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Tribunal rejects PDP’s forgery claims, convicts Tinubu

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The allegations of forgery and conviction made against President Bola Tinubu by the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar, the party’s nominee for president in 2023, have been rejected by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

When the court ruled on the respondents’ motion, it stated that even though the petitioners claimed that Tinubu did not meet the constitutional requirement to have run for office, they did not specify what that requirement was.

Moses Ugo, one of the five panelists, also struck out a few sentences where the petitioners claimed that the Kogi State Governor and a person named Friday Adejo, who was allegedly the local government chairman in Kogi State, had engaged in electoral fraud but had not been included as parties in the petition.

No residents were lost in the flood, says Ekiti gov

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On Wednesday, Biodun Oyebanji, governor of Ekiti State, said no one was killed in the Tuesday evening flood in Ado Ekiti.

Overnight rains on Tuesday flooded the Ureje Bridge area, Polytechnic Road, Eminrin Estate, Ilupeju Avenue, Elemi, Ita Eku, Basiri, and others in the capital city.

Deputy Governor Monisade Afuye, along with other government officials, visited the Ureje Bridge area to assess the level of destruction caused by the incident.

He regretted the flood’s damage and said his government would develop life-saving mechanisms to reduce property damage in flood-stricken areas.

Some people were swept away in a viral video, and rumors spread that some drowned in the flood water.

Our people should discount the rumor that five people died, said the governor. Nothing happened. Divers reportedly saved victims. No need to panic, our people.

Early this year, this government aggressively dredged Ureje and Elemi rivers to prevent flooding. We redirected many Ado Ekiti drainages. Without proactive measures, the wreckage could have been worse.

“We sympathize with flood victims. No government will abandon them. We will quickly resolve your issues. Because Governor Biodun Oyebanji prioritizes public welfare, we will help you.

Oyebanji warned Ekiti residents against recklessly dumping refuse and sewages in canals and building on waterways, which compounded flooding.

One of the divers who rescued victims at Ureje Bridge, Chief Kolawole Falajiki, explained that water washed them away.

No one died, Falajiki said. We saved everyone caught in the flooding web. More than 800 commuters were trapped at Ureje bank. My story that nobody died is verified by them.”

Mr. Tayo Olawuyi, Rasheed Akanbi, and Alhaji Shine Salami, who spoke for other residents, urged the government to blast the huge rocks in Ureje River to allow water to flow.

Another option is to channel water downslope with concrete, said Olawuyi. The challenge’s permanent solutions”.

Residents praised the state government for dredging the river earlier this year, saying the chaos could have been worse.

Breaking: Presidential tribunal decides on drug-dealing allegations against Tinubu

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President Bola Tinubu cannot be excluded from the presidential election as a result of his alleged forfeiture of narcotics money in the United States, according to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).

On September 6, a five-person PEPT panel headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani announced the verdict.

The Nigeria Police Force had previously exonerated Tinubu of any criminal matters in the US, according to the court, which came as a result of a query the police had made to US law enforcement.

It also revealed that the president has been permitted to enter and exit the US, which means he is not facing any charges.↳

Tsammani claimed that Tinubu was not a party to the civil proceedings in which the US District Court for the Northern Illinois ordered the forfeiture of Tinubu’s $460,000 in a drug-related matter.

Breaking: Court disqualifies 10 of 13 witnesses Obi presented

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Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, provided 13 witnesses, but the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal claimed that 10 of them were unreliable.

This was said on Wednesday by Justice Haruna Tsammani, who was appointed to rule on the Obi and LP’s substantive petition.

Tsammani said that Obi summoned 13 witnesses, referred to as PW1 through PW13, who gave testimony. She further noted that only three of the 13 witnesses had statements made under oath that were included with the petition.

The remaining 10 witnesses, according to the Justice, were subpoenaed, and their sworn witness statements were not submitted until after the hearing had begun.

 

Every sworn witness statement must be submitted with the petition, according to Tsammani, in accordance with section 285 of the Nigerian constitution, section 137(7) of the Electoral Act 2022, and other requirements.

According to the Supreme Court’s precedent, an election petition’s contents cannot be changed after the allotted 21 days have passed since the petition’s filing.

The Justice added that no new statement under oath may be filed after the allotted time has passed because the respondents won’t have a chance to reply.

Tsammani claimed that despite being aware of the legal requirement for the filing of sworn witness statements, the petitioners still went ahead and presented 10 witnesses without the sworn witness statements that had previously been filed with the petition.

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Tinubu’s Loyalist, MC Oluomo organized thugs to Abuja in case decision of Presidential Election Tribunal does not favour Tinubu

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In case the decision of the Presidential Election Tribunal does not favor President Bola Tinubu, the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, chaired by Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, has mobilized some goons to be on standby.

Members of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee are among the criminals that MC Oluomo sent to Abuja.

In a video clip that was obtained, MC Oluomo and other people can be seen waiting in the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) office in Abuja for the Tribunal to rule on the petitions filed in opposition to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) declaration of Tinubu as the election’s victor.
According to reports, none of the three candidates for president currently engaged in a legal battle before the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja—President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party—were present when the tribunal delivered its decision on Wednesday.

A sizable crowd of plaintiffs, attorneys, and other interested parties have descended on the court ahead of the Presidential Election Petitions Court’s (PEPC) final ruling on the petitions submitted in opposition to Tinubu’s election, which is scheduled for this Wednesday morning.

Vice President Shettima, President Femi Gbajabiamila’s chief of staff, Ganduje, and the governors of Imo and Kogi states, Hope Uzodinma and Yahaya Bello, were among the members of the ruling party in the courtroom.

The PDP’s acting national chairman, Umar Damagun, and Abure represented the opposition.

In March, it was also reported that MC Oluomo had warned Igbo people to stay indoors during Saturday’s governorship election in Lagos if they did not want to support the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

This was demonstrated in a widely shared video of a Tinubu supporter urging their Igbo neighbors not to bother going to the polls on election day if they wanted to vote for candidates other than the flagbearers of the ruling party.

Meanwhile, MC Oluomo has stated in the open that Tinubu is his owner.

MC Oluomo claimed in an Instagram post from October 2018 that Tinubu owned him and the APC and that he would support whatever Tinubu desired.

He declared on his Instagram account, “I am an Asiwaju Bola Ahmend Tinubu Jagaban loyalist, I wear the Jagaban jersey, I’ve been a loyalist since 1999, the first Mecca I went is through his execellence in the year 2000, moreover, he as done alot for me, he made me who i am today. Our relationship has been very cordial and strong in the area that I grew up in.

As a result, I am one of his supporters who has a tremendous faith in him. He owns the party, and I, Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya Mc oloumo, belong everywhere his interests are. Because his administration continues to operate under the watchful eye of the party’s national leader, my community in Oshodi and I previously supported HE Akinwunmi Ambode for a second term. However, in this instance, I must now obey Bola Ahmend Tinubu’s interests and the party’s choice.

“Things will go as planned if Asiwaju Bola Ahmend Tinubu once more declares that Babajide Sanwoolu is no longer in office.”

Breaking: PEPT strikes out some portions of Obi’s claim of irregularities, corrupt practices

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Some of the allegations of irregularities and corrupt practices made by Peter Obi in his petition contesting the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election have been deleted by a five-member Presidential Election Petition Tribunal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani.

On the basis that they were “vague, imprecise, nebulous and failed to meet the requirements of pleadings,” Justice Abba Mohammed, who is reading the lead judgment, struck out the relevant passages.
Justice Mohammed ruled on the preliminary objections made by INEC, Tinubu, and the APC, holding that “averments” must not be vague or ambiguous and that the purpose of pleadings is to inform respondents of the relevant facts so that they can prepare properly.
The PEPC emphasized that in a case involving claimed irregularities in more than 500 polling places, it is insufficient for the petitioners to generalize about a few polling places or collation centers.

Mohammed ruled that “averments must not be generic but precise” and that “petitioners failed to mention polling units where anomalies occurred or where agents complained of alleged malpractice and irregularities.
In addition, PEPC emphasized that not a single voting place was named among the total of over 18,000 polling places where the petitioners claimed INEC uploaded “blurred results” to the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) Portals.

They failed to identify polling places where the results of the election were not uploaded or where Tinubu’s score was increased or decreased.

The tribunal found that “they did not show the majority of votes they claimed they had scored,” adding that the petitioners merely make general claims of irregularities and malpractices.

It is inconceivable that a petitioner would claim widespread rigging across over 8,000 wards, 774 LGAs, 36 States, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) without identifying the precise location where the claimed irregularities take place.

Mohammed further criticized the petitioners for basing their arguments on spreadsheet analysis, inspection findings, and expert assessments.

Such materials, in Mohammed’s opinion, should be provided to the respondents so they can conduct their own research and provide appropriate responses.

The spreadsheet report, inspection findings, and expert reports were not served; instead, they were only mentioned as papers that would be considered in deciding the petition, the court ruled.

Breaking: Presidential election tribunal dismisses 25% FCT vote requirement

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The petition claimed that in order for presidential candidates to be considered the election’s winners, they must receive 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). However, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which is based in Abuja, has disregarded this claim.

According to reports, the tribunal’s chief justice, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, ruled on September 6, 2023, that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has no special status and is on par with the other states in Nigeria.

The decision was reached in response to a plea that President Bola Tinubu’s election had been contested by the Labour Party and Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate. Because Tinubu did not receive 25% of the votes cast in the FCT, Obi had contended that he should be disqualified from serving as president.

Breaking: Tribunal declares PDP’s Natasha Akpoti winner of Kogi central senatorial poll

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Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been proclaimed the victor of the February 25, 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial election by the electoral petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State.

According to reports, Justice K.A. Orjiakoin, the tribunal’s chairman, issued the decision on June 8, 2023.

According to him, Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came in second place with 51,291 votes, while Akpoti-Uduaghan won the race with a total of 54,064 votes.

Additionally, the tribunal ruled that Sadiku-Ohere must pay N500,000 to Akpoti-Uduaghan as the petition’s expenses.

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Breaking: Tribunal Gives Verdict on Shettima’s Nomination as Tinubu’s Running Mate

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FCT Abuja – The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) petitioned against Kashim Shettima’s selection as Vice President Bola Tinubu’s running mate, but the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja has denied it. Because Shettima was already a candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Borno Central Senatorial District, the APM urged the court to exclude both Shettima and President Tinubu from the 2023 presidential election. In any case, the president proposed him.
Justice Haruna Tsammani decided during the hearings, which Legit.ng was watching, that Shettima’s candidacy could only be contested by APC candidates running for the vice president’s office.
After consulting with the other justices on the panel, Haruna Simon Tsammani gave the verdict. They are Justices Abba Bello Mohammed, Justice Stephen Jonah Adah, Justice Mistura Bolaji-Yusuf, and Justice Boloukuoromo Moses Ugo. Because the APC’s petition was not filed during the designated window for filing election-related cases and was already heard in another court, it is regarded as an abuse of the legal system.
The APM lacked the locus standi to contest Shettima’s selection as the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate for the 2023 election, according to Justice Tsamman.
At the hearing on Wednesday in Abuja, four attorneys spoke on behalf of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) filed a lawsuit with the case number CA/PEPC/04/2023 to challenge Tinubu’s election on the grounds that Shettima and the APC’s vice presidential candidate were both nominated twice.

Breaking: Jubilation Erupts As President Tinubu Makes 8 Appointments

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In Aso Villa in Abuja. The appointment of mandate secretaries for the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has brought smiles to certain people’s faces, thanks to President Bola Tinubu. The presidency’s office released a statement on Tuesday, September 5, revealing this.
On the precise day that it had been 100 days since he had reclaimed the presidency, President Tinubu made the appointment.
About 24 hours later, it was also revealed that President Tinubu had accepted the invitation of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to fly to New Delhi, India, in order to attend the G-20 leaders’ conference.
Below is a list of the eight new appointments: Bitrus L. Garki is the Area Council Services Secretariat’s secretary. Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat Secretary Lawan Kolo Geidam Secretary of Education Danlami Ihayyo and Secretary of Health and Human Services Adedolapo A. Fasawe Salman Dako is the Legal Services Secretariat’s secretary. Economic Planning, Revenue Generation, and PPP Secretary Chinedum Elechi Uboku Secretary of the Transportation Secretariat Tom Nyah Social Development Secretariat Secretary Muntari Abdulkadir