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Last Updated: Jul 16, 2008 - 9:14:32 AM |
As
earlier reported by our investigators, David Mark won his appeals at
the Court of Appeal in Jos earlier today. An electoral appeal panel led
by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa gave the senate president victory in a
two-page ruling endorsed by the three-person appeals panel.
Justice
Bulkachawa claimed in her ruling that the returning officers of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have no mandate to
invalidate or alter election results once they have been declared at
the ward level. But constitutional lawyers rebutted the premises upon
which she built this key ruling; several of them who spoke with
Saharareporters
in Abuja, insisted that the state returning officer is empowered to
invalidate election results for reasons of violence.
Saharareporters
had reported that today's decision was prepared by Justice Umaru
Abdullahi three weeks ago before the president of the Court of Appeal
left Nigeria for Ireland in the company of the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, Justice Legbo Kutigi.
Impeccable sources told
our reporters that Justice Abdullahi will proceed from Ireland to spend
his vacation on the Island of Jersey (The Island of Jersey is part of
the channel Islands, which includes
Guernsey, Sark, Herm and Alderney, and is only 15 miles due east from
Northern France.), a tiny but controversial
nation known for money laundering activities.
We
could not confirm if Justice Abdullahi is currently staying at one of
the properties owned by David Mark near Dublin, Ireland.
Revelations
from divorce proceedings between Mark and an estranged wife, Victoria
Preye, shows that Mark had used the Island of Jersey and the Cayman
Islands as a transit point for laundering $12 million into European
bank accounts
Source:Ocnus.net 2008
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