ndu_chucks:

@Onlytruthlies, I dey kampe. Enjoy your gloating, olodo.

I'm happy that Nigeria conducted the best organized presidential election in our history and I congratulate Jega for his heroic acts.

My disappointment is that PDP decided to rig blatantly causing the electorate in the North to be enraged. PDP officials should have known that the elections were for the taking when the CPC/ACN merger talks collapsed.

Violence is not the way to address the rigging issues, lets go to court and show some civility, despite the fact that we all know what the outcome of the lawsuits will be. The methods used for the riggings must be exposed so that we can take preventive measures in 4 years.

We must give the President our full support because the future of our children and grand children is at stake. We hope the cluenessness exhibited by GEJ in the past 12 months or so were simply due to inexperience.

As for you, Onlytruth, you have your Igbo presidency, so lets not hear about this issue until at least 2024. dalu o.

CPC, in the petition signed by its National Chairman, Prince Tony Momoh,  and  National Secretary,  Buba Galadima,  said there was no way it could accept the results from the Southeast and the Southsouth.

It,  however, ruled out going to court over the matter, in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Service (BBC). Galadima told BBC:  “We will not go to court, we went to court before.  We will not accept anybody who emerges winner of this election”.

The petition read: “The results handed down were substantially affected by massive irregularities that include the following:

• Members of the public were at most polling units intimidated and driven away from the polling units with the effect that the ballot papers were not deposited in the ballot boxes in the open view of the public.

• The ballot boxes were on account of the above, thumb-printed with multiple votes in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the election with one compromised voter thumb-printing multiply for the presidential candidate of the PDP at the expense of other candidates of the opposition parties.

• Votes were recorded for the voters that were not personally in attendance at the polling unit and in most cases at the polling units other than the ones to which the voters were allotted with the effect that the ballot boxes were stuffed with fingerprint impression of voters whose biometric data do not relate to the polling unit in respect of which the ballots were cast.

• Opposition voters were directly and indirectly kept away from polling units through threats of force, violence and death in consequence of which they were disenfranchised by act of threats and intimidation in the applicable zones.

• There was clear absence of accreditation of voters in most of the polling units and the regulated procedure for the conduct of the election was as a result violently breached to the advantage of the PDP at whose instance the ballots were massively thumb printed in clear disregard of the number of registered voters and voters register on which account there was eventually no commensurate correlation between registered voters, accredited voters and eventual record of the cleared result.

“There is strong suspicion, supported by reasonable grounds, that the Excel Programme installed in the computers of INEC across the nation was deliberately designed to shortchange the CPC. This can be attested to by the unfolding situation in Katsina and Kano states where the manual calculation of the result reveals that our party was shortchanged by hundreds of thousands of valid votes when the results were manually reviewed’’.

The CPC made a four-point demand from INEC, including cancellation of Southeast and  Southsouth results.

The party said:  “The CPC in consequence of the above, humbly appeals to the chairman to:

“Order the respective Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and such other custodians of all Presidential Election documents, (including statement of result, ballot papers and voters’ registers which are returned to the commission by the returning officers) to produce them to be analysed in line with our allegations on multiple voting, alien voting by voters not registered at the polling unit and proxy voting.

“Investigate the allegation of manipulation of Excel Application Programme installed in the field of computers of INEC deliberately designed to favour PDP and shortchange CPC.

“Order for the cancellation of the results handed down from the Southsouth and the Southeast in the event the investigation revealed the substantial confirmation of the alleged breaches.

“Order for concurrent manual re-calculation of the results across the country alongside with the Excel Application calculation.

“Based on credible information received and intelligence reports in the areas

mentioned, we formally write to reject the entire results presented from Cross

River , Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo; Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi, states.

“Others include Ekiti, Ogun, Osun, Lagos , Sokoto, Kaduna , Jigawa, Gombe,

Yobe, Zamfara, Adamawa, Nasarawa states and FCT.

“We, therefore, appeal that you demand the ballot papers and result sheets as collated from these zones and states for scrutiny in the interest of peace, prosperity, free, fair and credible elections.

“We recall that on Sunday April 17, because of reports we received, we issued a press statement that we would accept only collated results from polling stations.

“What is being exhibited to the world is not collated from polling units but from the state headquarters where a lot of manipulations, we believe, had taken place.”

Read the rest here ===> http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/3486-cpc-demands-cancellation-of-southeast-southsouth-results.html

houvest:

Within a short time, he rose divinely from a dep Governor to a Governor to a VP to AgP to substantive President and a full term President-in-waiting. He led Nigeria into her Jubilee, has held the Nation together and despite few misteps has remained focussed in governance, introducing a novel interactive internet accessibility to the presidency for the first time in Nigeria if not Africa through his Facebook page. He has rolled out a realisable plan for the power sector and will soon roll out his economic blueprint. Despite all his success stories from a teacher to a DGov to Gov to VP, AgP and now President and president in waiting in a matter of years, he remains unassuming ,simple and humble, The recent wikileaks exposes have re-affirmed his sincerety. His traducers just make hasty and generic verdicts of incompetence and cluelessness without any definitive issues to point to just as a way to call a dog a bad name in order to hang it. They accuse him of attempting to bribe SNG but the leader of the group had come out to debunk it. They accuse him of not honouring a vague and unconstitutional party zoning arrangement instead of eulogising him for defending the constitution he swore to. They call him weak and fearful and forget how he fired Aondaaka, Dambazu, IGP Onovo and the entire Military and Security Command and is presently taking on the oldest and toughest cabal in black Africa. Please give it up for Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, President and President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

ndu_chucks:

paddy_lo, Are you aware of the fact that only PDP agents endorsed the results of the election as announced by INEC?  Anyway, here is the CPC complaints for your information:

The accusations laid down are not frivolous and must be investigated. I agree that violence is not the answer, but I certainly understand the reaction of the disenfranchised protesters in the North. Getting 40% of the votes in sokoto and winning in adamawa defies all logic - rigging is the only rational explanation for this,  

koruji:

Nobody said the bolded about the first election when PDP coasted home almost everywhere up north.

koruji:

What does the CPC mean by the following anyway:"We will not go to court, we went to court before. We will not accept anybody who emerges winner of this election”. This sounds like two contradictory statements to me. Otherwise, they are promising something else that the mind does not want to consider - are the supporters really going to look for Kashinikovs as one responded to a reporter yesterday?