hassan85:
foolish people. if is really d higest level of stupidity from PDP asking for vote to be turned just like dt? did dey kill Audu? y den make such outrageous demand. PDP jokers and commedians

Maybe they killed Audu, foolish party! So, all a person has to do to become Gov, is to kill the potential winner before declaration of result and pronto you become a Governor. What a party. Metuh and PDP are jokers, their penchant for evil know no bounds. If only Gej had stormed the apartment where PMB was quartered with special forces before declaration of result to finish PMB, INEC would ve declared Gej winner, Gej must be biting his finger now. Evil party

Olisa Methu should consult Lai Muhammed for training asap.

zinachidi:



http://thenationonlineng.net/pdp-to-inec-declare-wada-as-winner-of-kogi-election/

Wada a loser to b declared a Winner in an inconclusive Election,Pdp recieve sense i suspect una in Audu's death.

busyfishing:
Metuh needs to see a shrink.. Between him,Fayose and kayode I wonder whose psychiatric case is worse

They are all far gone in psychiatric evaluation, Metuh is already peeing in his pants and eating his poo. Fayose oooh, he is into playing with his 'john Thomas' in public already . Aaah! Fani Kayode on his own is already at the market square dancing SHOKI and ALANTA., to his own song.

samento:
You have said nothing bros.

Oh yes because you are nothing.

Yes.... afterall his is the runner-up.

hush15:


But as harsh and stupid it may sound, it is the clear truth. It is a race, only those alive gets to finish it. You don't substitute a player during the race. You don't take from Peter to pay Paul...

All these bending and bending of rules should stop. The Ruling Party can't keep running the country like this, the en will definitely not be good.

The race is between APC and PDP and not between Audu and Wada (as interpreted by Supreme court in deciding between Omehia and Amaechi) When Omehia was removed he was not replaced by the opposition party candidate but by his own party's candidate (Amaechi) because the PDP has already won the main gubernatorial election. So if you replace Audu with Omehia in this case then you'll just simply have to produce a candidate from APC to take over the winning votes of APC in the main election or did Supreme court order that opposition candidate should take over in Amaechi case? if not why should Wada take over APC's vote when the party(APC) has not been found wanting or disqualified.
Going according to what Nurse Metuh is saying is simply going against the supreme court interpretation or PDP creating their own law for selfish reason.

Most of us just speak cos they like a particular party or there's data on their phone thus can type not cos they are gided by constitution.we should all go and sturdy our constitution then retrurn to niraland!

femi1410:
Is this man OK??
When u say the Apc has crashed out based on the death of Audu, then what is the purpose of his running mate.
PDP with olisa has the only cure nursing their injury, I guess this people are gonners.


Meanwhile no need for paternity test for this duo

Okbath:
PDP is wrong, they(PDP) better pursue the cancellation of the election and prepare for a second opportunity in the re-run, I also faulted the Attorney general and INEC on the way they handled the outcome due to constitutional lacuna by ordering APC to replace late Audu to complete the election, which means that two governorship candidates secures victory for APC if the(APC) eventually emerged winner as against wada idris of PDP that is one against two. I suggest cancellation and fresh election

so if candidates keep dieing they shld continue to cancel & order fresh elections till jeezuz come

Xetima:

Amaechi case is TOTALLY different. The elections were concluded and result announced and Certificate of return issued to a PDP candidate. Therefore, once Omehia' candidacy was invalidated, the next candidate was elected. On Audu case, the elections were inconclusive. Assuming it was the LP candidate that died would INEC wait for them to hold another primaries or substitute the candidate? By reason of Audu's death, APC rightly crashed out of the race. The electoral laws does not support any other options other than to return the living candidate with the highest vote.

It is not person u are voting 4 but party if Audu is not there he has a deputy to step in,Inec err by declaring d election inconclusive how on earth can Wada(pdp) win apc in a rerun with only 25000 valid voters with pvc.

Opinedecandid:
That is what it should be.
I'm not here to bandy words with lazy APC fans, they can go ahead and search out/confirm the position of the law in respect to that election and the matters arising.

But two options are opened for INEC according to the Law:

1. INEC declares the living candidate that scored the highest number of votes winner;

2. INEC conducts a fresh polls altogether, after it would have given APC enough time to conduct a fresh primaries and come out with a candidate.

Anything other than any of those would tantamount to absolute lawlessness and a terrible precedence that will hunt everyone in future.

Admit it or not, my brothers and sisters from the other mother.
That is what should be.
It is not in throwing tantrums.
And if you guys use Federal might to something else on Kogi people and the entire country (as your stock in trade has been) you will be the worse for it in a time not too long from now

You have refused to state any law to back your assertions. The two points you raised are just your personal opinion. The AGF had quoted two law to justified his position but you and PDP had not able to raise issue about that but just babbling over the internet and raising unconstitutional issue.
Let me remind you what the AGF said:
1. Votes cast are not for candidate but for a party and buttress it with supreme court judgement which serves as precedence (Amaechi vs PDP). As it is today, APC is still alive and not dead, hence its votes cannot be invalid. section 221. If its votes is still valid, what is the way forward? That now take us to the second law in quoted from the electoral act.
2. The only condition that can warrant outright cancellation of election is that if the flag bearer and deputy is dead. In the scenario the deputy is still alive, meaning the election cannot be cancelled. Section 33 of the electoral act.
3. Now where the lacuna set in, is that no portion of the constitution or electoral act foreseen this Audu's case. And since the election cannot be cancelled, the way forward is APC make a substitution for its flag bearer by relying on the previous primary or upgrade its deputy.
Calling for a fresh election is satanic and against our constitution and electoral act.

ldpele:
PDP have a serious legal case here, some persons calling it a joint may not be getting it right, u can't b a flag bearer if u don't run or contest a party primaries, the last I checked, the deputy didn't. So on wat grounds will the deputy of audu be giving the party flag to contest for the supplementary. I truly believe the PDP are playing politics with this statement, though after the partisan AGF refused approaching the Supreme Court for interpretation.

You have refused to state any law to back your assertions. The AGF had quoted two law to justified his position but you and PDP had not able to raise issue about that but just babbling over the internet and raising unconstitutional issue.
Let me remind you what the AGF said:
1. Votes cast are not for candidate but for a party and he buttressed it with supreme court judgement which serves as precedence (Amaechi vs PDP). As it is today, APC is still alive and not dead, hence its votes cannot be invalid. section 221. If its votes is still valid, what is the way forward? That now take us to the second law in quoted from the electoral act.
2. The only condition that can warrant outright cancellation of election is that if the flag bearer and deputy is dead. In the scenario the deputy is still alive, meaning the election cannot be cancelled. Section 33 of the electoral act.
3. Now where the lacuna set in, is that no portion of the constitution or electoral act foreseen this Audu's case. And since the election cannot be cancelled, the way forward is APC make a substitution for its flag bearer by relying on the previous primary or upgrade its deputy.
Calling for a fresh election is satanic and against our constitution and electoral act.

If PDP still want to be relevant in the political landscape of this Nation called Nigeria, Metu must be sack and it must be Now!

Chai, PDP like awoof so much. Wada to b declared winner just like that? Hmmm, if APC catch una, una don enter one chance b that

teeboila:
Lalasticlala come hear o Nurse Metuh is at it again.







The race is between APC and PDP and not between Audu and Wada (as interpreted by Supreme court in deciding between Omehia and Amaechi) When Omehia was removed he was not replaced by the opposition party candidate but by his own party's candidate (Amaechi) because the PDP has already won the main gubernatorial election. So if you replace Audu with Omehia in this situation then you'll just simply have to produce a candidate from APC to take over the winning votes of APC in the main election(only intra-party candidate change is needed) or did Supreme court order that opposition candidate should take over in Amaechi case? if not why should Wada take over APC's vote when the party(APC) has not been found wanting or disqualified.
Going according to what Nurse Metuh is saying is simply going against the supreme court interpretation or PDP creating their own law for selfish reason.


So Nurse Metuh should sit down and let the Doctors (AGF and CJN) do the needful.

PDP working committee members get sense so?

hush15:


You can pass insults on Metuh for I care, but pls, see through his words. He is right.

One is the candidate started a race. Unfortunately, Faleke did not contest in the primaries as a governorship contestant but Audu and it's too late to start running primaries. If the Candidate didn't finish his race, it's not the fault of anyone. On this case, Audu passed on unfortunately before he could claim his mandate. Automatically, that ends APC there. APC should have gone with a contestant with clean bill of health. The race has to continue without APC. Unfortunately, it's a sad loss for APC but if they truly care bout our democracy, the should display sportsmanship and accept, then wish other contestants in the race better luck. Not fight for everything.



Secondly, The same law that was upheld in Taraba should be the same electoral law in Kogi except Taraba is not in Nigeria. If Taraba is upturned on the basis of individuality knowing full well by pre judicial rulings that the party owns the votes, and the party acknowledges the candidate that won as their consensus candidate, primaries or not, it think should be given to them. APC now is claiming party votes and thus should be allowed to be substituted, in an election that is ongoing.

I would rather advice that INEC conclude the elections as it is now, then APC goes to the court and contest. Not, preempt and put the cart before the horse...

Mr. Man, Nurse Metuh was totally wrong in his assertion and you're also wrong. It's APC candidate that died and not APC as a party and again Taraba issue is quite different from the scenario at hand because the tribunal says PDP has no candidate from the beginning but APC has. You have refused to state any law to back your assertions. The AGF had quoted two law to justified his position but you and PDP had not able to raise issue about that but just babbling over the internet and raising unconstitutional issue.
Let me remind you what the AGF said:
1. Votes casts are not for candidate but for a party and he buttressed it with supreme court judgements which serves as precedences (Amaechi vs PDP). As it is today, APC is still alive and not dead, hence its votes cannot be invalid. section 221. If its votes is still valid, what is the way forward? That take us to the second law he quoted from the electoral act.
2. The only condition that can warrant outright cancellation of election is that if the flag bearer and deputy is dead. In this scenario the deputy is still alive, meaning the election cannot be cancelled. Section 33 of the electoral act.
3. Now where the lacuna set in, is that no portion of the constitution or electoral act foreseen this Audu's case. And since the election cannot be cancelled, the way forward is APC make a substitution for its flag bearer by relying on the previous primary or upgrade its deputy.
Calling for a fresh election is satanic and against our constitution and electoral act because PDP that fielded candidate is still vibrant and not dead and its votes cannot be transferred to other party. Condition that can also make the 1st runner up to be declared winner, is if there is breach of electoral law or constitution by the party which tally to your issue on Taraba state but for now no breach had been committed by APC till the election is declared inconclusive.

Opinedecandid:
That is what it should be.
I'm not here to bandy words with lazy APC fans, they can go ahead and search out/confirm the position of the law in respect to that election and the matters arising.

But two options are opened for INEC according to the Law:

1. INEC declares the living candidate that scored the highest number of votes winner;

2. INEC conducts a fresh polls altogether, after it would have given APC enough time to conduct a fresh primaries and come out with a candidate.

Anything other than any of those would tantamount to absolute lawlessness and a terrible precedence that will hunt everyone in future.

Admit it or not, my brothers and sisters from the other mother.
That is what should be.
It is not in throwing tantrums.
And if you guys use Federal might to something else on Kogi people and the entire country (as your stock in trade has been) you will be the worse for it in a time not too long from now

U get sense so? D pple of Kogi av just voted out d incumbent PDP governor n uar here saying dat another fresh election shld take place. Pls, wat gave u d impression that d rejected PDP candidate wl win after he lost woefully just some days back? Make u dey reason small small b4 u start to type o. Na my advice b that

Xetima:

Amaechi case is TOTALLY different. The elections were concluded and result announced and Certificate of return issued to a PDP candidate. Therefore, once Omehia' candidacy was invalidated, the next candidate was elected. On Audu case, the elections were inconclusive. Assuming it was the LP candidate that died would INEC wait for them to hold another primaries or substitute the candidate? By reason of Audu's death, APC rightly crashed out of the race. The electoral laws does not support any other options other than to return the living candidate with the highest vote.

Pls can you refer us to that electoral law. Party owns votes and not individual. APC is not dead but its candidate. Section 221 of the constitution. Pls don't talk when knowledgeable people comment.

teeboila:
Lalasticlala come hear o Nurse Metuh is at it again.







The race is between APC and PDP and not between Audu and Wada (as interpreted by Supreme court in deciding between Omehia and Amaechi) When Omehia was removed he was not replaced by the opposition party candidate but by his own party's candidate (Amaechi) because the PDP has already won the main gubernatorial election. So if you replace Audu with Omehia in this situation then you'll just simply have to produce a candidate from APC to take over the winning votes of APC in the main election(only intra-party candidate change is needed) or did Supreme court order that opposition candidate should take over in Amaechi case? if not why should Wada take over APC's vote when the party(APC) has not been found wanting or disqualified.
Going according to what Nurse Metuh is saying is simply going against the supreme court interpretation or PDP creating their own law for selfish reason.


So Nurse Metuh should sit down and let the Doctors (AGF and CJN) do the needful.

Not like am a fan of pdp, bt in Amaechi's case, he contended dt he was d rightful candidate of Apc nt Omehia. Bt in dis case Audu is d rightful candidate, and for d fact dt he is dead, d d ist runner up shud b declared winner unless a contrary law says otherwise

repogirl, Woz u take on this? Coz ur hatred for APC amazes me

Danrizzle:
Yes.... afterall his is the runner-up.

dunce!

Omoakinsuyi:
PDP MUST BE SICK

NOT ONLY SICK BUT THEY ARE DEAD BUT STILL LIVING.

petiteee:
repogirl, Woz u take on this? Coz ur hatred for APC amazes me

I am not pro PDP, my anger is targeted at politicians who don't care for the masses and are willing to lie and deceive to get elected. The APC rode into government on a train of tall promises that gullible people expected them to fulfil... That is the reason for my annoyance at them.

As for this, I don't have anything thing to say , I'm not sure where Metuh got his own constitution from.

hush15:


But as harsh and stupid it may sound, it is the clear truth. It is a race, only those alive gets to finish it. You don't substitute a player during the race. You don't take from Peter to pay Paul...

All these bending and bending of rules should stop. The Ruling Party can't keep running the country like this, the en will definitely not be good.

Your argument is childish-like , which can be refuted with child-like mentality.
During Nigeria vs Angola match in which Okwaraji slumped and died in the field of play, the match was not ended and Angola declared winner. Instead, he was substituted and the match continued. This was because the death of Okwaraji, a player from Nigerian team, did not translate to mean the death of entire Nigerian team.
In team games, where a player of a team is injured, he/she can be substituted with another player. Even in the case where red card is issued the team would have to play short-one, but would not outrightly be disqualified. This apply to election by implication; even in the eyes of the Law election contest is team issue. No one contest in an election, except that he/she is fielded by a political party and some cases must have running-mate. Thus, You have the party, the candidate, and the running-mate, all who campaign and canvass for votes together, and who either win or lose election together. Since the three are one each has equal stakes. A Vote because of one is a vote for all. In other words, a party has not separate votes from that of its candidate neither does the running-mate receive separate numbers of votes from that of the main candidate. In a Governorship contest, we have three persons by Law who have rights over the same votes cast. Thus, you have the party, the main candidate and his running-mate comprising a team who canvass for votes.
In this Kogi case, we have team-APC with APC, Audu and Falake vs team-PDP with PDP, Wada and his running mate. That Audu is out from team-APC does not mean APC and Falake have no rights to the gains of the team. Logically, Team-APC would only substitute Audu and the game continue.
Please, someone should response to these simple test with impartial mind:
1. Is APC/PDP as party not entitle to the votes recorded by its candidate?
2. On which party platform do candidates contest the election?
3. Was it the personal disposition of the APC candidate that won the party majority votes?
4. Why did PDP candidate recorded lower votes than APC candidate?
5. Did the election results reflected the wishes of Kogi people?
6. Were it only APC and PDP that contested the election?
7. by law, who sponsor a candidate in election?
8. Is it fair to ask Which party has more votes so far in the inconclusive election?
9. Would it be fair if the party with behind votes is outrightly declared winner just because a part of the party with majority votes is missing?
10. Which party did the people of Kogi state preferred to rule them based on result of the election?
11. Why is APC insisting that election should be concluded without necessarily conducting fresh one?
12. Why is PDP interested in concluding the election, but without APC?
13. Could APC/PDP have won Kogi election with another candidate other than Audu/Wada?
14. What is the popular opinion in Kogi regarding to what should be done?
15. Who want to take from Peter to pay Paul between APC with clearly leading votes that want the election to be concluded but not fresh one or PDP with little behind votes that calls for outright continuity of the election without APC or fresh election?
At any rate, let us not forget so soon the joint Yar'adua/Jonathan tick saga, Ameachi vs PDP, or Buhari vs Jonathan/PDP. The first case teaches us that a vote for one remains a vote for all even in the absence of one. The second case shows that even if there is exist/introduction, disqualification/substitution or dropping/changing, suffice the stakes of other(s). The third case is a case of every one of the three has right to claim the whole gains even as other(s) renounce theirs.

Ephemmm:


Your logic is full of fallacy by even denying what I typed clearly: may be you should go back to my previous post. I told you SGF has nothing to do with this, but remember I told you that SGF can only intervene when parties involved approach the competent court of law?

However, I refers to all Deputy Officers of whether at Federal, state, or local government! INEC recognizes the party registered with him as contestant during election and not as individual personality. It is also ironical that you are so uninformed to the extent that you believe INEC has no legal Unit handling the legal affairs within its jurisdiction.

You need to wake up from your slumber please.

i don't know if u really understand what u write. When did the AGF become the court. Which two parties r u talking about? The pdp,wada & APC,candidate? In cases like this, how does it concern the AGF? Ofcourse, the AGF can't b representing INEC because they r independent body. Deputy officers, federal or state abi, so the question now is how do APC flag bearer become federal officer or state like u mentioned when result haven't be pronounced by INEC? Party is so different from government activities, u need to know the extinction btw them.

ihatesycophant:

You have refused to state any law to back your assertions. The AGF had quoted two law to justified his position but you and PDP had not able to raise issue about that but just babbling over the internet and raising unconstitutional issue.
Let me remind you what the AGF said:
1. Votes cast are not for candidate but for a party and he buttressed it with supreme court judgement which serves as precedence (Amaechi vs PDP). As it is today, APC is still alive and not dead, hence its votes cannot be invalid. section 221. If its votes is still valid, what is the way forward? That now take us to the second law in quoted from the electoral act.
2. The only condition that can warrant outright cancellation of election is that if the flag bearer and deputy is dead. In the scenario the deputy is still alive, meaning the election cannot be cancelled. Section 33 of the electoral act.
3. Now where the lacuna set in, is that no portion of the constitution or electoral act foreseen this Audu's case. And since the election cannot be cancelled, the way forward is APC make a substitution for its flag bearer by relying on the previous primary or upgrade its deputy.
Calling for a fresh election is satanic and against our constitution and electoral act.

question to b answered by u.
# since votes are been casted for party, why should they need a candidate?
# ameachi Vs omehia case have always been advised not to be refered to, as it was a travesty of justice.
# do the constitution permit for the substitution of flag bearer during voting process?

Opinedecandid:
That is what it should be.
I'm not here to bandy words with lazy APC fans, they can go ahead and search out/confirm the position of the law in respect to that election and the matters arising.

But two options are opened for INEC according to the Law:

1. INEC declares the living candidate that scored the highest number of votes winner;

2. INEC conducts a fresh polls altogether, after it would have given APC enough time to conduct a fresh primaries and come out with a candidate.

Anything other than any of those would tantamount to absolute lawlessness and a terrible precedence that will hunt everyone in future.

Admit it or not, my brothers and sisters from the other mother.
That is what should be.
It is not in throwing tantrums.
And if you guys use Federal might to something else on Kogi people and the entire country (as your stock in trade has been) you will be the worse for it in a time not too long from now

absolutely rubbish

Opinedecandid:
That is what it should be.
I'm not here to bandy words with lazy APC fans, they can go ahead and search out/confirm the position of the law in respect to that election and the matters arising.

But two options are opened for INEC according to the Law:

1. INEC declares the living candidate that scored the highest number of votes winner;

2. INEC conducts a fresh polls altogether, after it would have given APC enough time to conduct a fresh primaries and come out with a candidate.

Anything other than any of those would tantamount to absolute lawlessness and a terrible precedence that will hunt everyone in future.

Admit it or not, my brothers and sisters from the other mother.
That is what should be.
It is not in throwing tantrums.
And if you guys use Federal might to something else on Kogi people and the entire country (as your stock in trade has been) you will be the worse for it in a time not too long from now

......and your two options came from where? the Nigerian constitution or the PDP wish-list?

Olisah wants to make and share money from court case. Period.

damton:
It's obvious the controversy that Audu's death had thrown up would end in court.


Meanwhile, Lawyers continue to smile to the banks.

ldpele:
i don't know if u really understand what u write. When did the AGF become the court. Which two parties r u talking about? The pdp,wada & APC,candidate? In cases like this, how does it concern the AGF? Ofcourse, the AGF can't b representing INEC because they r independent body. Deputy officers, federal or state abi, so the question now is how do APC flag bearer become federal officer or state like u mentioned when result haven't be pronounced by INEC? Party is so different from government activities, u need to know the extinction btw them.

From my observation, it is evident you don't know the principle of separation of power between the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The only arm of government saddled with the responsibility of interpretation of law and policies is Judiciary, and this is where AGF is being categorized. AGF do not belong to Legislative arm: please stop displaying your ignorance further.

Nigerian constitution and INEC recognized Audu and his Deputy as contestant: the death of either of them CANNOT invalidate the votes they command from electorates.

You need to grow up.