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Appeal Court Sacks Ekiti PDP Senator
June 30, 2009 14:18, 596 views
By Stephen Oni, Ilorin
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, this morning sacked Senator Femi Kila representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District.
In the judgment delivered by Justice Sontoye Denton-West, with Justice Jumai Anat Osagie and Justice Ignatius Agobe as members of the team, the court ruled that Bode Ola, the Action Congress candidate in the 2007 Senatorial election in Ekiti State won the election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Kila, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate winner of the election.
Ola challenged the verdict at the Election Petition Tribunal and the mater dragged all the way to the Appeal Court which upturned Kila’s victory today.
Reacting to the judgement, Lagos lawyer Mr. Femi Falana, said: “Under the doctrine of lis pendens, Mr. Femi Kila should refund the salaries and allowances he has collected while he was parading himself as a senator.”
Senator Kila was one of the PDP chieftains in Ekiti State who mobilised supporters for the Ekiti governorship election rerun on 25 April this year which was marred by violence, ballot stuffing and snatching among other malpractices.
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OGBENI NAIJA
30 June 2009 14:40EVIDENCE OF FALL OF PEOPLE DESTRUCTIVE PARTY IN EKITI STATE. FAYEMI PRESS ON THIS IS A GREEN LIGHT TO YOUR SUCCESS IN YOUR STRUGGLE TO CLAIM YOUR MANDATE STOLEN FROM YOU BY THE THIEVES
kunle jubril,surulere
30 June 2009 14:43let me start by saying to the judiciary that is has once more demostrated it’s neutrality in the game,and congratulate the AC for another victory.we pray Dr.Kayode Fayemi will also be vindicated by the court and restore the people mandate stole by teh Papa Decive Pickin party
biodun onikate-amosu
30 June 2009 14:49TO ME THIS IS FAR BETTER THAN RE-RUN (RE-RIG)
Nnaji
30 June 2009 14:53Well delivered judgment,I can’t say more,as d court pleases!
cajetan ndubuisi
30 June 2009 15:05the judiciary has once again shown dat it remains the last hope of the weak and the opressed,
big sam
30 June 2009 15:06this is calls for celebration, victory for democracy and rule of law. bravo to jurries
Asebiomo
30 June 2009 15:10The will of the people shall prevail in Ekiti
Olusola
30 June 2009 15:12The end has justified the means, Kiler never had good reputation, when he was chief engineer in Julius
Berger, he was known as anti-labour crusader. He was always in support of enslaving nigerians by the Germans.
This is just the begining of his fall, no amount of weapons or juju will resque him from distruction. he never had good intention for his people. Only a part like PDP (People Distructive Part) will feed in the kind of Kiler , Arise and Omisore as senator.
Man Sonny
30 June 2009 15:17The Senator didn’t settle or is it a case of the judiciary living up to expectation?
whichever, good for the country.., and gradually, the PDP will be uprooted from the land.
laolu
30 June 2009 15:21OOOOOOOOOOOO God,
SWEET SWEET BUT DELAYED JUSTICE.
THIS IS GOOD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY ESPECIALLY FOR OUR OWN DEAR EKITI.
I FELICITATE WITH ALL EKITI KETES AND URGE THE DULY ELECTED SENATOR TO BE MORE VIGILANT.
ON THE ‘AYOKA’ VICTORY,LET’S KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED.
OBJ AND HIS CO-TRAVELLERS HAVE TAKEN NIGERIA BACK BY 60 YEARS.
BUT AM SURE CHANGE IS COMING SOOOOOON.
Orire
30 June 2009 15:23Good ! One by one ,all these bandits ( PDP men ) will be flushed out. Election riggers will soon have no place to hide. After maiming people,performing rituals and rigging elections, they will all go to Churches and Mosques to go and do Thanksgiving; you think you are deceiving God ? No, you are only mocking yourselves and God is watching you all.
Once again, Bravo to all men of conscience still making waves in the Judiciary. God will continue to give you the courage to perform your duties without fear or favour. Remain blessed.
Sooner or later, God Almighty will expose all of these PDP men and women ( who have looted the Country dry ) or send them all to a bottomless abyss where they will be consigned to the dustbin of history in Jesus Name, Amen.
Hon Bode Ola, Congratulations O jare ! God be with you.
Kunle Oladosu
30 June 2009 15:28Segun Oni should be rounding up too by now. Thanks to the Judiciary..PDP is a Party consists of politicians with no vision and ambition for Greater Nigeria,
Abey Shas
30 June 2009 15:28Otito lo ma leke iro.
Olusesan Isaac O
30 June 2009 15:29This is democracy at work. Thanks to the Judiciary who has once proved herself again as the last hope
of the masses. Senator Ayo Arise too should be prepared for sack including their Chief Oga Segun Oni.
God’s judgement will definitely catch up with you and we will be delivered from your cruel and tyranical rule in Ekiti State. We will move forward.
omoayeni tae
30 June 2009 15:34Where is olabode who is a visible PDP apologist in Ekiti,Lagos,Oyo,Osun and indeed Ogun state where oath taking is the governance of the day?I guess all Daniel’s apologist and Tinubu traducers will see clearly who a mature politician is.
and who really is potraying qualities of Awo,see the succecion plan of Tinubu how it played out well,nobody in his right sense will be blaiming OBJ if Yaradua is a performing president,Primary election or selection as Tinubu’s critics will say has put smile on the face of people of lagos.Awujale…..apostle of ijebu state????is this how you will rule ijebu state????i know ijebus will never again allow somebody like you to colonise them again after your demise.Kabiyesi e sayee we.
As for compass newspaper journalist,you are a bundle of failure,you have seen how you have shot yourself in the leg???? E se se bere ni
tinuola akinola
30 June 2009 15:35no matter how long lies travels truth will catch up with it one day
Oni Olalekan
30 June 2009 15:42Praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee God, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
Olusesan Isaac
30 June 2009 15:49Small small God’s judgement is catching up with them. You cant continue to deceive the people and oppressiong them
Sure one day their God will fight for them. Senator Ayo Arise should be prepared to vacate his seats too as the
court will nulify your election very soon and finally Segun Oni will soon be on his way out of the government house.
Bi iro ba lo logun odun, ojo kan ni otito ma ba.
Ayo
30 June 2009 15:51Light has come, darkness has varnished! God will surely deliver us.
boge
30 June 2009 15:56HE SHOULD GO ONI IS NEXT AS WE WAIT THE TRIBUNAL
Mashall
30 June 2009 16:01Please I just want to know when the tenure of the new senator will start and end,considering the situation in
Anambra state
Sanmi
30 June 2009 16:02nemesis!
i congratulate Bode Ola (friendlies).
I congratulate Ekiti people.
Congrat AC.
What of Arise’s case.
He should be sent home quickly too.
OLOTU A Y
30 June 2009 21:12Good stroke .I support oga Falana .Ex- Senator Pls return everything u collected without ‘due process’
Ikechukwu
30 June 2009 21:26This is indeed an irony. A ’senator’ trying hard to get someone ‘elected’ by any means necessary only to be reminded later that his ‘mandate’ isnt really his in the first place. Nigeria, U too much.
olukunle kuye
30 June 2009 21:32Something is fundamentally wrong with Ekiti. With all these losses PDP is suffering left right and center, need we say anything more about the gubernatorial elections. By inference and deductive reasoning it appears there’s still a case of stolen mandate! Fayemi take heart but remember : truth crushed to the earth shall rise again. Where is the Christian conscience of the dogs of war masquerading as winners? Haba!
jendor73
30 June 2009 21:54they(pdp robbers) robbed the people of this country their legitimate votes in 2007 and in the subsequent elcctions held.they forgot that whatever goes round always comes round.they have stolen the hen of wretched man peace has eluded them, chikenna
St.pius
30 June 2009 22:13This is a very good development for Ekiti people and AC. I congratulate Bode Ola, the authentic Senator. I pray that teh trend continues so that all the mandate thiefs that are parading themselves as people representatives will be wiped out in Ekiti so that that Ekiti will have peace. This should send a signal to Segun Oni & Cohorts that this is the beginning of
the end for PDP misrule in Ekiti state. Ayo Arise too should buckle up to return the stolen mandate.
TY
30 June 2009 23:05THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF VERMINS CALLED PDP IN EKITI STATE
palo
30 June 2009 23:07What about Ayo Arise? When are we going to hear or know the verdict?
Adeyemi Alao
30 June 2009 23:47Great. Bi ro ba lo fo gun odun…!
osagie oscar asemota
1 July 2009 03:44his name is kila squad, and it is time for the good people of Ekiti to kill this kila beast of national killing party-pdp, that has so far traumatised the state. All pdp senators are crooks as above kila. maybe a senator by title is different from a law making designate. but in nigeria, they are loots & dupes! woe to the family that beggat such.
Alfred Olusegun Adebayo(Mexico)
1 July 2009 05:08GovernorOni,be ready for the God judgement as per 15,000 Ido Osi massive stuffing.Why do or die?
Are you really a Christian? Ask God for forgiveness if you a good christian. Let the will of the people be hear.
Owolo S.
1 July 2009 06:32I HAVE SAID IT THAT THE JUDICIARY IS THE BEDROCK OF OUR DEMOCRACY. IT SHOULD BE ABOVE BOARD AND CONTINUE TO BE THE HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN.
KILA HAS KILLED HIMSELF THIS TIME. HE SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY ALL SALARIES HE HAS COLLECTED TO DATE.
Biyi UK
1 July 2009 08:18why justice was so delayed? incompetent and inconsistence of justics
dayo akinwumi
1 July 2009 09:09The judgement is good for democracy. Femi Kila had represented Ekiti well expecially by lobbying fed gov in awarding Ifaki-ikole-kaba and erimo-efon road construction. He was the vice chairman of works committee in the senate. He left Julius Berger as the Chief Engineer and the first black to occupy the post to contest as senator. An excellent senior colleague in the proffession. Third mainland bridge and many more are part of his contribution to the development of this country.
PM should be proffessional in their reporting instead of being petty and jaundice as shown at the tale end of the story above.
Gani Kayode-Balogun Jr
1 July 2009 09:24congratulations to the senator elect, the judgement shows that the wheel of justice turns slowly, but it turns.
Emeka
1 July 2009 12:44Dayo Akinwumi thank you for the positive comment today, which is different from your other comments. Femi Kila may be very good as person but the process and malpractises that declared him is what the people did not like.
loko
1 July 2009 14:51@dayo akinwumi and so? The sack dented all his purported achievement… He is never a senator mind u.. he was an imposer courtesy of INEC rigging. if I may ask you, what is PM there? abi na PM go influence the judgement so that they see something to write?
yeyoge
8 July 2009 13:23FEMI KILA WE LOVE YOU MAN BUT YOU STAND WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE MAN ANYWAY YOU WILL GET ANOTHER POST SOON. I WISH YOU LUCK OOOOOOOOOOOOO FROM YEYEOGE
ELELE
20 July 2009 22:27oga ooo when nigeria will have truth allways frauld and lie any way light is comming to ekiti a c will be on power soon
ELELE
20 July 2009 22:29FEMI KILA WHO FIGHT RUNAWAY FHITTING ANOTHER DAY TRY UR LUCK NEXT TIME BUT BE IN WRIGHT PART
ELELE
20 July 2009 22:29FEMI KILA WHO FIGHT RUNAWAY FHITTING ANOTHER DAY TRY UR LUCK NEXT TIME BUT BE IN WRIGHT PART