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Alex Ter Adum PhD  The ongoing controversies over the registration of political parties, particularly the disputes involving PMP v. INEC/NDC call for fidelity to established constitutional principles and precedent rather than judicial inconsistency. Nigeria faced a similar controversy in 2013 when competing claims arose over the acronym "APC" between the proposed All Progressives Congress (APC) and another applicant the African People's Congress (APC). In the case before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court Abuja, the court did not confer proprietary rights on the African People's Congress merely because it alleged that it had applied first, nor did it halt INEC's statutory functions. Rather, it allowed the legal process to run its course while respecting INEC's constitutional mandate to determine whether a proposed name, acronym, logo or symbol met the requirements of the law.INEC subsequently exercised its statutory discretion by registering th...

Alex Ter Adum PhD  The controversy surrounding the purported challenge by the Peace Movement Party (PMP) to the registered logo of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) must be resolved strictly within the framework of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022, the Regulations and Guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the registration of political parties in Nigeria, and settled principles of Nigerian constitutional jurisprudence, not through political expediency, judicial overreach or administrative arbitrariness. The Constitution, particularly Sections 222 to 224, lays down the mandatory conditions an association must satisfy before it can qualify for registration as a political party. However, satisfying those constitutional conditions does not, without more, transform an association into a political party. Registration by INEC is the decisive legal act that confers statutory recognition and ...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu might eventually be seen as the Supreme Head and Numero Uno of the most infamous criminal gang in Nigeria if this Femi Gbajabiamila and Adeyemi imbroglio settles to be true on the side of Mr. Adeyemi.  ₦600 Million bribery to get Federal Government appointment under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as supervised by his own Chief-of-Staff.  48% of ₦27 Billion take-off grant Illegal Federal Government agency with; An account maintained with the CBN, authorised by the Accountant General of the Federation and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria  Fake agency of the Federal Government with statutory appropriation of over ₦1 Billion in the Appropriation Act (Budget) of the year 2026 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Tinubu  Nonexistent federal government agency with an office within the Federal Secretariat  Unknown and unreal federal government agency with over 300 staff approved by the Head of Service of the Fed...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  I've had to pinch and prick myself a few times to be sure it's a real experience and that humans can actually live in the manner of the supporters and followers of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). I've never seen people as shameless and mindless as the supporters of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC. These irredeemably morally dead people are listing the incidents of kidnapping during Mr. Peter Obi's reign as the Governor of Anambra State and are asking why he didn't resign from his position because of that. This is in their defense of Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom Mr. Peter Obi has audaciously asked to resign from the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria owing to his failures and crass incapacity in performing the most primary and basic duties of a president - safety of lives and property. To buttress their foolhardiness and lifelong foolishness is to ...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  Don't ride in the sun It might be scorching  Don't ride on ice It might be freezing  Don't ride in the wild You might be devoured  Don't step out on sick day It's a scary fate there  Don't smile in angst  You'll be so mischievous  Don't stop when to start It's a sad bad torture