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ndu_chucks:
Lets hope it was a random act of robbery.

Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:00 From John Akubo (Dutse) and Seye Olumide (Lagos) News - National

UNLESS remedial steps are taken, the governorship and House of Assembly election in Jigawa State may be affected by the shortage of ad-hoc officials as some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have abandoned their primary assignments.

Corps members serving in Hadejia Local Council had sent a Save Our Souls (SOS) message to the NYSC coordinator in the state following threats to their lives during post- election violence in the area last Monday.

Consequently, the state NYSC’s Coordinator, Mr. Baba Ahmed, has withdrawn the 350 corps members from the area due to insecurity.

Ahmed told The Guardian yesterday in Dutse that the corps members were withdrawn from their places of primary assignments because of threats to their lives by hoodlums in the area.

He said: “They called me and the director-general, asking us to take them from Hadejia because their lives were not secured.

“They also reported to us that the irate youths stormed the police station threatening them where they were taking refuge. As I am talking to you now, I have brought all the corps members in the area to state capital for their safety.”

He said that the NYSC had informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the corps members in Hadejia would not participate in the forthcoming governorship and House of Assembly election.

Hadejia, Mallamadori, and Jahun were among the towns that experienced post-election violence in the state, where many churches were raised down and several persons displaced.

Meanwhile, Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao- Akala, has promised adequate protection for INEC ad-hoc personnel, NYSC members during the governorship election on Tuesday.

Alao-Akala also urged parents of the corps members not to loose sleep over the safety of their children in the state “because the government will ensure the necessary protection and non-violent atmosphere during the election.“

In a statement yesterday, the governor’s spokesman, Dotun Oyelade, said special arrangements had been made to shield them from danger during the exercise.

Ileke-IdI:
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Body no be wood.

Rossikk:
When a group of people are known to continually repeat a pattern of vicious bloodletting of their innocent neighbors - an anomaly - one must conclude that a certain collective mental dysfunctional state is in operation among them.

Omooba77:
Please accept my sympathy Pastor Bakare, nobody wishes is enemy evil.God will console you and give you the best in replacement. I can't wish you ill becuase heaven is reality and I will not want to miss it. Life is vanity, position, wealth and all the glamour will go one day. Please don't think it is political.Proverb 24:17-18, rejoice not when your your enemy falleth(or evil happened to him and let not God be glad when he stumbleth. Lest the Lord see it and it displease him and turn away his wrath from him.

GenBuhari: Your work is not done yet
Keep working for election of CPC Governors
These elections so far have been a farce!
I know in a free and fair elections Buhari was the rightlful winner.
Since Buhari created the CPC we would continue to support CPC.
Comrades , please start strategizing for getting CPC Governors elected.

ekt_bear:
Koruji. Great post. I think it deserves a separate thread of its own though. . . perhaps as a post mortem of Buhari's campaign.

GenBuhari: @Beaf,
NL polls are more credible than these massively rigged election results

GenBuhari: Your work is not done yet
Keep working for election of CPC Governors
These elections so far have been a farce!
I know in a free and fair elections Buhari was the rightlful winner.
Since Buhari created the CPC we would continue to support CPC.
Comrades , please start strategizing for getting CPC Governors elected.

ekt_bear:
^-- Link:
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/apr/22/national-22-04-2011-002.htm

I'm glad the ACN made this statement. He who has ears, let him hear.

Anyway, I don't think Goodluck will try to rig in the SW, unless he truly wants Nigeria to boil. He might try to rig the Benue gubernatorial elections against the ACN, though.

ayomifull:
Those innocent lives would not have been lost if they were posted to their own states to serve
Let us demand for change to NYSC scheme for people to serve in their own states of origin
Lets not wait for more lives to be lost before we voice out

smooooooth:
everytime they keep warning while their people are been killed up north. abeg make opc shut up if them no get action. i should think warning the hausas by sending 1000 bodies from lagos to sokoto will be the only warnig those fools will hear. infact i look forward to the day the ''war'' will break out, wahalai, i wan kill like 2million aboki!

MaziUche0:
May the enlightened Yorubas listen to the words of OPC.

All I can say to those who are AFRAID, is what would your ancestors think of you?

What happened to the brave children of Oduduwa? What happened to the descendants of the Oyo Empire? The same empire that not only fought the Fulani, but fought the Dahomey Kingdom and the mighty Asante Confederacy!

Rise Odua nation and make sure your brothers are avenged!

matooto:
ACN(Tinubu) allegedly asked for the slots of Minister of Petroleum and that of Justice. Is it true?
When CPC  agreed, ACN asked that Buhari’s running  would resign after six months;
To this effect, a document was taken to Buhari and later to Bakare, containing a letter of resignation dated June 2nd, and an agreement that Tunde Bakare would receive  vice president’s salary for the full period of 4 years, plus entitlement as ex vice president for live.
Expectedly, Pastor Bakare did not sign the document, neither was Buhari happy with the conditions his party leaders and ACN leaders agreed on; A copy of this letter was sent to the press with the forged signature of PST BB; God saved the journalist that he made a point of duty to call Pst BB for confirmation before going to the press;
It was also rumoured that Tinubu was seen at the Presidential wing of the MMA on Wednesday night; flew on the presidential plane to Abuja and returned with the same, that night;
Tinubu allegedly promised our president that he would deliver Lagos and other ACN controlled states  to him at the Presidential election;
Our Asiwaju did not make such promise for nothing; he made PDP/Jonathan promise him the slots of AGN and Petroleum minister. Rumour has it that he got a cash compensation of 6BN;
Aregbesola of Osun reportedly did not support their leader’s moves, hence did not loose Osun to PDP;

Could  all these be true?
Why is it that it was only Wednesday night that ACN ever directly attacked CPC in their advert/campaign.
I am not  a CPC man o but, I doubt if the person of Asiwaju is worth following at all, and I reckon that the wickedness he has done this Nation,Southwest  and Lagosians is far more than Obasanjo did.

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obowunmi:
This has nothing to do with the Hausas --- the North is tired of PDP.  Illiterates need to stop making this a tribal issue.

EzeUche_:
The chaos will spread to the SW. That train is never late if the the South does not act in a united front. The North has easier access to the SW than the East. That is a fact.

ShangoThor:
There is a South, and there was a South before the inception of Nigeria. The enemies of reason will be defeated.
In order to coexist in a pluralistic polity like Nigeria, groups would have to follow rules applicable to all
without prejudice, but since our Northern non-compatriots are not willing to abide by the rules of the Constitution
then it's time for all Southern Nigerians to collude and make sure we are not subjugated in this Union.

Viva Southern Nigeria, it's the end of Northern tyranny. I predict there will never be a Northern led Government ever again.


The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Beaf:
I agree 100% with all you've said.

ekt_bear:
Makes sense to challenge where the most rigging in the south happened. . . namely the SS and SE.

EDIT: Misread your post, we are saying the same thing.

ndu_chucks:
paddy_lo, Are you aware of the fact that only PDP agents endorsed the results of the election as announced by INEC?  Anyway, here is the CPC complaints for your information:

The accusations laid down are not frivolous and must be investigated. I agree that violence is not the answer, but I certainly understand the reaction of the disenfranchised protesters in the North. Getting 40% of the votes in sokoto and winning in adamawa defies all logic - rigging is the only rational explanation for this,

Nchara:
As I read/heard, the NW had the highest number of registered voters. But during the presidential election they failed to vote by 50%. Why? Three northerners were in contention against one southerner for the position, yet northerners are supposed to have failed to come out en mass to vote? This is unbelievable, knowing how the North holds dearly to power.


During voter registration in those parts, did they actually record the high number they claim, or was it all inflated figures such that when it came to presenting the said number for voting, they could not, mainly because there were no such numbers to begin with, or due to the fact that the boarders were closed on them and they could not import the mercenaries that they had anticipated to use in making up the balance?

I am lost to what must have taken place. Someone please educate me, slowly

Muk-Ldn:
bleep PDP. They have fooled the majority with their so called 'Free + fair election'. The conduct at the polls may have been ok, but there was blatent manipulation  of the votess AFTERWARDS.

Nobody can tell me 500000 people voted PDP in Jigawa. Jus Jigawa we talking.

Let alone the inflated turn outs in the south 50% turnout in KATSINA (Buhari home state) yet in SS + SE we hearing 75-95% turnouts.

The sad thing is GEJ would probably have won after a run off but his Party chose to put the 419 Machine into action.

For all those turning a blind eye come 2015 when Fashola (or anyone else) runs, watch when they RIG again. DO NOT COMPLAIN cause you took it up the backside now. haha.

Kobojunkie:
The issue of underage voters has little or nothing to do with CPC. There is no evidence to show that all underaged voters INEC, by the way, allowed to LEGALLY register, voted for CPC. I could not even link it to PDP if I wanted to since INEC is wholly responsible for the occurrence. People need to grow up here!  It is really one of the many bubble-headed bigoted retort  used by low-level beings on here.

ekt_bear:
Forget about the North stuff temporarily. . . Why is Bayelsa's turnout rate literally triple that of Ogun? Same for Imo? 85%+ voter turnout, 99% of whom voted for GEJ?

Or is the reality 40 or 50% voter turnout, and some dude stamping another 35% worth of fake votes for GEJ? The latter is what I think happened. 85% voter turnout in Bayelsa, 99% of the votes for GEJ, versus 52.43% voter turnout in Katsina, only 71% voted there for Buhari. . .

Seems very strange, don't you think?

b0dnel:
Mr President,
It is with shock and utter disbelief I received the news that you have so far won 25 per cent in 28 states plus Federal Capital Territory. According to the 1999 constitution, a winner needs the majority of votes and at least 25 per cent of votes in 24 states of the 36 states of the federation. So far you have won 25 per cent in 28 states, leaving your closest rival, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change with victories in only 12 states. I know you and your cronies will be celeberating and popping the proverbial champagne now but here is a word of caution from perhaps one of your worse critics.
Allow me to explain that the presidential victory of April 16th was a victory for yourself and not necessarily for the PDP, which you are a part and parcel of. This should reveal without any equivocation that the elections were not driven by issues, but sentiments about personalities, religion and ethnicity. It is my opinion that as a nation we should grow our democracy to achieve a situation whereby persons win elections on the basis of merit and actual performance not sentiments, and certainly not with the aid of financial inducements, blackmail and violence.
I will not bore you with all the expectations Nigerians (the ones who voted for you, anyway) have-I believe you know all of these and intend to meet all of them.
Nevertheless, I intend to remind you of all the myriad of promises you made during your political campaign throughout the country. In my generosity, I have listed them for you here.
1. You Prmoised to rule for only one term (reference http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12339017)
As a man of your words or rather as you want to make us believe, PLEASE stick to this plan and pledge.
I sincerly hope we will not have political jobbers, groups like Youths Earnestly Ask for Jona, Dbanj, Lagbaja, Sunny Ade all singing for your second term bid? I sincerly hope also, you will not come out and openly deny you didnt make such promise or statements as you did about the zoning saga.
2. You promised a consitutional role for Traditional Rulers!!! I am short of words but Nigerians are waiting
3. On March 17th 2011, in Dutse the Jigawa statte capital, you promised:"If I win the election, within my four years in office, I will establish domestic airports in all the states without airports, WE ARE WAITING.
4. In Nasarawa, at the flagoff of your campaign you promised at least a university in every state including building specialist almajiri schools to shore up education in the North so as to eradicate illiteracy. The Almajiris are waiting o!
5. On February 8th in Ibadan, the day you called some people "rascals", you promised to create jobs and improve the power sector. The OYO people and indeed all Nigerians are waiting!!!
6. On Feb 9th, you were in Bauchi and you promised to intensify oil and gas exploration in the North-East as part of efforts to harness resources for economic development. Also you pledged to boost agriculture, power and water supply for wealth creation and revenue generation. Then you assured that projects such as the Mambilla hydro-electricity, Jada irrigation project and Kafin Zaki dam in Taraba, Adamawa and Bauchi would be pursued to boost agriculture and industrial development. Then you promised that your administration would establish two universities in the region. The NORTH EAST PEOPLE ARE WAITING,
9. You landed in Portharcourt on Feb 12 where you made alot of promises, maybe to woo your Niger Delta people. Be that as it may, you announced that the NNPC, in partnership with the private sector, would establish a petrochemical plant in the Niger Delta (you didnt state where exactly). You promised the plant will create job opportunities for the Niger Delta youths. Then you went ahead to promise the implementation of Local Content Law and Petroleum Industry Bill. In case you cant remember when you made all these, cast your mind back to the stampede that claimed some lives (where your wife called them martyrs).
10. In Kaduna- You promised massive transformation of the agricultural sector through construction of large dams and distribution of one million metric tonnes of fertilisers for the 2011 farming season (The rains are here already, so fulfil your promises o)
You also pledged to establish Almajiri model schools to address the challenges of the Almajiris.
11. In Benue-You promised to revolutionise agriculture and establish industries in the country through a five-year plan (We need that Plan now so we can keep track, the five years have started counting already)
You also promised to complete the irrigation project in Otukpo. Then you promised that the second Niger Bridge and the Benue Bridge projects will be worked on in the next four years. I think its better to start now so by April 2015, we trust you would have completed it.
12. February 17th, you were in Plateau where you made shocked the entire country with amazing promises. First of all, you pledged to refocus on the solid mineral development of the state and make it one of the key revenue sources in Nigeria. The Plateau people are banking on you.
Mr President, You promised to build more dams and complete ongoing ones, so as to boost agricultural growth.
In addtion you promised to complete the Vom-Manchok-Jos road to boost economic links between Plateau and Kaduna states. Yoy left the state and the Plateau people have been happy ever since and now that you have won, they are waiting
13. Mr President on Feb 21, you were in Kogi. You promised among other things promised that the dredging of the River Niger and Lokoja-Abuja road dualisation would be completed very soon. THE KOGI PEOPLE AND INDEED NIGERIANS ARE HOPING AND WAITING
14. In Kwara State on Feb22, you pledged that the irrigation project in Shonga would be completed soon to boost the commercial farming activities of the New Nigeria Farmers in the area. Mr president, remember you also said the Jebba-Mokwa road and Jebba bridge would be given adequate attention to ease transportation in the area. Kwarians are waiting!
15. On February 24, Mr. President, you pledged to rehabilitate ALL ailing industries in Aba. I believe all Abians are hoping on you to provide the enabling environment to do their businesses, you must keep your promises,
16. Mr.President, on Feb 25th in Anamabra you said there is a plan to build a power station in the state, assuring that within the next four years your administration would construct and rehabilitate ALL federal roads leading to Anambra as well as the South East. You equally to provide potable water to the densely populated Onitsha and Nnewi cities and tackle erosion in the South-East. To tell you the truth, Mr. President, Anambrians are banking on you!

17. In Ebonyi state, you promised to dualise the Enugu-Abakaliki federal highway in addition to establishing a secretariat for ALL Federal government's agencies and parastatals in Ebonyi. Mr. president, The people of Ebonyi has never had it so good since the creation of their state. Now, you have promised them the good life. Please keeep to your words!
18. In Niger state, you promised the more power generation. Perhaps the most important aspect of your promises is that your government would map out a five-year strategic plan for road projects. (Please we are waiting for the Plan NOW!!!!)
19. On Feb 27, you were in Asaba, the Delta state capital, which happens to be my state. On that fateful sunday, you revealed that “The NNPC is developing a new programme that will absorb about 5,000 youths, ”, Mr. President, Deltans are delighted at this REVELATIONS. While that number is a far cry from the number of unemployed youths in the state, at all at all na winch (as we say in Warri), so Deltans are waiting.

To be Continued,

Nchara:
At that same time you spoke about, Ohaneze and the SE govs spoke for Igbos in support of GEJ
Yes some Igbo wanted IBB/Atiku, but majority (99%, I would say) preferred Jonathan even from the get go.

Nchara:
[s]Igbos were tired of the born-to-rule mentality of northerners (I mean Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri)
Buhari in particular was selfish and unyielding to the south
GEJ is not a tribalist in the mould of the northern candidates. Buhari and Ribadu are extremely sectional. EFCC was populated by hausa fulani under Ribadu. We all know Buhari and PTF story. Shekarau is far mor moderate than the other two but he has a sharia baggage.
GEJ's economic policies so far have been favorable to the SE.
Northerners (Hausa/Fulani) are no friends with Igbos (and southerners in general). They kill southerners at will even when unprovoked by southerners
Ohaneze made its position clear enough that Igbos will support Jonathan. Ohaneze speaks for all Igbos
APGA supported Jonathan
All governors in the East supported Jonathan
Buhari, Ribadu and Shekarau did not campaign in the SE.[/s] It is instructive that all three northern candidates did not deem it fit to choose an Igbo VP
If IBB or Atiku were contesting, the story would be different; those know how to appease Igbos.

In light of all the above, it is no wonder that Jonathan got 100% votes from the SE.

Nchara:
If we take NL as a yardstick, it is easy to see that the votes from Lagos are Igbo votes. Yoruba on NL - and their hatred for Jonathan because they thought he is Igbo - mirrows their hatred for him in real life. Yoruba did not vote for GEJ in the SW. Igbos and SS people living there did.

SWners should count themselves lucky that GEJ is not as as vindictive as Obasanjo or Buhari. Otherwise, they will crawl on their knees for federal crumbs

otokx:
when people say turnout was high and people voted massively i want to smile. people voted but not in such numbers. Absent ballot papers were thumb printed and cash shared around.

Nchara:
There is no other explanation for ACN's dismal performance in the SW, except that Tinubu has compromised after a luxurious flight to Abuja. At least he has entered a presidential plane . Millions other Nigerians will not have that opportunity in this life, or in the life to come . But this is one compromise that I have no problem with (yeah! call me a hypocrite on this one), as long as it leads to Buhari being swept away. Without this compromise, Buhari would likely beat GEJ in the election. From the INEC facebook page, it would appear that Buhari has taken most the North West's Vote. Jonathan took SS and SE. But for Tinubu and his compromise, it would have been tough for GEJ. Yet, better such a compromise than any one actually rigging the election to any significant extent.

For the first time in my life, I say thank you to Tinubu for seeing the light. Tinubu's action and the North Central will likely decide who wins, eventually. Oh God!! Please remove this looming run off.

aletheia:
@Tinubu4life: what happened? I thought you swore heaven and earth that ACN will win Lagos in the presidential elections?