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Hmm common #2000

His is becoming serious

Pls gamers in the house,I just bought pes 2015 software that contains 2 disk and am having problem installing them on my pc.pls ur response is highly appreciated.

The governor of Rivers state, Rotimi
Amaechi has been restricted from
moving around different polling units
in the state by the Nigerian military.
According to Premium Times
report,who was driving himself in a
black 4WD, was stopped by the Brigade
Commander of the second Brigade,
Bori Camp in Port Harcourt, the state
capital, Essien Essien.
A heated argument ensued between
the duo.
The governor said he was determined
to drive back to the government house
as he had finished his accreditation.
He told Essien to arrest him, if
necessary, adding that he had asked
someone to call him once the voting
materials are ready at the unit.
Earlier, Amaechi had ordered the
suspension of accreditation of voters in
Ikwerre local government area in the
state following the non-availability of
result sheets and a reported attack on
security agents and corps members.
About two days ago, the governor
narrowly escaped death after alleged
PDP thugs fired gunshots at him.
However, the State Police Command
has said that his claims were false.

www.naij.com/411453-brigade-commander-restricts-gov-amaechi.html

The governor of Rivers state, Rotimi
Amaechi has been restricted from
moving around different polling units
in the state by the Nigerian military.
According to Premium Times
report,who was driving himself in a
black 4WD, was stopped by the Brigade
Commander of the second Brigade,
Bori Camp in Port Harcourt, the state
capital, Essien Essien.
A heated argument ensued between
the duo.
The governor said he was determined
to drive back to the government house
as he had finished his accreditation.
He told Essien to arrest him, if
necessary, adding that he had asked
someone to call him once the voting
materials are ready at the unit.
Earlier, Amaechi had ordered the
suspension of accreditation of voters in
Ikwerre local government area in the
state following the non-availability of
result sheets and a reported attack on
security agents and corps members.
About two days ago, the governor
narrowly escaped death after alleged
PDP thugs fired gunshots at him.
However, the State Police Command
has said that his claims were false.

www.naij.com/411453-brigade-commander-restricts-gov-amaechi.html

In just few hours to the 2015
presidential election, officials of the
Sokoto State command of the
Department of State Security (DSS)
have arrested some chieftains of the
All Progressive Congress (APC).

SaharaReporters reported that those
arrested include Alhaji Mu’azu Zabira,
the chairman of APC’s Security
Committee, while the home of another
APC chieftain, Alhaji Ummarun Kwabo
was raided, during which Alhaji
Abubakar Kani was arrested.

No reason has been given for their
arrest, even as their whereabouts is
still unknown.
The state APC acting Chairman, Alhaji
Usman Suleiman Danmadamin Isah,
who confirmed this to SaharaReporters,
revealed that arrests are one of the
strategies of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to use force to seize power
in the state.
Alhaji Isah further hinted that efforts
were being made to secure the release
of the men before the election.
Meanwhile, when the DSS Director,
Abubakar Bubuche, was contacted, he
denied knowledge of the arrests.
The state police command spokesman,
El-Mustapha Sani, who also denied the
information when contacted, said they
don’t have a hand in the arrests.
It was gathered that the state chapter
of the PDP, in collaboration with the
Federal Government, is alleged to have
listed about nine APC chieftains in the
state as well as some state government
officials to be detained until the result
of the elections is announced.

In a related development, Justice
Rilwanu Aikawa of the Sokoto Federal
High Court has restrained the EFCC,
ICPC, the Police and the NIA from
arresting state government officials in
relation to investigations in alleged
cases of appropriation, disbursement
and administration of monies
appropriated between 2008 and 2014.
Premium Times reported on Friday that
Kaduna state police also attempted to
arrest several APC chieftains, including
the governorship candidate, Nasir El-
Rufai, the APC Senatorial Candidate for
Kaduna North, Suleiman Hunkuyi; and
a top campaign council official, Lawal
Yakawada.
It was reported that the APC chieftains
declined to honour the invitation, while
their lawyers wrote to the police,
informing them that the matter their
clients were being invited for was
already in court.

Accreditation have started on oredo opposite the obas palace but out of 5 polling unit its just 2 unit that is working.

No inec staff on ikpoba okha ward 4 up till now,its just 3 police and 2 nscdc officers

There is a threat to unleash violence on the adhoc staff if they are not accredited.

Can inec send engineers to about 2265 polling unit

Can inec send expert to all the polling unit in benin. because report reaching me says that most polling unit have not started accreditation because of card readers,and the adhoc staff are wating for inec engineers to sort out the issue

Does inec have expert to rectify the card readers issue.
Because as at now no body has be accredited in the four polling unit in uniben as at 9.50am

Report just reaching me now says that the card reader is falling to accredits voters on post of the polling unit in benin.

The officials of the Imo State Police
Command have arrested a Senior
Special Assistant to Governor Rochas
Okorocha, Mr. Okechukwu Okorocha,
for illegally being in possession of
arms.
Punch reports that Andrew Enwerem,
the police public relations officer
(PPRO) in the state, while briefing
newsmen at the State Police Command
Headquarters in Owerri earlier today
made it known that Okorocha has been
arrested.
The PPRO further said that said he was
arrested after operatives of the State
Criminal Investigation Department,
acted on a tip-off, conducted a cordon-
and-search operation at his residence
today and recovered three pump action
automatic rifles with 24 live cartridges
and a Kenwood walkie-talkie.

He continued by making it known that
the command had gotten information
that some top government
functionaries were gathering arms with
the intention to disrupt the general
elections in Imo State. The police
spokesman noted that Okorocha had
acted contrary to an instruction from
the police to all residents, particularly
members of the State Vigilante Service,
to surrender all the arms and other
dangerous weapons in their possession
before the general elections.
Enwerem said: “We have been
announcing that the vigilance group
will not be part of the security beef up
at the polling centres during the
elections. As a result, we have been
warning them to return the prohibited
firearms in their possession to the
Divisional Police Officers nearest to
them.”
In a similar operation by the State CID
in Owerri, three automatic pump action
rifles with 14 live cartridges were found
in the security post of Ebuada Housing
Estate in the city. While recovering the
weapons, four suspects, Kelechi
Onuoha, Chigozie Uzowuru, Osita
Obiako and Linus Aka were also
arrested.
“It is believed that these arms were
going to be used to disrupt the coming
elections. The arrested suspects are
currently in the custody of the police
and they are undergoing interrogation.
This is what we have done in
preparation to ensure that there is a
peaceful, credible, free and fair
elections in Imo State,” the PPRO said.

Following several alarm raised by the
country’s major opposition party, the
All Progressive Congress (APC) and
the recent siege allegedly laid by
men of the Nigerian army in front of
the house of a national leader of the
party, Bola Tinubu, a federal High
Court sitting in Lagos has carpeted
the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen.
Kenneth Minimah.

The Nation reports that the federal
High Court on Thursday restrained the
Chief of Army Staff, from arresting,
detaining, harassing or intimidating
Tinubu.
The order was given by Justice J.T.
Tsoho after hearing a motion ex parte
application dated and filed on March
24, 2015, by the applicant, Bola Tinubu,
through his legal counsel, Femi Falana
(SAN) as well as reading of the affidavit
of urgency in support of the motion ex
parte sworn to by a journalist, Sunday
Dare.
The Chief of Army Staff, his allies,
agents and servants were also
restrained from attempting to stop
Tinubu from participating in the
general elections.
Minimah, his privies, agents and
servants were further restrained from
laying siege to Tinubu’s house, located
at 26, Bourdillon Street, Ikoyi, pending
the determination of a motion on
notice filed against the defendant.
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth
Minimah
The plaintiff reportedly approached the
court on March 25, 2015, through his
lawyer, Falana to seek the enforcement
of his fundamental human rights.
The plaintiff in his application had
prayed the court for a three days order,
including leave to serve the Originating
Motion on Notice on the respondent at
the Ministry of Defence, Area 10,
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
Justice Tsoho granted the three prayers
of the applicant, and adjourned
hearing of the motion on notice in the
matter to March 31, 2015.
It is becoming obvious that the national
leader of the APC, and the former
governor of Lagos State is very
fortunate with law suits.
Tinubu recently also secured victory at
a Lagos State high court, when it
granted the injunction barring, Daar
Communications from disseminating a
documentary titled, “The Lion of
Bourdillon” pending the determination
of “The Motion on Notice.”


www.naij.com/410204-court-carpets-chief-of-army-staff-for-tinubu.html

Goddex:
APC are Iearners

Help me tell them

In less than 48 hours to March 28
presidential election, the presidential
campaign co-ordinator to Gneral
Muhammadu Buhari, the All
Progressive Congress (APC)
presidential candidate has defected
to the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).

Channels Television on Thursday
reported that the Buhari presidential
campaign co-ordinator in Cross River
State, Engineer U.Oko, left the APC to
the PDP with all his supporters.

Oko reportedly pledge to mobilise
support for the re-election of President
Goodluck Jonathan, the candidate of
the PDP.
The defector, who addressed a
mammoth crowd of PDP supporters in
Bekwarra Local Government Area of the
State, revealed that his decision to
dump the APC for the PDP was
informed by President Jonathan’s
excellent achievements in office.
It was gathered that Barrister Legor
Idagbo, the PDP candidate for the
House of Representatives elections for
Bekwarra, Obudu, Obanliku Federal
Constituency, received Oko back into
the party.
Idagbo, who thanked Oko for the bold
step, stated that unlike the broom, the
PDPs umbrella was big enough to
accommodate everyone.
The House of Reps candidate while
praising Oko’s decision stated that he is a grass root mobiliser and an intelligent
politician who would contribute a great
deal to the continued growth of the
state’s PDP.
The PDP in Cross River state have
reportedly started to distribute bags of
rice and other food items to sway
voters to support its candidates in
Saturday’s presidential and national
assembly elections.
The deputy national chairman of the
PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, had earlier
said the APC would totally crumble
towards the last days of the campaign
as more governors and chieftains will
return to the ruling party.

www.naij.com/410216-buharis-campaign-co-ordinator-defects-to-pdp.html

Mr Op were did u get this type of news from,am in benin presently now and I have not heard dat type of news since morning

A comedian and a producer, Ayo
Makun, alias AY, has written an
open letter to the Inspector
General of Police, Suleiman Abba,
on the piration of his movie.
AY, who produced the new movie
“30 Days in Atlanta” , urged the
IGP to use the machinery at his
disposal to identify and arrest
those involved in the nefarious
act.
The comedian, who made the copy
of the letter available to
journalistts, said he had already
put some measures in place to
curtail the activities of the
interlopers to no avail.
He said that he had contacted the
licensed distributors of the movie,
Silverbird Film Distribution; the
Director General of the National
Copyright Commission, Afam
Ezekude and Ahbu Ventures of
Alaba market.
“I have always heard of the risk
faced by honest producers and
loss of revenue due to the
activities of the incessant piracy
cabals operating freely, without
fear of the law in Nigeria.
“And within the past few weeks,
this has been my experience as I
heard of the leak of my movie to
various nefarious elements.
“No more should a miscreant be
celebrated or allowed to rape
intellectual properties of honest
hardworking citizens with
impunity, while the owners of the
property looks on helplessly.
“No more should movie producers
and other intellectual property
owners’ scramble to make the little
they can, before the ‘Alaba boys’
get their hands on the content.
“Alaba is part of Nigeria and as
such the activities therein ought to
be governed by the laws of
Nigeria,’’ he said.
AY said if the IGP did not curtail
the continued dominance of
piracy, producers would refuse to
make more movies for fear of
losing out.
The comedian had also used the
social media, including messages
on Blackberry to urge the public to
shun the hawkers of pirated works.
The movie, which featured AY, alongside
Nollywood stars like Ramsey Noah, Mercy
Johnson, Richard Mofe-Damijo and Hollywood
icons, Vivica Fox and Lyn Whitfield, was
largely shot in Atlanta, U.S.
The movie, which premiered in the country on
October 30, 2014, has since become the highest
earning Nigerian movie at the Box Office, with
reported gate takings of more than N100
million.
It also premiered at Ghanaian cinemas on
January 30.

www.premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/177010-comedian-ay-writes-igp-on-piracy-of-movie-30-days-in-atlanta.html

Following the shift in polls dates, the
Peoples Democratic Party Campaign
Council has resolved to begin another
round of state-wide campaigns, The
PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondent learnt that this was
one of the decisions taken during a
meeting the council members had with
President Goodluck Jonathan at the new
Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa,
Abuja on Monday.
Apart from Jonathan, those who
attended the meeting included Vice
President Namadi Sambo; the National
Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu; the National Deputy Chairman,
Uche Secondus; the Deputy President of
the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu; and the
Deputy Director-General of the
Campaign Council, Taminu Turaki (SAN).
A council member, who attended the
meeting, told our correspondent that the
meeting resolved that the party should
embark on another round of state
campaigns because of the
postponement.
He however said that unlike the just-
concluded campaigns that took Jonathan
and the party to about 35 states, only
about 10 states would be visited during
this round.
He added that although rallies would be
held, the latest campaigns would be
more of “penetration and consultations.”
The official said, “We have decided that
we should go on another round of state
campaigns because of the poll shift.
“Although rallies will be held, this new
round of campaigns will be more of
penetration and consultations.
“This one may include only about 10
states.”
None of those who attended the meeting
spoke with journalists at the end of the
parley.
When approached, Secondus claimed
that Mu’azu would speak with
journalists.
Sighting reporters, however, Mu’azu
quickly entered his car.
The PDP chairman kept waving to
journalists as he was being driven out of
the premises.

www.punchng.com/news/poll-shift-pdp-plans-fresh-campaigns/

The United States-based New York Times
says the postponement of the elections
by the Independent National Electoral
Commission was orchestrated by
President Goodluck Jonathan to frustrate
Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of
the All Progressives Congress.
The newspaper, which has won 114
Pulitzer Prizes, further stated that
Jonathan appeared to be afraid of the
increasing popularity of Buhari, who
most Nigerians would likely vote for.
It said this in the editorial of its Monday
edition titled, “Nigeria’s Miserable
Choices”.
The publication said, “Any argument to
delay the vote might be more credible if
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
government had not spent much of the
past year playing down the threat posed
by the militants and if there were a
reasonable expectation that the
country’s weak military has the ability to
improve security in a matter of weeks.
“It appears more likely that Mr. Jonathan
grew alarmed by the surging appeal of
Muhammadu Buhari, a former military
ruler who has vowed to crack down on
Boko Haram. By dragging out the race,
Jonathan stands to deplete his rival’s
campaign coffers while he continues to
use state funds and institutions to
bankroll his own.”
It said INEC’s excuse that elections were
postponed because security forces
wanted to fight insecurity would have
been taken in good faith if Jonathan had
been tackling insecurity effectively since
he took office.
The 164-year-old newspaper said that
Jonathan had become so unpopular that
Nigerians were not afraid of the idea of a
former military dictator returning as
President.
It however said that Jonathan had
become worried about the rising
insecurity and was willing to accept help
from western powers.
The newspaper warned that election
postponement might increase the level
of insecurity rather than reduce it and
that Nigeria’s democracy would not
survive an electoral crisis.
It said, “Beyond security matters,
entrenched corruption and the
government’s inability to diversify its
economy as the price of oil, the country’s
financial bedrock, has fallen and has
also caused Nigerians to look for new
leadership.
“Nigeria, the most populous African
nation, and a relatively young
democracy, cannot afford an electoral
crisis. That would only set back the
faltering efforts to reassert government
control in districts where Boko Haram is
sowing terror.
“The security forces may not be able to
safeguard many districts on Election Day.
But postponement is very likely to make
the security threat worse.”

www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-postponed-elections-to-frustrate-buhari-ny-times/

A new creature discovered by American scientist but found difficulties in naming it.
The scientist said anyone who can give it a name and if the name matches this new creature you will be awarded with
fantastic prizes. So let the naming ceremony start,
start giving it name
now!!!!!!

jasper7:
Following keenly

seconded

Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan
has replaced his erstwhile close friend
and business associate, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor as the arrowhead of his re-
election campaign among Nigerian
Christians, reports NewsDay.
In his stead, President Jonathan has
settled for President of Living Faith
Church (Winners Chapel), Bishop
David Oyedepo.
Jonathan believes Oyedepo’s church
with with over 4 million members is of
more political asset than Oritsejafor,
who many believe has lost his political
value due to the numerous scandals
around him.
Aside Oyedepo, President Jonathan
has also enlisted the support of
popular pastors like Paul Enenche,
Paul Adefarasin, Uma Ukpa
The thinking in the presidency is that
President Jonathan can draw from the
goodwill of these pastors to ensure
that Christians vote for him in the
February 14 presidential election.

www.news24.com.ng/Elections/News/Jonathan-dumps-Oritsejafor-20150206

okosodo:
i know niger will support them with pleasure. they qill help them fulfill the will of allah

No I dnt see that happen
Have u see a man whose house is on fire instead of bringing water to quench it he is bringing fuel.

The Independent National Electoral
Commission has listed Kano, Kaduna and
Lagos as the states leading in the
collection of Permanent Voter Cards.
The electoral body said it was committed
to its earlier position that the Temporary
Voter Cards would not be allowed for
voting during the next general elections.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega,
in his submission to the Council of State
meeting presided over by President
Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday, said the
commission would not reverse its
decision to use PVCs for the elections in
order to enhance the credibility of the
polls.
A copy of the submission titled:
“Preparations for the 2015 general
elections: Progress report,” presented to
the Council of State meeting by Jega
stated that a total of 45,098,876 PVCs
had been collected across the country as
of Wednesday.
A document tagged “Attachment 2”
attached to Jega’s presentation claimed
that the figure represents 65.81 per cent
of the 68,833,476 total number of
registered voters nationwide.
The document indicated that 3,190,417
voters had collected their PVCs out of the
4,975,701 registered voters in Kano State
representing 64.11 per cent of the
registered voters.
In Kaduna State, 2,976,628 voters,
representing 87.36 per cent, have
collected their cards out of 3,407,222
registered voters.
In Lagos State, 2,267,039 voters,
representing 38.39 per cent, have
collected their PVCs out of 5,905,852
registered voters.
In Katsina State, 2,245,303 voters (79.40
per cent) have collected their cards out
of 2,827,943 registered voters.
Bayelsa State has the least number of
voters with PVCs. In that state, 386,125
voters (63.26 per cent) have collected
their cards out of 610,373 registered
voters.
In Abuja, 464,769 voters (52.73 per cent)
have collected their cards out of 881,472
registered voters.
In Ekiti State, 496,536 voters (67.83 per
cent) have collected their PVCs out of
732,021 registered voters.
Jega, however, said the commission
would not conduct elections with TVCs
because they (the TVCs) had no chips
and could therefore not be
authenticated by card readers.
He added that if TVCs were allowed,
millions of people who were involved in
multiple registration and whose names
had been removed from voters register
for the next elections would approach
polling units on election days, whereas
their names would not be in the register.
The INEC chairman said, “The nation has
invested a lot in the Card Readers and
Permanent Voters Cards technology and
the commission believes that using them
in the 2015 general elections would
confer remarkable transparency and
credibility to the electoral process.
“There have been demands that the
commission should revert to the use of
TVCs issued during the 2011 registration
and the subsequent Continuous Voters
Registration.
“The TVCs have no chips and therefore
cannot be verified or authenticated by
the card readers. Also, there are more
than four million cases of multiple
registration; people with TVCs, who have
been removed from the certified register
of voters for the 2015 elections.
“Once the use of TVCs is allowed, many
of these people would inundate polling
units on election day; their names will
not be in the register, and they would
start agitation that they have been
‘disenfranchised’ as was the case during
the Anambra State governorship
elections in November 2013.
“In any case, people who collected PVCs
no longer have TVCs because they used
them to exchange for PVCs.
“Additionally, a high percentage of voters
had to use the attestation forms
provided to collect their PVCs due to loss
of TVCs on account of floods, insurgency,
etc.”
Meanwhile, Jega regretted that due to
funding constraints, the commission
could not do enough hands-on training
for its Presiding Officers and Assistant
Presiding Officers on the technology of
the PVCs and card readers.

www.punchng.com/news/kano-kaduna-lagos-top-pvc-collection-list-inec/

Islamist militant group Boko Haram, attacked a
military base in eastern Niger, expanding its
reign of terror across the region, witnesses said
on Friday.
It is the first time the Nigeria-based insurgents
launched an assault in Niger, after infiltrating
northern Cameroon for the past few months,
killing dozens of people.
Boko Haram clashed with soldiers in Bosso, a
town that borders Nigeria.
However, a causality figure could not be
confirmed.
The attack came a day after Boko Haram killed
31 people in northern Cameroon, when it burnt
three mosques in the town of Fotokol, also near
the Nigerian border.
Insurgents on Wednesday killed 82 civilians in
Fotokol, as well as six Cameroonians and 13
Chadian soldiers.
Boko Haram descended on Fotokol in apparent
retaliation for the deaths of over 200 of their
members killed this week by Chadian and
Nigerian troops.
Nigerian and Chadian aircraft have been
bombing Boko Haram hideouts since Monday.
No fewer than 2,000 Chadian soldiers were
stationed this week along the Nigeria-Cameroon
border after the AU agreed on January 31 to
send 7,500 troops to fight Boko Haram.
Boko Haram has killed over 13,000 people
since 2009 in northern Nigeria under the pretext
of trying to establish an Islamist state.
The insurgents control about 130 villages and
towns in northern Nigeria, a territory the size of
Belgium, and have sparked fears of regional
instability.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/176371-boko-haram-attacks-military-base-niger.html

jaybee3:
No wonder the exchange rate to the dollar is rising at an alarming rate.

Lol I think you are right

The Nigerian presidency is currently engaged in
the bribery of small political parties who are
billed to meet with the Independent National
Electoral Commission Saturday to discuss
possible postponement of the forthcoming
elections, multiple sources in the presidency
and in the parties have told PREMIUM TIMES.
A presidency source, who declined to be named
for security reasons, said Friday night that
presidency officials are distributing between
$30,000 to $50, 000 to the parties and asking
them to push aggressively for the postponement
of the elections on Saturday.
Our sources said apart from the smaller parties,
government officials are reaching out to the
resident electoral commissioners, who will also
hold a separate meeting with Mr. Jega on
Saturday.
“A large chunk of the dollars have also been
budgeted to bribe some of the RECs to vote for
the shifting of the election,” our source said.
Another source said the smaller parties have
been asked to push for at least six weeks
extension.
Presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, could
not be reached to comment for this story. Calls
to his telephone failed to connect.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, did not answer or
return calls.
INEC has fixed separate meetings with
chairmen and secretaries of all registered
political parties, and resident electoral
commissioners for Saturday to decide whether
to go ahead with the general elections
scheduled for February 14 and 28.
A statement Friday by Kayode Idowu, the
spokesperson for the INEC Chairman, Attahiru
Jega, said after the meetings, “the Commission
will address a press conference to brief the
nation on its decision with regard to whether or
not the general elections will hold as currently
scheduled”.
Mr. Jega had on Thursday briefed the National
Council of States on the preparedness of the
Commission to conduct the 2015 general
elections.
He made a presentation titled “Preparations for
the 2015 General Elections: Progress Report”.
The National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki,
and the nation’s services chiefs also briefed the
Council on the current security situation in the
North-East.
Mr. Jega told the Council that his commission
was in a better position to conduct election at
present compared to its state of preparedness
for the 2011 election.
“Compared with the 2011 General Elections, for
instance, our systems are definitely more
robust. We believe that we are ready for the
elections as planned,” Mr. Jega said.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that convening of
the meeting even after the Council of State gave
the green light for the poll to go ahead was a
result of intense pressure from the Federal
Government.
The Electoral Act 2010 as amended recognizes
INEC as the only body with powers to shift
polls, often due to security concerns.
The Act however, requires the commission to
only shift the polls in specific areas where there
is no sufficient security to conduct the poll,
except if the nation is at war
Section 26(1) of the Electoral Act 2010
(amended) states that:
“Where a date has been appointed for the holding of an election, and there is reason to believe that a serious breach of the peace is
likely to occur if the election is proceeded with
on that date or it is impossible to conduct the
elections as a result of natural disasters or other
emergencies, the commission may postpone the
election and shall in respect of the area, or areas
concerned, appoint another date for the holding
of the postponed election provided that such
reason for the postponement is cogent and
verifiable.”
Sixteen political parties and four presidential
candidates have earlier in the week called for
the postponement of the general elections,
threatening a boycott should the elections hold
as scheduled.
Among the parties who called for the
postponement were United Democratic Party,
UDP; the Citizen Peoples Party, CPP; the
Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN; the Action
Alliance, AA; the Peoples Democratic Congress,
PDC; the Labour Party, LP; Unity Party of
Nigeria, UPN; Alliance for Democracy, AD; the
Democratic Peoples Party, DPP; the New
Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP; and the
Independent Democrat, ID.
The presidential candidates who want the
election dates moved are Sam Ekeh of CPP,
Anifowose Kelani of AA, and Ganiyu Galadima
of ACPN.
However, 10 other parties on Thursday also
addressed a press conference rejecting the call
for postponement by the 16 other parties.
The 10 parties are the Peoples Democratic
Movement, PDM; African Peoples Alliance,
APA; KOWA Party; Mega Progressives Peoples
Party, MPPP; Social Democratic Party, SDP;
African Democratic Congress, ADC; Hope
Democratic Party, HDP; Democratic Peoples
Party, DPP; United Progressives Party, UPP; and
Accord Party, AP.

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