I'm so happy that this professor is objective enough to highlight the perpetual impact of wrong precedents. Pretty foolish to build s highrise building on a defective substructure. Good job, Prof!

@user-wh1sj7ly9x

20 күн бұрын

Your comment captured Prof’s exposition so well. Well said

@nankesi1623

19 күн бұрын

Honestly, indeed "legitimacy of elections are no longer with the people but with politicians and Judges." Many of us commoners no longer bother to vote many years ago. What's the use voting. I said it before and TVC refused to post my comments. This supreme court judgment has more to it than meet the eye. There's the visible hand of a monkey manipulating the matter to deal with a current corrupt situation. How can the country move forward by using a seemingly legal method to solve a corrupt situation. Politicians and Judges, una de play. Don't run o. Stay and face the music when the time comes.

Very brilliant comment from our courageous, highly educated and respected lawyer. Indeed you cannot give what you don’t have. 😂😂😂

@victorokolie8232

20 күн бұрын

This are brilliant thoughts not like Liborous Oshoma that goes to every station to say what the people want to hear rather than say the truth or state the facts

Prof chidi odinkalu, i can't thank you enough sir, God bless you and richly bless the womb that held you for nine months, God bless your mother 🙏.

It turns me on to see that we still have people with head on their shoulder. Kudos prof

What Professor Kalu is simply explaining is that you cannot employ dirty water, dirty bowl and dirty soap in for the process of restoring a piece of dirty white clothing back to its whiteness. And I think this should not be too difficult for anyone to understand.

This host is stuck on arithmetic, the guest is on calculus. The host can’t seem to understand that this judgement won’t solve the problem because the LGAs are still at the will of governors who installed them.

@mikeobasi9177

20 күн бұрын

Exactly, the host and journalist struggled along to understand or accept the fundamental but repeated errors in jurisprudence that has bedevils our political process and which still makes the local council autonomy rather fluid.

@ikechukwuozigbu559

20 күн бұрын

😅

@MA-go7ee

19 күн бұрын

Even that withstanding, this judgement still VASTLY increases the power and independence of the LGs.

@ABCD1234-user-x3v

19 күн бұрын

@@MA-go7ee well, for now that is all “in theory”. Let’s see if in practice this is one of the court judgements that will be obeyed/enforced.

@augustineodugu8942

18 күн бұрын

Bandit election? Yes! As long as the governors determine who becomes the LG Chairman and the state electoral commission continues to conduct LG elections, the judgement holds no water.

One of the major problems we have in Nigeria is that the media is not interested in the pursuit of the truth and the advancement of the public good.

@nigerian-nightmare

21 күн бұрын

That is the honest truth. They all pretend to be journalists but are afraid to speak up. Nigeria has many issues, and I'm not sure where to start.

@alfredokpanachi1847

21 күн бұрын

they have all been captured by the government, started from the Buhari govt .

@ochonganokwu

20 күн бұрын

Just like our judicial system

@donatusben4021

20 күн бұрын

You have said it all!

@andrewemeshie9116

20 күн бұрын

Government Captured Parties Captured Media Captured The State Capture completed. It is all over Ladies and gentlemen.

I can strongly confirm the validity of every of his argument

Prof may God continue to bless you. I totally agree with you intoto that our supreme court is utterly IRRESPONSIBLE.

@emlak5483

20 күн бұрын

You people cannot appreciate the judiciary as arm of government, Is this not a progress?. You hide under the bed of a woman and be giving comments irrelevantly. Don't get me angry o. Anyways, jokes apart, let's appreciate this. The effect is that Local government is closed to the people and the positive impact should be felt. the people should hold their leaders accountable in their respective areas(L.G). EFCC nets await any corrupt leaders!

Accurate responses from this Prof.

I humbly suggest to the host/anchor to watch this interview again and then check his dictionary for the meaning of the words "afraid" and "facts". Perhaps then he might understand how some (if not most) viewers (as well as his guest) may perceive his attitude as being uncomfortable whenever the guest's responses to his questions were different from the script he (the host) had written beforehand. I'm pretty sure he can do better than that but of course, he's not "afraid"! Speaking for me and just me, I must thank him though for inviting Professor Odinkalu to this interview.

@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054

21 күн бұрын

Well humbly suggested 👊

I was jubilating over the verdict until I watched this interview. Indeed, Professor Odinkalu deeply understands how Nigeria works and his view has made me sceptical of outcome of the celebrated SC ruling.

@joshuaakochi524

20 күн бұрын

We were in the same boat comrade

@einsteinprodigy

20 күн бұрын

There is no uhuru in sight. We must get our elections right

@ejeziestannis8530

19 күн бұрын

Exactly

This host is completely out of his depth. The Professor's thinking and logic is certainly way above the understanding of the host .

@idiaidia6082

20 күн бұрын

I don't think the host is out of his depth. It's either fear of loosing his job or ideological inclination both situations can be cloud your judgement

@jahjah1010

20 күн бұрын

​@@idiaidia6082 u right 😂😂

Those who can not stand the heat should avoid the kitchen. Uzoma, if you as a journalist can not stand the frankness of Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, don't invite him to your station for an interview because he's not one of those that will sugar-coat words for you. It's only those who don't have honour that come to your station and be massaging the egos of politicians. Furthermore, he is not one of those University Professors who after years of studies, research and writing journals, still compromise their integrity to rigg elections for uneducated and semi literate politicians all for pots of soup. Well done, Prof.

BUT WHY DO OUR JOURNALISTS DELIBERATELY ACTS STUPID AND CARELESS AND IGNORANT? KAI!!

@ibekevin1111

20 күн бұрын

The journalist has been compromised because they have been compromised by the politicians This journalist has drank the water of foolishness The most of the journalists in Nigeria are all pretending to be stupid, directly collaborating with the corrupt system in Nigeria to destroy the country

@jahjah1010

20 күн бұрын

Na mumu dem be nau,🤷‍♀️😂

@maypen4034

20 күн бұрын

THIS IS COWARDLY DISAPPOINTMENT, WE DON'T HAVE MEN AGAIN .

This are brilliant thoughts not like Liborous Oshoma that goes to every station to say what the people want to hear rather than say the truth or state the facts

@nnamchannel2255

18 күн бұрын

The guy has lost credibility

This problem of Nigeria includes this kind of journalism; crappy

The man is right, the money will still find it's way back to the pockets of the governors.

@user-mc3kx2fc3d

20 күн бұрын

LGAs are the selected choice of governors who cannot raise their hands or move their legs without the order of their governors!

Odinkalum your thought are spot on, unfortunately they are far more weightier than what our Judiciary can assimilate and handle. It's a sorry state of the Nigerian state, and even scary when there seem not to be any light at the end of the tunnel.

Prof says it just as it is. Kudos sir!

Professor has always been genuine and honest about the realities of Nigeria’s failure

Thank you very much Prof. Insightful thoughts ❤

Thanks to the Prof for his predictability and facts analysis

Kudos to Prof. Well spoken. 👏👏👏👏👏👍

God bless you sir

So proud of you sir,a brother to Rev Fr Augustine Obinna Odinkalu from Imo State . intelligent people

@user-cd5fi2zm8x

17 күн бұрын

Do you know them ?

@chileeokechukwu7287

17 күн бұрын

Yes

I am not afraid of facts, I am a journalist 😂😂😂😂😂

You dont fail. Nice listening to you always.

Pay attention to your guest. You weren't following him. Are you an APC member?

@johnofoegbu2799

20 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@Ope-fr5hu

20 күн бұрын

So the professor is labor or what are u implying. The prof is deviating from the question and talking about the 2023 election which a lot of u are still delusional about . The prof made so much sense on what he's talking about but he's still deviating from the actual question and the interviewer is not ready to play politics and we know channels tv to be neutral from Arise an indigo pdp/ labor tv station and tvc which also tilted to the ruling party.

This host is very uncomfortable here. It appeared his planned script is not working. Prof is erudite, direct and clear.

I totally agree with the prof. I don't know where the interviewer is not seeing prof points of view

Some of our journalists need to be retrained 😂

Professor of Law, not bought or dashed, it shows in your depth of thoughts and communication. Thank you sir.

Prof. Thank you for being blunt.

The interviewer is so daft..instead of asking what can be done to correct the political jurisprudence set by the supreme Court to refresh the whole system..you are busy asking how to legalise illegality..

Prof chidi odinkalu ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ please adopt me as your son, Well said sir, shame on this quack journalist.

This is the problem with Nigeria. Most of the comments by people with Yoruba names are condemning the facts stated by prof. Nigeria is very sick with this degree of tribalism. Terrible, indeed.

@laoluadegbesan9794

17 күн бұрын

You see and read what's on your mind.

Anyone who believes the supreme judgement will solve the Local government issue in Nigeria is simply daydreaming.

@Jimmysteeve

20 күн бұрын

But it's a step in good direction

@njuzyelvisekambi314

20 күн бұрын

​@@JimmysteeveI wonder why some people think we can solve the problems in one day.

@ibekevin1111

20 күн бұрын

​@Jimmysteeve Which direction As long as the LGA elections are flawed, there is nothing you can do. It will be rigged, and the rigged LGA chairmen will just hand over the funds back to the governors That is why Nigerians don't know anything and allow these politicians and do called judges deceive them

@user-re9ph3pr4y

20 күн бұрын

⁠@@njuzyelvisekambi314 How many years of your independence? Who will conduct local government elections in the state. Isn’t it state independence electoral commission, which members are selected by governors. It is your mate who are fighting for their future in Kenya, in Nigeria you come with your tribal and religious sentiments. Your president today doesn’t have primary and secondary school certificates, and you see it as a normal thing. Even his university certificate is being questioned. You will suffer it not me. I live in Edmonton Canada. My children are enjoying good education better than you do. Keep on deceiving yourself. Someone like wike’s wife, how can such a judge adjudicate political cases.

@balogundimeji

20 күн бұрын

You just missed the point. what was the impact of the educated in Nigeria politics?

Thank you porf

Truth is bitter like Alomo . Unfortunately, truth is truth

@ogbonnayaayaru8450

20 күн бұрын

Truth is not actually bitter. It is in fact as sweet as sugar. It is only bitter for that hate the truth, but for those of us that love Truth, it is sweet and you can see it from the majority of the comments from the interview

Prof is always on point. The Supreme Court is dead and can't provide a solution.

Blessed is the womb that conceived this man. Even more blessed are children flowing from his loins. I'm speechless.

Host should be more articulate in the questions and build on the discussion

Prof is on point

The LGA will with their own hand send a percentage the governor wants to them 😅😅😅😅. If not the LGA chairperson will not smell that seat

The same Supreme Court should pass a judgment barring the states electoral bodies from conducting or overseeing local government elections.

This journalist is olodo why are you keep saying 2023 election when the man was saying from 2003

Well-spoken Prof!!!

Prof, you have said it all, sir. ❤

Chidi Odinkalu may you experience peace here and forever more......

Thank you sir God bless you

I am unfazed and unmoved about this ,as it is a late and flogging a dead horse

This is what I expect from any learned mind unlike those who have been hailing the supreme court over the development.

Do you think these journalists in Nigeria (if they can be referred to as one) go back to read comments by their viewers? The failure of the institutions that has contributed to the failure of the country is not unique to the judiciary and law enforcement alone. The news media, as represented by the host of this program, exemplifies the inadequacies of the media to play their part in a liberal democracy. Frankly, I became irritated when this host kept pushing a mindset in contravention of the point his guest was making repeatedly. To make the matter worse, he referred to himself as a journalist. The jury is out whether we can truly call him a journalist or simply someone hosting a tv program.

Am disappointed with the anchor of today's interview, how can he be asking his guest to explain the obvious truth. Asking the same question over and over again.

Professor, you are legend

You're afraid of getting answers to questions you asked...

Inasmuch we don't believe that anything can work or good thing can't come out,then why do we still remains as Nigerians? Let every region go there separate way and start allover again.

Prof you're on point

For me how to get this right is to correct the state electoral process make sure the electoral process in each of the state is independent from the state governors and those local government chairman can emerge from different parties without the governors influencing them and pray the supreme court to stop giving Nigerians bandit judgement in

There should just short down Channels TV. There are part of this problem we have in this country. Na APC the run channels underground 😅. How can a TV station be afraid 😞 of airing the truth. There should know that my brother Odinkalu is no afraid 😟 to say the truth before inviting him

The legitimacy is not from the governors but the people and because of deep seated misplacement. The control mechanisms for local governments is not electoral. The local government governing council is the most of important factor how we use not now as Nigerian in our different localities matters.

Nigeria is a captured state.

Nobody will obey these criminal justices . Nigeria will not move forward with all these criminals

Please confirm to us the services expected of governors vis-a-vis LGAs

This is why I don’t like Channels TV. They are pretenders and very afraid to speak truth to power.

The worrisome substitution of our country

Who are the Democratically elected people. Once you dont derive your power and authority from the people but on the governors and judiciary and government then it is useless

We all know it’s not going to cause an immediate change but should be e not begin? For those of us that has witness effective local administration before 2003. It’s a welcome development which will eventually makes democracy reaches the grass root with it dividends.

He was like “ how about if the appointees were qualified” to be judges 🤩

God bless you, Prof., for always being frank! This channel TV anchor is biased!

Nigeria judiciary is a crime scene and a family Christmas 🎄

He has answered your questions. Why are you repeating the question

What now happens to secondary school teachers and other workers salaries domiciled in the local government areas. Who now pays. Is it the local government or the state government.😮

What we should now watch out for is governors dissolving LGA chairman seats and appointing sdministratorsthe to continue their thieving ways

@faruknasoro6150

21 күн бұрын

No allocation without elected individuals according to Supreme Court

@princeabdulsalami4595

20 күн бұрын

Read the judgment. That was a perfect judgement no elections no funds. That how counties and counties work in other country. This funds are used by Governors since 99 and they have been fighting not to give local government Autonomy because they know they are going to be weak.

@ifeanyipaschal2614

20 күн бұрын

You didn't understand that verdict.

@Chrisugo

20 күн бұрын

And you think the local government chairmen are holy ? Hahahahaha 😅, you better think again and again .

@chroniclesofthebuddingentr4172

20 күн бұрын

@@Chrisugo None are holy but LGA autonomy is better IMHO, now government is closer to the people and we can talk directly and hold LGA chain and women responsible

Are the governors accountable for the judicious use of the funds they get. Talkless of local government installed by the governors

This presenter is an absolute disgrace! Indeed, a product of an endemically corrupt & rotten system; totally unfit & incapable of raising his questioning to meet the sound and empirical analysis of the Professor. Very sad indeed!

Bandit election? Yes! As long as the governors determine who becomes the LG Chairman and the state electoral commission continues to conduct LG elections, the judgement holds no water.b

God bless and guide the president of Nigeria

Corruption has enguffed the country.

I am waiting to hear what petter obi will say on this issue

@einsteinprodigy

20 күн бұрын

Is peter Obi the president

lDo you think Anambra people deserve explanation why Peter Obi did not conduct local government election in 8 years and what happened to the funds/ allocation ? please somebody respond

Where is my comment?

Why didn't BAT push for this while in office as a governor? I will only give kudos to a sitting governor for fighting for local government autonomy in all spheres. Nothing is so special about governance!

Prof is saying that the people have no means or power to hold politicians accountable for their performances in government because they derive their mandates from the courts and not from the people.

The journalists in Nigeria now are so careful that they can’t even stomach the facts. It’s strange it’s judges electing their children’s wife’s in laws . It’s a sad situation no wonder the judgements are a downward spiral

This ChannelTv journalist is an embarrassingly poor journalist. 😢😢😢

The host is as useless as their judicial and the corrupt politicians in Nigeria.

The host keep saying i understand....whlie he dnt understand nothing...Pls next time understand

Channels has been a serious problem in Nigeria for the past 9 years

Mr negative thinker, take the win please. We can only get better by moving gradually towards total correction of the injustices perpetrated by politicians over the years. There is no automatic button to solve all the problems at once. At least give kudos to the president for being unselfish and not pandering to the governors. This move might even cost him a second term tickets because the governors are definitely not happy. The next move is for the national assembly to make laws that will enhance this supreme Court decision especially with regards to how the LGA chairmen are elected. The president has more work to do and I believe he has the political clout to see it through.kudos mr president

@arinzeagbo8699

20 күн бұрын

Where is forward??

@toinspire9063

20 күн бұрын

@@arinzeagbo8699 this judgement is surely a way forward. Except you are biased in one way or the other and or never interested in the Nigerian project. A lot of you are so used to activism and complaining about the problems we are facing as a country to an extent that you don't recognize when a positive has been achieved. We have to start recognising the positives and harping on them so politicians don't find a way to flout them again. No magic wand can take our problems away, positives like this judgement chips away at the problems bit by bit until we get to the promise land. Be optimistic

@joegreg1038

20 күн бұрын

The intent of an action supersedes the action. Believe politicians and the crop of current Nigerian judicial officers at your own peril. This might sound good on the surface, but the underground mechanics might be far from what we allude to. We can critique differing thoughts and opinions but attacks on persons are not welcomed even as one would like to be treated. Politicians have used and continue to use such potent misguided lines to divide us. Time shall tell. However, any attempt at not taking power back to the people will not augur well with the nation.

@toinspire9063

20 күн бұрын

@@joegreg1038 my comment was never meant as an attack but to expose the mindset of Prof odinkalu which has mostly been to see any issue of discourse from a negative point of view. The issue here is simple and straightforward, it's a supreme court decision which is binding on all and will from now be referenced in the court of law, no need to over analyse it, the supreme Court has given the power back to the people. Now we can hold our LGA chairman responsible for everything at the grassroot. Maybe you are not seeing that this judgement makes the ordinary citizen closer to power amd govt than before, now no LGA chairman will dare not perform. As I believe its the case with Prof odinkalu, most of us don't even like the people occupying power in nigeria now but what makes us advocates of good governance in nigeria is when we recognize and speak the truth when Good has been done even if it seems we are praising people we don't like. People are not fools, if you claim to be fighting for them but you cannot say good has been done when it has then they won't trust you. I don't even trust people that criticise always and never own up when they see something good

@amajamaotom7011

19 күн бұрын

Are you in anyway telling us the President made the Supreme Court give this judgment? I'm asking so I can check something. 😊

Because super court is zero those not mean that lG autonomy is not needed , let us do something

@obichrischinedu3576

17 күн бұрын

How can a building stand on a faulty foundation.

This Journalist is a mere questions asking Journalist. He said so. They(his types) are always afraid to do investigations because exposing flaws in governments would make them lose patronage. Lazy and dogmatic as usual. He was not listening to the date(year) the Professor was reeling out. The guest is a very patient man.

The issues in elections seem from national assembly not the courts alone

The prof. Made it clear that he hasn't read the judgement but he is subtly condemning the judgement, What a shame. The judgement stated that only elected chairperson can get the money. This will increase People's engagement in local politics. Now people with great ideas will come forward, since it doesn't require huge funds to run local campaigns, compared to even state rep. & Senate election. Local government chairman don't enjoy immunity, they know they can be prosecuted ,if they mismanaged funds, therefore they are not gonna handover any fund to any governor. Now people can access the local government with immediate problems and they got no excuse. You can only rig election where you enjoy some level of popularity or the people are not interested in the politics.

@ipedraipedra

18 күн бұрын

You really do not understand how Nigerian political space works. If you do, you won't make this comment. Those who are fed up with all the corruption in Nigeria, which are intertwined will understand the submissions of our amiable Prof. better.

@bluekels86

17 күн бұрын

The Delta Local Government election that was held over the weekend where PDP swept all the chairmanship positions and councilorship position will also be labeled election by your reckoning. In Nigeria, we live in pretences. The financial autonomy is only but a mirage. Governors will merely be conducting LG election where their minions will be selected as chairmen. In addressing financial autonomy, the nature of the recruitment process of chairmen must also be streamlined and addressed. Could you list three States where the opposition parties have won the LG elections in Nigeria? Financial autonomy without addressing the pertinent question of the nature of election at that tier, will amount to nought.

FREE MAZI NNAMDI KANU NOW!

Who will monitor the LGA chair person. Rubbish

The system is totally flawed yet we have an Odinaka.....the story of seeing issues from.only one perspective is totally wrong.There will always be exceptions and a turning point.Better write what wrongs than let the old order remain.

This interviewer is a shame to journalism. He should just go and collect an APC card and get a job there.

This anchor/journalist needs to level up. He barely understands the bigger picture Prof is making.