He was helped by flooding the whole area with light still our Prof. turn himself to a laughing stock at the venue where National collation is taken place.
This is really a show of shame of the educational sector in Nigeria.
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Rivers rigged election: Prof. can't read "his own collated result"
He was helped by flooding the whole area with light still our Prof. turn himself to a laughing stock at the venue where National collation is taken place.
This is really a show of shame of the educational sector in Nigeria.
Sensing Defeat, PDP decided to Frustrate Result Announcement
The electoral agency, INEC, in Abuja had Monday released the results of 19 states which showed the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, leading by over 2 million votes. Results that have also been announced by state INEC officials in other states, yet to be announced in Abuja, also show the opposition candidate set to emerge as the elected president.
However, as the announcement of results was to continue at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on Tuesday, PDP officials stampeded the process accusing Mr. Jega of bias. For several minutes, they prevented the further announcement of results alleging among others, that Attahiru Jega, the INEC boss, refused to collect a petition they sent about the elections; and that he also gave unverified results to the APC.
“Jega is not supposed to be bias. Jega is not suppose to be tribal,” former minister Godsday Orubebe who was among the protesters shouted.
He said the Mr. Jega commissioned a fact finding team on reports of malpractices from Rivers State but has not acted on the Peoples Democratic Party complaints on results from Kano, Katsina, Kaduna and Gombe, which were won by the opposition.
He was unyielding as Mr. Jega and other INEC officials appealed to him to allow the collation to go on.
He said the collation would not continue except Mr. Jega leaves the venue for his office to “address PDP complaints.”
What a Shame!
Buhari Campaign Group Calls for Femi Fanikayode arrest
The Director, Media and Information of the BSO, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, made the call on Monday in Abuja at a news conference.
According to Maduekwe, this is the time
for security agencies to show their neutrality by arresting Fani-Kayode
because the only authority to announce election results is the
Independent National Electoral Commission.
The organisation claimed that Fani-Kayode
had breached relevant sections of the Electoral Act by announcing on
Sunday that the PDP was leading in the presidential election in 23
states of the federation.
“We ask the security agencies to
immediately arrest Fani-Kayode for breaching relevant sections of the
Electoral Act which forbids any organ outside INEC from officially
declaring election results.
“His arrest for further questioning will
be a clear indication that the security agencies are truly unbiased
participants in this electoral process.
“His declaration is also a breach of both
the first and second Abuja Peace Accord signed by the presidential
candidates,’’ Maduekwe said.
He called on the international community
and observers to note the steps being taken by the ruling party to cause
severe breach of peace and call them to order.
He urged APC supporters to maintain the
peace as they await the official announcement of authentic INEC results
for the Saturday elections.
“We ask Nigerians to join us in saying `No’ to this recent manifestation of habitual impunity.
“We appeal to all our numerous supporters
to sustain their calmness in the face of current provocation and abuse
of our electoral processes,’’ he said.
Maduekwe said that APC would reject “in
its entirety, the use of security to compromise an election process that
has been commended as having high quotient of integrity’’.
He urged INEC to adhere strictly to
guidelines for elections which protected candidates through active
participation of party agents.
“We request INEC to adhere to the
guideline which makes it mandatory for polling unit party agents to sign
result sheet forming the basis for collation of reslt at collation
centres.
Military aid PDP rigging in Imo says Rochas Okorocha
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha,
has frowned on the way the Peoples Democratic Party “rigged” the
elections of Saturday and has therefore called for the outright
cancellation of the results in six local government areas of the state.
He also said that the election in the state was full of combined conspiracy with military intervention.
The governor, who addressed journalists
on Monday at the Government House, Owerri, accused notable chieftains of
the PDP in the state of using the military to terrorise voters.
He alleged that such areas as Oru East,
Ohaji/Egbema, Ngor Okpala, Aboh Mbaise and parts of Owerri West did not
only witnessed unprecedented rigging but also abduction and kidnapping
of agents of rival political parties who were manhandled and forced to
lie prostrate on the ground by soldiers acting on the orders of the
Federal Government.
He said, “Armed soldiers were used by
the PDP as aides to the collation officers and there was no collation of
results at the ward levels as prescribed by the Electoral Act. All the
collating officers and presiding officers were directed to go and submit
their results at the LG level, from where they collected all the
results from the booths in the presence of soldiers.”
Okorocha also lashed out at security
agents who he alleged barred agents of the opposition parties from
entering into the INEC office while giving those of the PDP unfettered
access to the premises of the electoral commission.
The governor also said that 250 students
of the Rochas Foundation College who duly registered for the election
and were issued with PVC, were arrested and held hostage at Ogboko on
what he called trumped-up charges and were prevented from voting by
soldiers working for the PDP.
“Most of these helpless children are
orphans and I am their father, they duly registered for the election but
soldiers arrested, humiliated and detained them without food and water
and they were not released until the following day being Sunday.”
Okorocha insisted that election did not
take place in the Isiala Mbano area and parts of Aboh Mbaise. He
expressed shock that results were still announced in these areas by
INEC.
The governor also denied allegations of
tearing result sheets and added that his convoy was shot at by security
agents during which one of the boys in his entourage was seriously
wounded and immediately rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri.
APC loses six reps seats to opposition in Lagos
The All Progressives Congress has lost
five House of Representatives seats to the Peoples Democratic Party and a
seat to the Accord Party in Lagos.
Investigations by our correspondent showed that most of the reps lost in Igbo- dominated local government areas.
Sources in the APC said the love the
people of the South-East have for President Goodluck Jonathan positively
affected the PDP candidates, some of whom had not even been rigorously
campaigning.
In Amuwo Odofin local government, which
has a very high Igbo population, especially in areas like Kirikiri,
Satellite Town and FESTAC, the PDP candidate, Oghene Egboh, who is from
the Niger-Delta, defeated Mr. Ganiyu Olukolu of the APC.
In Ajeromi/Ifelodun, which is one of the
most densely populated areas in Lagos State and is home to Ajegunle
(another Igbo dominated area), the PDP candidate, Mrs. Rita Orji, who
also hails from the South-East, defeated Taiwo Adenekan of the APC.
The story was the same in the Igbo-dominated Ojo LG, where the PDP candidate, Mr. Tajudeen Obasa, won the seat.
In Surulere federal constituency 2,
which is home to Aguda and a few Igbo settlements, Mr. Tunji Soyinka of
the PDP defeated Mr. Hakeem Bamgbala of the APC.
It was learnt that apart from the ‘Igbo’
factor, the incumbent rep, Mr. Aliyu Kazeem, had been in court with
Bamgbala over the conduct of the primary.
It was learnt that the division within the party gave the PDP the opportunity to penetrate the community.
An APC leader in Surulere said, “We are
still in shock. Haliyu Kazeem, who is the incumbent, lost the primary in
December last year and refused to work with Bamgbala. He took Bamgbala
to court and they are still slugging it out.
“If they had put things in order, we
would not have lost. Bamgbala is a former chairman of Aguda Local
Council Development Area and a good grass roots politician.”
In Mushin federal constituency 2, the APC candidate, Yemi Alli, lost to Dauda Kako-Aare of the Accord Party.
Kako-Aare, who is the incumbent, lost at the APC primary last December to Alli and defected to Accord.
In Oshodi/Isolo federal constituency 2, the incumbent, Mr. Akeem Munir, lost to Mr. Tony Nwoolu of the PDP.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Despite Rigging from South/South and Southeast, APC still leading
Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), continues to lead incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a comfortable margin, even as controversial election results from Rivers and Akwa Ibom states were added to the national tally, giving a boost to Mr. Jonathan.
Election observers as well as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State had declared that last Saturday’s elections in the state turned into a fiasco, marked by intimidation and shootings of APC members and widespread manipulation by security agents. Even so, the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state declared that Mr. Jonathan polled more than 1.48 million in the state, leaving Mr. Buhari with a little more than 69,000 votes. Despite this figure and results from Akwa Ibom that gave the incumbent president 953,304 votes, the APC presidential candidate maintains his lead.
It seems like several top APC politicians have already arrived in Abuja in preparation to declare victory in the presidential polls.
The delay in announcing polling results from the South South and South East zones had caused apprehension within the country and heightened allegations that President Jonathan’s associates were surreptitiously attempting to inflate the incumbent president’s vote tally from the two zones.
The Results are as follows:
EKITI STATE
APC - 120, 331
PDP - 176, 466
OGUN STATE
APC - 308, 290
PDP - 207, 950
ENUGU STATE
APC - 14, 157
PDP - 553, 003
KOGI STATE
APC - 264, 851
PDP - 149, 937
OSUN STATE
APC - 383, 603
PDP - 249, 929
ONDO STATE
APC - 299, 889
PDP - 251, 368
FCT
APC - 146, 399
PDP - 157, 195
OYO STATE
APC - 528, 620
PDP - 303, 376
NASARAWA
APC - 236, 838
PDP - 273, 460
AKWA IBOM STATE
APC - 58, 411
PDP - 953, 304
IMO STATE
APC - 133, 253
PDP - 559, 185
PLATEAU STATE
APC - 429, 140
PDP - 549, 615
KANO STATE
APC - 1, 903, 999
PDP - 215, 779
JIGAWA STATE
APC - 885, 988
PDP - 142, 904
KADUNA STATE
APC - 1, 127, 760
PDP - 484, 085
KWARA STATE
APC - 302, 146
PDP - 132, 602
KATSINA STATE
APC - 1, 345, 441
PDP - 98, 937
ABIA STATE
APC - 13, 394
PDP - 368, 303
ANAMBRA STATE
APC - 17, 926
PDP - 660, 762
KANO STATE
APC - 1, 903, 999
PDP - 215, 779
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