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Part 2: Rivers rerun: We have not been informed of police panel report – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it was yet to receive the report of the Police panel that investigated activities surrounding the Dec. 10, 2016 parliamentary re-run polls in Rivers.

The panel, which was constituted by police high command submitted report to the Inspector-General of Police on Tuesday in Abuja.

The report said that N111 million was recovered from 23 INEC officials that participated in the elections.

The recovered cash was displayed during the presentation of the report at Police Headquarters,

INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the commission had not been briefed on the report by anybody on it.

He said that when it would see the report and the indictment, INEC would support all processes to prosecute the people allegedly involved the alleged bribery.

Chairman of the panel, Damian Okoro, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, made the allegation while presenting the team’s report to the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, in Abuja on Tuesday.

He alleged that three senior election officials collected N20 million each out of the N360 million allegedly given to key officials by the state governor, Nyesom Wike.

He said the other officials received N15 million each.

According to Okoro, there are some cases of misconduct on the part of some electoral officers, who were compromised in the line of duty

Osaze-Uzzi said “we await the police report; just like everybody saw it on the media that was how we also saw it.

“As at today, they have not communicated to say this is the report.

“We know the panel has submit report to the IG, maybe, he will study it and avail us with the report if need be.”

The director said that the commission would allow the law to take its course on any of its staff members indicted in the alleged bribe.

“If any of our staff has been found culpable, we will deal with him appropriately and then allow the law to take its course.

“If they are charged to court, then normal administrative process will follow.

“If they are convicted, necessary action will be taken. If they are not convicted, we will examine if they have committed any administrative breach.

“If they have committed any administrative breach we will deal with that administratively, while the police will deal with the criminal aspect of it.”

Osaze-Uzzi said that the commission had been cooperating with the special investigative panel and the police on the matter.

“We are determined to weed out any bad egg from the system,” he said

https://www.businessdayonline.com/rivers-rerun-not-informed-police-panel

Part 3: Police fault INEC’s report on Rivers rerun poll



The Nigeria Police has faulted the report purportedly released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) indicting the force in the commission’s findings on the irregularities that bedevilled the December 10, 2016 rerun poll in Rivers State.

A statement yesterday by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Jimoh Moshood, said the “report as quoted is a disservice to the Nigeria Police Force because all the issues raised were discovered by the Joint Investigative Panel and have been dealt with.

A security source told The Guardian that the report issued by INEC is just to douse the tension already created by the indictment of some officials of the electoral body by the panel of investigation commissioned by the Inspector General of Police after the election.


According to Moshood: “The Nigeria Police Force identified and proactively took action against six (6) police officers who were indicted by the Joint Investigation Panel (JIP) report to have compromised, engaged in serious misconduct, misuse of fire arms, and for other conducts in violation of the electoral act and other enabling laws during the Rivers rerun election.
“They were arrested, investigated and subjected to internal disciplinary measures, after being found guilty were dismissed from the Force and paraded before the media on January 6, 2017 and are awaiting prosecution. Other agencies whose personnel were also indicted by the Joint Investigation Panel are expected to do the same to their personnel indicted in the report without any further delay.

“Twenty three (23) INEC Electoral Officers and two (2) administrative officials, who were indicted by the panel were arrested, investigated and total sum of N111, 300,000 confessed to have been collected from Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike was recovered from them. They were granted bail to the Director of Human Resources, INEC Headquarters Abuja,” Moshood said.


http://m.guardian.ng/news/police-fault-inecs-report-on-rivers-rerun-poll/

Its nots a surprise moment last 2 weeks when Police said 23 INEC official indicted in the Rivers Re-Run dec 2016, this was claimed in The police panel report.

But up-to-this moment Policr is yet to give yo INEC the report on its indicted officials.

Part 2: INEC submit a balanced report where it noticed the involvement of Security personnels, INEC officials and Political Parties in the Rerun.

Part 3: Nigerian wake up this morning to hear from policein speed of light reacting to INEC report, where INEC categorically state the involvement of Police in the Rerun battle.

Rivers re-run: Police lambasts INEC over indicting report.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/02/23/rivers-re-run-police-lambasts-inec-indicting-report/


The question we need to ask Police is

1. They claimed to have punished the 6 police involve. What happen to the SARS commander captured in the Video

helinues:
Ok.. Una wan turn the thread to battle ground bah?


engineerboat and NgeneUkwenu .. Both of you should kneel down, close your eyes and raise your hands.

Haaahahahaha.

Its very simple, if NgeneUkwenu is not satisfied with what is up there, the onus is with She-he to debunk it rather than threatening me with Mo.

Who threat don epp.

Once things doesn't go ur way. People cannot talk again.

Sanchez01:
http://punchng.com/need-longer-period-rest-says-buhari/

In summary Baba is sick and needed enough time to recupirate get well.

Please APC kindly allow Baba rest biko, na beg qe det beg hooo

NgeneUkwenu:
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Why are you like this? Where did you get the first paragraph you posted earlier before the punch news?

Who do want to deceive?

I have already reported you to the moderators

Are you God.

Who dere you asking me where i got my information.

NgeneUkwenu i ask you again, are you God.

genearts:
PDP had tendered to produce 1119 witnesses out of which they were only able to produce just 95 at the end of the day, INEC reviewed the situation and decided not to waste the tribunal's time since they have nothing to hide as the petitioner has failed in proving its case.

As if it is the 1119 that will be needed.

Hope you saw the recount report.

Wait there

The second respondent (Obaseki) commences its defense on thursday as the Tribunal Chairmqn adjourned sitting till Thursday.

At the resumption of hearing on Monday, counsel for INEC, Onyinye Anumonye, however, tendered no fewer than 200 copies of the ward results (Form EC8B) for the remaining 17 local government areas, all of which were admitted in evidence and marked as exhibits.

Anumonye also sought to tender a supplement to the 2015 guidelines and regulations for the conduct of the election.

Counsel for the petitioners, Roland Otaru, objected the admissibility of the document, which he said ought to have been tendered by a witness.

But the Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Ahmed Badamasi, admitted the evidence and marked the Certified True Copy of the document as exhibit 1R022.

INEC had used five out of the 10 days allotted to it by the tribunal to open its defence and had been expected to call its witnesses.

But its counsel said that it would amount to a waste of the tribunal’s time to call witnesses to support the case of the first respondent.

Anumonye explained that having reviewed the evidence presented thus far, it was the position of the first respondent that it had sufficiently established a defence to the petition.

“We, therefore, consider it an unnecessary waste of the tribunal’s precious time to call witnesses who would merely repeat evidence that had already been elicited under cross-examination,” he added.


http://www.punchng.com/edo-tribunal-inec-closes-defence-without-calling-witnesses

The independent Electoral Commission closes its defense case at the Edo election petition tribunal without calling in any witnesses as promised last week, instead, they decided to tender documents already tendered by the petitioners.


The Edo elections tribunal sitting in Benin City has admitted in evidence copies of INEC forms EC8B and EC8C used in the 2016 Edo governorship election, for all of the eighteen local government areas in the state.

The forms were presented to the court by INEC counsel Onyinye Anumonye, without any objection by counsel to the PDP and its governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Roland Otaru, SAN. The documents were labelled exhibits by chairman of the three member tribunal, Justice Ahmed Badamasi.

The documents are apparently the same documents that the petitioners in the case, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu (POI) submitted in their petitions.

It can be reported that many of the youth corp members approached to testify refused, claiming that they can’t lie under oath. Even the professors from Ekiti university who superintended over the flawed election also failed to come to court to testify.

The implications of this according to pundits is that INEC is unable to defend the results that they declared, which awarded victory to Mr Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Party (APC).

The next in line to make submission is the APC, after which the judges will consider all the documents and give their verdict.

The Petitioners have asked the Edo State Elections Petition Tribunal to declare them winner of the September 28 Gubernatorial election in Edo state because, according to facts in their petition, they scored highest number of valid votes in the election.

Jesusloveyou:
Akpabio is a killer and corrupt,
Effiong is an attention seeker

Which one make we come believe now.


Effiong need to inform Lalasticlala that hes is am attention seeker jare.

ipobarecriminals:
PDP is BOKO HARAM, BOKO HARAM IS PDP. ..........WHO KILLED AZAZI/FORMER GOV OF KADUNA STATE......,,,,PDP

Are you the one they sent to do the work.

Park well jare

Senator Ali-modu Sheriff, today during his live intetview witj Seun Okinbaloye of channels tv categorically said the statement credited to him of accusing Govenor Wike and Fayose of causiny shame to PDP are not from him but from the imaginatiom of the writer.

Senator Sherriff further stressed that
"he is not interested in leading the embattled party any longer"

Senator Sheriff explained that his next plans are no longer about leading the party but helping to organise convention that will replace him.

"My next step is to move to the party Secretariat. Second is to carry out consultation. Third is to agree on timetable for a quick convention. I am not interested in leading the party any longer. But since the responsibility to lead the party was vested in me, I must do a credible election."

The national leader who appeared conciliatory in his speech, called on all members of the party to unite and dismissed the insinuation that he was a mole in the PDP.

"I will hold a Congress and step aside for the party" he said.


According to him ,the victory at the court was a victory for all PDP members including those belonging to the Makarfi faction .According to him,he ll start consulting every stakeholder in the P...arty including the Governors ,National Assembly and BOT in order to organize a unified National convention of the Party...

He assured that everyone will come back to the Party as one unified Party.According to him ,by the court verdict,there were no victors or losers...Mr Sheriff said the party is tired of losing elections .He stated that all the State Congresses held prior to the Port Harcourt convention stands ..He stated that the State Executives remain as it were.

According to him,he has started reconciliatory moves ,as at this morning he has spoken to the chairman of the reconciliatory committee,Governor Seriake Dickson and the Deputy Senator Ibrahim Mantu as well as the BOT Chairman of PDP in a move to reconcile all aggrieved members as soon as possible..He said ,a successful reconciled National Convention that will be acceptable to all will be held soon..

A timetable for that will be released soon immediately all consultation is concluded ....He said the team will take over the Party headquarters at Wadata House next week once he gets the court papers.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANM-dq5USTc

Mr Effiong should to yhe righy steps and channel im addressinh this issue rather than resulting to name callinh and relying on unfounded rumour.

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Faysoe, has revealed that the Federal Ministry of Finance has reversed its decision over the N1billion Budget Support Facility for the month of January belonging to the State.

Fayose stated on Friday that he has received official communication from the Federal Ministry of Finance, releasing the State’s allocation.
Fayose stated on Friday that he has received official communication from the Federal Ministry of Finance, releasing the State’s allocation.

He said: “I don’t want to join issues with anybody on the allocation; it is a statutory allocation for all the States, I can confirm to you here that by Tuesday next week, I will get the bank alert for the money; an official communication on the release was passed to me just yesterday (Thursday).”

Fayose had accused the Federal Government of planning to cripple the state, over its refusal to pay Ekiti the allocation.

On Thursday, the Ministry said Ekiti State failed to comply with the conditions to get the facility which is a loan by the Federal Government to the states to cushion the impact of revenue shortfall from the federation account.

The statement said the ministry had written to the state government in August last year drawing its attention to the need to comply with the terms of the loans and that the state would be stopped from accessing the facility due to non-compliance

http://www.dailypost.ng/2017/02/17/fayose-says-fg-decided-release-ekitis-n1bn-budget-fund

franchizy:
Biased update from a biased fellow.

Mtcheeeerrrw

You can either keep quiet or not write anything than saying what is not

ComrTonwa:
@Engineerboat..how market?.. are u dumbfounded to report what u saw...biased reporter like u

#TeamSheriff....Bleep down small boys Fayose and Wike

You are only showing who you are and the type of trait in your blood.

I wony stoop so low to give you a response

bakila:
This is not the decider. This is the semi-finals, there is a court called Supreme Court of Nigeria that is the court of last resort..

Both party havr a binding agreement thag Appeal will be the final Bus stop

PassingShot you think we will forget so soon.


PassingShot NIGERIANS WILL NEVER FORGET..


"A serious government will fix power problem in 6 months."
- Babatunde Raji Fashola ( November 12, 2014)


"Stone us (APC) if we do not perform after 2 years."
- Tony Momoh ( April 3, 2016, The Guardian)

"The only way to have stable electricity is to vote out PDP."
- Fashola (July 12, 2014, The Nation)

"We seriously frown at President Goodluck Jonathan, over the "unceremonious removal" of the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr Andrew Yakubu."
- APC (August 4, 2014, Channels Television)

"Jonathan leading a vision less government. "
- Yemi Oshumbade (December 22, 2014, Thisday & tweet @ProfOsinbajo)

"Jonathan should resign if he has no solution to the violence being unleashed on some parts of the country."
- El Rufai ( August 2012)

"The only solution to the present political uncertainty in the country is for the National Assembly to set machineries in motion for the impeachment of ailing President Umoru Musa Yar 'Adua. "
- Buhari (March 10, 2010, Sun Newspapers)

" Why is the nation’s currency, the Naira, now trading for N180 per Dollar, while the South African Rand is trading at R11 to one United States Dollar?"
- Fashola (December 26, 2014, The Nation)

"Give Nigerians a daily update on the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua to stem the growing rumours surrounding his state of health. "
- Lai December 21, 2009 (The Nation)

"Amaechi is not only clean but a tool to free Nigeria from the corruption imposed on us by those who hate our nation."
- APC (October 24, 2026, Vanguard)

"The recent proscription of Boko Haram and Ansaru, desirable violates the Constitution."
- Lai Mohammed (June 10, 2013, The Nation)

" I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again."
- Aisha Buhari (October 14,2016, BBC)

"People are now appointed to top posts because of the influence a "few people" wield."
"Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,"
- Aisha Buhari (October 14, 2016, BBC)

"I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room."
- Buhari (October 14, 2016, BBC/ Punch)

"Buhari is giving cabals billions through forex subsidy."
- Emir Sanusi (August 26, 2016, Daily Trust)

"I can sit in my garden, make billions through forex without sweat."
– Emir of Kano (August 25, 2016)

"Buhari is a LIAR."
- Senator Shehu Sani (January 24, 2017, Daily Independent /YouTube )

"The funds spended were properly spended."
- Solomon Dalung, Sports Minister (December 19, 2016, Punch/ YouTube)


"Athletes don't need training to win medals."
- Solomon Dalung, Sports Minister(September 12, 2016, Vanguard)

AND I SAY IF YOU RELY ON NIGERIAN POLITICIANS YOU'LL KILL EVEN YOUR OWN MOTHER

They told us PMB is on vacation and had transmitted power to his deputy to act in his stead during his vacation.

All of a sudden, same PMB intercepts a call meant for the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria while still on vacation, with the presidential powers still vesting on the Acting President.

This is unprecedented in the history of this country that we have two individuals having presidential power at the same time.
Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu, Lai Mohammed, and the entire APC should hide their heads in shame.


Indeed Nigerians will never forget

Summary of the Tribunal today.


FAGBEMI (Lawyer): Also opposed the application .

......Chairman of the tribunal Ahmed Gbadamasi later agreed to the comparing motion but must be done not more than 10mins.


PETITIONERS (Lawyer):
No objections my lords, they are the same with the one INEC tendered. I just wanted it to be on records, that was why we applied to compare both the one INEC brought and the one in the custody of the tribunal. Thank you my lords, I'm most grateful.

RULING :
this exhibit has been admitted.... Chairman, Ahmed Gbadamasi.

INEC (LAWYER) :
My lords may we adjourn till Monday to enable us use today, tomorrow to prepare the schedule for proceedings.

RULING :
Chairman thereafter ruled that today would be counted among INEC 10 days given by the tribunal and also to prepare its schedule. All parties should be here tomorrow Saturday to examine all documents......Chairman Gbadamasi

We here by adjourned till Monday 20th Feb. 2017

The National Caretaker Committee of our great Party at the Appeal Court today, still waiting for the 3 Man Justices of the Court to resume

Almost time, as everybody is ordered out of yhr court room for Police search

The Appeal Court will be in session by 11:00 am, The Zonal Vice Chairmen and state Chairmen of the party are all here in the court

Again, INEC fails to bring witness, pleads for time to submit some documents and says "we are still not ready. We want to begin on Monday"


Now to Inec by the time they begin on Monday, they will only have four days to defend their case, if they will be shameless to do so.

Beautiful Morning from the tribunal venue

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu arrives, ignites the atmosphere with his electrifying smile and charismatic personality.

As INEC commences the defence of their case today, we are waiting to see how they defend the fraud they created.

Get hooked for more live updates.

The long awaited Appeal Court Judgement Between Sen Ahmed Markafi Vs Sen Sheriff is here today.

Various counsels and parties to the suite are already filling into the Appeal court Room.

Todays Judgement is said to be the decider in setling the dust raised on the leadership crisis rocking the PDP.

Stay tuned for more updates....