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•APC, PDP set for make-up poll in six states

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the African Action Congress (AAC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other parties will today know their fate on the stalemated governorship poll in Rivers State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) has summoned a meeting of its management to receive and consider the report of a fact-finding team it sent to the Southsouth state.

The electoral body may receive also the report on its investigation into the disruption of the poll in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

But top on the list of issues before INEC, as at last night, is the suspended election in Rivers State.

A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The panel on Rivers State will on Friday submit its report to INEC management. Thereafter, the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and his team will consider the findings and make a pronouncement.

“We are aware of the interest which the suspension of the elections in Rivers State has generated and we want to resolve it as soon as possible.”

There are four options before INEC, The Nation has learnt. They are:

whether or not to cancel the governorship and House of Assembly elections in Rivers State;
Restricted conduct of elections only in units, wards or areas affected by violence.

Announcement of collated or retrieved results if the security situation does not permit a fresh poll;
declaring the results as it were and leaving the aggrieved to go to the tribunal.

According to the source, any delay in taking a decision may lead to a constitutional crisis in the state.

“INEC will be fair, just, equitable and it will be guided by the Electoral Act, 2010( as amended) in its decision on Rivers State.

“The panel has concluded its assignment. Were it not for the issuance of Certificates of Return to senators and Representatives-elect, we would have considered the report on Rivers on Thursday (yesterday).”

A statement last Sunday by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, said: “The commission has decided to suspend all electoral processes in Rivers State until further notice.

“This is in line with Section 26 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) and Clause 47(e) of the regulations and guidelines of the commission.”

As at press time, it was gathered that the team which investigated the disruption of the collation and cancellation of results in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State had concluded its assignment.

“We will look at the findings of this committee to guide the conduct of supplementary elections in the state on March 23,” the source said.

The two leading parties – APC and PDP – have started preparations for the make-up poll ordered in six states on March 23.

The national leadership of the PDP said yesterday that the party was set for the supplementary poll in states where the elections were declared inconclusive.

The states are: Kano, Bauchi, Benue, Sokoto, Adamawa and Plateau.

Rising from an emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja yesterday, the party should demanded that INEC release the results of the elections in those states and make returns as appropriate.

In a statement after the emergency meeting, PDP spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan insisted that the party was in clear lead in the states where the poll was declared inconclusive.

He accused INEC Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu of bias, citing “the results of the governorship election in Ogun State where the APC candidate was declared winner even when the margin of lead between him and the runner up was lower than the number of cancelled votes”.

The main opposition party regretted that INEC denied victory for PDP governorship candidates who found themselves in similar circumstances in the affected states.

The statement reads: “The PDP found it strange that INEC can have two sets of rules in the same election for the various political parties.

“More worrisome is the resolution which arose from a meeting between some governors of the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari, where the PDP has been informed that a decision was taken to seize Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Plateau, Sokoto and Kano states in the March 23 scheduled supplementary election.”

The PDP said it had deliberated and interfaced with stakeholders from the various states where governorship supplementary elections have been scheduled to hold.


It added that following the deliberations, the party had mandated all its members to resist any attempt by anybody to tamper with the will of the people in their states.

The PDP said it was sure of victory in the affected states.

KANO

In Kano, a non-governmental organisation under the auspices of Kano State Civil Society Situation Room has filed a petition against the government over alleged attempt to buy votes ahead of the March 23 poll.

The co-convener of the petition comrade Abdulrazaq Alkali told reporters shortly after submitting the petition to the zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kano, that his group was aware of the anti-graft agency’s efforts at curbing vote buying.

Alkali explained that the petition was filed to draw EFCC’s attention to alleged withdrawal from the state’s treasury.

He urged the commission to investigate his group’s allegation.

The Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Murtala Sule Garo, described the petition as baseless.

Garo explained that the money withdrawn by the government was released to 13 councils out of which five were not among the local governments where the extra polls will take place.

“The funds released on the 12th of March were meant for executing government developmental projects,” the commissioner explained.

BENUE

Ahead of the make-up poll, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Council has called for more security personnel to curtail violence.

The council said: “From reports available, there is a plan to disrupt the re-run, especially in APC strongholds.”

The council’s spokesman, Chief Terlumun Akputu, told reporters in Makurdi that security should be strengthened to stamp out vote buying and intimidation.

Akputu advised INEC to insist on the use of the Electronic Card Readers (ECRs) before accepting any result from polling units.

“There is where in Nigeria that APC recorded zero votes, except In Guma Local Government Area despite having candidates and agents which he said were chased out of the polling units,” the council said.

BAUCHI

The Katagum Youth for Change (KYC) yesterday cautioned House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara against creating a crisis in the state.

It urged the Speaker and the PDP to stop misleading Nigerians on the political situation in the state.

KYC Chairman Mustapha Aleh spoke in Abuja against the backdrop of the eruption of violence in Bauchi after the governorship poll was declared inconclusive.

He said: “It is obvious that Bauchi erupted into violence after a briefing by the Speaker and PDP leaders in the state.

“We wish to warn Dogara and PDP against introducing a dangerous dimension to the politics of the state because of the desperation to make a cheap political point.

“The impression of lack of perfornance by Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar that Dogara and his gang of PDP desperados try to create is false, unfounded and should be disregarded.”

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Let the will of the people reign supreme . For Rivers a decision is needed and urgently too

The earlier they decide the better for us leaving in Rivers. There is tension. Even some offices didn't open. I'm not sure the NDDC regional office close to INEC office has open since the suspension. The only major road in PH is partly closed. We need to forge ahead abeg

Hmmmm.... We hear sir

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Dakad:
The earlier they decide the better for us leaving in Rivers. There is tension. Even some offices didn't open. I'm not sure the NDDC regional office close to INEC office has open since the suspension. The only major road in PH is partly closed. We need to forge ahead abeg

now what's the difference between you and lia Mohammed??

Students are going to school, civil servants are going to work, private business owners are busy, traders are buying and selling peacefully.

Guy stop misinforming people.

Dakad:
The earlier they decide the better for us leaving in Rivers. There is tension. Even some offices didn't open. I'm not sure the NDDC regional office close to INEC office has open since the suspension. The only major road in PH is partly closed. We need to forge ahead abeg

you are a liar!!! Worse than lia Mohammed, worse than the devil... A blatant liar. Rivers state is peaceful and everybody is going about their lawful businesses.

Students are going to school, civil servants are going to work, private business owners are busy, traders are buying and selling peacefully.

Guy stop misinforming people.

If you tell me you want to know the fate of the election fine, me too.

But to sell falsehood just to make a useless point for Wike

INEC should declare AAC winner based on already collated votes. Wike can go to court if he’s aggrieved.

seunmsg:
INEC should declare AAC winner based on already collated votes. Wike can go to court if he’s aggrieved.

Exactly. They should declare the results as it were before the suspension. The aggrieved should go to court to retrieve their mandate if they feel the mandate is theirs. INEC has no power to cancel elections in Nigeria.

INEC has no idea of the stress and tension they've put us in this state. Why not just declare the result, let the aggrieved head to tribunal, so we can rest.

Declare the the results you have with you ,my only fear is that river may boil if what INEC declare is different from the wish of the people .

Good

yerokunphilips:
Declare the the results you have with you ,my only fear is that river may boil if what INEC declare is different from the wish of the people .

Nothing will happen, unless for you, "a particular" candidate must be gov. Why?

INEC under this government is simply the worst ever seen in the history of Nigeria

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Inec stop wasting our time and declare Wike winner.

this state go just burn itself

NAWA for INEC people oooo

Dakad:
The earlier they decide the better for us leaving in Rivers. There is tension. Even some offices didn't open. I'm not sure the NDDC regional office close to INEC office has open since the suspension. The only major road in PH is partly closed. We need to forge ahead abeg

Stop spreading false news, there's no tension anywhere.

Wike don win since

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Anything thenation Shara.. to an extent.. channels...na wash..

Na wetin APC wan do Dem dey test run public opinion before them go propagaTe

Na government propagandist Dem be

seunmsg:
INEC should declare AAC winner based on already collated votes. Wike can go to court if he’s aggrieved.

based on collated vote, wike trashed amaechi.

donphiilopus:


Exactly. They should declare the results as it were before the suspension. The aggrieved should go to court to retrieve their mandate if they feel the mandate is theirs. INEC has no power to cancel elections in Nigeria.

what do u know about what u just said?

Chikpat:


Nothing will happen, unless for you, "a particular" candidate must be gov. Why?

if only u lived in Rivers, u wil know that sumtin will happen. We don't call them Rivers of blood for nothing.

Fuckyoumod:
now what's the difference between you and lia Mohammed??

Students are going to school, civil servants are going to work, private business owners are busy, traders are buying and selling peacefully.

Guy stop misinforming people.

Point out his lies abeg!

Is there political tension in a state?
Is waterlines to gra junctions sealed off?
And are offices n businesses around there either offering epileptic services or closed down?