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Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by ElevationD: 7:11pm On Apr 03, 2025
potent5:
grin
Where is that Ebonyi senator that likes foaming in the mouth?
Ask his second in command called ebuuubuuu!
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by ElevationD: 7:14pm On Apr 03, 2025
Akpakomiza2:
Exactly
For emphasis, a petition for the recall of a Senator must comply with the provision of Section 69(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) which requires the signatures of more than one-half of the registered voters in the constituency. The total number of registered voters in the Kogi Central Senatorial District is 474,554. More than one-half of this figure (i.e. 50%+1) is 237,277+1 which is at least 237,278 voters.

Across the 902 Polling Units in 57 Registration Areas and five Local Government Areas that make up the Senatorial District, the Commission ascertained 208,132 signatures/thumbprints from the submission made by the petitioners. This translates to 43.86% of the registered voters which falls short of the constitutional requirement by 29,146 signatories.

Consequently, the petition has not met the requirement of Section 69(a) of the Constitution. Therefore, no further action shall be taken on the recall of the Senator.

In line with the provision of Clause 2(d) of the Regulations and Guidelines for Recall 2024, the Commission has issued a Public Notice to that effect which is also copied to the presiding officer of the Senate.

The Public Notice, along with a summary of the review of the signatures/thumbprints of the petitioners, which are disaggregated by Local Government Areas, are available on our website and social media platforms for public information.

Sam Olumekun mni
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information & Voter Education Committee
Thursday 3rd April 2025


Read the above and see that it says “no further action shall be taken on the recall of the Senator”.

Where are you placing the hope of finding 30k more people, when INEC effectively shut the door against the diabolical move?
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Breaker001: 7:30pm On Apr 03, 2025
Advantage of STRONG institutions 💪
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Mrexcell(m): 7:50pm On Apr 03, 2025
Dem don chop akpabio money clean mouth.
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Akpakomiza2: 9:51pm On Apr 03, 2025
ElevationD:
For emphasis, a petition for the recall of a Senator must comply with the provision of Section 69(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) which requires the signatures of more than one-half of the registered voters in the constituency. The total number of registered voters in the Kogi Central Senatorial District is 474,554. More than one-half of this figure (i.e. 50%+1) is 237,277+1 which is at least 237,278 voters.

Across the 902 Polling Units in 57 Registration Areas and five Local Government Areas that make up the Senatorial District, the Commission ascertained 208,132 signatures/thumbprints from the submission made by the petitioners. This translates to 43.86% of the registered voters which falls short of the constitutional requirement by 29,146 signatories.

Consequently, the petition has not met the requirement of Section 69(a) of the Constitution. Therefore, no further action shall be taken on the recall of the Senator.

In line with the provision of Clause 2(d) of the Regulations and Guidelines for Recall 2024, the Commission has issued a Public Notice to that effect which is also copied to the presiding officer of the Senate.

The Public Notice, along with a summary of the review of the signatures/thumbprints of the petitioners, which are disaggregated by Local Government Areas, are available on our website and social media platforms for public information.

Sam Olumekun mni
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information & Voter Education Committee
Thursday 3rd April 2025


Read the above and see that it says “no further action shall be taken on the recall of the Senator”.

Where are you placing the hope of finding 30k more people, when INEC effectively shut the door against the diabolical move?
They will launch another petition
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Amudeneogu: 6:05am On Apr 04, 2025
This woman deserves Senate president
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Psoul(m): 6:15am On Apr 04, 2025
Indabello:
I think that powerful message Sen. Natasha sent to INEC chair on redeeming his image before the completion of his tenure really worked.

Moreover, INEC is not financially buoyant to embark on such futile exercise at the moment.

When they saw how people defied the kangaroo orders from Benghazi, the State police commissioner and the LG Chair to welcome home their BELOVED SENATOR, they concluded rightly that "these can't be the same people who signed to have this woman recalled".

Please, someone should update the scoreline between Natasha and Akpabio
The scoreline is like the "legendary match" between Nigeria and India.

India 99: Nig 1

🤣🤣🤣😜😜😜😆😆🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by RillJ(m): 8:14am On Apr 04, 2025
Someone should explain the whole thing to Akpabio, please.
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by ElevationD: 8:47am On Apr 04, 2025
Akpakomiza2:
They will launch another petition
I like your confidence, but sadly you must ask those who you support to learn to choose their battles. Senator Natasha has made all of them look ordinary and empty. All these happened because the SP did not conduct the affairs of that day with a little bit of patience and understanding, as the father of all of them in the house.

With what we saw a few days ago, any further attempt will be in futility.

Again, it is better to let sleeping dogs to lie. Why attempt to set the zone ablaze, when you know that the lady is stronger than Yaya Bello, Ododo, etc around there.

For further clarity, there is no need to change a winning horse. I do not care about party affiliation. Look through her constituency projects and you will tell those before her, Yaya Bello, etc, to be ashamed of themselves. Kogi state for your information is in dire need of good leadership. So much resources and yet, there communities are disgraceful. Pass through Ibilo, Okene, Lokoja, etc and you’ll ask what the Governors have been doing with their resources.

If that good leader is Senator Natasha and she delivers what makes their communities better, why should you support those greedy looters force her away?

Lastly, learn to support good leaders. We are all tired of those who we vote for yearly, and our societies continue to remain in shambles.
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Akpakomiza2: 9:29am On Apr 04, 2025
ElevationD:
I like your confidence, but sadly you must ask those who you support to learn to choose their battles. Senator Natasha has made all of them look ordinary and empty. All these happened because the SP did not conduct the affairs of that day with a little bit of patience and understanding, as the father of all of them in the house.

With what we saw a few days ago, any further attempt will be in futility.

Again, it is better to let sleeping dogs to lie. Why attempt to set the zone ablaze, when you know that the lady is stronger than Yaya Bello, Ododo, etc around there.

For further clarity, there is no need to change a winning horse. I do not care about party affiliation. Look through her constituency projects and you will tell those before her, Yaya Bello, etc, to be ashamed of themselves. Kogi state for your information is in dire need of good leadership. So much resources and yet, there communities are disgraceful. Pass through Ibilo, Okene, Lokoja, etc and you’ll ask what the Governors have been doing with their resources.

If that good leader is Senator Natasha and she delivers what makes their communities better, why should you support those greedy looters force her away?

Lastly, learn to support good leaders. We are all tired of those who we vote for yearly, and our societies continue to remain in shambles.
I agree with you largely but it is a lie that she's stronger than Bello or Ododo sir. It is almost impossible to recall any lawmaker due to the conditions. They tried recalling Dino but failed. During the election, they buried him. Akpoti won with less than 4000 votes against an unknown Ohere and you feel she's strong? They will wipe her in 2027.
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Abba3point7: 12:26pm On Apr 04, 2025
Mary911
Help me a beg, i quit betting but still to eat na wahala for me
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by ElevationD: 12:27pm On Apr 04, 2025
Akpakomiza2:
I agree with you largely but it is a lie that she's stronger than Bello or Ododo sir. It is almost impossible to recall any lawmaker due to the conditions. They tried recalling Dino but failed. During the election, they buried him. Akpoti won with less than 4000 votes against an unknown Ohere and you feel she's strong? They will wipe her in 2027.
Do not forget that Yaya Bello sent his goons to destroy the roads leading to her strongholds? It was all over in the news. We saw the large craters of holes, shamelessly caused by the then governor, using public funds. That was a disgusting show of power. It also showed his serious weakness and the prowess of Senator Natasha. Both materials arrived very late and her real constituents were supposed to be disenfranchised. She overcame those obstacles on her path to the National Assembly.

So it is very safe to say that aside from contesting against the then APC candidate, she directly was contesting the EFCC declared wanted Bello.

Again, we have seen election won by very tiny margins. Victory is victory, irrespective of the score. Fortunately for Senator Natasha, her popularity soars daily by the reckless move of the Senate President, Karimi, Ododo and Bello.

Now, Ododo knows the Natasha runs the affairs in Kogi central. He cannot remove her in 2027, days
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Akpakomiza2: 1:04pm On Apr 04, 2025
ElevationD:
Do not forget that Yaya Bello sent his goons to destroy the roads leading to her strongholds? It was all over in the news. We saw the large craters of holes, shamelessly caused by the then governor, using public funds. That was a disgusting show of power. It also showed his serious weakness and the prowess of Senator Natasha. Both materials arrived very late and her real constituents were supposed to be disenfranchised. She overcame those obstacles on her path to the National Assembly.

So it is very safe to say that aside from contesting against the then APC candidate, she directly was contesting the EFCC declared wanted Bello.

Again, we have seen election won by very tiny margins. Victory is victory, irrespective of the score. Fortunately for Senator Natasha, her popularity soars daily by the reckless move of the Senate President, Karimi, Ododo and Bello.

Now, Ododo knows the Natasha runs the affairs in Kogi central. He cannot remove her in 2027, days
Lol, Natasha runs nothing sir. Do not be deceived, that crowd you saw was from her village Ihima. If you are popular, you will win with a heavy margin. You saw more crowd coming out for her recall and most groups in central speaking out against her. Her LGA Okehi is small, Bello is from Okene the biggest LGA... You obviously don't know how to rate politicians and their electoral process, I am a master in that field. Dino did more and still lost. Saraki nko?

In 2023, bello attention was divided between presidency, house of assembly, senate and reps. There is no way he will win all. At least she lost initially. Why she won in court is because the winning margin of Apc was just 1k. Ultimately, she will lose
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by ElevationD: 1:52pm On Apr 04, 2025
Akpakomiza2:
Lol, Natasha runs nothing sir. Do not be deceived, that crowd you saw was from her village Ihima. If you are popular, you will win with a heavy margin. You saw more crowd coming out for her recall and most groups in central speaking out against her. Her LGA Okehi is small, Bello is from Okene the biggest LGA... You obviously don't know how to rate politicians and their electoral process, I am a master in that field. Dino did more and still lost. Saraki nko?

In 2023, bello attention was divided between presidency, house of assembly, senate and reps. There is no way he will win all. At least she lost initially. Why she won in court is because the winning margin of Apc was just 1k. Ultimately, she will lose
Carry this your always one sided APC analysis dress far abeg. In 2023, Wike purchased the tickets for all the candidates in rivers state. His attention was with his candidates and his candidates all won. Bello lost seats!

If that crowd alone was from her village, how then do you not see her strength clearly within her local government or the whole Senatorial
Zone?

Why did you not address the matter of runaway Yeye Bello destroying public roads, just to stop electoral materials from getting to her area? How did you not address that fact that she overcame, even with the heavy obstacles on her path to the NASS. Even if she did not win by a wide margin in 2023, , did she win at all? Did she defeat Yeye Bello and his thoughtless plans? What about other elections where the Victor at the first time, won with a small margin, but the second time it was a very huge margin? What at the factors that will make Yeye Bello defeat Senator Natasha in 2027.

Do you want to say that you did not see that the same fake APC constituents shouting that they were deceived to attend an empowerment program? With all your acclaimed analytic prowesses, how could 250 + 1 thousand people have quickly put themselves together, in such a short time, without some form of inducement?
Re: INEC gives reasons for rejecting petition for Natasha Akpoti's recall by Akpakomiza2: 2:25pm On Apr 04, 2025
ElevationD:
Carry this your always one sided APC analysis dress far abeg. In 2023, Wike purchased the tickets for all the candidates in rivers state. His attention was with his candidates and his candidates all won. Bello lost seats!

If that crowd alone was from her village, how then do you not see her strength clearly within her local government or the whole Senatorial
Zone?

Why did you not address the matter of runaway Yeye Bello destroying public roads, just to stop electoral materials from getting to her area? How did you not address that fact that she overcame, even with the heavy obstacles on her path to the NASS. Even if she did not win by a wide margin in 2023, , did she win at all? Did she defeat Yeye Bello and his thoughtless plans? What about other elections where the Victor at the first time, won with a small margin, but the second time it was a very huge margin? What at the factors that will make Yeye Bello defeat Senator Natasha in 2027.

Do you want to say that you did not see that the same fake APC constituents shouting that they were deceived to attend an empowerment program? With all your acclaimed analytic prowesses, how could 250 + 1 thousand people have quickly put themselves together, in such a short time, without some form of inducement?
Nigerian politics is dirty sir so do not be surprised. Inec says 43% where verified which shows how unpopular she is. In the long run, she can't survive this except she retreats and apologize that's if it's not too late... You cannot compare Wike's capacity to Yahaya bello. Besides opposition is stronger in kogi than rivers
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