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We’re not creating new polling units anywhere—INEC


As campaigns for next year’s general elections intensify, the major political parties and the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC have been trading accusations and counter accusations on alleged plans to rig the elections. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said yesterday that the move by the electoral commission to create polling centers in Internally Displaced Persons’, IDP’s, camps in the northern part of the country was a plot hatched by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in connivance with INEC to rig the general elections.

INEC, immediately took objection to this accusation describing it as hate speech capable of putting its permanent and ad hoc staff at risk during the elections. The ruling party, in its reaction said Nigerians were bored and tired of PDP’s daily threatrics and challenged the party tell Nigerians why it should be voted back to power. INEC plans to rig 2019 elections for APC—PDP Firing the first salvo yesterday, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, at a press conference noted that all IDP camps in country fall within the catchment area of an already delineated polling unit. According to him, “for the purposes of emphasis, the PDP rejects all forms of fraudulent ‘special arrangements’ tailored to rig this election. Our party insists that elections must only hold in statutorily designated polling centers across our country. The PDP and indeed, Nigerians are not ready to accept any fabricated result from any illegal polling center created to assist President Buhari to rig the election” PDP alleged that the presidency had directed INEC to circumvent the checks by secretly opening illegal voting centers at the desert fringes and remote border lines with Chad and Niger, and use them to achieve its original plans to rig the presidential election. “Part of the plot is to use these illegal remote centers, which will not have functional Smart Card Readers, to allow unchecked voting by aliens, and under-age persons as well as provide the unlimited latitude for criminal allocation of fictitious votes for President Buhari and his party, the APC. “Furthermore, it is instructive to inform Nigerians that, as part of the presidency’s rigging plot, INEC has been instructed to deploy defective Smart Card Readers to IDP camps, particularly in some strategic northern states, to pave way for direct manipulations, including alteration of voter register and voting by unregistered persons, particularly, with the foreclosure of incident forms for manual accreditation. “This grand plot to rig is the essential reason President Muhammadu Buhari has deliberately refused to sign the amendments to the Electoral Act, which among other things checked manual manipulation by insisting on the use of card readers for biometric accreditation of voters and elimination of over-voting. “It is clear that the presidency is desperate to re-enact the same rigging scenario, which, in 2015, allowed 13.5 million unauthorized persons to participate in the Presidential election, paving the way for the illegal allocation of millions of fictitious votes to President Buhari and we urge Nigerians to unite in condemnation of this ignoble scheme. “Our party completely rejects the plan by INEC to substitute biometric accreditation with manual verification on self-recognition and thumbprint on the voters register. “Such primitive method of accreditation only opens the way for unlimited rigging, multiple, under-age and alien voting, as well as ballot stuffing which will afford President Buhari and the APC to manipulate themselves back to power against the wish of majority of Nigerians,” the publicity scribe stressed. We’re not creating new polling units anywhere—INEC INEC has however debunked the allegations by the PDP that it was working in cahoot with the presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress APC to create “special polling units” for Internally Displaced Persons IDPs with the sole intent to rig next year’s general elections. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu told Saturday Vanguard that the allegation by the PDP amounts to some form of hate speech against the Commission. His words: “I find it distasteful that Mr Kola Ologbondiyan can deliberately embark on peddling complete falsehood about the Independent National Electoral Commission in this manner, with the sole intent of discrediting all the good efforts being put in place to ensure credible 2019 General Elections. “The story about the possibility of so called Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) located in Chad and Niger republic voting in the 2019 general elections was as a result of a misrepresentation of facts by a newspaper in its story on the Validation Conference in respect of the Framework for Voting for Internally Displaced Persons, held on12th December in Abuja, for which the Commission had to promptly issue a rebuttal. “Everybody knows that displaced persons living in foreign countries cannot be regarded as IDPs but refugees and there is no provision in our laws for any Nigerian living outside Nigeria to vote during the 2019 general elections. “But Kola Ologbondiyan has continued to insist that the Commission is planning to establish 30,000 polling units and give the so-called IDPs in foreign countries the opportunity to vote in the general elections. “What this man is doing, by implication, is to put the lives of INEC permanent and adhoc staff, especially the young National Youth Service Corps members at risk during the 2019 general elections with his continuous portrayal of the Commission as untrustworthy and fraudulent. “This is not what Nigerians need at this time. This is certainly not the way to be an excellent spokesperson. “INEC is not a political party. The Commission is not planning to establish any new polling units anywhere. Our only interest is to conduct free, fair and credible general elections in 2019 and we require the cooperation of all stakeholders, including political parties, to achieve this objective. “My strong advice to Kola Ologbodiyan is that he should stop what I can safely describe as hate speech against INEC, for the good of the country and democracy”, he stated.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/2019-elections-pdp-putting-lives-of-our-staff-at-risk-inec/

Peter Obi confidently listed Indonesia among BRICS countries. Obi is a specialist, he sleeps with lies, wakes up with lies and romances lies.

Nnamdi Kanu Called the President "Buhari ", Is he Confused? We thought he said he has been replaced with another person, why is he referring him as Buhari? Nawao for Mazi and the followers that have made it part of their campaign manifestos. See the highlighted below

Leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has predicted more terror attacks and deaths in Nigeria, warn­ing that the dreaded Islamist State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) would soon take their bloodlet­ting campaign to the country’s territory.
The pro-Biafran agitator further warned that the tar­get of the impending terror attacks would be the Southern Nigerian which has the largest concentration of natural re­sources, a development he said requires citizens to be ready to defend themselves.

“You think I am joking. They are coming. Your mothers will be raped. Your sisters will be married off as slaves. Biafra land will be decimated unless we equip this army,” he said.

Kanu who is currently on ex­ile in Israel gave the damning warning in his latest contro­versial broadcast aired on Ra­dio Biafra over the weekend. According to him, more Nigeri­ans will be killed if leaders fail to carry out their responsibili­ties. “The worst is yet to come and more innocent people will lose their lives if community leaders fail to do the needful.”


He therefore called for sup­ply of arms and ammunitions for defence of Biafra land. Hear him: “I have the men. I need guns and I need bullets. That is all we need, and then we will win. I have been sounding this warning, and I have been tell­ing you, ‘osi na ofu nti banye, osi na ko ozo puo’.

He alleged that the Boko Haram has an alliance with ISIS and that the group has lost confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari, who he alleged is the ‘godfather’ of the group.

“Buhari was their god-fa­ther, they no longer trust him. I mean Boko-Haram, in this instance. Buhari they thought will give them sharia imme­diately. When Buhari said, “I don’t belong to anybody’’, from that day they intensified their bombing.”

Kanu disclosed that ISIS will enter through Chad Re­public and that it would not attack Nigeria as Boko Haram but through other franchise they have. “They will enter the zoo from Chad, very very shortly, not as Boko Haram. They are coming in as their franchise and as their name dictates. ISIS is coming.”

He bemoaned the “hard-heartedness” of the peo­ple to his call for guns and bul­lets, blaming it on the devil. He also referred to an alleged allusion of PDP’s presidential candidate to his claims to a confession of his postulation and said he would not com­mand the people if he is called upon when the ISIS besieges Nigeria, and if he does not get prompt response to his call.

https://orientdailynews.com.ng/cover-story/isis-attack-nigeria-kanu/

Afenifere chieftain and former lawmaker, Senator Femi Okurounmu, has denied the allegation by 93-year-old Senator Ayo Fasanmi, insisting that the Yoruba socio-cultural group has not endorsed Atiku Abubakar or any presidential candidate whosoever.

Okurounmu also described Fasanmi as “a stooge” of the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.



Okurounmu said this during a telephone chat with our correspondent while responding to an interview Fasanmi granted Sunday PUNCH, wherein he (Fasanmi) excoriated the leadership of Afenifere for allegedly supporting the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Fasanmi had accused Afenifere of supporting Atiku because of money.

In his response, however, Okurounmu said Fasanmi, who was a senator from 1979 to 1984, had “allowed himself to be compromised by Tinubu and other APC governors” who he said “had failed to replicate the legacy” of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

SEE ALSO: Fasanmi attacks Afenifere leaders for supporting Atiku

Okurounmu alleged that Fasanmi was the one who encouraged Tinubu and others in the Alliance for Democracy to “disobey Afenifere during the 2004 party crisis.”

The former lawmaker said rather than caution younger politicians, Fasanmi formed the Afenifere Renewal Group, “which had no connection with Awolowo’s philosophy.”

Okurounmu said although Afenifere had made it clear that it would not be supporting President Muhammadu Buhari because of his negative views towards restructuring, the group had not yet endorsed Atiku or any other candidate.

Okurounmu said the “APC and Buhari were diametrically opposed” to Awolowo’s ideology, especially in areas such as free and quality education and fiscal federalism.



The Afenifere chieftain said that during his lifetime, “Awolowo stood against Buhari” and that “it would be unjust to use the late sage’s name to promote Buhari’s re-election bid.”

He said, “Chief Fasanmi is someone I respect so much, but I am disappointed in him today.

“First, he is not even a member of Afenifere. He left since 2003 when the AD governors rebelled against Chief Abraham Adesanya and tried to make private dealings with Obasanjo when they were seeking a second term and were, in turn, betrayed by Obasanjo and failed, except Tinubu.

“So, Fasanmi cannot claim to be a member of Afenifere. He set up the Afenifere Renewal Group, which is opposed to the ideals of Chief Awolowo.

“We (Afenifere) are opposed to Buhari because he has failed Nigeria, especially in the area of restructuring.

“Fasanmi, in his old age, is a stooge of Tinubu, when he should be giving direction to younger men
https://punchng.com/afenifere-hasnt-endorsed-atiku-or-any-candidate-okurounmu-counters-fasanmi/

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Their money is being used to pay salary in Kwara

gidgiddy:
I don't think that the core North is good in agriculture. It is the NC such as Benue, Kogi and Platue that are good in.tbat sector.

You are less travelled, I guess..Do you know what they call irrigation and dry season farming, travel to core north

You depend on the North on:
Food- The North feeds Nigeria
Protein-Meat
Electricity
Market for your Products
Land -Some region don't have enough land , so they migrate
Population- Nigeria is Populous today because of the North

Beautifulmind2 of Nairaland has been posting fake old pictures as PDP Presidential Campaign Rally in Sokoto yesterday...See the pics and compare

This guy is posting old pictures...

Why are you posting fake pictures

Atiku is corrupt, can’t go to America – Obasanjo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOrbDvrWHU

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, never told anyone he has been issued an American visa or planning a trip to the United States of America, a top official of his campaign organisation disclosed yesterday.

The top official, who heads one of the major campaign groups for Atiku, described as unfortunate the media hype over Atiku’s ‘collection of U.S visa and planned trip’ to that country when the former vice president had not spoken to anyone about the two issues. The official, a former minister in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, told Vanguard on condition of anonymity, that Atiku was not one who would want to celebrate the issuance of visa, something he had obtained from many countries and had been flying around the world for many decades.
“What is so important about a visa? And let me say that Atiku Abubakar did not issue any statement informing anybody that he had been issued a U.S visa and that he had planned to travel to that country to the best of those working with him. “We just do not know where the media got that information and immediately began to spread all over the space on Sunday until it got to our attention. It is not true that the presidential candidate ever gave such information to anyone,” he added. Reacting to claims by the opposition that Atiku was afraid of going to the U.S to avoid being arrested and tried for corruption, the official explained that there was no case against the former vice president in the country, adding that if there was any, that country would have raised issues against the former number two citizen of Nigeria.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/atiku-never-told-anyone-he-collected-us-visa-says-campaign-official/

Party of rogues

People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddC3lArZT1I

The video is hate speech

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people- N. R. Narayana Murthy

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Very very poor outing

BeautifulMind2:
Atiku will grab more than 35% votes in Northwest he will do credibly well in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano and Kaduna, He has enough to achieve it, Atiku main base is Northeast, Southeast, South south and middle belt he will grab enough votes from west, APC will win west with small margin my prediction, if 2019 election is not rigged Atiku will be Nigeria next President.

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Very poor outing

Poor outing. This is not a good sign for Chop and Clean Mouth Party

PMB all the way

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
- Buddha

A two-year Senate investigation into foreign corruption has shed new light on two key players in one of Washington’s most infamous scandals of recent years — Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Jennifer Douglas Abubakar.

Abubakar is the former Nigerian vice president who former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was planning to bribe with $100,000 provided to him by an FBI informant, Lori Mody. Mody, a wealthy businesswoman, gave the money to Jefferson in a parking lot in July 2005, a transaction secretly videotaped by the FBI. When federal agents raided Jefferson’s home in Virginia two days later, they found $90,000 in his freezer.

An undercover FBI special agent had driven Jefferson and Mody to Douglas' home in Potomac, Md., to meet with Abubakar just weeks before Mody gave Jefferson the money, according to legal documents filed by prosecutors. Abubakar was reportedly seeking as much $500,000 to help a company that Jefferson had a secret stake in win a lucrative Nigerian telecom contract.

A federal investigation of Jefferson’s activities revealed a wide-ranging corruption scheme, and following a lengthy legal fight, the Louisiana Democrat was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison, the harshest punishment ever handed out to an ex-lawmaker. Neither Douglas nor Abubakar has been charged with any wrongdoing.

However, the Senate investigation alleges that Douglas and Abubakar brought “over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States” from 2000 to 2008 — a prime example, according to investigators, of the ease with which so-called politically exposed persons, foreign officials and their family members, friends and business associates, can move money into U.S. financial institutions without explaining where the money came from.

The investigation also “substantiated” a $2 million-plus transfer from Siemens AG, a German electronics company, into a bank account controlled by Douglas. Siemens pleaded guilty in Dec. 2008 to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and paid $1.6 billion in civil and criminal penalties.

Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, want Congress and the Obama administration to tighten restrictions on moving money into the U.S., and new report is designed to build support for such a move.

Jefferson’s lawyers unsuccessfully sought to depose Abubakar and Douglas, as well another Nigerian businessman, as witnesses for the Louisiana Democrat’s trial, but they refused to return to the United States to be deposed or testify in the case.

With tens of millions of dollars from shadowy offshore companies at her disposal, Douglas — Abubakar’s fourth wife — lived a lavish lifestyle in the U.S., according to the report. Her personal expenses sometimes ran to as high as $90,000 per month.

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/02/report-revisits-jefferson-scandal-032593

Is Stealing now Corruption?

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
- Mason Cooley


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