The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday reacted to a suit seeking to disqualify the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi, from participating in the 2023 election.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had dragged INEC to court and sought an injunction stopping Tinubu and Obi from selecting Kashim Shettima and Datti Baba-Ahmed as their running mates.

In the suit, PDP urged the court to rule that Tinubu and Obi should be disqualified if they fail to run with their initial running mates, Kabiru Masari and Doyin Okupe.

INEC’s Commissioner for confirmation and Education, Festus Okoye, said only the court would decide Tinubu and Obi’s disqualification from the 2023 presidential election.

Speaking on Arise TV on Friday, Okoye said INEC has not been served with the court processes.

He said; “So, I am not aware of whether we’ve been served with any document relating to any suit of the complexion that you have talked about. But let me just say that if a matter is in court, the matter is sub-judice and we are not supposed to comment on it. Secondly, when political parties submitted the names of their presidential candidates and their vice-presidential candidates, there was no provision for a placeholder in the forms they submitted.

“They submitted the forms for their presidential candidates and they submitted the forms for the vice-presidential candidates and that is the situation.

However, if you look at section 33 of the Electoral 22, it says that a political party shall not be allowed to substitute or change its candidate whose name has been submitted under section 29 of the Electoral Act, except in the case of death or withdrawal by the candidate. But it goes ahead to say that provided that in the case of such a withdrawal or death of the candidate, the political parties affected shall within the occurrence of the event hold a fresh primary election to produce and submit a fresh candidate to the commission for the election concerned.”

Initially, Tinubu had submitted Masari’s name to INEC as a placeholder ahead of the deadline for submission of running mates.

Also, Obi submitted the name of Okupe as his placeholder.

However, Tinubu and Obi substituted the initial names with Kashim Shettima and Baba-Ahmed respectively.

(Our heritage reporter)

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the ongoing nationwide continuous voter registration (CVR) will end on July 31, 2022.

INEC spokesperson Festus Okoye, who disclosed this to newsmen, said the decision was made at an extraordinary session which took place on Friday.

The commission had earlier fixed June 30 as the deadline for the ongoing CVR ahead of the 2023 elections but was stopped by the order of an Abuja Federal High Court on June 20 following a suit brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

SERAP and 185 concerned Nigerians had filed the lawsuit against INEC, asking the court to “declare unconstitutional, illegal, and incompatible with international standards the failure of the electoral body to extend the deadline for voter registration to allow eligible Nigerians to exercise their rights.”

The electoral umpire said the exercise has also been extended from six hours daily to eight hours daily – from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Okoye also disclosed that INEC has extended the voter registration exercise to weekends. Until now voters can only register weekdays.

The Commission asked Nigerians to take advantage of the new two-week extension to register for their permanent voter cards (PVCs).

The Peoples Democratic Party has instituted a lawsuit compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prevent All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; and Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, from replacing their running mates with Senator Kashim Shettima and Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed respectively.

The PDP is also asking the court to declare that Tinubu and Obi be disqualified unless they contest alongside their previous running mates – Kabiru Masari and Doyin Okupe respectively.

In the originating summons with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022, the PDP is seeking an order barring the Independent National Electoral Commission from replacing the running mates of Tinubu and Obi.

Those listed as first to seventh respondents in the case are INEC, APC, Tinubu, Masari, Labour Party, Obi and Okupe.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has charged the electorate in Osun state to troop out en mass to cast their votes massively for Hon. Lasun Yussuff under the platform of the party in the election.

He also kicked against vote buying and charged the Osun electorate to take any money offered to them but vote for the candidates of their choice adding that the money offered was stolen from government covers and therefore belongs to them.

Obi who made the charge at the party mega rally held at WOCDIF centre, Osogbo, handed over the party flag to Hon. Yusuf as the party candidate for the coming exercise with confidence that, he would steer the ship of the party to the promised land being given the opportunity.

The presidential candidate further remarked that voting for the Labour Party governorship candidate in the exercise would be of advantage to the people of the state as Lasun is the only credible candidate among other candidates in the other political parties.

He added that whosoever votes for the Labour party candidate voted for productivity and dividends of democracy because he is a man of impeccable characteristics with dignified inexplicable managerial acumen.

Obi also described him as a thoroughly bred politician with the intimidating credentials that would deliver on the aspirations of the people of the state.

Speaking on the spate of insecurities, segregation, tribalism, nepotism and other nefarious activities that have irrigated the country, Obi said, it was the right time for Nigerians to set themselves free and vote for a better alternative that can be found in Labour Party.

According to him, “there is a need for Nigerians to be shown love and compassion which the dominant parties lacked as manifested in the way they treat the youths, the workers and the entire citizens of Nigeria.”

Also speaking, the candidate of the party, Hon. Lasun Yussuff said he is better equipped to govern Osun State because he has what it takes to govern successfully having served as deputy Speaker House of Representatives.

Lasun pointed out that, “yesterday, the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Tinubu said, we can go and labour and die. Does a virtuous Yoruba person say such? I describe them as people of anonymous backgrounds. We don’t know them. Their life is anonymous.”

“They just want us to see that they have money. Yorubas, can money do all things? This is the seat of Oduduwa. Anybody who calls himself a Yoruba man and has refused to imbibe the ethos of Omoluabi does not fit to be a Yoruba leader. How will you tell us to go and labour and die? They are only telling our parents that they have laboured in vain.”

My father was a carpenter and my mother a kolanut trader and they trained me in school with their labour.”

“These people don’t mean well to us, by God’s grace, they will not get there. In Yoruba a poem, what was referred to as the antidote for poverty? Work! Anyone that works will labour. With this, you see that they are not intelligent yet they pretend to be because you have to work.”

I have decided to list and explain the major demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities which led to the ongoing strike which commenced on Feb 14

Only three of the demands have financial implications.

However, only two have to do with lecturers.

The payment of Earned Academic Allowance, Revitalisation Fund, the payment of withheld salaries are not negotiable.
The revitalization fund will be released to universities.

-Major demands

One of the major demands is the demand for the deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System popularly known as UTAS.

UTAS was developed after ASUU got the permission from the government to develop an alternate system to the IPPIS

According to ASUU, the IPPIS doesn’t recognize some of the peculiarities in the NUS( Nigerian University System). Note that lectures in universities are entitled to allowances such as earned allowances, sabbatical allowances among others, IPPIS doesn’t recognize this

At the height of the ASUU strike of 2020, the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige told ASUU that FG had agreed for the union to develop an alternate payment platform. UTAS was developed and according to plans, will be under the control of the NUC.

Unfortunately, the government is yet to accept UTAS despite the numerous tests conducted by NITDA. The government has continued to insist that UTAS failed integrity tests conducted by NITDA

Release of the white paper of visitation panels to Universities.
The Federal Government constituted a panel to look into the issues at various tertiary institutions in the country. It is believed that the report will help to know and understand the issues of NUS

Till now, the Federal Government has refused to release the report of the visitation panel. If released, the report may indict some VCs, officials among others

Proliferation of Universities.
Another concern of ASUU is the proliferation of universities by the government. According to ASUU, the government has no business establishing new universities if it can’t fund the existing universities.

ASUU wants to stop lawmakers who continue to present bills to create universities. According to a report , over 186 bills were presented by the 9th NASS in four years for the creation of new universities. This is as existing universities remain underfunded.

Finally, the Renegotiation of the 2009 agreement. The truth is that if the president fails to sign the new agreement that has been drawn up, the union may not resume. Truth is that university lecturers have been on the same salary scheme since 2009. Despite rising inflation.

Source: Daily News

Lagos State House Of Assembly Secretly Passes Sharia Law In A Deal To Get Northern Support For Tinubu

The desperation of Bola Tinubu has reached another apex when we thought he could not bend down lower for his Northern masters.

The Lagos state house of assembly secretly and hurriedly passed a bill for the setting up of Sharia courts paving way for Sharia law in Lagos which has since been signed into law by the current state governor.

Why was this bill passed and signed into law without public scrutiny and awareness? Why did the Lagos State governor or the House of Assembly not make public this landmark bill? Were they afraid of the backlash that would have greeted this bill at even the proposal stage? Who sponsored this bill, voted for or against it at the House and why was there no public awareness or call for public contributions in deliberating on such a social disruptive bill? These are pertinent questions that need urgent replies! Why also is the current Lagos State governor evading questions on the bill? Why is no one in Alausa where the bill was drafted and passed refusing to answer questions on this bill? From all indications this bill is not meant for the benefit of the state and its citizens but rather serves a political agenda. And who does this bill stand to serve the most other than the ever asslicking Bola Tinubu.

This bill effectively makes Lagos a Sharia state equivalent to the likes of Zamfara.

This is how same Tinubu brokered the release of General Bamiyi and Major Al Mustapha at the Appeal court through the corrupt and partisan Justice Salami. The Lagos State govt Prosecution team led by the current VP, Yemi Osinbanjo did not contest the flimsy technical grounds used by the defendants to evade justice and did not bother to seek a higher ruling to thwart the crooked ruling by Justice Salami . Like this Sharia bill, the Bamiyi and Mustapha discharge (not acquittal) was brokered as a precondition to get the ACN and CPC alliance. The Lagos State govt would have rearraigned both Mustapha and Bamiyi on the same murder charges leveled on them for the assassination of Kudirat Abiola but they went to sleep which is proof on itself that the Lagos state govt botched their own case to see to the duo of Mustapha and Bamiyi literally getting away with murder. This is how Bola Tinubu used the blood of MKO Abiola and his wife Kudirat to advance his political career since his days as a fake NADECO member.

Now the same north has gotten another major concession in the form of Sharia law in Lagos as a precondition to back Tinubu’s DOA presidential campaign.

Is there nothing sacred to this bastard? Are there no red lines he won’t cross to achieve his inordinate ambition ?

The Muslim-Miuslim ticket was not enough for the fundamentalist Islamic north , they had to have sharia law for Lagos (and who knows states like Osun would definitely had since passed same Sharia legislation).

If Yorubas are stupid to back this bastard of no origin ,they will wake up one morning to a Fulani Emir in Lagos.

For idiots in the south who support this bastard, know that Tinubu had openly supported Fulani expansionism and made excuses and defended their criminal terrorist ways in the SW. This is the same bastard that was the lone voice in the south calling for amnesty for Boko Haram in 2012. Will it be a “shock” to you if he grants them not only amnesty but an autonomous enclave in the blighted war torn NE and parcel large swaths of land in the south for the RUGA agenda using the stalled Water Bill?

Other than that Kwara goat, Ishaq Akintola, have Yoruba Muslims in Lagos ever demanded for Sharia law?

Tinubu is a festering cankerworm that has been allowed to pollute and destroy Yoruba politics, culture and identity. This is why bastards are hated the world over for they have no home nor name to protect.

Source: Nairaland

Lagos State House Of Assembly Secretly Passes Sharia Law In A Deal To Get Northern Support For Tinubu

The desperation of Bola Tinubu has reached another apex when we thought he could not bend down lower for his Northern masters.

The Lagos state house of assembly secretly and hurriedly passed a bill for the setting up of Sharia courts paving way for Sharia law in Lagos which has since been signed into law by the current state governor.

Why was this bill passed and signed into law without public scrutiny and awareness? Why did the Lagos State governor or the House of Assembly not make public this landmark bill? Were they afraid of the backlash that would have greeted this bill at even the proposal stage? Who sponsored this bill, voted for or against it at the House and why was there no public awareness or call for public contributions in deliberating on such a social disruptive bill? These are pertinent questions that need urgent replies! Why also is the current Lagos State governor evading questions on the bill? Why is no one in Alausa where the bill was drafted and passed refusing to answer questions on this bill? From all indications this bill is not meant for the benefit of the state and its citizens but rather serves a political agenda. And who does this bill stand to serve the most other than the ever asslicking Bola Tinubu.

This bill effectively makes Lagos a Sharia state equivalent to the likes of Zamfara.

This is how same Tinubu brokered the release of General Bamiyi and Major Al Mustapha at the Appeal court through the corrupt and partisan Justice Salami. The Lagos State govt Prosecution team led by the current VP, Yemi Osinbanjo did not contest the flimsy technical grounds used by the defendants to evade justice and did not bother to seek a higher ruling to thwart the crooked ruling by Justice Salami . Like this Sharia bill, the Bamiyi and Mustapha discharge (not acquittal) was brokered as a precondition to get the ACN and CPC alliance. The Lagos State govt would have rearraigned both Mustapha and Bamiyi on the same murder charges leveled on them for the assassination of Kudirat Abiola but they went to sleep which is proof on itself that the Lagos state govt botched their own case to see to the duo of Mustapha and Bamiyi literally getting away with murder. This is how Bola Tinubu used the blood of MKO Abiola and his wife Kudirat to advance his political career since his days as a fake NADECO member.

Now the same north has gotten another major concession in the form of Sharia law in Lagos as a precondition to back Tinubu’s DOA presidential campaign.

Is there nothing sacred to this bastard? Are there no red lines he won’t cross to achieve his inordinate ambition ?

The Muslim-Miuslim ticket was not enough for the fundamentalist Islamic north , they had to have sharia law for Lagos (and who knows states like Osun would definitely had since passed same Sharia legislation).

If Yorubas are stupid to back this bastard of no origin ,they will wake up one morning to a Fulani Emir in Lagos.

For idiots in the south who support this bastard, know that Tinubu had openly supported Fulani expansionism and made excuses and defended their criminal terrorist ways in the SW. This is the same bastard that was the lone voice in the south calling for amnesty for Boko Haram in 2012. Will it be a “shock” to you if he grants them not only amnesty but an autonomous enclave in the blighted war torn NE and parcel large swaths of land in the south for the RUGA agenda using the stalled Water Bill?

Other than that Kwara goat, Ishaq Akintola, have Yoruba Muslims in Lagos ever demanded for Sharia law?

Tinubu is a festering cankerworm that has been allowed to pollute and destroy Yoruba politics, culture and identity. This is why bastards are hated the world over for they have no home nor name to protect.

Source: Nairaland