₦airaland Forum

seunmsg:
So you tanoids have finally agreed that your party is playing dirty. You guys now realise your GEJ will lose in a free, fair and credible election despite the way your lots grandstand here on NL. See, your party spent millions of naira to produce a dirty propaganda video documentary on BUHARI and Tinubu but still, the support for the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket keeps soaring. That is to show you that nothing can stop the idea whose time has come. Change is inevitable presently in Nigeria and no matter the dirty tactics employed by PDP, elections will hold and change will be effected in Aso rock.

seunmsg:
So you tanoids have finally agreed that your party is playing dirty. You guys now realise your GEJ will lose in a free, fair and credible election despite the way your lots grandstand here on NL. See, your party spent millions of naira to produce a dirty propaganda video documentary on BUHARI and Tinubu but still, the support for the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket keeps soaring. That is to show you that nothing can stop the idea whose time has come. Change is inevitable presently in Nigeria and no matter the dirty tactics employed by PDP, elections will hold and change will be effected in Aso rock.

chukwudi44:
APC supporters should stop pretending as if their party is holy. Everyone is playing dirty. Afterall Buhari is not qualified to stand for election having failed to present his certificates.

You think unseating an incumbent president in Africa is by making noise on nl and Twitter baa.The games have just started

PassingShot:
The last time I check, the judgment can be appealed and that is what will happen.

Before PDP/YDP know what hits them, Buhari has been declared president-elect.

cocoduck:
useless punch news
if GEJ rigs heaven will not fall kpata kpata to your tents oh Isreal

chukwudi44:
The PDP government in power is a law abiding government and would not disobey any legitimate court order. No security would be provided for any illegal elections. Besides some people might even be arrested for contempt of court

kastonkastrol:
mr man Lauren gbagbo was a seating president and he was unseated by the opposition party. Same fate is going to happen to gej..

chukwudi44:
Yes we are playing dirty, and PDP would surely win whether it is by hook or crook.

BTW why don't you ask your candidate who is not playing dirty to write to WAEC to authenticate his ssce results

kastonkastrol:
buhari will not cut any deal with any thief from PDP.. The crooks are all going to jail when the general wins the election.

@the topic.. Ydp are only wasting their time, election is going to hold on the 28th this month.. Gej has already been warned by the international community.

PassingShot:
Laughing hysterically at "PDP government is a law abiding government"

So, when the judgment is appealed, elections and other plans cannot go on? Jokers!

chukwudi44:
International community ko internal community ni.These were the same people Abiola pinned his hopes on and today he is six feet below the ground.

Our laws and courts are supreme and final .No external government can tell us what to do

omenka:
The international community can warn all they want, but do not underestimate the power of greed and lust for power. He have seen it happen too many times. Nigeria can't afford a war on another front right now. It is on record that the successes that have been recorded lately in the North East frontier is due to the combined effort of a coalition of international forces and the NA. I imagine the gains would be rolled back of bombs start going off down south and the military have to divert their attention.

So I'm all for a deal for soft landing if that is what the crooks want. This is getting too dangerous. When the chips are down, it is you and I and our loved ones with no access to state protection, state assets and private jets, that would bear the brunt of the chaos, while those who instigated it would watch as things unfold from the comfort of their posh apartments in far flung civilised countries.

This is so sickening.

chukwudi44:
Yes of course. This case must be dusted before we proceed to elections. We can't afford to spend money organising elections only for it to be voided by the courts

Ngwakwe:
Instead of blaming Jega who acted like an emperor by denying registration to a legitimate application eight months ago the blame game has now being shifted to PDP.

Lest assume it was APC registration that was stalled and this judgement .What would have been your opinion?

Jega is the problem, , that's the truth.

kastonkastrol:
gej should postpone the elections again if he is man enough, then you will know what a "warning from US/EU" means... Gej government will be sanctioned. You guys think APC are jokers right? Wait till you see what we still have for you guys in stockpile.

agabusta:
The party is challenging INEC for not communicating it's decision on time, they are not disputing that they were not validly denied registration.

And pls get your facts right, Jega as an individual is different from INEC as a body.

PassingShot:
Keep hoping on hopeless hope!

Not only that Nigerians are watching and ready this time around, those that matter in the world are equally watching.

Somebody will experience what it means to fall from grace to grass!

agabusta:
PDP lays fresh ambush against election

There are indications that the national leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party might have perfected a fresh strategy aimed at stalling the March 28 presidential election.

Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday and Friday showed that the ruling party was actually the brain behind those who registered Young Democratic Party and that it may use this new party to achieve its objective.

The new party had on Thursday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the forthcoming general elections.

The party said this a day after the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the commission to register YDP as a political party.

At a press briefing in Abuja, the party called on INEC to re-schedule the general elections if it could not accommodate it on its ballot paper.

It said that contrary to insinuations, the court did not order INEC to only register the party, but added that the commission was ordered to issue certificate and include YDP in the 2015 elections.

National Publicity Secretary of YDP, Mr. Ugo Nwofor, said there were only two options available to INEC, saying the commission could either reprint its ballot papers and include the party with a view to accommodate the party’s candidates or shift the elections.

Nwafor said, “If INEC does not have the appropriation for logistics for reprinting of its ballot papers then INEC ought to within the constitutional provision further re-schedule the general election so as to accommodate our party.

“In either of the two options, our party is ready, it has been a long journey for YDP; we wish INEC would explore the first option.”

Shortly after the press briefing, one of the brains behind the YDP was seen at the national headquarters of the PDP in Abuja on Thursday evening, where he said he had come to confer with some of its officers.

In a confidential discussion with our correspondent, he said he had come to brief the party on the success of their legal work which made the court to order that the new party be registered.

When our correspondent called him on the telephone on Friday whether they were planning a fresh legal option to compel INEC to comply with the court order, he answered in the affirmative.

According to him, “Recall that I was at the national headquarters of the ruling party in Abuja on Thursday where I met our partners. We are working together to move the nation forward and deepen our renascent democracy.

“We have already fixed the dates for our convention and we would pick our presidential and other candidates for the elections. We expect INEC to give us a chance as stated in the court order.”

However, it was learnt that one of the strategies of the ruling party in connection with the YDP is to head for the court and ask that the presidential election be set aside, by pleading that the party was excluded.

“This is what we would do if President Jonathan loses the elections,” a source at the national headquarters of the party added.

But if the president wins, it was gathered that the party would not show any interest in pursuing any case in the court.

Nwofor, however, said that the party was interested in contesting the election, adding that this was in compliance with Sections 85 and 87 of the electoral Act.

“Because of this, the party has fixed its governorship/House of Assembly and Presidential and National Assembly primaries for March 26 and 27 respectively,” he added.

It was gathered that the party cleverly picked the dates in order to make sure that the election slated for March 28 does not hold or to make it have a legal proof for exclusion.

The party was believed to have known that submission of candidates list for elections expired 60 days to the election.

An INEC official said that the “commission and Nigerians are aware of the provision of the law on this.”

Nwafor, however, said that his party had commenced the sales of nomination forms due to the court judgement. He said, “We have approved sales of nomination forms as follows; Presidential (N15m), governorship (N3m), Senate (N1m), House of Representatives (N500,000) and House of Assembly (200,000).”

He described the Wednesday’s judgement as victory for democracy, rule of law and triumph over impunity.

It was however gathered that the national leadership of the new party was waiting for the commission to reach out to it tomorrow on the judgement.

One of their elders, who spoke with our correspondent, said that “we expect the commission to reach out to us and ask us to send the names of our presidential and other candidates.

“In the alternative, the commission can also reach out to us, discuss with us and we may say that we are not fielding candidates for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, which come up first.

“The result of the discussion will determine what we would do for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, which holds April 11.”

Efforts made to speak with the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh on the issue failed. He neither picked nor responded to a text message sent to him.

Copyright PUNCH.

http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-lays-fresh-ambush-against-election/

Charlotte15:
They are backed by the president himself. Jona leave peacefully.

chukwudi44:
They have been watching Mugabe for decades yet he is still in power. Abeg tell us another story jare

kastonkastrol:
buhari will not cut any deal with any thief from PDP.. The crooks are all going to jail when the general wins the election.

@the topic.. Ydp are only wasting their time, election is going to hold on the 28th this month.. Gej has already been warned by the international community.

ishiamu:
Pdp always beating apc to their games

agabusta:
You have stated what you and your party represents.

You guys are crooks!

Buhari's cert issue is already in court, the court will do justice to that.

If indeed GEJ is as popular as heclaims, , let him leave INEC alone to conduct a free and fair election. Just wait and see. You yourself will be surprised at the votes GMB will garner in the SE & SS.

PassingShot:
Then you're a learner if you think Zimbabwe is Nigeria. Go study history and you know the differences.

Besides, Mugabe has not gone against his country's constitution. He succeeded in changing the constitution long time ago you know!