{"id":6959,"date":"2015-12-23T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:17:47","slug":"falana-describes-akwa-ibom-appeal-court-judgement-as-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6959","title":{"rendered":"Falana describes Akwa Ibom Appeal Court Judgement as a fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6960\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/law.jpg\" alt=\"law\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" \/>The senior advocate of Nigeria Mr Femi Falana today on<br \/>\nChannel\u2019s Tv described the Appeal Court Judgement of<br \/>\nAkwa Ibom State Governorship Election as fraud, against<br \/>\nthe integrity of the Judiciary.<br \/>\nThe Legal luminary and human right activist said that<br \/>\nthe judgement contradicted both the Supreme Court<br \/>\nPrecedents and the Constitution, he warned the All<br \/>\nProgressive Congress to stop the wanton destruction of<br \/>\nthe Country\u2019s Judiciary over what he termed as greedy<br \/>\npolitical agitation, which is capable of dividing the<br \/>\ncountry.<br \/>\nMr Falana wondered how the same Appeal Court which<br \/>\ndelivered Judgement on the Lagos Governorship Election<br \/>\n, on the premise that the Card reader cannot invalidate<br \/>\nan election , and same was upheld by the supreme<br \/>\nCourt. Where-as in Akwa Ibom Judgement, the jurist<br \/>\nused card reader to annul the election.<br \/>\nOn the same day that Akwa Ibom State election was<br \/>\nannulled , the same Appeal Court delivered Judgment on<br \/>\nthe Yobe State Governorship election , citing the<br \/>\nJudgement of Jimmy Agbaje Vs Ambode as a precedent<br \/>\nand went ahead to uphold the election based on the fact<br \/>\nthat card reader malfunction cannot invalidate an<br \/>\nelection .<br \/>\n\u2018\u2019 I cannot be quiet and allow the APC government<br \/>\ndestroy the judiciary, how can an Appeal Court use an<br \/>\nexhibit that was not admitted by the tribunal to cancel<br \/>\nan election? President Buhari should explain to Nigerians<br \/>\nwhy card reader and collation did not invalidate elections<br \/>\nin Yobe, Imo , Lagos , Ogun , and Oyo States that had the<br \/>\nsame issue of accreditation . Whereas Akwa Ibom<br \/>\nelection is annulled based on card reader and collation<br \/>\nthat was shown live on channels Tv \u2018\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018\u2019If the supreme Court does not upturn the Judgement of<br \/>\nAkwa Ibom State , it therefore means that APC\u2019s change<br \/>\nwas just a mantra to deceive the electorate to have their<br \/>\nvotes .<br \/>\n\u2018\u2019Look at the corruption war is only the PDP members<br \/>\nthat are being prosecuted, what happens to the APC<br \/>\ncorrupt politicians? It throws up question on the integrity<br \/>\nof President Buhari\u2019s administration.<br \/>\nPDP did not win in all the States during their sixteen<br \/>\nyears of leadership; they lost some through litigation to<br \/>\nACN and other political Parties. He concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior advocate of Nigeria Mr Femi Falana today on Channel\u2019s Tv described the Appeal Court Judgement of Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election as fraud, against the integrity of the Judiciary. The Legal luminary and human right activist said that the judgement contradicted both the Supreme Court Precedents and the Constitution, he warned the All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[550,1091,1090],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-akwa-ibom-state","tag-judiciary","tag-mr-femi-falana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/law.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1Of","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}