[size=14pt]Jonathan Bribed Delegates With U.S.$7000 [/size]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of using financial inducement of $7000 to each delegate to the recent national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to make delegates vote for him.

This was as he blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and four governors for his defeat at the convention.

The allegations were contained in the petition sent by campaign organisation of the former vice president to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The petition signed by director-general of the campaign organisation, Senator Ben Obi, was made available to the media yesterday in what his media aides said was a response to the denial by the Director of Public Affairs of INEC, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger who dismissed the petition sent to the commission by the Atiku Campaign Organisation.

Quoting observations by Bala Usman, former deputy governor of old Plateau state at the convention, Atiku listed some reasons why he lost at the convention to Jonathan as:

"The absence of the comprehensive delegate list aided the manipulation of the election process in favour of President Jonathan. It was also curious to observe that supplementary names were presented at the accreditation venue and purportedly endorsed by the respective states PDP chairmen. This violated section 122 of the Electoral Act 2010.The lists of delegates used for the elections had therefore been doctored before the issuance of ballot papers which resulted in over voting and in some cases issues of unaccounted votes. For example, 16 Plateau state House of Assembly members who decamped to Labour Party (LP) with Deputy Governor Pauline Tallen, were replaced with some other people by Governor Jonah Jang and they were allowed to vote as delegates;

"A delegate from Anambra state was shocked that as a former governorship candidate that he could not recognize most of those who presented themselves as delegates from the state. He actually sent away 20 fake delegates from the state contingent. Vehement protest from Alhaji Shehu Gabam, the Deputy Director-General of Atiku campaign for mobilization, led to the disqualification of 26 persons who had showed up as Bauchi State delegates and were in fact being processed to vote;

"Delegates were also not accorded their independence to make their choices as in most cases; state governors led their delegations and directed the filling of the ballot papers by their appointed aides for President Jonathan. A close associate of Governor Akwe Doma of Nasarawa, Alhaji Walid Jibrin, was seen filling the ballot papers for all the delegates from the state. Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state nearly came to blows with the former Action Congress chairman in Kaduna state, Alhaji Aliyu Yahaya, when he was challenged over his over-bearing attitude towards the delegates;

"The election process was purportedly conducted based on the issued PDP electoral guidelines vide Paragraph 7(d) which unfortunately established and gave the Electoral Panel absolute power to control the voting pattern that ended up to the disadvantage of Atiku campaign. The strategy and rapid response committee suspected and highlighted this issue prior to the convention;

"No special congresses were held anywhere in the country for the purpose of electing the 774 special delegates who voted in the primary. Names of presidential functionaries, including ministers and advisers, as well as trusted aides of state governors were merely compiled and passed off as national delegates. These were the people who were used to do the dirty jobs during the primary election. They worked closely with state governors to whip delegates in line and in some cases they actually filled ballot papers for delegates. This negated the provisions of Part II (A) (i) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines 2010;

Accreditation of delegates was done in secrecy at state liaison offices in Abuja. The Atiku Campaign was deliberately denied access to these locations. In fact, state governors imprisoned delegates against their will at these locations throughout the night before the primary and took them to the venue of the convention the following day;

"Delegate tags were deliberately designed without a mark of identification so that anybody could get a hold of it and vote as delegates. This action contravened Paragraph 8(d) of the Electoral Guidelines 2010;

"President Jonathan doled out seven thousand dollars to each of the delegates, thus using financial inducement to make them vote for him.

"Atiku lost the primary election not to the best candidate but due to the manipulations of the delegate list and the entire voting process. Consequently, the polling agents (Bala Usman, Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim and Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba) did not sign the final result notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9 (b) and (c) of the Electoral Guidelines 2010 that gave the Panel the absolute power to uphold and release the result with or without their endorsements."

Atiku also accused four governors for aiding his defeat in the convention. .Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State:

He said Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom "has gone on record to express his virulent opposition to Atiku. He recently denounced Atiku as a "desperado" and called him other unprintable names. He has blocked all avenues for Akwa Ibom State delegates to meet with our aspirant. He even went as far as threatening any of them who dared to meet with Atiku Abubakar;

"Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo state has never hidden his support for Jonathan. He is the chief mobilizer and financier of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign in Oyo state. He recently told a newspaper interviewer that he had bought 35 cars for the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign and that if Jonathan does not win, Nigeria will break up;

"Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state is also the chief campaigner and financier of the President and his deputy in Abia state. His hostility towards our aspirant is such that Abia state delegates were too scared to meet openly with our aspirant;

"Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state, bitter and utterly uncouth utterances in recent times against Atiku clearly exposed him as a rabid Atiku hater. He has intimidated and forced some of the Atiku campaign officials to resign their appointments," the campaign organisation added.

Meanwhile, efforts to have the reaction of the Presidency failed, as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Media, Mr. Ima Niboro failed.[/size]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of using financial inducement of $7000 to each delegate to the recent national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to make delegates vote for him.

This was as he blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and four governors for his defeat at the convention.

The allegations were contained in the petition sent by campaign organisation of the former vice president to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The petition signed by director-general of the campaign organisation, Senator Ben Obi, was made available to the media yesterday in what his media aides said was a response to the denial by the Director of Public Affairs of INEC, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger who dismissed the petition sent to the commission by the Atiku Campaign Organisation.

Quoting observations by Bala Usman, former deputy governor of old Plateau state at the convention, Atiku listed some reasons why he lost at the convention to Jonathan as:

"The absence of the comprehensive delegate list aided the manipulation of the election process in favour of President Jonathan. It was also curious to observe that supplementary names were presented at the accreditation venue and purportedly endorsed by the respective states PDP chairmen. This violated section 122 of the Electoral Act 2010.The lists of delegates used for the elections had therefore been doctored before the issuance of ballot papers which resulted in over voting and in some cases issues of unaccounted votes. For example, 16 Plateau state House of Assembly members who decamped to Labour Party (LP) with Deputy Governor Pauline Tallen, were replaced with some other people by Governor Jonah Jang and they were allowed to vote as delegates;

"A delegate from Anambra state was shocked that as a former governorship candidate that he could not recognize most of those who presented themselves as delegates from the state. He actually sent away 20 fake delegates from the state contingent. Vehement protest from Alhaji Shehu Gabam, the Deputy Director-General of Atiku campaign for mobilization, led to the disqualification of 26 persons who had showed up as Bauchi State delegates and were in fact being processed to vote;

[b]"Delegates were also not accorded their independence to make their choices as in most cases; state governors led their delegations and directed the filling of the ballot papers by their appointed aides for President Jonathan. [/b]A close associate of Governor Akwe Doma of Nasarawa, Alhaji Walid Jibrin, was seen filling the ballot papers for all the delegates from the state. Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state nearly came to blows with the former Action Congress chairman in Kaduna state, Alhaji Aliyu Yahaya, when he was challenged over his over-bearing attitude towards the delegates;

"The election process was purportedly conducted based on the issued PDP electoral guidelines vide Paragraph 7(d) which unfortunately established and gave the Electoral Panel absolute power to control the voting pattern that ended up to the disadvantage of Atiku campaign. The strategy and rapid response committee suspected and highlighted this issue prior to the convention;

"No special congresses were held anywhere in the country for the purpose of electing the 774 special delegates who voted in the primary. Names of presidential functionaries, including ministers and advisers, as well as trusted aides of state governors were merely compiled and passed off as national delegates. These were the people who were used to do the dirty jobs during the primary election. They worked closely with state governors to whip delegates in line and in some cases they actually filled ballot papers for delegates. This negated the provisions of Part II (A) (i) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines 2010;

Accreditation of delegates was done in secrecy at state liaison offices in Abuja. The Atiku Campaign was deliberately denied access to these locations. In fact, state governors imprisoned delegates against their will at these locations throughout the night before the primary and took them to the venue of the convention the following day;

"Delegate tags were deliberately designed without a mark of identification so that anybody could get a hold of it and vote as delegates. This action contravened Paragraph 8(d) of the Electoral Guidelines 2010;

"President Jonathan doled out seven thousand dollars to each of the delegates, thus using financial inducement to make them vote for him.

"Atiku lost the primary election not to the best candidate but due to the manipulations of the delegate list and the entire voting process. Consequently, the polling agents (Bala Usman, Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim and Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba) did not sign the final result notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9 (b) and (c) of the Electoral Guidelines 2010 that gave the Panel the absolute power to uphold and release the result with or without their endorsements."

Atiku also accused four governors for aiding his defeat in the convention. .Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State:

He said Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom "has gone on record to express his virulent opposition to Atiku. He recently denounced Atiku as a "desperado" and called him other unprintable names. He has blocked all avenues for Akwa Ibom State delegates to meet with our aspirant. He even went as far as threatening any of them who dared to meet with Atiku Abubakar;

"Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo [/b]state has never hidden his support for Jonathan. He is the chief mobilizer and financier of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign in Oyo state. He recently told a newspaper interviewer that he had bought 35 cars for the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign and that if Jonathan does not win, Nigeria will break up;

"[b]Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state is also the chief campaigner and financier of the President and his deputy in Abia state. His hostility towards our aspirant is such that Abia state delegates were too scared to meet openly with our aspirant;

"Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state, bitter and utterly uncouth utterances in recent times against Atiku clearly exposed him as a rabid Atiku hater. He has intimidated and forced some of the Atiku campaign officials to resign their appointments," the campaign organisation added.

Meanwhile, efforts to have the reaction of the Presidency failed, as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Media, Mr. Ima Niboro failed.

EVeryone but him is responsible for his defeat.

What an imbeci-le

Who cares? 
Only $7000?
What an insult!
What cheap political w.h.o.r.e.s!

hmmm

Blazay:

Who cares? 
Only $7000?
What an insult!
What cheap political w.h.o.r.e.s!

Can I have Z for 7 thousand?

^^^^
Sure.
And "Bianca" too.

^^^

Hope everything still dey kampe?

No overstretch of koochie koochie


If kochie is overstretched, then I will have to half my offer

See dem thieves God go soon catch una, Kiririki straight!!!

I believe him but he would have done the same thing if he had the means

Okay, how much did you bribed Nwodo to get a waiver?

Pot calling Kettle black. Atiku,,,,,,,,,,, corruption personified! Mscheeeeeeeew!

Dull fellow

this is the more reason why we should vote out these unrepentant corrupt thieving thieves. BUHARI/BAKARE all the way!

md4real:

this is the more reason why we should vote out these unrepentant corrupt thieving thieves. BUHARI/BAKARE all the way!

True talk