Friday, August 19, 2016

Ikpeazu: Appeal Court Rebukes Abang, Says He "Raped Democracy" by LordVarys: 12:22pm
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday delivered a stringent rebuke of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court for his ruling annulling the election of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, accusing the judge of “raping democracy”.
Gov. Ikpeazu was “sacked” on June 27. Justice Abang said he had falsified his tax certificates, and must lose his seat to Samson Ogah, also a member of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Mr. Ogah received the certificate of return from the Independent National Commission, but was not sworn in.
At the Court of Appeal on Thursday, a five-member panel led by Justice Morenike Ogunwumiju said Mr. Abang “raped democracy” when he ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Mr. Ogah without evidence of forgery against Mr. Ikpeazu.
According to the court, the judgement was erroneously based on the inadequacy of tax receipt which Mr. Ikpeazu cannot be blamed for.
“After reading through the judgement several times, I was amazed at how the trial Judge arrived at his conclusion of forgery against the appellant when there was no evidence of forgery. To say the least, his findings are ridiculous,” said Justice Ogunwumiju.
The court said Mr. Abang embarked on a “wild goose chase” when he attempted to help the plaintiff.
Ms. Ogunwunmiju said the case was not properly filed in the first instance.


While the law says only an identifiable legal practitioner can attest to a motion instituting a case before the lower court, three lawyers signed for the plaintiff.
“But on the motion which led to this appeal three people indicated themselves as lawyers and signed the document. It is not the business of the court to embark on a voyage of helping a litigant decide who filed his case,” the court said.
“The judge must have sat in his chamber, unilaterally assessed and computed the tax of the appellant and came to the conclusion that he did not pay the required tax. But let me say that courts are not allowed to speculate as the trial Judge has done in the instant case.
“The trial judge spoke from both sides of his mouth when in one breadth, he claimed that he based his findings on supply of false information and in another breadth, he came to the conclusion that the appellant in this matter committed perjury, even when there was no allegation of forgery and no allegation that he did not pay tax,” the court further said.
Ms. Ogunwumiju also said that Justice Abang turned the head of the law upside down in his conclusion that it was Mr. Ikpeazu that should bear the burden of proof for an allegation made by Mr. Ogah.
“With respect, we disagree with him in this conclusion because it is the person that makes allegation of falsehood that must prove it,” she said.
The Appeal Court also argued that Mr. Abang erred when he imported the phrase “as at when due” into the PDP 2014 guidelines.
“The judge would not have imported the phrase into his findings if he had seen the copy of the PDP guideline. In this case, he violated the PDP guideline.
“From whatever angle one looks at the judgement of the trial Judge, the decision of his court was grossly erroneous. The inadequacies of the tax receipt cannot be visited on Ikpeazu who scored the highest votes in the 2015 governorship elections as doing so will amount To Molest of democracy,” the court held.

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korocha Reacts To Being Slapped By A Ghost by GoggleB
NAN(Abuja): The Imo State Government has described as false the report that Governor Rochas Okorocha was slapped by a ghost and is in an Indian hospital for medical treatment.

Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, the chief press secretary to Okorocha flatly denied that governor is sick.

He also denied that the governor went to India for treatment. “The governor had travelled to meet with some of the investors who had invited him for further discussions on the prospects of their coming to invest in the State.

The Okorocha’s media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”.

“He travelled with few economic aides, and we informed Imo people and the general public and as God would have it, two days to the planned trip, the daughter gave birth to a baby boy and he would use the opportunity to visit his daughter’’, Onwuemeodo stated.

According to Okorocha’s aide, the governor’s wife was already there with their daughter for what the Igbo people call “Ile Omugwo” (visit to a nursing mother by mother) and that Okorocha’s is visit is to see the new baby.

Onwuemeodo noted that in the event of the governor being sick, the information would be made public.

“Ailment or sickness has been there with mankind, the angle that makes the whole claim funny is the “ghost dimension”, and that explains how spiritually poor those behind this balderdash are’’, he added.

Onwuemeodo blamed the report on what he tagged the antics of some of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) folks in the state.

“We accused them (PDP) of being behind the malicious audio because it came twenty four hours after the convincing defeat of the party by the APC in the re-run elections in Okigwe senatorial zone and the three state constituencies of Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Owerri West’’, he noted.

The Okorocha’s media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”.

He said that the governor is being expected back to the state and once that happens, that the public would be duly informed.


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Thursday, August 18, 2016

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Wizkid is out with two new songs called “Pick Up the Phone” and “Rewind Dat”.

“Rewind Dat” is a remix to Kent Jones’ “Don’t Mind” while “Pick Up The Phone” was originally performed by Young Thug and Travis Scott.

Listen bel  http://www.hulkshare.com/nigerianeye/wizkid-pick-up-the-phone-refix-1owwww.googlevest.com.
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I’ve nothing to do with Avengers - Jonathan cries out

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Former president Goodluck Jonathan has denied having anything to do with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).Jonathan spoke through a statement on August 7 by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze.He said: “For the avoidance of doubt, we are fully convinced that such an idiotic claim is too cheap a narrative, a facile contrivance so badly concocted that any discerning mind would easily see through its disingenuous and duplicitous nature.”He said the names of those listed as alleged sponsors and supporters of NDA suggested a political agenda.“Since it is not in our place to speak for all those named in the obvious fabrication, we are only intervening to the extent that its hidden intent poses a violent threat to the life of former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, a committed patriot who the Almighty God has given the grace and good health to rededicate his life to the service of humanity, after serving his dear nation as President to the best of his abilities.“We are also not bothered by this baseless accusation, contented that we are not the only ones conversant with Jonathan’s widely-acknowledged sincere disposition to peace, non-violence and better human community.“We are however seized by the feeling of déjà vu occasioned by the resurrection of one dim character masquerading as ‘Cynthia White’, who had in the past served as the spokesperson for a notorious group that had all along shown its hand to be going after the life of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.“Nigerians could recall that in 2007 when Jonathan emerged as the running mate to the late President Umar’ Yar’Adua in the People’s Democratic Party during that year’s presidential election, this very group invaded Yenagoa with hundreds of militants in an effort to assassinate him.“Jonathan was only saved then by the spirited efforts of the combined forces of determined security men, who gallantly repelled the attack.” 
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19 best new phones you should be most excited about in 2015: best new phones from Apple, Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG, Xiaomi and others
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