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Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by helinues: 8:49am On Mar 24, 2015
There is palpable tension in the polity as the suits seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, in the March 28 election come up for hearing at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday.

There are no fewer than 10 suits seeking Mr. Buhari’s disqualification from the race on different grounds. All have now been consolidated for a hearing since they are all seeking the same relief.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola had on March 19 adjourned hearing on the suit to March 24.

In one of the suits, Chukwunweike Okafor is seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to remove or delete Mr. Buhari’s name and that of the APC from the list of persons and political parties eligible for the office of President.

In the suit, Mr. Buhari, the APC and INEC were listed as first, second and third defendants, respectively.
Mr. Okafor asked the court to hold that the information supplied by the APC flag-bearer in Form C.F 001 that his West African School Certificate was with the Nigerian Army was false and should be disqualified from the race.

In another suit, Max Ozoaka asked the court to disqualify Mr. Buhari on the ground that the INEC Form Cf 001 the APC candidate submitted to INEC was incomplete.

He contended that Mr. Buhari failed to accompany the form with all relevant academic credentials.
Mr. Ozoaka also raised objections regarding some of the information contained in other documents submitted by the APC candidate, including voter’s card.

Addressing the court at the last hearing, Mr. Buhari’s team of lawyers, comprising five Senior Advocate of Nigeria, led by Wole Olanipekun, said all the suits were targeted at stopping the APC presidential flag bearer from participating in the election.

The lawyers also contended that no court has the power to stop INEC from conducting the presidential election on March 28.

They asked the court not to allow itself to be used for the purpose, stating that Section 87 (11) of the Electoral Act cautions courts not to do anything or take action or issue any injunction that will stop the holding of primary or general elections.

“My lord, it appears that this matter is targeted at stopping the presidential election, if that is the case my lord. This court should not be used for that purpose,” Mr. Olanipekun said.

Earlier, counsel to Mr. Okafor, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, had asked the court to expedite hearing on the suit to enable it determine the fate of the APC candidate before the poll.

He reminded the court that the election was only nine days away, adding, “We have a plethora of court processes that are already filed in this matter.”

Mr. Ozekhome added, “The position of the law as adumbrated in a legion of cases, starting from the apex court, is that in an action commenced by originating summons such as ours, which is meant to construct certain section of the Electoral Act and the constitution, the originating summons should be taken together and cumulatively with process challenging the jurisdiction of this court to hear the suit.

“This matter should be expeditiously heard and determined before March 28 so that we don’t have situation of having a pretender put on the throne.”
His submission however angered Mr. Olanipekun, who argued that the suits were pre-election matters that could be heard and determined after the election.

According to him, “There is no law, authority or decision that compels any court to give judgement in a pre-election matter before the election itself. The matter is not time-bound, it is not like election petition.

“My lord, the Supreme Court has held that pre-election matter remains a live issue before or after election. What we are saying is that the court is not encouraged to rush pre-election matters because it is said that justice rushed is justice crushed.
“That was the decision in the Ibe Vs Onuora, 1998, at page 558 and page 363. Moreover, section 158 © of the Evidence Act enjoins your lordship to take judicial notice of newspaper publications.”

Counsel to the APC, Lateef Fagbemi had argued that the issue of legality of the service of the court process on defendants should be determined first.
Hasan Liman, counsel to INEC, objected to the consolidation of the originating summons and the preliminary objections for hearing. He also asked the court to insist that all the parties to the suits should file their pleadings.




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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by MRLINGTON(m): 8:51am On Mar 24, 2015
Notin will Happen..hes gon contest nd Win



Sai Buhari

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by viczing(m): 8:53am On Mar 24, 2015
MRLINGTON:
Notin will Happen..hes gon contest nd Win



Sai Buhari

E go shock you, cos I belive he's not above the law, and if he's supporters cause violence we will match them equal to equal, cos no one has monopoly for violence, we all have beast in our selves but don't bring it out like touts in the north

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 8:54am On Mar 24, 2015
Am not anxious, if he lied under oath he shld be punished. Nufin will happen if buhari is dis qualified, only dat few apc thugs may wanna waste dem promising future cum lives for a 72 year old man.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by kheart(m): 8:54am On Mar 24, 2015
PDP know dey re just chasing shadows. Nothing go happen and all progressives no dey shake.

Na when NL censor PDP-I-Gs tongue @mods

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 8:55am On Mar 24, 2015
Nothing will happen. undecided

This election will hold and buhari will come out victorious!


THE ONLY WAY JONATHAN WILL WIN IS IF HE RIGS! For my area here the northerners are already travelling back home to vote. While the southerners are travelling for wedding, naming ceremony, to fuccck their wives/gF's, burial ceremonies, secure their kids,Some sef don buy fuel keep for supersports and telemundo etc grin grin.


When I say rigging here, I mean massive rigging!

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by MRLINGTON(m): 8:55am On Mar 24, 2015
viczing:


E go shock you


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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by ascaris(m): 8:57am On Mar 24, 2015
Qualified to contest or disqualified, the primordial man will soon go into extinction.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by macpetrus(m): 8:58am On Mar 24, 2015
Hahahaaha... High blood pressure to the camp of APC....

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 8:59am On Mar 24, 2015
MRLINGTON:
Notin will Happen..hes gon contest nd Win



Sai Buhari

society not governed by law is a jungle.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by olu77(m): 9:02am On Mar 24, 2015
Atleast they should waste some of the energy they intended to use in rigging on pursuing useless court cases

PDP 16 years of failure and corruption.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by jazzydee: 9:03am On Mar 24, 2015
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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Raiders: 9:04am On Mar 24, 2015
macpetrus:
Hahahaaha... High blood pressure to the camp of APC....
nothing is going to happen. Buhari name will be on the ballot paper this Saturday

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by olu77(m): 9:04am On Mar 24, 2015
marcoNG:


society not governed by law is a jungle.

You are right. Pdp has turned our society to a lawless jungle

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 9:05am On Mar 24, 2015
Anxiety in PDP's camp huh, cause theyre the petty desperate cvnts that want buhari disqualified so badly

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Mogidi: 9:17am On Mar 24, 2015
Buhari is not bigger than the Nigerian nation.
Nothing would happen if the buko hari leader was disqualified, we live in a democracy with rules, the rules have to be obeyed.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Flets: 9:17am On Mar 24, 2015
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country.

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

OBJ's use of JTF force could not help as no Oil producing company will risk producing crude and killing staff in a volatile region.

GEJ under Yaradua had to get down to the creeks to to talk to these boys and effect the amnesty program because they found him as a representation in government.

If after GEJ's achievements in almost all sectors, roads, bridges, railways, agriculture, automobile, alamajiri schools, new universities, fertilizer and ghost worker scam elimination, freedom of press, FOI, free and fair elections, power sector. .........etc, he is still booted out. It will be impossible to convince a ND minority albeit a militant that their own was not persecuted out of office. And that will be the theme of the new struggle. The long term solution to this mess is implementing the Confab report and enthroning true federalism.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investments will seize in all sectors.

And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc.

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished.

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by worthytalk: 9:28am On Mar 24, 2015
Terrorist Buhari must be disqualify there is no two ways about it.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by 5p1naz(m): 9:37am On Mar 24, 2015
Imagine what will happen if the court disqualifies buhari at the crucial hour. Nigerian politicians sha like to live on the edge. Funny enough when 2 elephants fight, na the grass beneath them dey suffer am.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by korel9: 9:37am On Mar 24, 2015
Amen

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by joystickextendr: 9:38am On Mar 24, 2015
fingers crossed cool
Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by pekeyim: 9:38am On Mar 24, 2015
They should be very anxious.




You can't hide from the law

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Capitano1(m): 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by iphanyiuma(m): 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
I love GEJ no homo gringrin

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by fitzmayowa: 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
The cases will be dismissed, GMB will be available to contest for nigeria's presidential election....


As the case maybe, whether GMB loses or wins the election, its going to GMB vs GEJ this saturday nothing can change that...

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
IMO.....they should just let sleeping dogs lie.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by vooks: 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
Nothing to be anxious about, he will be cleared as he heads to the gallows for decapitation

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by idee91: 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
Hehehehehe

Dreamer boiz and girls in PDP

BUHARI is my next President.

Hit like if the feeling is mutual for you

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by coolluk(m): 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Mogidi: 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
Nothing would happen if Buhari who failed to follow INEC guidelines was disqualified.
We will just continue to enjoy the fresh air.

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Bonapart(m): 9:39am On Mar 24, 2015
Paid neeges working for their money....
#GIVEBUHARIACHANCE

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Re: Anxiety Across Nigeria As Cases Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification Hold Today by Nobody: 9:40am On Mar 24, 2015
Flets:
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country.

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.


Why can't you Nigerians vote based on reason....and stop all this subtle threats thing?

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