Supreme Court upholds Obiano's election as Anambra gov

Supreme Court dismisses Ngige, Nwoye’s appeals

September 22, 2014Premium Times

Willie Obiano

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra.
Mr. Obiano was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the November 16, 2013 governorship election.
Mr. Ngige’s counsel, Emeka Ngige, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, had urged the courts to cancel the election and order a fresh one due to alleged irregularities.
This was, however, challenged by Mr. Obiano through his counsel, Patrick Ikweato.
Delivering judgments in the separate appeals filed by the APC and PDP candidates, the apex court said that they lacked merit, and dismissed them.
The judgments were delivered by Justices Kumai Akaahs and Olukayode Ariwoola.
In rejecting all the grounds of appeals, the seven-member panel unanimously affirmed the election which brought Mr. Obiano into office.
The court held: “The applicants were unable to prove the allegations of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, which they filed against the respondent.
“Also, they did not prove that the election was not conducted substantially in compliance with the provisions of the Act as alleged.
“The appeal is hereby dismissed in its entirety.’’ It further held that Mr. Obiano did not engage in multiple
registrations as claimed by the appellants.
According to the court, the governor simply transferred his voter’s card from Lagos, where he initially registered, to Anambra, his state of origin, which is allowed in law.
It said that the grounds of the appeals did not warrant the governor’s disqualification as the applicants prayed.
The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, led by Justice Mohammed Garba, had on July 26, unanimously dismissed the applicants’ suit.
The five-member panel had affirmed the judgment of the Justice Ishaq Bello-led Anambra Election Petition Tribunal, delivered on June 24.
The tribunal upheld the election of Mr. Obiano, who was sworn-in in March to succeed former Governor Peter Obi, also of APGA.

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Willy Obiano, the Anambra State Governor in a victory salute, Monday after The Supreme Court uphold his victory at the last election held in the state. 

Passing the judgement, Justice Bayang. K. Akaahs said that the appellants have failed “woefully” to prove their allegations that the election was not conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act. and therefore left the court with no reason to warrant it to set aside the concurrent judgments of both the Election Petition ‎Tribunal and the Court of Appeal..

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

Supreme Court dismisses Ngige, Nwoye’s appeals

September 22, 2014Premium Times

Willie Obiano

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra.
Mr. Obiano was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the November 16, 2013 governorship election.
Mr. Ngige’s counsel, Emeka Ngige, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, had urged the courts to cancel the election and order a fresh one due to alleged irregularities.
This was, however, challenged by Mr. Obiano through his counsel, Patrick Ikweato.
Delivering judgments in the separate appeals filed by the APC and PDP candidates, the apex court said that they lacked merit, and dismissed them.
The judgments were delivered by Justices Kumai Akaahs and Olukayode Ariwoola.
In rejecting all the grounds of appeals, the seven-member panel unanimously affirmed the election which brought Mr. Obiano into office.
The court held: “The applicants were unable to prove the allegations of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, which they filed against the respondent.
“Also, they did not prove that the election was not conducted substantially in compliance with the provisions of the Act as alleged.
“The appeal is hereby dismissed in its entirety.’’ It further held that Mr. Obiano did not engage in multiple
registrations as claimed by the appellants.
According to the court, the governor simply transferred his voter’s card from Lagos, where he initially registered, to Anambra, his state of origin, which is allowed in law.
It said that the grounds of the appeals did not warrant the governor’s disqualification as the applicants prayed.
The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, led by Justice Mohammed Garba, had on July 26, unanimously dismissed the applicants’ suit.
The five-member panel had affirmed the judgment of the Justice Ishaq Bello-led Anambra Election Petition Tribunal, delivered on June 24.
The tribunal upheld the election of Mr. Obiano, who was sworn-in in March to succeed former Governor Peter Obi, also of APGA.

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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

Obiano

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra.

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Obiano

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra.

- See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. - See more at: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168494-supreme-court-dismisses-ngige-nwoyes-appeals.html#sthash.DvbQdBEV.dpuf

'Fashion Police' to Continue Without Joan Rivers

 Fashion Police will Continue without Joan Rivers, E! Network Says.  Rancic told ABC News that Rivers' death was "the shock of a lifetime" and that her daughter Melissa, an executive producer of the show, would be instrumental in deciding if the show would continue.

 According to the Network,  Fashion Police will return in 2015  with Golden Globes coverage on Monday, January 12.

Joan Rivers died on Sept. 4 at the age of 81. The comedy legend, alongside Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos, made "Fashion Police" a red-carpet staple, with their biting, yet funny comments on the attire chosen by Hollywood's elite for big-time award shows. 

The Cosby Show' Turns 30

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Thirty years ago, on a Saturday, "The Cosby Show," a sitcom about the Huxtable family in Brooklyn, New York, that would remain on the air for eight seasons made its debut..

The series was a huge hit, winning six Emmys, two Golden Globes and a slew of other awards -- not to mention ranking number one in the Nielsen ratings for five years in a row.

 

Polly Bergen, versatile actress, singer dies at 84

  

"when you feel what you've done fulfills yourself, makes you happy and makes people around you happy."  Polly Bergen



Emmy-winning actress and singer Polly Bergen died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014 at age 84. She died at her home in Southbury, Connecticut, from natural causes, said publicist Judy Katz, surrounded by family and close friends.

 A brunette beauty with a warm, sultry singing voice, Bergen became a household name from her 20s onward. She made albums and played leading roles in films, stage musicals and TV dramas. She also hosted her own variety series, was a popular game show panelist, and founded a thriving beauty products company that bore her name.

Career History

Bergen won an Emmy in 1958 portraying the tragic singer Helen Morgan on the famed anthology series "Playhouse 90." She was nominated for another Emmy in 1989 for best supporting actress in a miniseries or special for "War and Remembrance."

Writer Carl Reiner and actress Polly Bergen 

 

 In 1953, she made her Broadway debut with Harry Belafonte in the revue "John Murray Anderson's Almanac." In 1957-58 she starred on the musical-variety "The Polly Bergen Show" on NBC, closing every broadcast with her theme song, "The Party's Over."

 Bergen published the first of her three advice books, "The Polly Bergen Book of Beauty, Fashion and Charm" in 1962. That led to her own cosmetics company, which earned her millions.

 In 1964's "Kisses for My President," Bergen was cast as the first female U.S. president, with Fred MacMurray as First Gentleman. Also, when Geena Davis portrayed a first woman president in the 2005 TV drama "Commander in Chief," Bergen was cast as her mother.

 She played Felicity Huffman's mother on "Desperate Housewives" and the past mistress of Tony Soprano's late father on "The Sopranos."

 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, with Polly Bergen Add caption

She is survived by her children Peter Fields, Kathy Lander and Pamela Fields and three grandchildren.

 

Today In History September 22

September 22 is the 265th day of the year. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year.

Iranian soldier with gas mask in the battlefield

 Today Highlight In History  1980 – Iraq invades Iran.

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Persian Gulf War, was an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest conventional war.

The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land on 22 September 1980,after a long history of border disputes. The war was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with Resolution 598, a U.N.-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides.

 WORLD EVENTS

1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.

1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.

1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.

1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

1980 – Iraq invades Iran.

1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.

2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
         

                                          Today In African History

In 1828, the Zulu Chief Shaka, founder of the Zulu empire, was assassinated by his two half-brothers Dingane and Mhlanga

In 1861 Chief Sekhukhune became king of the Marota (or baPedi), stretching across what is now Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and G

In 1952 twenty black leaders were put on trial on charges under the Suppression of Communism Act. The accused included D

In 1968 a report was published by the Commission of the South African Council of Churches, condemning apartheid as a fal

In 1972 Idi Amin gave Uganda's 8 000 Asians 48 hours to leave the country.

2008 President Thabo Mbeki handed in his resignation, singling out the fight against crime as being a big challenge remaining for South Africa.

Today In History September 21

September 21 is the 264th day of the year. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the year.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

 Today's Highlight In History  1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice. Appointed by Ronald Reagan

 Before her appointment, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader in the United States as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor. Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005, and joined the Court on January 31, 2006.

 Her unanimous confirmation by the Senate in 1981 was supported by most conservatives, led by Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, and liberals, including Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and women's rights groups like the National Organization for Women.

Sandra Day O'Connor was Chancellor of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and currently serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Several publications have named O'Connor among the most powerful women in the world. On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States, by President Barack Obama.

 WORLD EVENTS

1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.

1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.

1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.

1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.

1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.

1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

 1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.

1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.

1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.

1977 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.

1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.

1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over

$200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

2005 – Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane(dropped to 4th in October 19, 2005)

2013 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

Today In Hisytory September 20

 

Charles Duryea (left) with J.Frank Duryea

September 20 is the 263rd day of the year. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year.




Today's  Highlight In History  1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.


Charles Edgar Duryea (December 15, 1861 – September 28, 1938) was the engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton, Illinois, the son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life working in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was in Springfield that Charles and his brother, Frank, produced and road-tested America's first gasoline-powered car.

1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.

1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
 
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews].

1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.

2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".

2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

2011 – The United States ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.