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Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Yusufisraelj(m): 10:16pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
Felimax: Sure you've made a valid case. Don't forget the FCT is govern by the minister of FCT appointed by the president. Let's see what the court settles with, for me I don't think we have a president elect at the moment going by the constitution. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by WhereMyLoud: 10:30pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
incandescentena:Na me turn your 419 likes to 420 |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by UnabashedIPOB: 10:30pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
BreconHills: You're trying to wiggle your way out by not answering my question. You would deal with everything else other than answer the question. The section of your Constitution you are quoting is irrelevant to the issue. Even going by the section of your Constitution you quoted, you still missed the mark. That section of your Constitution was saying that although the Federal Capital Territory is NOT a state with its own Executive Governor, House of Assembly, and State Courts, it shall be treated as a state because all the powers vested in these 3 different arms of state government are inter alia vested in the three arms of the Federal government residing in the Federal Capital Territory. This is exactly what that section of your Constitution says below: Section 299 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria The provisions of this Constitution shall apply to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as if it were one of the States of the Federation; and accordingly - (a) all the legislative powers, the executive powers and the judicial powers vested in the House of Assembly, the Governor of a State and in the courts of a State shall, respectively, vest in the National Assembly, the President of the Federation and in the courts which by virtue of the foregoing provisions are courts established for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; Now to deal with the relevant part of your Constitution that deals with the issue at hand, I refer you to: Section 134 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election - (a) he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. (2) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where there being more than two candidates for the election- (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Based on the literal interpretation of the relevant section of your Constitution that deals with the issue, it means that whoever is declared the winner MUST also get 25% of the votes cast in the Federal capital territory. "AND" is a conjunction. You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other. 1 Like |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by ojoisimi(m): 10:51pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
Wodu89: See your life outside. Òdè did not even read or read but lack comprehension skill to know that it was Tinubu's lawyer that was interpreting the law here. So, each state's of the federation excluding your SE isn't home to every person across the country? Òpònú ayéràdà |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Espelbengz(m): 11:19pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
Continue wailing loser! Tell obi to call me kiddo👊 Felimax: |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Felimax(m): 11:24pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by galadima77(m): 11:25pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
Massiveglory: Seun please come and bear witness to this abeg...@ all nairaland mods please. Today's April 14th. You owe me. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Massiveglory: 11:45pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
galadima77:Not by mouth. Bring out your money |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by DollarMarley247: 11:46pm On Apr 14, 2023 |
favor914:Mind You, The law never said the Vote of Abuja is equal to that of all the 36 states. Ince even states that the 25% threshold of the of the 36 states is 24. If the threshold is 24 then you must have Abuja 25 percentage also 1 Like |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by nzubegod: 12:02am On Apr 15, 2023 |
nwekeugochukwu: Mugu Trying To Rewrite Constitution By Being Ridiculously Flippant |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Espelbengz(m): 12:15am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Obituary is your principals nick name? 🤣🤣🤣 Oya tell your obituary to call me under 30 😛 Go to bed so you don't loose your sleeping age kiddo👊👊 Felimax: |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Mubiola360: 12:50am On Apr 15, 2023 |
otuomasirichi:what if it happens, what should happen to you? |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Nobody: 2:05am On Apr 15, 2023 |
ppogba: E go shock you.... Wait for it |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by geoworldedu: 2:42am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Heathrow44:Though I am apolitical and I don't care who becomes the president, but saying that one cannot forfeit asset except he or she has a criminal offence is fallacy. ROMAN ABRAHAMOVIC Chelsea Football Club true owner was forced to forfeit his asset Chelsea FC to the UK without involving in a crime. I don't see any way the US won't put a bloody Nigeria in jail if they sensed a truly convincing fair play rather than opting for mere forfeiture of asset. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Iluvmycontr3: 3:22am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Wodu89: Don't mind him. He's never polite or diplomatic. Always intimidating the mass in an undemocratic manner. THE SWEARING-IN should be done in Lagos, and he should also start ruling from there if Abuja is not special. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Odogwuzack: 4:19am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Yusufisraelj: Make two of Una dey deceive una self for there. ![]() When Court finally say the right thing, you will still say many terrible things about the judiciary. Bunch of emotional ladden clowns. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Yusufisraelj(m): 4:23am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Odogwuzack: You can make your case without sounding asinine. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Globad(f): 4:32am On Apr 15, 2023 |
otuomasirichi: What are you going to do after he's sworn in? 1 Like |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Odogwuzack: 4:37am On Apr 15, 2023 |
UnabashedIPOB: Gibberish!!! If your fraudster Obi had contested against one "City champion" from Abuja such that Obi won massively in every state and failed to get 25% in Abuja for obvious reason, will you be coming up with this useless narratives that is not even in line with the constitution just because of "AND"? ![]() The constitution says "no one vote is bigger than the other" and the use of "and" there is just a reminder that there is another place (that is more like a state) apart from the 36 states that should be considered in calculating our 2/3 states of the federation. To get the two third spread. Most of you know the truth. You are just looking for reason to start insulting the judiciary when the tribunal eventually throw the rubbish petition into the dustbin where it belongs. 1 Like |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Odogwuzack: 4:39am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Yusufisraelj: Just trying to point out some areas your father failed in raising you. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Injera(f): 4:50am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Yusufisraelj:Den go just waste you |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Yusufisraelj(m): 5:14am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Injera: It's beyond physical bro, I know the vanity of trying physical when you're not helped on the other side. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by BreconHills(m): 5:33am On Apr 15, 2023 |
UnabashedIPOB: Talk about complexity where there is none. 🤣 But we are not talking about events are we? We are talking about a list of places and one of those places prima facia should not be in the list because it is not a state in the common definition of a state. "And" is therefore inclusive with the objective of treating it as a state ( the 37th state) for the sake of the constitutional matters. Let's use the UK County system as an example. The UK has 48 counties, South Woodham is not a county it is a small town. Imagine that the British Constitution elects to treat it as a county ( the 49th county ) for the sake of an election. It now says "25% of the votes in 2/3 of all UK counties and South Woodham Ferrers. It MUST use "and" because South Woodham Ferrers is not a state outside of this special circumstance. South Woodham does not become a super state by this interpretation it is merely added to the list of states for the election. The law may be an ass sometimes but it is not stupid. It has logic. If all the votes of Nigerian citizens are equal under the constitution why would the votes of people who by chance live in a particular place be deemed special? It takes away from the equality of votes by creating super voters. The SC has indicated in prior cases that Abuja will be treated as a state but this does not constitute an inference that it is something unknown under the general interpretation of the constitution under which everyone has one vote. It would yield ridiculous results and weird political strategies. "Apples lemons, bananas and bread" Bread is not a fruit but we are going to treat it as equal to a fruit in this instance. Simple. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Finestgurlie(f): 5:36am On Apr 15, 2023 |
CursedOsuPigs:mynd44 lalasticlala Seun Dominique nlfpmod Mukina2 Rule 2 |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by vannessa7(f): 6:01am On Apr 15, 2023 |
lildush: It was not possible for INEC to change the results at collation center because every state rep brought forward their state result by themselves and read it out by themselves, they gave copies to inec and a soft copy of it was projected to the screen for everyone to monitor while the state rep was reading their state report, it was broadcasted live and there were many people there, they did not close for the day but stayed in the collation centre till the end of the result collation they only went for recess when there was no state on ground and they are waiting for the next state that will travel down with their result, they worked all day and night until the last collation and they announced the winner, the only people that could tamper with results are state rep themselves, note that each party had situation room where they were also monitoring the election and collating their own result based on what was broadcasted from collation centres. Basing your judgement on hearsay is different from reality. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by incandescentena: 6:22am On Apr 15, 2023 |
WhereMyLoud:Heading to the 500 likes ![]() 5 Likes |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by theredaddy: 6:25am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Mecka: Oga stop compounding issues if you no understand english, did you even read the epistle i wrote. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by TheATM: 6:53am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Yusufisraelj:if you are a family man just write your WILL now because you people will be shocked that day We know what you people can do and we have already prepared for you since.Ojukwu that tried rubbish years back,go and ask him in his grave what happened to him then.JAGABAN is your president,if you don't like that go and relocate to Rwanda or Burundi. |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Tzar(m): 7:04am On Apr 15, 2023 |
Very true my incoming president! The logic is as simple as ABC… Otherwise, all a politician need to cause an upst is to focus all energies on Abuja to spoil the election of a popular candidate. If a politician wins 90% votes in 36states but got 10% in Abuja, will they say such person cannot be president? nwekeugochukwu: |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by theredaddy: 7:17am On Apr 15, 2023 |
UnabashedIPOB: You are just being clever by quarter, english no hard naa sentiment dey worry una According to section B, a part say 2-3rd of all states in the federation, if you list out all the states in Nigeria will abuja be there ? The need for a "conjunction" arises becos all forms of logical arguement would have left abuja out of elections becos it does not meet the main clause " in all states of the federation" The sole essence of of bringing Abuja into the equation was for fairness, they are Nigerians shouldnt be disenfrachnise cos of state or no state.. the draftsman can't preach fairness and at the same time promote "superiority" cos the constitution just want abuja to count as if it were one of the states, in english "as if" is subjective to imagination, assumption .. becos its not real in true sense The next task was to look for the most appropriate "conjunction" taken into consideration election is a language of maths express in English .. for additional purposes "and" which denotes " +" in maths is the most appropriate choice. ask ur teachers Interestingly, Why not try to introduce FCT as one of the states in the federation such that it will induce understanding from readers, without using the word "and" |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by HIPROFILE(m): 7:36am On Apr 15, 2023 |
I thought the word AND means Including, Also, In Addition…. abi I no know english again ni? or APC and Tinubu is trying to change the meaning of AND? who is advising this people? |
Re: Voters In FCT Are Not Special, I Don't Need 25% There To Win – Tinubu by Adebowale89(m): 8:03am On Apr 15, 2023 |
otuomasirichi: you igbo are just a political comedians, little did one knew that this obidient movement is gathering of political comedians no one can stop Tinubu Swearing inn, by acceptance of Inec report, Tinubu is C-inC in waiting |
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