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amakaobiemeka:
terminal leave advocate, just tell us that and shut up, are u aware the north had more issues with the card unlike the south because of the northern illeteracy and tatto on hand etc which disqualified many. Now which region benefits more. Jega must remain

WisdomFlakes:
The aim of the above news article is clearly to discredit the INEC boss in order to set the stage for his replacement before the conduct of the elections. DOA.
Some people are just bent on scuttling the upcoming elections no matter what. Na wah o.

Sunday March 8th, 2015

In what has become needlessly controversial, the introduction of the Card Reader technology by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been insinuated into the usual Nigerian malaise of doubt and distrust. Making the wrong arguments – and worse still, suggesting that they do not want the device to be used for the forthcoming general elections – members and leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are expressing fears about the use to which the devices would be put. 

Conversely, the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, appears confident in the belief that only the Card Reader can deliver free, fair and credible elections.  Yet, Professor Attahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, must accept responsibility and blame for the shambling and shambolic air that is presently generating the hoopla.  This report will show that Jega’s position that INEC was ready to go ahead and conduct elections on February 14, 2015, when virtually all indices pointed in the negative direction, as well as the wrong-headed insistence by leaders of the APC that the elections should go ahead, makes an attenuating case for the accommodation of the fears of the PDP. 
Carrying out a test-run only yesterday, some three clear weeks after the fraud that would have been passed off as elections in February, this report will conclude that Jega and his Commission would need to come clean and not waste time, resources and goodwill that Nigerians have dissipated in the belief that free, fair and credible elections are about to be conducted.

JUST IMAGINE
N5million!  And the promise of a fabulous job once the votes are delivered and the election has been won.  Those are the promises made to the Presiding Officer and the Electoral Officer for Janduku/Barawo/Onyeshi LGA.  All they are required to do is to allow the use of stolen Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in the possession of an influential politician.  Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, has made the proposition possible.
How?  He has created a window for crooked politicians and dishonest INEC officials that would be on duty on the day of election. In a polity of clashing socio-political, economic and religious interests that Nigeria has become, every contest for power is seen from the prism of either a North/South divide or a Christian/Muslim interest.

Now, by Jega’s choice, cold water has been poured on his pursuit to deliver free, fair and credible elections to Nigerians.  His introduction of the Smart Card Reader represented a watershed in the nation’s quest to transit from the sphere of crooked elections to the refreshing environment of a free, fair and credible process.  The acknowledged, single most important security feature of the Card Reader is the biometrics, the thumb-print, which is very unique to every individual. This ensures that even in the event that PVC is presented to an INEC official on voting day and the biometrics of the individual does not match the one on the PVC, it suggests that something is amiss.

THE DEVIL IN THE SCHEME
But Jega’s window, which circumvents this security feature, is that an INCIDENT FORM would be provided by the INEC official to be filled by the individual concerned after which he can then be certified to vote.  Having promised Nigerians that the biometrics is a security feature that cannot be broken since it is unique to every individual, analysts, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard at the weekend, feared that, allowing a situation whereby the selfsame INEC has put in place a window to sabotage the process amounts to a gratuitous waste of tax payers’ money and time.
The scenario painted above – of the INEC officials who have been given money and promised better jobs if they deliver – is what may predominate on the day of election as this report would demonstrate.

This could be so because most of those who have either stolen or have been given PVCs in their thousands only need a few crooked INEC staff with Card Readers and INCIDENT FORMS aplenty.
And since the onus of proof is on the loser to determine that the victor that emerged at an election did not emerge freely and fairly, it would become a Herculean task to prove that an election is not free, fair and credible – Nigeria’s electoral laws are skewed against the loser who carries the burden of discharging the extent of fraud that was allegedly committed at an election.

THE BURDEN FOR JEGA AND INEC

Firstly, and as proved by the inexplicable and magical near-100% distribution and collection in most states of the North, there are credible reports that, in some parts of the country, particularly in the North, the Card Readers will not be used as electoral rules are usually not complied with, a case of one country, different rules.
Seven different sources at INEC, comprising National Commissioners, Resident Electoral Commissioners and Directors, provided pieces of information to Sunday Vanguard that suggest that the on-going distribution of PVC remains a clear evidence in that, whereas INEC planned and announced  that Distribution Register (DR) of collection must be used, this was disregarded in some parts of the North as some states’ INEC offices claimed that the DRs were not available and thus distributed without Register – in some instances.

And so, there was no auditing DRs of collection of PVC as most of the PVCs in the North were allegedly delivered to prominent politicians, district heads and clerics.
In fact, one of the National Commissioners disclosed that “we were shocked when we learnt that, in a particular instance, the governor of a state under Boko Haram insurgency was in custody of the PVCs”.

Insiders disclosed that the high prevalence of distribution and collection in the North is not unconnected to these developments.
That is not all.

INEC distribution strategy was three days at polling units, and, subsequently, at wards or LGAs. One of the questions being asked is: How could it be explained that, in states ravaged by the activities of Boko Haram and under emergency where many people, in their thousands, have moved away, people who queued and collected PVCs were over 70%,80% and in some states 97% since last year – above states where there is peace ?
Isn’t it curious that Lagos, Ogun and several states in the South trailed behind in the rate of collection of PVCs despite abundant manpower compared to the North?

Meanwhile, Jega made light of this when he briefed members of the Senate, saying of what concern should it be to him if some people decided to collect their PVCs while others refused to or did not collect theirs?

The fact that the huge number of PVCs has not actually been distributed to the rightful owners in most parts of the North, and even if they are given the next five months,  they will not be able to do so, is the reason the effective  use of the Card Readers in the North remains suspect.    Part of the problems these developments would create is that even if the PVCs are given to the owners, many would not be in their right polling units because the cards are coded to polling units just as Card Readers are expected to be configured to same.
Contrary to INEC’s claim that the Card Readers are fail safe, experts informed Sunday Vanguard that the facilities can be pre-programmed to reject PVCs.
In addition, the Card Readers can also be pre-loaded even without using the right PVCs.
These are not reasons the Card Readers, analysts suggested, should not be used.
The analysts stressed that public service information should be provided so that INEC and security agencies can brace themselves for the eventuality which politicians and some crooked INEC staff could cause to happen.
 
HOW JEGA SET THE TONE FOR DOUBT
The INEC boss comes across as a man who means well.  But as has been established, there is a world of difference between meaning – well and doing well.

When he was appointed, Nigerians hailed his appointment.  He set out to change the narrative about Nigeria’s election management body.  One of the very first things he did was to attempt to clean the Voter Register.  That was a bold move and Sunday Vanguard was in the forefront of reporting the positive and progressive happenings at INEC.

But the story changed when, while investigating INEC, it was discovered that the clean-up of the Voter Register had deprived the North of millions of ghost voters. There were lots of ghost voters in the South, too, but the North lost much more.
Jega was alleged to have been brought under considerable pressure. Whether he buckled or refused to buckle remains in the realm of conjecture as Sunday Vanguard has not been able to concretely prove that.

But what was to follow was a bogus creation of 30,000 polling units. Only one zone in the North, the North-West, got 7,906 PUs; and when you add the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja’s 1,167, you get a total of 9,073; whereas the entire Southern Nigeria got just about 8,414.
Of the 12 states that got over 1,000 PUs, only Lagos is from the South.

At the rate of 500 voters to each PU, an allocation of extra over 1,000 to those 11 states in the North is a guarantee for no fewer than over 5,500,000 voters more than the entire Southern Nigeria – mind you, the North West and the FCT surpass the whole of Southern Nigeria in the Jega-inspired magic.  By the time you add the allocation to North-East and North-Central zones, daylight would enter the crookedness of the whole engagement because, when you allocate PUs to areas with supposedly less population and you allocate materials, you are merely conferring undue advantage.

Worse still, when the INEC boss told Nigerians that the Commission was ready to conduct elections on February 14, 2015, those already blinded by hate, frustration and a lack of understanding of the real issues bought the half-truth that security consideration alone forced INEC to postpone the polls.
Sunday Vanguard immediately published that INEC was not ready the day after Jega announced the postponement, for the following reasons:
 
That only over 45million PVCs had been collected as at that time
That training manuals were not completely ready
Presiding Officers were yet to be trained
700,000 ad hoc staff had not been fully recruited
PVCs still being printed abroad
RECs yet to print Voter Register
Printers for Register, in some cases, were still in Abuja
*No full complement of ballot boxes
Fake printing inks sent to states from headquarters rejected
Many states yet to get balance of Card Readers.
Neither Jega nor INEC refuted that story which was published on Sunday, February 8, 2015.

Between Saturday, February 7, when INEC announced its postponement, and today, Sunday, March 8, 2015, when you interface the type of progress INEC has recorded, with the boastful Jega on INEC’s readiness to go ahead with the elections, would you not agree that all those insisting that elections should go ahead then wanted nothing other than disorder in the polity? Which manner of election would have been held under such circumstances?
 
WHAT MUST BE DONE
Analysts believe INEC should publicly recommit to nationwide use of Card Readers in all 120, 000 polling units, PUs – and the additional voting points that it has created – without exception.
“This is because the creation of the fresh voting points, which is a back-handed way of re-introducing the failed lopsided 30,000 additional PUs, is yet to be publicly declared so that members of the voting public would know the exactitude of the number of extra voting points that have been allocated to each state of the federation”, one of the analysts said.
Could it be the same lopsided allocation as was the case with the 30,000 PUs?

This question becomes pertinent because the additional voting points were surreptitiously introduced by INEC – the same way the 30,000 PUs were introduced before Sunday Vanguard reported the issue.

In addition, the Nigeria Police and all other security agencies should be mandated to ensure the arrest of anybody in possession of PVCs that do not belong to them before  and on the day of election.

The security personnel and even party agents must be at alert so that the newly introduced voting points would be duly accounted for, just as crooked fellows would not hide in a politician’s house, with the collusion of INEC staff, fill INCIDENT FORMS and use Card Readers to accredit unscrupulous politicians already in possession of thousands of PVCs.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/20-days-to-polls-inecs-new-rule-sparks-rigging-fears/#sthash.kxf5aWJh.dpuf

alaoeri:
Ekiti people asked for it & they have gotten it, no iota of pity for them but Fayose should have it at the back of his mind that he's living that seat one day.

olaide721:
Guy u need not to personalised issues here cos I believe u are all matured enough but come to think of it with this issue of PVC see this is the fact from my own thinking that there are pple in INEC frustrating this PVC distribution and also there is one lies u are saying here that millions of pple are yet to collect their PVC sorry can u specifically mention the figure and subtract it from the million dt have collected theirs? And if u care to know this as fact that not all I mean everybody with PVC will vote some will glue to their tv set through out that day so u coming here to shout about numbers of PVC is meaningless ok? And also some will not even go and collect theirs and yet they will be condemning INEC duty
Secondly u said VOting is ur JOB guy it is a NO.there is difference btwn RIGHT and JOB.so voting is ur RIGHT not UR JOB unless u are paid to go and rig or snatch ballot boxes alone u can call it ur JOB
Thanks.

ionsman:
We keep saying the government is corrupt. ..Just imagine the foolish statement you are uttering. ..The presidency and the Pdp intend to plunge this nation into chaos through their selfish desires but you find absolutely nothing wrong it. People like you are the main problem of this nation. Good morning. .

egift:
Is INEC in charge of the Military? Jonathan for the mission he sent Koro.

Ayekotoo:
I now believe that the Nigerian Army has been politised by the president using an Ijaw man, major general minimah to do the dirty job

egift:
Jonathan must answer for the rigging. He cannot wish this away.

berem:
you're lucky today is a new month and a sunday too or else I would have given you the insult of your life.
Anyway,go and sin no more!

egift:
The problem is not just wish stooge becomes the Chairman. But that if there is a new Chairman in this last minute, he will ask for more time. And only the INEC Chairman has the power to postpone the elections by law. The plan is to extend Jonathan's stay in power or manipulate the process to stimulate his victory

Do you know the first bill Jonathan sent to the National Assemble when he got elected in 2011? A bill to give him 7 years single tenure in Office.

Jonathan's greed has been there since the beginning.

Ndeedee:
Wow!!! That's all I can say.. I don't believe you have lived in Poland and if you did then you probably came here on a visit or something.

-You are Nigerian and don't know the Nigerian that was a mayor of a Polish city(I won't tell you the region or city name) who is now in the Polish congress? This same man that was responsible for bringing a delegation of Polish investors to Nigeria with the aim of trying to introduce Polish FDI to Nigeria.

You seem to be really angry with Nigeria and kind of like have transferred this anger on Poland. This thread doesn't seem to be about where you are directing your points to. It's not about Nigeria being rich and having resources and having the potential to be better if only our govt n people will do whats right and our people needing to beg for visas to countries like Poland.
Nobody goes out of Nigeria to Poland and intentionally plans to compound issues for other Nigerians and give Nigeria a bad name. Circumstances lead to that. When you say "Everyone traveling out want to give themselves the best opportunity but then not everyone is genuine" I really do not get your definition of genuine here.
You talk of " if you're not sure of what you're coming here to do, getting it done, packing your bags and leaving when your time is up don't bother coming to cause problems for these people and disgrace your country" but then the people coming here are adults and they can make decisions for themselves. I wonder why you want to be a proxy immigration officer and deny people coming here. Let them make that choice by themselves after reading experiences from people like me and you.

I totally understand what you mean when you talk of treatment genuine people going there receive. You don't have to state to me how we are seen. The treatment our people get is as a result of accumulation of bias and from negative perceptions of black people. How you "user: Pasdeprix" conduct yourself will contribute to how we are seen. If you haven't heard me give any advise to anyone coming to Poland. That's because I know that "my brothers" coming here are not children and they will adapt when they get here when they get how this country works.

I never recommended any Polish girl to anyone...LOL. How did you even come to that conclusion? And how did I disrep Nigerian girls by saying that Polish girls are the best in Europe? When did Nigeria become an European country? Did you just say, "Our gals are beautiful with all d curves in the right places, just love n take care of their needs n u will be dir king. None is gonna wake up one morning n tell u she's fed up then call the Policja to deport u!" HAHAHAHAHA!!! Is that your definition of beauty? Let me highlight some worrisome areas of your description...."beautiful", "with all the curves in the right places" "just love and take care of their needs and you will be their king".....You seem to be the one disrespecting Nigerian women by describing them as needy dependent people who happen to be beautiful and curvy in the right places. Me, I like beauty, I live curvy women, I don't like needy women. and I don't want to be any woman's king. There are many Polish women too that fit into your description too.... For me beauty is not that important(there is too much beauty here to even care about beauty anymore..here, Unlike in Nigeria, I learned that everyone is beautiful in their own way and features), I like curvy women. I like women that are not totally dependent or needy, and I want a woman who will be my equal..(not king/slave or king/peasant woman or even king/ordinary woman kind of inequality).... If you have had a woman call Policja on you, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you that she's not worth being your woman. Unfortunately there are women like that In Poland. Even in Nigeria too. But generally like I told you, I'll recommend a Polish woman before I would a Nigerian woman because of the needy factor which you even confirmed. So Nope, I have not painted Polish people all good. What I believe I have done is explain that there are good people and there are bad people everywhere you go....It's funny that you talked about a woman calling the Policja...It has happened to me only that it happened to me once in the USA and once in Poland(actually the Poland one was my younger brother because he walked an ex girlfriend out of the house after she threatened that she would make sure that me and my brother are deported if she can't be the one for me....so she went outside, banged her face against the elevator, and called Policja to say that my brother beat her) Thank God finally it wasn't much of a case and after telling a Policeman what actually happened, which he investigated and found to be true..The charges were dropped and he was asked to pay a fine...Just because of her claims and because the state has to protect her. It is these kind of women I advise Nigerian guys to stay away from thats why I said, if she has the guts to call Police on you, then she's not worthy for a relationship with you.

I laughed when you talk of bad experiences....see that's why I said I'm not sure you were ever in Poland. If you were, you would know that every black person that lives in Poland has probably had at least 5 of those if you have lived here for up to 6 months. What kind of experiences have you had that I have not had x 10 of in the more unexposed and poor South of Poland? Is it skinheads and fights with racists on the streets? Is it girls that I picked up on the streets, brought home and they cleared my room ..stole all my perfumes, about $500 I had in my wallet, my MLB hats, and a bottle of Courvoisier Cognac I had in my fridge within the time frame of going to the bathroom to clean my shoes, is it the kicking out of her flat by a girlfriend I was living with after we had a fight?, Is it the framing of my younger brother whom my younger brother walked out of our flat when I was not around -for assault on a Polish citizen by an ex girlfriend who threatened to make sure that me and my brother are deported if I don't come back to her? A very beautiful but dumb blonde girl...LOL. Or is it other Nigerians that out of jealousy, made me lose good ex girlfriends because after a point I started looking at certain qualities in women before I decide on what types should qualify for relationships? Or is it other Nigerian boys that try to sleep with girlfriends of Nigerian guys they know? Dude, whatever kind of kasala, problem or experience you can think of...It has happened to me or those around me enough times in Poland which is why I said we should play advisory roles to our brothers who want to come here. You shouldn't discourage those who want to seek a better life from leaving the shores of Nigeria. Perhaps you don't know...Not that I am saying Poland is the best place ...but after living here for a while and comparing it to Nigeria....Nigeria right now is the worst place anybody can be living in right now. If Poland were that bad, I wonder why you haven't gone back to Nigeria to live that survival of the fittest life where if you don't know someone, you cannot progress.

On the part where you said I shouldn't make irrelevant comparisons on the Next top model subject. My guy...See thats why I question if you have really lived in Poland and when I say lived I mean really lived in Poland for more than 2 weeks. Else why would you mistake Poland's own version of Top model for the International top model. FYI. The difference is that in the international top model, the contestants are from different parts of the world. In the Polish version, the contestants are only citizens or permanent residents of Poland alone. Now having explained that....the fact that a Polish-Nigerian(born to 2 Nigerian parents) as black as you and me but who is a Polish citizen, was in that contest and not just participated but won it should tell you something about Poland.The fact is that they are not used to black people here since its an all white country so the people are curious when they see us black people.
Curiosity can make people do different things. It can arouse bias and it can arouse genuine interest. How you handle what comes after tells the kind of person you are. Osi Ugonoh wouldn't have won that contest of not for the fact that her participation aroused the right kind of curiosity in Poland and she fits the Polish description of physical beauty.(Joke: You and I probably know a thousand even prettier lepa shandy Nigerian girls that would have won that thing easy). Osi looks ordinary to me because I am a full blooded Nigerian man and I know what we Nigerians know as beautiful. But then I am glad she won it because her participation sparked the right kind of curiosity. "My wife even used money from her fone and my fone to vote for her, all her friends did too, her mom and friends of her mom that know me did too..because I represent black people well.". Sure there are !diots that would say rubbish but then I would advise you to walk away and stop processing comments from racists...Giving them your time energizes them so I don't even bother myself about people that have such extreme views of my skin color.

Ehen, now you're talking....."All visa and living in Poland related questions are welcome. We're here to help."

pipeewa:
@helpee

I wish you could stop for a minute and watch the video before you continue to argue. If you were paid to support PDP kindly return the cash. You sell more and keep your dignity selling genuine products. The way a lot of us parade our ignorance, selfishness and foolishness when we talk here makes me think it will be difficult to achieve a better Nigeria. Don't you guys think we deserve more? Why do we celebrate trash, injustice and mediocrity and call it performance when we have the capacity for greater things. Which government celebrate construction of roads and rail lines in developed countries and still expect people to vote for them. These so call 'performances' we celebrate are normal things that don't get celebrated in developed nations. And you still have all effrontery to talk to the interviewer. You no dey shame? Kindly step out of Nigeria so your orientation can change.

1toRtoiSe1:
quietimagine you saying the suffering masses are protesting against someone who has come to free them from their sufferings. It shows they got paid by the man suffering them imagine, suffering masses protesting that they want their sufferings to continue. That's cos they got paid to do that todayI now conclude that you are daft. You mean a well paid salary earner who is also well fed will have time to constitute nuisance in the street of london? For how much? Daft guy

chemali:
If your broke rent-seeking ass that's waiting for the next paycheck from FFK to buy additional data to stream the 4 minutes video actually watched it to the end, you would see the face of the person asking questions.