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kokorokoman:
lol, stp reasoning like a man that receives advise from mad men, it is on record that these politicians has won more elections than pandora.
so you think obi would have gotten a million votes if he wasnt sponsored by tinubu?

kokorokoman:
these names you mentioned even have more political value than obi, Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas Okorocha, Ike Ekeremadu will pull the same crowd given the time obi contested for presidency.
people voted obi because they were all tired of apc and buhari and it has nothing to do with obi's popularity.
these politicians you mentioned would also have come third position if their campaign is sponsored by tinubu the way tinubu sponsored peter obi's campaign.

SwissMass:
Orji uzor kalu followed the wrong direction like Peter girigory Obi, Orji uzor kalu was supporting Ahmed Lawn, a northerner even after Buhari, that is why he lost, he cannot be trusted, he is a treacherous saboteur, just like Peter girigory Obi sabotaged Atiku

TGM2015:
Yes, I believe you can, but as at today, it is unnecessary. The country of issuance has stated it is a diplomatic passport.

AntiTerrorist:
Coalition of Nigerians in UK demand for El-Rufai’s arrest, prosecution over inciting comments
https://sunnewsonline.com/coalition-of-nigerians-in-uk-demand-for-el-rufais-arrest-prosecution-over-inciting-comments/?amp

The Coalition of Nigerians living in the United Kingdom has condemned the inciting and genocidal statement by the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasiru el-Rufai justifying the Muslim-Muslim civilian Presidency of the country.

The Nigeria’s mainstream and social media were awash with a statement from a video clip of the former Kaduna State Governor allegedly linking him to inflammatory, inciting, and genocidal statement.

In communique issued at end of it’s meeting in UK and signed by Dr. Loretta Oduware Ogboro-Okor Olorogun and Theodore Ochuko Arayki the coalition called for El-rufai’s arrest and prosecution since it had waited to see if the former Kaduna State Governor could publicly deny or clarify himself-all to no avail.

“The Coalition of Nigerians living in UK hereby makes bold to say that former Governor El-Rufai’s inciting and genocidal statement was not surprising. The statement was also a clear confirmation of the remote and immediate causes of endless butcheries and property violence systematically targeted at defenseless Christians and their properties in Nigeria especially in Southern Kaduna and Middle-Belt.

” It further confirms that the butcheries have nothing to do with the so called “Farmers-Herders Clashes”. The inaction and conspiratorial roles of the country’s security forces in the butcheries and property violence including indiscriminate burning down or destruction of tens of thousands of churches and Christian schools were also brought to the fore and inescapably exposed as having been fully presidentially backed or sanctioned for deepening of ‘State Jihadism’ championed by Mallam El-Rufai and his cohorts.

“The Coalition hereby calls on the leaders of the Southern Kaduna, the Middle-Belt, and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to go after Mallam el-Rufai and ensure that he does not go scot-free or walk the streets of Nigeria and west Democracies freely with impunity or as an outlaw. The former Gov seems to enjoy and have passion for bloodshed which was why he publicly threatened the 2019 international independent election observers with “going back or returning to their countries in “body bags”.

”We are also calling on the ICC to arrest and prosecute Mallam Nasiru el-Rufai over charges of crimes against humanity and genocide in Southern Kaduna, Middle-Belt and other parts of the country where he conspired with others to export and instigate the Fulani Jihadists to invade, occupy, kill, rape, abduct, disappear, loot, plunder, burn, destroy and Islamize.

“As we all know, our people have been through a most frustrating eight years under this out-gone administration that brought us to globally embarrassing rankings in corruption, out of school children’s numbers, terrorism, insecurity, and poverty (and ethno-religious divisions and radicalism). It is common knowledge that our sons and daughters are making waves and excelling in different career spheres in other parts of the world, yet our country wallows in poor indices. These unacceptable and unfortunate rankings exists not because Nigerian lacks the human capital to change this narrative, rather they are the result of exclusion of Nigerians in determining those that run the affairs of our country.

“The promises made by Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), led by Professor Mahmood Yakubu to conduct a free, fair, and credible election where every vote would count, gave hope to Nigerians. These promises which stimulated maximal engagement by the Nigerian masses to participate in the electoral process were ultimately aborted and never met. The consequences of these guaranteed processes failing and the constitutional breeches that have ensued are the focal points of this press statement. The Coalition of Nigerians Living in the United Kingdom is made up of highly patriotic Nigerians from different fields of endeavor who are committed to a peaceful and progressive country, governed by the rule of law under our constitution.

“Nigerians are deeply saddened by the outcomes of the 2023 Presidential elections. Particularly disheartening, were the scale of violence, severe voter intimidation, disenfranchisement, ballot box snatching and destruction in the full glare of the Nigerian security personnel, independent and international observers, resulting in serious injuries and deaths of Nigerians. This rape of Nigeria’s constitution must be condemned in its entirety by all who believe and practice true Democracy especially in the free world.

“The Coalition condemns in the strongest terms, the fraudulent role of INEC. This is because despite the guarantees of INEC in the run up to the 2023 elections, which created enthusiasm for mass participation with a view to deepening Nigeria’s democracy, INEC did not allow for a credible and fair process to produce our Country’s leaders.

“As the process of producing the new president of Nigeria is now at the altar of the judiciary, issues on questionable character and eligibility of candidates must be critically scrutinized and objectively addressed, with the optimism of restoring the hopes of millions of Nigerians now resting on our judiciary .It is therefore, right to say our country awaits justice and that Nigeria’s democracy is on trial” the coalition stated.

N3TRAL:
"Mr Tinubu’s many controversies, from perjury, multiple identities, political killings, ethnoreligious bigotry, corruption to documented drug-trafficking, are also beginning to embolden the country’s darker instincts, with politicians, officials and security operatives, making a show of competing for who is the baddest gangster."

"Mr Tinubu’s many controversies, from perjury, multiple identities, political killings, ethnoreligious bigotry, corruption to documented drug-trafficking, are also beginning to embolden the country’s darker instincts, with politicians, officials and security operatives, making a show of competing for who is the baddest gangster."

She noted that proposed amendments to the Constitution must include issues critical to inclusiveness of the electoral process, such as endorsement of early voting for election day workers, independent candidacy and voting by Nigerians in diaspora, in conformity with international principles for democratic elections.

Following shortcomings witnessed during the 2023 general elections, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has called for constitutional amendment to eliminate the position of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).

Following shortcomings witnessed during the 2023 general elections, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has called for constitutional amendment to eliminate the position of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).

Convener, Situation Room, Ene Obi, made the observation in Abuja, yesterday, while presenting final position of the body on conduct of the election.

She advised authorities to appoint state directors of elections to replace the commissioners.

According to Obi, suggestion by the Justice Uwais Committee for unbundling of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must be considered and implemented without delay.

She insisted that an effective legal framework must be formulated for the establishment of Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal, Political Parties Registration and Regulation Commission, and an agency to handle constituency delimitation.

She noted that proposed amendments to the Constitution must include issues critical to inclusiveness of the electoral process, such as endorsement of early voting for election day workers, independent candidacy and voting by Nigerians in diaspora, in conformity with international principles for democratic elections.

“Any future amendments to election legislation should be enacted sufficiently in advance of elections, to provide political parties, candidates and voters adequate time to become informed of new rules of the election process.”

On election administration, she called on INEC to institute a process of post-election audit to make the commission understand and account for lapses during elections and undertake measures to prevent repeat of the lapses.

She said: “With regards to the 2023 general elections, INEC should conduct “an audit of polling units where elections did not take place to establish reasons for the failure, an audit to provide to the public details of the process leading up to the results it collated for the election, an audit to provide to the public information on why the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) Portal malfunctioned, despite assurances of its robustness.”

The decision of the former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku to bring subpoenaed witnesses into the hearing of his petition on Wednesday unsettled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) who jointly stood their grounds that the witnesses must not be allowed to testify until June 8.

Atiku who was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the disputed February 25 presidential election, had called his first subpoenaed witness at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPEC) to tender some sensitive documents but the move was vehemently opposed.

INEC, Tinubu and APC through their individual lawyers objected to the taking of the evidence of the witness who was said to be an Adhoc staff of INEC.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, lead counsel to the PDP, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, after the admittance of exhibits from 10 local governments in Kogi State, called in one of his listed witnesses who gave evidence on how INEC failed to transmit results real-time “as promised”.

Shortly after the end of the cross-examination of the witness, Ndubuisi Nwobu from Anambra State, Uche informed the court that the petitioners have three subpoenaed witnesses and went to call the first one, an Adhoc staff of INEC.

However, immediately after the witness entered the witness box and barely took his oath, counsel to INEC, Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, rose in objection to the hearing of the evidence of the witness.

He informed the court that he was only served this morning with the statement of the witness and as such would have to study the statement in order to do a thorough cross-examination.

His position was shared by Tinubu’s lawyer, Chief Akin Olujimi, SAN and APC’s lawyer, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who added that he was only served 20 minutes earlier with the statement and had not seen what it contains.

Responding, Uche argued that with a subpoenaed witness, they were not supposed to front-load his statement to the respondents, adding that there was nothing strange in the statement of the witness to warrant an adjournment.

Uche pleaded with the court to take at least one of the subpoenaed witnesses so as to judiciously make use of the time allotted it because the adjournment would eat into their allotted time.

Presiding Justice of the Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani while trying to be considerate, proposed standing down the trial for 30 minutes to enable respondents look at the documents and cross-examine the first subpoenaed witness.

INEC, however, insisted that the witness cannot be taken and should not be taken because as the witness “is said to be an Adhoc staff of the Commission,” he would have to go and look at INEC’s records to enable him confirm the status of the witness and prepare adequately.

Following the respondent’s insistence, Uche urged the court to adjourn till tomorrow for the calling of the three subpoenaed witnesses.

Earlier in his evidence, Nwobu told the Court that election went smoothly in most polling units he visited including where he cast his vote but “magic started happening” at the Ward Collation Centers.

According to him, results of the election were entered into the forms EC8A at the polling units but were not transmitted real time into the IReV because of the failure of the BVAS machines.

He told the panel that for his intervention, some staff of INEC would have been attacked due to their inability to upload results real time.

“There was no real time transmission of results as we were promised by INEC”, he said.

Deemas:
You're very correct. One good example is Wike who helped change a result to favour a Muslim instead of even allowing the real winner in his state who happens to be a fellow christian.

SpecialAdviser:
Exactly including Akpabia, Umahi, Uzodima and others. I am an Igbos but ashamed of their acts. Tuuuuuueeeeeh. We Christians do not have principle. Anywhere belle face.

Godfullsam:
Peter Obi is the King Solomon of this generation. The wisest politician in Africa's history.

“If you approach a dentist to remove a painful tooth, he will apply a local anesthetic to numb the area around the tooth so you do not feel pain. It’s not the same thing as pulling the tooth forcefully. The pain you feel will be different.

“For me, I will go with the approach of the dentist while supporting the removal of the tooth because I wouldn’t want to go through the pain of forceful removal.

“Recall that even when Jonathan wanted to remove it, they came up with various relieving policies like Sure-P and others.

“If you read my manifesto, you will see clearly how I planned to remove subsidy. I will govern with the people and show them statistically and empirically what we are getting and how we are deploying it.

“The problem in Nigeria is that when people say let’s go and suffer, let’s go and sacrifice, they don’t see the results of their suffering and their sacrifice.”

Peter Obi Speaks On Attending Tinubu’s Inauguration, Planned Protest
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said that his support for the removal of subsidy paid on petroleum products is true but with a condition that should be empirical to the people.

Naija News reports that Peter Obi made this known while addressing journalists when he attended his ongoing election petition case at the Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.

The LP presidential candidate said that his support for subsidy removal dates back to the Goodluck Jonathan era when he was a member of the Presidential Economic Management Team.

Obi said: “If you have followed me very well right from the time I was a member of Jonathan’s economic management team, I consistently maintained that subsidy should be removed because I see it as organized crime.

“People were just stealing the country’s resources, and I showed empirically in my statistical analysis that we are not consuming the amount of fuel they claim we consume.”

The former Anambra State governor differentiated his idea of subsidy removal from what is happening in the country.

He said, “If you approach a dentist to remove a painful tooth, he will apply a local anesthetic to numb the area around the tooth so you do not feel pain. It’s not the same thing as pulling the tooth forcefully. The pain you feel will be different.

“For me, I will go with the approach of the dentist while supporting the removal of the tooth because I wouldn’t want to go through the pain of forceful removal.

“Recall that even when Jonathan wanted to remove it, they came up with various relieving policies like Sure-P and others.

“If you read my manifesto, you will see clearly how I planned to remove subsidy. I will govern with the people and show them statistically and empirically what we are getting and how we are deploying it.

“The problem in Nigeria is that when people say let’s go and suffer, let’s go and sacrifice, they don’t see the results of their suffering and their sacrifice.”

The former governor also mocked Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party.

"Mr Tinubu’s many controversies, from perjury, multiple identities, political killings, ethnoreligious bigotry, corruption to documented drug-trafficking, are also beginning to embolden the country’s darker instincts, with politicians, officials and security operatives, making a show of competing for who is the baddest gangster."

Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, on Monday, continued his case before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, as he tendered more results of the presidential election from eight states.

The results, which were admitted in evidence by Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel, were from ; Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Delta, Kaduna, Imo, Ondo, Sokoto and Kogi.

While Obi and the LP, who is challenging the outcome of the presidential election that was held on February 25, tendered results from 13 LGAs in Ebonyi, which were marked as Exhibits PP 1 – PP 13, results from the same number of LGA in Nasarawa was admitted in evidence as Exhibits PQ 1 – PQ 13.

Likewise, the Justice Tsammani-led panel admitted in evidence as Exhibits PS 1 to PR 25, results from 25 LGAs in Delta state, just as results of the election from 23 LGAs in Kaduna state were marked as Exhibits PS 1 to PS 23.

Whereas results from 26 LGAs in Imo were tendered and admitted as Exhibits PT1 – PT 26, that of 18 LGAs from Ondo were accepted in evidence by the panel as Exhibits PU 1 – PU 18, while results from 7 LGAs in Sokoto were marked as Exhibits PV 1- PV 7.

The last set of results the petitioners tendered were from 21 LGAs in Kogi state and they were marked as Exhibits PW1 – PW 21.

The LP candidate, who came third in the presidential election that was won by the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, President Bola Tinubu, said he would adduce more exhibits before the court on Tuesday to support his allegation that the election was rigged against him.

Earlier in the proceedings, Obi’s lawyer, Mr Patrick Ikweto, SAN, told the court that his client has a fresh application for which he sought permission to be allowed to move on the next adjourned date.

Ikweto, SAN, equally apologized for serving the schedule of documents his client intends to tender before the court, late on the respondents.

“My lords I apologise for this obvious tardiness and I am giving an undertaking that going forward, we will keep to our words,” the petitioner’s counsel added.

Counsel for the APC, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, had complained that he was not served with the said fresh schedule, which was in respect of the results of the election from some states, on time.

“My lords, this is not the first or second time that we will get to court and be given a fresh schedule by the petitioners in respect of some states.

“I want to submit with respect that the time has come for your lordships to apply the pre-hearing report strictly.

“The petitioner has been proceeding as if there is no pre-hearing report,” Fagbemi, SAN, fumed.

The court had in its pre-hearing report, mandated all the parties to file and serve all their documents, at least 24 hours before the hearing date.

Meanwhile, the court adjourned further hearing on the petition till Tuesday.

Specifically, Obi, in the joint petition he filed with the LP, is contending that President Tinubu was not the valid winner of the election.

The petitioners, in the case, marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023, equally maintained that President Tinubu was not qualified to participate in the presidential contest.

According to the petitioners, at the time Tinubu’s running mate, Shettima, became the Vice Presidential candidate, he was still the nominated candidate of the APC for the Borno Central Senatorial election.

The petitioners further challenged Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the presidential election, alleging that he was previously indicted and fined the sum of $460,000.00 by the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, in Case No: 93C 4483, for an offence involving dishonesty and drug trafficking.

On the ground that the election was invalid by reason of corrupt practices and non-compliance with the provision of the Electoral Act, 2022, the petitioners argued that INEC acted in breach of its own Regulations and Guidelines.

The Petitioners argued that the electoral body was in the course of the conduct of the presidential poll, mandatorily required to prescribe and deploy technological devices for the accreditation, verification, continuation and authentication of voters and their particulars as contained in its Regulations.

They are, therefore, praying the court to among other things, declare that all the votes recorded for Tinubu and the APC, were wasted votes owing to his non-qualification/disqualification.

“That it is determined that on the basis of the remaining votes (after discountenancing the votes credited to the 2nd Respondent) the 1st Petitioner (Obi) scored a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election and had not less than 25% of the votes cast in at least 2/3 of the States of the Federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and satisfied the constitutional requirements to be declared the winner of the 25th February 2023 presidential election.

“That it be determined that the 2nd Respondent having failed to score one-quarter of the votes cast at the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was not entitled to be declared and returned as the winner of the presidential election held on 25th February 2023.

In the alternative, the petitioners, want an order cancelling the election and compelling INEC to conduct a fresh election at which Tinubu, Shettima and the APC, listed as 2nd, 3rd and 4th Respondents, respectively, shall not participate.

They urged the court to declare that since Tinubu was not duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes cast in the election, therefore, his return as the winner of the presidential election, was unlawful, unconstitutional and of no effect whatsoever.

In a further alternative prayer, the petitioners want the court to hold that the presidential election was void on the ground that it was not conducted substantially in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022, and the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

Likewise, they applied for an order, “cancelling the presidential election conducted on 25th February 2023 and mandating the 1st Respondent to conduct a fresh election for the President, the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.

SpecialAdviser:
I don't blame him sha. I blame buy over Christians and their lust for money.

OAFMods:
Why does it seems INEC chairman, Mahmud Yakubu is having personal feud with Peter Obi?

==> Mahmud Yakubu's children vowed never to come back to Nigeria if Obi wins 2023 presidential election. What concerns jobless Yakubu's children who are living like kings in US with Obi's presidency?

==> INEC twitter handler liked a post where Seun Kuti insulted Peter Obi by calling him an opportunist. NNPC and Lagos police social media handlers also did the same thing.

==> Obi's votes in the South were surpressed but Tinubu's votes were inflated beyond reason. How can Tinubu who lost Lagos and Osun conviniently wins Rivers?

==> Obi's votes in the north were surpressed while Atiku's votes were inflated. How can Atiku wins any state in the south-south?

==> INEC instead of staying neutral is using task payers money to frustrate Obi's case at the tribunal. What concerned defending election results with electronic transmission of tribunal proceedings?

==> Mahmood Yakubu through INEC is more desperate than Tinubu at the tribunal. INEC is now denying that certified documents they issued to Labour Party.

Is Mahmud Yakubu doing these for ethnic, religious or financial reason? I don't understand.