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The war will end one day.

Lol. Over 30 people from her state scored higher than her. ABU admission policy is based on states. They pick at least one person from each state in every department. And if you are not from the catchment area and supposedly there are people who scored higher from your state, you may be denied admission.

I nearly missed a trip to Saudi Arabia this year due to this same nonsense.

24 family members, four others die in Bauchi road crash
By Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Nigerian Police Force have confirmed the death of 28 passengers in a road accident yesterday morning along Bauchi-Ningi Federal Highway, Bauchi State.

According to the FRSC, 28 people, including four male adults and 24 others were burnt beyond recognition during the accident. Both operatives identified a driver as a survivor. But the police said 10 cows survived while 10 other cattle were burnt beyond recognition. From the 10 surviving cows, eight were later slaughtered due to their fragile conditions.

This is coming one week after six persons were killed along Buchi-Jos road. FRSC Bauchi Sector Commander, AbdulRazak Najume, told newsmen that the accident occurred in the early hours of Thursday involving two vehicles on a head-on collision.

He explained that the accident involved a Peugeot J5 bus and a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number: ZRM-91XA full of passengers while the second vehicle couldn’t be ascertained as it was burnt beyond recognition.


Najume said the Toyota bus driver slept off while he lost control and had a head-on collision with the other oncoming vehicle conveying cows. He said he led FRSC officials to the scene of the crash at exactly 6:49a.m. for rescue operation. “The accident occurred at Gubi Gari Village, along Bauchi-Kano highway.

“The vehicle took off from Dutsinma in Katsina State and was on its way to Adamawa State when the accident occurred. There were 29 people who were involved in the crash and only one survived. The driver of the Toyota bus was sleeping and he suddenly woke up to see the other oncoming vehicle but he lost control and had a head-on collision with the J5.

“Immediately the crash occurred, the two vehicles caught fire and all of them including the passengers and the cows were all burnt beyond recognition. It was only the driver of the Toyota bus that survived with serious injuries.

“In all, 28 people, 24 in the Toyota bus and four in the J5, were burnt beyond recognition. We could only identify that four of them were males while the sex of the others could not be ascertained.”

The FRSC boss added that the bodies and the victim who sustained serious injuries were taken to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi for confirmation and treatment. He expressed sadness over the unfortunate accident and cautioned drivers to be more careful while on the road to avoid loss of lives and property.

“This is saddening and unfortunate losing 28 people in a day in an accident. These drivers need a change of character and attitude because you cannot just carry people and drive putting families in endless sorrow.

“You see, the driver of the bus was sleeping while driving and it was very late at night. They should avoid night journeys because this accident was very fatal. I went there myself with my men and you could see how people got roasted, people melted. We saw a head inside the vehicle but there was no body, it’s very unfortunate,” he stated.

Abdullahi Yamadi, one of the relatives of the victims who spoke to a newspaper also confirmed the crash describing it as “very sad”.
He explained that the deceased were on their way to Yola in Adamawa State for family visit when the incident occurred.

“Yes, the accident is true and all of the deceased are my relatives. They were traveling to Yola, Adamawa State, for a visit when the unfortunate incident happened,” he said.

“You know, after the harvest and at seasons like this, people travel to visit loved ones resident in different places; and that was where they were going to. They left Dutsinma, Katsina State, and they had left Jigawa State and were within Bauchi State when their vehicle had a head-on collision with another vehicle.”


https://m.guardian.ng/news/24-family-members-four-others-die-in-bauchi-road-crash/

Staged fight.

This is just for Camera. Aside this, Mallam is a good administrator.

Paid around 70k in total from Year 1-4 @ABU.

Of course, yes. But PDP would think otherwise.

Lol. Sunday Don see say Thug pass Thug. What happened in Kogi was that Bello thugs were more armed and were likely backed by security agents. Sunday thugs couldn't operate freely like Bello's. Reason APC outsmarted PDP. Or maybe, just maybe, Ibadan charm is not potent in Kogi.

The best rigger will win.

I still don't know why PDP is afraid of a contest. They are just parading all manners of court to seek disqualification of APC candidates. Let's go to the field. Man up PDP

No one has the right to tell someone else what to do with his/her money. Charity is not by force.

mitchyy:
Wow. She is super qualified.


Meanwhile, some guys right now checking her marital status...

Even if she is not qualified. It is her father's company and they can do whatever.

By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Adamu Abuh and Sodiq Omolaoye, Abuja
02 November 2019 | 4:27 am


• We Will Monitor Conducts Of Security Men, Assures NSA
• APC Cries Out, Accuses PDP Of Manufacturing Fake PVCs In Bayelsa

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised the alarm on the likelihood of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states being disrupted by political thugs.

The Commission alleged that the thugs were being mobilised from within and outside the states where the elections would be conducted.

Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, expressed the commission’s fear yesterday in Abuja during a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) to review the security situation and arrangement for the forthcoming polls attended by the
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, representatives of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and various paramilitary agencies.

Yakubu said the outcome of the risk assessment conducted by the Commission identified some flash-points in the two states, adding: “There are already warning signals in the two states. Both are politically volatile.

“Elections have been severally disrupted by violence in the past. Our own risk assessment, which will be shared with the security agencies at this meeting, has identified some flashpoints.


“We are also concerned that thugs have been mobilised from within and outside the states with the aim of either influencing the elections or disrupting the process on behalf of partisan sponsors.”

He stated that the development called for a robust response before the elections, election day and during the process of collation and declaration of results, noting: “Nigerians expect that by now, we have learnt enough lessons from previous elections to ensure a swift security response to increasing desperation by political actors to disrupt elections and subvert the will of the electorate.

“If that happens, many Nigerians will blame the electoral umpire and the security agencies. We must continue to rise to this challenge.”

Yakubu stressed that over the last seven months, the Commission had been working assiduously to ensure that it conducted credible elections, adding that INEC was committed to the integrity of the process and as such, cannot undermine the processes it had so laboriously established.

The INEC boss said the Commission had the assurances of security agencies that election- day activities at polling units and collation centres would go on smoothly without being disrupted.

Responding, Adamu said the Police was aware of the security challenges in the two states and have made adequate provisions, in terms of personnel and logistics, to overcome any security lapses that might manifest during the elections, disclosing that the Force would be deploying over 66,000 personnel to provide security for the election.

The Police chief said: “In Bayelsa State, we are deploying about 31,041 personnel, and in Kogi State, we are deploying about 35,200 to cover the elections. They will mount every terrain in the two states. No tout would be allowed to be brought from any other adjoining state to disrupt election.”

He warned perpetrators of election violence and those who intend to engage in vote-buying or selling to steer clear of the states, as anyone caught in the act would face the full wrath of the law, while also assuring the electoral commission of the safety of election materials, and staff to be deployed on election day.

“The security of election materials are guaranteed and INEC offices and collation centers would be adequately protected. Security would be doubled to protect the collation centers where results would be announced.

“We have done our threats analysis and some of our personnel have been deployed in advance to the states to curtail them before the election day. The Police will not tolerate vote-buying. Anybody seen around the polling units trying to buy vote will be arrested and prosecuted,” he assured.

On his part, the National Security Adviser (NSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) said the Federal Government would keep an eye on the conduct of security agencies, saying the Office of the NSA is not unaware of the volatile security situation in the two states.

Monguno, represented by Mr. Sanusi Galadima, called on politicians in the two states to eschew violence and allow peace to reign during and after the polls.

Meanwhile, the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has began large-scale manufacturing of fake Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) as part of its grand design to rig the poll.

APC, in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena, alleged that the act was being perpetrated by Governor Dickson and his Deputy Chief of Staff, Mrs. Ebizi Brown.

Claiming that the fake PVCs have been codenamed, “Biafra Card,” the party called on security agencies to come to its rescue by bringing the masterminds of the act to book, urging INEC to rise up to the occasion to checkmate the activities of those bent on undermining the peaceful conduct of the polls, adding that some of the manufactured fake PVCs were being stored at the residence of Mrs. Brown in Odoni Ward 8 Sagbama Council.


“Don’t forget that during this year’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Bayelsa State, only 22 smart card readers out of the 69 stolen by political thugs were retrieved by the INEC.

The Bayelsa-born APC chieftain urged voters in the state to resist the desperate plots to foist any candidate on them through rigging, vote-buying and violence.

In a swift reaction, PDP said the APC was jittery over the elections in both states, because it has been rejected by the people.

PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, told The Guardian: “Consequent on these total rejection, the APC and their candidates are engaged in fabrication of tales that best fits their imagination.

“The PDP is prepared for credible, free and fair elections, which our candidates are already sure of winning with the support of the people of the state.

“Our candidates will not be distracted by the allegations of those whose antics as manipulators of electoral process is well known.”


https://guardian.ng/news/kogi-bayelsa-elections-politicians-have-mobilised-thugs-to-disrupt-influence-polls-results-inec-alerts/

Hmmm

No amount of falsehood will distract us, says Bayelsa REC

Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja) and Julius Osahon (Yenagoa)

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that it would amount to contravening the Electoral Act if it disqualified Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello from participating in the November 16 ballot due to alleged double registration.
According to the electoral umpire, the Electoral Act does not provide for disqualification as a penalty for committing such an offence. Recall that the commission had, in 2017, accused Governor Bello of double voter registration and said he would have been prosecuted but for his immunity.

INEC had also dismissed two of its officials for alleged roles in the electoral scandal. But clarifying why Mr. Bello is allowed to contest the election, having been indicted, INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, during a quarterly consultative meeting with the media in Abuja, Wednesday stated: “Under the Electoral Act, double registration is not a condition to disqualify a candidate. In any case, the action we took on the part of the officials that were indicted were administrative based on the terms and conditions of service.

“The action we need to take on non-staff of the commission is to prosecute and we cannot prosecute someone with constitutional immunity. We can only prosecute based on the provision of the Electoral Act.”

Yakubu also dismissed the allegation by the Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri, that the commission was conniving with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to influence the list of Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) deployed for the poll. He described the allegations as baseless and hearsay, adding that the PDP should come forward with evidence if it had any.

Meanwhile, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in charge of Bayelsa, Monday Tom, has declared that no amount of falsehood against his person and INEC would distract him and the commission from conducting a credible election in the state.The REC, who was addressing the media at the commission’s state headquarters in Yenagoa yesterday, said he remained focused on achieving the commission’s mandate and would not join issues with ‘persons who want to win election at all costs by running other persons down.”

He was reacting to accusation by the PDP Campaign Organisation in the state, that he was colluding with APC to rig the November 16 election in the state.The PDP had, in a statement, called on the INEC chairman to prevail on Tom not to give the commission a bad name.


https://guardian.ng/politics/why-we-didnt-disqualify-bello-by-inec/

It shall never be well with those Christian terrorists. These Christian terrorists read the Bible wrongly. Jesus Christ never told anyone to steal and covert a child.

2019 poll destroyed past electoral gains- Jega

From Sodiq Omolaoye, Abuja

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday said that the 2019 general elections were a setback to the “positive gains the country had recorded in its electoral process.”

He made the submission while delivering a keynote address titled, “Electoral process in Nigeria: Safeguarding the people’s will for democracy to thrive” at a conference organised by the management of Tell magazine to mark 20 years of democracy in Nigeria.

Agreeing that there had been ‘incremental positive changes’ to the country’s electoral system since 2011, Jega, however, pleaded that all hands must be on deck to avoid further “setbacks in future elections.”


He went on: “I believe what has happened between 2011 and 2019 is better than what we have seen in the past like from 1960 to 2007.

“From 2011, there were incremental positive changes but the problem is that by 2019, we were beginning to see a reversal, especially in the governorship elections where incumbent governments influenced security agencies to manipulate the outcome of the polls.

“We also thought that instead of using civil servants of lower grades for the elections, we opted for corps members. Many of these corps members indeed played very constructive roles in bringing integrity to the electoral process both in 2011 and 2015.

“But by the time we got to 2019, we began to see a trend where politicians began to put pressure and intimidate the corps members to compromise the process. We have a number of cases and evidence of these intimidations. Many of these young men succumbed to the pressure. This means politicians are beginning to compromise an innovation we thought was adding value to the electoral system.”

The former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) warned that if measures are not taken ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nigeria might begin to witness a “major reversal in terms of the integrity of the electoral process.”

He, therefore, called for reforms in the electoral agency, adding that the protection of the commission’s independence was key to ensuring the integrity of election management in the country.

Jega defended the heavy deployment of security agencies for polls, saying: “Nigeria is faced with systematic security challenges that need such to secure its electoral environment.”

The don added: “In Nigeria, like few other countries in the world, we are faced with systematic security challenges and when you have this, you need to get security to secure the electoral environment and make it conducive for voters’ participation.”

So the security challenges that a country faces dictate the deployment of security personnel. The most significant thing is to ensure that the security that is deployed is impartial, professional and non-partisan in the ways it engages in the electoral process.”

https://guardian.ng/news/2019-polls-eroded-past-electoral-gains-says-jega/




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2019 poll destroyed past electoral gains- Jega

From Sodiq Omolaoye, Abuja

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday said that the 2019 general elections were a setback to the “positive gains the country had recorded in its electoral process.”
He made the submission while delivering a keynote address titled, “Electoral process in Nigeria: Safeguarding the people’s will for democracy to thrive” at a conference organised by the management of Tell magazine to mark 20 years of democracy in Nigeria.

Agreeing that there had been ‘incremental positive changes’ to the country’s electoral system since 2011, Jega, however, pleaded that all hands must be on deck to avoid further “setbacks in future elections.”


He went on: “I believe what has happened between 2011 and 2019 is better than what we have seen in the past like from 1960 to 2007.

“From 2011, there were incremental positive changes but the problem is that by 2019, we were beginning to see a reversal, especially in the governorship elections where incumbent governments influenced security agencies to manipulate the outcome of the polls.

“We also thought that instead of using civil servants of lower grades for the elections, we opted for corps members. Many of these corps members indeed played very constructive roles in bringing integrity to the electoral process both in 2011 and 2015.

“But by the time we got to 2019, we began to see a trend where politicians began to put pressure and intimidate the corps members to compromise the process. We have a number of cases and evidence of these intimidations. Many of these young men succumbed to the pressure. This means politicians are beginning to compromise an innovation we thought was adding value to the electoral system.”

The former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) warned that if measures are not taken ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nigeria might begin to witness a “major reversal in terms of the integrity of the electoral process.”

He, therefore, called for reforms in the electoral agency, adding that the protection of the commission’s independence was key to ensuring the integrity of election management in the country.

Jega defended the heavy deployment of security agencies for polls, saying: “Nigeria is faced with systematic security challenges that need such to secure its electoral environment.”

The don added: “In Nigeria, like few other countries in the world, we are faced with systematic security challenges and when you have this, you need to get security to secure the electoral environment and make it conducive for voters’ participation.”

So the security challenges that a country faces dictate the deployment of security personnel. The most significant thing is to ensure that the security that is deployed is impartial, professional and non-partisan in the ways it engages in the electoral process.”

https://guardian.ng/news/2019-polls-eroded-past-electoral-gains-says-jega/

It is same in Saudi Arabia

[sub][/sub]Elders, party supporters allegedly disrupt INEC’s stakeholders’ meeting in Bayelsa

By Julius Osahon and Sodiq Omolaoye, Yenagoa

Two elders loyal to the two contending political parties in the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa, almost engaged each other in a fisticuff at a stakeholders meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Yenagoa.

Consequently, the meeting ended abrupt as Chairman of the Bayelsa Elders Forum (BEF), Francis Doukpolagha, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyalist and representative of All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman at the event, Dennis Otitio, engaged each other in war of words that almost led to a fight.

This was due to disagreement over the issue of the people allegedly displaced in the 2019 general election.

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Trouble started at about 1pm, during the second round of comments and discussion session by leaders of political parties when Doukpolagha was speaking.

Doukpolagha had expressed concern about Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were allegedly displaced due to electoral violence in the 2019 general elections.

But Otiotio, who had earlier spoken at the meeting on behalf of the APC, immediately interrupted him for mentioning the name of a community.

Otitio had shouted him down saying, he was lying and was joined by others in the hall claiming that Doukpolagha was one of the elders causing confusion in the state by not playing a neutral role, but instead live only for their stomachs.

The commotion caused by the two elders became so serious that it pitched some PDP and APC supporters against one another but for the intervention of security agencies.

The meeting ended abruptly as not even the presence of the INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, representative of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the heavy security presence could douse the tension.

Besides, Governor Seriake Dickson has argued that INEC has not given a convincing reassurance of it impartiality to the people of Bayelsa in the forthcoming governorship election.

He stated that it was worrisome and shocking that INEC betrayed the confidence of the Bayelsa people by its collusion with security agencies to rig the last Presidential and National Assembly elections in parts of the state.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Fidelis Soriwei, revealed that Dickson made the comment while speaking on political developments in the state, especially the forthcoming election during a live media chat in Yenagoa.

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of APC, David Lyon, said the PDP and Governor Seriake Dickson lacked substance to campaign with hence they have resorted to campaign of calumny and blackmail.

Reacting to a statement credited to Dickson and the PDP candidate, Douye Diri, that the APC will introduce criminality, Lyon advised Dickson to tell Bayelsa people what he did with the trillions of Naira that accrued to the state in eight years of his administration instead of engaging in blackmail and fantasies.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/news/elders-party-supporters-allegedly-disrupt-inecs-stakeholders-meeting-in-bayelsa/amp

Indeed

Next Bayelsa governor will emerge on first ballot –INEC

From Sodiq Omolaoye, Abuja


Says Attack On Commission’s Staff Will Attract Sanctions

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured that the governorship poll in Bayelsa State on November 16 will be concluded on the first ballot.

Yakubu gave the assurance during a two-day working visit to Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa, where he met with traditional rulers, political parties, security agencies, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), the media and other stakeholders.

“In 2015, elections were disrupted in six of the eight councils. In southern Ijaw, we couldn’t deploy our officials due to massive shooting. So, only one council had no problem because election there was conclusive and results declared.


“I am confident that this time around, elections will be conducted peacefully and conclusively on the first ballot,” he stated. According to the INEC boss, the Bayelsa visit and the decision to meet with the stakeholders are part of efforts in ensuring that the election is violence-free.

Maintaining that traditional rulers play crucial role in peaceful and credible polls, Yakubu however warned that certain actions and utterances lead to breach of peace during the electoral process.


Aside the challenge of logistics, the attitude of the political class in the state has also been a source of concern to the commission, he said.“No one can accuse you of partisanship. Like the commission, you belong to no political party. Your works are known in your communities.

“We appeal to you to continue to speak to your subjects, the political actors in particular and their supporters, on peaceful conduct during the electoral process. Use your wide network to continue to drive the narrative of peace,” he added.


The INEC boss further warned that the commission would no longer tolerate attacks on its officials during elections, noting that such actions would attract sanctions, including withholding the Certificate of Return (CoR) of any candidate caught in the act. Chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers, Amanyanabo of Twon Brass, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, appealed to security agencies to avoid partisanship.

He assured of the neutrality of monarchs in the state.King Diete-Spiff decried the “heavy military presence” in the state during the last general elections.“We need to appeal to the army in particular to try and contain their men, so they won’t scare people off the elections. We, as royal fathers, are neutral. We don’t carry any party flag. We believe that when the election is over, whatever government that comes in will be given the fullest support,” he stated.

https://m.guardian.ng/politics/next-bayelsa-governor-will-emerge-on-first-ballot-inec/

There is nothing like a 'repentant' terrorist. A terrorist is a terrorist anyday anytime. My president is rewarding terrorists with degrees. Iranu

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