WARRI – FORMER Director General of the of the
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and
Member of Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal, Prof.
Epiphany Azinge, SAN, has declard that the 2015
general elections in Nigeria was massively rigged by
politicians.
Azinge made the declaration in his keynote address
delivered at the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Bar
Association, NBA Warri Law Week held in Warri, Delta
State yesterday.
In his words, “Let the truth be told, the last election
was rigged as any other we have witnessed. The
difference was that political parties rigged massively
in their comfort zones.”
While noting that the immediate past President of
Nigeria was globally applauded and commended for
conceding defeat, he noted that, “politicians and
political parties spent outlandishly to win elections.
The law was honored more in the breach than
observance with high cost of election, comes all sorts
of electoral offences, bribery, undue influence,
thuggery, violence and disorderly behaviour. We have
now graduated to kidnapping, abduction and political
assassination during election.”
Azinge who spoke on “Nigeria Enduring Democracy:
The Challenge of Effective Electioneering and
Independence of the Judiciary” noted that the 2015
electioneering campaigns was characterized by the
desperation on the sides of the political parties who
indulged in hate campaigns to succeed.
He blamed the Nigerian Media for playing ignoble role
in promotion of hate campaign, indicating that all is
fair in warfare, pointing out that derogatory
statements were freely used during the electioneering
campaigns.
Azinge posited that the police and the civil defence be
used in election monitoring while the military be
discarded.
According to him, “if need be, then we should train
and equip our police to handle such delicate issue.”
He blamed the Independent Electoral Commission,
INEC for failing to ensure compliance with
constitutional limits for campaign expenditure.
He suggested better welfare conditions for Judges and
Judicial Staff in the country by evaluating the salary
structure of judges and how safeguard they are and
examination of the process of appointment, discipline
and removal of judges and to know if the other arms
of government are capable of compromising the
judiciary because of financial control or lack of
autonomy.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Warri
Branch led by the Chairman, Mr. John Aikpokpo-
Martins (Esq.) has demanded a probe of the
administration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for
allegedly mortgaging the state into a debt profile of
N637.22 billion.
Aikpokpo-Martins said, “It will not be acceptable to
pretend that our common patrimony had not been
rapaciously devoured by the past gatekeepers; doing
things differently will not be enough. We
demand a probe because Deltans deserve to know.”
He also called on the Okowa led government to cancel
the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT at Warri/Sapele road
which was embarked upon by Uduaghan and restore
same to its former state, noting that it poses great
hazard to the lives, property and vehicular movement
as well
as cause loss of man hours among others.
He also appealed to the governor to prevail on the
contractor handling the Warri High Court Complex
Project to return to site and resume work with a view
to completing the project.
Delta State Governor, Sen. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa who
was represented by the Commissioner for Housing,
Arch. Joseph Ajiri Ogeh promised to tackle the
menace the BRT is causing Deltans.



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wu cares...we nw have d change we wnted

Known fact! Jega the rigging tool made that happened!!

It was totally rigged,we all know about that,JEGA made it possible.Some gullible guys said who cares......we have the change we need but it's unfortunate,i wish we had a better mindset.....

Whether rigged or not, am happy GEJ is out of office. Am happy the PDP has been buried for life. Next page jari

Even buhari knows it was rigged, and that shows the he is corrupt as well

otabuko:
It was totally rigged,we all know about that,JEGA made it possible.Some gullible guys said who cares......we have the change we need but it's unfortunate,i wish we had a better mindset.....

i think for a sitting nigerian president to be rigged out in a presidential election,there is no greater DULLARD on the face of the earth than GEJ.

Amein:
i think for a sitting nigerian president to be rigged out in a presidential election,there is no greater DULLARD on the face of the earth than GEJ.

He wanted to sustain democracy and peaceful coexistence.... Gracias!