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In another news, Hell Rufai found out Jonathan spent 300 billion dollars on monorail.

I keep opening thread while you keep running into all my thread. What are you looking for in my threads? You think your rulling is somewhere in my thread? Why not respond to the facts I laid bare rather than claiming to be the tribunal judge. By the way, I learnt you people refused to settle the army and police you procured to testify as planned. Happy loafing 'theSilence'!

theV0ice:
You're the loafer my dear....running up and down NL opening threads on a case you have zero knowledge about.

Keep opening threads upon threads to assuage your anxious heart....I'll be here to congratulate you on the thread you'll eventually open to celebrate your oga's 'victory' at the tribunal

Shatap ya mouth o Lilliput mere commissioner! You and your illiterate boss who don't know what the heck is happening around you let alone where poor masses are suffering.

APC brought in a bunch of witnesses who came and embarrassed them with some saying election held and Wike stole their mandate, others saying election didn't hold contradicting themselves and looking like fools. Why were you all silent about what you found after counting all the ballot papers, was it not because it was perfectly in order? Call Buhari to come and arrest Wike's witnesses, that is the best you loafers can do.

theV0ice:
Don't fret my friend.....they will be allowed to have their say while the court will have its way at last.

Just relax....Chief Olujimi(SAN) gat this.

Then wike will have a chance to prove he'll win a free and fair election after all

A source, who was involved in a House of Representatives committee investigation into the Halliburton bribery scandal in the early 2000s, has indicated that Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari was paid $1.8m in bribes.

The Halliburton bribery scandal started from 1994 when the Nigerian government kicked off plans to build the Bonny Island Natural Liquefied Gas Project. The scandal involved a network of secretive banks and offshore tax havens that were used to pay $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in exchange for $6 billion in contracts for an international consortium of companies that included a then Halliburton subsidiary.
British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler who pleaded guilty for his role in arranging the bribes for top Nigerians
British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler who pleaded guilty for his role in arranging the bribes for top Nigerians

The company wanted to ensure that the contracts were secured by bribing every influential and potentially influential Nigerian. The source claimed that the committee’s report indicted former Heads of State Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar and Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo allegedly tried, when he was president, to intimidate the House committee chairman from implicating him.

The source indicated that a significant chunk of the money was paid to Abacha’s Chief of Staff, who then decided who was to receive a cut and the amount they received.

It was not clear why Aisha Buhari was seen as relevant enough at the time to receive $1.8m in bribes. But she was close to the wife of then vice president Atiku Abubakar, and he was alleged to have received a share of the bribes. Most of the top officials that received the payments did so through proxies. So Aisha Buhari may have been a proxy.

The source claimed that Aisha Buhari has not accompanied her husband to his two official trips to the US since becoming president for fear that she could be arrested for her part in the bribery scandal.

APC Rivers Chapter in utter disarray!

By Simeon Nwakaudu

Friday October 2, 2015 will remain evergreen in the annals of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. It was a day that falsehood took flight in the face of reality and the legal team of the Rivers State APC fizzled into panic mood as they witnessed their castle in the air evaporate before their eyes.

Also on Saturday, October 3, 2015, the Rivers State Commander of the Department of State Services, DSS, for the April 11 Governorship election, Mr Emmanuel Phillips declared that the Election was peaceful without any report or observation of violence during the exercise. He led the DSS operations for the entire Rivers State on April 11 and physically monitored the governorship election in 12 LGAs. Like the senior police officers, he explained that soldiers were only deployed to specific locations, not to polling units. He told the Tribunal that the junior DSS operatives invited by Rivers APC, lied on oath. Totality of his evidence. Election held peacefully and successfully.

October 2 was a day that the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal subpoenaed two very senior police officers to clarify the situation on the testimonies of few soldiers, DSS personnel and mobile policemen invited by the Rivers State APC to testify at the tribunal.

The two senior police officers are: Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Akuki Kenneth who was an Area Commander in charge of Bori Zonal Police Command comprising nine Local Government Areas during the April 11 Governorship Election and Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Uche Mike Chukwuma who served as Divisional Police Officer for Ahoada East Local Government Area on election day.

As soon as ACP Kenneth took his oath at the witness stand, it became a case of fire on the mountain for the Rivers State APC Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The Rivers State APC Legal Team raised a vehement objection urging the tribunal to stop the senior police from testifying. Lead Rivers APC counsel, Akin Olujimi ( SAN ) appealed to the tribunal to rule that the ACP should tender his report and leave. He lost the battle to stop the witness of truth as the tribunal overruled him.

However, a few former commissioners who served under former Governor Amaechi who were in court dashed out to place calls. Outside the court, the Inspector-General of Police sent a team led by another Assistant Commissioner of Police to stop the police officers from giving evidence. The timely intervention of lawyers and journalists outside the court stop the Inspector-General of Police team from truncating justice.

The truth that Rivers State APC feared the most hit them like thunderbolt on October 2. The two senior police officers declared in open court that the soldiers, DSS personnel and mobile policemen were mere fiction experts who concocted stories about an election they played limited roles in. They stated that the governorship election was peaceful in the ten local government areas they monitored.

There was a mild drama in court at a point when CSP Chukwuma reeled out comprehensive data that baffled the lead counsel of Rivers APC. They accused him of reading from a prepared speech. He gave them the file that contained his subpoena and they studied same like pool merchants only to discover it was blank.
With reality, the earlier Rivers State APC falsehood enthroned by propaganda evaporated.

Testifying at the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police who served in Rivers State during the governorship election confirmed that during his two-phased patrol, he observed that soldiers were only deployed to the border of the local government areas. He said no soldiers came to the polling units as it was reserved for the policemen and other conventional security agencies.

He said : "Within the period of my patrols, I saw soldiers in clusters at the borders of the local government areas. They were never at the polling units".

He listed the local government areas under his supervision on election day include; Khana, Gokana, Okirika, Ogu/Bolo, Eleme, Bonny, Opobo /Nkoro, Andoni and Tai. He said he monitored election in Khana, Gokana, Ogo/Bolo, Eleme, Okirika and Tai in two phases of the election, with no case of violence or threat to peace reported to him the policemen on duty.

He added that in the riverine areas where he did not patrol, he received reports that the elections went on peacefully from the respective Divisional Police Officers. The local government areas are: Bonny, Opobo / Nkoro and Andoni.
He berated DSP Yusuf Buba of the Police Mobile Force for lying on oath before the tribunal as he was only deployed to the INEC office in Bori to provide security, hence he did not patrol.

He said that under the police disciplinary procedure, if DSP Buba Yusuf had moved out of his duty post he would have been sanctioned. He declared that DSP Buba never left his duty post, hence he lied when he claimed that he saw people engaged in illegal thumb printing. He said if the policeman had seen any illegal thumb printing, he would have arrested such persons.

He said in the course of his patrol on election day, he observed that there was no violence, accreditation took place and that he also observed voters on queue casting their ballot.

In his testimony, CSP Chukwuma said the election in Ahoada East LGA was peaceful as he monitored the entire council with two detachment of Policemen. He said that his first phase of monitoring was held alongside the Electoral Officer of the area, Mrs Bea uty Anuebunwa without any incident of violence.

He explained that only un - armed policemen were deployed to polling units, pointing out that the 10 mobile policemen deployed to his local government éarea were with him on election day.

Commenting on the testimony by Police Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Chisom Ezebuiro, the former Ahoada East Divisional Policer said the APC witness played no part in the election as he only led the 63 mobile policemen for the entire Area Command which comprises 14 local government areas to Ahoada East. He said Ezebuiro thereafter said he was ill and remained at the base and did not monitor the election.

CSP Chukwuma declared that the mobile policeman lied as he was indisposed on election day.

Under cross examination by counsel to the Rivers State APC, Akin Olujimi ( SAN ), the two senior police officers maintained that the election was peaceful with accreditation and voting taking place.

Olujimi ( SAN ) struggled in vain to demonstrate the documents prepared by the INEC staff they subpoenaed who claimed he was in the company of three INEC National Commissioners. His struggle was born out of the fact that Rivers State APC failed to call witnesses to demonstrate the said document because it was not prepared by authorised officers. The police officers stood their ground. They insisted it was not in their place to interpret a document made by another.

Governor Wike has so far presented witnesses of truth to dispel the cloud of falsehood that the Rivers State APC imposed on Nigerians. Those who conducted the elections have test. Those who maintained security have testified and those who voted have declared that they voted under a peaceful environment.

The Rivers State APC made very wild and baseless allegations, but they forgot that the tribunal is not a Television station. They forgot that they were under obligation to prove beyond reasonable doubt. All they did during their six days in court was to entertain Nigerians with cock and bull stories.

Despite the courage of these officers in the face of unfortunate intimidation by higher authorities, it is imperative that we condemn in very strong terms the illegal actions of officers from the office of the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of DSS who stormed the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for two days in a bid to intimidate and arrest witnesses of Governor Wike.

No amount of intimidation and illegal deployment of security personnel to the tribunal will save the day for misguided members of the higher authorities. Darkness will always give way to light.

Simeon Nwakaudu,
Special Assistant ( Media ) to the Rivers State Governor.

APC filled with shiit heads and crazy scums

APC and all their supporters are MAD!

bbboooooooohhhhaaaaaaaarrrrriiiiiiiiiiii eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

buuuuuuuuuuuhhhhaaaaaaaarrrrrriiiiii eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This and many more among the reasons why we wail! Pathetic pedophile government!

Ya'll should relax, body odour infact body stench will resurrect them at the fullness of time

In the fullness of time, body odour will resurrect them! TIT for TAT!

ahaika23:
Body odour in action

young man, some people got killed by a bomb blast here in Abuja. I want to believe you don't know that. Are you afraid to ask GEJ what he's doing in London? Go on, ask him. You're just a very foolish crab.

cramjones:
I managed to take this picture with my phone of GEJ earlier today in London, around the Kensington area. I know Dieziani has a home in this area. What would have secretly brought GEJ to London? Does it have any connection with the multibillion dollar theft he facilitated through Dieziani? Could it be connected to her earlier arrest?

We are watching!

-CramJones

spotted! Body odour gang!

SirWere:
Do you think Buhari wastes his word Buhari would show you the culprit, just you wait!

Body odour in action

They said body odour can fix naigeria

If I hear, I thought baba go slow d daura dullord had this magical body odour which was fixing Nigeria that sycophants like you were squealing all around the place about. Now is the time for results, Body odour to the rescue

ilyas26:
When people are grieving you still exhibit your stupidity

Body odour to the rescue. zaaaaaaaaaaaaaam! Hold your nose tight!

Commander in chief of foolishness. All hail Bubu, the baba of go-slow, sorry go no-where! I am sso happy with this international dimension to change. I see them illiterate assslickers avoiding the thread

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midolian:
As clean as a whistle!

Baba probably doesn't trust his source of wealth.

If a man can divorce his wife for taking money from someone he sees as corrupt, then it shouldn't come as a surprise that he did something like this.

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You wanna say you don't know Aisha's role in halliburton bribery scandal. Hypnotized lot!

Sad news for APC, how will Li Mohammed handle this?

Oshio, were you busy under the sheets that you lost track of time?

APC online maggots are the dumbest.

Breaking News:

APC ,Oshiomole condemns Ngozi Iwealas" appointment.

The All progressive 'confidence" have called the appointments of the former Minister Of Finance and Economy Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala a sham ,abuse of due process and a slap to the Government of Buhari considering the fact that the Nigeria Economy is not doing so well since the former minister left office. Consequently, the Party and the Edo state Governor have called on the two reputable Organization (Gavi and Lazard) to reverse and or cancel the appointment immediately.

www.htonaijagist.cm

saintopus:
There is nothing wrong with what is happening. l think if the process does not favour him in APC he can defect to another political party of his choice. There should be zero bitterness.

kazmanbanjoko:
But why should dis be happening. I think dis is d handworks of d wailing wailers but GOD pass dem.

saintopus:
There is nothing wrong with what is happening. l think if the process does not favour him in APC he can defect to another political party of his choice. There should be zero bitterness.

It's a pity what you both eventually turned to be in life after all your parents labor. To say this is what you can comment is the height of foolishness!

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/inec-formally-opens-defence-at-rivers-tribunal-insists-election-held/220559/




INEC Formally Opens Defence at Rivers Tribunal, Insists Election Held

18 Sep 2015

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Senator Iroegbu in Abuja

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has formally opened the process of defending the outcome of the governorship election it conducted in Rivers State on April 11, 2015.


The commission began the defence before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja by producing one of its Electoral Officers, Mr. Ebikoru Tebekaemi, who conducted the election, to testify.

Testifying Thursday, Tebekaemi told the Justice Suleiman Ambrusa-led tribunal that he was the electoral officer that superintended over the governorship poll at Obia Akpor Local Government Area (LGA) in Rivers State.

He claimed that contrary to the evidence of witnesses that were produced by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate , Dr. Dakuku Peterside, there was no incident of ballot snatching or multiple thump printing of ballot papers at Obia Akpor.

Asked by counsel to the petitioners, Akinolu Olujimi (SAN), if he was aware that there was widespread rigging and hijacking of electoral materials by armed thugs, the witness said he was not aware that such incident occurred.


Tebekaemi insisted that election was duly conducted in 15 out of 17 wards in the local government area.

“My lords, it was only at ward 12 and 13, which is Rumuigbo and Rumokuta that election did not take place,” he said.

Under cross-examination by Olujimi, the witness said he was also not aware that people were seen at a football pitch thumb printing ballot papers in favour of Governor Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The witness further told the tribunal that from his record, a total of 304,745 voters were accredited at the LGA, adding however that only a total number of 40,481 voters were accredited with the Card Reader machines.

When he was asked by counsel to the PDP, Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), if it was true that lack of electoral materials marred the governorship poll, Tebekaemi said he could only give evidence with regard to Obia Akpor LGA which was under his control.

“But I can confirm that sufficient electoral materials were distributed across Obiakpor and other parts of Rivers State during the governorship election,” the witness added.

Among the exhibits that were tendered before the tribunal by the witness included a copy of the election result sheets from Obiakpor LGA.

Meanwhile, the Justice Ambrosa has adjourned till Friday to enable INEC produce more witnesses.

Recall that the petitioners closed their case on Wednesday after they called a total of 58 witnesses who testified that the election was marred by violence and widespread irregularities.

THE FEAR OF NYESOME WIKE IS THE BEGINNING OF BEGGING.



A Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday struck out the suit instituted by an aide of the former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, against his successor Nyesom Wike, to challenge his setting up of a judicial commission of inquiry to probe the monorail project in the state billions of naira.


The suit was instituted by the former Commissioner for Transport in the state under Amaechi, Hon. George Tolofari, whose ministry supervised an alleged fraudulent project.

In the suit filed on his behalf by Reuben Wanogho, the ex commissioner had urged the court to stop the probe panel for being unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect.


The plaintiff who claimed to be the target of the probe, also applied for an order to stop the panel from issuing or executing any summon or warrant of arrest against him on the terms of reference issued to the panel by Governor Wike.

He also asked the court to bar the Inspector General of Police (IG), his servant, agents, privies or collaborators whatsoever from executing any warrant of arrest the commission of inquiry may issue against him.

His grouse was that Wike was biased against those who served in the administration of his predecessor.

However, when the matter came up for hearing yesterday, the plaintiff made a surprised u-turn by announcing his decision to withdraw of the suit.

Although Tolofari did not give any reason for withdrawing the suit, THISDAY gathered that he withdrew it because he knew that it would be struck out.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola accordingly struck out the suit.

Defendants in the case are Justice George Omereji, Chairman, Mrs. Florence Fiberesima, Dr. Zacheus Adango, Dr. Edith Chuwku, Chief Monday Ekenta, Rev Canon Alex Usifor and Ignatius Piegbara who are the probe panel members.
Others apart from Wike are the Attorney General of Rivers State and the Inspector General of Police.

Obviously, the people down West are sad about this truth. If they could abuse Ahmed, they will not hesitate. Biafra comes quickly to mind

And if we call them what they are, people will say it's wailer. How can a government supposedly with a brain be this embarrassing!