Who on earth in his right senses can ever do this postponement by INEC Chairman, Abubakar Mohammed? No consideration for any thing except how the CABAL can retain power.
Custodians of Nigeria now need to find a way to retrieve Nigeria from Buhari cabal which has more allegiance to Niger Republic than to Nigeria. Election can't work to retrieve Nigeria from Buhari cabal.
Mutteeme: The senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce, has revealed what will happen in Nigeria if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, postpones Saturday’s presidential election.
Reports had on Friday night emerged that INEC was planning to postpone Saturday’s elections.
But reacting, Ben Bruce said if INEC postpones the election, there would be another June 12 in Nigeria.
He tweeted, ”Are they this desperate? How can they even consider this just 8 hours to the elections? If this happens then it will be #June12AllOverAgain!”
olisaemeka1: Sensitive materials have already been moved to a lot of venues for the elections, how does INEC want to ensure that the elections are not rigged... what of people that have travelled to ensure that they vote...monies that have been expended ...local and foreign observers that have also been deployed? The youth corpers nko? Why wait till 3am to announce postponement for something you said you were ready for. This is an inexcusable excuse....
This catastrophe for Nigeria.
Mohammed Abubakar is typical of the square pegs in round holes that President Buhari appointed as officers to run Nigeria.
Dragging humanity in Nigeria deep into a deep hole.
hinwazaka: In 2015 election postponement was announced on the 7th of february saturday, a full week before the elections slated for 14 february. The reasons were *To improve the security situation in the country by battling the Boko Haram
*To allow space for more nigerians to collect their PVC's
In 2019 elections were postponed on the 16th of february on the day of the initial elections slated for the 16th of february. The reasons are *Logistics!
Madness, not logistics, is behind the postponement of election on the day of the election.
No body could have imagined that an INEC chairman, a so-called professor, could have done this.
couragemurphy: Why wait till eve of election b4 assessing your preparedness? This should have been done a week to election day, so that eventual postponement will not cause much. 1. Imagine all the international observers that travelled down to the country 2. Businesses were closed down because of the election 3. Schools shutdown since Wednesday across the country 4. People closed their businesses and travelled home to vote 5. For fear of violence and unknown, many in their usual panic mode have done different things 6. The whole nation was put in suspense etc Now this incompetent asshole shattered everything in pieces. This guy is not honourable at all. He is supposed to resign for failing the country. People wont take us serious anymore as a country.
Anyway 4+4 is still the surest thing.
PYO/RIBADU FOR 2023 -2031
What goodies did OBJ presidency bring to Yoruba land?
What goodies did Jonathan Presidency bring to Ijaw land?
Because you want Osinbajo to take over from Buhari is the only reason you want to vote a lifeless man to lead you for another four years.
Nigeria's political process is dysfunctional, needs restructure.
Osinbajo has been absorbed by the conservative group that created the political system, and refuses any change in the system.
couragemurphy: Why wait till eve of election b4 assessing your preparedness? This should have been done a week to election day, so that eventual postponement will not cause much. 1. Imagine all the international observers that travelled down to the country 2. Businesses were closed down because of the election 3. Schools shutdown since Wednesday across the country 4. People closed their businesses and travelled home to vote 5. For fear of violence and unknown, many in their usual panic mode have done different things 6. The whole nation was put in suspense etc Now this incompetent asshole shattered everything in pieces. This guy is not honourable at all. He is supposed to resign for failing the country. People wont take us serious anymore as a country.
Anyway 4+4 is still the surest thing.
PYO/RIBADU FOR 2023 -2031
You vote a Buhari who hardly understands what is happening around him again, only because you want Yemi Osinbajo to take over from Buhari.
With your polished English above, your period of education must have been time wasted. Ethnic politics and parochialism running in ya veins.
PoliticsNGR has been furnished with a transcript of the full statement by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on the postponement of the 2019 General Elections. Read Below;
"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) met on Friday, 15th of February 2019 and reviewed its preparations for the 2019 General Elections scheduled for Saturday, 16" February 2019 and Saturday, 2nd March 2019.
Following a careful review of the implementation of its logistics and operational plan and the determination to conduct free, fair and credible elections, the Commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the elections as scheduled is no longer feasible.
Consequently, the Commission has decided to reschedule the Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Saturday, 23% February 2019.
Furthermore, the Governorship, State House of Assembly and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council Elections is rescheduled to Saturday 9" March 2019. This will afford the Commission the opportunity to address identified challenges in order to maintain the quality of our elections.
This was a difficult decision for the Commission to take, but necessary for the successful delivery of the elections and the consolidation of our democracy.
The Commission will meet key stakeholders to update them on this development at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 16" February 2019 at the Abuja International Conference Centre."
Mohammed Abubakar must resign before the election.
Did he not know that postponing at the last hour like this can cost Nigeria a fortune, can even result to loss of lives, rescheduled appointments and events?
PythonDancer: You have no idea what will happen next week. Walahi. Atiku can never win
You are proud being a Nigerian.? Minimum standard, minimum taste. Nigeria is now a country driven by the Mohammedians to be worse than a zoo. INEC chairman and his namesake president.
This Postponement at the last minute requires throwing the INEC Chairman into a Psychiatrist hospital. No sane person in his position can postpone election at the last hour, after four years of planning.
Akpabio is running from EFCC. What else do you think could have made Akpabio join APC from PDP when northern politicians have ganged up massively against Buhari cabal?
Akpabio's constituency is not made up of stupid people.
realmedia: Photo: Onnoghen pleads not guilty to all charges, granted bail on self recognition
Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has left the premises of the Code of Conduct Tribunal CCT after he pleaded not guilty to the six charges levelled against him by the Federal government.
He was granted bail by the tribunal on self recognition.
The trial was adjourned till March 11th.
Onnoghen arrived the CT premises this morning, two days after a bench warrant for his arrest was issued by the Tribunal. The bench warrant has since been withdrawn.
Victory4322: President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that nobody will unseat him.
He said contrary to opinions in some quarters, he had the strength to lead the country for four more years.
Buhari stated this in an interview aired on Friday on the verified Instagram page of CNN Africa while responding to doubts about his ability to run the country for a second term.
The interviewer had asked the President, “This is a vibrant democracy. You came in, unseating the incumbent. Are you worried the same could happen to you?”
To this, Buhari responded, “No. Nobody would unseat me.”
He added, “I am ready to take this country forward for the next four years.”
When asked his plans for containing the terror in the North-East, the President insisted that Boko Haram was no longer “technically” having a grip on any local government area in the region.
He said, “We have 774 local governments in this country. They (Boko Haram) used to hold 17. They are not technically holding any local government now.
“But they are indoctrinating young men and women, especially girls, wrap them up with explosives and let them explode them in soft targets like churches, mosques, marketplaces, motor parks and other places.”
Buhari added, “Of course, we are doing our best (to contain the terror) and we thank some foreign countries in Europe and the United States for training our armed forces and going to the battlefront to see how they have performed.”
NgeneUkwenu: If you had relied on the number of Likes and Shares On Nairaland and Tweets and Retweets on Twitter, ipob pigs had for this man, you wouldn't believe that the so called Supper Ethnic Chief Justice, would succumb to the rule of law.
Moral Lesson 1: Most keyboard warriors are cowards.
Moral Lesson 2: Nigeria will be too hot for criminals in Buhari's Next Level, so if you are thief or planning to be, you better vote Atiku or source for Visa.
A few weeks to a presidential election in which process the CJN is expected to play a crucial role in the outcome of the election, the CJN was fingered for corrupt practice.
Yet, your little grey matter cannot allow you understand that the matter of the CJN was created to favour the incumbent president Buhari in the election.
Continue to get drunk with power as you desire to create another Idi Amin of Uganda for Nigerians.
NgeneUkwenu: If you had relied on the number of Likes and Shares On Nairaland and Tweets and Retweets on Twitter, ipob pigs had for this man, you wouldn't believe that the so called Supper Ethnic Chief Justice, would succumb to the rule of law.
Moral Lesson 1: Most keyboard warriors are cowards.
Moral Lesson 2: Nigeria will be too hot for criminals in Buhari's Next Level, so if you are thief or planning to be, you better vote Atiku or source for Visa.
The fear of restoration of Biafra is the beginning of wisdom for you.
Carry on.
Biafrans can't have a near 80 years old president who hardly understands what is happening around him again.
Pigs are free to continue burning election materials allocated to them and later start grunting how they were not allowed to make a thief their president.
Thieves? Name a Nigerian politician who is not.
Go back to the 1970s when Buhari was in charge of petroleum ministry.
Nigeria did not start in 1999.
In fact, the successive military leaders ushered in by Buhari bled Nigeria to near comatose state for about thirty years, even forgot to replenish ageing Power, Water, transportation infrastructures, until they handed over power to the political class who started afresh to replace power, water and transportation infrastructures.
Zombie supported for an aged, hypocrisy and inept president Buhari are like:
Omooba77: JUST IN: 91 million Nigerians now living in extreme poverty
Mayowa Tijani in On the GoTop Stories
Over 91 million Nigerians are now living in extreme poverty, TheCable can report.
TheCable understands that at least three million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty between November 2018 and February 2019.
According to the World Poverty Clock, created by Vienna-based World Data Lab, 91.16 million Nigerians were living below a dollar a day as of February 13, 2019.
In June 2018, the Brookings Institution projected that Nigeria had overtaken India, as the poverty capital of the world, with 86.9 million extremely poor people.
This was further confirmed by the British Prime Minister Theresa May, who said Nigeria had become home to the largest number of very poor people in the world, putting the figures at 87 million.
“Much of Nigeria is thriving, with many individuals enjoying the fruits of a resurgent economy, yet 87 million Nigerians live below $1 and 90 cents a day, making it home to more very poor people than any other nation in the world,” the UK prime minister had said.
Since May made this observation in South Africa in August, the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty has grown to 91.16 million, with six people falling into poverty every minute, according to Brookings Institution.
Today, India has 48.7 million people living in poverty, from 73 million in June 2018. By implication, India has pulled out a minimum of 24 million people from poverty in less than eight months.
ARE YOU LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY?
According to the World Bank, a person can be said to be living in extreme poverty, if they live below the poverty line of $1.90 or N693.5 per day.
The bank in its explanation of poverty levels said “when estimating poverty using monetary measures, one may have a choice between using income or consumption as the indicator of well-being”.
“Most analysts argue that, provided the information on consumption obtained from a household survey is detailed enough, consumption will be a better indicator of poverty measurement than income”.
However, using the World Bank’s poverty line, if you live below $1.90 a day, you will be classified as living in extreme poverty.