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Supreme Court Saves Soludo
December 17, 2009 15:07, 516 views
The country’s apex court, Supreme Court, this afternoon saved the governorship ambition of Professor Charles Soludo, former Central Bank governor, by voiding the ruling of the Appeal Court baring him from contesting the 6 February, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State.
Delivering ruling this afternoon, the Supreme Court ruled that the Justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law by voiding the nomination of Soludo as the governorship candidate of the PDP.
The five-man Supreme Court panel, led by Justice George Oguntade, therefore, set aside the order of the Court of Appeal which restricted INEC from recognizing Soludo as the PDP governorship candidate in the 2010 election.
The apex court noted that the order granted by the Court of Appeal yesterday was misplaced and most unwarranted and ordered INEC to accord Soludo every privilege and recognition due to him as the candidate of PDP.
The court ruled that the appelate was not right in making the preservative order it made. It described the order as furious in that the subject matter of the case “is time sensitive.”
The apex court also stated that the order did not avail Soludo a level playing ground.
The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled that Professor Soludo was not validly nominated by the party and therefore INEC should not recognized him as the PDP governorship candidate for the Anambra election.
The order followed an application filed by three PDP governorship aspirants, Mr. Valentine Ozoigbo, NKoli Imo and Ferdinand Okoye.
With the Supreme Court ruling today, the coast is now clear for Professor Soludo to contest the February 6 governorship election in Anambra State.
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ddtech
17 December 2009 15:32PDP again, that is their hand work. where are we going in this country?.
Joseph iheonunekwu Nwabueze
17 December 2009 15:34It is good that Supreme Court supported the aspiration of majority of Igbo Nation by removing power from Chalatans in Anambra stae and allowe for development of Igbo Race by Soludo a tested perfomer.
Iheonunekwu Nwabueze. UK
bond
17 December 2009 15:34this is absolute cangaroon judgement its unfair
Rems Micheals
17 December 2009 15:40IT IS VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE
WALE OLABODE
17 December 2009 15:42Haa…aaaaaLeLuuuuuYaaaaaaH…!!!!!!!……Prof.SOLUDO…is the Anambra State Governor……Congratulations….!!!!…
Shamed on the Oppositions…..of the Associations of So called Criminals….!!!!
macdon
17 December 2009 15:43Congrats! my Prof & Brother. No weapons formed against you shall prosper…. SOLUDO!!!!!! OUR MAN COME 2010
A beg carry gooooooooo
Anambra must live……. All we need is Change….
Though the process of your selection might not be welcomed by many especially “Business as usual politicians” but your plan For Anambra Economy will be the best.
ayoade asinmiyu adekunle
17 December 2009 15:52The judgement of the apex court about soludo is not good ,every body knows that soludo was imposed by PDP executive in Abuja.Justice oguntade is element of PDP.
Arise O Compatriot!
17 December 2009 16:08What about moral issues in this matter? Did PDP give other contestants at their primaries a “level playing ground?”
Justice should not just be given, it must be seen to be give. However, we still thank our Judiciary.
LIASMI
17 December 2009 16:11This is a slap on the Judiciary.IT IS A wuru -wuru judgement.How can a person be forced on his people.This is a bad sign for the 2011 general election.PDP SHOULD NOTE THAT THE WAY THE ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION IS CONDUCTED WILL SURELY SHOW HOW THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE CONDUCTED.INEC BEWARE!ANAMBRA PEOPLE BEWARE!! NIGERIANS BEWARE!!!
Sydney Ezika
17 December 2009 16:12Yes, time is set for the savior (Soludo) to cleanse Anambra State. God has sent a savior to put things right in the State. I commend PDP Chairman (Chief Vincent Ogbulafor) Chief Alex Ekwueme, Chief Aneni, Chief Solomon Lar and others for their resolve to save Anambra State from dubious politicians.
Sydney Ezika
ADEYEMI TOBIAS NDUDI
17 December 2009 16:25HEAR THE LEARNED JUDGES “The court ruled that the appelate was not right in making the preservative order it made. It described the order as furious in that the subject matter of the case “is time sensitive.”
WHAT IS TIME SENSISTIVE? DO THEY WANT A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF WHAT HAPPENED BTW OMEHIA AND AMAECHI OF RIVERS TO HAPPEN IN ANAMBRA?
AS MY FRIENDS SAY THE LAW IS AN ASS…………………………………….
obi akele
17 December 2009 16:38supreme court has take their own egunje from soludo’s loot, otherwise how can the apex court turn down a very good ruling of the appeal court……………. the supreme court is full of corruptible judges…….
Baba Eto
17 December 2009 16:39Morning don break eye don clear.Go on and consolidate the state jare
At leat you will give the rescued banks state licence to run financial services
EMENIKE
17 December 2009 16:40UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!! UP DEMOCRACY!!!!!
Ogunmakin Adeduro Adesola
17 December 2009 16:41The issue here is not about imposition or power play. The constitution is very clear on the nomination of Candidate for Election. The people of Anambra should now decide who should be their Governor and the people should also resist rigging.
chinedu USA
17 December 2009 16:45God is indeed at work in anambra state.Soludo is the best thing that can happen in that state now.He is most qualified out of the lot out there.For those who criticize his tenure at the CBN,lets quit the cheap senseless blackmail.If you think he has questions to answer,this is the best time to bring it up and not when he gets immunity by Febuary.He is willing and capable of answering any questions thrown at him.How can Mrs Odili(ala with her indefinite injunction against prosecution husband) exclude Soludo and PDP(as much as i hate the party)from contesting the guber election when you know u can still get a judicial decision against its candidate even after being elected.The cases of Amechi in Rivers and Ararume in imo proves this.So it would have amounted to throwing away the baby wth the bathwater if you stop PDP from contesting the election simply because you want to stop soludo.Too bad for Andy Uba,Maurice iwuh and their cohorts.IT IS WELL WITH ANAMBRA!!!!!!!!!!!
ikenna
17 December 2009 16:56Birds of the same feather, PDP wonder, another rancur will spring up with Andy Uba who wanted to get the governorship victory and later decamp to PDP like Ohakim,
These people are bunch of deceivers and shameless fools, no fear of God, they have snear thier minds,, no simple decorum or dignity of being called human, they are bunch of animals indeed, we are waiting for all of them, since Nigeria is not ruled by anybody, it’s all comers affair so the youth is time to sweep off all these chalatants that has kept Nigeria to be feeding with feeding bottle for 50years, what a shame in the life of a nation, a nation so blessed nd yet so por because of idle people that called themselves leaders, only what they know is how to use calculator to compute what will come to them every week
umunnam
17 December 2009 16:57well for watever reason soludo was chosen is of no good.
biodun wole
17 December 2009 17:03I diagree with some of yu guys view, pls note that all parties fielded their candidates without a single primary held except PPA. i dont think PDP did anything diff from what all other political parties did. Fiedling candidate for election is an internal arrangement of political parties and court can not even adjudicate on it and that is what the supreme court has done. electroral act recognises that candidates for election can be submitted even without organising primary. primaries only allows internal democracy. its not illegal according to the electoral act and i dont think soludo shld be singled out for punishment becos some pple do not like him.
omoluabi
17 December 2009 17:29Since Supreme Court has granted Soludo to go ahead with election, definitely he is the next Anambra Governor.
Romanus
17 December 2009 17:31The Supreme Court judgement, which restores Soludo as the standard bearer for PDP is a welcome development and will save us Anambrarians lots of embarrasments.
Tony Adams
17 December 2009 17:50Congrat. Prof. Soludo
Lekan ogundapo
17 December 2009 17:53Ofcos everybody knows the truth, bt my suprise is for the ppl who took him to court in the first place, they only waste thier time and instead of them to focus on how to defeat the pep govt. they are busy going to court. For me I kno d pdp will win the si called election in anambra bcos it will be riged openly and I wonder who wants to chalenge them. Anyway, if I were a politician and an oposition to pdp it’s gonnna b voilEnce for voilence! PDP are shameless and wen d othr parties clamin to be born again they bgan to defeat and defeat. I think other parties shud stop folowin d bible that says when u are slaped at ur right chicks the u turn the left chcks but they shud stat to folow d Quran which is blood fir blood! I tink we need war to defeat this animals called PDP. Thanks.
Rems Micheals
17 December 2009 17:55Adekunle which of the other candidates was not imposed?
CHIGOZIE EGBUONU
17 December 2009 17:59Cee cee solution,lets go men! All the Godfathers of Anambra politics should start packing b/4 soludo loses his temper. kudos to apex court.
Femi
17 December 2009 18:33The Supreme Court is not mentioning the section of the law on which premise the her decision was arrived at. I think this is not good for our democracy.
Morphy
17 December 2009 18:40With the exit of men of intergrity from the Supreme, Belgore, Kutigi etc, one will not suprised to see this kind of monitised judgement from poor moral justices.
With men like Oguntade around to do the dirty deals for PDP, then Nigerians should look elsewhere as Supreme Court as presently constituted can-nolonger be the last hope of the common man.
May the wind of change and the east wind of God blow away those who do not wish this country well.
Soludo is dinnig with the devil and will not know peace. God will deliver Anambra from imported god fathers.
IT IS NOT YET OVER
TNY
17 December 2009 18:52Hmmmm….the supreme court has given soludo the governorship ticket, will the people of Anambra hand over the mantle to him?
olabanji olaleye
17 December 2009 19:00The judgement of the apex court was not good for Anambra as a State and for Nigeria as a whole because the emergence of Soludo was not follow the due process the PDP are preaching. I ought the Supreme Court should have save the country, therefore I agreed with Ayoade Asinmiyu Adekunle that the Justice Oguntade is element of PDP as the then Governor of Central Bank in SOLUDO was agent of PDP, i hope he would be compensated later as he was.
Jc james
17 December 2009 19:22Am happy nigeria legal institution is improving
charles aniekan
17 December 2009 19:50the jugdes that rule on soludo at the supreme court is a memebr of PDP. you and i know that here were no praimaries election in anambra that soludo was selected which caused division among the party memeber.
the is not a rule of a laws.. i think the court and the entire judes where gives packages or promised some funds later.. because do they want to tell nigeria the the appeal court do not know the laws.
Daniel
17 December 2009 20:18My friend it is only you that knows that the judgement is not good. Tell me what is ever good in this country? We are always opposing the right thing. Soludo is the best thing that will happen to Enugu state come 2010.
G-Boy
17 December 2009 20:42This is the kind of news I want to hear! The law cannot be used as an engine of fraud! If a party could not hold primaries would that stop the party from fielding a candidate? What then is the use of the “fall-back”plan plan in party constitutions? In the other parties, how many of them even had primaries? The Supreme Court is right!
UCHE OFOMA
17 December 2009 20:47Soludo should go and ve rest he is going no where
Manuel Cee
17 December 2009 21:48I am commenting on this issue just because a man Prof, is my candidate from a wrong poverty development party (PDP), I wish I can tell him the truth face to face that his respect is at stake from Nigerians that like him so much, Prof. you are the man to do the good work in Anambra state but your political party has cause serious dent on your personality and one wonder if you are aware? Now they have plotted great strategy to disgrace you so that you will feel the pains like those who committed crimes in Anambra state and those who put Nigerians in perpetual pains.
Chief Prof. Solupeace, please PDP is not good for you please I beg you to leave that party for your good hard earned reputations in the world of 21st century.
~~~~the MAFIA MANAGER~~~~
17 December 2009 23:32hmmmmmmmmm……………naija dey do different MIRACLES o!…..dey dont even need pastor chris….!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obinna Kingsley
18 December 2009 00:16CONGRATS! MR. SOLUTION ON THIS VERDICT OF THE SUPREME COURT. ANOTHER KUDOS FOR THE PDP, BUT STILL THAT DOES NOT CHANGE MUCH. AS A NEUTRAL ANAMBRARIAN THE PEOPLE HAS REJECTED PDP AND WILL COMPLETELY RESIST THEM COME FEBRUARY 2010. WITH ALL HONESTY, I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST SOLUDO BUT WITH PDP AS A PARTY. BE THIS KNOWN TO PDP, ALL THEIR POLITICAL TRICKS AND GIMMICKS THIS TIME WILL NOT WORK. THE ANAMBRARIANS WILL DECIDE THEIR FATE, THE ABUJA OR PDP HAWKS WILL NOT DECIDE FOR US. ANAMBRARIANS BE WISE NOW OR FACE POSTERITY!!!
thankgod friday
18 December 2009 07:07if anambra believe in changes they should give soludo all thier support to win the febuary election
Nnanna
18 December 2009 20:40The supreme court made the wisest decision, because the court of appeal jumped the gun to restrict a candidate who was nominated by his party to contest an election. Since the high court declined juridiction on the case, the best theappeal court would ve done is to give the case back to the Chief judge of FCT to assgin it to anthoer judge who will assume juridiction and determine the case based on it merit not to give that useless injuction.
What did the candidates lose, if soludo contest, since they did not win the so called primaries, all they want to do is to connive with some opposition parties to frustrate Soludo so that if their candidate wins the election they will go back to PDP.
How many of the parties conducted a free and fair parimaries, even APGA had to push out some candidates to throw out Peter Obi and as you know the case is now in court. . .
I will still contnue to commient on this Later to educate most of us. I have an issue to attend to i will join the discussion later. Thank you all.
Otu Mike E.
19 December 2009 20:40Having gone 2ru these, now points of correction. Other parties xcept PPA did not ‘Ve prys but defeat was accepted as we did not hear 4rm them. U and I know dat candidates bought form for N5m and @ lass t they were denied pry election. Now tell me who’s complaining of same in other parties ?
Inyogu james
20 December 2009 22:40Prof. Soludo I ma ife anaru jisikwa ike na oru