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johnnybravo1990:
Please what is the meaning of this 'Interim' title? Are there 2 belts in a division?

It's a number one contenders title and it also gives you a ppv points so when you headline the PPV you get more money...... But it looks shit this days with UFC

Vulcanheph:
I started following MMA ever since wrestling started becoming fake and scripted.

It's been fake and scripted from day 1

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How A Tech Company Linked To APC National Leader Bola Tinubu Used Sophisticated Technology To Tamper With The 2015 Elections, Report Says




A company led by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu, may have deployed the perfect election-rigging mechanism in the 2015 election, a confidential review obtained by SaharaReporters shows.

And it may all have been accomplished with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not knowing its own technology was being used against it.

It began in 2012 when a company, Act Technologies Limited, was put into play after it had been taken from its original owners by Tinubu and Retired Col. Sani Bello, two of Africa’s wealthiest men. ACT went into partnership with INEC to provide voter registration and accreditation, as well as election-management technology, to Nigeria’s electoral body.

“This company eventually flushed out the original recipient of the voter management system contract from INEC and provided a compromised technology which had a gaping back door framework for manipulating voter registration, PVC card issue and the voting process,” the report said.

The contract to provide INEC with the election technology was originally to have been awarded to Zinox Technologies Ltd, but INEC frustrated Zinoxand ensured it was awarded to ACT, which was then used to perpetrate APC’s scheme known as “Preferred Voter Arrangement.”

“Despite winning the INEC contract, the company had no records of having filed an annual report as of May 2015,” the report said. “Disgruntled individuals within the company have revealed that approximately 80% of the company’s earnings from IMEC were siphoned off, with the company being left with 20% to execute the project.”

The report is replete with tales of money-laundering and manipulation, fake companies and addresses, and of powerful people and their families playing games with funds and companies. Many of the companies remain unknown to the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Among its stunning revelations, the bulk of the funds paid by INEC for the card reader project were paid out without delay to companies that were completely unrelated to the project. “In fact, a majority of the money was paid out to a Maigidana Bureau de Change, a company with a fake address.”

Of greater importance, however, the report said there was strong evidence that key figures in APC had control of ACT Technologies during the period in which card readers and PVC cards were being produced, and had started paying out money through ACT Technologies to the companies producing the card readers and handling the Biometrics security one year before INEC paid any money to ACT.

According to the report, “There is a very high probability that the Card reader technology and accompanying biometric PVC card technology was severely compromised.”

It observed that a pattern of payments in May and July 2012 to Shenzhen Emporium by Capital Management Limited, a company suspected to be linked to Tinubu, and by a friend of APC Niger State governor-elect Alhaji Sani Abubakar Bello, took place one year a year before INEC paid any money for the project. “So it is safe to assume that both of these individuals or the party they represent made these payments in order to have their own private access to a large number of card readers. These card readers would have been an exact replica of the ones given to INEC.”

Examining the pattern of those events, the report said that there is evidence to suggest that not only did elements within APC have an exact replica of INEC’s accreditation infrastructure, but that they had it well in advance of INEC.

“In essence, these individuals gave INEC a system that they already had.”

The report noted that INEC was given a system it could access only via its handheld terminals, one it was told it had sole custody of.

“They couldn’t have known that prior to the system being delivered, thousands of other terminals had already been produced for individuals linked to a political party. Essentially, a secret back door had been created accreditation system. And while INEC was doing the voter registration, the individuals with back door access injected their own data into the INEC database.”

It said all that was then needed was the port address that INEC used in communicating with the database, which was not difficult to obtain since the electoral body gave it to their field staff to program the card readers.

“With access to the port and to the exact replica of both the card readers and the Biometric security template, parties loyal to the APC injected data seamlessly and near flawlessly into the database without anyone being alerted. With inflated accreditation numbers in designated polling units/regions, they knew exactly which polling units to rig and go unnoticed.”

The report said the only weakness in the plan concerns whether INEC kept time logs of when its staff uploaded to the database, otherwise it would be very difficult to prove definitively that it was tampered with.

It concluded that in 2015, the electronic accreditation process was clearly tampered with.

The report then offered this dire warning, for a nation facing national elections starting this Saturday: “If the card reader technology, as it currently exists, gets used in future elections, the individuals who have this technology have the capability to inflate accredited voter numbers and dictate which electoral candidate win which election.”

Tinubu, who has bragged in recent days that he is richer than Osun State and that he is single-handedly bankrolling Buhari’s re-election effort. He has promised the president three million votes in Lagos.

Last week, The Guardian (United Kingdom) faulted Nigeria’s voter registration patterns, noting that the number of new voters registered since January 2018 has increased by an identical percentage in each of thestates, leaving the forthcoming polls open to rigging.

The newspaper described the correlation as a "statistical impossibility," saying it does not reflect Nigeria's demographic changes.



http://saharareporters.com/2019/02/21/how-tech-company-linked-apc-national-leader-bola-tinubu-used-sophisticated-technology

GoldHorse:
These f00ls will never look at the cause but be shouting at the effects.
He didn't even talk of why CJN was suspended, whether real or fabricated.
He did not reason why the election was suspended but just that the President is at fault.
If this is how America is run will u guys be here today in this powerful state?!!!!!
It's starting to show "true true" that America might habe hidden agendas about this election.

Michael Jackson said it all "They don't really care about us". The earlier we realised that the better.

Please Nigerians in the US can't you guys also create awareness on the lopsided intervention of the American government? I am sure not all of the citizens will buy into their government act.

Stop bothering my mention with trash that makes no sense

teejona:
God will surely deal with you westerners. You never meant well for us and God will not allow your evils to triumph on Nigeria soil. We've not forgotten your evil machinations in Libya and other countries as well.

Stop quoting me with trash

Rep. Chris Smith, immediate past chairman of the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, has spoken on the postponement of Nigeria elections.

His reaction was contained in a statement he signed on Monday.

The statement posted on his website reads: “Responsibility for the delay of Nigeria’s presidential election lays squarely with President Muhammadu Buhari and those close to him.


“Actions in advance of the election — including removal of Supreme Court Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen and arson attacks on Independent National Electoral Commission offices in opposition strongholds — are undermining confidence that this election and subsequent gubernatorial elections will be free and fair.

“At a minimum, the presidential election must meet the 2015 standard, which saw a peaceful transfer of power and a statement by the then-sitting president that all bloodshed must be avoided.”

Rep. Smith also called upon the Trump Administration and the State Department to focus greater attention upon Nigeria.

In addition to being sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria is its biggest economy, and what happens in Nigeria has ramifications beyond its borders,” Smith said.

“Given the magnitude of global problems Secretary Pompeo must contend with, he should consider appointing a Special Envoy for Nigeria vested with full authority.

“The State Department must use all tools at its disposal, including visa denial and sanctioning authority, to hold accountable those who undermine democracy and foment sectarian and ethnic violence.”

Earlier, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), expressed her concern after Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria were postponed to February 23rd.

A statement she signed reads: “This delay impacts Nigeria’s 84 million registered voters who traveled from cities across Nigeria, as well as North America, Europe and Asia, for the sole purpose of making their voices heard at the ballot box.

“My hope is that this delay does not impact voter turnout or harm the credibility and legitimacy of the election, as the postponement could impact local, regional, and international observation missions.

“Nigeria’s electoral institutions played a critical role in ensuring that the 2015 elections were carried out in a transparent, fair, and peaceful manner. I hope to see that tradition continue during this 2019 election cycle.

“Nigeria can serve as an example for the region as a whole and I hope that this postponement does not negatively impact that potential.”


http://dailypost.ng/2019/02/19/nigeria-election-shift-us-lawmaker-blames-buhari-associates-tells-trump/amp/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

Editor’s Note: This updated report nullifies our earlier breaking news on the appeal court decision. The court gave no directive to INEC.

The Court of Appeal in Sokoto did not order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept candidates from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State.

This development differs from our earlier report which suggested that INEC has been ordered to accept candidates fielded for various positions by the party in the state.

Rather, the three-member panel of the court gave an order through Justice Jummai Sankey dismissing a suit filed by a member of the House of Representatives, Aminu Jaji.

The suit was challenging the ruling of a high court of Zamfara State which ordered INEC to accept candidates from the APC.

Mr Jaji, one of the governorship aspirants of the APC, approached the court of appeal to inform it of his decision to withdraw the suit. Following his request, the court dismissed the suit based on its rules and the request of the plaintiff.

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A certified copy of the dismissal, which was cited by PREMIUM TIMES, reads:

“It is ordered as follows:

“That the appellant, having met all the conditions for the withdrawal of the appeal as set out under order 11, rule 1. This appeal under No CA/S/23/2019 is hereby dismissed pursuant to order 11, rule 5 of the court of appeal rules 2016”.

Mr Jaji asked the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal to nullify the judgement by the Zamfara State High Court which had directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to accept candidates from the APC.

At about the same time as the Zamfara high court ruling, another high court in Abuja also ordered INEC not to accept candidates from the governing party in the state.

INEC announced that it decided to comply with the order of the Abuja court.

INEC had declined to accept APC candidates in Zamfara State because, according to the commission, the party failed to meet the deadline for holding primaries.




Ibrahim Dosara, a spokesperson for Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara State, had, in a message sent to PREMIUM TIMES, claimed that by Wednesday’s dismissal, the judgement by the Zamfara State High Court stands.

He also claimed that the appeal court’s decision means the court gave INEC the order to include Zamfara State APC candidates in the forthcoming election.

Contrary to Mr Dosara’s claim, however, the appeal court only dismissed the suit but gave no ruling. This means both the earlier Zamfara high court ruling and the contrary Abuja court ruling still exists with INEC choosing to obey the latter.



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/312589-updated-appeal-court-did-not-order-inec-to-accept-zamfara-apc-candidates.html

The SSS dude that shielded buhari stupid

That SSS dude that shielded buhari from the stoning is stupid.... He would have spared us the stress this Saturday by letting this buhari faint kai.

We don't know them ..... More like el rufai paid elders and gandollars paid elders

yu donminit

NgeneUkwenu:
Atiku was Billed To Be In Katsina Today, and Buhari in Taraba and Adamawa.. We have been seeing pictures of Buhari every hour as in Campaigns..

Till this moment 3pm, we are yet to see a Single picture of Atiku from Katsina .

Once it is 5Pm now, they will release pictures of photoshopped rallies of Atiku after they must have panel beaten it in the laboratory.

We will shame them next week..

Keep bluffing and panicking

Yu donminit

Bihari o to ge in their voices

Yu donminit

seunmsg:
Some hungry old men without followers endorsed Atiku just the same way they endorsed Jonathan back in 2015. Their endorsement didn’t help Jonathan in 2015 and won’t help Sagasse Adjate Aboubakar of Cameroon this year. The greedy elders would smile to the bank while Atiku will cry to Cameroon once the winner of the presidential election is announced. Same scam format, different customer .

Ofu gbuola ya ooo

Youdonminit

Buhari will pack and go come 16th

helinues:
Yes win South East states.

Nobody is disputing that now

Ofu gbuola ya ooo

NgeneUkwenu:


On The 18Th Of February, Atiku Will Go And Collect His Certificate Of Return From The Economist

Ofu gbuola ya oooo

Ngeneukwenu sister ���

Cleverly , ngeneukwenu , cilicmarin what sayest thou please??

Jesusloveyou:
is this what pdp can get in ineffectual buffoon home.

with this, buhari will sweep bayelsa.

I pity you zombified elements

You donminit

I wonder what that ngene or cleverly or cilicmarin will do if buhari lose.... I am just imagining

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