President Goodluck Jonathan played a direct role
in efforts to rig Nigeria’s presidential election that
took place March 28, 2015, including placing
telephone calls to pressure returning officers to
alter vote tallies, an investigation by
SaharaReporters has revealed.
The extent of the effort to rig the polls for Mr.
Jonathan, and the outgoing president’s direct role
in the scheme, emerged from interviews and tips
offered by electoral officials, security agents,
foreign and Nigerian election monitors, and
members of the president’s own Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Weeks before the election, as Mr. Jonathan’s
internal pollsters warned that his reelection
prospects looked dire, the president and his inner
circle of associates approved several measures to
rig the elections. These included massive
deployment of soldiers to several states in
Nigeria’s southwest to help intimidate voters
sympathetic to the main opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC), the redeployment of
police and other security officials to ensure that
those who favored the incumbent president were
assigned to “politically tough” states, and the
movement of massive amounts of cash to
designated states to entice both voters and
opposition party agents to swing their support to
Mr. Jonathan.
When all the steps failed to deliver enough votes to
the president, Mr. Jonathan and his inner circle
went into panic mode once collation of results
began. At the end of the first day of election
collation by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), as it dawned on the
president’s team that he was headed for defeat,
Mr. Jonathan sent retired Colonel Bello Fadile to
shop around for any judge who would give an
order to stop the collation.
A judge told SaharaReporters that this effort largely
failed because the Chief Judge of the Federal High
Court had warned other judges to refrain from
entertaining such controversial and potentially
incendiary election-related cases. The one judge
Mr. Fadile thought he could count on pleaded that
he had left Abuja for his hometown for Easter
holidays.
Once the plan to use the judiciary to scuttle the
collation collapsed, Mr. Fadile recruited former
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, to
play the key role in a plan to physically disrupt the
collation of results.
Mr. Orubebe drove into the collation center with
two heavily armed men believed to be Niger Delta
militants. Once Mr. Orubebe arrived at the
International Civil Center (ICC), of the collation
venue, the Department of Security Services (DSS)
withdrew its security detail clearing the way for
Mr. Orubebe’s thugs to foment mayhem. The
agency also jammed the Internet service at the
center, making it near impossible for reporters at
the venue to access the Internet.
Our investigation revealed that what saved the day
was the refusal of the Nigerian police at the venue
to accept the order to withdraw from the venue.
The police commanders at the collation center
demanded an official letter from their Inspector
General if they were to leave, arguing that their
posting to the venue had been done via an official
letter. “We said it would be unwise to leave [the
collation center] without a counter letter or signal
from our headquarters,” one of the police officers
told our correspondent.
As Mr. Orubebe began his disruptive action,
Usman Abdullahi, an aide to INEC chairman
Attahiru Jega, sent text messages to a few notable
Nigerians as well as some Western diplomats
alerting them to the possibility that the armed men
who accompanied Mr. Orubebe would abduct Mr.
Jega. SaharaReporters saw a copy of the text
message.
Mr. Jega’s calm response to Mr. Orubebe’s antics,
as well as the refusal of the Nigerian police
personnel to quit the ICC, foiled the plot to abduct
the INEC chairman.
Mr. Jega remained on his seat for the better part
of the day, refusing to leave the table even as he
declared short breaks to await the arrival of
election returning officers from various states.
SaharaReporters learned that several of the
returning officers were flown into Abuja on a
presidential jet. However, the jet made unusual
“disappearances” and curiously long delays in
bringing in returning officers from the South South
and South Eastern states. One of the Presidency
sources said the president ordered a delay in flying
in the returning officer of Borno State by at least
four hours. The president figured that the poll
results from the state would widen Mr. Buhari’s
lead, giving Nigerians and the global community a
clear picture of the APC candidate’s decisive and
irreversible domination of the presidential polls.
While the returning officer from Borno State was
abandoned at the Air Force base in Maiduguri, the
returning officer from Delta State presented figures
that temporarily seemed to boost Mr. Jonathan’s
electoral fortunes.
Several sources disclosed that these delays were
part of President Jonathan’s tactical game.
President Jonathan made frantic calls to several
returning officers from the South South and South
East urging them to bump up his final figures to
enable him to win by at least 500,000 votes
against his rival, Muhammadu Buhari. At the time
of the president’s calls to returning officers, Mr.
Buhari was already leading by at least three million
votes according to authentic results published by
SaharaReporters the day before Mr. Orubebe’s
meltdown at the ICC.
A source at the Presidency confirmed to
SaharaReporters that President Jonathan
personally reached out to at least four returning
officers to ask them to inflate presidential election
figures by several hundred thousand votes to
enable him to win the elections. In one instance,
the source said, one of the returning officers told
the president that the number of accredited voters
was not up to the figures Mr. Jonathan wanted
called for him. According to our source, the
president remained unfazed. “Just declare the
votes, I will take care of the rest,” the official
quoted Mr. Jonathan as stating.
Our sources at the Presidency said Mr. Jonathan
was counting on the usual tactics of using corrupt
judges in the Court of Appeal as well as Supreme
Court to uphold the outcome of fraudulent
elections.
The sources also revealed that SaharaReporters
played a critical role in frustrating the president’s
rigging plan by publishing the unofficial results of
the presidential polls based on accurate
compilation of results called at various state
collation centers. “When your website published
the results, there was little or no room to
maneuver,” one source at Aso Rock said. He added
that Mr. Orubebe’s reference to the publication of
the election results was actually a reference to
SaharaReporters’ accurate representation of the
polls tally from across the country.
Our source said that, having been convinced that
President Jonathan could pull off a victory by
manipulating figures, some of his ministers and
party officials began celebrating. For instance, a
junior minister for Foreign Affairs, Musiliu
Obanikoro, tweeted that he wished to be the first to
congratulate Mr. Jonathan for emerging victorious.
Also PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, spoke on
Channels TV, urging the APC to accept defeat and
behave peacefully.
In the end, President Jonathan and his team came
to terms with the reality that no amount of hanky-
panky could secure victory for them. Mr.
Jonathan’s much-praised acceptance of defeat was
not part of his original design, according to
sources close to the president. They said world
leaders had inundated Mr. Jonathan with calls
demanding that he accept the outcome of the
polls. The calls were intensified as soon Mr.
Orubebe began his public action aimed at
disrupting the collation.
Diplomatic sources in Abuja told SaharaReporters
that the UK and US put enormous pressure on
President Jonathan not to undermine the collation
process or scuttle the polls. The barrage of
pressure finally worked. Mr. Jonathan gave orders
for the pilot of the presidential jet to head for
Maiduguri to pick up the Borno State returning
officer. Once the official was brought to Abuja, the
final collation of results was done and Mr. Buhari
emerged the winner.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/17/how-president-jonathan-plotted-rig-polls-abduct-jega-and-personally-phoned-returning

We know what apc did to won that election n stop telling lies about the president this n that.
SR are really disgrace to d field of journalism.

We know what apc did to won that election n stop telling lies about the president this n that.
SR are really disgrace to d field of journalism.

This is the new plan by the US, UK and their APC counterpart to damage the little good image GEJ as been able to achieve through is noble action.

This their plan B is to ensure that the whole world do recognise GEJ for and award or further international assignment. it s too bad of them to stop at nothing until they finish the man for been pacifists.

Lool, if you believe what is here hook, line and sinker, you're a part of the Nigerian problem.

Story for the gods

na wa o!! are u guys nt tired d elections av ended, u guys won, d guy has conceeded defeat. move on!!!!

This film is interesting