Dear nlander's please pay no attention to loser @APC on the Plateau. APC was rejected on the Plateau in the just concluded elections. For political watchers like myself, we all saw and the witnessed the back and forth between the then Sen Marafa and Gov Yari APC led faction in Zamfara. No PDP aspirant on the Plateau took PDP to court as a result of it primaries unlike that of APC which up until this moment have a case in court. APC failed on the Plateau as a result of imposition of Dr Nentawe who before then was an INEC REC but was deceived to resign and later rigged in as the candidate of the party.


*ALL CANDIDATES OF PEOPLES’ DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDP] IN PLATEAU STATE WERE VALIDLY NOMINATED TO CONTEST FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS*: IMPEDIMENTS OR NO IMPEDIMENTS?
By Barrister Emmanuel Menseh Madaki (LLM)

INTRODUCTION:
Recently, the general public have been thrown into a state utter confusion especially during the electioneering campaigns wherein propaganda rose to its peak especially in a bid to dissuade the lovers of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) from wasting their votes on the lame, crumby and suboptimal bases that PDP does not have validly elected executives in the state otherwise PDP was and or is without any constitutional structure recognized in law to field in candidates for any elections.

Laughably, a senior lawyer who featured in a radio interview, approached the walls of the radio station in Jos with volumes of court of appeal judgment and made serious of unfounded interpretations and allusions to the judgment of Hon. Mohammed Alkali & Anor v Hon. Musa Aviah Agah & Ors and hastily concluded to the chagrin of many that a vote for the PDP in the election was wasted vote. He reliably quoted some portions of the said judgment though out of context and out of relevance. Indeed, the learned senior lawyer forgot that “Cases are authorities and precedents only for what they have decided and cannot have general applications” more so that in Agah’s case the Lawyers inadvertently did not inform the tribunal and the court of Appeal that PDP had complied with the judgment of the court for fresh congresses. The lawyers didn’t do a good job in that regard and if that case should be dealt with now, it will be decided differently.

A lot of people have confronted and or accosted me to please assist in expounding the true state of affairs and the position of the law on the subject especially now that PDP has won most of the elected positions in the state. As a legal practitioner I have a duty to the society to espouse on the subject to help allay some fears.

Before I delve into profound discussions on the subject matter, may I state that: ALL THE CANDIDATES OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACTIC PARTY (PDP) IN PLATEAU STATE WERE VALIDLY NOMINATED TO CONTEST ELECTION IN LAW.

From the onset, let me swiftly state that the court judgments in issue which the opposition parties have been parading with strictly refer to the PDP EXCO of the Plateau State and does not relate to PDP National EXCO-which have the saddled the constitutional responsibility of also ensuring that candidates are nominated according to the party constitution and guidelines 2017 as amended. The current candidates were nominated by the national exco of the party.

I stumbled on a particular write up by one legal gentleman referred to as S. D. Dido, Esq. wherein he captioned the write up as “PDP PLATEAU AND THE LITIGATION AHEAD” The writer referred to the case of _Hon Musa Agah Avia_ the former Member, House of Representatives for the Jos North/ Bassa Constituency wherein the Election Petition Tribunal acceded to the submissions founded on the judgment of the Learned Justice I.I Kunda of the High Court of Justice, Plateau State to the effect that the Plateau State PDP should conduct fresh Primaries to have a valid EXCO. That article is nothing but barefaced lie capable of misleading the public as it is no longer good law and cannot be regarded as precedent anymore and it is incumbent on me to clarify the issue in the following lucid and clear terms.

Kindly cast your mind back to the year 2020 when PDP in Plateau State Chapter held its Congress to elect its EXCO at all levels from Wards, LGAs and State Levels during the Covid 19 global pandemic wherein there were strict restrictions put in place by Government as to gatherings limited to only 50 due to the existing regulations and prohibition. Notably, the said Congresses were widely berated, challenged and as a result were bluntly affected by the judgment of several courts which led to the decision by the party to conduct fresh Congresses across the State in order to have valid EXCO and a lot of consensuses were made, fresh congresses held which were never questioned anywhere and or contested in any court the EXCO Validly subsists till today.

While the crisis in the PDP was still boiling, PDP quicky reconducted State Congress conducted by the PDP National Office thereby correcting the real or conceived legal impediments on the exco after the Ward Congresses were repeated and areas were issues still persisted were not allowed to partake at the State Congress that produced the present State EXCO of the PDP under the leadership of Hon. Chris Hassan Adukuchili and indeed to the chagrin of many detractors and propagators of mischief and confusion there is no more any legal impediments against the party in Plateau State (this was the Congress where Hon. Bitrus Kaze testified to have withdrawn from the race and there was no litigation against this second Primaries).

What is more interesting is the obviously smart calculation and enabling arithmetic by the PDP national body that smartly came up with a sound approach wherein in all states where PDP had pending litigations, including Plateau State, the PDP National Office took charge of the Ward Congresses to elect delegates and also the Primaries that now fielded *ALL* the candidates that contested for the 2023 general election.

Assuming but not conceding that here is no valid exco in Plateau State for PDP (which is no longer the position), it has nothing to do with the candidature of any PDP candidate at the 2023 election because no Ward or State EXCO or even statutory member partook in the election and it was never conducted by any such exco but strictly by the National EXCO of the party whose credibility and standing was never in issue.

The last straw that broke the Carmel’s back is the fact that the issue of non-compliance with the judgment of Hon. Justice S. P. Gang which many have been parading with is the fact that the Court of Appeal. Jos division has finally cleaned and cleared PDP of any disobedience of any court’s order in the case of AGUSTINE TIMKUK VS INEC & ORS in Appeal No. CA/J/300/2023. This is the latest judgment and most relevant that has absolved PDP plateau state chapter of any disobedience wherein the court held that PDP has valid structure and it will never be a tea party for the oppositions who think that they can challenge the election on the ground that PDP does not have a structure as the opposition lacks the legal imprimatur and capacity to question the nomination of any candidate for election at this point. The Judgment in AUGUSTINE TIMKUK is a watershed and the most latest.

What is even more? the question of nomination of a candidate or selection of a candidate are matters within the sole preserve of the political party courts have no jurisdiction to look into such complaints see EZE V. PDP & ORS (2018) LPELR-44907(SC).
Afterall, for one to complain of the nomination of a particular candidate for an election such a candidate must also bring himself within the purview of the sub-section 14 of section 84 by showing that he was an aspirant in the election complained of. Who is an aspirant? An aspirant is a person who contested the primary election of his party. He must be someone who actually participated in the primary election he is challenging. See: P.D.P Vs Sylva (2012) 13 NWLR (Pt.1316) 85 @ 126 A-E; Lado vs. C.P.C (2011) 18 NWLR (Pt.1279) 689: Shinkafi vs. Yari (2016) 7 NWLR (Pt.1511) 340.

CONCLUSIONS
PDP has come to stay in Plateau State and all speculations as to the validity of the candidates recently voted into power are mere distractions and an attempt to find solace where there is none by the political parties that lost in the last elections.
Congratulations to the PDP family in Plateau State.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Emmanuel Menseh Madaki, Esq. LLB. (Hons) BL, LLM (ABU)


Kindly see attached pix of a what's app group chat of the member representing Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam federal house of representatives and chairman house committee on Navy Yusuf Gagdi. APC may feel they have the judiciary but PDP and all it's candidate have God on their side.

garfield1:


Are you now in pdp? Apc wi reclaim plateau,better go and worry about ayu

Come to Plateau state and spew this gibberish

How can be so careless? Maybe they never thought they will win initially

oluwatis:
Stupid and foolish APC are salivating on their tiny hope of going back to Plateau Government House through the back.

Having read what happened here, it is clearly different from the Zamfara scenario.

What happened to APC in Zamfara was that they conducted their primaries a day after the timeframe for the conduct of primaries had elapsed. It had nothing to do with party leadership structure.

This season was bad for PDP. Too arrogant to correct simple mistake from Top to bottom. It happen in zamfara so plateau will not be an error.

Totally different but they want to spread fake news. The national leadership is responsible for the nomination of party candidates as seen in the case of Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon Machina. The APC leadership substituted Machina's name despite Lawan not taking part in the election. The supreme court is clear on that and also, APC will be seen as a meddlesome interloper because the have no say in what happens in another party.

garfield1:


Are you now in pdp? Apc wi reclaim plateau,better go and worry about ayu

Reclaim plateau my foot

asobo1:
Dear nlander's please pay no attention to loser @APC on the Plateau. APC was rejected on the Plateau in the just concluded elections. For political watchers like myself, we all saw and the witnessed the back and forth between the then Sen Marafa and Gov Yari APC led faction in Zamfara. No PDP aspirant on the Plateau took PDP to court as a result of it primaries unlike that of APC which up until this moment have a case in court. APC failed on the Plateau as a result of imposition of Dr Nentawe who before then was an INEC REC but was deceived to resign and later rigged in as the candidate of the party.


*ALL CANDIDATES OF PEOPLES’ DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDP] IN PLATEAU STATE WERE VALIDLY NOMINATED TO CONTEST FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS*: IMPEDIMENTS OR NO IMPEDIMENTS?
By Barrister Emmanuel Menseh Madaki (LLM)

INTRODUCTION:
Recently, the general public have been thrown into a state utter confusion especially during the electioneering campaigns wherein propaganda rose to its peak especially in a bid to dissuade the lovers of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) from wasting their votes on the lame, crumby and suboptimal bases that PDP does not have validly elected executives in the state otherwise PDP was and or is without any constitutional structure recognized in law to field in candidates for any elections.

Laughably, a senior lawyer who featured in a radio interview, approached the walls of the radio station in Jos with volumes of court of appeal judgment and made serious of unfounded interpretations and allusions to the judgment of Hon. Mohammed Alkali & Anor v Hon. Musa Aviah Agah & Ors and hastily concluded to the chagrin of many that a vote for the PDP in the election was wasted vote. He reliably quoted some portions of the said judgment though out of context and out of relevance. Indeed, the learned senior lawyer forgot that “Cases are authorities and precedents only for what they have decided and cannot have general applications” more so that in Agah’s case the Lawyers inadvertently did not inform the tribunal and the court of Appeal that PDP had complied with the judgment of the court for fresh congresses. The lawyers didn’t do a good job in that regard and if that case should be dealt with now, it will be decided differently.

A lot of people have confronted and or accosted me to please assist in expounding the true state of affairs and the position of the law on the subject especially now that PDP has won most of the elected positions in the state. As a legal practitioner I have a duty to the society to espouse on the subject to help allay some fears.

Before I delve into profound discussions on the subject matter, may I state that: ALL THE CANDIDATES OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACTIC PARTY (PDP) IN PLATEAU STATE WERE VALIDLY NOMINATED TO CONTEST ELECTION IN LAW.

From the onset, let me swiftly state that the court judgments in issue which the opposition parties have been parading with strictly refer to the PDP EXCO of the Plateau State and does not relate to PDP National EXCO-which have the saddled the constitutional responsibility of also ensuring that candidates are nominated according to the party constitution and guidelines 2017 as amended. The current candidates were nominated by the national exco of the party.

I stumbled on a particular write up by one legal gentleman referred to as S. D. Dido, Esq. wherein he captioned the write up as “PDP PLATEAU AND THE LITIGATION AHEAD” The writer referred to the case of _Hon Musa Agah Avia_ the former Member, House of Representatives for the Jos North/ Bassa Constituency wherein the Election Petition Tribunal acceded to the submissions founded on the judgment of the Learned Justice I.I Kunda of the High Court of Justice, Plateau State to the effect that the Plateau State PDP should conduct fresh Primaries to have a valid EXCO. That article is nothing but barefaced lie capable of misleading the public as it is no longer good law and cannot be regarded as precedent anymore and it is incumbent on me to clarify the issue in the following lucid and clear terms.

Kindly cast your mind back to the year 2020 when PDP in Plateau State Chapter held its Congress to elect its EXCO at all levels from Wards, LGAs and State Levels during the Covid 19 global pandemic wherein there were strict restrictions put in place by Government as to gatherings limited to only 50 due to the existing regulations and prohibition. Notably, the said Congresses were widely berated, challenged and as a result were bluntly affected by the judgment of several courts which led to the decision by the party to conduct fresh Congresses across the State in order to have valid EXCO and a lot of consensuses were made, fresh congresses held which were never questioned anywhere and or contested in any court the EXCO Validly subsists till today.

While the crisis in the PDP was still boiling, PDP quicky reconducted State Congress conducted by the PDP National Office thereby correcting the real or conceived legal impediments on the exco after the Ward Congresses were repeated and areas were issues still persisted were not allowed to partake at the State Congress that produced the present State EXCO of the PDP under the leadership of Hon. Chris Hassan Adukuchili and indeed to the chagrin of many detractors and propagators of mischief and confusion there is no more any legal impediments against the party in Plateau State (this was the Congress where Hon. Bitrus Kaze testified to have withdrawn from the race and there was no litigation against this second Primaries).

What is more interesting is the obviously smart calculation and enabling arithmetic by the PDP national body that smartly came up with a sound approach wherein in all states where PDP had pending litigations, including Plateau State, the PDP National Office took charge of the Ward Congresses to elect delegates and also the Primaries that now fielded *ALL* the candidates that contested for the 2023 general election.

Assuming but not conceding that here is no valid exco in Plateau State for PDP (which is no longer the position), it has nothing to do with the candidature of any PDP candidate at the 2023 election because no Ward or State EXCO or even statutory member partook in the election and it was never conducted by any such exco but strictly by the National EXCO of the party whose credibility and standing was never in issue.

The last straw that broke the Carmel’s back is the fact that the issue of non-compliance with the judgment of Hon. Justice S. P. Gang which many have been parading with is the fact that the Court of Appeal. Jos division has finally cleaned and cleared PDP of any disobedience of any court’s order in the case of AGUSTINE TIMKUK VS INEC & ORS in Appeal No. CA/J/300/2023. This is the latest judgment and most relevant that has absolved PDP plateau state chapter of any disobedience wherein the court held that PDP has valid structure and it will never be a tea party for the oppositions who think that they can challenge the election on the ground that PDP does not have a structure as the opposition lacks the legal imprimatur and capacity to question the nomination of any candidate for election at this point. The Judgment in AUGUSTINE TIMKUK is a watershed and the most latest.

What is even more? the question of nomination of a candidate or selection of a candidate are matters within the sole preserve of the political party courts have no jurisdiction to look into such complaints see EZE V. PDP & ORS (2018) LPELR-44907(SC).
Afterall, for one to complain of the nomination of a particular candidate for an election such a candidate must also bring himself within the purview of the sub-section 14 of section 84 by showing that he was an aspirant in the election complained of. Who is an aspirant? An aspirant is a person who contested the primary election of his party. He must be someone who actually participated in the primary election he is challenging. See: P.D.P Vs Sylva (2012) 13 NWLR (Pt.1316) 85 @ 126 A-E; Lado vs. C.P.C (2011) 18 NWLR (Pt.1279) 689: Shinkafi vs. Yari (2016) 7 NWLR (Pt.1511) 340.

CONCLUSIONS
PDP has come to stay in Plateau State and all speculations as to the validity of the candidates recently voted into power are mere distractions and an attempt to find solace where there is none by the political parties that lost in the last elections.
Congratulations to the PDP family in Plateau State.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Emmanuel Menseh Madaki, Esq. LLB. (Hons) BL, LLM (ABU)


Kindly see attached pix of a what's app group chat of the member representing Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam federal house of representatives and chairman house committee on Navy Yusuf Gagdi. APC may feel they have the judiciary but PDP and all it's candidate have God on their side.

Oga Jeremiah Useni group took pdp to court …apc is coming.. GA NENTAWE!

kulikuli45:


Then why did they loose the HOR seat to PRP?

Help me to ask the m*m* once again.

bro4u:

Reclaim plateau my foot

Votes in mangu were inflated

Is this not a pre election matter?

Is this not ONLY the PDP's affairs?

Are the PDP NEC not allowed to nominate or conduct primary elections?

arewaboy01:
Oga Jeremiah Useni group took pdp to court …apc is coming.. GA NENTAWE!

Yes oh

Penguin2:
Stupid and foolish APC are salivating on their tiny hope of going back to Plateau Government House through the back.

Having read what happened here, it is clearly different from the Zamfara scenario.

What happened to APC in Zamfara was that they conducted their primaries a day after the timeframe for the conduct of primaries had elapsed. It had nothing to do with party leadership structure.

In Plateau case, the argument that it is the National Working Committee of a party that organizes Governorship Primaries is right. The Plateau primaries was organized by the NWC of the PDP which insulates the outcome of the primary from whatever leadership issues Plateau State PDP exco is having.

National Leadership of a party “conducts” primaries and not “supervise”. It is INEC that supervises.

APC always dreaming and looking for shortcuts.

garfield1:


Are you now in pdp? Apc wi reclaim plateau,better go and worry about ayu

APC is holding on to straw. It should better face her case at the Supreme Court. PDP complied with the judgement of justices gang & kinda. Moreover the case ain't similar with Zamfara. Alhassan vs Darius & Akeredolu vs Jegede settles it.

rolams:
Is this not a pre election matter?

Is this not ONLY the PDP's affairs?

Are the PDP NEC not allowed to nominate or conduct primary elections?

Don't mind them. APC NEC nominated Senator Ahmed Lawan and a precedent has been set buy gullible APC are running up and down.

garfield1:


Votes in mangu were inflated

Keep lying to yourself.



See number of registered voters in Plateau by LGA


NUMBERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN PLATEAU STATE



1. B/Ladi 92,262

2. Bassa 107,604

3. Bokkos 102,094

4. Jos East 54,454

5. Jos North 390,244

6. Jos South 209,437

7. Kanam 124,312

8. Kanke 76,325

9. Langtang North 109,450

10. Langtang South 55,145

11. Mangu 169,604

12. Mikang 57,385

13. Pankshin 116,659

14. Qua’anpan 126,480

15. Riyom 63,075

16. Shendam 125,717

17. Wase 105,478.

garfield1:


Yes oh

Not Useni group but a party member. A party member whose right to voting was denied, was restored and he voted in a new primary. He is now satisfied with actions of the PDP in complying with the judgement

asobo1:

Come to Plateau state and spew this gibberish

he will come to plateau state and we shall celebrate apc victory and there’s nothing pdp can do about it …better start mourning pdp inevitable loss in the court !

slivertongue:


Not Useni group but a party member. A party member whose right to voting was denied, was restored and he voted in a new primary. He is now satisfied with actions of the PDP in complying with the judgement

I am not concerned about the judgments but inflation in mangu and jos south

garfield1:


Votes in mangu were inflated

Most of u APC folks won't stop to amaze me. In which ward and PU were votes inflated? Mangu is known to have given near same number of votes to the APC in 2015 & 2019. And Jos South?

Apc will be the party to divide Nigeria,do not take the hospitality and simplicity of plateau man as cowardice, if you saw the jubilation in plateau for 3days after pdp won, apc and their highest bidder courts will have a rethink.

asobo1:



Keep lying to yourself.



See number of registered voters in Plateau by LGA


NUMBERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN PLATEAU STATE



1. B/Ladi 92,262

2. Bassa 107,604

3. Bokkos 102,094

4. Jos East 54,454

5. Jos North 390,244

6. Jos South 209,437

7. Kanam 124,312

8. Kanke 76,325

9. Langtang North 109,450

10. Langtang South 55,145

11. Mangu 169,604

12. Mikang 57,385

13. Pankshin 116,659

14. Qua’anpan 126,480

15. Riyom 63,075

16. Shendam 125,717

17. Wase 105,478.

All lgas recorded less than 50% turnout but only mangu recorded 70%

garfield1:


I am not concerned about the judgments but inflation in mangu and jos south

Jos South turned in lower votes. It's votes to the PDP is in the range of 100k upward

slivertongue:


APC always dreaming and looking for shortcuts.

Apc abi pdp are the one always looking for shortcuts? Seems you have nothing to say

garfield1:



All lgas recorded less than 50% turnout but only mangu recorded 70%

BCM is from Mangu.

slivertongue:


BCM is from Mangu.

Nentawe is from kamke and turnout was under 50%

garfield1:


Apc abi pdp are the one always looking for shortcuts? Seems you have nothing to say

PDP ain't interested in shortcuts, they learnt a hard lessons unlike the what the APC

garfield1:


Nentawe is from kamke and turnout was under 50%

It is not given that both should have the same level of political consciousness and aparthy

slivertongue:



PDP ain't interested in shortcuts, they learnt a hard lessons unlike the what the APC

Pdp started with the shortcut game from bayelsa to zamfara,rivers

slivertongue:


It is not given that both should have the same level of political consciousness and aparthy

My brother, the accredited figures from bvas doesn't match

slivertongue:


Jos South turned in lower votes. It's votes to the PDP is in the range of 100k upward

Jos north also turned lower votes

garfield1:


Pdp started with the shortcut game from bayelsa to zamfara,rivers

This is the problem with you folks two wrongs makes a right. PDP tried it and it hurt her APC's will be calamitous

garfield1:


My brother, the accredited figures from bvas doesn't match

And what are the figures?

If doesn't add up approach the court.

PDP us also armed with evidence of vote tampering against the APC

accordadoga24:
ASIWAJU IS COMING!!

That’s all I can say.

If PDP, APC, LP, NNPP like make dem kill themselves. No be my business.

Papa, carry us go where we no know. We trust u say na for Land of Honey we go arrive, we no go jam. Please, come and rescue our beloved country Nigeria.

WHO NO LIKE SAY PAPA IS COMING:

A lot more than this was said about Buhari Infact some people died in the course of celebration of his victory... Una no dey learn..