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In the unlikely event that it is not facebook comment, which comment is he saying should not be attributed to him?

You're interested in a headline of just 4 words and ignore the import of what was said. Contact AIT for the full script.

So you people are waiting for the word "facebook". Continue waiting.

@Koruji - dissipate your energies on Atiku. You go get BP for this IBB matter.

I dont know what to make of this. Surely the GEJ cant be that reckless.

Jonathan warns supporters not to attribute smear campaigns to him



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Abuja (WorldStage Newsonline)-- President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has reiterated his stand to focus on clean and issue based campaign, warning his supporters not to associate him with any mudslinging in the race towards 2011 elections.
He made reference to some statements wrongly attributed to him which he said were in variance with his stand.

He said he did not want to be associated with some of the objectionable, hurtful, spiteful and divisive statements against other candidates which had been erroneously attributed to him recently.

According to a statement issued by the Presidential aide, Mr. Ima Niboro, the President wanted a halt to such practices and urged the media to only attribute to him henceforth only statements made directly by him or his official spokesperson – his Special Adviser.

He also noted that statements emanating from other government officials or staff of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation be clearly attributed to those individuals henceforth.

The President according to his aide considered the ongoing contest for the PDP’s presidential nomination as a contest between brothers who will be obliged at the end of the day to set aside their differences and give their full support to whoever emerges as the party’s flag-bearer for next year’s presidential elections.

The statement reads: “The Office President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has noted with concern the continued attribution to the President by the media of statements neither made nor authorised by him.

”President Jonathan finds this practice very objectionable, especially as some of the statements so wrongly attributed to him are totally at variance with his views and beliefs on the conduct of political competition.

“The President is a firm believer in issues-based politics and totally dissociates himself and his office from some of the rather objectionable, hurtful, spiteful and divisive statements against other candidates which have been erroneously attributed to him recently.

“He therefore requests the media to call a halt to this practice immediately and only attribute to him henceforth statements made directly by him or his official spokesperson – his Special Adviser (Media & Publicity), Mr. Ima Niboro.

“Statements emanating from other government officials or staff of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation should be clearly attributed to those individuals and not President Jonathan, and responsibility for such statements must be borne personally by those who issue them.

“Furthermore, President Jonathan requests that all officials, persons, groups and associations that purport to speak in his support or defence in the ongoing campaign for the 2011 presidential elections should be properly guided by the principles of propriety, decorum and fairness.

“The President sees the ongoing contest for the PDP’s presidential nomination as a contest between brothers who will be obliged at the end of the day to set aside their differences, such as they are, to give their full support to whoever emerges as the party’s flag-bearer for next year’s presidential elections.

“He therefore considers the personal attacks on other candidates, some of which have been wrongly attributed to him, as unhelpful and counter-productive.”


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Thanks man. Oya Beaf respond. IBB owns the site too abi?

What he says personally on FACEBOOK? Which one?

I must admit, that attack was definitely a silly one -- not well thought up. Yeah, but does he like having others do it on his behalf so he can tell us he is still a saint in all this?

They didn't say but I will guess Ima Niboro will now be issuing statements of directly from his campaign co-ordinators.

@beaf - you can trivialise it for all you care. Typical. Since GEJ is your brother and you know all about him while not call Aso Rock and find out whether indeed they issued any denial. Of course it must be IBB again. Grow up na.

Said he doesn't support throwing mud at opponents.

@ kobo - heard it on AIT midnight news about 40 mins ago. According to the report we should only regard what he says personally.

Typical of Nigerian politicians, I just heard on AIT that GEJ has distanced himself from the last facebook comment accusing his political oppobent (read Atiku). Well if it is true nothing of substance will ever be attached to his facebook comment and he should be advised to shut the page. Those who supported the comment should lick their a.s.s.e.s.

Governor Akala, reacting through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade, reassured the people of Oyo State that as an entity, their fortunes are not affected by the political development in Osun State.

“Since 2007, this Administration has won all electoral cases brought against it. We won the April 14, gubernatorial polls, we won at the Tribunal and the Appellate court. We have also retained and expanded on our people’s trust and confidence. The political development in Osun State , unwelcomed as it is, has no bearing whatsoever with our own realities either now or in subsequent elections”, he said.

April is not far away. We'll see.

By OLA AJAYI, ibadan - www.vanguardngr.com

AFTER over three years of legal battle, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, who contested on the platform of the Action Congress, AC has been declared winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election.

He is to be sworn in today after the Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan voided the election and confirmation of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party by the then Professor Iwu led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The court in a unanimous judgment nullified the election results of the 10 local governments pleaded for by Aregbesola and set aside the earlier judgnment of a lower tribunal which confirmed the election of Oyinlola.

Yesterday’s sitting was presided over by Honourable Justice Clara Ogunbiyi who was flanked by other four justices. They are Honourable Justices M.L. Garba, P.A. Galinge, C.C Nweze, and A. Jauro.


From L-R Deputy Otunba Titilayo Laoye- Tomori, Mr Rauf Aregbesola and his wife Alhaja Sherifat Abidemi Aregbesola shortly after Rauf was declared as duly Executive Governor of Osun state

When the court resumed yesterday, the five man panel first tackled the cross application filed by Oyinlola challenging the judgment of the lower tribunal on the nullification of some election results.

The court resolved all the five issues in favour of the appellants. The issues are that votes recorded and/or returned in the following Local Government Areas, namely, Atakumosa West ,Ayedaade, Boluwaduro, Boripe, Ede North, Ife Central, Ife East, Ife South, Ifedayo,Isokan, Odo – Otin and Ola Oluwa Local Governments, do not represent lawful votes cast in the said Local Government Areas and as having been obtained in vitiating circumstances of substantial non-compliance with mandatory provisions of Electoral Act, 2006, violence and malpractices which substantially affected the validity of the said elections that none of the candidates in the said elections can be validly returned as having validly won in the said affected Local Government Areas; Issue 2, that Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was not duly elected by majority of lawful votes cast in the Osun State Governorship election held on April 14, 2007 and that his election is void;

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As a result of this, he prayed the court to declare that Aregbesola was elected and ought to have been returned having scored the highest number of votes cast in the election.

He also prayed the court to resolve that the Osun State Governorship Election held on April 14, 2007 is void on the ground that the election was not conducted substantially in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the Electoral Act, 2006;

And that the said election was vitiated by substantial non compliance with the mandatory statutory requirements which substantially affected the validity of the said elections that none of the candidates in the said election can be validly returned as having validly won the said election.

While resolving the case in favour of the appellant, the court held that both criminal and civil offence should not be lumped together, saying Chief Akin Olujimi who led other counsel of the appellant was right to ask for the severance of the two.

The court said, “ the tribunal erred that all allegations related to criminal offence that must be proved beyond all reasnable doubts. The two allegations are severable. We are of the view that the allegations are civil in nature.”

On issue two, the court stated that by the tribunal relying that the petition be proved beyond reasonable doubts still amounted to lumping together the two allegations.

Accordng to the court, it is out of place for the tribunal to hold that the Electoral Act 2006 does not recognise ward supervisors adding that they are well qualified to be at the polling units for supervision.

During the course of trial, the INEC did not call any witness which Olujimi said it was tantamount to abandonment of their cases. The court agreed with Olujimi and held it against the respondent.

It also held that the tribunal goofed by not giving the witnesses the privilege of evaluation. Instead of the tribunal to evaluate the witnesses, it went about its duty in a shoddy and shabby manner and “we are concerned about the lackadaisical disposition of the tribunal. How can one explain how the tribunal glossed over all inconsistencies?

On the finger printing done by Adrian Forty which was later taken over by his partner after the death of the former, the court flawed by not attaching much weight to the document having been presented by an expert.

To the appellate court, it amounted to gross miscarriage of justice for the tribunal to discountenance the evidence of such an expert with all his academic qualifications.

The court said, “we are satisfied with the absence of other members of the team that did the analysis of the finger printing because of timing and distance. With the academic qualification of the finger printing expert, we find it strange that the tribunal could afford the laxity to wish his expertise away.”

In conclusion, the court held that in considering the foregoing reliefs, the petitioners have proved non compliance with the Electoral Act 2006 and this has greatly affected the results of the over all results.

The court then cancelled the results of the 10 local governments and deducted it from the total votes casr. According to the court, the total votes creidted to Aregbesola in the affected local government areas were 41, 923 votes while 253,789 was given to Oyinlola.

After deduction of the cancelled votes in the ten local governments, Aregbesola was scored 198,799 and Oyinlola given 172, 880.

“The first appellant having scored the majority of lawful votes cast in the April 14, 2007 election is hereby declared the winner of the election. Appellant’s appeal has merit and subsists. He is hereby allowed having set aside the judgment of the lower tribunal. Therefore, the return of Prince Oyinlola as the governor of the Osun State Governorship election in 2007 is hereby nullified.

He was not elected by majority of lawful votes cast in the election. And Engineer Aregbesola, having satisfied the provisions of the constitution is hereby declared the winner. INEC is hereby ordered to issue a certificate of Return to him.”

Mood

The court was yet to give its final judgment and the teeming party supporters believed to be loyalists of Aregbesola had gone into wild jubilation. Even in court, the security men had hectic time controlling them.

As soon as all the five issues were resolved against Oyinlola and the results of the 10 local governments cancelled, they shouted. But the security men with the justices had to come out more than three times telling them to maintain order in the court room.

The court was filled to the brim as some lawyers and journalists either bent down or sat on the floor.
Outside the court, all party members, including those of the PDP, had been driven far away from the court premises.

They had arrived the court ahead of the security men. When the secuirty men came, they asked all of them to leave and all cars parked outside the gate of the court were removed.

Some of them wanted to pretend as if they were not the owners but when the policemen threatened to deflate their tyres, they hurriedly moved them .

All gates leading to the Appellate court were blocked with police Hilux Van and all road users coming from Challenge, Dugbe and Iyanganku areas were turned back.

The court had become rowdy after the lead judgment had been read. But other justices spoke one after the other.

Some journalists were initially barred by some SSS men from entering claiming that the court room had been filled up. It took the intervention of the Special Adviser on Special Duties, Prince Diran Odeyemi to prevail on the security men.

Both counsel of the parties commended the five hour judgment and agreed that it was well researched and delivered.

Deji Sasegbon who stood in for Argebesola said, “the judgment is well researched and well considered. It has everything in it. We all listened from here. As for my learned colleagues, they have given a good spirited fight but like in every case, there must be a loser and winner. In this case, we have won and they have lost.

Attendance

THE court was filled to the brim as both parties in the appeal were represented. Mr. Ojo Williams, Deputy Chairman, PDP in Osun represented Oyinlola while Mr. Gboyega Famodun, State Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria stood in for Arebgesola.

Others who were in attendance included Mr. Niyi Owolade, the Attorney General of Osun State, Mr. Nathaniel Oke, SAN, Chief Kunle Kalejaye, SAN, and many others.

Governor Akala, reacting through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade, reassured the people of Oyo State that as an entity, their fortunes are not affected by the political development in Osun State.

“Since 2007, this Administration has won all electoral cases brought against it. We won the April 14, gubernatorial polls, we won at the Tribunal and the Appellate court. We have also retained and expanded on our people’s trust and confidence. The political development in Osun State , unwelcomed as it is, has no bearing whatsoever with our own realities either now or in subsequent elections”, he said.

The man has said he's going along with the committee decision but no we must frame up something to hang him on. Grow up

Are you Giwa's brother, Vatsa's cousin or Abiola's son. You have a new foe called Atiku. Tell us about his Custom days.

Ok I remember you said somewhere that for next 40years you'd be monitoring him. I suppose he rigged Oyinlola in too.

@poster - you people are so troubled by IBB that you'd believe anything said of him. How could you even post this link?

Obj laughed at Atiku yesterday, today Osun, the South West and Nigerians laugh at him ha ha ha.

@materese - come back from the moon!! What a useless comment.

So once GEJ becomes President he will round up all looters in one swoop. I suppose he is currently a Councillor.

@hannie - the man asked questions to which the minister for finance responded yesterday.  That is how it should be.  I have never said I support Atiku anywhere in my posts.  problem with GEJ people is that once you are against them you must be supporting one of the other candidates even if you are undecided.

@beaf. You are only intelligently evasive. I suppose if America doesn't come to your aid, anybody can just loot and got scot free. You have a mumu sitting in Aso Roack waiting for the authorities in Washington and Dubai to apprehend people for you and you are happy.

@Beaf - so you are ashamed the world now knows how your mum and her sorry hubby died by hanging themselves on a tree. I forgot to tell the world too that you provided the noose.

Now back to the issue at stake. What is so intelligent about the pot calling the kettle black? Atiku asked your sorry principal simple questions about the economy and all you retards advised him to say on facebook is how loyal he is to his wife and how his children school here in Nigeria. Is that the hallmark of intelligence? Show us your response to your principals gaffe that he will provide electricity for all come April next year. You had no response to that obviously because you knew he was deluded. You better careful or I will tell the world more about your family background and how your sister and ,

Chei! Dis one don pass "be careful" o!

Some are behaving in primitive ways because the inconsequential "nobody" keeps defeating them at every single turn!
Na wa o!

Oga, buy one of these for after Atiku's loss at the primaries

The way your mum and dad hung themselves in a tree.

@Nsiman - It means what it means. Nobody then and nobody now. Totally clueless, bland and without colour. Irritating.

@sweetguy10 - Utterly senseless contribution.

Loyal to whom? The Nigerian Nation or the Nigerian treasury? I tell you this path he's taken is his nemesis. Rubbish.

So when did divorce become a crime? Show us your post where you complained about Obj flirtatious life.

Just because the lousy system could not catch up with him, he's gone to facebook to spew utter inanities.

@Goddex - all he needs to say is that "I stolen public funds all my life and I've not been caught"

I will leave the rest to Mallam Garba Shehu. This guy makes me sick. An incurable dunce.

@igbobuigbo - what modesty? somebody whose immediate boss was just impeached you expect him 2 send his wards abroad?

Loyalty is even to the Nigerian state and not to anybody. This man is just talking trash.