₦airaland Forum

kodded:
They are monitoring you because you are the king of corruption and rigging
without you on the way there will be free and fair election

the father of corruption is your otuoke landlord.

[quote
author=enkay0525 post=30598066]I wonder how some people reason o. Look at yourself and that of
Jonathan, which is better? Keep lamenting on Nl,you hear. You can't
fight an incumbent. It just the bitter truth.[/quote]what is an incumbent.is he God.
many that were worse than him are dead and buried today.
you can ask google.

[quote
author=myhoodlink post=30593637]Nigeria is a unique country. Most
southerners may only make noise on the media but may not give their
lives for it especially the politicians and their children living
overseas. We want peace. There is no alternative to peace.

God bless President GEJ. Politics should not be a do or die game. That
we don't support one candidate should not make us enemy.[/quiet




tell it to pdp and their cronies



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SeverusSnape:
It could only be punch.

that can give a real punch.

una dey mind the jokers

mikeansy:
The Americans have shown in history that they are willing to back any foreign leader willing to be their puppet

whether its King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, or the Shar of Iran . . . they have shown in history that they are willing to throw away their proclaimed democratic ideals in order to guarantee their interests

With the evidence of Nigeria emerging the leading economy in Africa, Nigeria pursuing local refining of crude vigorously and also our willingness to embrace the Chinese RMB for international trade and reserve. America feels threatened and are trying to undermine Nigeria by installing a puppet dictator in the name of "Change".

I am sure David Axlerod knows that a former Military dictator who usurped democracy 30years ago and is now "officially" 72years old represents anything but change!!!!

papa deceive pickin

OMINIOUS clouds gathering above the country thickened on Saturday night when the Independent National Electoral Commission, bowing to executive and security blackmail, postponed by six weeks the general election earlier scheduled to begin on February 14. To the dismay of Nigerians and the consternation of the international community, the military and the entire security community joined in the conspiratorial schemes of the Presidency and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to frustrate the electoral process and push Nigeria once more to the brink.

But Nigerians should learn from our inglorious past and take a resolute decision to resist a fresh descent into contrived crises by a decadent cabal.

A collective gasp of disappointment greeted the announcement by a flustered Attahiru Jega, Chairman of INEC, shifting the presidential and National Assembly elections to March 28 and the state governorship and legislative polls to April 11. They had earlier been scheduled for February 14 and 28 respectively.

Jega’s anguish can only be imagined. While he had consistently said that the commission was ready for the polls, the security agencies, led by the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the service chiefs, forced his hand by writing to INEC to declare emphatically that troops and other security personnel would not be provided if the elections went on as planned. According to them, all military assets would be concentrated, for the next six weeks, on tackling the insurgency in the North-East zone. Though couched under security concerns, the military’s action was, in fact, nothing but mischief.

Everyone saw it coming since the conspirators lacked the subtlety to disguise their intentions. It was the ineffective NSA that first gave official voice to whispers of the sinister moves against the elections when, at a forum organised in London by Chatam House, he suggested the shifting of the polls. Then followed forceful calls for postponement from the PDP, rented crowds of protesters and some “briefcase” political parties. President Goodluck Jonathan revealed his soiled hands when Doyin Okupe, his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, declared that it was “impossible” for security chiefs to guarantee security. Acting out the nefarious script, Edwin Clark, Femi Okurounmu, Chukwuemeka Ezeife and Alex Ekwueme, elders, acting in the name of the Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly, bizarrely urged the arrest of Jega.

Worried, American President, Barack Obama, dispatched his Secretary of State, John Kerry, to Jonathan to lend his weight to calls by the opposition and other Nigerians that the polling dates should stay. Hiding behind a finger, Jonathan only made a woolly statement to the American diplomat that the May 29 swearing-in date “is sacrosanct.” Nigerians, who have endlessly been treated to political chicanery in the past, from the subversion of the constitution in the defunct Western Region in the First Republic to the brazen rigging of the 1983 elections and the manoeuvring that culminated in the June 12, 1993 electoral debacle and the brutal Sani Abacha dictatorship that followed, are bracing for another round of crises. They are not deceived.

Insurgency has been raging in the North-East for five years. Under the watch of Sambo and the current service chiefs, our military have become the laughing stock of Africa. They have been taking beating after beating from Boko Haram terrorists in the three affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. But Iraq, even at the height of its raging civil war, held several elections. Afghanistan, when Taliban insurgents controlled some of its territory, held elections back-to-back.

Syria, embroiled in a brutish civil war, successfully held a presidential poll in 2014. With the Crimean peninsula forcibly annexed by Russia and rebels controlling Donetsk and other regions, Ukraine still held, first, a presidential and, months later, parliamentary elections. Using the excuse of fighting insurgency in parts of three states to deny the 36 states of the federation and a federal territory elections as scheduled is fraudulent. In those countries cited, extraordinary security and massive deployment of troops were enough to guarantee credible polling.

In any case, Sambo and the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, had earlier emphatically assured the nation of adequate security arrangements for the elections. Besides, when he first called for a postponement, Sambo not only re-echoed this assurance, he restricted himself to the need for more time to distribute the 68.83 million permanent voter cards. The security joker he and the service chiefs pulled is widely recognised as a mischievous afterthought. By February 5, said Jega, 45,839,808 PVCs had been collected – about 66.58 per cent of the total – while INEC had extended the collection window to February 13 and many states had declared holidays to enable voters to collect theirs. The Council of State – an advisory body – had also met and recommended sticking to the February 14 date.

Jonathan and the security chiefs are toying with Nigeria’s destiny. We regard the military interference as a deliberate plot hatched with the connivance of the Presidency and the PDP to frustrate the elections. There is a very dangerous convergence between the military and the partisan interests of Jonathan. The actions of the military are provocative and Badeh, the Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah and others are unwisely enmeshing the security forces in politics. The Army had already allowed itself to be dragged into the certificate affair where it did not mind being used to embarrass one of its own, a former commander-in-chief to boot, Muhammadu Buhari, as it bent to the partisan whims of the ruling party.

One grave implication of the military’s blackmail is that the sole authority invested in INEC by law to conduct elections at a time of its own choosing has been hijacked by the security forces and, by implication, the Presidency, to whom the service chiefs report. All it now takes for the military and the police to annul an election date is to refuse to provide security as they are legally bound to do.

Jonathan’s desperation is leading him to a dangerous zone that neither he nor those egging him on can predict the outcome.

Under him, impunity has become monstrous. We cannot ignore the conspiracy theories flying around if only because the blackmail against INEC has proved unerringly accurate, even to the last detail of the military denying INEC security cover. We strongly advise those plotting to subvert or manipulate the 1999 Constitution in order to rig elections, derail them or arrange tenure elongation as being alleged, to desist forthwith in the interest of this country.

Similar plots and subversion of the popular will by the trio of Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa and Ladoke Akintola (1965/66) in the old Western Region; Ibrahim Babangida (1993), using the infamous Association for Better Nigeria and the courts; and Sani Abacha (1993-1998), using five pseudo parties dismissed by the late Bola Ige as “five leprous fingers” ultimately failed, but plunged the country into prolonged crises, atrophying development and consuming hundreds of Nigerians in blood-soaked turmoil. Jonathan should, for once, demonstrate an awareness of history, avoid ignominy by pulling back from this dangerous track, and allow the electoral process to go on unhindered.

Can the military fix the Boko Haram insurgency in six weeks? What if they still refuse to provide security after this period? In a country where elections are warfare, police and military assistance is crucial, more so in the North-East where terrorists are reported to have captured 130 villages and towns.

Also worrisome is the implication of having elections close to the constitutional swearing-in date of May 29. The ingenuity of INEC and the parliament in fixing elections early to allow enough time for any hitches and litigation is now threatened. It returns us to the days when an election rigger could be sworn in and, thereafter, deployed state resources to defend the stolen mandate. Allegations of military partisanship in the recent Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections raise fresh fears of the abuse and misuse of the instruments of coercion.

Nigerians should not be deceived; we are in the grip of a ruthless, power-hungry and infinitely corrupt cabal that appears ready to do anything to have its way. The June 12 struggle may be a child’s play compared to the unfolding sinister manoeuvres. Jonathan is so enamoured of power that he fails to see the danger of excessive exposure to politics by a military that usurped power for 28 of the 55 years of Nigerian independence.

But in this modern world, the people are not helpless. The lessons from Tunisia, Egypt, Ukraine and Thailand are that citizens can peacefully assert their sovereignty and insist on having a say in how they are governed. We are paying a very high price for our complacency and impunity has run riot.

All stakeholders should raise their voices against the insidious military encroachment on INEC’s remit with the active connivance of the authorities that cannot weigh the consequences of their desperate ambitions. Civil society groups – those that have not been bought over – should wake up from their slumber, while every Nigerian should demand accountability, free and fair elections and a professional, non-partisan military.











http://www.punchng.com/editorials/poll-shift-averting-the-looming-darkness/

ckc:
What will u do? Pls go and sit down one corner. So when someone's tenure elapses as INEC commissioner he will continue in office because he is Jega. Jega my foot!

try am before election is finished.......................................na otuoke go take the fisherman

this should be on the front page nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

front page nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

westboro:
You mean BH madness like you? We waiting for you ppl you can't do more than BH your brother.

waiting indeed and with all security detail wey dey follow the clown, he cudnt campaign in damaturu, Maiduguri..............oops I forgot, they even boo am in otuoke.

chrisviral:
I will remind you of this senseless post on march 1st, after Jega has gone!
NLers be making comments without thinking!

try am first

make dem try and remove jega, una go see madness on high heels. clueless jonny walker

yibomustgo:
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Is this part of the blackmail and conspiracy being touted around by PDP and TANoids in the last few days against Jega?

If this is all you got, you are bound to fail miserably. Jega is not going anywhere before June 30th.

make dem try and remove jega, una go see madness on high heels. clueless jonny walker

try and remove jega, una go see madness on high heels

eazydon:
Guy, are you a robot? Programmed to say the same thing to different people over and over again? Are you brainless?

e dey pain you say your propaganda no work

customized13:
typical APC noisemaker.

wait and see..................tell jonny walker to remove jega first

pazienza:
Mimiko is a highly educated man, he would bring neutrality and competence to INEC. Yorubas have to congratulate Mimiko for his appointment, he is one of your own, and is on the brink of making history as the umpire who presided over the most free and fair election in Nigerian history.

we are not tribal blind bats

pazienza:
GEJ is a genius! He replaced a northerner with a Yoruba man! What better way to divide and conquer? If the north complains about Mimiko appointment, they run the risk of alerting sensible Yorubas and turning them against the North.


Once again, GEJ shows why he is the best man for the presidency job, it's been a while since a Yoruba man headed INEC. Thanks to GEJ equity spirit, the Yorubas now head INEC, isn't this the CHANGE everyone has been clamouring for?

brainless

afanide:
Have u evern killed a Rat since u were born

Pple like u cant stand a Cockroach in the room!!!

tell that to the notherners that are waiting for jonathan to be mad for him to see super madness

pazienza:
GEJ is a genius! He replaced a northerner with a Yoruba man! What better way to divide and conquer? If the north complains about Mimiko appointment, they run the risk of alerting sensible Yorubas and turning them against the North.


Once again, GEJ shows why he is the best man for the presidency job, it's been a while since a Yoruba man headed INEC. Thanks to GEJ equity spirit, the Yorubas now head INEC, isn't this the CHANGE everyone has been clamouring for?

we don't want brainless Yoruba people in the likes of fani kayode, okukpe and co..............we will take any tribe that is truthful. we are not some tribal blind bats

[quote author=afanide post=30592297]We dont care if you guys Vote or not.......


in otuoke, that is where vote don't count

OgologoDimkpa:
You fit?
Where is the liver?
Your people no get liver nah...

try am first.

mustaphagreens:
It is no crime in a country where stealing is not corruption BTW op those look more like ID cards than a PVCs.

you dey mind the clowns

Myself2:
[size=14pt]He looks like Jega.The under-studying process should begin already[/size]

imagination

zimoni:
Jonathan is going to rule Nigeria till 2019. Yes, till 2019.

If you don't want Jonathan, then let's go our separate ways.

Lobatan.

we don't mind. that is why he should be otuoke president

QuiverBox:
Its not compulsory at the discretion of the President

not in an election that the president is a candidate

CyberWolf:
thank you my brother ...GEJ has beaten them to their own game.. If they want war, let them bring it on so that we will just burn this zoo of a country to ashes..

not only war, but splitting .............................let him be president of otuoke............................clueless clown

samdotsam:
The "clueless" One is not clueless afterall! LAUGHING IN SOWETO

Those who the gods want to destroy, they first make mad...

QuiverBox:
The media is the Problem of this Country,

His Tenure is coming to an end, and based on Public Service act , he must proceed on a Terminal Leave, which one come be sack again

terminal leave isn't compulsory not for an office like INEC chair in the middle of an eletion. jona no fi try am.

owobokiri:
Get ready for Arewaistan then where a clan of certificate forgers and vibrant coup plotters will perennially hold sway. . The decsion has been made; no vacancy in Aso rock. We can't replace a PHD holder with a proven inept whose certificate of distinction in gunnery is no where to be found.

phd holder indeed that cannot make the simplest decision any president should be able to make without blinking. it is only in otuoke you can try that crap.go an install him there without election.not in Nigeria, only votes will count in this nation.

slap1:
You forget he's the C in C.

indeed. yet under him boko haram seized territories and hosted their flags, they kidnapped 200 girls and all he could do was to dance skelewu.

pls is that a C in C.

pls check out the prime minister of Jordan. that is what they call a commander in chief not to talk of countries like the united states.