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chukwudi44:
Which stupid eye witness account? Is the DPO,INEC presiding officers, and even members of the clergy who testified for Wike nose witnesses?

Yes they are eye witness but that was when ghana must go change hand... and as for you Chukwudi, I know you will trstify against your parent if you see Ghana must go no be ibo? they can sell their father for plate of pourage.

chukwudi44:
Ode the IGP is not a member of the election tribunal,his action further lends credence to the officer's testimony. Wike's defense is further strengthened

Please is daft part of your birthright? Those police testify against APC contradicting the initial testimonies by the police and the IG order their arrest and you think that not enough to send signal to the tribunal and to the PDP?

chukwudi44:
Olodo this thread is about the rivers state tribunal sitting and not Saraki

He is only remind you of what you have been defending but know nothing about..

hassan85:
haha Irony. NAIRALANDers HAS known already with dt qualification as a certified EMPTY BARREL. May I ask u, where u at CCB when SARAKI submited false ASSETs? Mr Chukufraud44?

Abi oo ask him oo that yeye boy keep defending Saraki, Were you there when he is declare false assets?

chukwudi44:
Empty barrels make the loudest noise. Where you in River state on that day? Better focus on your boko haram infested Bornu and leave Rivers alone

Even if he is not in River State how about the foreign observer? Wait till they swear in Ameachi and see how the case will turn out.

TonyeBarcanista:
God Bless This DPO! Wike carry goooooooooooooooo!

What you are doing here is supporting corruption sir.. You and i know the River's Governorship was marred by irregularities, Even the foreign observer was the first to say that openly.

TonyeBarcanista:
When you see me defend people of corruption?

But you have been defending GEJ, Maduekwe, Okonjo Iweala... all the PDP's sha

[quote author=chukwudi44 post=38625292][/quote]Ok till then i will remind you with this same thread.

chukwudi44:
Oloribruku ode go and find out how the judiciary works!! The national judicial council is nominates the next most senior Judge after the CJN dies or attains retirement age!!! The president does not choose the CJN,neither can he fire him nor give him orders

Werey, Ode, dindinrin, Oponu, Omo Ale, The last time i check the President is the commander in Chief and have the power to hire and fire the Chief Justice of Nigerian and also the AGF and those 2 will head and oversee the judicial commision.... Remember the case of Justice Salami? Who mastermind his sacked and forceful retirement?

OPi can't believe this, I can remember timaya made it before 2010, I remember always listening his music and also that of 2 face back then inside my Nissan Sunny in 2007 , Toyota camry in 2008 and Acura Legend 2009...So he had make it before 2010 might not be large though

chukwudi44:
The CCT has no powers to send anyone to jail dear!! The CCT is just like the election tribunals

Yes CCT has no power to jail but they have the power to sack Saraki and anybody from office.

TonyeBarcanista:
I will always support the anti-corruption war

Good but you have always been in support of the corrupt leaders like GEJ, Fayose, Akpabio etc.

chukwudi44:
Illiterate the allocation of cases to judges is simply the prerogative of the CJN and the state CJs,your illiterate president has absolutely no powers over that

Are you this daft? who appoint CJN? and mind you CJN will work under AGF.. Just don't pray for the like of Falana to be AGF your paymaster are gooner....

TonyeBarcanista:
Well, my position on Saraki is that he should sort himself out with the judge. However, I respect the position of my fellow comrades-in-struggle though I disagree with some of them on Saraki issue.

Oh... glad you did not tag this as witch hunting...

chukwudi44:
Even while i think the CCB messed up its own case against Saraki by failing to adhere to the guidelines,It would take more than just the CCT judgement against him to remove him.

Only the judgement of the supreme court will automatically remove him from office and i dont even see us getting close to that in 4 years time

Remember the judges that will be appointed i FHC and Supreme court are gonna be incorruptible and will follow rule of law.... let see how Saraki will bribe his way out of this under PMB... I know you just don't wanna accept defeat think everything will be like it is under GEJ.... Mind you a new sheriff is in town..

TonyeBarcanista:
Saraki should reserve these stories for the Judge at Code of Conduct Tribunal!

Hahaha Barcanister why are you not supporting Saraki anymore? you and Chukwudi44 did not agreed on this ba

chukwudi44:
Fake news!! Saraki would never condescend to meet a mere commissioner and Tinubu's puppet!!

hahaha you fooool you are here typing nonsense in defence of Saraki and Saraki himself is prostrating for Osinbajo to safe him from his mess... if not why keep their ADC out of the meeting...




Saraki is begging a mere commissioner oooo... I swear power and politics sweet..

See as the guy tarnish the image of my school sha.. Even same Faculty and i might happen to know this guy then.

TonyeBarcanista:
You can remove Khaki from a Dictator but you can NEVER stop the dictator from being a dictÄtor. Make no mistake, Buhari doesn't care about this country or our democracy, he's bent on restoring his dictatoral style in this country. Buhari and APC are threat to democracy!

Sorry Mr Wailer, giving false testimonies in the court of law is a crime and part of corruption, The international oberservers are the first to said there's no election in river State are they also a dictator? The most corruption force in Nigeria are the police force and they can trade their rank for peanuts... Those police first testify against Wike and later went to tstify in favor of him and that against the law..

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ABUJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said only 293, 072 voters were electronically accredited for the governorship election in Rivers State on April 11, 2015.

VOTERS

The Commission made the disclosure at the resumed hearing on the petition before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.

Testifying as the PW-49, an Assistant Director in the ICT Department of INEC in Abuja, Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoye, told the tribunal that the figure represented the total number of electorate captured by the Card Reader Machines used for the poll.

Oladunjoye, who is in charge of the Commission’s database, however, admitted that some electorate in the state could have been accredited manually, especially in areas where the Card Reader Machines failed.

She told the Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal that information concerning the number of accredited voters for the election was transferred from the Card Reader Machines to a central server created by INEC.

According to her, the Commission stopped uploading data from the machines to its server, six months after the election held.
She said in some instances, the unavailability of network inhibited the upload of data from the Card Reader Machines.

Exhibit

“If the card reader is damaged before there was an attempt to upload data, it cannot be uploaded to the server. It is also important for me to emphasise that the card reader was designed to capture only electronic accreditation,” the witness stated.

Asked if she could state with certainty that the figure was a true reflection of the total number of electorate that participated in the Rivers governorship poll, the witness said: “My lords, I really do not have any document from the ICT department of INEC in Rivers to the effect that all the data were uploaded before the six weeks cut off date elapsed.”

Nevertheless, the tribunal, yesterday, admitted and marked the report from INEC as exhibit A-9.

Earlier, the Nigeria Police Force told the tribunal that the governorship election in Rivers State was marred by violence and widespread rigging.

Sequel to a subpoena issued on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, by the tribunal, three police officers, appeared and testified as witnesses for the petitioners.

In his testimony, one of the police officers, (the PW-48), Mr. Garba Michael , told the court that his team arrested over 70 persons thumb-printing ballot papers at the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at Sime in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.

He said: “I was detailed to move materials from INEC office to Korokoro. I was sitting down at INEC office when my squadron commander at about 12:45p.m. got a distress call from Sime area. I was immediately asked to move there with my team. At the PDP secretariat, we met people with election materials and arrested them. I called my squadron commander and told him about the development. He came down with a lorry and we evacuated the people and materials to our base in Tai Local Government Area.

“We arrested over 70 people including security men. Others were Youth Corps members serving as ad-hoc INEC staff and PDP agents. What we recovered on the scene included Card Readers, thumb-printed ballot papers, inks and pad, vests, electoral boxes and result sheets. I took some snap-shots with my phone and transferred it to a flash drive.”

Attempt by the witness to tender the photographs was opposed by counsels to INEC, Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP, all respondents to the petition.

The respondents relied on sections 98, 102 and106 of the Evidence Act and challenged the admissibility of the pictures in evidence.

Though counsel to the petitioners, Chief Akinlolu Olujimi, SAN, argued that all the photographs were originally pleaded at paragraph 812 of the petition, the tribunal declined to admit the exhibits into evidence.

In its ruling, the tribunal held that proper foundation was not laid by the petitioners to warrant the admissibility of the photographs.

Massive Thump-printing

In his own testimony, the PW-50, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Yusuf Buba, from 56 Police Mobile Force Squadron Ogoni, claimed he witnessed massive thumb-printing of ballot papers at a football pitch situated inside a police station.

He told the tribunal that an Assistant Commissioner of Police and the Electoral Officer in-charge of Kana Local Government Area in the state, masterminded the electoral malpractice.

He said: “I was a unit commander and was posted on election duty to Kana Local government. I led 63 other officers. We were detailed to take charge of INEC office with a view to securing INEC materials stored in the office and providing security for INEC staff there. At 1900 hours, ACP Kenneth Akubue came to INEC office and took the Electoral Officer, EO, to an unknown destination. The EO remained there till after midnight. Later a bus carrying unknown persons came into the INEC premises and I was alerted.

“I immediately went to where the vehicle parked and I asked them to explain the reason for their being there. None of them could give me a satisfactory and cogent answer, so I asked them to leave. As they were leaving, I asked my men to raise a barrier blocking the entrance to INEC premises. Things remained like that till 0700hours on April 11, when the EO resurfaced. There and then we started asking her questions about where she went to because she left her fellow INEC staff in that office. Her answer was that she observed that her life was in danger and she was left with no option than to follow the Area Commander.

“Being the commander in charge of that place, I told her to go and start issuing materials to her staff after addressing them, and she complied. At about 0900 hours, sporadic gunshots erupted from Zaakpon axis. I quickly gave a swift order to my men to dash down, and we all dashed down, observing where the shots were coming from. Some men, unknown to me where sighted making calls, as soon as they finished the call, the shooting ceased. We got information that the people perpetuating the act were boys of Solo from Yege.

“At about 10a.m., the Area Commander came and destroyed the barrier we created and allowed political thugs to get access to the INEC premises. Under the watch of the Area Commander, the thugs started carting away electoral materials. We could not control the place again because it was very rowdy. I quickly gave a situation report through my GSM to my squadron leader, CSP Valentine Oluse.

Patrol

“At Boni Area Command, I met people thumb-printing in a football field. I immediately disembarked and went to the Area commander’s office where I met the EO seated in his office. I reported to him about what I saw and he said I should mind my business. I was left with no option than to leave his office and continue my patrol. We visited various other places like Gwara, Okpoku, Banga, Daaba, Kor, Lubara, Uiikara, Sogo and what I noticed was that there was no election taking place in all those places.

“I called my Squadron commander and gave him the SitRep and he asked me to keep watching. We returned to INEC office after our patrol. There, I was told that the materials released in the early morning were all snatched at gun-point. When I asked about the police- men on duty, I was told that all of them took to their heels.”

He told the tribunal that his team was overwhelmed by thugs, saying, “we were only 63 men but they were thousands.”
Asked under cross-examination if he wrote a report of all the things his team observed during the election, the witness replied in the negative.
PW-51, DSP Ezebuiro Chisom, Mopol 48, PMF, Ahoda, told the court that no accreditation or election held in the area.

He told the tribunal that a leader of a cult group identified as ‘The Icelanders,’ one Martins Mana, who, he said, was arrested by soldiers with an AK-47, was quickly released.

The witness said despite the restriction on movement, he said people freely moved about in cars, speedboats and bicycles on the election day.

Meantime, Governor Wike, through his lawyer, Mr. Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, yesterday, alleged that the police officers were induced by the APC to feed the tribunal with lies.

Ukala insisted that all the police officers were lodged by the APC at a guest room at Area 1 district in Abuja.

At the time of filing this report, the tribunal was still listening to other witnesses produced by the petitioners.
Going by an earlier decision of the tribunal, the APC is expected to close its case tomorrow, even as the respondents have six days each to open their defence.

Read the above in bold and tell me why they won't be arrested.

Firefire:
Why is the 'Coat of Arms' faded in the second picture


In fact, everything looks fake in the second pics.

Yes cos it only cost of one million naira, Unline that of GEJ that cost billions.

suxkill:
At least the mare commissioner and the dullard changed their mode of dressing in this picture.

But your clueless Hero never change his mode of dressing.

lastpage:
Yea, the last timel checked, Aliko dangotte is from Umahia!

dont mind these Ibo mofos jawe!


Lastpage!

No mind them jare, Maybe Jimoh Ibrahim, Femi Otedola, Adenuga etc are from South East

abu12:
U knw ibos don't like where there is orderliness, only few can compete in business, where there rule an regulation. Ibos like cutting corners, sell fake product 2 cheat unsuspected customers, they hate standard due 2 selfish gain. So they will avoid tejuso

You are right jare, 80% of Ibo man no get shop for Ladipo na boy boy dem dey do...

delait:
An average Yoruba is lazy and jealous.
An Ibo Man can turn around things. Am sure they will overcome it, time shall tell .I pray God will open new ways for the affected people.

hahaha and the last time i check the richest man in African is an Ibo man...

igbokwesampson:
ABUJA—There are feelers from the Presidency that the remaining 15 names of ministerial nominees will hit the Senate early next week after what sources described as ‘laborious’ security checks and vetting of the prospective nominees.

The high-wire tension and expectations with which Nigerians awaited President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees have been doused with his submission of names of 21 nominees to the Senate.

As of last night, the various security agencies were said to be working frantically to beat the new deadline said to have been given to them by the President.

Vanguard gathered that the security checks on the remaining nominees are being carried out within and outside Nigeria.

NIGERIA @55— Third from left: Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; President Muhammadu Buhari; Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Chief Justice of the Federation Mahmud Mohammed and others, cutting the cake to celebrate the 55th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida.
Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that the Presidency insisted that more background checks be conducted on the nominees, especially against the backdrop of the need to avoid making mistakes in appointing the wrong persons into the cabinet.

It was further learned that the names of those transmitted to the Senate on Wednesday were those whose background checks had been concluded.

“It is not certain when the checks on the remaining 15 will be completed. This explains why the President, in his independence anniversary speech, did not give a time frame because it is dependent on when the security agencies, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will conclude their job on the nominees,” a source said last night.

The source said the 21 names already with the Senate had gone through the same process, adding that the issue had taken so much time because of the need to do a thorough job.

“If the President had his way, the process of appointing ministers would have long been concluded but the security people handling the checks pleaded for time to do a thorough job,” a reliable source told Vanguard.

Horse-trading
Apart from the checks, Vanguard investigation also revealed that the cause of the delay in submitting the 15 names is the horse-trading still going on within the All Progressives Congress, APC, over their nomination.

It was further learned that there was no consensus yet on the choice of the nominees by leaders in their states.

Next batch hits Senate next Tuesday – Garba Shehu

In his reaction last night, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the next batch would be sent to the National Assembly, Tuesday.

He said: “To be honest with you, I have been travelling in the last two days. I came in early today (yesterday). I am not privy to any list. However, every government from 1999 till date under this constitution, has not given the names of ministers from day one.

“They (ministerial nominees) have always been sent to the National Assembly in batches, this is nothing extraordinary. Where is the balance? I do not know. May be by Tuesday next week when they come back, they (National Assembly) will probably have the balance waiting for them but if it will take a longer period, the President will decide that.”

Although the Senate is yet to officially make public names of the 21 nominees forwarded to it by the President, media reports reeled out names, including Dr. Chris Ngige (Anambra), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau, retd, (Kano), Aisha AlHassan (Taraba), Ogbonnaya Onu (Abia), Kemi Adeosun (Ogun) and Abubakar Malami, SAN, (Kebbi).
Others are Senator Sirika Hadi (Katsina), Adebayo Shittu (Oyo), Sulaiman Adamu (Jigawa), Solomon Dalong (Plateau), Ibe Kachikwu (Delta), Osagie Ehanire (Edo, Udoma Udo-Udoma (Akwa Ibom), Ahmed Isa Ibeto (Niger), Ibrahim Jibril, Audu Ogbeh (Benue), and Amina Mohammed (Kaduna).

I doubt the names reported by the media – Babatope
However,former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, said he doubted the authenticity of the list. He said: “I am not a member of the APC. What comment do I want to make on people who are not members of my party? I do not know them, I only know them by their names. All I can say is to wish them the best of luck when they are appointed. Anyway, they have not all been appointed. Buhari told us that he would be releasing their names piece-meal, so we will wait for the rest of the names. We do not know if the list is authentic because the President of the Senate said he would disclose their names on October 6, so, let us wait and see what happens.”

Be patient with Buhari – Ogunlewe
Former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the President as far as the ministerial list is concerned.

Ogunlewe said: “It is at the discretion of the President to send the names but we must first commend him. Why can’t we wait till October 6 because all these things we are reading are speculations.

“What Saraki said is that he has the list sealed and that he would not allow anybody access the contents until Tuesday. My suggestion is: Let everybody wait because we do not know the number of names on the list. We have to be patient with our government and reasonable. It is not every time we criticise, that is my own position.”


Buhari wants the best – Fasehun
Founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, said: “Probably the President does not want to over work the Senate. That is why he is taking his time in sending the names, making it to look as if he has embraced a piecemeal method. As a man with a vision of what he wants for the country, I want to believe that the President is not in a hurry to send all the list because he wants the best hands for the job.”

Also reacting, retired Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, urged Nigerians to support the President in his war on graft, saying “we hope and pray that the corrupt and selfish elite will repent and give Buhari maximum support to take Nigeria to the next level.”

Nothing unique – Odumakin

National Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin said, yesterday, that President Buhari would have submitted the names of the ministerial nominees at Eagle Square rather than to the Senate.

Reacting to the speculated names of possible ministers, Odumakin, who noted that there was nothing unique about the list, said the President did not surprise anyone.

According to him, the names are not worth waiting for a period of four months.

“There is no excitement or surprise in the list. They are mostly run-of-the-mill people that do not warrant the nation waiting four months. Those names could have been submitted at Eagles Square on May 29.”

Buhari didn’t need to wait this long —Sen. Urhoghide
Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP, Edo South) shared Odumakin’s views. He said it was not necessary for President Buhari to have waited this long before coming up with the list he made available.

According to Senator Urhoghide, the persons whose names were submitted have been around and known to the President, especially the nominee from Edo State, Osagie Ehanire.

Urhoghide, who noted that though the character and personality of the nominees were not in doubt, said what was paramount was performance as ministers.

Thank God those that campaign against the president are now supporting him check the bold... Our enemies will sure bow before us.

adrelanine:
[size=30pt]. where are the wailing wailers...

what if GEJ makes that list......
wetin you go do?? [/size]

I go kill myself

FreeGlobe:
Zombie you are now sounding like buhari.. I cant understand what your trying to say..

Wow it will be my pleasure to sound like Buhari, If my enemy sound like Buhari i will make him/her my best friend.... unlike GEJ the most hated Nigeria President.

FreeGlobe:
shut up there zombie, what did the north contribute during the 2011 elections to GEJ and yet they got positions and more projects under his Govt. besides Ministerial appointment is the constitutional right of a every state. No regrets for not voting the dullard from daura

Shut up there eediot, Do you know bow many states PDP control in 2011 election, They have more Governors than now... They also have more senators and HoR member before things get worst for them when the greedy GEJ start his greediness with the help of madam PEJ... God Punish Devil.... Mind you PMB promise to appoint 37 states ministers meaning each from each states and one for FCT..

FreeGlobe:
Out of 21 only 2 from SE? Meanwhile onuh is not from abia.. By the way are these the angels?

Shut up there, What did the SE contributed during the electioneering than hatred for PMB, Also SE did not vote for PMB self cos APC gain more votes from the SS than SE so you should be happy for what you get...

Beside now Onu is not from Abia but i remember he is a former Governor of Abia State

Have been using this in my house since 2010, though my Ex wife do it though as am not always around.

Wow that's my team, Thank you Manchester United, I am so happy to be part of the Great fan..


GGMU

olatunji21:
The gap between President Buhari and Saraki is mehn......

EVen Dogara is more closer to Buahri than Saraki