The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday’s Bauchi senatorial bye election.

Mr Dogara was at his country home, Gwarangah, in Bogoro local government area of Bauchi state days before the bye-election for Bauchi-South senatorial district.

Having coordinated support for his preferred candidate, Mr Dogara failed to turn up at the polling unit, which is near his house.

Voting at the polling unit closed at 2.20 p.m. amidst a rancorous protests by some irate youth who accused INEC officials of not allowing them cast their vote.

Some of the youth said they were denied their voting right on grounds that they were at the polling unit with temporary voters card.

Others insisted on voting even after the closure of accreditation, saying they had to go to their farms first before coming to the polling centre.

Others said the polling officials must share the remaining ballot papers among the party agents to cast their votes in favour of their respective parties as they did not trust the officials going away with unused ballot papers.

It was in the midst of this tense situation that Mr Dogara eventually left his house to the polling centre.

His arrival further infuriated the youth who began to protest loudly that they won’t accept the officials giving the speaker special treatment after they were denied the chance to cast their votes on grounds that they did not show up early enough.

The speaker was seen having a chat with officials who explained to him that they had long closed accreditation and transmitted the result electronically to the INEC headquarters.

Mr Dogara later pleaded with the crowd to be calm.

He explained even himself could not vote. It took some time to calm frayed nerves.

Journalists were almost violently lynched for daring to take photographs of the rancorous situation.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/279809-bauchi-bye-election-dogara-not-allowed-to-vote.html

Good.

Nobody is above the law.

He came late for accreditation

This part got me laughing

abc115:


Others insisted on voting even after the closure of accreditation, saying they had to go to their farms first before coming to the polling centre.

Others said the polling officials must share the remaining ballot papers among the party agents to cast their votes in favour of their respective parties as they did not trust the officials going away with unused ballot papers.

Na dia ways. Being the only most lucrative JOB in the whole North of Nigeria....dem go wan chase away infidels from gaining advantage

Op, why did you use the word ''not allowed''? He came late and you there confusing yourself. We are all equal before the law #the rule of law

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Indiscipline.

Hon. Speaker disenfranchised due to lateness.

Idiota..........

All these politicians using style to attract public sympathy when they're the ones breaking the rules.

Late comer

Okay so make we trek to cotonou

I trust northerners.
Dogara is finished politically

But these guys are funny sha, you went to farm instead of going for accreditation first. they come around 2 with temporary voters card and ask to vote.
Clowns.

Face saving tactics, he knew his ambitious party can't win the election, hence he came late not to be accused of voting for a destined to fail PDP candidate.

Wow

Na them sabi, the time of free and fair election is over.

Leading without example

ZKOSOSO:
Na dia ways. Being the only most lucrative JOB in the whole North of Nigeria....dem go wan chase away infidels from gaining advantage

..they cant win...so the best is to put up drama why they failed...

I think PDP has done well no matter the outcome in bauchi and katsina, they never came for a win. But the objective is right on course.

But if the kogi people have chosen to be senile to the predicament meted on them by the dormant governor, then we can rightly say, they deserve what they get.

okkkk

ZKOSOSO:
Na dia ways. Being the only most lucrative JOB in the whole North of Nigeria....dem go wan chase away infidels from gaining advantage

Read the thread again but slowly this time around. Religious bigot. It has suddenly become Religious issue to you now , when the same Dogara has been representing his constituency close to 12yrs now. All you people know is promoting Religious hatred everywhere.

He is an idiot for coming late to vote. Did he expect Inec wait for him?
On the other thought, he might have done that deliberately so he wouldn't vote APC.
kiss the truth!

abc115:
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday’s Bauchi senatorial bye election.

Mr Dogara was at his country home, Gwarangah, in Bogoro local government area of Bauchi state days before the bye-election for Bauchi-South senatorial district.

Having coordinated support for his preferred candidate, Mr Dogara failed to turn up at the polling unit, which is near his house.

Voting at the polling unit closed at 2.20 p.m. amidst a rancorous protests by some irate youth who accused INEC officials of not allowing them cast their vote.

Some of the youth said they were denied their voting right on grounds that they were at the polling unit with temporary voters card.

Others insisted on voting even after the closure of accreditation, saying they had to go to their farms first before coming to the polling centre.

Others said the polling officials must share the remaining ballot papers among the party agents to cast their votes in favour of their respective parties as they did not trust the officials going away with unused ballot papers.

It was in the midst of this tense situation that Mr Dogara eventually left his house to the polling centre.

His arrival further infuriated the youth who began to protest loudly that they won’t accept the officials giving the speaker special treatment after they were denied the chance to cast their votes on grounds that they did not show up early enough.

The speaker was seen having a chat with officials who explained to him that they had long closed accreditation and transmitted the result electronically to the INEC headquarters.

Mr Dogara later pleaded with the crowd to be calm.

He explained even himself could not vote. It took some time to calm frayed nerves.

Journalists were almost violently lynched for daring to take photographs of the rancorous situation.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/279809-bauchi-bye-election-dogara-not-allowed-to-vote.html

Shame late comer

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I just googled "trypophobia" and I can't sleep again, I need help

Ok

He must have learnt that from the great Nigerian political maradona himself, IBB..when you don't want too much headache after elections, just travel to your village for election purpose and stay indoors till accreditation is over as if that was not why you went in the first place! Can we ever get too much from political melodramas, these days?

abc115:
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday’s Bauchi senatorial bye election.

Mr Dogara was at his country home, Gwarangah, in Bogoro local government area of Bauchi state days before the bye-election for Bauchi-South senatorial district.

Having coordinated support for his preferred candidate, Mr Dogara failed to turn up at the polling unit, which is near his house.

Voting at the polling unit closed at 2.20 p.m. amidst a rancorous protests by some irate youth who accused INEC officials of not allowing them cast their vote.

Some of the youth said they were denied their voting right on grounds that they were at the polling unit with temporary voters card.

Others insisted on voting even after the closure of accreditation, saying they had to go to their farms first before coming to the polling centre.

Others said the polling officials must share the remaining ballot papers among the party agents to cast their votes in favour of their respective parties as they did not trust the officials going away with unused ballot papers.

It was in the midst of this tense situation that Mr Dogara eventually left his house to the polling centre.

His arrival further infuriated the youth who began to protest loudly that they won’t accept the officials giving the speaker special treatment after they were denied the chance to cast their votes on grounds that they did not show up early enough.

The speaker was seen having a chat with officials who explained to him that they had long closed accreditation and transmitted the result electronically to the INEC headquarters.

Mr Dogara later pleaded with the crowd to be calm.

He explained even himself could not vote. It took some time to calm frayed nerves.

Journalists were almost violently lynched for daring to take photographs of the rancorous situation.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/279809-bauchi-bye-election-dogara-not-allowed-to-vote.html

You can see how the blueprints for rigging are being set.

How can Nigerian citizens be denied their inalienable rights to vote and we declare such election free and fair?

Then tomorrow those paid propagandists will come here to shout SAI BABA! Is this how to entrench democracy?

It's only when they want to rig election that they remember which state they come from.

Nigerians are ready to exercise their rights but INEC is not letting them!

Nigerians wake as early as 2.00A.M! to put down their names!

By 4.00-5.00A.M, the list is over 200 on a daily basis! Then by 6.00AM, your guess is as good as mine.

Those days registration are done in wards!

But in 2018, you need to transport to register!

Even when you get there, it's 2 or there about that would be attending to the crowd!

That is not all! A few minutes after the registration starts, the next thing you will hear is that the machine is down!

Then usually out of the crowd, they only attend to about 100!

I have come to the conclusion, that the government does not want people to exercise their right!

Government does not want people to vote!