Konki:
The game is up

#BackToDaura

OreMI22:


My hope is that there are people that will monitor the transmission of results from the polling stations to the wards and to the LGA and to the state and the federal level.

Monitoring the numbers to make sure it is the actual results from the polling station is the most important responsibility now.

We all know Buhari does not plan to win through the people's votes but through manipulating the paraphernalia of government and compromising INEC to insert fake numbers in his favor into the results.That is why he refused to sign the electoral act which could have blocked all these loopholes used by INEC to rig for the government .

Braze9:
Nigerians are not fools... Osho should stop the pretence

It is now obvious to the International community that INEC is desperate to rig the elections for the government in power.

Their strategy is that the vigilance level will drop by their postponement of the elections.Nobody should drop their vigilance level and allow INEC to rig this election for Buhari.

It is a shame that Buhari that benefited from a clean, free and fair elections, now wants to organize the worst sham elections in Nigeria's history so that he will illegitimately remain in office.

Buhari is a shameless scammer!

SalamRushdie:


APC that concocted the whole postponement rejecting it ..The APC're just fooling themselves

franchasng:
I can't wait to push Buhari into the awaiting International Police jet that will fly him straight to International Criminal Court (ICC) at Hague to face his human right abuse, terrorism and murder charges before the end of this year.

The way I will personally push him into that plane eh, Nigerians will know how angry we had been with the Islamic terrorist sponsoring President

Anambralstson:

Atiku used Stadium in Kastina not square

deboysben:
No more 1.3million for buhari against 98k votes for, Gej

ATIKU will destroy that 1.3million votes this time around

omogidi234:


Dear friend, I am not sure this is how the developed world came by their development.

cjrane:


Democracy cannot be practiced unless due process and rule of law is respected.

nonsobaba:
Your comment is not surprising. PDP have already made up their minds to discredit the elections unless it favours them even when their imminent defeat is obvious for all to see.

phelonrays:
go do your own poll �

stop countering others Mr zombie bmc....

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Nigeria’s President Isn’t a Democrat. He’s a Liar.


As Nigerians gear up to choose their president on Feb. 16, there is good reason to fear a return to military-style dictatorship. Following incumbent Muhammadu Buhari’s extraconstitutional suspension in January of Nigeria’s chief judge, who heads the Supreme Court that has final say in election disputes, the main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, requested U.S. and EU intervention for the “survival of Nigeria’s democracy.”

This is more than idle rhetoric. Buhari, an ex-general who led a short-lived military junta in the 1980s, was elected president in 2015 by Nigerians who (like this writer) accepted his claims to be a “reformed democrat.” However, his four years in office have highlighted the difference between accepting the principle of elective government and being a true democrat. In Nigeria, like elsewhere in today’s world, the biggest threat to democracy comes not from generals instigating coups but from authoritarians-at-heart winning elections, only to use their democratic mandate to rule anti-democratically.

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Half of Nigeria’s 59-year post-colonial history has been spent under various military dictatorships, but this year marks the 20th anniversary of the return to democratic rule. While the country has seen its fair share of ups and downs during this period, some tangible progress has been made in the spheres of freedom of expression, judicial independence, rule of law, and general civil liberties—and certainly in comparison with the military era.

In the past four years, however, Buhari’s government has serially ignored court orders, harassed and arrested journalists and activists, deployed security services to intimidate political opponents, and unforgivably sanctioned the killings of hundreds of unarmed civilians on multiple occasions with the impunity of a power-drunk dictatorship. Yes, security services have been known to overreact even in advanced democracies, and civilians sometimes get hurt in the process. But what distinguishes governments committed to upholding fundamental human rights—such as the right to not be killed while demonstrating peacefully—are the post-incident actions they undertake to ensure such tragedies never repeat themselves. No such luck with the Buhari government.

Following the recent army killing of unarmed protesters in October 2018, rather than express remorse, Nigeria’s army brass falsely claimed that demonstrators had attacked soldiers who simply did what President Donald Trump told U.S. soldiers to do in the same situation: start shooting. Such callous impunity can only thrive in an army confident that its commander in chief will indulge such excesses. Buhari is, by any reasonable standard, personally responsible for the killings of unarmed civilians going unpunished under his watch.

In addition to all this, opposition figures such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo are warning that Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party is readying to rig the Feb. 16 elections, an allegation lent credence by the irregularities and violence involved in a recent gubernatorial poll that the APC was determined to win at all costs. In perhaps the Freudian slip of the year, commenting on the gubernatorial election, ruling party chairman Adams Oshiomhole said: “I think that for democracy to flourish, only people who can accept the pain of rigging—sorry, defeat—should participate in an election.”

The international community is thus right to raise concerns about whether the upcoming election will be free and fair. On Feb. 16, Nigerians will be choosing not only their president but also their national assembly. Taking into consideration Buhari’s dismissive behavior towards the judiciary, a potentially rigged clean sweep of the executive and legislative arms of government by himself and his party could usher in an era of dangerously centralized power imperiling Nigeria’s modest democratic gains since the end of military rule in 1999. As of today, there are no credible polls indicating who might win the presidential election, and it is probably a toss-up.

The fact that Buhari still retains significant support among Nigerians despite his anti-democratic behavior requires explanation. One major reason is that Nigeria’s top political actors are all so morally compromised that an appeal by any of them to higher principles can always be persuasively dismissed by their opponents as hypocritical nonsense.

For instance, Atiku, Buhari’s main rival who accuses him of weakening democracy, has faced numerous allegations of corruption since serving as Nigeria’s vice president from 1999 to 2007. Additionally, the government that Atiku was a prominent member of itself oversaw massive election rigging and deployed widespread violence to stay in power. Meanwhile, Obasanjo, who is now accusing Buhari of wanting to rig the February election, was president at the time and once exhorted his party members to treat an upcoming election as a “do-or-die affair.”

Walter Onnoghen, the chief judge whom Buhari suspended, is claiming unconvincingly that it was due to “forgetfulness” that he did not disclose several sizable foreign currency accounts in his asset declaration. Moreover, prior to his suspension, he used his position to obstruct investigations into the matter. Corruption runs deep in the highest echelons of Nigeria’s judiciary. Many regular citizens thus feel scant sympathy for judges being muscled by the executive. They’re seen as part and parcel of the country’s corrupt elite, certainly no friends of the ordinary man.