A Pakistan politician who won a seat in last week's controversial national elections has given it up because he says the vote was rigged in his favour.

Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party had been named the victor of the provincial assembly seat PS-129 in the city of Karachi.
But this week he claimed the candidate backed by Imran Khan's PTI party had secured far more votes and that their tally had been reduced.
As such, he would relinquish the seat.

"If anyone wants to make us win in an illegitimate manner, we will not be accepting that," Mr Rehman said at a press conference held by his party on Monday.

He added: "Public opinion should be respected, let the winner win, let the loser lose, no one should get anything extra."
He said that while he had received more than 26,000 votes, the independent candidate Saif Bari, backed by the PTI, had received 31,000 votes - but these were presented as 11,000 votes.

Pakistani electoral authorities have denied the allegations. It is unclear who will take up the PS-129 seat now.
But the incident is just the latest highlighting the crisis around Pakistan's elections held last Thursday, which have been marred by allegations of widespread vote fraud and interference, which were said to have damaged candidates affiliated with Khan.

The former prime minister has been in jail since last August and his party was disqualified from the ballot, meaning that PTI candidates had to run as independents.

But despite these hurdles, voters overwhelmingly turned out across the country to cast votes in favour of his cause.
Independent candidates - a majority affiliated with the PTI - won 93 of the 265 National Assembly seats that were contested, the largest of any single party.

However, the PTI argues such candidates should have won even more votes and more seats. They have alleged numerous instances of vote rigging, and welcomed the Islamist party's relinquishing of the Karachi seat this week.

Despite the PTI's success in the popular vote, Khan's rival parties - Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's PPP - earlier this week said they had reached a deal to form a government.
In last week's vote, the PML-N won 75 seats while the PPP came third with 54 seats. They have also reached an agreement to form a coalition with several smaller parties such as the MQM.

In addition, parties will be allocated more seats from the 70 reserved for women and non-Muslims. These additional seats are not available to independent candidates.

This means they will easily reach the required 169 seats needed to form a government.
PML-N and PPP were previously in a coalition that ousted Khan from power in 2022. Mr Sharif's brother Shehbaz took over at that time as prime minister; he is being presented again as the likely next leader of Pakistan.

Khan was ousted as prime minister in a parliamentary vote of no confidence, after which several criminal charges were laid against him. He was jailed for 14 years on various charges a week before the election, with several prison sentences to run concurrently. The 71-year-old has said the legal cases against him were fabricated and part of a wider political witch-hunt.
Pakistan's caretaker government has denied these allegations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68302678

Ikaeniyan0:
Ayeni was not the only person having fun with adaobi

Fake likes

Mr. Babatunde Irukere, the ED of FCCPC said last year the reason they have not tracked the loan shark because they have no known address okay now that you have registered, them and you have their details and address what excuses will you give again Sir,


No known addresses

In a report, Babatunde Irukere, the ED of FCCPC, once noted that the challenges of tracking down these companies are due to the fact that they have no known addresses and as such operate in a clandestine manner.

Some of the agents who spoke to us are willing to give the location of a few of these agencies that we will publish in the second part of this story.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202207140051.html

If the government officals have no investment on this loan shark app why have they not prosecute them for violting the laws of nigeria

Owners of the company

My discussion with a few recovery agents of these companies told me that their supervisors are Chinese. In fact, I was told by one agent that these companies are Chinese owned and the difference between them and the professionally run loan companies could be seen.

My most shocking encounter was when one agent told me that these Chinese have government collaborators. The agent informed me about one that was recently closed down by FCCPC, but are today still functioning and are back in operation.

Collaborators

Some fintech companies are one of the biggest collaborators according to my findings. They assist these companies in sending payments and receiving payments

https://allafrica.com/stories/202207140051.html

The Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Babatunde Irukera claimed that he have registered 180 loan company why did he keep on threatening them without taking actions. It's either he is incompetent or there is something he is not telling Nigerians.

Are the loan sharks above the loan. Why are they violating the law of the country without any single action from the government, only threats.

Most of this loan shark charge 45% To 50% interest in 6 to 7 days that means if you take 50000 naira loan you will pay 75000 naira in 6 to 7 days what kind of business will you do in 6 to 7 days to make the money

The government are not telling Nigerians the truth, the reason they have not prosecuted any of this loan shark.

Meanwhile, in Ghana a joint operation by the Bank of Ghana, Cybersecurity Authority, Economic and Organized Crime Office and the Data Protection Agency led to the arrests of over 420 illegal loan app operators recently.

This comes just about a month after the Bank of Ghana put out a list of 97 of such illegal loan apps and warned the public to desist from dealing with them.

Indeed, several of them are listed on the Google Play Store and quite a number of them use both Ghana and Nigeria phone numbers, indicating that they may have their head offices in Nigeria.

Their modus operandi is not different from how they operate in Nigeria. They pry into customers’ privacy and embarrass them to everyone in their contact list and also threat to leak private pictures because at sign on, customers give access to everything on their phones without realizing it.

Following the mass arrests in Ghana, it is now time for regulators in Ghana to collaborate with Google to delist these apps from the Google Play Store.

If the activities of the loan app providers have been found to constitute a breach of the country’s data protection law. Why have the government not prosecute them, are they above the law?


Data protection concern

The activities of the loan app providers have also been found to constitute a breach of the country’s data protection law. According to the National Commissioner of the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), Dr. Vincent Olatunji, many digital lenders in the country have been reported for breaches and are currently under investigation.

Section 35 of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, which was recently signed into law by President TInubu, states that

a data subject (individuals whose data are being exploited) has the right to obtain from a data controller, without constraint or unreasonable delay
confirmation as to whether or not the data controller, or a data processor operating on its behalf, is storing or otherwise processing personal data relating to the data subject, and where that is the case the subject has the right to know
The purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed
in particular, recipients in third countries or international organizations…”

None of these is being complied with by the loan app providers as of now.

The government are the one to be blame, they are only threatening the criminal loan app without taking actions. If the government has dealt with one or two criminal loan apps by now, they would have to stop invading people privacy. But the criminal loan app have found out that the government are only making noise.

Google said on March that loan app will stop having access to people contact and photo, but the criminal loan app still access it

Good one from Afenifere

Well said.

Only visa ban is not enough, they should make sure they deport their children back to Nigeria.

Because clearly you're not getting it - Lagos is not "Yoruba FCT." Lagos actually has its own indigenous population.

Both you and Kate are 1st or 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants in Lagos, my dear. Having a tangential ethnic relationship with the indigenes doesn't make you one!

Regina Daniels, Mother at work she is now abusing her privilege as ohaneze ndi igbo women leader

gidgiddy:
Nairaland should do more to verify information before pushing it to front page. In the thread below

https://www.nairaland.com/7569303/sit-at-home-enforcer-burnt-alive-mob/6

It was alleged that a sit at home enforcer was burnt in Ogidi, Anambra. I found the story strange, how can one single unarmed individual go to a market full of people and order traders to lock up and go and sit at home?

So I went online and found on various credible news platforms, The Sun and Linda Ikeji, who had reported the news as a thief who went to Ogidi materials Market to steal, was apprehended and burnt. This had nothing to do with Sit at home

Having said this, jungle justice should be condemned across board and has no place in civilised society, same as fake news propagating



https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/2/mob-sets-suspected-robber-ablaze-in-anambra-graphic-videos.html.html


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/mob-sets-suspected-robber-ablaze-in-anambra/%3famp

I have no doubt that you are one of those miscreant causing unrest in South East

gidgiddy:
There is only one Ohanaeze led by the recently deceased Professor George Obiozor

Anyone claiming to be Ohanaeze world wide, like Okechukwu Isiguzoro, is a fraud

But I wonder why some people are angry at Simon Ekpa for declaring sit at home? Anyone can declare sit at home

If I like I can declare sit at hone and order everyone in China not to go out

Anyone can declare sit at home in any country, for any country

Some people just like to make Simon Ekpa more important than he is

If Simon Ekpa declares sit at home, what is stopping you from declaring "leave the home"?

Shut up always talking rubbish brainwash zombie. It's time to deal with you people that having been causing havoc in south-east. Enough is Enough

Peter Obi votes in south-west will surprise many people

Ihedioha is a big disgrace, I regret ever supporting you.

PDP does not exist in South East again. Reno Omokiri have insulted Ndi-igbo enough, none of PDP leaders have cautioned him. Showing that they are in support of what he is doing.

Waneri:


It all started immediately the europeans created Nigeria..
The Ibo political class who are mostly from the present day Anambra and Enugu decided to make the old eastern region a one ethnic region.
The western region tried the same.. but it failed too resulting to the creation of Midwest region..

In the eastern region .. when they asked the groups who the were the refused to identify as Igbo.. they rather identify as Ndoki (Ukwa), Izon(Ijo), Etche, Ngwa, Ibibio, iwhnuruoha, Efik etc.
But this did not go down well with the Igbo leaders, who actually new if the don't stop them, the east will disintegrate.

There was a new agenda to send some of their kinsmen to igbonize this groups..
The made it possible for them to get jobs at the detriment of the indigenes.
The aim was for the indigenes to become poor as sees the igbos as a group the should imitate.
It worked for a while. But suddenly attracted envy when some of this minority became educated and civilized and attempted to change the status quo which also failed.

This caused the domination of Aba, and Port Harcourt (which was the only Important province and sub province then) by foreigners.
The foreigners also changed some names that did not suit well with them.
Aba being an important city was changed from Abah Ngwa to Abah alone, Ugwulagbo was changed to Ugwunagbo etc
Same thing was done to the Ikwere people.

The civil war served as an avenue for the indigenes that rejected the igbo identity to distanced them selves from igbo.
The Ikwere people decided to return their town names to the original names.
But they unfortunately went as far as creating new names that were neither Ikwere nor igbo in their bid to distanced them selves from igbo.

Igbos should understand that igboid language does not belong to them only..
The Ikwere should also understand that they have been speaking igboid language before the igbos came. Even though they igbos tried to force their own dialect of Igbo on them.

I believe that we are all from the same origin and we are all related.
But we don't share a general name.
Just like Ibibio, Efik, Annang etc the are the same people but they don't have a general name .. same with all igboid groups..

Afonja you can't hide yourself, shame on you.

Nonsense Anambra people don't want Apc.and Apc can never be an option to Ndi-Anambra never

DeadCountry:

Thunder fire you and your useless support. Who needs your fulani supporter of APC support. All of you terrorists will be sent packing back to futa jalon where you all migrated from. Nama brain!!

I don't need to curse you because you are already cursed. Anambra election will hold and people will come out and vote.

DeadCountry:

Go and get the foolish ezewuzie and his "we ndi Anambra" nincompoops. They are my target. I need to know the name of the village of that wretched and poor ezewuzie. They should stop hiding under "we ndi Anambra" to sabotage IPOB's efforts.

I regret even supporting Ipob. nothing will make Apc to win Anambra state I know that you are an Apc member

DeadCountry:
Where are all "we ndi Anambra" useful idiots? Where are the fools retorting that Andy Uba and APC will take over if our people decide not to participate in their dungeon's useless election? My question is, did anyone vote for the fulani useful idiot administrator today in Imo state? What tells you that the same thing will not repeat in our Anambra state if all you fools come out and vote for APGA and Soludo to win? So why did you vote in the first place since they are still going to use the aeroplane turner Tanko mohammed to install Andy Uba? Why are some of you so daft and dumb to the extent that you can't reason out simple things?

Sometimes I dey wonder if Ipob members are really igbo people you people reason like fools sometimes. I have no doubt that Ipob is working for Apc. Anambra people will vote on Saturday nothing Ipob will do about it.

Fahdiga:
APC doesn't exist in Anambra state

Apc does not exist in Anambra state but Ipob is trying everything possible best for Apc to win. when Apc win now ipob will start lamenting up and down

LesbianBoy:


Not just him. It's not a coincidence that none of them in their clique has ever posted photo of themselves in yankee

Obi Cubana that have traveled to Uk two times this year and planning to open a club in Uk.

DubaiLandLord:
I go agree with you till he travel go Yankee

Obi Cubana that have travelled to Uk two times this year and planning to open a club in Uk.

Umahi speaks for yourself we want Biafra but not the type that we can't have a say . or rule by a supreme leader that believes that his order is final.

Ipob will soon lose all their support. Ipob leaders are brainless they don't listen to advice just like their leader Nnamdi kanu.

Nnamdi Kanu and Ipob leaders started misbehaving when they see the support Igbo people were giving them. Nnamdi Kanu started seeing himself as God. that without him nothing like Biafra.

It's a pity that all Ipob leaders have no brain. they are arrogant just like their leader Nnamdi Kanu. they don't listen to wise advice. there have been a lot of accusations against Ipob killing people even though we know that most of the accusations are false just to give ipob a bad name so Igbos will hate them.

Instead of brainless Ipob leaders to suspend any form of sit at home for now instead they have declared again sit at home on 1st of October. this has shown that Ipob leaders are not different from Nigerian politicians.

The time will come when Igbos will turn against Ipob. i was expecting them to change some of their ways but due to arrogance, they continue believing that nothing will happen.

Nonsense Ipob abusing sit at home

Juliusmalema:
What a business man....Tell us his line of business?
A known kidnapper and cultist.

Why can't good thing be associated with Igbos for once

Meanwhile he lives comfortably in Lagos but paying hoodlums to be injuring others at home.

He is a very wicked and bitter man.

Even USA, Britain, Russia, China will do same thing DSS did.

Shut Up