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Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Clerverly: 7:49pm On Dec 02, 2015
With Today's admission by High (Thief) Raymond Dokpesi of collecting 2.1Billion Naira from jonathan, to handle his Media propaganda in the last election, I think the EFCC should commence prosecution without delay.



“According to section 91 of the Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the maximum expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall be N1 billion; for governorship, it is N200 million and the act also stipulated sanctions for candidate who flaunted the campaign spending limits.
“The sanction for presidential election is N1 million or 12 months imprisonment or both and for governor, N800,000 or nine months or both.

That is What The Law Says:

This was what INEC said prior to the election.



[size=16pt]INEC to jail presidential candidates that spend above N1bn on campaign[/size]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had taken measures to track campaign expenditure incurred by political parties as it lifted ban on election campaigns.

The electoral body said it will sanction presidential aspirants that spend above N1billion on campaign. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, on Monday in Abuja stated this in an interview with journalists following the lifting of the ban on election campaigns.

“According to section 91 of the Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the maximum expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall be N1 billion; for governorship, it is N200 million and the act also stipulated sanctions for candidate who flaunted the campaign spending limits.
“The sanction for presidential election is N1 million or 12 months imprisonment or both and for governor, N800,000 or nine months or both.

NAN reports that in line with the electoral timetable released by INEC, presidential and National Assembly aspirants of political parties are allowed to commence campaign from November 16.
Similarly, the ban on campaign by governorship and state House of Assembly aspirants is expected to be lifted on November 30.

Idowu said that the commission now had a department to monitor spending of candidates in the 2015 elections.
Idowu said that the department was functional and was in full capacity.
“That structure did not exist in 2011 and we could not do much in that regard. Now we have been able to put structure in place to track expenditure and we are going to be doing that.

“The situation now is that we can only know whether a person has over spent until he or she has spent it. You cannot stop people from spending until the person has spent.
“What the law anticipates is that we have put ceiling on spending and we will now monitor to know whether we can make a case about it.”

Idowu stressed the need for political parties to adhere to election expenses as stipulated by the Electoral Act.
“The act also placed a campaign ceiling of N40 million and N20 million for senatorial and House of Representatives candidates respectively.

“It also fixed amount for election expenses in the state assembly and chairmanship election for an area council at N10 million.”
“While the sum of N600,000 or six months imprisonment is stipulated for a senatorial candidate, the sum of 500,000 or five months imprisonment is also stipulated for a House of Representatives candidate who defaults on the campaign spending.”


Asked if the commission had the capacity to handle the magnitude of electoral offences, Idowu said that INEC could only work within framework of the law.
He said that was why the commission had always called for establishment of election tribunals.

“If the law says INEC should do something even within the constraints, INEC will do what is possible within those constraints.
“INEC will do what it has to do within the framework of the law as it exists at the present. For instance, the law says we should publish the audited yearly accounts of the political parties and that is what we have always done.
“We audit and publish, that is what the law says we should do. After we publish what next?
“There are places where you have offences and you don’t have sanctions stated.”

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/11/18/inec-to-jail-presidential-candidates-that-spend-above-n1bn-on-campaign/

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Mogidi: 7:55pm On Dec 02, 2015
Ngeneukwenu/Cleverly don't you think you're overdoing this butt-licking?

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Clerverly: 7:57pm On Dec 02, 2015
Mogidi:
ok

Ok? Are you subdued by the events of the past few days?

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by maupe: 7:58pm On Dec 02, 2015
No problem. GEJ, is in Otuoke, the EFCC should proceed without the law on our side. They have already violated, the constitution and the rule of law, so arresting the Ex-president, will not be a surprise.

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Mogidi: 7:59pm On Dec 02, 2015
Clerverly:


Ok? Are you subdued by the events of the past few days?
Subdued?
That is rich, coming from Ngeneukwenu hiding under another useless moniker as Clerverly.

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Nobody: 8:00pm On Dec 02, 2015
@ops, don't worry,he will be pick after the all investigation. grin

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Saturn213: 8:00pm On Dec 02, 2015
I align myself with the position of the OP

GEJ should be ready to face the consequences of his actions

You can already sense his desperation, he has joined Twitter immediately he heard that Dasuki is now singing like a bird

How can $2.1 billion just vanish into thin air like that?

Jonathan must pay for his actions!

Dokpesi is smart and is ready to throw GEJ under the bus, he already said it last month that GEJ is a useless man

The end of Jonathan is near

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by speedyGonzales: 8:01pm On Dec 02, 2015
[size=30pt]well, every Nigerian President should be in Jail, but they are not...[/size]

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Clerverly: 8:02pm On Dec 02, 2015
lalasticlala
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Clerverly: 8:03pm On Dec 02, 2015
Mogidi:

Subdued?
[s]That is rich, coming from Ngeneukwenu hiding under another useless moniker as Clerverly[/s].

K
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Mogidi: 8:05pm On Dec 02, 2015
Clerverly:


K
Bros why are you longer using your Ngeneukwenu handle?
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Sultannayef: 8:10pm On Dec 02, 2015
Nigeria is a dungeon. Do you know the amount of looted funds that was pumped into APC campaigns by the APC governors? It must also be running into billions courtesy of the crook called Amaechi..

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Zuria(f): 8:21pm On Dec 02, 2015
Klint da drunk would also be arrested tongue bloody clowns grin grin
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by AceRoyal: 8:21pm On Dec 02, 2015
Boko Haram in the north,Biafra in the east,militants in the south and so many wrong moves by this administration hitting up the polity.
If GEJ is arrested and maybe jailed,it's gonna spell doom for this country.
wisdom is profitable to direct....
I'm nonpartisan but PMB should be careful not to send the wrong message to Nigerians no matter how noble he proclaims his intentions to be.
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Clerverly: 8:53pm On Dec 02, 2015
Jonathan is a crook!
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by bettercreature(m): 9:08pm On Dec 02, 2015
Mogidi:
Ngeneukwenu/Cleverly don't you think you're overdoing this butt-licking?
Mogidi you must make use of your senses this time,it's serious
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Mogidi: 9:11pm On Dec 02, 2015
bettercreature:
Mogidi you must make use of your senses this time,it's serious

What's serious in Ngeneukwenu/Cleverly opening useless threads?

Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by bettercreature(m): 9:13pm On Dec 02, 2015
Mogidi:


What's serious in Ngeneukwenu/Cleverly opening useless threads?
what is useless about a thread concerning GEJ launder money through NSA?Most wailers will leave PDP camp today

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Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by Unblockable: 9:39pm On Dec 02, 2015
[s]
Mogidi:

Subdued?
That is rich, coming from Ngeneukwenu hiding under another useless moniker as Clerverly.
[/s]

Keep shut! Why weren't you on that thread to defend him when Dokpesi confessed that he collected N2.1b from the Office of the NSA for Campaigns? You blabbing blabbers are funny.
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by mykemiley(f): 9:41pm On Dec 02, 2015
Then pple lyk u should b whia?
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by DaBullIT(m): 11:47pm On Dec 02, 2015
So we let a criminal walk?










I'm putting on my 3D glasses grin
Re: Why Former President Goodluck Jonathan Should Be In Jail Already by NgeneUkwenu(f): 10:13am On Dec 03, 2015
Mogidi you are fool! Can't you discuss the topic without mentioning me?

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