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Nigeria and Nigerians will have to count their losses as INEC postponed the election on election day.

No less than N1billion has been lost due to this poor planning by INEC.

Many ready-to-vote Nigerians have travelled to their various states and abode in other to be able to vote. In fact, I have a friend who flew to Port Harcourt from Lagos just so he can exercise his franchise. Now imagine how many patriotic Nigerians would have done the same.

Many companies reduced their working hours on Friday so that staffs can quickly get to wherever they want to relocate to. I knew of a company that allowed its employee to go home by 12 noon and another company allowed till 2 pm. Such reduction in time can be converted into millions for many companies

In addition, many weekend events which could have generated a lot of money and boost the economy had been cancelled because of the election which eventually did not hold. Marriage ceremonies in hundreds have been cancelled, and those who fixed theirs to 23rd of February would have to reschedule.

There are other ways by which money has been lost due to the lack of foresight and late decision-making by the INEC Chairman.

There is nothing bad in postponing an election if logistics is yet to be completed but the TIMING is very disappointing and created avoidable financial losses.

What other ways do you think the postponement has caused or will caused economic losses?

When you start being aggressive to your elders it is because you see him not supporting you.

You can't fight Atiku and the US at the same time.

A wise man does not fight every battle. And a wise man knows the right time to attack. Surely silence would have been golden for the APC.


You must know when to TAKE COVER, and when to TAKE OVER

Correct.

Atiku

Presidency

Confirmed

(APC)

But Buhari and APC don't obey court orders. INEC should also not obey Malami's order because of National interest as Buhari will put it.

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You be the judge

The smart pastor deceived us in 2015. He can't deceive us again

I have 75% confidence that Buhari will lose the election.

President Atiku

APC and Violence

UN, US and EU acknowledge Atiku as the WINNER



INEC declares election inconclusive



Atiku defeated Buhari in Kano.



Tinubu blames El Rufai for Buhari's defeat



Ameachi: Buhari mistakenly voted for Atiku

The highest position Tinubu can reach in Nigeria is that of a Governor which he had already attained.

He can never become the president of Nigeria. History will forever pay him back in his own coin.

I pray Tinubu live long to see what becomes of his life.

If a 60 years plus is insulting an 80 years plus. That's out of the Yoruba culture.

You can imagine a 20 year old boy insulting a 40 year old man.


Karma will wait for Tinubu

Or else what?

Let the presidential aide follow the president to the polling unit during election or else he will go and THUMBPRINT FOR PDP or AAC

Do you think the President can make such an error?

Don't be surprised when you receive an unsolicited message saying Sowore has stepped down and vows to support Buhari a night before election. APC are specialists in propaganda

FearGodinall:
Hence, no matter what happens in a polling unit, if the number of votes is higher than the number of accredited voters, the election in that polling unit is declare NULL AND VOID. This is were many patriots got it wrong. Is any known law backing this.

It is part of INEC's rule. Since INEC is recognised by the constitution, therefore it rules of engagement will be respected by the constitution except where it goes against the constitution.

fk001:
Buba Sanusi, Katsina
Mohammed Wakili, Kano
Rabiu Ladodo, Jigawa
Ahmed Iliyasu, Ogun
Mu’azu Zubairu, Lagos
Ibrahim Sabo, Niger
Alkassam Sanusi, Taraba
Garba Mukaddas, Adamawa
Omololu Bishi, Benue
Bola Longe, Nasarawa
Isaac Akinmoyede, Plateau
Odumosu Hakeem, Edo
Olushola David, Bayelsa
Adeleke Yinka, Delta
Austin Agbonlahor, Cross Rivers
Bashir Makama, Akwa Ibom
Awosola Awotunde, Ebonyi
Belel Usman, Rivers
Bello Makwashi, Gombe
Abdulrahman Ahmed, Kaduna
Bala Ciroma, FCT
Hakeem Busari, Kogi
Asuquo Amba, Ekiti
Galadanchi Dasuki, Imo
Suleiman Balarabe, Enugu
Dandaura Mustapha, Anambra
Etim Okon, Abia
Ibrahim Kaoje, Sokoto
Celestine Okoye, Zamfara
Garba Danjuma, Kebbi
Abiodun Ige, Osun
Undie Adie, Ondo
Olukolu Shina, Oyo
Ali Janga, Bauchi
Damian Chukwu, Borno
Sumonu Abdulmalik, Yobe

Is Bornu state no longer in the North East? You were being economical with the truth. What makes you think Somonu Abdulmalik isn't from the South?

By the way, let me reiterate what I said.

Southerners are posted to terrorists prone states.

Ray97:
nye nye nye nye nye nye. which one is Southerner or Northerner in a security outfit, since when do we bring ethnicity to security matters. if one haruna tanko or musa ibrahim was positioned in a place like borno, you'll say its a rigging tactics. now they've done otherwise and you are still embarrassing yourself.. this election should come and go abeg....

The first security you can guarantee anybody is to make his people part of the decision maker of security issues.

That alone will make them trust you because they believe their own person will support them and speak for them but if you don't include their people. Even if you are working for their progress and security, they will still be suspecting every of your move.

Reason why some SW people are supporting Buhari is because they felt Osinbajo will speak for their interest even if he does not. That's the power of representation.

Be realistic, not idealistic.

toltee4real:
Op this is not correct, in fact 95% if not 100% of those who were posted to NE were all Northerner.
Pls stop this nonsensical thought.

Quickly highlight them. Except you don't know states that belong to the NE

philEscobar:
Why this election can not be rigged ke, are you a learner! In this country

Election rigging will be turninoninown...

If the election is not rigged at the polling unit, it cannot be rigged at the national level. Just demand for number of accredited voters, number of valid votes and number of rejected votes.

We are about to get it right this time, and we all should be part of the process.

The present mindsets of many Nigerians are that votes do not count. Elections will be rigged. But I want to put it to you that this forthcoming election cannot be rigged as INEC has put in place a mechanism to make the process fair and credible. So, make sure you go out to vote.

The Smart Card Reader (SCR for short) has an icon where the presiding officer COMMUNICATE the results to INEC server directly. This result is based on numbers of accredited voters in the polling unit.

Hence, no matter what happens in a polling unit, if the number of votes is higher than the number of accredited voters, the election in that polling unit is declare NULL AND VOID.

You also need to know that this election is not the type that you do accreditation and go back home. No! Once you are through with accreditation, you move to where you are to vote instantly.

More so, INEC has created VOTING POINTS an extension of polling unit. Every polling unit with more than 500 registered voters will have voting points. This is to reduce the usual queues during voting.

Fellow Nigerians, let's believe and support INEC this time, the commission is really making progress in conducting a free, fair, credible election. We should believe in them and we should all go out to vote for our preferred candidates.

Didi2d:
But an IBO man will never say this against their brother, no matter what all IBO are staking for Peter obi, but some Yoruba's here are beafing osinsanjo, its a pity

That's why we are well developed.

Osinbajo is not a factor because he can only do what Buhari wants him to do. Kindly check the constitution. VP is only useful in the absence of a President.

Why should we vote based on the second in command when we know that the President is the decision maker.

Here is Atiku
Here is Buhari

Pick one

My observation

Most of the terrorist prone areas were allotted to the Southerners.

Check again.

Femziecarlos:
DEMENTIA AND AMNESIA
Dementia: a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember or behave normally.

Demented: Behaving in a crazy way because you are extremely upset or worried, having a mental illness
.
Amnesia: A medical condition in which somebody partly or
completely loses memory.

Buhari's perennial goofs have elevated dementia, demented and amnesia to ridiculous heights.
I remember while in an exam hall, I forgot how to spell "with". I wrote it down as "it". Was my condition dementia or amnesia?
Has it happened to you before?
I have read some of my posts where I had issues with dates,
spellings and tenses even after series of editing. Was my
condition dementia or amnesia?
Many of Buhari's traducers cannot even remember the events of our recent past. They cannot put their thoughts, spellings and tenses together. Which of these conditions are they suffering
from?
I heard Buhari refer South East as East Central. I heard him
mistake 2015 for 2005. I have seen and read countless number of people make same mistakes publicly. Haven't you?
George Bush Jnr goofed as a President of USA. Even Donald
Trump goofs from time to time. Are they under dementia or
amnesia?
Napoleon said, "men are ruled by toys". Being perfect is not an attribute of a leader or a manager. Nobody is perfect.
A good leader, a good manager, is that man or woman who gets things done through others who know more than he does.
Wise men do not judge others from their weakest point. If the Abeokuta section of Lagos - Ibadan rail runs today, that serves as a better talking point than harping on sicknesses that afflict us all.
I have come to this painful realization that those who accuse Buhari of "dementia" have the worse mental sickness. They are "demented" by hate and bitterness and they suffer from from the worst type of "selective amnesia".

You are only being sympathetic to the president.

A particular symptom can occur in many diseases. But for Buhari, it is no longer a mistake....it is a continuous forgetfulness, hence he is showing chronic level of dementia.
Called Germany = West Germany
Called Gubernatorial candidate = Presidential candidate
Called Ondo = Edo Central
Raised the hand of someone else has the senatorial candidate
Assumed office 2015 but said 2005
And so many more

Governitorial
Vote-buying

murmee:
What special benefits did the Yorubas enjoy during the 16 years of PDP rule? Please just name one and I will name several projects being executed by the Buhari government in the Southwest!

We had better purchasing power.

Clerverly:


I have never seen a Yoruba who will vote Peter Obi ahead of Osinbajo....not even 1 person.

Like I said earlier, by 2:30 on the Election day, when the result will start flying in....IPOB Yoots will melt down completely here..

Will Atiku even afford Polling agents all over South West let alone winning any Local Government.

You guys don't know anything about presidential election...continue making noise online.

Stop lying. Yorubas don't do tribal politics except the uneducated ones. What special benefit do we enjoy since osinbajo is VP other than defending evil and wrong doing.

abduljabbar4:
Job vs life?

Use your brain na

Now we have higher rate of suicides

Higher numbers of soldiers being killed

Higher death rate from Fulani herdsmen killing

Danger lies ahead of a nation who prioritises mediocrity above competence

PDP and APC may be the same in terms of politicians. When it comes to business and administration, one will have no option than to applause PDP for not mixing politics with administration.

Remember it took former president six weeks to name his cabinet while president Buhari took six months.

PDP will always have our respect in that the ministers they chose were not always all politicians.

Looking at APC, we see a group of ministers who are largely politicians hence, they lack the technical know-how to solve challenges.

In PDP administration, I remember these few ministers who had created good lasting impressions in my mind and that of many Nigerians.

1. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga (Minister of Trade and Investment)
In office 9 March 2013 – 29 May 2015

Achievements
Mr. Aganga has been widely acclaimed as being responsible for many transformational milestones in Nigeria, including – establishing the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund; issuing the Nation’s first ever Euro Bond; chairing the World Bank and IMF in 2010, chairing the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC8) in Geneva in 2011 (the first African to chair these organisations); making Nigeria the premier destination for investments in Africa, and launching the country’s boldest industrialization agenda.

He was also responsible for structuring and financing the first standard gauge rail (Abuja to Kaduna) in Nigeria. He is also the Chairman of Marina Express, the first private sector developer of rail in Lagos. He sits on a number of Boards including the Advisory Board of the Queens Commonwealth Trust based in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Aganga remains one of the most regarded investor influencers for Nigeria, based on his extensive experience both internationally & domestically, and his track record in and out of government.

Some specific milestone achievements include:

1. Complete transformation of the Federal Government of Nigerian (FGN) Ministry of Trade & Investment (MITI) into Nigeria’s number 1 economic ministry.

2. Operationalised Nigeria’s debt resolution vehicle, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), to improve the liquidity and bring stability into banking industry after the global economic crisis working closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

3. As chair of the WTO MC8 ministerial conference, he laid the foundation for the first WTO trade agreement and also played a pivotal role in finalising the agreement in Bali, Indonesia, in 2013. This was the first multilateral trade agreement in the 13 years of the WTO.

4. Initiated several policies to diversify the Nigerian economy towards making Nigeria less import dependent and creating jobs. These policies include the auto policy, sugar policy, cotton textile, garment policy, and co-developed a new rice production policy. He fully implemented the cement policy which led to self sufficiency in cement, the end of importation of cement into Nigeria, and for the first time in Nigerian history, companies started exporting cement.

5. Recorded major milestones as the FGN Minister of Trade & Investment which include:
a) Turning manufacturing into the second fastest growing sector in the Nigerian economy [Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS)]
b) Mobilised strategic investment and expansions in key strategic sectors where Nigeria was previously import dependent such as (sugarcane to sugar policy), sugar, auto, Petro chemical, refinery, fertiliser and cement.
c) Recorded significant growth in the number of companies in the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector from 17.2 million in 2010 to 32.4 million in 2014, and the attendant employment created by this sector also increased astronomically from 37 million in 2010 to 60 million in 2014 (NBS).
d) Initiated the countries first national quality infrastructure program with UNIDO.
e) Reduced business registration cost by 50% for SME’s and 25% for large companies. He also established a 24 hour registration service in some commercial cities, and launched an on-line registration platform. He also introduced the visa-on-arrival policy for investors.
f) During his tenure as Minister of MITI, Nigeria was rated number 1 by the World Street Journal Frontiers Market index as the most watched frontiers market in the world.
g) NLI was a catalyst for Nigeria’s economic vision 20:2020.

Education and background

Aganga was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he obtained a B.Sc Degree in Biological Sciences in 1977 and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom where he obtained a degree in Theology in 2000. Aganga qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983.

Professional career

His professional career extends over four decades, holding a number of leadership positions both within the private and public sector. Mr. Aganga was previously a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs in London, working in prime brokerage, covering Hedge Funds.

Prior to this, he was a Director with Ernst & Young, London responsible for covering traditional and alternative investment firms including Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds. Prior to that, he was responsible for some Japanese clients and companies in a number of industries including oil and gas, automobile, insurance, FMCG and construction. Mr. Olusegun Aganga is the Founder and Chairman of 3V Partners Ltd., an asset development and investment company focused on some identified sectors of the economy including infrastructure. 3V has a presence in the UK.

Within the public sector he served first as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance & Chairman Economic Management Team; and then as its Minister of Industry, Trade & Investments.

2. Prof. Bartholomew Nnaji (Minister of Power and Steel) is a Nigerian engineer, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept.

July 2011 – 28 August 2012

Biography
He was born in Enugu State, Nigeria and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, New York USA. He then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for his Masters and PhD in Engineering. He also obtained a Post Doctorate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT).

Nnaji joined the faculty of Engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the Founder and Director of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University. He became a full Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics: Computer Aided Design, Robotics and Computer Aided Engineering. Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate have a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept, where product design Engineers can work from remote locations collaboratively to design, assemble and test the same product, using the computer and internet/World Wide Web.

Nnaji moved to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1996 as ALCOA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Engineering. He subsequently was appointed the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he also served as the Founding Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for e-Design – a five University-campus NSF Center of Excellence in e-design. He officially left the University and returned to Nigeria in 2007.

In 1993, Nnaji took a leave of absence from the University and came back to Nigeria to serve as Federal Minister of Science and Technology. He founded Geometric Power, Nigeria's first indigenous-owned power development company in 2000. In 2010 he served as Special Adviser to the President on Power, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power. He became Nigeria's Minister of Power in 2011, and resigned in August 2012.

Nnaji is a seasoned technocrat. However he has often been mistaken for Dr. Iheanyichukwu Godswill Nnaji from Imo State, Nigeria who ran as a Presidential Candidate in 2007, under the Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP).

As Nigerian Minister Of Power
On 28 August 2012, Barth Nnaji resigned as Nigeria's Minister of Power. Prior to accepting to serve his nation as Minister of Power, Prof Nnaji returned from the USA under Pres. Obasanjo's administration and developed the Aba INTEGRATED Power Project (Aba IPP) based on a Lease Agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). The Obasanjo Administration had initiated the Power Sector reform in 2004, which led to the privatization of the sector in 2011, under President Goodluck Jonathan. However, for political reasons, the government reneged on the terms of the Agreement by failing to offer the ring-fence to the project developers during the power sector privatization of state-run companies in an attempt to end Nigeria's chronic power shortages. When Prof. Bart Nnaji resigned his position in 2012, the Economist magazine in its article titled "A Bright Spark is Extinguished" stated that Mr Nnaji's supporters say that opponents of privatisation belatedly and unfairly engineered his departure. “Nnaji was the best person for the job,” says an adviser at the presidential task-force on the reform of power. “But he was getting in the way of other interests.” A spokesman for Mr Nnaji said he had faced "totally wrongful accusations" and chose to resign honorably.

3. Akinwumi Adesina (Minister of Agriculture) is the President of the African Development Bank. He previously served as Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Until his appointment as Minister in 2010, he was Vice President of Policy and Partnerships for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). In 2015, he was elected as the President of the African Development Bank. He was the first Nigerian to hold the post.

Nigerian Agriculture Minister
In office 2010–2015

Early life and career
Adesina was born to a Nigerian farmer in Ibadan, Oyo State. He attended a village school and graduated with a Bachelors in Agricultural Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Ife, Nigeria (1981), where he was the first student to be awarded this distinction by the university. He pursued his studies at Purdue University in Indiana, briefly returning to Nigeria in 1984 to get married. He obtained his PhD (Agricultural Economics) in 1988 from Purdue where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis for his research work.[6]

From 1990 to 1995, Adesina served as a senior economist at West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) in Bouaké, Ivory Coast.

He worked at the Rockefeller Foundation since winning a fellowship from the Foundation as a senior scientist in 1988. From 1999 to 2003 he was the representative of the Foundation for the southern African area. From 2003 until 2008 he was an associate director for food security.

As Minister of Agriculture, 2010–2015
Adesina was the Nigerian Agriculture Minister from 2010 to 2015. During this time the Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was Ibukun Odusote. Adesina was named as Forbes African Man of the Year for his reform of Nigerian agriculture. He introduced more transparency into the fertiliser supply chain. He also said that he would give away mobile phones to farmers but this proved too difficult. One of the reasons was the lack of a mobile network in country areas.

In 2010, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as one of 17 global leaders to spearhead the Millennium Development Goals.

President of the African Development Bank, 2015–present
On 28 May 2015, Adesina was elected the presumptive President of the African Development Bank. He began his tenure of the office on 1 September 2015. He is the eighth president in the organization's history, and the first Nigerian to hold the post.

He launched a strategy based on energy, agriculture, industrialization, regional integration and bettering Africans' lives. The Board of Executive Directors approved the reorganization of the structure around these five priorities.

In September 2016, Adesina was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve as member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.

In 2017, he was awarded 2017 World Food Prize. Upon receiving the prize on October 21, 2017. Adesina donated the $250,000 he received to the development of African youth in agriculture.

Recognition

In July 2007, he was awarded the YARA Prize for the African Green Revolution in Oslo.

In 2008, Purdue University’s College of Agriculture gave him their Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award.

In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Franklin and Marshall College

In 2013, he was named as Forbes Africa Person of the Year.

On May 5, 2015, he was awarded an Extraordinary Achievement Award by Silverbird Television, Nigeria.

On June 26, 2017, he was named winner of the World Food Prize.

4. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance) is an economist and international development expert. She sits on the Boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and the African Risk Capacity (ARC).

Minister of Finance
In office 17 August 2011 – 29 May 2015

Coordinating Minister for the Economy
In office 17 August 2011 – 29 May 2015



Career
Okonjo-Iweala spent a 25-year career at the World Bank in Washington DC as a development economist, rising to the No. 2 position of Managing Director. As Managing Director, she had oversight responsibility for the World Bank’s $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia. Okonjo-Iweala spearheaded several World Bank initiatives to assist low-income countries during the 2008 – 2009 food crises and later during the financial crisis. In 2010, she was Chair of the IDA replenishment, the World Bank’s successful drive to raise $49.3 billion in grants and low interest credit for the poorest countries in the world. During her time at the World Bank, she was also a member of the Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa which was set up by the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark and held meetings between April and October 2008.

Okonjo-Iweala served twice as Nigeria’s Finance Minister and also as Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was the first female to hold both positions. During her first term as Minister of Finance under president Obasanjo’s Administration, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club of Creditors that led to the wiping out of US$30 billion of Nigeria’s debt, including the outright cancellation of US$18 billion. In 2003 she led efforts to improve Nigeria’s macroeconomic management including the implementation of an oil-price based fiscal rule where revenues accruing above a reference benchmark oil price were saved in a special account, “The Excess Crude Account” which helped to reduce macroeconomic volatility.

She also introduced the practice of publishing each state's monthly financial allocation from the Federal Government of Nigeria in the newspapers. This action went a long way in increasing transparency in governance. With the support of the World Bank and the IMF to the Federal Government of Nigeria, she helped build an electronic financial management platform-the Government

These four personalities were instrumental to the growing GDP and economic strength of our dear nation. To say that PDP has not done anything for 16 years is not declare that these fine Nigerians have not contributed anything during their service years.

These great Nigerians are today still making impact all over the world.

Fellow Nigerians, check President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet today, you will see that our ministers are mainly politicians with little or no technical knowledge in their areas of duties.

Do you think such cabinet can take us to the promise land?

We all know that Buhari is a liar and a wicked man.

Where is Leah Shaibu today?

#Back2DauraLoading

MrSix:
They just burnt the man's business/shop.
What's he gonna be eating now?

And his God didn't do anything. Next the yeye pastor would say God has destined the church for greatness and task the gullible congregation members to pay huge amounts to raise a structure.
#thieves...




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In business, avoid taking sides in religion, region/tribal and political issues