…Says President’s death threat, call to extra- judicial killings

…Denies PDP’s prior knowledge of plans to shift polls

By Dirisu Yakubu



Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has accused the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to embarrass the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in a bid to remove its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu from Office.

He also described comments credited to President Muhammadu Buhari at the national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday warning that intending ballot boxes snatchers would be risking their lives, as a call to jungle justice, saying the nation’s extant laws are enough to deal with electoral offenders.

Addressing a press conference at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Office, Maitama, Abuja yesterday, Hon. Dogara condemned President Buhari and APC national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s allegations accusing the PDP of having prior information of plans to shift the polls last week.

“We know they are doing everything humanly possible to discredit INEC, remove the chairman and stall the process conscious of the fact that they cannot win this election.

“From our position, we strongly believe that the deliberate delivery of election materials to the wrong electoral centers, cancellation of flights, and other actions that undermined the logistics arrangement of INEC were deliberately done to sabotage and manipulate the process.

“We are also very familiar with the pressure brought on INEC by top government officials and APC leaders to go ahead with the elections despite not being adequately prepared for the election.

We are also aware the APC wanted the INEC chairman to conduct elections in some states and postpone in other states so as to have staggered elections. It should also be noted that the areas that would have been affected by inadequate delivery of materials were PDP strongholds,” he said.

Quoting President Buhari as saying that “Anybody who decides to snatch boxes or lead thugs to disturb the election, may be that would be the last unlawful action you would take.

I have given the military and police the order to be ruthless. I am going to warn anybody who thinks he would lead a body of thugs in his locality to snatch boxes or to disturb the voting system; he would do it at the expense of his/her own life,” Dogara urged Nigerians not to be deterred in their quest to elect a new government next week.

He said, “we categorically deny these false claims and unnecessary blackmail and regard the President’s statement as a call for extra-judicial killings considering the fact that there are adequate provisions in our laws to address electoral offenses.

“These statements clearly indicate that our democracy has become the victim of a full blown dictatorship, when one considers that a democratically elected President would give a directive that is in clear violation of the laws of the land which by his oath of office he is to defend and protect.

“In view of this statement by the President, it is obvious that the military has been given a central role and co-opted into the conduct of the election despite the fact that they have no constitutional role in our electoral process.”

He called on Nigerians not to forget that “our party chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, was the first to call for an inquiry into why the elections were postponed last Saturday.

In reality, we support a genuine and transparent probe into why the Presidential and National Assembly elections could not hold. We also hope that the President’s inflammatory statement is not a threat aimed at intimidating the electoral commission.

Dogara also had some words for the APC chairman, whom he tasked to reflect on his allegation against the PDP.

“We also strongly condemn Mr. Oshiomole’s false, mischievous and inflammatory claims against our party, when he said INEC colluded with PDP to abort last week’s elections.

This is a very surprising statement considering the fact that the federal government controls every institution and agency involved in the electoral process, including the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Nigerian Airforce, Aviation authorities amongst others.

“It is important to note that the APC in its usual manipulative style is now shifting the blame on INEC leadership while absolving itself and the other institutions of government under its control of any blame.

That is the common strategy that super villains always employ. Dogara who is a technical adviser to the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar expressed worry that a sitting government is playing the victim card; a development he described as a novelty in the nation’s political history.

“This is the first time that we have witnessed a ruling party play victim,” he continued, stressing that it is “a clear indication that they have lost the plot. Evidently, their recent actions and statements clearly show they are panicking and desperate to cling onto power, even when the people have rejected them.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/presidency-apc-plotting-to-remove-inec-chairman-dogara/

Am not surprised this coming from Dogara
Mr. Integrity Baba Buhari will never do anything of such..
We believe in Mr. Integrity..
Baba we love you ..
4 +4 Insha Allah
#saiBABA
#saiNextLEVEL
Modified : Fifth FTC for the day
PMB supporters this FTC is also for you

Dogara our Amiable Speaker, long time

The desperation of this moribund administration is real.The exact replica of the 2015 event is playing out again in today's Nigeria.APC is on its way out.

Dogara steal ballot box and pay the supreme price. They say no to rigging they and started crying

Buhari doesn't have time for such rubbish

My message for the useless bastards in the PDP is Snatch and die

The violent zombie above me should be ignored like his lifeless master.


Thanks!

How can the opposition be intimidating you with plan of rigging while you (the ruling) rather remain on the defensive? 

This is not the norm in Nigerian election. It is the opposition that tries to prevent the ruling from rigging, never the other way round.

If apc go dull demselves and allow these desperate thieves to take over this country, this country will remain doomed till only God knows when. Wtf.

Or could it be that some apc members have signed pact with athifku since Buhari is not allowing them to steal ni?

Wizklynd23:

Am not surprised this coming from Dogara
Mr. Integrity Baba Buhari will never do anything of such..
We believe in Mr. Integrity..
Baba we love you ..
4 +4 Insha Allah

Jumping from one thread to the other, Do you work? cause I believe somebody that has something doing won't be seen in every thread as First to comment.

I am honestly tired of these whole election brouhaha. let is just come and go. Besides even Atiku won't be able to do much as a president, because the Nigeria system has deteriorated and decayed beyond imagination.

Hmmm...which one we neutrals go come take and fly away with now...

They said Buhari and APC were using INEC and the postponement was a collusion between both.

And then they asked that the INEC resign or be fired.

So why is it now a problem or a big deal if Buhari intends to fire the INEC chair assuming this was true.

Why everybody come confuse like this..

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Wizklynd23:

Am not surprised this coming from Dogara
Mr. Integrity Baba Buhari will never do anything of such.We believe in Mr. Integrity.Baba we love you ..
4 +4 Insha Allah

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From PTF to The Buhari Organization (TBO), Buhari has consistently protected corrupt close aides from the consequences of their ethical and legal infractions.

This attitude of mollycoddling corrupt but loyal aides and appointees while pretending to be a man of “integrity” who is “fighting” corruption is getting worse by the day and indicates that, in spite of self-righteous declarations to the contrary, Buhari is himself morally indistinguishable from his crooked cronies.

It is impossible to deploy the resources of logic to argue that Buhari has integrity. He doesn’t. Well, unless integrity means something to Buhari supporters other than what it actually means in the English language
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailytrust.com.ng/amplite/adeosun-s-nysc-certificate-is-as-fake-as-buhari-s-integrity-260912.html

Tinubu having meeting with Inec chairman...share till it gets to everyone

*under the watch of the anti corruption czar a known fugitive running from justice by name Mr maina was reinstated into the civil service given promotion and paid all his arrears
And Mr maina have come out to tell the world also that buhari authored his reinstatement

Let the Bmc urchins creat threads from dawn till dusk. Let them recruit every scum they can find. It doesn't matter.
They say atiku is a thief, they say he is corrupt .
The same people saying this once said buhari the coruption czar is not corrupt. Let them wail on. The atiku you know is better than the deceitful blame shifting buhari you do not know
Come 2019 I will atikulate insha allah

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TIGRITIS:
How can the opposition be intimidating you with plan of rigging while you (the ruling) rather remain on the defensive? 

This is not the norm in Nigerian election. It is the opposition that tries to prevent the ruling from rigging, never the other way round.

If apc go dull demselves and allow these desperate thieves to take over this country, this country will remain doomed till only God knows when. Wtf.

Or could it be that some apc members have signed pact with athifku since Buhari is not allowing them to steal ni?

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Riggers alert!

Why are they(PDP) defending inec chairman?

The terrorist called president is capable of doing anything.

the president cant try such move no matter how desperate he is

amaniro:



Jumping from one thread to the other, Do you work? cause I believe somebody that has something doing won't be seen in every thread as First to comment.

i have noticed that many of this BMc are not nigerians they just want to cause problem here don't mind bro

Wait..... Did secondus not call for the removal of inec chairman. ....what do you really want..... Plus we all know that no sane president will remove his electoral head days to election

The illiterate gworo chewing Buhari dare or he should be prepared to face ICC because singular action could flare up Nigerians.

W

Just yesterday PDP and their hard of mindless zombie swines said the chairman is APC's puppet, now this.

Pdp is desperately in need of an udder to suckle on, and that udder shall never be the vaults of CBN ever again.

Thieves.

midolian:
Buhari doesn't have time for such rubbish

My message for the useless bastards in the PDP is Snatch and die

Didnt these guys accuse the man of working for APC just yesterday? What is wrong with PDP? It appears their association with Pigs has really taken a toll on their senses.

daddytime:
Hmmm...which one we neutrals go come take and fly away with now...

They said Buhari and APC were using INEC and the postponement was a collusion between both.

And then they asked that the INEC resign or be fired.

So why is it now a problem or a big deal if Buhari intends to fire the INEC chair assuming this was true.

Why everybody come confuse like this..

He fires the INEC chairman,he gets immediately Gbagboed by the US and the EU!!.This one will not pass like another Onnoggen.

Corrinthians:
Didnt these guys accuse the man of working for APC just yesterday? What is wrong with PDP? It appears their association with Pigs has really taken a toll on their senses.

No mind the useless party and its dumb supporters

FAKE NEWS AGAIN