Just like Zamfara and Rivers states elections this year.......

Romanus Okoye



Senior Advocate of Nigeria and constitutional lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has explained that the legal effect of the disqualification of the deputy governorship candidate of the APC in Bayelsa State under the Constitution and the Electoral Act (except reversed) on appeal, simply means that the APC has no governorship candidate at all in the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial elections.

Ozekhome while reacting to the Federal High Court, Abuja, ruling by Justice Inyang Ekwo disqualifing the deputy governorship candidate of the APC, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, over false information given in his Form CF001 submitted to INEC for the November 16 gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa State said: “In a landmark judgement, in a suit instituted by the PDP against the APC candidate, David Lyon and his running mate, Biobarakuma, the judge found and held that Biobarakuma gave false information in relation to his educational qualifications and went ahead to depose to an affidavit to correct the discrepancies. The judge held that all his documents bore different names and therefore disqualified him from contesting the forthcoming governorship elections.

“The legal effect of the disqualification of the deputy governorship candidate of the APC in Bayelsa State under the Constitution and the Electoral Act (except reversed) on appeal, simply means that the APC has no governorship candidate at all in the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial elections.

The reason is simple. By virtue of section 187(1) of the 1999 Constitution,’a candidate for the office of Governor of a State shall not be deemed to have been validly nominated for such office unless he nominates another candidate as his associate for his running for the office of Governor, who is to occupy the office of Deputy Governor and that candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected to the office of Deputy Governor if the candidate who nominated him is duly elected as Governor in accordance with the said provisions’.

“Section 186 which precedes this section 187 creates the office of Deputy Governor. Section 187(2) emphatically states that all the provisions regarding qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualifications, declaration of assets and liabilities and oath of Governor shall equally apply to the office of Deputy Governor as if references to Governor were references to Deputy Governor.

“What this simply means is that any ticket devoid of a joint running mate is automatically invalid, null, void and of no effect whatsoever, because it is simply unconstitutional.

The Constitution envisions and has deliberately made a governorship candidate to be a siamese twin with the deputy governorship candidate in any election, sharing the same unbreakable umbilical cord. One without the other is not competent to contest. It will tantamount to a futile attempt to play Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark or to argue that six is not the same as half a dozen.

Where a governorship candidate cannot therefore produce a deputy governorship candidate, his candidature lapses into historical electoral oblivion. His aspiration abates and dies prematurely and completely. As dead as dodo. This is the law. No sentiments about it. No lachrymal effusion. No politics.”

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/bayelsa-guber-apc-has-no-candidate-ozekhome/

I want APC on the ballot so they'd get the obvious defeat they yearn for.

They think Bayelsa is Bourdillon Road.

That is always their way, they alway want a soft landing, easy riding

This ezekome again? After he deceived a Atiku he is now looking for Dickson own for flush his throat. The idiot has never won a case since 2015,I wonder why d dumb PDP members are using this Ben down select lawyer.

Didn't the party screen him?

Oshiomoleeee

Bigflamie:
I want APC on the ballot so they'd get the obvious defeat they yearn for.

They think Bayelsa is Bourdillon Road.

This one has been brainwashed to always attribute any of his region problem to Tinubu.

Is Tinubu the one owing workers salary in Bayelsa?
Is Tinubu the one that is also controlling Jonathan to oppose Dickson?
Is Tinubu the one that is affected negatively based on Dickson't rubbish governance that had made an oil producing tiny state to be among the extreme poverty states in Nigeria?

PDP have used that same line to confuse the voters by suddenly attributing every APC candidate to bourdillon. Even almighty Kwankwanso in Kano like the swines thought us to believe blamed the loss of his candidate in Kano on Tinubu.

Nawa o

Jokers court just ruled in favour of SDP candidate in Kogi state that disqualification of running mate doesn't affect the main candidate. However, this is just high court. The case will be dragging to supreme court and by then four years tenure is over.

WHERE IS SENATORDAVE1 AKA GARFIELD

Appeal.....stay of execution..loading...


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Dead as dodo..

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YorubaHero12:


This one has been brainwashed to always attribute any of his region problem to Tinubu.

Is Tinubu the one owing workers salary in Bayelsa?
Is Tinubu the one that is also controlling Jonathan to oppose Dickson?
Is Tinubu the one that is affected negatively based on Dickson't rubbish governance that had made an oil producing tiny state to be among the extreme poverty states in Nigeria?

PDP have used that same line to confuse the voters by suddenly attributing every APC candidate to bourdillon. Even almighty Kwankwanso in Kano like the swines thought us to believe blamed the loss of his candidate in Kano on Tinubu.

Nawa o

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trash trash trash
Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond

FakeManna:
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trash trash trash
Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond

If tinubu is a bastard den you and your father is also a bastard brainless set of people

Ozekhome is a clown. The judgement doesn’t affect APC’s candidate. The party will immediately appeal the judgement and ask for a stay of execution. The appeal won’t be heard until after the election. Even if the appeal court uphold the judgement, the party will simply change the running mate.

This guy is so dumb

Johans1991:
This ezekome again? After he deceived a Atiku he is now looking for Dickson own for flush his throat. The idiot has never won a case since 2015,I wonder why d dumb PDP members are using this Ben down select lawyer.

Just read. He stated it in line with the constitution. 187(1)

After chopping atiku dollars
Deceits

Ozekhome is becoming a nuisance these days.always quick to react to anything anti-Apc.

He should chill , APC will Appeal for stay of execution and that's how the case will die.

After deceiving atiku ozekhome still want to chop Dickson leftover dollars

FakeManna:
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trash trash trash
Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond

..jagaban is now a threat
God make me a threat to my enemy

beamtopola:

Just read. He stated it in line with the constitution. 187(1)

Why did he not quote relevant laws to support atiku? He quotes laws upside down like that old lawyer nwabueze.that interpretation only affects an elected deputy governor not a running mate

Johans1991:
This ezekome again? After he deceived a Atiku he is now looking for Dickson own for flush his throat. The idiot has never won a case since 2015,I wonder why d dumb PDP members are using this Ben down select lawyer.

Stop fishing for idiots. Face the topic.

FRESHG:
WHERE IS SENATORDAVE1 AKA GARFIELD

Dead as dodo

Bayelsa state is pdp. November 16th is the date .

Substitution window is over! Zamfara and Rivers disqualification will repeat itself!

seunmsg:
Ozekhome is a clown. The judgement doesn’t affect APC’s candidate. The party will immediately appeal the judgement and ask for a stay of execution. The appeal won’t be heard until after the election. Even if the appeal court uphold the judgement, the party will simply change the running mate.

Like for pdp


Share for Apc

Hopefully the election is violence-free. Enough lives were lost this year in February and March.


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DMerciful:
Substitution window is over! Zamfara and Rivers disqualification will repeat itself!

Go and read the judgement of the high court in the case of Natasha Akpoti/SDP vs INEC.

YorubaHero12:


This one has been brainwashed to always attribute any of his region problem to Tinubu.

Is Tinubu the one owing workers salary in Bayelsa?
Is Tinubu the one that is also controlling Jonathan to oppose Dickson?
Is Tinubu the one that is affected negatively based on Dickson't rubbish governance that had made an oil producing tiny state to be among the extreme poverty states in Nigeria?

PDP have used that same line to confuse the voters by suddenly attributing every APC candidate to bourdillon. Even almighty Kwankwanso in Kano like the swines thought us to believe blamed the loss of his candidate in Kano on Tinubu.

Nawa o

The most annoying thing is this someone that left office over 12 years ago,still blaming him for all Nigerians problem

apc pdp every time ohhhh!!!!

Gbam

seunmsg:
Ozekhome is a clown. The judgement doesn’t affect APC’s candidate. The party will immediately appeal the judgement and ask for a stay of execution. The appeal won’t be heard until after the election. Even if the appeal court uphold the judgement, the party will simply change the running mate.

Any vote cast for APC in Bayelsa Guber would amount to wasted vote simple....!!!

If the Dep Gov aspirant of APC can only prove his innocence and confirm his certificates are indeed genuine, then he can stand a chance otherwise he should be handed over to the Police for prosecution asap...!!!

Appeal Court and stay of execution will fail.

Assuming without conceding that appeal stands, this becomes a pre-election matter and as long as he fails to prove that the lower court erred in deciding his qualification matter, him and his party's aspiration to occupy the Creek House in Yenagoa will be, in the words of our learned SAN 'as dead as dodo'

Pdp lawyer

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