party's primary whether stated implicitly or explicitly or what type of infraction can be challenged by rival parties. Get serious.

jimter44:
This issue does not relate to Marafa case. Marafa was a member of APC andl was directly affected by the conduct of APC primaries in Zamfara state. The plaintiff here is not a member of neither APC nor PDP. It an academic exercise in futility.

McBishop2020:
It's good to see smart and learned individuals argue.

Gentlemen, is the suit against the validity of the primary or against the candidates flying the flag of the parties involved?

Is it a plea to disqualify the parties involved or the candidates of the parties involved?

Did INEC report applause the primaries of the parties involved or condemned them in INEC reports?

Can the above help in deciding whether YPP has a case or not?

I'm not a lawyer but like sound and clear logic.

Thanks.

garfield1:


Fergie001 really dealt with you intellectually.apc is not about to be disqualified, it is apga and pdp

jimter44:
This issue does not relate to Marafa case. Marafa was a member of APC andl was directly affected by the conduct of APC primaries in Zamfara state. The plaintiff here is not a member of neither APC nor PDP. It an academic exercise in futility.

Ezewuzie01:


Garfield, why are you running? Your hatred for Soludo will consume you. Keep living fake lives on nairaland. Only you with twenty different personalities

You are from Anambra but continue pretending

We are waiting to see how the two illiterate brothers from Uga will be our governor