Tolexander:
this shows the extent of your knowledge, including Doyin Okupe that made the statement.

You and Doyin Okupe certainly haven't heard and read about Neville Chamberlain stepping down for Winston Churchill during the 2nd World War.

Pls tell the PDP

There will be increase in prices of these products.Wetin common man go do now.No light,No generator.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that it is currently prosecuting 441 individuals. Including 40 foreign nationals for allegedly vandalising oil pipelines and stealing crude oil.

The Commission's spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a media parley during a conference of the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies (FOSSRA) in collaboration with Nigerian Initiative.

According to Uwajuren, the commission is still busy with the prosecution of suspected oil subsidy thieves with over 40 persons and organisations currently in court answering charges.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/efcc-still-prosecuting-suspected-oil-subsidy-thieves/193275/

BRAV0O:
yes! Allah means God , that's arabic pronunciation of God, examples are :- Jesus in arabic mean musa and so on lik that , I'm I being clear to u ?

Jesus is yisa and Moses is Musa pls.

BRAV0O:
yes! Allah means God , that's arabic pronunciation of God, examples are :- Jesus in arabic mean musa and so on lik that , I'm I being clear to u ?

Jesus is yissa and Moses is Musa pls.

Buhari's still leading over President Jonathan as Nigerians commenced online voting @ www.ngpolls.com

Does that mean that Jonathan supporters have no access to the internet? Na wao!

And INEC will later come & give us different figures?

Anyway, cast your own vote now @ www.ngpolls.com and keep this message going!

datguru:
GEJ till 2080

Na you dey chop the National cake,please remember ur bro o.

PointB:
This is a sucker punch!


It explains why Lagos State prides itself in ability to plant and water flowers, while roads (untolled roads) and other infrastructure rots.

With IGR of over 35 billion, combined with Federal allocation of over 12 (all monthly) surely more developmental strides is expected in Lagos. Not just planting and watering of flowers!

What has PDP done for Nigeria except planting of Corruption and division for over 16yrs at the center.Yeye..

Fayose is a gonner b4 2015.

Yeye man.Yimu

Jonaweeds are in trouble.Sai Buhari

I thought they were not kidnapped initially..Asari Dokubo oya the ball is in your court.

President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 said he has no ambition to stay in office beyond 2015, assuring Nigerians in Diaspora that while he will not contest the 2015 election, he will ensure that this year’s election is free and fair.

The President promised that if voted in for the next four years, he would ensure significant improvement in key sectors of the economy — security, power, education, road, health amongst others.

“Without security, there is no government. So it is not debatable, it is something we have to addressed and we are working towards that with vigour. But if I’m voted into power within the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing of the past. Four years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for the next four years.”

Jonathan said this while interacting with Nigerians mainly diplomats working in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, and the African Union, AU, in Addis-Ababa.

While fielding questions from those present at the interactive session on whether Nigerians abroad will vote, Jonathan said: “I would have loved that the Nigerians in Diaspora vote this year but to be frank with you, that is going to be difficult now. Presently, the law does not allow the voting outside Nigeria and so this year Nigerians in Diaspora will not vote but I will work towards it by 2015 even though I will not be running for election.”

On the issue of security, Jonathan said the government was doing everything possible to arrest the situation. He disclosed that all those involved in the October 1 bombing had been arrested and were being prosecuted. He, however, said he ordered the release of the car dealers because they were just businessmen who could not have known that the vehicles were to be used for such heinous crime.

On education, the President said, the nine new approved universities were to be specialised and to be headed by at least three Nigerians experts in Diaspora.

On the concerns raised of having a database of Nigerian experts in Diaspora, President Jonathan assured that he was working on creating a forum for interaction between them and government and also develop a database, where experts needed to address the various challenges of the economy will be drawn. He hinted that this was why the Diaspora Commission was being set up as the bill was already before the National Assembly.

The President also disclosed that the government is looking towards reviewing the country’s foreign policy to ensure that Nigeria gets maximum benefit from its roles and contributions to international organizations like the AU, UN and ECOWAS.

He lamented that right now Nigeria’s contributions were not being recognized adding that “there is need for Nigeria to have something in return for our investments. We are investing so much but it is not being noticed and there is need to reverse that trend.

On the concerns about road network and transportation in the country, President Jonathan assured that the railway system will be revamp because presently heavy duty vehicles were destroying the roads. “Why we cannot have continuous road maintenance for now because no contractor wants to go into it because of the continuous pressure on the road by heavy duty vehicles. That is why we are working to ensure that we revamp the rail”.

The President also assured that Nigerians working in international organization and institutions would be issued diplomatic passports. He directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia to submit the list of those qualified within the shortest possible time to him.

On the 35 per cent affirmative action implementation and the domestication of protocols signed, he assured that he will present before the National Assembly within the shortest possible time
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/i-ll-not-contest-2015-election-jonathan/

What makes this man so popular?.He has left office since 8years ago and he is still shaking the Nigeria politics.

I know that the Rail project alone will cost Lagos State Govt over $500m.The money was taken from World bank.If that is the kind of debt that we are talking about,I want more of it as Lagosians.Eko O nibaje o.

smartchoice:

Please don't mention FBN n UBA in same sentence again.....UB what?

I will go for UBA anytime anyday when it comes to e-banking platform.

@Moderator,please take to front page plsssssssssssss.

Is FFK encouraging muslims to vote for APC and xtians to vote pdp?,because I can't get his point.

lilprinze: we accept our defeat humbly unlike APC who keeps making useless noise nd giving stupid excusez after defeat. lyf iz full of ups and downs

Do you have choice after militirisation of Osun state.

Senator Adeleke polling unit in Ede... APC:640. PDP:9. Laffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Ede North Ward 8 Unit 4. (2nd. Gate of Timi's palace) APC 93 PDP 66sunDecides Live Updates [RESULTS]yet to be verified by INEC Ward 5, Unit 7, Jagun 2, Ilobu: APC 63 , PDP 10Ward 01, Unit 001: PDP 12 , APC 69 , LP : 1. Ward 01, Unit 002: PDP 16, APC 50. ( Osogbo Local Govt)2 unit polling booth here in Iremo ward 5.Lujumo 1 PDP 50, APC 07,Waluberin Polling boothPDP 160,APC 3.Ife East local govt. Ward 3 unit 4, PDP 106APC 09Boluwaduro Local govt, Igbajo ward 6 unit 2APC 50 PDP 54 Ilesa West Ward 4 unit 3 (APC 68, PDP 16). Obaile Ward 9(APC- 92, PDP - 15), Ward 6 (Apc 88, PDP- 25)#OsunDecidesCommercial 2 ward: AD 1, ACPN 2, rejected 1 Labour 1, PDP 42,NCP 1, APC 104. Result from Ada

Bliss4Lyfe: Why do i get the feeling these are some of the Chibok girls distributed? Which god are boko haram worshiping again? I prefer my Jesus.

Do you worship God or his creator in Jesus.

@OP,Go and ban the Nuns in Catholic church first.SMH

Dr Kayode Fayemi has countered the widespread belief that he conceded defeat to his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenger, Mr. Ayodele Fayose who was declared winner of the June 21 governorship poll in the state. In his first interview published after the election on Daily Sun, Fayemi asked anyone who thought he accepted the outcome to read the transcript of his post-election broadcast again. “Anyone who understands the English lan­guage well would know that that speech was not the concession speech that many people are talking about. Yes, I have said I won’t chal­lenge the election in court and congratulated Mr Fayose, but that’s not tantamount to accept­ing the result. That’s about saving Ekiti.” The governor fielded questions on what went wrong in Ekiti; whether he had regrets for his policies and actions; his relationship with the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other compelling is­sues. When asked if he was disturbed by the outcome of the June 21 election, he said, “very disturbed indeed and worried for the future of elections in our country. Nobody goes into an election to lose especially when you have put a lot into it. “When you have worked hard and earned the trust of the people, you should have every rea­son to feel confident you are going to be rewarded for the hard work and performance. I said in the course of the campaigns that this election, in my own view, would be decided on the basis of char­acter and performance. On those two grounds, majority agree that we were heads and shoulders above every other candidate in the race. “Leaving that aside, no candidate campaigned the way we did – touching every nook and corner of the state, towns and farmsteads alike. Most of the time we were on the field campaigning, PDP was nowhere to be found. We actually didn’t campaign like an incumbent.  We campaigned as if we were the challenger, the underdog. “But I must also say we were not unaware of the desperation of the PDP hierarchy to ‘win’ Ekiti by every means possible. We saw the federal forces at play in the election and they were undisguised in their desperation. Election is a process. An elec­tion is not just rigged when you snatch ballot box or when you change result at the collation centre. Election could be rigged by the processes leading to that election itself. When security agents that are supposed to be neutral for example go round pick­ing party leaders the night before an election and party anchors on the day of election in a coordi­nated and choreographed manner with no charge levelled against them, clearly you had a pre-deter­mined end that you are seeking. “ It is not time to go into any great detail about what we found to be unacceptable about the process which is why I was reluctant to give this interview in the first place. But we have also promised that the infrac­tions will be documented and exposed because we owe Nigerians that.” On whether he accepted the fact that something went wrong with the APC in the Ekiti election, he said, “The election was not about Ekiti, it was turned to federal forces against APC in the state. If it was performance, head and shoulders we won the election and in terms of mobilization, in terms of campaign, in terms of issues. “As a matter of fact, the PDP candidate had no issues. He was reactive throughout. No issues, no agenda, no manifesto. The only manifesto was I am opposed to any policy issue Governor Fayemi has raised or is implementing. “I even give some credit to the La­bour Party candidate who, even though at the last minute, still came out with a manifesto of what he would like to do in office. That clearly did not happen in the case of the PDP so we were really the only ones with a tested programme that had been implemented across the state. “I have heard and read all sorts of “pepper soup joint” analysis about stomach infrastructure and people voting for rice and all that.  Attractive as the analysis may be to some people, I don’t think it fully does credit to the Ekiti people. Really, yes there are tendencies of instant gratification that crept into Ekiti politics – particularly in the early days of PDP government in the state-but those tendencies are not so deeply ingrained as to imagine that our people depend on what they can eat here and now in order to deter­mine what happens to their future. “It just offers these elements a convenient explanation for the abracadabra that they inflicted on Ekiti State. But again, as I said, time will tell. We may find the op­portunity now that the party has gone to court, we would find out from their own side.  But I think it is important, as I said in my broadcast, to docu­ment all these extraneous elements; the siege on Ekiti by the military and other security agencies, the role they played in instilling fear in the state. There are of course a lot of arm-chair pundits who have argued that the security siege was insufficient to explain the loss of APC. “Many of these pundits were not even in Ekiti during the election and had no idea what actually transpired. Two days to elec­tion, my colleagues who were coming for my final rally were stopped from taking off in some cases, mid-air in other cases and actually at the boundar­ies coming into Ekiti state. Ten days before then, my party people were attacked on account of the traditional sweep after the PDP rally. “I was tear-gassed and ordered to be attacked on the instruc­tion of the Vice President who was in Ekiti on the fateful day, the same Vice President who had boasted that Ekiti and Osun elections will be war front. Even after I lodged a complaint with the Na­tional Security Adviser and the Inspector-General, it was my own people who were charged with ter­rorism. “So, this was a very carefully orchestrated agenda driven by the forces, federal forces who have been saying to everybody’s hearing that they must take Ekiti because Ekiti, for them, was the gateway to taking the South-west. So there is noth­ing that happened that cannot be explained.” He was challenged about conceding defeat, but he said, “Did I really? We were left with two obvious choices following the announcement by INEC on the morning of the 22nd of June. One was to reject outright what we considered was clearly a blatant manipulation or to accept it. “There were a lot of grey areas in between those outright choices. It is convenient to many who want to re-write history to say Fayemi accepted the result. But all you need do is read the transcript of my broadcast and you would come to a very different conclusion. “With over 30,000 security agents in the state with clear instructions from the Presidency to do everything to place Ekiti in the president’s corner, it was a critical moment for the state and I believe it was more important to rescue Ekiti from bloodbath than to plunge it into one. I believe it was impor­tant to turn a new leaf and fight our cause with­out resorting to violence. “That’s what the Federal government and the PDP had planned for. That’s the verifiable intelligence I received. And as the Chief Security Officer of the state, I had to decide whether to allow Ekiti to be turned into a killing field by trigger-happy security agents already on instruction to mow them down for protesting the abracadabra inflicted on them. “Under the circum­stance, my decision was clear: peace now, justice later. And really, do we want bloodbath in Ekiti? Do we want our people to be slaughtered? Do we want Ekiti to become the trigger for truncating Nigeria’s fledgling democracy? We felt we have a role to play in protecting this democracy no matter how flawed it is and that’s why I did what I did. “Anyone who understands the English language well would know that that speech was not the con­cession speech that many people are talking about. Yes, I have said I won’t challenge the election in court and congratulated Mr Fayose, but that’s not tantamount to accepting the result. That’s about saving Ekiti. Anyone who heard me throughout the campaign would recall my consistent remarks that I won’t go to court for any reason, genuine or otherwise over the election. “I was only ensuring that my word remains my bond. When Chief Oba­femi Awolowo decided he was not going to court over the ‘moonslide’ victory of the NPN in 1983, was that acceptance of the election? In any case, now that my party has gone to court to challenge the election, the various infractions in the election would be subjected to scrutiny.” He was asked if his decision was not too hasty and if he had any regrets, he said “I don’t know what you mean by “too hasty”. I have always argued that for me, my politics is without bitterness. It is politics of principles and politics of service. “No sacrifice is too much to make for Ekiti people and I have always said it, from 2006 that I became active in Ekiti politics, I have always said that I would not govern over dead people and I would not allow the blood of Ekiti people to be spilled on the altar of politics. “The choice was simple, I could have done other­wise and my supporters were ready. I could simply say to them, you can see the manipulation because everybody was shocked that this was not our vote.  Don’t forget, we have 226,000 registered APC members in Ekiti State. “We completed our party registration barely two months before the collection of INEC permanent voters’ cards and the continuous voters’ registration exercise was done. We used the same INEC polling units for our party registration. “The simple argument that is being made which defies logic is that at least 100,000 of APC members did not vote for their own candidate. If as INEC says, we have 120,000 votes in the election and we have 226,000 mem­bers in APC, I am not talking of sympathizers, “I am not talking of outsiders who love Fayemi, who are not card carrying members of the party, I am talking of party members who registered in Ekiti State, 226,000. So, you are either saying that out of those 226,000 members, 100,000 among them did not collect permanent voters cards or they col­lected but they did not vote for their candidate. “That is simplistic analysis of what you are saying and these people when they got to the field, when they got accredited, they knew one another, they knew who was APC, who was PDP, we were get­ting feedback on how many of our members were in each polling unit and yet the results in most cases were at complete variance with the evidence before us. So, it’s not enough to take the result de­clared at face value. “We need to dig deeper into what happened and those alleging ballot fraud and so called Zimbabwean option are probably talking about that. However, on the basis of the declared result, it would simply have amounted to sour grapes and being seen as a bad-loser if we didn’t take the initial step we took to calm frayed nerves but with sufficient caveat that the last has not been heard on the election. “Here is the simple answer to your question. If I had triggered a crisis by reject­ing the result, if I had made a different broadcast, a broadcast that simply says Ifaki people, they said you voted against Segun Oni and me; Oye local government, they said you did not vote for your son, are you going to let this daylight robbery go? It might have been the beginning of the end of Ni­geria’s fledgling democracy and a lot of Ekiti peo­ple on both sides PDP, APC, non-partisan people, innocent souls would have been lost, what would be my gain in that? I am not hungry. “I didn’t come into politics as someone who doesn’t have alter­native. I did what I did by making that speech to save my people. So there was nothing hasty about it. I knew the plan that the military had, I knew the plan that the police had, don’t forget I am the chief security officer of the state and I get to hear from all these people. I knew the instructions they had given the soldiers because some of them were relating with me and they were not happy that they were being given instructions like the ones they got in Ekiti. “As one of them told me, if they keep bringing us into these matters that are not our business, then they cannot complain if something totally negative happens. One of the soldiers told me that and it is an elementary principle of civil-military relations that the more you drag the mili­tary into civilian matters, you never know how it’s going to end. So it wasn’t hasty and I don’t want you to see it as if it was an acceptance speech…it wasn’t an acceptance speech. Please read it, if you read it, you would know that it was very condi­tional in very many ways.” He was asked why he didn’t carry the party along, he said, “Who told you I did not carry the party along? You know there is a lot of myth and a lot of sup­positions that people make.  I did not just make the broadcast, I sat with party leaders. Who is who in our party in Ekiti were all with me when I went to make the broadcast. “We all sat down and agreed on even the format it would take. This was not a broadcast I decided to make out of the blues. We knew we had not lost an election freely or fairly and we knew the agenda was to annihilate and maul down our people. We love our people more, and our interest is to secure them, to protect them than to just protect our office. It was a carefully calibrated speech.” When asked about his reaction to defeat in his ward and local government which was very disturbing, and a writer saying his defeat was because people were angry he built an “imposing structure in his home town, Isan Ekiti in the midst of poor people he never took care of, he said, “I think whoever wrote that was ill-informed. One, I don’t believe anyone would say that I was defeated in my unit and my ward. “The result is there they should go to INEC and check. As far as I am aware, in my unit, I think PDP had one vote, Labour had 0 and I believe of the 168 people that voted there, I had 167 that voted for me in my unit. In my ward, I had 2022 votes to PDP’s 261 much less for Labour. How anyone would describe this as a defeat is a way of calling a dog a bad name in order to hang it. “And to now talk about impos­ing structure, it is so disingenuous, I don’t even want to comment on it. The building that I have in my community, I mean my house, was built long before I became governor. It was declared in the assets that I declared on October 16, 2010. This can be googled, I am one governor who is proud to say I have led an accountable, transparent life as governor. “Anyone who can come out and say I have added one block to any part of my house around the world since I became governor, I chal­lenge the person to come out with evidence. I live a very modest life and there is no need for me not to. I have a small family and I have only one child.  My politics is not politics of materialism but in Ni­gerian politics everybody opens their mouth and say whatever they like about you because that is the way Nigerian politics is. “You must malign oth­ers in order to try and get some kind of foothold. I wonder what is massive about my house. So when I hear about this imposing mansion, I ask myself is he writing about me or writing about someone else and here was a journalist who said he had never been to Ekiti, because I read the piece. So, you then ask yourself, you write this and you have never been to Ekiti, where is your credibility? So this is where hatred blinds credibility. “How would anyone take such a journalist who regards himself as a serious columnist serious when you write that. The same person you are talking about wrote that I have a university in Ghana and said that I have not denied that my wife has a univer­sity in Ghana. This is part of the misinformation that people spread even when they know it is a lie. A university is not what you put in your pocket. I have denied this at every opportunity I get and challenged the peddlers of the rumour to provide evidence, the university authorities in Ghana have denied this. “They have come out to say that give us the evidence of this university. We know the universities that are in Ghana, we know those they belong to, yet you keep this Goebbelsian lie hoping that if you keep repeating it, it would stick. With time, somebody would now say oh, I read it somewhere and when somebody read it some­where, what is the name of the university, who is the Vice Chancellor or president of this university, how many students are there, who exactly gave you this information, where is it written. “But you know why they would go for a university, it is Fayemi now, he is an intellectual, an academic, you can’t say he has an oil rig or an oil refinery. That may not be believable, you can’t say he has a power plant. But if you say he has a university, they would say you know he is one of these elitist academics so that is the kind of thing that he would like. Quite frankly, for me there is nothing wrong in having a university, but I do not have a univer­sity anywhere in the world. But you then ask your­self, why do people lie? What does it advance? It diminishes them more.  Like that columnist, he is greatly diminished now, at least in my eyes, and in the eyes of many others. Those who used to take him seriously before would think twice about any­thing he writes from now on because they know that his writing is not based on any objectivity. It is personal, hate-mongering, disingenuous lies that define him and it is unfortunate because we don’t need that for the growth of this democracy. “There are some people that you take serious. This is not something you are reading in a junk publication, if you are reading it in one of those funny rags that they call soft sell, it is understandable but not in a mainstream newspaper in which this person is a respected columnist, it is not just done.” When asked if he regretted any of his actions and utterances considering the outcome of the election, he said, “There is nothing we have done that we don’t think it’s the right thing to do. I have always said that governance is different from politics. When election ends, governance starts and you must be able to, yes, mix both, but at the same time you have a duty as a leader to take firm decisions when necessary in the best interest of the people. “Gover­nance is not a popularity contest, election may be a popularity contest but governance is about deliv­ering the greatest good for the greatest number of the people and to that extent there is nothing that we did that we cannot defend in terms of their im­pact on the people. Whether it is our free education programme, we know what has changed now, we know what our hospitals used to look like, people can go there and see what they look like now. We also know what the infrastructure in the state used to be like and we know the quality of infrastruc­ture we have since put in place. In Education, in healthcare, in agriculture, in rural development and community empowerment, in social security and women empowerment as well as provision of jobs, there are indelible marks of our administra­tion. However, there were a number of policies that many deemed controversial and as I said, you hear so many pepper soup analysts who go around say­ing, ‘Oh, it’s because Fayemi was doing test for teachers and was looking for ghost workers in lo­cal governments and putting biometrics integrated pay roll system for the civil servants and all that.’ You know vision is always 20/20 after the fact. In all the steps I took, my primary interest was to bet­ter the lot of my people. Though there are aspects of some of our reforms that might have been han­dled differently, there is none we would have jet­tisoned.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/read-my-speech-again-i-did-not-accept-defeat-fayemi/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=read-my-speech-again-i-did-not-accept-defeat-fayemi

Nice one.KUDOS TO OGBENI

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is challenging the election of Mr. Ayodele Fayose at the tribunal and asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to nullify the polls which saw Mr. Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returned as winner. The APC is also demanding that fresh elections be conducted in the 16 Local Government Areas of the State due to sundry electoral infractions.

“The petitioner avers that the election was marred with irregularities that are unprecedented in the annal of elections in this Country as “photo chromic” and “thermo chromic” ballot papers already programmed to favour the 1st and 2nd Respondents in all the polling units, were used”, the petition document reads in part.
The APC also held that the Governorship election which held on June 21st in Ekiti State was scientifically rigged to hand undue advantage to the PDP candidate in the election, Mr. Ayo Fayose.

“The petitioner avers in similar vein that, the election was scientifically, systemically or methodically rigged with the programmed Ballot papers designed for the nefarious and despicable acts of rigging out the petitioner, in fulfillment of the desperate bid of the PDP government at the centre to win the Ekiti State Governorship election of 21st June, 2014.

“The petitioner avers that the Presiding officers in all the Polling units throughout the Local Government Areas in the State carefully and strategically folded the Ballot paper into two, vertically, to activate the concealed and programmed thumbprint impressions on the Ballot papers.

“The petitioner also discovered that the ink used during voting was not an indelible ink as provided for by the Manual for Election Officials 2014, rather a vanishing ink was used in all the polling units. The thumb printing done with the vanishing ink on the programmed Ballot papers will only appear faintly AND DISAPPEAR WITHIN FEW MINUTES because the Ballot papers used were photo chromic and thermo chromic, and glossy in nature and as such they could not retain ink beyond the programmed time.

“The petitioner will, through forensic and finger print Experts and other experts /analyst demonstrate in the open Court that, such thumb impression will dry off within few minutes after exposure to the light, while the folding of the Ballot papers into two vertically by the Presiding officer before thumb printing by unsuspecting voters will activate the already concealed and programmed thumb print impression.

“The petitioner states that during the election of 21st June, 2014 in Ekiti State, every ballot paper was deliberately placed face down by the INEC officials to prevent premature exposure to light/radiation before being handed over to voters.

“The petitioner states that folding the ballot paper into two vertically generates heat that activates the already programmed and concealed thumb-print impressions on the ballot papers and such appeared boldly and visibly during sorting and counting than the original faint thumb-printed impression during voting”, the party said.

The APC also cited the alleged militarization of the Ekiti polls to back up its petition.

“There are 12 wards in Ado Ekiti Local Government. Election in all the wards was marred by substantial non compliance and irregularities.

“Your petitioner states that in all the twelve wards of the said local Government majority of the petitioner supporters who were eligible to vote and willing to vote were prevented from voting by a special security outfit comprising of men of the Nigeria Army, Department of State Security, NDLEA, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Civil Defence Corps and Custom Services.

“Your petitioner states that the said special Security outfit went about on the day of the Election harassing and arresting the petitioner’s leaders and key supporters in all the wards and polling units in Ado Ekiti Local Government by randomly arresting the petitioner’s supporters on their way to the polling units, on the queue to cast their votes, in their homes, but in all cases before voting and thereby preventing them from voting.

“Your petitioner states that most of the petitioner’s supporters arrested in the manner described above were flogged and in most cases, taken to undisclosed locations only to be released after the close of election.



“Your petitioner states that in the wards and polling units in Ado Ekiti Local Government, the Ekiti State governorship election held on 21/6/2014 was marred by violence perpetrated by the special security force described above purposely aimed at scaring away petitioners’ supporters from polling booth”.

The petition cited several electoral malpractices in most of the wards and LGAs in the State including cases of voter harassment and intimidation. There were instances of voters being beaten up by men of the Nigerian army.

The APC therefore prayed that: “It be determined and declared that the 2nd Respondent Peter Ayodele Fayose was not qualified to contest the Governorship Election held on 21st June, 2014 on the ground that he was found guilty of the contravention of the Code of Conduct by the impeachment panel set up by the acting Chief Judge of Ekiti State and the Ekiti State House of Assembly, consequent upon which he was impeached and removed from the office of the governor of Ekiti State in the year 2006.

“That it may be determined that the 2nd respondent presented a forged Certificate of Higher National Diploma (HND) of The Polytechnic Ibadan to the Independent National Electoral Commission, thus was not qualified to contest the election.

“That it be determined and declared that the 2nd Respondent Peter Ayodele Fayose was not duly elected or returned by the majority of lawful votes cast at the Ekiti State Governorship election held on Saturday 21st June 2014.

“That it may be determined that having regards to the non-qualification of the 2nd respondent to contest the election, the 3rd respondent ought to have declared the candidate of the petitioner John Olukayode Fayemi, who scored the highest number of lawful votes cast at the election as the winner of the election.

“An order of the Tribunal withdrawing the Certificate of return issued to the 2nd Respondent by the 3rd Respondent and present the Certificate of Return to the Candidate of the petitioner John Olukayode Fayemi who scored the majority of valid votes cast and having met the Constitutional Requirements as required by law.

In the alternative, the APC is requesting “an order nullifying the Governorship Election held on 21st June, 2014 and that a fresh election be ordered”.

The respondents in the suit are the PDP, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Chief of Defense Staff.

http://www.ekekeee.com/apc-drags-fayose-pdp-tribunal-ekiti-governorship-election-seeks-nullification-polls/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter



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Vikky014: Dis sloan jst made my day!ahahahahaha,so u r nt feeling d fresh air?
Am supportn jona bc of Light,& Agric sector,odas hv their reasons of supportn him

Registered July 11.PDP money at work.

bloodykiller: you are mad

Registered July 15.OP is right afterall.

idumuose: Ex Governor Nyako impeached? This is good news to me.

Nyako impeached.

So his impeachment has changed your standard of living.Congrats!!!

Where is Okija list?

Allah says they plot against islam,but he is the best plotter.No individual or group can ever extinguished the the light of islam.It is Allah promise.

Pl