₦airaland Forum

2rutalk1:
What is wrong with yorubas for christ sake. Must everybody vote for a particular party? Yorubas voted for ACN in previous elections and heaven was not let loose. Many northerners voted for CPC and jonathan did not kill anybody. Why is it that you guys are ranting because many igbos voted PDP? What do u guys understand by the term democracy? If everybody should vote one candidate, what then is the use for elections? You guys should go and d.... with your useless hate.

Take it easy o! I dont want you to burst your Pipe yet!

Yoruba people don finish their own peaceful election since and no be them dey carry Cutlass all about naa?

didfy:
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Sorry, which part of South Africa is this Umungashi Aba!
I know that is where Eediots use CUTLASS to chase innocent people around!

Can Sombori tell them to stop behaving like cave-rats?
This is 2015 For God's sake!

bakila:
Oya start you walk. Otherwise keep quiet and put his picture on your chest everyday.

Okay, you no go school at all otherwise you will understand the meaning of "I would rather"....

No be your fault sha, that Almanjiri School of Jonathan was a scam!

Ooponu!

Ymodulus:
O what a great APC fan he his.

A love for the general.

He loves the peoples General. Some Tanoids now will be like who is this.

He his a hero , man of his words.



Goofyone when do we start our journey

nduchucks:
Instead of negotiating peacefully and urging their government to respond, they've decided to threaten us with job losses ko?

MTN has now become equivalent to blackmailers, kidnappers and terrorists. I say call their bluff. Let the boycott begin. What nonsense!

onatisi:
what is true about it ? So if mtn leaves nigeria today our telecommunication sector will ruin? Mtn can't afford to lose the nigeria market. There is no where in the world where mtn makes the kind of profit they make in nigeria. Mtn nigeria alone accounts for 40% of mtn global profits . They should be begging to stay and not indirectly threatening us . All these beggar mentality that nigerians have must stop. It is mtn that needs us ,we don't need mtn. If mtn leaves nigeria today 10 big telecoms operators worldwide will fight for her license.

chibuike65:
IGBO phobia will soon start in Nigeria









Bad people









Say No to IGBO phobia

Reuters:
(Reuters) - As Muhammadu Buhari closed in on Nigeria's presidency, an aide to election commission chairman Attahiru Jega sent a text message to an independent voting monitor, warning of an imminent threat to the electoral process.

The aide had unearthed a plot by supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan to disrupt the public announcement of the national election results and kidnap Jega in a bid to wreck the count, according to pro-democracy advocates and a Nigeria-based diplomat.

Central to the plan, they said, were Jega's security detail and Godsday Orubebe, a former cabinet minister from Jonathan's Niger Delta, an area whose leaders feared a change of power would mean an end to the perks it enjoyed under Jonathan's presidency.

Orubebe's role was to cause a disturbance at the headquarters of the commission as cover for the abduction of Jega. Orubebe did not respond to requests for comment on the details of the plot.

The commission, called INEC, also declined to comment and turned down requests for an interview with Jega, whom Reuters was unable to reach independently. Reuters found no evidence to suggest that Jonathan, who conceded defeat in the election, was involved. His spokesman and his party, the PDP, did not respond to requests for comment.

While the plot would likely not have changed the result, it could have unleashed fury among Buhari supporters in the north, where 800 people were killed in rioting after his last election defeat in 2011.

But the plot's failure enabled Africa's most populous country to complete its first credible vote since independence in 1960.

"NIGERIA ON TRIAL"

The plot to derail the election in its closing moments was pieced together by Reuters from the text message, events on the ground and interviews with democracy advocates and diplomats in the capital, Abuja.

When he sent the SMS, the election official, whom the sources declined to name for his own protection, hoped the outside world would hear of the plot, the text of the message made clear.

"Fellow countrymen, Nigeria on Trial," read the SMS sent on the morning of March 31 to Clement Nwankwo, head of the Situation Room, an Abuja-based coalition of human rights groups and democracy advocates monitoring the polls. Reuters later saw the SMS.

"Plans are on storm [sic] the podium at the ICC Collation Centre and disrupt the process," it continued, the official dropping words and letters in his haste.

"Nobody is sue [sic] what will happen. Please share this as widely as possible."

At that moment, INEC chairman Jega was about to preside over the announcement of results.

TALLY COUNT

Since the end of army rule in 1999, all four previous votes had been marred by violence and ballot-rigging.

The 2015 poll was different in two crucial aspects.

It was a genuine race, pitting Jonathan, saddled with an ailing economy and an Islamist insurgency, against a former general promising to get tough on corruption and the Boko Haram insurgents.

Voters had also been given biometric ID cards linked to their photographs and fingerprints, making it hard to inflate voter numbers significantly.

As tallies from around the country showed Buhari on course for a win, unidentified PDP hard-liners started to panic, seeking ways of manipulating the count, Nwankwo and the diplomat said, citing political contacts in the Delta and Abuja.

Realising they could not engineer an outright win, PDP agents set about doctoring the tally at collation centres in pro-Jonathan areas to ensure Buhari failed to meet a requirement for 25 percent support in two thirds of states, Nwankwo said, citing reports from election monitors on the ground.

A Reuters reporter witnessed and photographed one tally list in Port Harcourt with suspiciously similar totals for registered voters at polling stations: 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 450. In another tally centre in the city, 17,594 valid votes were recorded out of a registered voter population of 11,757, the Reuters reporter said.

Foreign election observers also noted the peculiarities - and contacted diplomats in Abuja who called in international intervention.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart Philip Hammond - in Switzerland for talks on Iran - issued a tough statement saying vote counting "may be subject to deliberate political interference".

"CREATE A FRACAS"

But as Buhari's lead grew, some PDP supporters from the Delta, including Orubebe, decided on a final gamble: to create a disturbance in the main INEC hall and have thugs snatch Jega from the stage, according to Nwankwo and the Abuja-based diplomat.

What the group planned to do after the abduction is unclear, the diplomat and Nwankwo said, but the confusion could have triggered nationwide violence.

"It was a desperate thing, mostly by a group of people from the Niger Delta who were in the room," Nwankwo said, describing events that unfolded publicly in the minutes after he received the SMS.

When Jega opened proceedings on the morning of March 31, Orubebe, the former Niger Delta minister, grabbed a microphone and launched into an 11-minute tirade accusing Jega of bias.

"Mr. Chairman, we have lost confidence in you," he shouted, pushing away officials trying to make him surrender the microphone. "You are being very, very selective. You are partial," he continued, surrounded by three or four supporters. "You are tribalistic. We cannot take it."

Nigerians watched, aghast, on live television.

Meanwhile, Jega's security detail was approached by unidentified individuals telling them to stand down, according to Nwankwo and the diplomat.

But the bodyguards refused.

"Some of the guards who had been guarding Jega for years demanded a written order," Nwankwo said. "But it didn't exist."

Jega then rebuked Orubebe: "Let us not disrupt a process that has ended peacefully," he said as Orubebe slumped in his chair.

"Mr. Orubebe, you are a former minister of the Federal Republic. You are a statesman in your own right. You should be careful about what you say or about what allegations you make," he said.

Later, Orubebe congratulated Buhari on Twitter, expressing his "apologies to fellow Nigerians".

zoomzu:
Why any persons from SE/SS who doesn't support this Biafra movement is tagged an "imposter"?

tonychristopher:
why, i am curious, why cant you stay with hausa if SE/SS go? I am curios bro

Sweetlemon:
I'm from Akwa-Ibom/CrossRiver and I say hell NO to Biafra. They can go if they want but they berra back off from our lands.

They wont... for TWO IMPORTANT REASONS:

1.) They love your Crude Oil


2.) Being who they are, they need some people they can LORD IT OVER, as second class citizens!

History shows that during the Civil War, they over-ran and CONQUERED your territory and held your people as "conquered" people, not on equal footing as their own Ibos.

But the issue is whether the current generation of Cross River/ Akwa Ibom indigenes feel they are "different and independent", from the Ibos ....or whether they are still the second-fiddle and House-Boy the Igbos like to use them for!

cocoduck:
eh heh! good! now you are talking, raise the awareness educate people on why it us very, very important Biafra is actualised albeit in a professional and peaceful manner, lobby the people in the US congress, that is a good way of doing it
I for example no longer sing the Nigerian national anthem, and I want to forget it

When you were singing it back them, you did not know the lyrics........... just murmuring!
So who cares?

You can as well, feck-off to the Lagos Lagoon

gregg2:
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Buhari is never my President. I am not proud of him.

How many Nigerians even voted for him? 15m out of total population of 180m does not represent a true wishes and aspiration of a people. Never!

I can't wait for 4yrs to come and go[/size]

[size=18pt]You can WAIT ALL YOUR LIFE!.... or Hug a Transformer![/size]

I guess in your warped thinking, the 15million that voted for Buhari.... is FAR LESS than the "cooked-up" 12Million that voted for Jon@daft, right?

NEVER as you said, will Nigerians allow M@orons like you to determine their future.

politricks:
This guy needs training from Lai Muhammad

dokyOloye:
Better not waste Ur mental energy in engaging these ppl who know little or nothing abt international diplomacy.
American,UK,German and other western citizens are arrested every day all over d world for heinous crimes,yet U hardly hear of them tried or jailed outside their country.
Western nationals are routinely arrested even in Nigeria for oil bunkering and co but is there even one of them in any Nigerian jail as at today?
Why has America not repatriated it's citizens involved in d Siemens and Halliburton bribe scandals to face trial in Nigeria,instead they were purportedly tried in d US and UK.
I remember vividly,Margaret Thatcher's son was once arrested in a dirty illegal arms deal in one Aefrican Country like that but I can categorically tell U he is chilling in d UK now as a free man and here are Nigerians advocating their citizen should just be given up like that.SMH

This part is a FAILURE on the part of the Nigerian Judicial and Executive system.
If you call your house a refuse Dump... people will be obliged to dump refuse there ASAP!

But then, to really stand-up for your RIGHTs and that of your Citizens in the current dispensation, you ahve to have the Military Power to back it Up!
Is it a Nigeria that cannot power its homes or that is still begging America for weapons to tackle Boko boyz that would stand-up for her citizens, if push-becomes-shove?

Dominante:
Section 308 of the constitution provides immunity for president and vice governors and deputies, and judges. I am sure NOT SURE members of our foreign mission enjoy some degree of immunity as well.

Dominante:
See how the uninformed Nigerians trolling in their droves, I didn't know if I am doing the right thing at the moment, attempting to engage some kids in matters which appears beyond their comprehension.

I do not know the man kashamu or anything about him, but a senator-elect, the US is requesting his extradition, have you asked yourself, would the US ever extradite their own senator-elect to face criminal trial in another sovereign state? Shame most of you have lost any sense of patriotism and identity.

That part about the real Criminal being his BROTHER... and he had DIED makes me really uncomfortable and casts a lot of doubt about his credibility

Billyonaire:
As an elected Senator, the US can extradiction MUST be suspended until his immunity expires, he can be expedited now but as soon as he is sworn in, the laws of Nigeria takes you can not expedite. US should respect our laws the shut the Bleep up.

lurther:
If buruji Kashamu was an igbo man, what people would have been writing on this thread is 'igbos are druglords'. In this article, it was very explicit and detailed that Buruji Kashamu a man from ogun state is a drug lord wanted in the united states of america.

Tribalism is bad.........#SayNoToTribalism.

Lifebender:
You blind nii?you no see that woman in yellow droping multiple paper in that green bag or wharever

It aint only the police that failed,the millitary has failed us too,Am highly dissapointed in NA

anonimi:
Seun & his mods may consider the essence of this thread given readability challenges of the sheets & the misleading impression the 'UNVERIFIED' & PIECEMEAL information for microscopic PUs gives either way.

Let us contribute to orderliness and violence-free elections.

Thanks.

buygala:
why would the young man insist on seeing the result sheets? .... Was he planning to run away with it, tear it, or butcher everyone in sight if he couldn't find it?

Is he a party representative, Inec Staff, or Attahiru Jega himself?

The Dude was acting like someone who had a death-wish, so the impatient Police-man promptly obliged him...One doesn't stupidlly insist on his rights even in the face of such palpable tension...The Policeman may have had good reason to feel that the irate and stubborn youth was posing a threat to the democratic process in that area, so he did his job.... end of story


This is the first situation this year, where I feel that the police-man who gunned the dude down deserves a medal ....

The dude should have quietly cast his vote and gone home to pray that his favorite candidate emerges the best rigger, instead of forming Rambo and testing the patience of trigger-happy policemen who can't differentiate between concerned honest citezens and Political thugs


And for all those quoting me and spewing trash, please tomorrow is another election day... Feel free to go to any polling booth and insist on enforcing any 'right' which is different from casting your vote. .. You will not be differentiated fron the political thug who aims to truncate the democratic process... And the security agencies have their orders...

ITS ONLY THE LIVING THAT REAP THE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY.... CAST YOUR VOTE, ACT THE COWARD AND GO HOME...

DonDiego: Go and tell this your crap to Olusegun Aganga who is not a "Lagosian", going by your definition of it, but who is currently a Federal Minister representing Lagos. Or maybe you should tell the same story to Ogbeni Aregbesola who was for years a commissioner in Lagos even though he's actually from Osun. Or maybe you should go tell the cock and bull to Mr Ben Akabueze who is currently a commissioner under Fashola even though, according to you and your type, he is not a "Lagosian."

Now, if your LINEAGE is not from Lagos, you CANT be a a LAGOSIAN!

Be contented to be called a LAGOS RESIDENT!

Emmysteve: Super eagles always struggle in Calabar. compare the last three games played in calabar to the one at Kaduna and u would understand that Calabar is not good for the eagles.

Nigeria 1-0 Namibia venue: Calabar
Nigeria 1-1 Kenya venue: Calabar
Nigeria 2-0 Malawi venue: Calabar

Nigeria 2-0 Zambia venue: Kaduna
Nigeria 4-1 Ivory coast venue: Kaduna
Nigeria 4-1 Burkina Faso venue: Kaduna