Comments on: The legitimatization of a bastardized government http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/the-legitimatization-of-a-bastardized-government/ For the Voiceless and Resilient People called Nigerians Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:23:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: imnakoya http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/the-legitimatization-of-a-bastardized-government/#comment-2949 imnakoya Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:49:06 +0000 http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/the-legitimatization-of-a-bastardized-government/#comment-2949 What the court did not say is that the presidential election was free of flaws. The court can not make that call as a neutral arbiter; but can make that determination is necessary and amble evidence were presented in the case against YarA’dua. VOA has Lead Judge Abdulkadir Jega on tape giving his verdict. The judge told the packed court that the “petitioners failed to substantiate their allegations.” <i> "This petition has been plagued by want of evidence in proof of virtually all the allegations contained therein," he said. "Even if I were to accept all the excluded evidence provided by the petitioner, <b>which evidence relates to only four states of the federation,</b> the petitioner would still have been unable to establish his petition. Accordingly, the petition is hereby dismissed."</i> Nigeria has 36 states, plus the federal Capital Territory, so if the best Atiku/Buhari lawyers were limited to four states, how on earth can the elections be overturned? What the court did not say is that the presidential election was free of flaws. The court can not make that call as a neutral arbiter; but can make that determination is necessary and amble evidence were presented in the case against YarA’dua.

VOA has Lead Judge Abdulkadir Jega on tape giving his verdict. The judge told the packed court that the “petitioners failed to substantiate their allegations.”

“This petition has been plagued by want of evidence in proof of virtually all the allegations contained therein,” he said. “Even if I were to accept all the excluded evidence provided by the petitioner, which evidence relates to only four states of the federation, the petitioner would still have been unable to establish his petition. Accordingly, the petition is hereby dismissed.”

Nigeria has 36 states, plus the federal Capital Territory, so if the best Atiku/Buhari lawyers were limited to four states, how on earth can the elections be overturned?

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