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Check all the projects wike is talking about are flyovers. No meaningful projects that can impact Rivers people life.

The candidate of NNPP, Abba Kabir Yusuf has emerged the winner of the Kano state gubernatorial election.

In the Final results announced by Returning Officer: Professor Ahmad Doko Ibrahim, Yusuf polled

1,019,602 while the candidate of APC, Nasir Yusuf Gawuna polled - 890,705 to come second.

https://dailytrust.com/

checkmatez:
you need to go to where they ship in tokumbo cars, so just head to mile2 and from there make your way down to apapa.
But also be observant on your way because from mile2 down to Apapa road you can find all kind of tokumbo vehicles car parks by the road side so I advice you use bike when going so you can easily spot them.

Thank you very much

Good morning,
Where can I purchase tokunbo Toyota picnic car for my interstate transportation business in lagos.
Thanks.

silibaba:
check Jiji

Their prices are too high

Beg for stealing people mandate?

silibaba:
You might get it for that price.

my spec is Toyota picnic

silibaba:
Go back and save up to 2.5m, then comeback here. Except you want to end up buying KOROPE.

I can I get any good car at this rate or 3m maximum.
My choice is Toyota picnic for hustle oo

THE United States of America often prides itself as the bastion of democracy in the world. A few days ago, President Joe Biden stressed the importance of the right to vote in his remarks at the 58th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama. In his words: “The right to vote- the right to vote and to have your vote counted- is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything is possible…without that right, nothing is possible. And this fundamental right remains under assault.”

Biden, a democrat, was at Alabama to mark the anniversary of the March 7, 1965 Selma March by hundreds of demonstrators, demanding for voting rights for Black Americans who faced barriers to vote across much of the south of the United States. Although law enforcement officers brutally clamped down on the protesters, five months later, the Congress passed the “Voting Rights of 1965”, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting in the United States.

This year’s commemoration of the Selma demonstration coincided with widespread contestations over the outcome of the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria, which the Financial Times, one of the leading business news organisations in the world, described as badly flawed. Relying on testimonies of both local and international observers and its own observation of the election, the British news organisation, in an editorial, chronicled numerous irregularities that marred the election, including snatching of ballot materials, violence, voter suppression and intimidation, delay in arrival of electoral officials at the polling units and late commencement of accreditation and voting.

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In the opinion of the Financial Times, these irregularities contributed in depriving millions of Nigerians the right to vote. According to the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the body saddled with the responsibility of conducting elections in Nigeria, the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections witnessed a drop in voter turnout to 27 per cent from 35 per cent recorded in 2019.

To add salt to injury, the result could not be uploaded real time from polling units to INEC’s result viewing portal, IReV, as prescribed by the commission in its guidelines for the election. Section 148 of the Electoral Act, gives the electoral body the power to make guidelines and regulations to ensure the full effect of the law. Section 60 (5) of the Act states that the presiding officer shall transfer the results, including the total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot in a manner as prescribed by the commission.

The prescribed manner in this case, is the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, introduced by INEC to boost the credibility of Nigerian elections. But, rather than use the BVAS to upload the results real time from the polling units as prescribed in the election guidelines, INEC resorted to manual collation for the presidential election. Amid protest by other political parties over these obvious irregularities in the election, the electoral body hurriedly declared the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the election. According to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who doubled as the returning officer for the election, Tinubu polled 8.8 million votes to defeat other top contenders, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of Labour Party, LP, who polled 6.9 million and 6.1 million respectively. Both Atiku and Obi have since approached the Court of Appeal, the court of first instance on presidential election matters, to challenge the outcome of the election.

While Tinubu was basking on the euphoria of torrents of congratulatory messages he received from world leaders, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard declared that the electoral process as a whole on February 25 failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. Atiku Abubakar and his party, PDP, staged a protest to the headquarters of INEC in Abuja, to express their dissatisfaction with the election. Regardless, the ruling APC maintained that its candidate won the election and asked those not satisfied with the outcome of the election to go to court.

For now, all eyes are on the judiciary, as it appears there was very little that INEC could do now, having issued Tinubu with a Certificate of Return as the winner of the controversial election. Besides the irregularities that marred the election, one issue Nigerians expect the court to resolve is the argument that the winner did not meet the legal threshold in Section 134 (2) of the Constitution, for one to be declared winner of a presidential election.

As we wait for the election tribunal to decide the case one way or the order, I fear that Nigeria may have missed another golden opportunity to rediscover herself as the Giant of Africa. Recall that in 2013, Barack Obama, the first American President of African descent, described Nigeria as critical to the rest of the African continent. Obama argued that “if Nigeria does not get it right, Africa will really not make more progress”. Regrettably, Africa is today a theatre of the absurd and bizarre, including armed conflicts, insurgency, coup d’états and other forms of political instability. The continent is also plagued by economic crisis and environmental degradation.

Ironically, Nigeria, which the world expects to champion the advancement of the continent, is not spared. Instead of rule of law, lawlessness rules, even within the corridors of power. The entire political system is dogged by corruption, ethnic and religious tensions. The political gladiators are more concerned with self survival and their Machiavellian actions are driven by individual, rather than national interest.

Most worrisome is that the country lacks the capacity to conduct credible elections, hence depriving the citizens of leadership at all strata and arms of government. Indeed, can anyone quantify the consequences of these maladies on the country? In spite of the humongous oil revenue that accrued to Nigeria over the years and the numerous efforts by successive governments to address the infrastructure deficit in the country, wide gaps still exist in the country’s power, transportation, communication, aviation, health and education infrastructure.

The economy is in doldrums. Citizens spend donkey time on very long queues to fuel their cars and electricity generators, in order to improvise for the acute shortage of electricity from the national grid in their homes and offices. Presently, Nigeria faces a severe cash crunch, occasioned by a shoddy and “inexpertly” implemented cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, which resulted in long queues of hapless citizens standing for hours at Automated Teller Machine, ATM, points and inside banking halls, searching for cash to meet their basic daily needs. Unemployment rate is almost 40 per cent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. Although Nigeria moved up four places in the latest 2022 Corruption Perception Index, CPI, it maintained its previous score of 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 assessment, showing that nothing has changed.

The story is not different in the educational and health systems of the country. While, there is global consensus that education is the bedrock of development, about 20 million children are out of school in Nigeria, as of the last quarter of 2022, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO.

The annual budgetary allocation at the federal level for education is a far cry from the 26 per cent benchmark recommended by UNESCO for member countries. The sub-nationals are faring worse. Primary and secondary schools in Nigeria experience lack of instructional materials. They lack qualified and trained personnel. At the tertiary level, prolonged strikes by academic and non-academic staff often paralyze academic activities in our citadels of learning, impacting negatively on standards.

In the health system, brain drain deprives our health institutions of their best hands, as they leave the country on a daily basis in search of greener pastures in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The primary health system is almost nonexistent while the tertiary health institutions do not measure up to consulting clinics in even sister African countries. However, the frustration vented in this piece does not mean that all hope is lost. From the experiences of the big democracies and the upcoming ones, we can establish a correlation between democracy and development.

A credible election is the hallmark of democracy. Therefore, we must do everything to get our elections right. To get it right, we must interrogate the character of those who would be entrusted with our electoral process in future, sustain reforms in our electoral laws and allow technology to fully drive the system, to protect our elections from the machinations of desperado politicians and willing conspirators in the electoral body.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/us-nigerias-faulty-election-and-africas-progress/

A known fact my boss

Desperate man

blamingthedevil:
DSS is now on twitter, Peter Obi supporters don dey delete tweets

https://twitter.com/Topboychriss/status/1632812766867120129

So you ignorantly believe that dss do not operator or aware of happening on social media?

If u fall for this, you be confirmed mugu

Wike is a terrible person.
Wicked and shameless

Peter obi caused Atiku Abubakar from smelling president of Nigeria for life.

Isn't shaking anything
Is for Tinubu and he will get it.
Though he worked against my party which is painful.

Exactly what I have been saying
Apc allocated lp votes to themselves..

Hmm

Stanweezy:
Ugwuanyi would have adopted Obi as his presidential candidate but he messed up


Obi's effect is sweeping the whole of the country


I won't say SS and SE bkus some parts of the North Labour won in the house of rep and more are still coming

New Nigeria is POssible with PO

Benue governor adopted him and failed woefully.

femisplash:
Omo, see Atiku dragging votes with Tinubu in Osun. Osun really turned up, damn!.. Massive turn out!.. Adeleke, you are trying so hard to retain that seat but I swear you're a goner.
Osun is the only SW state Atiku will get 25%. God, thank God for G5!

Do you see Ekiti final results?

Nice one.
Let everyone vote their own.
Yoruba Obas where endorsing Tinubu here and there.

Ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union and the Southern Kaduna Leadership Council have unanimously asked the people in the region to vote for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alh. Atiku Abubakar or the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Kaduna, SOKAPU president, Mr Dio Maisamari and the chairman of Southern Kaduna Leadership Council, Mr Dary Akau, said Saturday’s election is fundamental to the people of the region especially as in the past eight years their people have suffered untold deprivations and dehumanisation from the exclusiveness and discriminatory practices of the present party and government in power.

“From the foregoing, the decision of Southern Kaduna people on the choice of Presidential Candidate to support in the 2023 general election should be guided by our historical experiences over the past twenty-five years,” he said.

They explained that SOKAPU in collaboration with the Southern Kaduna Leadership Council have examined the situation on the ground and come to the conclusion that the presidential candidates that have shown enough concern over their problems and concerns are those who visited Southern Kaduna and discussed with their people.

“To this extent, the presidential candidates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and Labour Party came and discussed with our people and leaders, and were given the Southern Kaduna Charter for Socio-Political Engagement. Therefore, the choice for the Southern Kaduna people is between the PDP and LP.

“In considering where to go, and which party to support, we take into consideration the fact that we have benefited more where we have been included in governance and decision making, adding politically and economically, the Southern Kaduna people have benefited more from the PDP than any other party in the history of Nigeria.

“Nevertheless, given the strength of the emotions arising from the oppression our people have suffered over the past eight years, there is the tendency to align with the Labour Party, noting as leaders of Southern Kaduna, we take cognizance of the sentiments and emotions of our people over the suffering they have gone through.

“We have examined the balance of forces on the ground in terms of structures, spread, capacity of the party and candidates to win the presidential election, hold and use the power to include the Southern Kaduna people in government.

“As leaders of Southern Kaduna are advising our people to vote for the party that has shown us inclusiveness, and the party that has the inclination, desire and potential to concretely address our cares and concerns.

SOKAPU and SKLC, therefore, advise the people of Southern Kaduna to support and vote for the presidential candidate that has shown commitment and willingness to be inclusive and address their interests. Therefore, we are calling on our people to come out massively and vote in the presidential election,” the duo declared.


https://punchng.com/sokapu-sklc-adopt-atiku-obi-as-preferred-candidates/?amp

But same Tinubu failed to campaign with the Buhari achievements.

Patriotic Nigerians are with you on this honourable minister.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday, said that President Muhammadu Buhari has not acted in breach on the case instituted at the Supreme Court by some state governors over the naira swap deadline.

The Malami said as far as the rule of law is concerned, there are many options available.

This is just as the Federal Government has said that the fate of state governors and other individuals being investigated for alleged treasonable utterances over the naira redesign will be determined by the security agencies involved.

The government also said that it was only few individuals that are promoting the interest of some persons that may have gotten their wealth illegally and looted public funds, which they intend to use to influence the electorate in the forthcoming elections.

Malami stated this while appearing on the ministerial media briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Recall that some governors, including Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state had openly denigrated the Buhari policy, asking their citizens not to comply with the expiration of the legality of the old N500 and N1,000.

The two governors are among the governors that had gone to the Supreme Court to stop the February 10 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from ceasing to recognize the N500 and N1000 naira notes as legal tender.

Fielding question on the position in some quarters that the utterances of the governors was tantamount to treason, the AGF affirmed that investigation cannot be ruled out, adding that the relevant security agencies will determine if there will be the need for further action.

Malami stressed the importance of the redesign policy, which he said will enable citizens to assume collective ownership of the electoral system rather than allowing a few moneybags to take charge.

He also said the policy is designed to allow freedom of choice and also fight corruption.

Speaking extensively on the benefits of electoral reforms, Malami said it was only the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration that had exercised the political will to enhance democratic practice through legislative, political and administrative interventions.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/02/naira-redesign-buhari-not-in-breach-of-supreme-court-order-agf/

Hmm
They knew Buhari has no power anymore..
There's little or nothing Buhari can do them again.

Hmm

Supreme Court shouldn't run otherwise on Wednesday...

Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of New Nigerian People Party (NNPP), has knocked the All Progressive Congress (APC) governors criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over naira redesign policy.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which introduced the policy last year had fixed January 31 as deadline for spending old N200, N500 and N1000 notes in public.

This had generated a huge controversy. After intense pressure, the apex bank shifted the deadline by 10 days.

Some governors of the ruling party sought the intervention of the president, who told them to give him seven days to take action.

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But three days after meeting Buhari, three APC governors filed a suit to challenge the naira redesign policy at the supreme court.

The court ordered the CBN not to implement the deadline but Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, said there was no need to shift the deadline.

Buhari had partially complied with the court as he ordered an extension of the deadline of N200 notes and declared that old N500 and N1000 notes were no longer legal tender.

This had triggered a nationwide outrage. Governors of the ruling party joined those who criticised Buhari over the issue.

While Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State had alleged that the naira redesign policy was aimed at truncating Nigeria’s democracy, his Kaduna counterpart, Nasir El-Rufai, asked residents to disregard Buhari’s directive.

Governors Dapo Abidoun (Ogun), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa) were among those who declared that old N500 and N1000 notes were still legal tender in their states.

Reacting to the developments, Kwankwaso said he was shocked that APC governors could act in that manner.

“In each state, you have branches of banks and in some states, you have even the national headquarters of those banks, on one hand we thought they (governors) would take all the billions from government houses and so on.

“But we realize these same governors were abusing their leaders, insulting them, I was shocked. I never thought some of them could abuse Buhari to that level.

“On one hand I was surprised that facts were coming out and we began to wonder what is wrong with them? Maybe EFCC was right that some governors are keeping billions of naira in their compounds across the country.

“Now the policy has made that looted money completely useless, I think that is why they are angry. So we are so happy with the Federal Government on that, the money they have collected is completely zero, it has expired.

“And I think all agencies should keep their eyes on that and I want to assure you that our party is going to assist the Federal Government, especially on election day, please tell all members of NNPP to join EFCC, to join the police and other security agencies that wherever they see try to buy votes, please stop them,” Kwankwaso said at an NNPP function

https://dailytrust.com/old-naira-your-loot-now-completely-useless-kwankwaso-taunts-apc-govs-criticising-buhari/

Nice one

Everyone knows that already

What is G5?