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Politics › Re: Renew Push For Election Postponement By Jonathan - Sahara Reporters by ABDamola(m): 7:21am On Feb 03, 2015

Amandla Awetu.... POWER is ours! And NOTHING shal discourage us.... We are coming!!!

Politics › Jonathan Renews Push For Election Postponement As Hope Fades For Victory by ABDamola(op): 7:17am On Feb 03, 2015

Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly.

In the face of dwindling prospects for his re-election bid, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on a renewed three-pronged approach to scuttle the presidential election scheduled for February 14, several sources within the Presidency have disclosed. In a startling disclosure, our sources said Mr. Jonathan was willing to entertain a military take-over as one of his options.

Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly. Our sources said the president was deeply distressed to find out that several governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been working quietly with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart his re-election. “Apart from Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Mr. President is no longer sure that he can count on the support of any of our other governors,” an insider in the Presidency said.

Another source said several PDP governors were aggrieved that Mr. Jonathan shortchanged or abandoned them during the party’s primaries. Several of them are reportedly paying the president back by standing aloof from his campaigns or actively mobilizing support for Muhammadu Buhari, the APC’s presidential candidate.

Our sources revealed that the president and hawks within his administration held a prolonged meeting yesterday and decided that the elections must be frustrated at all cost. Two of the sources said Mr. Jonathan intends to call a meeting of the Council of State for Thursday to persuade its members to back a proposal to postpone the polls. In place of an election, the president wants to set up “a government of national unity” to be headed by him for 18 months to two years. It is unclear whether the council would endorse the plan to reschedule elections. The council’s membership includes past heads of state and presidents, and some of them have been openly critical of Mr. Jonathan’s record.

One source stated that, as part of the broad strategy to scuttle the elections, the Presidency would refuse to pay the balance of the contract for the printing of ballot papers. The contract was awarded when the Nigerian currency, the naira, officially exchanged for N165 to a dollar. The source said the contractor, who claimed to be sourcing his foreign currency from the black market, is now seeking an adjustment to his contract. “The contractor wants to be paid N210 to a dollar, but President Jonathan and his team have refused to help the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) source the balance,” our source revealed.

Instead, the president and his team have advised INEC to look for a local Nigerian printer to print the ballot papers. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega and some of his top aides have balked at the idea of using a local printer. They argue that such an arrangement would be a perfect recipe for chaos, allowing the Presidency to use its considerable slush funds to illegally print duplicate papers with which to rig the election, as happened in several states in 2011.

A source at INEC told SaharaReporters that the commission’s chairman and some top officials suspect that the Jonathan administration was working seriously to undermine the commission’s credibility. “There is a lot of internal sabotage going on at INEC,” the source said. He disclosed that some resident electoral commissions were giving contradictory statements and reports about the commission’s preparedness for the February elections, without clearing with the headquarters. “Can you imagine also that even non-essential materials are being stolen from INEC offices, all in an effort to undermine the effort to hold elections,” said the source.

The Presidency’s second option is the recruitment of some members of the defunct National Conference to press the case for postponing the elections until Nigerians discuss, adopt and implement the resolutions of the confab. In order to push that agenda, the Presidency has released more than N2 billion to Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Africa Independent Television (AIT), to coordinate the campaign for postponement of the elections. Using AIT and other willing media, Mr. Dokpesi is expected to press the case for constituting an interim national government headed by Mr. Jonathan. Earlier today in Abuja, Mr. Dokpesi’s AIT aired a live discussion by members of a “post national conference consultative committee”, to begin framing the case for postponement. The live program featured Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Femi Okurounmu, who headed a nationwide consultation for the national conference, Maurice Iwu, a notorious former INEC chairman, Mike Ezekhome, a lawyer, G.G. Darah, a professor and close associate of jailed former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, and Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna State whose involvement is perhaps the only surprise.

Dokpesi’s group is expected to use its huge war chest to argue that elections are untenable because of INEC’s questionable preparedness as well as the tense security situation in Nigeria’s northeast.

The Presidency’s third option is the possible use of the Nigerian military to scuttle the election. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, General Tobiah Minimah, is reportedly a key player in executing the military option. One source reported that General Minimah, who is from President Jonathan’s Niger Delta region, was initially reluctant, but eventually signed up for the scheme to use the military to intervene should the elections proceed and not go President Jonathan’s way.

Our sources said the president was irate that INEC chairman, Mr. Jega, had been avoiding meetings with him and his presidential aides. “Professor Jega has maintained that he wants to be seen to have conducted a free and transparent election, even if imperfect. He has therefore maintained that there is no point going to Aso Rock to hold meetings exclusively with Mr. President, who is a candidate, and the president’s team,” one source close to Mr. Jega said.

Our Presidency sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan had started looking for ways to remove the INEC chairman from office. “If they succeed in postponing the elections, the president will either suspend Prof. Jega, the way he did to former Central Bank Governor [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] or ask him to go on compulsory leave pending the end of his tenure.”

While SaharaReporters was about to publish this report, several sources told our reporters that President Jonathan and his co-travelers have moved to the courts as a way of scuttling the elections, at least five court cases have been filed to either postpone the elections and disqualify the APC candidate , Muhammad Buhari.

A reliable source told our team of investigators that President Jonathan is shopping for a federal high court judge to scuttle the elections with a court order in the next few hours.

Politics › Re: GEJ's Speeches Used Against Him In APC Sponsored Newspaper Adverts by ABDamola(m): 7:15pm On Feb 02, 2015

We r watchin... CHANGE s cumin

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Politics › Re: Jonathan Not Christian, Serves Voodoo Looted N32b From Bayelsa - SaharaReporters by ABDamola(op): 7:13pm On Feb 02, 2015

#IHaveDecided... CHANGE is coming!

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Politics › Re: Court Asked To Postpone General Elections by ABDamola(m): 6:51pm On Feb 02, 2015

Hmmmmm

Politics › Jonathan Not Christian, Serves Voodoo Looted N32b From Bayelsa - SaharaReporters by ABDamola(op): 6:46pm On Feb 02, 2015

Frank Akpoebi, a close political associate of President Goodluck Jonathan, declared on Sunday that a whopping N32 billion was missing from the treasury of Bayelsa State Government when Jonathan was governor between 2005 and 2007.

He made the stunning revelation on Sunday at a press conference held at the National Headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja where he gave reasons for his defection and of hundreds of others from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC.

Akpoebi served as Commissioner of Health in Mr. Jonathan’s administration during his governorship. A founding member of the PDP in Bayelsa, he was also a Federal Commissioner in the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

Of the missing N32 billion, he called on Bayelsans to ask Mr. Jonathan to refund the money before he can ask for their votes again, adding that there had been speculation that he used the money to sponsor himself and late Umaru Yar’Adua in the 2011 election.

“I served in the State Executive Council with Dr, Goodluck Jonathan and I questioned one of his series of contracts he used in siphoning the Bayelsa State treasury was his singular approval of Two Billion Naira for sand stock piling at Yenogoa for Bayelsa indigenes to park and use to start a building project I stood up to oppose it but yet Two Billion Naira was paid but a drop of sand was not dropped.”

He described President Jonathan as incompetent, and as the architect of religion and ethnic politics that have divided many Nigerians.

“This President is the richest President in Africa,” Akpoebi declared. “Dr. Goodluck Jonathann has invested in five business men who are highly celebrated Billionaires in Nigeria. And three of them came back to raise election funds to sponsor him to increase his investment on them while Nigerians will continue to live poverty, deprivation and insecurity. This is a vicious circle that we must not continue with it.”

The Conference was attended Timipreye Silva, another former governor of Bayelsa, Hilland Etah, the National Vice Chairman APC South-South, and other  political stalwart in the State.  He mentioned many other national issues.  He defected to the APC alongside hundreds of PDP Chieftains from Bayelsa State.

It would be recalled that in 2006, before President Obasanjo arbitrarily picked him for the vice-presidency, Mr. Jonathan was one of 15 governors indicted by a federal panel for false declaration of assets, and recommended for prosecution in line with the Code of Conduct Bureau Act.

The powerful inter-agency Joint Task Force on corruption was headed by the then chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu. Its indictment of Mr. Jonathan was on account of several issues, including Mr. Jonathan’s N18 million Lexus Jeep which he falsely claimed in 2004 he had acquired through savings.

“Verification reveals that the Jeep was a gift collected in contravention of the Code of Conduct Bureau Act of 1990,” the panel said. “Same for BMW 7351 Series bought in 2005 worth N5.5 million.”

The panel also listed Mr. Jonathan’s acquisition of properties outside legitimate income, including:

Seven Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2001 worth N18 million at Otuke Ogbia LGA;
Four Bedroom Duplex acquired in 2003 worth N15 million at Goodluck Jonathan Street, Yenegoa; and
Five Bedroom Duplex - acquired in 2003 worth N25 million at Citec Villas, Gwarimpa II, Abuja.

Akpoedi also refuted Mr. Jonathan’s claims to being a Christian, saying that as a close friend of the President as admitted by Mr. Jonathan during one of his presidential briefings, he knows for certain Jonathan is no Christian, and that he has admitted he does not know how to forgive.

“Dr. Goodluck Jonathan I know serves voodoo. And that is what he practices. In 2006 in the dining at the Governor’s Lodge Yenegoa, he did not pray before eating, so I asked him why, he replied me that he has not prayed in his life. I was really worried hearing that from him. The following day we were discussing when Dr.Goodluck  told me he has a weakness and that he does not know how to forgive.

“Dr. Goodluck should desist from using religion or the churches to advance his campaign or adoption, because it will make to expose him further,” Akpedi said. “We want a country of peace, love and security.”

Here is the full text of his speech at the Conference:

As a founding member of PDP Bayelsa State and funded 60% of the party at its formation between 1988-early 1999. I am well known and respected by politicians within the state and beyond.

The PDP under Dr.Goodluck Jonathan has totally lost Good governance. There are six things he failed in his administration that bothers on my personal integrity, ideology and the interest of our great country-Nigeria.

1         Insecurity

2         Corruption

3         Unemployment

4         Poverty

5         Power (Electricity)

6         Economy (Naira Devaluation)

Above all Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has brought politics of religion, Tribe, North/South dichotomy and hate . Infact, Dr.   Goodluck started exhibiting all these vices when he was Governor of Bayelsa State. As a Deputy Governor,he has some obstacles so when he became Governor, it was a payback  time . He started punishing the ijaws that brought him to power in the state. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan started playing politics of divide and rule.

He also made sure no project goes to any ijaw village and any Ijaw person is empowered in Bayelsa .This he has continued till date . I served in the State Executive Council with Dr, Goodluck Jonathan and I questioned one of his series of contracts he used in siphoning the Bayelsa State treasury was his singular approval of Two Billion Naira (2,000,000,000.00) for sand stock piling at Yenogoa for Bayelsa indigenes to park and use to start a building project I stood up to oppose it but yet Two Billion Naira was paid but a drop of sand was not dropped.

During Dr. Goodluck’s administration Thirty Billion Naira was missing in Bayelsa State Treasury. Bayelsans should ask him to refund this missing money before he should ask them of their votes.  There was speculation that he used the money to sponsor himself and Late Yar’adua in 2011 election. So I called on you Dr.Goodluck Jonathan to return this Thirty Billion and two Two Billion to Bayelsa State before asking for their votes or best explain the whereabouts of these monies.

Much do I know ,that Dr. Goodluck is not a good manager of resources since he is embedded in corruption from when he was the Governor of Bayelsa State. Today our foreign reserve is depleted. Our  Naira is devalued. Poverty and unemployment is a National Pride .  Insecurity and Nigerian Children, mothers and fathers dying in the North-East and yet he wants the votes of North- East . Is this not insensibility and insult to the people of this zone and by extension and insult to our collective psychic as a nation?  And yet he sponsors some persons in the Niger Delta Project only and no other part of this country has a right to become President until he finish to divide us, impoverish, oppress, squander our economy and plant corruption as a subject in our schools and we were corruption as toga around the world.

This President is the richest President in the Africa. Dr. Goodluck Jonatahn has invested in five business men who are highly celebrated Billionaires in Nigeria. And three of them came back to raise election funds to sponsors    him to increase his investment on them while Nigerians will  continue to live poverty, deprivation and insecurity, This is a vicious circle that we must not continue with it . Under his divide and rule  Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has infiltrated  my tribe some ijaw youths to agitate that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is all that the Niger Delta can offer but this youths forgot that this President has not giving respect to Ijaw Leaders .

To mention but few ,Prof. Tam David West, Alabo Graham Douglas, Chief Princewell Horsefall , Chief T.K.O Okorotie, HON FynmanWilson,HRM Joshua Igbagara. e.t.c.

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan never appoint any of these Leaders to Federal Appointment nor consult them  regularly for the interest of our tribe and our Nation, Nigeria , Rather the President despises them, insult some of them by singularly paying SOKU Oil We                                                                                                       lls that I put in EXCRO account for Rivers and Bayelsa State while I was Federal Commissioner       Revenue Mobilisation ,Allocation and Fiscal Commission . Now Dr. Goodluck Jonathan wants your votes so that the next four years he will make the Kalabaris non-oil producing   place by forcefully collecting the remaining oil-wells and allocate them to Bayelsa and ask you to go to court that will take fifty years to resolve. The Kalabaris cannot be intimidated, induced or coerced to vote for Goodluck Jonathan by himself or his proxy.”IJAW NATION”   . All the ijaws in Bayelsa State know that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan does not love us .Throughout his six years administration he did not appoint any ijaw son as a Minister. The highest   appointee was Late Gen. Andrew Azazi as National Security Adviser . He was appointed by Dr.Goodluck Jonathan, sacked by him and buried by him.

Recently, we heard that Hon. Seriake Dickson was physically manhandled and beaten by the President Security detail at the Villa. Presently Governor Dickson is the Leader of Ijaw people  due to the office he occupies. So can the Ijaw be so humiliated for their leader beaten up ? As a serving Governor, can this happen ? The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and Ijaw National Council (INC) to carry out independent investigation to unravel the truth.

On Christianity , Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is not a Christian . I am a close friend of Dr.Goodluck Jonathan and he confirmed our friendship during one of his presidential briefing.

Dr.Goodluck Jonathan I know serves voodoo , And that is what he practices . In 2006 in the dining at the Governor’s Lodge Yenegoa, he did not pray before eating, so I asked him why, he replied me that he has not prayed in his life . I was really worried hearing that from him. The following day we were discussing when Dr.Goodluck  told me he has a weakness and that he does not know how to forgive.

The country today is blood, blood , blood and nothing is done. Why? And no solution “ So by their fruit we shall know them”  When the righteous rule, the people  shall rejoice.

Dr.Goodluck should desist from using religion or the churches to advance his campaign or adoption, because it will make to expose him further. We want a country of peace, love and security.

I wish to also thank the 1st Lady who once saved my life in 2006 while I was staying in Government House Bayelsa with  you. APC I am joining today will solve insecurity, corruption, unemployment, poverty, Power,and run a vibrant economy.

Thank you Gentlemen of the Press

Dr. CCHIEF FRANK AKPOEBI ,(Former Commissioner for Health Bayelsa State and Former  Federal Commission Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission )

Source : http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/02/close-political-associate-says-president-jonathan-looted-n32b-bayelsa-state-calls-him-

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: INEC Recruitment 2014 (ADHOC Staff Vacancies)-apply by ABDamola(m): 10:34am On Feb 02, 2015

Any news 4rm EGBEDA LG in IBADAN?

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: INEC Recruitment 2014 (ADHOC Staff Vacancies)-apply by ABDamola(m): 8:57pm On Jan 31, 2015

Mark ma word:
The minimum dt each officer(PO and APO) at d end of all d exercises is 25k!

Politics › Re: #ihavedecided.... Come In And Register Ur Voice! by ABDamola(op): 1:13pm On Jan 31, 2015

Join d movement!

Politics › #ihavedecided.... Come In And Register Ur Voice! by ABDamola(op): 1:07pm On Jan 31, 2015

If u av decided to adopt CHANGE... Jus write #IHaveDecided!
We want minimum of 50k #IHaveDecided
Show ur support 4 d CHANGE dt s abt 2cum!!!

Politics › Re: APC Presidential Campaign In Kwara - Live by ABDamola(m): 1:02pm On Jan 31, 2015

#IHaveDecided..... CHANGE s coming

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme by ABDamola(m): 2:22pm On Jan 29, 2015

AsherStorm:
Okay, it means I was disqualified for some other reason then

Go inform u wen I get d msg bro

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme by ABDamola(m): 1:29pm On Jan 29, 2015

AsherStorm:
Loool... U might scale thru tho...
I guess mine was due to lack of discharge certificate number...

Can't remember if I filled anything like that tho

Me sef no get any discharge number nw!
I wil go for service ds May!
And besides Heineken didn't ask us 2 fill discharge number!

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme by ABDamola(m): 1:11pm On Jan 29, 2015

AsherStorm:
I got this also before d regret msg...
This was sent few hours after I submitted my application but I got the regret msg abt 5days later...

Mayb I shud also prepare 4 d worst in five days time niyen!!!

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme by ABDamola(m): 12:21pm On Jan 29, 2015

AsherStorm:
Thank you for applying for the 2015 HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme!

After careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we have decided not to proceed further with your application.

Even though your journey with the 2015 HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme selection process has come to an end, we take this chance to remind you that there are other opportunities to join the HEINEKEN family. We refer you to the Careers website www.theheinekencompany.com/careers, where you can find job vacancies at our Operating Companies located around the world. We also encourage you to reach out to the Human Resources department of other nearby Operating Companies of HEINEKEN to see what opportunities they can offer you.

If you are an applicant from Africa, we refer you to the Nigerian Breweries career website http://nbplc.com/career/ where you can learn about six different paths to joining HEINEKEN, including the Graduate Management Development Scheme and the Youth African Talent programme.

We thank you once again for the interest you have shown in the HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme and we wish you every success in your future endeavors.

Kind regards,

Talent Management
Global Human Resources
HEINEKEN International

Tweede Weteringplantsoen 21, 1017 ZD Amsterdam
P.O. Box 28, 1000 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

Ds s ma own msg:
Dear Damola,

Thank you for applying for the 2015 HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme!

We will inform you via email if you have been selected to take part in the next stage of the selection process, which is an online ability test.

You will find the important dates during the selection process below. Please mark these dates in your calendar since they will be applicable if you are selected for the next stage.

Selection Process - Important Dates
Online application period: November 2014 - February 2015
CV Screening: February 2015
Online ability test: Mid-February 2015
Telephone Interviews: Beginning March 2015
Online Personality and Motivation Assessment: March 2015
Face-to-Face Interviews: March 2015 - April 2015
Virtual Interviews: April 2015
Assessment Centre in Amsterdam: Beginning June 2015
Start Programme: Beginning September 2015

If you have any questions, please send an email to: InternationalGraduateProgramme@heineken.com

Kind regards,

Talent Management
Global Human Resources
HEINEKEN International

Tweede Weteringplantsoen 21, 1017 ZD Amsterdam
P.O. Box 28, 1000 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: INEC Recruitment 2014 (ADHOC Staff Vacancies)-apply by ABDamola(m): 11:22am On Jan 29, 2015

Zikkie:
any idea of when the training in egbeda LG would be for APOs and POs?

Hint me too of any latest development!

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: HEINEKEN International Graduate Programme by ABDamola(m): 10:59am On Jan 29, 2015

AsherStorm:
Got a disqualification msg this morning...
Guess I didn't meet up d requirements

Wat qualificatns did u put down?
Ao did u knw It was a disqualificatn msg? Wat was d content?

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 9:13am On Jan 29, 2015

KwoiZabo:
lets be guided, Nigeria first. If Jonathan is not there today someone else will do the Job. Qualification of candidates is part of a free and fair process. so lets stop defending the indefensible and Buhari should just give us evidence of his qualification or drop peacefully.

He has ds qualificatn 4 cryin out loud!
Did his sch release his result? Yes or No?
Did cambridge cum out 2 defend his result? Yes or No?

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 6:35am On Jan 29, 2015

KwoiZabo:
why are we trying to cause chaos. Buhari is not qualified. is he the only person that can rule this country?

Yes, he is.

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 6:09am On Jan 29, 2015

OluBendel:
Like realy? FFK is the best PDP can come up with, the man is obviously in a state of grand denial, psychosis and political schizophrenia, why cant he come to the reality that this certificate issue cannot fly anymore?? is that the only campaign strategy for a man some of his supporters claim is the best president ever? GEJ should fire this man already, he is already resorting to subtle threats of INEC in his desperation.
If he feels the certificate is forged, why not prosecute the school principal for forgery, and former IGP, Coomasie & co who said Buhari was their school mate also prosecuted for misleading the populace.
FFK is being childish and beginning to sound like a broken record on this certificate issue. He is a lawyer, if he is sure of his case, he knows the appropriate process to prosecute it.
Nigerians are not as foolish as he and some of his co-campaigners think!

Thank u

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 11:45pm On Jan 28, 2015

oshyno:
Soo in ur candid opinion that is how to go about it. Writing to Cambridge to publish if they offered Hausa or if Yaradua was his classmate.
What a load of crap. Dont worry , till they charge him for perjury then their eyes will clear.

Will ds b d 1st electn dt he will b contestin?
Y d fuss ds time around?
I guess PDP has seen d hand writing on d board

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Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 11:05pm On Jan 28, 2015

ba7man:
GEJ is scared of meeting GMB at the polls. Its so obvious.

So so obvious!!!

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Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 10:45pm On Jan 28, 2015

oshyno:
This Buhari of a man has no regards to the Nigeria populace. What arrogance !!!

What does it take to write WAEC to furnish u with ur lost credentials. Stop this dilly dally already.

When ur already in a trench plz stop digging. I bet it is already too late to own up that u never finished Sec skul.

Wat else do u nid 2 hear?
Cambridge has proved ds!
D sch he sat 4 d exam has proved it also!
Y confusing d public again?
CHANGE s cumin!

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Education › Police Release Arrested Ekiti Student Leaders by ABDamola(op): 10:42pm On Jan 28, 2015

The Ekiti State Police Command has released officials of the National Association of Nigerian Students that criticised President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally held last Saturday in Ado-Ekiti.

The student leaders were said to have been released on Tuesday on bail after spending three days in detention.
They are the National Vice-President, External, NANS, Tosin Ogunkuade; a former Chairman, NANS Joint Campus Committee, Ekiti State, Oluwadamilare Bewaji, and Idowu Odebunmi.

The APC had maintained that Ogunkuade was arrested on the order of Governor Ayodele Fayose for addressing the crowd at the presidential rally.
A statement by the APC State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, had said Ogunkuade’s offence was that he highlighted the challenges facing Nigerian students, saying the present efforts by the government were not capable of redressing the hardships faced by the students in accessing quality education.
But Fayose had indicated that those arrested were APC thugs caught with dangerous weapons and recruited by an APC member in the House of Representatives to terrorise supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Erijiyan and Ikogosi-Ekiti.
The Youth Wing of the APC on Wednesday condemned the detention of the students, which it said violated their fundamental human rights.
The Commissioner of Police,Taiwo Lakanu, confirmed their release on Wednesday to our correspondent on the telephone.

He added that they were released on bail.

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 10:36pm On Jan 28, 2015

BeeBeeOoh:
If u no kari gud poin me 4 head, nothing go make me read dis epistle.. As I dey c tins naw, e be lyk sey sack don dey smell oga Jega but; mak I just dey on top dis guava tree dey survey dis mata..

He dares nt sack Jega!
And besides Jega tenure xpires June

Politics › Re: Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 10:32pm On Jan 28, 2015

Jonathan is evil!
Worst president eva!
We are cuming 4u!
Change is cumin!

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Politics › Election 2015: Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC by ABDamola(op): 10:17pm On Jan 28, 2015

“The electoral body must come clean on this matter; otherwise we will be compelled to pass a no-confidence vote in it,” the president’s publicist said. “If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari, without compliance with the provisions of the law, from this lingering embarrassment, we will have no other choice than to harbor the suspicion and fear that the electoral body is already compromised and can lend itself to the ungodly agenda of truncating our victory when our candidate wins.”

With the reality dawning on President Goodluck Jonathan that he may lose the February 14 presidential polls, the incumbent and PDP candidate today indicated that he was considering voicing a vote of no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Goodluck Jonathan
Evidence of Mr. Jonathan’s jitteriness and his latest strategy emerged in a statement released by Femi Fani-Kayode, the director of media and publicity for the PDP presidential campaign organization. At a news conference held in one of the houses owned in Asokoro, Abuja by Tony Anenih, the PDP board of trustees chairman, Mr. Fani-Kayode said the PDP was not happy the way INEC has been dealing with the issue of academic credentials of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“The electoral body must come clean on this matter; otherwise we will be compelled to pass a no-confidence vote in it,” the president’s publicist said. “If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari, without compliance with the provisions of the law, from this lingering embarrassment, we will have no other choice than to harbor the suspicion and fear that the electoral body is already compromised and can lend itself to the ungodly agenda of truncating our victory when our candidate wins.”

Text of a press conference by the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Femi Fani-Kayode on Wednesday, January 28, 2015

CERTIFICATE SAGA: BUHARI SINKS DEEPER WITH LIES!

Yesterday, General Muhammadu Buhari made a shocking and belated disclosure that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has his documents. He has not been specific about the documents he is referring to but it is very clear that this is yet another squalid attempt to give the Nigerian people the impression that INEC has his certificate. If this is true, it represents a somersault from his original position which was that INEC has his affidavit and it once again reveals General Buhari for what he is.

With this latest antic, General Buhari is obviously trying to smuggle a newly acquired certificate into INEC through the backdoor. If this is true and if INEC allows such a thing to happen, it would put a serious question mark on its impartiality and credibility. It would mean that it has collected his newly acquired certificate, 40 days outside the stipulation of the Law.

We say this because Section 31(3) of the Electoral Act says INEC “shall within 7 days of the receipt of the receipt of the personal particulars of the candidate, publish same in the constituency...”

Buhari’s words are as follows: “Well, I am not surprised. This is Nigeria. If people are “serious” about this issue, they ought to have listened to the LEGAL ADVISER of INEC” (Is Buhari saying Nigerians are unserious by seeking to know the truth?)

Continuing, he says: “This is the first time, INEC by law has got those documents and they said they have got them. So anybody who has different view should go to court. So let them remain there.”

Those were the words of General Muhammadu Buhari (NOT MOHAMMED BUHARI), the APC presidential candidate.

It appears as if the more our alleged “Mr. Incorruptible” attempts to wash himself clean, the more he digs deeper in the pit of falsehood and perjury.

Now, below are facts already in the public domain, which are incontrovertible:

1. That Muhammadu Buhari (Not Mohammed Buhari) neither submitted nor attached any personal document to form CF001 he filled to INEC.

2. That the INEC form part C specifically stated that PERSONAL (i.e. Certificate) documents should be attached but Buhari did not attach any as of 18th December, 2014, the last day according to INEC guidelines for submission of form CF001.

3. That Buhari was the only candidate whose documents were not published like other presidential candidates as stipulated by law, having not attached any certificate previously.

4. That INEC had acknowledged that fact after publication of particulars of all candidates last year and had not controverted these facts, having itself published the documents attached by all other candidates except Buhari who did not submit any document apart from INEC's own CF001 form and an affidavit, a court document all of which do not represent PERSONAL DOCUMENT of Buhari.

5.That as at 12 midnight on 30th December, 2014, the expiration of time provided by law for the substitution of candidates, APC did not avail itself that opportunity of substituting the unqualified Buhari for a duly qualified presidential candidate.

6. That Buhari's only response in his affidavit form in the public domain and displayed by INEC in the 774 LGAs that form the single constituency for presidential contestants was to the effect that "All my academic qualifications and certificates are currently with the secretary of the military Board as at the time of this affidavit dated 24/11/2014." This affidavit, a very arrogant and whimsical response that his credentials were with the Military Authorities, is in the public domain. If Buhari’s assertion is true, the question is, what is INEC now up to collecting new documents from him through the backdoor, 40 days after the requirement of law?

7. That the military authorities came in the open to clarify that the only document in respect of Buhari's WASC was an anticipatory letter by his principal that "Buhari would pass" - NOT THAT BUHARI PASSED.

8. That Buhari's imperial response at a later press conference was that his alma mater, Government College Katsina, would publish his result when available. How come he now says that INEC has collected his document and why should INEC do so after the statutory time limit?

9. That what Government College Katsina published was at best a hand-written result of one MOHAMMED BUHARI and not MUHAMMADU BUHARI or at worse a complete forgery.

Fellow Nigerians, Why should General Muhammadu Buhari refer Nigerians to hear from one legal adviser in INEC? The same INEC that its Director of legal services, one (Mr. Ibrahim Bawa) who, earlier in response to numerous inquiries shortly after on December i8, 2014, told the press that INEC had published all that presidential candidates submitted which in the case of Buhari are just FORM CF001 (no certificate attached) and affidavit which is court papers and not personal document.
It will be interesting to know at which point the affidavit transmuted into additional documents or when additional documents were provided to INEC in line with law as noted above.

What Nigerians Should Note

By Buhari's latest statement, we want to alert Nigerians to the following questions which the INEC Chair, Attahiru Jega, the so-called legal adviser whom a consultant, duly contracted by INEC, had recommended for redeployment and the APC, must HONESTLY answer:

A. WHEN DID INEC AND THIS LEGAL ADVISER RECEIVE THE DOCUMENTS GIVEN THAT THERE WAS NOTHING ON RECORD FOR HIM AFTER 18TH DECEMBER 2014?

B. WERE THESE MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENTS RECEIVED WITHIN OR AFTER THE TIME FRAME SPECIFIED BY THE ELECTORAL GUIDELINES?

C. Could this be the source of Buhari’s renewed arrogance that anybody not satisfied should go to court?

D. HAS INEC PUBLISHED THESE DOCUMENTS AS REQUIRED BY LAW?

E. Who is in breach of the Electoral Act, Section 31:3- Buhari or Ibrahim Bawa?

The Electoral Body must come clean on this matter; otherwise we will be compelled to pass a no-confidence vote in it. If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari, without compliance with the provisions of the law, from this lingering embarrassment, we will have no other choice than to harbor the suspicion and fear that the Electoral Body is already compromised and can lend itself to the ungodly agenda of truncating our victory when our candidate wins.
We also want the election observers to keep watch of the unfolding events regarding General Buhari’s qualification or otherwise. In other countries, it is about obeying the rule of law and not about protecting the political interest of an individual, especially since a free, fair and credible election is not about the day of voting alone but also the processes leading up to it.
I thank you for listening

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