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The fact is that election was rigged but the rivers people love it like that so as a matter of that they believe election was not rigged especially many of them on Nairaland. so i pray they don't just regret it because the people of Osun, Oyo and Ogun regretted it in 2003

OP. God will bless you. Before the election i used to have problem with my sister about This Ajimobi. Reason is that he was not love in Ibadan and the only crime against this man was Ibadan don't serve people twice and he ask people to leave the street. Most of road have been expanded in Ibadan, Transportation has been relatively improved, when I read the the first thread I wish i could ask him to give out crime of Ajimobi and you will discover is money related

From all the candidate that contest in 2015 election in Nigeria, only in Ibadan has highest contender because most of them were political jobbers, Ajimobi closest rival Ladoja suppose to have look for a young chap like Femi Lalehin but he just want to be the governor at all cost. Imagine United APC fighting Divided PDP. People can easily know the winner

peezu:
There are two guys on channels election analyst that always makes me think on how I will improve my knowledge everyday.they are Umar Aliyu a security expert and babajide something. Hv forgotten his name. Abeg help me look for deer contact am dying here ooo.

That Babajide and Mr JITI were fantastic. They just got the fact and the figures

jaymantin:
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, has called on his political associates to brace for an opposition role they will play in the next four years.

He also urged candidates at the Saturday’s governorship/state legislature elections to accept results of the polls.

He advised politicians to see the results as a reflection of the people’s will, which they must respect.

The party chieftain took to Twitter to give the advice on Sunday while results of the polls were being announced in different parts of the country.

In a series of tweets, Mu’azu urged politicians to be wary of the peace of Nigeria, saying they should be mindful of their role as builders.

His counsel was directed to all losers irrespective of their political parties. He, however, singled out PDP members, directing them to prepare to offer Nigerians a robust opposition platform in the next four years.

“The huge task of rebuilding the party and providing the needed opposition is the new task ahead of you, I am very sure you can do that.

“We all have a country to build, not destroy. Our great party will play a major role in the next four years,” he tweeted.

The PDP leader urged losers to shun self-help even when they have genuine grievances. Rather than resorting to violence, he said, they should seek redress at election tribunals.

He said, “Do not attack perceived political opponents or those you feel might have compromised the electoral process. If you must protest against election results, use the election petition tribunals. Do not take the laws into your hands.

“We, as leaders, must always be mindful that the people have the final say in determining and deciding who govern them. As election results come in, remain peaceful and accept the will of the people.”

Mu’azu specifically called on supporters of the PDP to remain calm and peaceful in the face of all odds.

Meanwhile, a former presidential candidate and publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, rose in defence of the Igbo who have been attacked on social media for allegedly mortgaging their chance to clinch senate presidency in the incoming administration.

Momodu said the Igbo never sold any chance but made a choice like other groups did.

Some tweeters, including one Bruce Valentine, sought to know the fate of Easterners, who he claimed sold their political prospect by voting en masse for the PDP’s candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at the recent presidential poll.

But Momodu, an advocate of liberal politics, responded, “It will be great to see people rise above sectional and tribal sentiments. The Igbo sold nothing; democracy is about choice. Another chance will come.”

In another series of tweets, the publisher said he supported the President-elect, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to save the country from a further collapse and not for envisaged personal gain.

Momodu, whose Twitter following is over 500,000, keyed into his social media popularity to support Buhari during the presidential campaign.

He called on Nigerians to bury the bitter memory of the campaign and move on as one indivisible people.

“Those who worked hard to block Buhari’s victory must be wondering what they did right or wrong and wishing they did otherwise. Today, I wish to publicly forgive all those ill-mannered kids who abused me and my parents just for exercising my right of free opinion.

“I did not support Buhari because I wanted anything but because I realised we must arrest Nigeria’s speedy drift towards perdition. We should all forgive our bitter experiences and embrace one another as one people, while working for the overall good of our nation.”

He called on Nigerians to pray for the success of the incoming administration.

A former governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, said Nigerians should not doubt the ability of the Buhari administration to deliver on its promises.

“With the quality of people Nigerians have elected to serve them, we have no excuse to fail. We must complement that by appointing sound minds,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Saraki pledged to maintain the discussion he has had with his Twitter followers, saying the platform is one of the best “places to feel the pulse of the nation.”
http://www.punchng.com/i-punch/opposition-is-your-new-task-muazu-tells-pdp/

Na so life be ooo

OP Forget about PDP . People voted for agbaje not pdp. And from channels Agbaje said he is no more contesting. It is better to said Agbaje fought a good fight

Coalition is on going on LTV

howardriddle:
We try abi we no try?

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like abia has been developed

That serves them right when they are affiliating with themselves APGA will soon die after 2015 election

The Executive Director of Contact Project, Jennifer Lynne, believes that presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers State were indeed compromised.

Ms Lynne, an international observer monitoring the Nigerian presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers State, was speaking on Channels Television via the telephone on Sunday night.

She said that over the course of Saturday, she, along with the multinational civil society observation team had the opportunity to move across Port Harcourt, the state capital and observe several of the polling units.

She disclosed that at the end of the exercise the team witnessed the difficulty of the availability and security of result sheets.

She also raised questions concerning what she called compromised election materials, as well as the dysfunction of card readers as widely reported.

Responding to a question about the magnitude of the irregularities recorded and if they were enough to invalidate the election, Ms Lynne said, “This will be a question of the INEC being able to hear these complaints and make decisions upon the validity based on the reports they are getting.

“At the press conference that was held today, there were additional international reporters and observers present who would confirm violence and election tampering.

“So I will leave it to the INEC to take seriously the concerns that have been raised.”

Controversies have trailed the Saturday election in the state, with Governor Rotimi Amaechi raising an alarm that elections did not hold in several Local Government Areas owing to the unavailability of result sheets at polling units, which he said was a deliberate act by the Peoples Democratic Party with the connivance of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The view was also shared by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in the state, Dakuku Peterside, who had earlier in the day led a peaceful protest demanding that INEC schedules a proper election in the state.

Ms Lynne also threw her weight behind the citizens’ refusal of the exercise. She stated that the protests held on Sunday across the streets of Port Harcourt were justified.

“Some of our international community members have reported ballot boxes that were broken. We have seen violence and intimidation recorded as well at some polling areas,” she said, adding that her team had also made attempts to report their findings at the INEC headquarters but were refused entrance into the facility.

She, however, promised that her team as well as other international organisations monitoring the elections would ensure that they submit their reports to INEC as soon as possible to help the commission in making a timely decision.

The PDP Governorship Candidate in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has debunked APC’s allegations that there were no elections in Rivers State, including the observations recorded by Ms Lynne and other international election observers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7lahs2NfP8

http://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/30/rivers-election-compromised-international-observer-jennifer-lynne-says/

Dream on Boy

Guys when Fayose win then you can confirm that then ?

amunkita:
Abeg watin d guy dey talk..

Voting was relatively successfully

Right on now

When Alibaba collect money to campaign nobody here but dey con dey use him picture him con dey Shout on Facebook

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Yes Brother, Why Bolaji Abdulahi one of the shining Example of Goodluck Jonathan administration but was sacked he has friend Bukola saraki is an APC member and what happen to Nigeria Sport... Failure even Uganda and south africa start to beat us

I am sorry your Excellency I don't celebrate mediocrity and first you need to apologize as GMB just did. So you need to do it on neglect of Nigerians exepicaly in Nort east

Rose2014:
Ok




Initially i supported APC but carefully looked at their way of life i discover that they are old thieves trying to wear new clothes i decamped to PDP at least i know what they have done afterall Northerners have ruled for more than 30 yrs including Buhari but nothing drastically changed

Good for You. You have 100s of Thread to SPAM and 1000 post to mention and prove that you are a robot and not jobless but TAN jobs

Rose2014:
So anyone that is not supporting APC is jobless?

See the way you spam all post on nairaland. Yes you are jobless.

Rights campaigners in Nigeria have slammed the Rivers State Deputy Governor, Tele Ikuru, for prodding the people of the state to fight, even with their blood, to rid the state of elements of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
Mr. Ikuru, on Monday, had asked members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the state to fight and redeem the state from the APC even if it means shedding their blood.
He made the call in Port Harcourt to a crowd of PDP supporters who turned out to welcome him after his defection from the APC.
“It is necessary for the sake of your fathers, for the sake of your mothers, for the sake of your brothers and sisters and for the sake of your children. Every Rivers man must stand up to fight this evil among us,” Mr. Ikuru said. “If it demands your blood, so be it.”
The Director, Centre for Democracy and Development, Idayat Hassan, told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Ikuru’s statement does not just portray hate but is especially dangerous because of the forthcoming elections.
“This a very worrying situation particularly looking at how volatile the election is. It amounts to dangerous speech, it goes beyond hate speech, it’s a dangerous speech to incite people to violence,” Ms. Hassan said.
Ms. Hassan said the comments by a serving deputy governor is unlawful, punishable, and against the Abuja peace accord signed by political parties.
“As much as the political gladiators keep inciting people to violence, they should not forget that if they feel the culture of impunity is actually encouraged here in Nigeria, that the ICC has already issued a statement to the effect that if anybody commits violence during this election will go in for it,” she said.
Emmanuel Onwubiko, the National Coordinator, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, condemned the statement.
“That’s very callous, if he made that comment,” Mr. Onwubiko said.
He said he hopes the Deputy Governor’s statement attracts international attention especially with the recent statement from the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal court that anyone who incites violence or participates in violent act during the election will be held responsible for their actions.
With Rivers State having recorded pockets of pre- election violence, various organizations have put the state on “red alert”, he said.
“That particular state has been burning, I think political leaders from that Rivers State should be careful of what they say. The state is a flashpoint for political violence, so you don’t expect anybody, a respectable politician from that state to be the one to speak of violence,” Mr. Onwubiko said.
He added that it is pertinent for the Deputy Governor to quickly recant his statement and apologise to Nigerians for making such inciting speech.
Also, Lauratu Abdulsalam of the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme said such statement from a personality as the Deputy Governor of the state can lead his followers to cause an unimaginable level of violence.
The activists also called on the National Human Rights Commission to look into Mr. Ikuru’s statement and hold him accountable to any violence that might erupt in the state.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/179141-rivers-deputy-governor-ikuru-under-fire-over-call-for-blood-fight.html

The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has partially reversed his directive that Nigerians leave polling centres after voting in Saturday’s presidential election, rephrasing his position following counter directives from the Independent National Electoral Commission, Nigeria’s leading political parties, and First Lady, Patience Jonathan.
Mr. Abba had warned voters last week to leave after voting, saying it would amount to allowing people take laws into their hands if they stay to protect their votes. He said the police will ensure all votes count.
The directive was rejected by INEC, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, All Progressives Congress, as well as Mrs. Jonathan.
In her remarks at the PDP Women Presidential Campaign in Enugu on Monday, Mrs. Jonathan said guarding the votes will eliminate all forms of rigging and make the elections credible.
The first lady urged her party’s supporters to guard against manipulations by the opposition parties.
“After voting on March 28, make sure you follow your votes till the end. Do not leave the arena until the counting ends,” she said.
Speaking Wednesday after a meeting with police commanders ahead of the election, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abba, backtracked, saying he did not bar voters from staying behind after casting their ballots.
He said he merely “advised” them to leave. He said the police would prefer that voters leave to check violence.
“The police did not ban anyone from the polling units after casting their vote, we only advise people to cast their vote and leave the polling units,’’ he said, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
Mr. Abba said Nigerians who wish to stay after voting should remain 300 metres away from the centres in line with the Electoral Act.
Speaking at a separate meeting with INEC Wednesday, Mr. Abba said it was important for voters to cast their votes and go home in order not to commit any electoral offence.
He made the comments at a National Stakeholders Summit on the elections organised by the INEC in Abuja.
“This advice that I am giving is resulting from what I observed in the provisions of section 129 of the Electoral Act,” he said. “Nine different types of offences are listed there in and if you stay back, there is likelihood of you committing one of those offences.”
The INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega, had earlier said there was no law barring voters from staying behind to watch their votes.
But the IG said the offences in the Electoral Act that may result if voters loiter include canvassing or soliciting for vote, persuading a voter not to vote for a particular candidate or not to vote.
He said other electoral offences were possession of any weapon, use vehicle or things bearing a colour or symbol of a political party.
The IG pledged that the police, in collaboration with other security agencies, will provide security for all polling units and 9,000 collation centres across the country.
“In order to also make INEC officials and their materials secure, we have identified almost 900 INEC offices nationwide, mindful of the fact that security of the materials is important,’’ he said.
He added that security agencies were also working to ensure that streets and homes were protected during the elections.
On the deployment of soldiers for the elections, the police boss noted that the military would be deployed to play supportive role as stated in the Constitution.
Mr. Abba advised INEC to guard against late commencement of elections and rigging so as to ease security agencies’ effort at maintaining peace on elections days.
“Where election rigging occurs, it may be a threat to conduct of peaceful elections,’’ he said.
He warned politicians against using thugs to further their interests.
“Whatever is the outcome of the elections should be accepted by you; if rejected, follow the legal procedure,’’ he advised.
He said that in carrying out their duties, security personnel will be mindful of and respect human rights.
On his part, the Chairman of INEC, Mr. Jega, said that the commission had taken measures to improve transparency and credibility of the process of collation of results.
“Hard copies of result sheets from polling units would be scanned, converted to PDF format and put in a database, which would be made available for viewing and download via the INEC website.
“Every voter or stakeholder will be able to confirm the accuracy of results from the polling units, which have been conveyed to the collation centres,’’ Jega explained.
He added that not less than 82 per cent of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) had been distributed nationwide.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/179064-police-ig-backtracks-says-nigerians-can-stay-after-voting.html

Three Ghanaian students on Tuesday in Lagos cart home all the three West African Examinations Council (WAEC) International Excellence Awards for the best candidates that sat for the school examination among the five-member body.

The council at its 63rd Annual Council meeting in Nigerian held at Multipurpose Hall, WAEC International Office, Ikeja, the council honoured the three candidates from Ghana with WAEC International Excellence Awards including cash as well as plaques.

The three Ghanaian students: Hasan Mickail, 17-year-old, Kenyah Blaykyi, 18-year-old and Archibaid Enninful Henry, 18-year-old beat over two million candidates from Nigeria, The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia that sat for the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The feat is the fifth in succession by Ghanaian candidates. The last time a Nigerian student won the WAEC International Excellence Award was in 2007 by John Yusuf while in 2010, there were no winners.

In the May/June 2014 WASSCE, Hasan Mickail recorded eight A1s including English Language and Mathematics, to claim first winner, Kenayah Blaykyi, made eight A1s to cart home the second prize and Archibald Enninful Henry recorded similar result emerged 3rd winner. Equally, the three students emerged the best three candidates in WAEC Ghana May/June 2014 WASSCE.

The council in 1984 introduced two categories of awards, International award to be competed for by candidates in more than one member country and National Award restricted in scope to each member nation.

Hasan Mickail, told our Correspondent that he, his parents and school were excited when the news emerged and was waiting to secure admission to read Medicine but was currently teaching in one of the schools in Ghana.

Hasan, who is the third child out five children, revealed that for emerging the best WASSCE candidate in Ghana, the council awarded him a university scholarship.

The second and third place winners also told our Correspondent how they prepared for the May/June WASSCE even as they showered praises on their parents and teachers for the academic success.

The 63rd annual council meeting was to be hosted by Liberia but shifted to Nigeria and it attracted dignitaries including two Liberian ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Augustine Ngufuan, Minister of Education, Mrs. Etmonia Tapeh, the Federal Government was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja, council chairman, Prof Augustine Obanya, Registrar, Mr. Iyi Uwadiae and five Heads of National Office from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=110625

It will create jobs for youth? That is part of 1.8 million jobs created ? these people are Jokers

Kakpos:
I AM A CATHOLIC A MEMBER OF CCRN I WILL VOTE FOR BUHARI GO ND DIE!

No be me write am ooo abeg.

warning for Catholic Member
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008702616955&fref=ts

Nigerians over the year did not vote with debate because winners of the elections don't participate in previous elections debate

Ha OP.... Maybe we should ask u who dey sponsor PDP campaign.. As you know that Jonah came from Poor Family and recently his mother build an hostel for outoeke university.

imbless:
noooooo!! na who dey talk about GEJ here ? , what I meant to say is that we need youths below 40years in politics.

we all believe Politics is a dirty game nobody want to participate naw. or are you saying Dimeji Bankole or who

ok

vicostyle20:
Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, says he can never forgive the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), because of the sins he committed against Yoruba leaders while he was head of state between December 1983 and August 1985.
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The 87-year-old, who was a close associate of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, said Buhari locked up all the Yoruba governors after overthrowing the Shehu Shagari government.
Adebanjo said this at a post-National Conference in Lagos titled, ‘Into tomorrow and beyond’ on Thursday.
He said, “Back then, Awolowo warned Shagari that his government would soon hit the rock if he did not put things in order. Shortly after, in December 1983, Buhari overthrew the government but the man that was speaking against Shagari (Awolowo), was harrassed by Buhari.
“Buhari picked up all the Yoruba governors: Adekunle Ajasin (Ondo State); Olabisi Onabanjo (Ogun) and others, who were true progressives and locked them up.

“Somebody said I am a Christian and I should forgive Buhari but I said I cannot forgive such. Ajasin’s children say they have forgiven Buhari but I am not in their party, I can’t forgive him.”
Adebanjo said the North was against the implementation of the resolutions of the confab because the region was enjoying the system which is unfavourable to southern Nigeria.
He, therefore, urged Yoruba to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan next week as he had promised to implement the report of the confab.
He also dismissed claims that he and other Afenifere leaders had been bribed by Jonathan.
He said, “I am saying vote Jonathan not because he is Ijaw or from the South-South. No northerner will convoke a national conference because everything we are talking of that has been unfavourable to the South; they (North) are the beneficiaries.”
http://naijafussion..com/2015/03/i-can-never-forgive-buhari-says-adebanjo.html

the man dey form popular who sabi am all people talk say them don forgive am wetin buhari do am personally

imbless:
we don't need that old man, we need intelligent young people in politics

like GEJ abi ?

op you get mouth