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And the secretary re-emphasised on this guidelines and never relaxed on it. #RiversAppeal

The petitioner in the EPT showed that the 2nd respondent tried to manipulate the card reader to his favour.... #Riversappeal

..... The chairman evaluated all oral witnesses #RiversAppeal

The election petition Tribunal Chairman gave all parties fair hearing. To juxtapose the side of truth......
#RiversAppeal

The introduction of card reader is situated inside the electoral act.
#RiversAppeal

..... It is to attain double assurance of the owner of the presented PVC. The section cited by the appellant is grousely misplaced - Judge

There was never any electronic voting, what @inecnigeria introduced was card reader to help forestall double voting. #RiversAppeal

.... Therefore the power of @inecnigeria to re arrange its rules to help conduct one man one vote is sacrosanct - judge
#RiversAppeal

The essence of card reader is to make the elections more transparent and credible - Judge #RiversAppeal


INEC has the power to make law to make it function effectively and efficiently...... #RiversAppeal

Court ruled that all documentary evidence tendered by Apc were credible hence admissible n ruled in favor of APC.
#RiversAppeal

Needless Thread!

"Questions Jonathan's Integrity"


Does Their Hero Of Corruption Have any Integrity at all?

Raymond Dokpesi also denied collecting any money from Dasuki initially.. Na today!!!

Jonathan is a crook!

Mogidi:
Subdued?
[s]That is rich, coming from Ngeneukwenu hiding under another useless moniker as Clerverly[/s].

K

lalasticlala

Mogidi:
ok

Ok? Are you subdued by the events of the past few days?

With Today's admission by High (Thief) Raymond Dokpesi of collecting 2.1Billion Naira from jonathan, to handle his Media propaganda in the last election, I think the EFCC should commence prosecution without delay.

“According to section 91 of the Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the maximum expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall be N1 billion; for governorship, it is N200 million and the act also stipulated sanctions for candidate who flaunted the campaign spending limits.
“The sanction for presidential election is N1 million or 12 months imprisonment or both and for governor, N800,000 or nine months or both.

That is What The Law Says:

This was what INEC said prior to the election.

[size=16pt]INEC to jail presidential candidates that spend above N1bn on campaign[/size]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had taken measures to track campaign expenditure incurred by political parties as it lifted ban on election campaigns.

The electoral body said it will sanction presidential aspirants that spend above N1billion on campaign. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, on Monday in Abuja stated this in an interview with journalists following the lifting of the ban on election campaigns.

“According to section 91 of the Electoral Act, 2010 as amended, the maximum expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall be N1 billion; for governorship, it is N200 million and the act also stipulated sanctions for candidate who flaunted the campaign spending limits.
“The sanction for presidential election is N1 million or 12 months imprisonment or both and for governor, N800,000 or nine months or both.

NAN reports that in line with the electoral timetable released by INEC, presidential and National Assembly aspirants of political parties are allowed to commence campaign from November 16.
Similarly, the ban on campaign by governorship and state House of Assembly aspirants is expected to be lifted on November 30.

Idowu said that the commission now had a department to monitor spending of candidates in the 2015 elections.
Idowu said that the department was functional and was in full capacity.
“That structure did not exist in 2011 and we could not do much in that regard. Now we have been able to put structure in place to track expenditure and we are going to be doing that.

“The situation now is that we can only know whether a person has over spent until he or she has spent it. You cannot stop people from spending until the person has spent.
“What the law anticipates is that we have put ceiling on spending and we will now monitor to know whether we can make a case about it.”

Idowu stressed the need for political parties to adhere to election expenses as stipulated by the Electoral Act.
“The act also placed a campaign ceiling of N40 million and N20 million for senatorial and House of Representatives candidates respectively.

“It also fixed amount for election expenses in the state assembly and chairmanship election for an area council at N10 million.”
“While the sum of N600,000 or six months imprisonment is stipulated for a senatorial candidate, the sum of 500,000 or five months imprisonment is also stipulated for a House of Representatives candidate who defaults on the campaign spending.”


Asked if the commission had the capacity to handle the magnitude of electoral offences, Idowu said that INEC could only work within framework of the law.
He said that was why the commission had always called for establishment of election tribunals.

“If the law says INEC should do something even within the constraints, INEC will do what is possible within those constraints.
“INEC will do what it has to do within the framework of the law as it exists at the present. For instance, the law says we should publish the audited yearly accounts of the political parties and that is what we have always done.
“We audit and publish, that is what the law says we should do. After we publish what next?
“There are places where you have offences and you don’t have sanctions stated.”

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/11/18/inec-to-jail-presidential-candidates-that-spend-above-n1bn-on-campaign/

PassingShot:
I'm loving it that elections have suddenly become very unpredictable and close to call. It's the wonder of PVC and card reader bestowed on us by the one and only Prof. Jega.
Riggers are no longer comfortable with rigging as they're not sure their efforts will not become waste at the end of the day.

TonyeBarcanista, with the crowd I see here, don't be surprised if Sylva wins on Saturday. Prepare for defeat just as you hope for a win.

A reliable person, who is based in Balyesa told me yesterday, it will take a Miracle for Dickson to win the election on Saturday.

chukwudi44:
Only a certified fool would expect APC to win in bayelsa!!

We will know who will be the certified Fool!

sonOfLucifer:
I don already buy sewing maching for you. After Dickson, we go use your post-election thread sew brassiere and handkerchief for Fayose.

! I Tell You!

TonyeBarcanista:
Bayelsa is 100% PDP. Sylva will be heavily dealt with at the poll.

Bros, you need to call home.. Dickson Is in a hot soup now

lalasticlala Mynd44 oya

Tonyebarcanista Truckpusher Chukwudi44

Those Outside the Stadium! I mean the overflow

Buhari, Tinubu, Oyegun, others campaign for Sylva
There was massive show of solidarity, Tuesday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State and its governorship candidate, Chief Timpre Sylva, to wrest power from the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on December 5.

All road led to Yenagoa, the state capital, as mammoth crowd of party faithful, residents of the states and leaders of the APC thronged the Samson Siasia Stadium to shower love on Sylva’s ambition to become the next governor of the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari represented by Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo; the National Leader of APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and former  interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande made the final rally of the APC grand and colourful.

The National Working Committee of the APC temporarily relocated to Bayelsa as the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun led other members of the committee to the rally described by people as APC’s icing on the cake ahead of the election.



Governors elected on the platforms of the APC such as Comrade Adams Oshiomhole (Edo); Aminu Tambuwa (Sokoto) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo) represented by his deputy, Eze Madumere, were all in attendance.

The event was further spiced by the presence of the governorship candidates of the party in the Southsouth states, who are seeking justice in courts, such as Dakuku Peterside (Rivers), Otega Emerhor (Delta) and Umana Umana (Rivers) including Senator Magnus Abe.

The Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir Lawal, and some ministers and members of the federal cabinet graced the occasion.

The ranks of the PDP were further depleted and the chances of Dickson narrowed following the defections of serving commissioners and other officials of the government to the APC at the venue of the event.

The tumultuous crowd was entertained by the performances and presence of notable musical artistes such as Face, Maleke, J.Martins, Nollywood star and now member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Eliot.

A group of beautiful maidens called Sylva Angels excited the crowd with their victory dance.
Massive crowd of party faithful who endured scorching sun elbowed and shoved one another just to catch a glimpse of the programme.

Speaking for the President, Osibanjo said it was time for Bayelsa to change from PDP to APC to realign with the centre.

He said: “The time for change has come. The time of prosperity, the time of good governance has come. Don’t miss the train. What the President wants is that you will join what we are doing in the federal level. Bayelsa deserves its pride of place among the states of Nigeria.

“This state and its people are great. But you must do the right thing. The right thing is to leave from the PDP to the APC.  It is time to move. On Saturday, you deserve the right to go to the polling booth with your PVC and you will make that change on Saturday.

“After that you will have the right to demand. You will have the right to ask our candidate who will be the next governor what he promised you. I promise you that you will see a real difference.

“There will be job, progress in this state. Everyone one of us looking for promotion will have it by the grace of God. You will achieve great things”.

Also speaking, Tinubu whose name and presence excited the crowd, asked the people of the state to send PDP with its 16 years of ineptitude out of power.

He said after 16 years of government, PDP could only boast of hunger, unemployment, darkness and absence of basic amenities.

The former Lagos state governor who gingered the crowd said APC is the cure for headache, unemployment and other societal ills brought about by the misrule of PDP.

He said the people who had been led in the wilderness now have the opportunity to bring prosperity by voting out the party he described as Poverty Development Party.

The APC National Leader who spent time to demonstrate to the people where and how they should vote on Saturday, however, enjoined them to eschew violence at the poll.

He told the crowd to vote for the broom, the symbol of the party and defend their votes by waiting and ensuring that their votes are counted.

He said the Saturday poll represents freedom for the people of the state and stressed that the road to freedom is not easy.

He said: “For 16 years you have been led in the wilderness by poverty development party. Send PDP away with its poverty, no water, unemployment, darkness.

“Vote and defend your votes. They are already afraid. You are already the master. Sylva is back. He has bounced back. Only you can make him win”.

In his remarks, Lawal said the silver lining has come to the state and asked the people to return to the government at the centre.

He said identifying with the centre would enable the state to have its fair share of dividends of democracy.

Besides, Oyegun thanked the people for welcoming him with surprises each time he visits the state and urged them to give him the most important gift by returning Sylva to government house.

He said the entire party and machinery of the federal government relocated to the state to demonstrate the value they value attached to Bayelsa by the APC government.

Oyegun who called for a minute’s silence each for late Abubakar Audu and late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha said Sylva would give security, employment and other dividends of democracy to the state when elected.

He said: “Saturday is the D Day. It will be the biggest present to our dear President when you return Sylva to the Government House. Victory is assured.”

In his speech, the elated Sylva said he had come to rescue Bayelsa from the tight fist of darkness, dirt, unemployment and underdevelopment.

He said: “The people of Bayelsa must be developed. Their salaries and pensions must be paid. We are going to focus on diversifying the economy, creating jobs, wealth and bringing security to Bayelsa. We will strengthen the civil service.

“We will pay civil servants salaries and we will pay scholarships of our students. It is wicked to send our children abroad on scholarships and ask them to fend for themselves. Go straight and vote for APC and make sure your votes count.

“We must not give room for violence. On December 5, Pharaoh will fall and the Egyptians will  be under the Red Sea, that is the meaning of Opuabadi. My government will be about you and not about my family.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/bayelsa-dicksons-men-dump-pdp-at-apc-final-rally/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

kenonze:
When I see people attacking this Chukwudi44, I always think there are just unfair to the lad.

Now I know this guy na mumu plus.
Down here in Yenagoa, the people are feeling the man Sylva. Keke, okada, taxi, market women, civil servants, Students etc all showing strong support for sylva.

U are there saying what u don't know.

2 of Dickson commissioners decamped to APC today.
We expected more than half of assembly member from PDP to do same in 48hrs time.
If Dickson still expect victory as it stands, it there means he is yet to wake from sleep

They Will Never Learn!!

EdCure:
I expected to see him and Amaechi at the rally...but no show.

Which Rally?

Yeye man!

[quote author=alcmene post=40582442]Fight [s]against perceived foes.......


I know the mallam is still embittered over AIT's alleged partisanship during the campaign but this democracy for goodness sake

Why hounding and persecuting people in the name of fighting corruption[[/s]/quote]

Irritants everywhere!

If Our DILECTOR is not released By Tomorrow, We Will Burn Down Onitsha Main Market, Ariaria Market And Other Markets In The South East, So That The Zoo Will Suffer..

Nonsense

Nnamdi Kanu's Case stalled As Magistrate Losses Dad (PHOTOS)

1 hour ago

The hearing of the case against the director of the Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu was stalled today, December 1, due to the death of the magistrate’s father.

The court premise was already crowded with sympathizers of the director of Radio Biafra who were later informed by one of his counsel that the court would not sit.

The court registrar, Salisu Yunusa told Naij.com that the magistrate’s father died on Thursday, November 26.

He said no date has been fixed for the continued hearing and ruling on the case.

Also asked if information was appropriately disseminated, Yunusa said: “Of course, the protesters complaining are not part of the case, besides, are the counsels complaining?”

“Did any of the counsels complain to you,”  Yunusa asked.

However, in disappointment, majority of the protesters were seen leaving the court premises.

Kanu was arrested by operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) on Sunday, October 18, on his arrival into Nigeria from the United Kingdom.

Although the court has granted him bail Kanu still remains in the custody of the SSS.

One of the counsels, Dim Udebuani told Naij.com that while he commiserates with the magistrate on the death of his father, the continued incarceration of Kanu is demonic.

Udebuani said: “It is a matter that speaks for itself; we have just being told that your lordship Honourable Shuaibu Usman lost his father.”

He said the team of counsels representing Kanu have also been told by the court registrar that a date would be communicated to them once the court was able to contact the magistrate.

https://www.naij.com/652870-just-nnamdi-kanus-case-stalled.html