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Yungmilio2: lol
Doctors taking substance since 100L

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May God help us all...

dis is my first post on dis group since d first one got missing when nairaland lost dere data

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take it or leave it I heard 189 in jamb 46%in putme 5b3 nd 1b2 1c4 . course biology education.. now 90%sure dat unilorin go admit me well not merit list if second list or supplementary me don't know 4 unilorin just know dat dey will admits me.. 80%in God nd 10% in man d remaining 10%4 unilorin.. I don't. like posting here cox if my reputation on nairaland am more Dan d person one person go abuse me ...

Naphye: Please has anyone been scheduled to write d exam on 22nd or 23rd?

22nd 3pm batch 5

Governor Murtala Nyako of
Adamawa state has been
impeached. He was impeached
after the state House of
Assembly deliberated upon the
report submitted by a seven-
man investigative panel probing
allegations of financial
misconducts against him and
his deputy.
Minutes before Nyako was
impeached, his deputy, Bala
Ngilari, resigned his position as
the number two man in the
state.
Ngilari’s resignation letter was
read at the plenary by the
speaker of the Assembly, Umaru
Fintiri and approved by the
lawmakers.
The Assembly is heavily fortified
by security operatives who have
denied people access to
proceedings.

Tushkid74: CHAnged from microbiology to plant biology(thru jamb change of couRse/institution),nw that the gen' cutoff mark is 180 i want to make microbiology my choice,i hope dis wnt muddle thingS UP?

my dear kindly recheck microbiology is 200 ooooo

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In this interview, a former military governor of
Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar, comments
on burning national issues and tells the
untold story of the June 12 election
annulment, in this interview with GODWIN
OFULUE
 What do you think is the cause of the Boko
Haram insurgency?
In discussing Boko Haram, I will talk of the
general insecurity in the country. Everything
is happening in other countries and Nigeria is
facing its security challenges; Boko Haram
insurgency, kidnapping, robbery, oil theft,
Niger Delta militancy, phenomenal piracy on
our seas and youth restiveness. And a new
development, which we are not paying
attention to is the Fulani herdsmen/farmers
clashes that are engulfing the northern part
of Nigeria. Cattle stealing has led to many
deaths in that part of the country. These are
the major security issues affecting the
country; they are responsible for the seeming
inability to deal decisively with the
challenges. It is difficult to know how to solve
a problem if one doesn’t know the cause.
In the case of Boko Haram, for example, it is
very difficult to understand the inspiration of
their dastardly acts. What could have made a
person approach some people to engage in
the killing of innocent school kids? Why are
innocent people being slaughtered? Where is
the religious justification for throwing bombs
at churches and mosques; killing and
maiming worshippers? Such acts are
senselessness and irrational. There are some
supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan
who believe that the Boko Haram insurgency
is the creation of some northern politicians,
claiming that they threatened to make the
country ungovernable for the President; that
it’s the punishment for his failure to abide by
the Peoples Democratic Party’s zoning
agreement, which denied the North the
presidency. There was war during his
(Jonathan) completion of late President Musa
Yar’Adua’s tenure and you’ll agree that this
war still persists, with the heavy impact of
the insurgency of the socio-economic life,
particularly in the north-eastern part of
Nigeria where there has been a state of
emergency in the past six months.
There are some northern politicians who
benefit from the insurgency that has taken
the live of a respected elder like Gen. Shuwa;
almost led to the assassination of Shehu of
Borno and the Emir of Kano. Also, there are
some northern politicians who claim that
Boko Haram is non-existent; that if anything,
the Jonathan administration can be using
security agents to tackle them so that he can
continue to rule beyond 2015. With all these
senseless killings, it is difficult to achieve a
unity of purpose in the fight against the
insurgency.
When you take the issue of the Niger Delta
militancy, the struggle started with the
agitation for clean environment and equitable
distribution of petroleum resources. But it
was hijacked by criminal elements, whose
major motive was personal enrichment; oil
bunkering, pipeline bursting, which led to
further degradation of the environment. The
Niger Delta youths also moved into piracy
and oil theft. One can generalise by saying
that our security challenges are as a result of
corruption at the centre. For example, most
of the Boko Haram members are youths that
could have been valuable to the country; they
have nothing to aspire to and nothing to
lose. As James Baldwin rightly observed, the
most dangerous person is he who has
nothing to lose. When we say there is so
much deprivation, anger, insecurity, and we
find them very strange, the Boko Haram
members are used to it. It is a way of life to
them, which they want to fight. When we look
at the Niger Delta militants, they were chaps
that were unemployed and they watched
helplessly how their oil resources were being
cornered by irresponsible, greedy, reckless
and immodest elites. When they (militants)
saw the kind of structures in Abuja, they
envied the elites who had such structures and
resorted to self help through militancy, oil
theft and so on. Of course, in our kind of
democracy, about 70 per cent of our oil
revenue is devoted to recurrent expenditure; it
is devoted to indolent public servants, 85 per
cent of which is for salaries and allowances
of members of the National Assembly. You
remember that (the Governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria) Lamido Sanusi had to
confront the lawmakers.
What is the solution to all these?
The solution is good governance. Our
politicians should be more responsible and
bring down the level of corruption. No country
can survive with the prevailing rot in Nigeria.
It is a major cause for concern. Unfortunately,
all our efforts at confronting the security
challenges are breeding more insecurity in
the sense that if we deploy security forces,
especially at the roadblocks, they demand
and accept bribes and let you go. When you
look at the number of security operatives
doing this, you see that it is going to be very
difficult to address the security challenges.
For the northern part of the country, some
people believe that building more Almajiri
schools will stamp out insurgency. Do you
agree?
Of course, no. It is not just enough to go to
school; when you go to school, you also need
to find employment. They say idle mind is the
devil’s workshop – it is good to send them to
school, they will be enlightened and
understand the message of government. But
if they cannot be gainfully employed, then
what you would have succeeded in educating
them in is the tricks being deployed by public
servants to enrich themselves. I don’t believe
that establishing Almajiri schools is the
solution to our problems per se. It is a
misconception of the situation in the country.
Poverty is in all sections and parts of this
country. While you find the Almajiris in the
North, you’ll find kidnappers in the South.
There are areas where there is prevalence of
prostitution and other anti-social behaviours.
Let us first look at poverty holistically; it is
only in the North. Northern leaders keep
crying (poverty) because they want more
resources to accrue to the North. When you
look at the Fulani herdsmen/farmers clash, I
expect the northern governors to sit and look
at ways of creating game reserves for the
Fulani. As long as you allow them to
continue to walk about indiscriminately, there
will be conflicts.
Northern states governors should do what
has been done before; they should provide
more graving lands for herdsmen. Also, I was
listening to a commissioner in Plateau State
who was expressing his helplessness in
providing security for the Fulani because,
according to him, it was very difficult for
security forces to access the places the
herdsmen were. That is a very weird thinking.
Security personnel should be able to
penetrate all the nooks and crannies of the
country. When you look at kidnappings,
robberies and oil thefts, they’re all about this
culture of get-rich-quick-by-all-mean, which
was created by the political leaders.
Recently, the United States of America
designated Boko Haram and Ansaru as
terrorist groups and Federal Government
welcomed it. Would it solve the problem?
I don’t know what America planned to do
with that declaration. If it means supporting
the Federal Government in the fight against
the insurgency, of course, I will welcome the
development. I know that the US has the
resources and means to engage in war
against insurgency. If that is the idea, then, it
is a welcome development.
Many people believe that a national
conference is the solution to our problems,
including insecurity. What is your take on
this?
With all the noise for and against the
convocation of a national conference or
whatever name it is called, there is a need to
hold one, to satisfy the yearning of its
proponents and to disabuse the minds of
those that believe that the conference would
lead to disintegration. I have never been a
proponent of the national conference for the
fact that past conferences have done nothing
to ensure good governance. I have yet to see
a better mode of representation than the
elected members of the National Assembly.
All the federating units are represented at the
Assembly. If these representatives cannot do
what the conference would do – to sit and
discuss pressing issues like resource control,
power sharing, that will amount to a
constitution amendment. The constitution has
a provision for how it is to be amended. This
is to be done by the National Assembly that
has the representatives of all the federating
units.
The problem in Nigeria is that our leaders
have refused to apply the good provisions of
the constitution and they will turn around to
blame it all on the constitution. They want to
create a new constitution but unless they
have the right attitude to implement the new
constitution, the constitution will still fail.
I think there is the need for the general public
to ensure we elect the right leadership to
ensure oversight functions. We should hold
our leaders to account. People stand against
white elephant projects like the international
airport being constructed in Kebbi State.
What’s your attitude to the agitation for
power shift to the North?
When you talk of power shift, I don’t believe
in it because there has been no evidence that
it benefits the people. If you take the North,
for instance, there is no sign that power has
ever been in the region. When people talk of
poverty, the people in the North are the most
wretched; when people talk of education, the
North is the most disadvantaged, yet the
region held power for years. So, if this power
does any good to a region, the North won’t
suffer any deprivation today. I think what
power shift does is that it is dangerously
dividing Nigeria along ethnic lines. The
politicians are pursing power shift as long as
it satisfies their personal interest, it has
nothing to do with the well-being of the
people.
What then should be the right approach?
What I think is that power should reside with
good people and good people abound in all
parts of this country. I want to appeal to our
politicians to desist from pursuing their
narrow personal interest by agitating for
power shift, thereby heating up the polity.
They need to remember that many lives were
lost to preserve the unity of this great
country.
How would you score the Federal Government
in terms of tackling insecurity in the land?
President Goodluck Jonathan should be
treated as a war-time President. He needs
the support and cooperation of all well-
meaning Nigerians. This is no time for
destructive political campaigns. Stakeholders
should take cognisance of the fact that
conflicts have dire consequences on the
country. Then the President should show
maturity and magnanimity in dealing with
people and issues. Whatever the situation, it
will be nice to see the President, in his next
trip abroad, go with governors like Rotimi
Amaechi and other persons in the opposition.
Talking about scoring, I’ll score the Jonathan
government high up in its effort at tackling
security challenges. Tackling security
challenges can drown a whole government.
He has done so well. If not for the security
forces, the whole of Nigeria today would have
been overrun by the Boko Haram insurgency.
So, it is no mean achievement that this is not
happening.
And on the war against corruption…
I think the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission must act decisively. When they
arrested Sule Lamido’s children on account
of money laundering, this kind of thing should
go round the children of other governors. The
agency should not create the impression Sule
Lamido is being targeted because he is a
member of the opposition.
Some Nigerians see Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
as the messiah that will liberate Nigeria from
all her woes. How do you perceive him?
No doubt, Gen. Buhari has a pedigree. There
is no doubt also that he has the requisite for
leadership. For example, he vigorously fought
against corruption. This is one reason why he
has remained a favourite to many Nigerians.
But it will be unfair to a country of over 150
million people to think that only one person
has a monopoly of such trait.
I will stress that being a successful president
will take more than the ability to prosecute
and send offenders to jail; it requires both
character and intellectual capacity. What
Nigeria requires is zero tolerance for
corruption as well as the intellectual capacity
to understand very complex issues and be
able to make the right decisions and follow
up with implementation. To lead a complex,
heterogeneous country like Nigeria, we need a
consensus builder.
Your reactions so far stand you out as a
highly detribalised Nigerian. What informs
your broad-mindedness?
First, I thank God for the kind of family I
come from. It taught me to see humanity
rather than dissect human being into tribes or
religions. I was brought to see common
humanity that we share. What I wish for an
Hausa man I wish for a Yoruba and an Igbo
man.
Of course, there is also the military training. I
doubt if any military officer, a regular
combatant officer, will want to discriminate
on the basis of religion or tribe. A true soldier
does not discriminate.
Now to military matters. Politicians easily
blame Nigeria’s woes on military rules in the
country.Would you agree with them?
You should ask Nigerians if they are better
off under politicians or under the military in
the level of corruption, insecurity and other
aspects of governance. It is Nigerians that
should answer that question. Nigerians
should judge, not politicians.
As a former governor of Kaduna State (August
1985 – June 1988), can you boast of any
legacy you left behind?
When you talk of legacy, what readily comes
to mind is structures, infrastructure but
enduring legacy is far more than that. What
Nelson Mandela is being celebrated for today
are not the roads or airports he built in South
Africa, he is remembered for liberating South
Africa from apartheid. During my
administration, I was able to win the minds of
the Southern Kaduna indigenes and I made
sure we removed discrimination in whatever
form. That was exactly my achievement.
Peace prevailed.
You were opposed to the annulment of the
June 12 election; what informed your
position?
When I was appointed a military governor in
1985 by the Ibrahim Babangida
administration, he told me that if I found
anything wrong, I should not hesitate to let
him know. So, when he announced the
transition-to-civil rule programme, I
counselled that he should ensure that the
date he fixed was sacrosanct, the date should
not be changed under any circumstance.
Soon after the announcement in January
1986, things started unfolding. To cut the
long story short, by 1992, the primaries were
about to be annulled, I wrote a letter to IBB
that the election was losing credibility, that
there was the need to hurry up and handover.
By December 1992, at the Chief of Army Staff
Conference, I raised the issue under other
matters that since we were being
embarrassed, there was the need to conclude
the transition programme. Gen. Sani Abacha
asked me to see him in his house. I went to
Abacha’s house in company of the current
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.
What General Abacha told me then was that
they were all eager to see that power was
handed over to civilian administration but it
looked like IBB was dilly-dallying, that he
didn’t want to go. But what I discovered later
was that that was not correct. Anyway, we
moved to the June 12 election. When the
primaries of the two parties(National
Republican Convention and Social Democratic
Party) that was created by IBB held, and
Moshood Abiola and Bashir Tofa emerged
candidates, I kept putting pressure on IBB to
conclude the transition and hand over but
Abacha kept telling me that IBB was not
committed to the election and that we should
keep putting pressure on him. I kept going to
IBB and he kept assuring me he was on
course.
About two weeks to the election, IBB called to
say that some military boys were putting
pressure on him not to hand over because
the Structural Adjustment Programme had
not achieved results and Nigeria was in a
precarious situation.
In the meantime, Abacha was saying if IBB
did not hand over after the June 12 election,
we should move against him, topple him and
hand over to whoever wins the election.
The election was held, we realised Abiola was
going to win, I dashed to Abuja, met with the
chairman of the electoral commission. He
told me he had received 22 states and it
looked like Abiola was coasting home to
victory. I pleaded with him to ensure that he
announced the results. Abacha invited me.
He told me that IBB would not allow the
results to be announced. He said we should
go ahead, topple him and hand over to the
winner. He sent me on a wild goose chase;
he said I should get the army boys ready for
any eventuality. Of course, I went round the
country, we got our boys ready. What was
agreed was that the person that would
announce the overthrow of Babangida would
announce the result of the elections and hand
over to the winner. We got all the boys in all
the regional headquarters ready. Abacha said
he was going to call the GOCs to let them
know that the military had decided to let the
winner of the June 12 to take over.
On the eve of the coup, we went for a
coordinating conference, all the boys were
alerted. The conference had current NSA, Col
Dasuki, Col Gwadabe among other officers to
coordinate the last minute of the take-over.
Gen. Abacha was to join us later but he failed
to appear. An officer asked me which
appointment I would like to take in the new
government. I replied, ‘Which government? I
was told that Abacha had decided to take
over power for six months before handing
over to Abiola. I told them that was a very
dangerous development and that I would not
partake in such a plan. We reached a
deadlock and I decided to go and confront
Gen. Abacha. Around nine in the night, I went
to Abacha’s house and I met him alone. I
asked him why he changed the plan. I told
him that the only reason I joined in the plot
was to hand over to Abiola immediately. I
told him that I knew that any coup against
Babangida was like a suicide mission but I
decided to join even at the cost of my life
because I wanted Nigerians to know I was not
part of the annulment that would plunge the
country into crisis. I told him we should
continue with our earlier plan. He said the
problem was that Abiola could not control
the country with all the problems. I told him
that whatever happened I would not partake
in a coup that would bring him to power.
While I was talking with him, Gen. Ahmed
Abdulahi appeared. I told him that I was out
of the plan. I left and radioed all those we
put on the standby and told them that the
coup plan had been terminated, that we were
not going to continue. I told senior officers
that Abacha was only trying to hoodwink us.
When that plot failed, Abacha and some other
officers convinced IBB to step aside but that
he should leave some trusted officers, to work
with an interim government to stabilise the
polity. That way, the coast was left free for
Abacha to have his way.

I have restrained myself from commenting one
way or the other on this ASUU strike that has
finally come to a head. At first I told myself it
would not last longer than a month. Then I got
angry with those who signed the 2009
agreement apparently without reading the
document. That also got me wondering if the
lecturers who we all respect because they are
supposed to have more sense than the rest of
us actually believed that this nation can afford
to fund that 2009 shopping list. To me the
agreement was the kind of promise a man
would make in the throes of ecstasy. As soon
as he’s come and done, the woman is on her
own, or at best she would have to renegotiate.
Every woman knows that a promise extracted
from a man with a desperate nozzle is a
promise you can’t take to the bank. So, did
ASUU not know that the Federal Government
does not have the wherewithal to keep the
promises in the 2009 agreement or the body
thought it could make a hot nozzle deliver on
any promise after discharging its fuel? Once a
nozzle is cold, it forgets all promises. So, lesson
number one, never believe promises made when
a man’s eyes are glazed.
In place of the hot nozzle promise I offer the
jeans-under-the lingerie option. According to a
friend, the wife of a powerful king wanted her
husband to cede a portion of royal property to
her family and used the theory. Here’s what she
did. She put on her sexiest negligee and went
into the royal chambers. She pushed all the
king’s buttons, caressed and massaged the king
until the old man was ready to beg. She allowed
him to remove the negligee, with trembling
hands of course. And right under the flimsy
sexy stuff was a pair of jeans held firmly in
place with a designer belt. The king was
stunned. The queen whisked out the land
document and pleaded with the king to sign.
Did he sign? Yeah. His nozzle was hot. The
queen went on to make him thoroughly, mind-
blowingly happy. Both king and queen sighed
deliciously and lived happily ever after.
However, there is a little problem with the
jeans-under-the-lingerie theory. It can only be
used where the parties involved are in love with
each other. And since what exists between the
FG and ASUU is employer-employee
relationship, ASUU should not wear any sexy
stuff unless it can make the nozzle hot and
desperate.
Now, seriously, ASUU should call off this strike
or do what the FG has commanded. This
handshake has gone beyond the elbow. When a
President sits with a union for 13 hours to
resolve an impasse and the union sticks to its
gun, you know the end won’t be in favour of the
union. No matter how much an employer loves
his employee, there will still be lines of
demarcation that must not be crossed. My
people say it is the same teeth that the dog
uses to play with her puppies that she uses to
bite them. No matter how tall the okro plant is,
it will be bent when it is harvest time. The boss
is the boss no matter the number of university
degrees the employee possesses. Even if your
boss is a stark illiterate, the day you apply for a
job in his establishment is the day you
acknowledge that he has something you do not
have. So you see, we may not like the ‘with
immediate effect’ phrase used by the Federal
Government but until you are holding the
handle of a sword, you cannot go hunting for
the man who killed your father. The boss is the
boss even if you hate his guts. He is the piper
who dictates the tune.
In other words, can the Federal Government
sack lecturers who do not resume on December
4? Yes, it can. It is unimaginable. It sounds
farfetched but the FG is the boss here. How will
the FG replace millions of lecturers it wants to
sack? It would be a herculean task but what if
the FG decides to cross that bridge when it gets
there? Will this kind of show of federal might in
its raw form lead to brain drain? Oh yes,
definitely. Some of our great professors will
leave for Oxford and Yale. Since we didn’t send
them to school with federal money, they reserve
the right to change jobs and call the bluff of
any employer. But how many brains will be
drained? Less than 20%, most likely. Which is
why I believe some lecturers will resume on
Wednesday. Already some Chapters of ASUU
have resumed since last week and a few have
backed FG’s sack threat. Like the Nigerian
Governor’s Forum, ASUU is broken. A broken
ASUU is not totally good, or totally bad either.
And the lecturers brought this on themselves.
They may not agree with me but I think they
overplayed their hands. They must have
forgotten that they are employees of the state
at the end of the day. We value and respect
them but they are salary earners and the boss
who pays the salaries has some rights too.
Yet, the boss must not lose sight of our
dilapidated education sector. Things are not
what they ought to be. Like ASUU wants, we
need better focussed funding. This is one sector
that affects all the other sectors of all of our
national life. For as long as our institutions of
learning are ignored or treated shabbily, for that
long will our nation remain on its knees, head
bowed, shoulders slumped. ASUU has a huge
point but a bad school and a shut school are
identical twins. You cannot teach students that
are not in school. You cannot behead a man
because you want to cure his headache. ASUU
started a good strike which we all bought into
but parents and students are tired. Only short
strikes enjoy sympathy here. Any long drawn
out strike leaves the strikers looking like mean
men, and women.
I will conclude with this well known folk tale.
The tortoise married the daughter of the snail.
The snail was a rich farmer. We all know the
tortoise is not a fan of hard work. So he
resorted to stealing from his father-in-law’s
farm. One day the tortoise was caught
harvesting yams he did not plant and hauled off
to his father-in-law’s compound to explain
himself. What was there to explain? The snail
was very angry and he ordered his servants to
tie the tortoise to a tree on the way to the
market so that the whole village would know
the shameful thing his son-in-law had done.
Everybody saw the tortoise sweating on their
way to the market and poured insults on him.
They called him names and spat on him. They
hissed and squeezed his nose. But these same
people were shocked to find the tortoise still
tied to the stake on their way back in the
evening. Their sympathy shifted to tortoise as
they castigated the snail.
‘This snail is really wicked.’
‘He is unforgiving too.’
‘If he can do this to his son-in-law, only God
knows what he would do to an outsider.’
‘I bet he would kill anybody who offends him.’
‘Maybe he will still kill tortoise.’
That is where ASUU is now, in the snail’s shoes.
In the morning when it tied the Federal
Government to the tree, we supported it and
wondered why the government was being mean
to ASUU. Now, five months on and still tied to a
tree, we share FG’s pains. In fact we are so in
much pain that we have forgotten the Federal
Government’s sins.
Too much of a good thing…
The Sun

A former military Head of State, Maj.-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has said the has
no anointed candidate for any political
position in the country.
Buhari, also a chieftain of the All Progressive
Congress, said this on Saturday in Kano at a
sensitisation workshop, organised by the
Kano APC Forum for Peace and Equity.
The former head of state said he had no
candidate and urged anybody who wanted to
aspire to any post to feel free to do so.
“Buhari has not anointed anybody as a
candidate, so whoever people want is his
candidate.
“Whoever emerges for the party as the
people’s candidate at the local, state or
presidential level is Buhari’s candidate. So
Buhari’s candidate is the people’s
candidate,” he said.
According to him, the APC as a party is not
concerned about Buhari as a person or
anybody but about the future of Nigeria and
Nigerians.
He urged members of the parties to ensure
the success of the APC in future elections.
Buhari was represented by a former member
of the House of Representatives, Faruk Aliyu.
Earlier, the former governor of Kano State,
Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, who was also
represented, stressed the importance of unity
among the APC members.
“APC has a history of unity because it came
into being following the decision of three
parties to merge.”
Also speaking, the chairman of the forum,
Umar El-Yakub, urged the party’s leaders to
avoid politics of hate, deceit and selfish
interest in order to achieve its objectives.

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance, Mr. Willie Obiano, has been declared
the winner in the Anambra State governorship
election.
Obiano scored 180,178 to beat the Peoples
Democratic Party candidate, Mr. Tony Nwoye,
to the second position with 97,700 votes and
Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives
Congress, who came third with 95,963.
The Labour Party candidate, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah,
came fourth with 37,495.
The formal declaration was made by the Chief
Returning Officer, Prof. James Epoke, who is
also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Calabar around 1 am on Sunday.
The declaration of the winner brought to an
end a long-running and controversial process
of electing a new governor for Anambra State.
The entire process of electing the new
governor was dogged by controversy as three
of the major political parties that fielded
candidates called for its cancellation and
vowed to boycott the supplementary election.
The Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega,
who admitted the errors committed in the
election, apologised to the nation but said
the errors were not substantial enough to
warrant the cancellation of the entire
exercise.
The supplementary election was eventually
held on Saturday but was characterised by
low turnout. The Agbaja Polling Unit 22 in
Abatete, Idemili North Local Government
Area, which has a voting population of 739,
for instance, had only 24 candidates
accredited and 20 of them voting in the
supplementary election.
The main election, which held on November
16, could not be concluded on the same day
and INEC announced that election in 65
polling units in Obosi ward in Idemili North
Local Government Area would be repeated.
The Chief Returning Officer said the voting
population in the areas where election did
not take place was large enough to make the
second or third person defeat the leading
candidate. He, therefore, declared the election
inconclusive.
Following the development, INEC declared
that supplementary election would in 210
polling units, where 113,113 voters could not
vote on November 16. The areas affected cut
across 15 local government areas and most
of them (160)were in Idemili North.
Epoke said the Electoral Act required that for
a winner to be declared in an election, the
difference in the total voting population of
the areas where election was cancelled
should be less than the difference between
the votes scored by the candidate with the
highest votes and the votes of the candidate
with the second highest votes.
The returning officer had reported that the
total voting population in the areas where
election was cancelled was 113,113, which
was higher than the 79,754 difference
between the leading candidate’s votes and
the second highest candidate’s votes, saying
the commission had no choice but to declare
the election inconclusive.
“The rule guiding this election is that for a
winner to emerge, he must have majority of
votes cast and the required spread of 25 per
cent of votes in two thirds of the local
government areas.
“We observed that due to many reasons, there
were a lot of cancelled votes that made it
difficult for a winner to emerge,” Epoke said.
He said the winner of the election would be
declared only after election has been
conducted in areas where the election was
cancelled.
In declaring Obiano winner, Epoke said the
APGA candidate did not only win the majority
of the votes cast, but also fulfilled the
requirement that the winner should score 25
per cent of the total votes cast in two thirds
of the local governments in the state, in
Anambra’s case 14 local government areas.
Meanwhile, the Independent National
Electoral Commission Resident Commissioner
in Rivers State, Mr Aniedi Ikoiwak, has
commended the people of Anambra for
coming out to vote in Saturday’s
supplementary governorship election.
The electoral commissioner, who supervised
the election in Onitsha South and Onitsha
North council areas, spoke at Okija hall,
where voting took place in four polling units.
“The important thing here is that for so many
places where I have visited, the party agents
were there, especially those of the major
parties.
“It is a clear indication that there had not
been any boycott of the election by any of the
parties.
“The people were interested in completing
this exercise so that at the end of the day,
their governor would be announced to them,’’
he said.
Ikoiwak said NEC directed its poll officers to
display the Form 60E on the day of the
exercise, which would show that the election
had been completed peacefully.
“You cannot display that form if you do not
have a conducive environment.
“And that form would display the result in
each unit for members of the public to copy
and know what happened in the unit,’’ he
said.

President Goodluck Jonathan says the strike
embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities since July 1, 2013 over the
non-implementation of 2009 agreement with
the Federal Government is no longer a trade
dispute but a subversive action.
Jonathan said this at the Peoples Democratic
Party state caucus meeting at the
Government House, Yenagoa. The meeting,
presided over by the party chairman in the
state, Col. Samuel Inokoba (retd), started late
on Friday and ended on Saturday.
The President was reacting to a plea by a
former governor of the state, Mr. Diepreye
Alamieyesigha, on the December 4 deadline
given to ASUU to call off its strike or be
sacked.
Alamieyesigha noted that the same date was
fixed for the burial of late Prof. Festus Iyayi,
who died in a road accident in Kogi State on
November 12, en route Kano for the national
executive council.
The NEC meeting was meant to deliberate on
the latest government offer after meeting with
Jonathan on November 4 to the early hours
of November 5.
The former governor, who is also the
Chairman Elders Advisory Forum in the state,
urged the President to reconsider the date in
order not to be seen as insensitive.
President Jonathan said despite holding the
longest meeting in his political career with all
the highest officers in his administration
present including the Vice-President, Minister
of Finance, Minister of Labour, Minister of
Justice, the Secretary to the Government and
the delegation from the Nigeria Labour
Congress, ASUU did not deem it fit to
reconsider its stance.
Jonathan said, “What ASUU is doing is no
longer trade union. I have intervened in other
labour issues before now, once I invite them,
they respond and after the meeting they take
decision and call off the strike.
“At times, we don’t even give them a long
notice unlike in the case of ASUU that was
given four days notice before the meeting. As
you are meeting to resolve trade disputes,
you expect the trade unions to get their
officials ready. What was expected having
met with the highest authorities in the land
for long hours, was for ASUU to immediately
issue a statement within 12 or latest 24
hours to state their position whether they
were accepting government’s offer or not.
And if they are not accepting, they state the
reason for that.
“But despite the fact that I had the longest
meeting with ASUU in my political history, we
did not start that meeting until around 2 pm
and the meeting ended the next day in the
early hours of the morning. As far as the
government of Nigeria was concerned, all the
critical people that should be in a meeting
were there, so what else do they want?
He added, “After that, they didn’t meet until
one week, despite the fact that you met with
the highest authority. It was unfortunate one
of them, Prof. Iyayi died.
“The way ASUU has conducted the matter
shows they are extreme and when Iyayi died,
they now said the strike was now indefinite,
our children have been at home for over five
months.
“We didn’t give them ultimatum; it was the
Committee of Vice Chancellors that took that
decision. The supervising minister of
education only passed on the decision. What
ASUU is doing is no longer trade dispute but
subversive action. But like you rightly noted
so that we will not be perceived to be
insensitive, we will consult on the deadline.”
The Federal Government had on Thursday
given ASUU one week ultimatum to call off
strike or consider themselves sacked.
Meanwhile,the Academic Staff Union of
Universities has dared the Federal
Government to reopen the universities.
The ASUU chairman at the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile Ife, Prof. Adegbola Akinola,
said this in an interview with our
correspondent in Osogbo on Friday.
The ASUU chairman said members of the
union were unfazed by the deployment of
troops to varsities.
The don said he was not sure that the
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom
Wike, had the consent of President Goodluck
Jonathan before issuing the ultimatum.
He stated that the union did not shut the
universities but just withdrew services of its
members to press home their demands that
government should take steps to reverse the
decay in the public universities.