₦airaland Forum

[size=13pt]Imo Guber:No Supplementary Poll In Oguta LGA[/size]

By Amby Uneze

06 May 2011




The supplementary poll ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC,in four local government areas of Imo state to conclude the gubernatorial election in the state went as scheduled on Friday but not without a hitch.

While registration of voters began in earnest in three of the affected LGs-Ngor Okpala,Mbaitoli,Ohaji/Egbema and Orji ward in Owerri North-,there was no sign of any election rerun in Oguta LGA.


As at 3.20pm,no single electoral material has left the INEC office in the area for the polling booths talk less of accrediting voters for proper voting.

Thisday checks revealed that the agents of one of the candidates in the gubernatorial poll,Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressive Grand Alliance,APGA, are insisting they won't be part of the rerun election as they claimed the poll will be rigged in favour of the sitting governor Ikedi Ohakim of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP.

All entreaties from the INEC National Commissioners,Police DIG and Commander of the Army Artillery Brigade,Obinze to the party agents to be part of the election fell on deaf ears as they stood their ground to boycott the rerun poll.

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner,Mr Albert Ikioria in his reaction to the development said with the charged atmosphere in Oguta LGA election cannot be held in the area.

He said the commission in a matter of hours will take a definite decision on the next line of action as regards the LGA

[size=13pt]Thousands Of Women Voters Stage Protest In Oguta Over Conduct Of Supplementary Elections[/size]

Posted: May 6, 2011 - 16:50



Today’s "Supplementary Elections" called by INEC to complete Imo's "inconclusive" gubernatorial elections  ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as  election materials failed to arrive the area on time.

It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the area sensing that the troubled governor of the state, Ikedi Ohakim, colluded with unscrupulous INEC officials to short change voters in the area embarked aon a massive protest defying the army and police,

No fewer than 1,000 voters at Oguta lag   took to the streets  to force INEC to postpone elections in the area. INEC hasn't explained why there  the non availability of electoral materials for the supplementary governorship poll in the area.


Protesters mostly led by brave women trooped out early in the morning for the registration to enable them cast their votes but after hours of waiting in vain for the arrival of the materials the people took to the streets.

As at 3 p.m. the exercise had yet to begin and no INEC official could be found in the area to explain the situation. But SaharaReporters gathered that the elections were postponed to avoid a total breakdown of law and order in the area.



The protesters carried green leaves and  chanted; `` No election in Oguta’’.

A senior police officer, DIG,  I.U Okoronkwo accompanied by the Area Police Commander, Tambari Mohammed and heads of other security agencies in the state as well as the supervising Resident Electoral Officer Aniedi  Ikoiwak visited the area to  assess the situation.

The Security team met  with the INEC officials before leaving.

The protesters alleged electoral malpractice and warned INEC not to accept or declare any result from Oguta insisting that no election took place in the area.
SaharaReporters had revealed in earlier updates that today's supplementary elections in Imo state was a logistical failure in all respects.

12: 00 PM-At Umuagwo village in Ohaji-Egbema local government area, the traditional ruler sent out the town crier threatening those not voting for Ikedi Ohakim, the PDP candidate not to venture out of their houses.

-Election materials arrives to some parts of Egbema local government area. Oguta is worst hit with logistical snag as INEC is yet to deliver election materials there.

12: 30 PM -No materials or INEC officials seen in any polling units in Ejemewuru in Awa ward up to the boundary of Rivers state in Oguta LGA. Matewrials were reportedly diverted to the home a house of representative member elected two weeks ago. Massive thumbprinting of ballot papers in progress.



12: 45 PM -No officials and materials in Polling Unit 008 Izombe, Oguta 2. Security trying to control anxious voters. This community is very suspicious of visitors.

1:30 PM- Report from Ngor Okpala:
1. Ward 11, no result sheets for guber, no stamps and no ballot papers for assembly in booths 6 and 9. Earlier two armed men were arrested with arms. apga agents have been beaten and chased out of boots. People are being barred frm voting in the guber by a large number of armed thugs. Voting in homes of key players speculated.

2. Ward 5, our 7 apga agents were pulled out of there boots and taken away by tne police for no reason on the instruction of former chairman of local government Emma Nworgu leaving the boots unprotected. This is one of the areas to watch.

3. Ward 4. The LGA Chairman for Ngor Okpala Enyinnia Onuegbu was caught thumbprinting in his house and going round to intimidate voters with armed policemen.

4. Ward 6 booth 004 result sheets in many of these booths are photocopies. Ballot papers are incomplete. The APGA and ACN agents were beaten up and pushed out of boot at gun point by Okenze Obinna working for the PDP. The ballot papers in ward 6 are said to be fake just as the result sheets are photocopies.

5: ward 4 booth 17, no ballot box. People have refused to vote unless there is ballot box. Question is. Where is ballot box for booth 17 of over 800 accredited voters?
6. In virtually all the booths, INEC staff are allowing PDP agents come into booth with money. The are compelling people to show the their thumprinted ballot papers for confirmation and disbursement.

# Some male protesters attacked by soldiers, dispersed in Oguta LGA.

Twenty minutes later, a defiant crowd of women protesters, daring soldiers marched to the INEC office in Oguta calling for the cancellation of the election.

# Election materials are yet to be distributed in Oguta Local Government Area but there are protesters calling for cancellation of the election, alleging plot to draw the election into the night to perfect rigging.

Rhino.5dm:
Your syntax is very poor.

Its either

Ina/muna/suna sanar da ko/kai/su bayi ne da Hausa, Ina/muna/suna son ganin mutane, tamkar haka.

Or

Muna sanar da ko bayi ne ga Hausawa, mu na son ganin mutane, tamkar haka.

First person and third person singular/plural is your problem.

As long as you understand, that's all that matters.

Rhino.5dm:
Slit your throat for all i care.
I hate you too and don't wanna see you alive.

Sambo is our president 2015.

BTW. You sound like those pathetic dimwits burning and blowing up things up north.

Murucin kan duste bai fito ba sai da ya shirya.

Zakaran da Allah you nufe shi da cara, ko ana muzuru ko ana shirwa sai ya yi.

Komin bakin cikin dan kaza ba ya iya daukar dan shirwa.

Ku na sanar da ku bayi ne a da Hausa. Ina son ganin mutane, tamkar.

manny4life:
All this airport business crap doesn't make any viable business sense. No business man will pay a premium just to move their goods by air, a seaport makes perfect sense better than airport.

The seaport is pretty much complete,so I hear.All that is left now is to get it up and running.

sbeezy8:
SW PDP are not gettin any speaker lol SE prolly is BUT 2015 is def going to the north its very evident! But ibo are expectin it kinda fukd up on GEJs part cause he knows in pdp north is larger than pdp south. SE asking for speaker is small they should be pressuring GEJ about STate creation or presidency if he's reall their guy. Out of the whole govt SE being speaker is the lowest position for a zone that supported GEJ its like settling for less out of fear

Um, don't let your emotions reveal your complete stupidity. The Speaker is one of the MAJOR deciders when it comes to state creation and what communities get ceded into a particular state,fool.

OBJ is a fool. If the SW already showed that they don't want her because of her low average performance, why would he think that jonathan would accept a low performing hated person like her as a minister? If Jonathan does then he is a fool just like OBJ.

Date Published: 05/05/11
[size=15pt]
Jonathan, PDP Back David Mark For Senate President[/size]
, Akunyili, Chikwe, Ita Giwa lobby Jonathan for Ministerial slots
…Obasanjo pushes for his daughter, Iyabo





President Goodluck Jonathan and the top brass of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) may have endorsed incumbent senate president to continue as upper chamber helmsman.

Meanwhile, ex Information minister, Dora Akunyili, who lost her bid for a senate seat under APGA, Iyiola Omisore, who lost in Osun under PDP, former Ambassador to Ireland and ex Aviation minister, Kema Chikwe and former presidential aide, Florence Ita-Giwa, are currently using all available contacts to push for a slot in the new cabinet.

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo is also angling to endure his vanquished daughter, Iyabo, nails a spot.

Pointblanknew.com sources at the presidential retreat in Obudu, Cross River State, hinted that the party also resolved to zone the Speaker's position to the south east.

The downside is, incumbent deputy senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, who is from Enugu, would have to relinquish his exalted position.
advertisement

However, Pointblanknews.com learnt that the arrangement is not cast in stone as the national caucus would have to ratify it.

The south west looks good to produce the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, while the North East picks the chairman.

It was however no clear which zone would fill the deputy senate president, and deputy speaker slots.

Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that the president and his men brainstormed all Tuesday and Wednesday night on how to compensate the south east for the overwhelming support during the presidential election.

On Mark, it was learnt that the president was advised to retain him for continuity, and also considering the fact that Jonathan was victorious in Benue, even though marginally.

Mark who has a committee working arduously for his return, has spent millions of naira on his return bid.

Frontliners for the Speaker's seat are Bethel Amadi, Arua Arunsi and Emeka Ihedioha.


The parliamentary caucus , made up of 43 legislators from the south east zone, rose from a crucial meeting on Wednesday and demanded that it would only accept the position of Speaker or Senate President.

Pointblanknews.com learnt that most of the PDP candidates who lost elections have intensified lobbying to secure relevance in the next cabinet.

Top sources hinted that Akunyili who lost to ACN's Chris Ngige and Chikwe who lost to APGA's Chris Ayanwun , and Omisore are also angling to be ministers.

It was learnt that Akunyili and Ita Giwa are using Mrs Patience Jonathan to prevail on the President who views Akunyili as ungrateful.

http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os4892.html

No one is voting for Ohakim but YOU(Poster with multiple IDs).

The way you've(OP) come with different IDs, shows us why Ohakim is your man. You're both frauds.

I like this move. I see their strategy. It points at getting the Speaker of Reps position.We all know that one of the northern zones are going to get the Senate President position, more than likely David Mark is going to retain it which is great for us. If David Mark retains his position then we keep the Deputy position plus we get the Speaker position. Hopefully the SE plays the game well. They've got SS caucus support. NC would benefit from a SE alliance.Things looking pretty good.

ChinenyeN:
Vicenzo, your understanding of an 'Igbo' (or genuine 'Igbo' behavior) is funny to me.

Chyz. . not that my words mean much, if anything to you, but Abagworo is correct. Ikwere people's clan name is Ihnwuruohna (spelled variously as Ihuruoha, Iwhurohna, etc. etc.). 'Ikwere' is Ihnwurohna's nickname. Just like how Ngwa is nicknamed 'Ngwangwa' by others. In fact, just go look into the works of Talbot, Oriji, Kelechukwu Ihemere and others if you don't care for what I have to say.

We're  basically saying the same thing. The thing that I'm most curious about is the label of "Ikwerre" as an area. It's not foreign to me that a group can be given the nickname of there own town. What i want to know is if at a point, the Iwhuruoha people came together to carve the area of their kinsmen, to prevent expansion of neighboring groups into their land, and came up with a common name of the area called "Ikwerre".  It would kind of explain the name "Ikwere"-"Do you agree/You agree". Sounds like a consensus call of those involved. I will check thoe people you mentioned out though.

P.S.

Don't take it that I don't value your comments. . .The more you're pushed the more info you give which is what I want. Helps me. That is why i do what I do. Kinda helps fill in the blanks with less of a hastle.

vicenzo:
Are you guys not tired of ikwerre wahala,is all these about their almost dry 96 oil wells or is it about the soul of Ph town,dont mistake me,i want the unification of all igbo tribes but must ndiigbo die because of elechi amadi,my brother told me a story about how one of them insulted him in the airport for calling him his brother and pronuncing soprachi as sopuruchi.
Please lets not turn this thread to another ikwerre thread,they are not that important,and should not be given attention.

Was trying to get info on how the area name came about really;but, for the sake of peace, we can drop it. Not pressed.

rotflmao!

[size=15pt]All is not well with education in Ekiti, says Fayemi[/size]

By Miriam Ndikanwu 3 hours 41 minutes ago




Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi yesterday said all was not well with the education sector at all levels.

He lamented the decaying infrastructure, poor quality of teaching, low morale of teachers, lack of effective monitoring and evaluation, inadequate funding, policy changes, among others.

Fayemi spoke at Adetiloye Hall in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, at the opening session of the 2011 Ekiti State Education Summit.

He said: "One does not require the skills of a clairvoyant or a rocket scientist to realise that all is not well with our education sector in the state.

"It was this challenging state of the sector that informed our decision to inaugurate a 15-member Task Force and Visitation Panel on Education on January 10, with a charge to recommend workable solutions.

"All these brought the state to a saddening level of poor performances in public examinations at all levels while many of the products of the institutions in the state parade low scholarship.

"As a product of Ekiti scholarship, this decadent level of our education forces one to recall with nostalgia that not too long ago, Ekiti was often better identified as a bookish state. We had more professors than any homogenous entity in the country."

Commissioner for Education Mrs. Eniola Ajayi said the purpose of the summit was to proffer practical and lasting solutions to all the problems facing the sector.

Professor Akin Oyebode of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG) said the decay was a result of perennial neglect by past administrations.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/5124-all-is-not-well-with-education-in-ekiti-says-fayemi.html

Beaf:
[size=14pt]ACF makes U-turn, declares support for Jonathan[/size]
By Johnson  Ayantunji, Abel Orukpe (Lagos) and Baba Negedu (Kaduna) 

It condemned the killing of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in the North during the election and advocated that the “NYSC scheme should be retained and spirited efforts be made to ensure the security of members.”

WOW, I laugh at how bad they try to keep things in place that they can use against other regions to get what they want. The simply want to keep the keep the same NYSC scheme in order to use it as a tool by killing southerners whenever they are unhappy and getting what they want. If clear that if southern corpers are deployed to verious southern states, the northerns would have less to kill and make less of an uproar when rioting again. Funny and evil people.

Now the hawk has come back to as the "fisherman" for fish.

nwaigbo_mg:
yes my brother, ikwerre was never a name of any sub-igbo group or ethnic group, ikwerre has always been a name of a town, there is a Local Government in rivers state  called ikwerre, so ikwerre being an ethnic group was the handiwork of elechi amadi

abagoro:
I'm mad at you brother for typing this crap.Even the colonialists knew Ikwerre was a distinct sub-group and classified it as that.Iwhuruohna has always known themselves as that or Ikwerre-Asaa which comprises of the seven Ikwerre clans.There is no town known as Ikwerre except Ikwerre-Etche which is in Etche and not Ikwerre.On a larger scale Ikwerre is an Igbo group and not a town.

Who is right between the two? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_state

Ikwerre was an area,not the name of a tribe up until they were given the label of a separate group from the people known as "Igbo". Iwhuruoha seems to be their so-called "clan", at least that's how I see it. But of course, this can always be proven wrong by olf documents kept by british durring the 1800-early 1900s. If any have some documents or links please feel free to post.

tpia@:
that coat of arms doesnt look yoruba in any way.

btw i need to design mine.

i like kate windsor's own- very nice one.

Hey babe.

jason123:
Okay, so Ijaws are 50% each. I never said that have more in common with Yorubas compared to Igbos, NEVER! The point is what happens to their "land" in Edo, Ogun, Ondo, and lagos Look, the western Ijaws will likely join the West and the Eastern, the East.

Where did I say Ijaws did not have land in Ondo?? You want to turn this into an ethnic battle.

Did I say Anioma will not join Igbos??

About Uhrobos, if you notice,I usually say possibly. I certainly do not know how Uhrobos see things but I see Itsekiris and Uhrobos moving together.

jason123:
You guys do not know your country. There are more Ijaws in the West than the East. Most bear Yoruba names now. Why would they want to betray Yorubas or join Biafra when about 60% have more in common with the Yorubas than the Igbo?? I really do not get that part. Okay, say you form your Biafra and somehow Ijaws join. Tell me, how will they get their land in Edo, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos (apparently, they said their land extends there ) Do you see what I mean?? Or do Igbos and Ijaws want to fight Yorubas and Edos?? It just does not make sense hence, that was why I was advocating for Southern Nigeria. What about us Or do you think any group can just kill off the other without any resistance Most of the Western Ijaws, Itsekiris and definately Edos, possibly Uhrobos will join Oduduwa [[/b]b]IF SN is non-achievable. So, even the the owner of sahara reporters is from Apoi-Ijaw in Ondo state and yet he identifies with Yorubas so what gives Guys believe me, SN is the best option if not Delta state is DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO ANY BIAFRA! That is the truth except you want to deceive yourself and you are welcome to do so . . . . .

Compare and go figure. You are talking too much.Try thinking for once.

Date Published: 05/04/11

[size=15pt]Boko Haram, Jos, Post-Election Violence Suspects disappear in police custody[/size]





There are strong indications that most of the suspects arrested in connection with Boko Haram sects in Maiduguri, Minna, Bauchi States and Jos ethno-religious crisis as well as the recent post-election violence which erupted in some parts of Northern Nigeria during the just concluded elections may have regained freedom or disappeared in their various Police custodies across the states.

Similarly, a Police officer Ibrahim Mohammed serving at the Mobile Police Unit at the Force Headquarters in Abuja that was arrested while participating in killing people in Jos during one of the crisis may have also been released, demobilize from Mobile unit and transferred to one of the interior part of the country.

According to inside Police sources who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the over 92 suspects arrested in Maiduguri, Borno State Capital following the mindless killing and destruction of lives and properties by Boko Haram sects in March this year, less than 10 of them are now left in Police custody.

It was gathered that the Nigeria Police leadership in collaboration with some fanatical judges after taking the suspects to courts under them releases them in the name of granting them bail or total freedom on grounds of lack of evidences. Pointblanknews.com further gathered that in March this year, the situation became worrisome that the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Maiduguri branch protested the released of some suspects who came back and be boosting that they are untouchables and BAR vowed to challenge same in other courts.

It gathered also that the same thing happened in other places where the Boko Haram sect’s members were arrested. Places like Minna, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, amongst others that have witnessed violent attacks by the sects. That all the suspects are either granted bail or disappeared one after the other.

On Jos ethno-religious crisis, over 200 suspects were initially said to have moved from Jos to Abuja last year but that about 162 were Okayed for trial according the source but that up till now no one can exactly tell of where about those people and that it is reasonably suspected to have in the usual manner, either disappeared or granted bail or released on lack of sufficient evidences.

In the same vein, that about 90 suspects again was arrested this year whom were suspected to be Fulani herdsmen and were to made to face trial but that the where about of the suspects are unknown. “I served in the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja. We handled all these cases. I sometimes felt disappointed by what our bosses do. Cases like these; we don’t do what it supposed to be done. See, most of these people arrested, once they charge them to court, it is finished. The court will say take them for remand in police custody and that will be the end.


On the recent violence that erupted immediately after the Presidential elections where many lives and properties were destroyed in some parts of Northern Nigeria, and that about 109 suspects arrested in Kano, 600 in Adamawa and several others in Katsina, Minna, Kaduna amongst others, the story is not different according to our source.

He said most of the suspects were screened and released following “directives from above”. The source said those suspects are release in batches and in some cases, they move them under the guise of taking them to another cell in another station or taking them to court. “They come back and said they have been sent to prison custody or granted bail and will be the end.

“Have Nigerians one day asked that since these entire crisis upon crisis, how many of them are in prison? Nobody cares that’s why I say we should not blame only the police or the judiciary. The Police have not been held accountable for the cases and criminals in their custody. I am an insider and I know what goes on. They arrest criminals most at times through information made available to them through the citizens but they don’t follow up after arrest and that is why the criminals kept proliferating. The police know all the judges in court. The Police charges criminals to courts of their choice that is depending the type of judgments they want. Your boss tells you which court to go and before you arrive, he is aware so there is nothing we want”, he narrated.

http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os4890.html

jason123:
You guys do not know your country. There are more Ijaws in the West than the East. Most bear Yoruba names now. Why would they want to betray Yorubas or join Biafra when about 60% have more in common with the Yorubas than the Igbo?? I really do not get that part. Okay, say you form your Biafra and somehow Ijaws join. Tell me, how will they get their land in Edo, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos (apparently, they said their land extends there   ) Do you see what I mean?? Or do Igbos and Ijaws want to fight Yorubas and Edos?? It just does not make sense hence, that was why I was advocating for Southern Nigeria. What about us Or do you think any group can just kill off the other without any resistance Most of the Western Ijaws, Itsekiris and definately Edos, possibly Uhrobos will join Oduduwa IF SN is non-achievable. So, even the the owner of sahara reporters is from Apoi-Ijaw in Ondo state and yet he identifies with Yorubas so what gives  Guys believe me, SN is the best option if not Delta state is DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO ANY BIAFRA! That is the truth except you want to deceive yourself and you are welcome to do so . . . . .

Chineke! You said "There are more Ijaws in the West than East". Heh, you have revealed yourself. You are not nigerian, you are ghanaian! You say "Most Ijaws bear Yoruba names"? Ok, its starting to get more clearer.You are from Accra. Ijaws in no way have more in common with the yorubas that the Igbos! Dude, do you know anything about Ijaw culture??

Um, its a known fact that Ijaw has land in Ondo. Ask the Oba that got sacked there by them.

Anioma is definitely going to Biafra so you can take us out of your comment.


All in All, your write up was garbage.

Please don't bring Urhobos into this because they definitely will not join you, AT ALL. I see that you've never been to delta state before because you should know that. Also, why would they enter a country whos name is not welcoming and has nothing to do with them, "Oduduwa" republic?

I'm back

Ileke-IdI:
Really, yet Igbo men have been creating Ant-SW threads since SW became an ACN region.

Yet Igbos that create anti-yoruba threads cry about being hated.

You all go up and down dragging Igbos name into every single thing and create threads daily. Now, you all want to complain when we do the same.Hypocrites! You know what it is. Deal with it. Until you all stop worrying about us and stick to your own tribal issues, there will be no peace.

Ileke-IdI:
Isn't it ironic that the ones crying about hate are the ones creating hate bashing threads?

You guys are seriously confused.

No more confused than the Yoruba man.

EzeUche_:
Most of my disagreements with the Ndi Yoruba is over politics.

I will continue to say that I do not hate you all as a people. Actually, I enjoy being around Yorubas. Especially when there is a party.

But when politics is involved, I despise you all and your cowardly ways.

Mehn even outside of politics dem dey jeaslous'am. Whenever I'm around they hate me because their women alway tend to like me. The girls that they find it impossible to get, I get and its funny. Let them hate, yo. It's not up to you to please them.

tpia@:
thought you were abusing me, that's all.

did rhino say he's yoruba cos i'm not aware of that.

You know i luv you gurl.No abuse towards you. You are mine and i shall keep u well kept.