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Desperation gone too late!

The desperation of this stupid Mahmoud of a goat will eventually ruin him. This is getting tense now and so tough

engineerboat:
I will dwell on ground 4 and 5 of the petition

4) That Buhari at the time was not qualified to contest in the election;

and

5) That the affidavit submitted by Buhari to INEC was a false affidavit.

Simply the petition didn’t say that Buhari needs WAEC certificate to contest, it simply says that Buhari was not qualified to contest on the basis of the documents he submitted, which had NOT A SINGLE CERTIFICATE.

If perhaps Buhari submitted his Primary School Certificate or even a Certificate of Furniture Making, that could have make sense because under section 318 as amended Primary school certificate is very compulßory, but did Buhari submit any, NO.

The point is that what Buhari submitted was an affidavit which dating is contentious.

Candidates for Presidential office in Nigeria are mandated to fill form CF001 and swear an oath that the information filled into the form is true - which Buhari did and swore to on October 8, 2018 - and attached to it his CV and another affidavit dated 24th November 2014.

In that outdated affidavit from 2014, Buhari claimed that his certificates and other documents filled into form CF001 are with the Secretary of the Military Board.

This claim was denied on record by Brig. Gen. Olajide Laleye in January 2015 - the video will be shown in court.

Furthermore, the schools Buhari claimed in the form CF001 to have attended simply did not exist as at the time he claimed in the same form to have attended them.

Again, the petition promises to call up records from the National Archive to disprove the information Buhari filled.

The outdated affidavit Buhari submitted actually said:

“ALL MY ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS AS FILLED IN MY PRESIDENTIAL FORM APC/001/2015 ARE CURRENTLY WITH THE SECRETARY MILITARY BOARD AS AT THE TIME OF THIS AFFIDAVIT”.

The problems here:
Not only is the affidavit clearly outdated, it was simply duplicated and still carries the reference number of Buhari’s 2015 nomination forms, not the 2019 nomination forms.

It also tells a lie that had been debunked as far back as January of 2015.

For his secondary school qualification in Paragraph C, Column 2 and on Page 3 of Buhari’s CF001 form as submitted to INEC, Buhari wrote “WASC”.

The problem here is that as at 1961 when Buhari claimed to have obtained it, there was no qualification known as WASC available.


This will provide direct opportunity for the Appeal court to once and for all decide on this case.

Previous attempt to make Buhari defend this certificate issue had be punctured by Buhari henchmen laying siege on the issue with those concern

Respect to an engineer with thinking brain much love and respect!

Mace0lane:
This is how I look let see what your father looks like.

I am sure you have no father perhaps that's why you are still looking hungry to me

The People's Governor and the one loved by his people.

tourplanet84:
Eligible voters’ turnout in the 2019 election
A comparative analysis between 2015 and 2019 election

North West
2015 – 52.5%
2019 – 44.5%
2019 e-collated result – 51.7%

North East
2015 – 45.6%
2019 – 42.1%
2019 e-collated result – 49.5%

North Central
2015 – 50.1%
2019 – 38.7%
2019 e-collated result – 46.1%

South East
2015 – 39%
2019 – 24.4%
2019 e-collated result – 55.1%

South West
2015 – 45.7%
2019 – 29.1%
2019 e-collated result – 49.2%

South South
2015 – 61%
2019 – 29.2%
2019 e-collated result – 43%

Northern Nigeria – 19 states plus F.C.T
2015 – 50.6%
2019 – 42.7%
2019 e-collated result – 49.5%

Southern Nigeria – 17 states
2015 – 49.6%
2019 – 28.2%
2019 e-collated result – 48.6%

National Average – 36 states + F.C.T
2015 – 50.5%
2019 – 37.5%
2019 e-collated result – 50.01%

Observation - South
The election was heavily manipulated in the Southern part of Nigeria. It is statistically not possible for all the regions in the south to record a poor turnout of eligible voters by less that 29.5%.

Even the North East that is battling with insurgencies and humanitarian crisis has a turnout that is above 40%. Anyway, this is what happened; Atiku’s votes were reduced by 3.79 million votes while Buhari’s votes were also reduced by 2.59 million votes in Southern Nigeria. This is why the turnout ratio in the south seems to be so low. The results were manipulated.


Observation – North
The North is also not left out in the manipulation of votes. Atiku’s votes were reduced by 3.3 million votes while Buhari’s votes were hiked by 991,000 votes in the North.

Observation – National
Note that the manually collated result shows a turnout of 37.5% while the e-collated result shows a turnout of 50.01%.

This disparity is due to the wrongful removal of 8.68 million votes from the scores of both the petitioner (Atiku) & the respondent (Buhari).

Conclusion

I hope you now understand why INEC is hiding both the e-collated result and the election materials from Atiku and the public because the numbers can never add up.

Sources of Data

Premium Times Services Limited / Atiku’s petition

The Cable Newspaper Limited

Nigerian Monitor, INEC Releases Statistics of PVC Collected in All 36 States for 2015

Wikipedia, 2015 Nigerian general election

Media Trust Limited, Here are the states with highest PVC Collection + Full List, Feb 21, 2019.

Sahara reporters, Number of IDPs in Nigeria up by 4.5% In January 2018

This is so revealing and deep

Mace0lane:
You are even more foolish than the person I quoted. Jonathan that won his election free n fair with nearly every Nigeria trooping out from the north n South couldn’t even muster 15 million votes yet some idiot that ain’t half loved like Obj scored 25 million n mumu like you expect us not to take cognizance of the fraud but your father want Buhari that scored a modest 15 million votes to be persecuted. I sure say your head no fit correct.

That aside I will feed your father no stories with your cock n bull bs of being hungry n frustrated. Na your father wan frustrate me ?! Let see how your father will remove Buhari, baboon.

Your hunger and frustration in life is like "Peak Milk" because it in you all the time you even carry it everywhere you go. Imagine this lost and bitter soul wey never chop belleful talking about feeding someone's father. if only someone who is close to you can.describe how you look now you will weep all your days. Suffering and still pretending to be fine.

Mace0lane:
Your head no fit correct forever !
Who does not know a 25 million to any candidate is a glaring fraud ?! What could be more controversial than a glaring outrageous fraud of votes ?! That is over 10 million votes that PDP can never account for forever.

I don't know why you are so diabolical in your reasoning. You are hungry, could hardly survive and here you are venting your anger and frustration on an innocent lady who is not your problem. Stay on topic which is, Buhari will be removed at last and shove your 25 milion ish where it truly belongs. Buhari and his demons choose to frustrate Nigerians from coming out to vote hence the reduction. People came out to vote under OBJ and Yar'adua so stop comparing apples to oranges frustrated man.

thatareaguy:
@Op ... Ratello. If you copy something from the web... add a reference to the post.

Here's the source: (2015 post)
https://link.medium.com/tHm9djvRfW

Thanks for digging out the Source where I got it from (my whatsapp) there was no source.

The Five Count Petitions Atiku Stacked Against Buhari (2nd Respondent)!

Looking at the five count petitions from Atiku's camp against Buhari’s camp it must be clearly stated that they are weighty especially when proven with evidences. I don't see how Buhari will survive this.

The five grounds of the petition read,

1. “The 2nd respondent (Buhari) was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election.

2. “The election of the 2nd respondent is invalid by reason of corrupt practices.

3. “The election of the 2nd Respondent is invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).

4.“The 2nd respondent was at the time of the election not qualified to contest the said election.

5. “The 2nd respondent submitted to the 1st Respondent an affidavit containing false information of a fundamental nature in aid of his qualification for the said election.”

Arguing that Mr Buhari was not qualified to run for the office of the president, the petitioners argued in part, “The petitioners state that the 2nd respondent (Buhari) does not possess the educational qualification to contest the election to the office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria."

Cc: ChristianNorth, engineerboat, tuniski, wiseandtrue etc

gatiano:
The wealth of a nation is not determined by its proximity to the sea, for what else does the sea serve other than transport medium to another land and the construction of ports about it for goods? Where then would the goods go? Of what other use is the sea water other than its marine lives which is not healthy for food as such, can anybody drink the sea water, can it be used for cooking? Absolutely No.
The wealth of any nation depends on its land, and that land's proximity to fresh water. Checkout the location of Kano, and compare it to Lagos. Kano is also a savannah region very suitable for cattle breeding and ram, Lagos is river and on its north (Other Yoruba nations) - Forest/jungle - wealth on its own, cattles can not be raised in a forest region and can never survive the extra marches area of Lagos. Without wikipedia, and considering all this fact, Kano is more populated. I am Yoruba.

Say no more for you know nothing them. Kano more populated than Lagos? Joke of the century

gatiano:
What You write make senses, however. Having access to the sea doesn't have anything to do with reproduction. We must have to study migration, beliefs and cosmological folklores of each Clans and Tribes in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole. How can anybody tell that the butterfly metamorphosed from a caterpillar if they are not present to witness it firsthand?

Let me be very direct, between Lagos and Kano which of these two is more populated and why?

NgeneUkwenu:
I have known the two to be fraudlent business men. I cringe, whenever I read billions of dollars ascribed to them by Forbes, especially Femi who by every indication, is very broke at the moment.

You are so right on this a good thinker you are there to understand how these schemes work among these lying and "helped billionaires"

Money is good in the hands of efficient users .....Ted you dey enjoy.

THE FRAUDULENT NIGERIAN FORBES BILLIONAIRES.

Aliko Dangote
The fraudulent Nigerian Forbes billionaires are Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola, who also happen to be the largest economic saboteurs of the Nigerian economy.
It is an irony that these two billionaires who always struggle to be on the Forbes list of richest billionaires year after year, who strive to be the most celebrated Nigerian businessmen, are the most fraudulent, vicious and bigget economic saboteurs of the Nigerian economy.
President Buhari’s investigative searchlight should be directed at these two businessmen, the duo that are bleeding Nigeria’s economy dry.

The Genesis

Aliko Dangote used to be known as Aliko Gote, or “Aliko powder”. His mother was a daughter of the famously wealthy Kano merchant Dantata. His father was Alhaji Gote. He seems to have started off as a dealer in powder before suddenly moving to America. As a young dealer, he had sports cars, lived in an expensive house and lots of cash. His import-export business seems to have revolved between Brazil and the United States.
However, his ostentatious lifestyle soon caught the eyes of the American authorities — he received information that there was an interception of his consignment — so he blamed it on his junior brother Sani Gote and fled back to Nigeria.

Femi Otedola at this time was a notorious loan shark and gambler based in Surulere Lagos who started life in business by lending money at interest rates of 20–30 percent per month, knowing that debtors could never repay him. He would then confiscate and sell their collaterals at a premium.

Femi’s classmates from secondary school had all entered university, were working or had started some form of legitimate business, but Femi chose the ways of Shylock, extorting astronomous interest rates from victims and quickly moving on to sell their collaterals at the slightest delay, causing misery and financial damage to so many victims.

Their first billions

Aliko Gote, now living in Nigeria and running away from the laws of America, ran back to Nigeria and changed his name to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, adding the title Alhaji and adding Dan to Gote like his cousins, the Dantatas.
Femi Otedola, who seemed to have joined the Ogboni cult, now started wearing only white clothes and ran back to his father for cover, as many whose lives were ruined from his loan shark business were now after him.

In 1999, the Nigerian military handed over power to former General Olsegun Obasanjo, who had just emerged from prison. This moment became the duo’s golden moment. They became so close to Obasanjo that they became like his sons. A pact was reached between the three gladiators, to control the commodity business of Nigeria, and Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola became Obasanjo’s fronts for this purpose. Aliko Dangote was to control cement, sugar, salt and rice, while Femi Otedola was to control the importation of refined petroleum products.

To make this arrangement into a cash machine for the three, the four Nigerian refineries that had a capacity of 445,000 barrels a day were totally neglected and left to rot. The power sector was purposely neglected so that 180 Nigerians would have to keep buying petrol and diesel to power their generators.

Enter the Nigerian customs and waivers

The duo of Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola now put the top of the customs in their pockets. Moreover, presidential orders from above now stated that that the pair’s vessels should receive preferential treatment in docking and discharging goods while competitors’ vessels were to be delayed until any profits of the latter group were wiped out.
The next important instrument they used was pioneer tax status, whereby the duo were given tax-free status for so many years. During the same period, competitors’ applications were flatly rejected. The third advantage they got was the privatisation of state assets, which were sold to them at approximately 10 cents to the dollar. Aliko Dangote acquired Benue State Cement, Terminals, Nigerian Textiles, Nigerian Salt Company, a state-owned sugar company, Oshogbo Steel Mill and the NEPA fiber-optic transmission network. Femi Otedola acquired African Petroleum.

The duo then claimed to turn around these assets, but they did nothing other than call in auditors to ascertain the real value of these assets before calling Forbes to debut as the first Nigerian billionaires to grace the magazine’s rich list.

However, Aliko Dangote was one step ahead and moved to become the African king of waivers and duties. Nobody in African history has been given more waivers than Aliko Dangote and the single act of not paying custom duties made him not only the richest Nigerian but the riches African. Some conservative estimates put the custom import duties that were waived for Aliko Dangote at between $12–15 billion since 1999. There are cries of millions of Nigerians that Aliko Dangote should be made to return this money, as it is one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in Nigeria and Africa.

President Buhari will need to open a special investigative panel to scrutinize Aliko Dangote’s businesses, as Nigeria can recover between $12 and $15 billion of waivers and unpaid taxes from this man alone.

One of President Obasanjo’s last acts of office of was to sell Nigeria’s largest refinery to the duo of Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola for $761 million, approximately 10% of its real value. One of President Yar’Adua’s first acts of office was to cancel this fraudulent deal.

Upon learning the facts of the case, President Yar’Adua was reportedly filled with rage. Not only were the duo the biggest economic saboteurs in Nigeria, but they were paying PR consultants to build their image as intelligent and progressive businessmen in the Western media. Yar’Adua used the economic intelligence reports at hand to reverse many illegalities. He found out that Dangote had a monopoly in cement, sugar and pasta, claiming to be producing all these commodities locally, when, in reality, he was importing everything, fraudulently collecting import duty waivers and simply re-bagging the goods. At this point, President Yar’Adua lost any respect he had for Dangote.

The economic intelligence reports also showed how Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote crushed their competitors by illegally using government agents to shut down the latter’s operations. They pressured banks to call in their competitors’ loans, used customs to delay the competitors’ consignments, underpay for state assets, avoided paying duties and taxes through their “pioneer” tax status, and even created their own “anti-corruption unit” to lock up business foes and friends who had fallen out of their favour.

The wickidness of this duo knew no limits and every real or perceived competitor was to be liquidated, their businesses shut down, thousands of workers were to lose their jobs and all the while Dangote and Otedola avoided paying billions of dollars worth of taxes and import duties.

The quarrel between the duo

President Obasanjo asked the duo to help raise money for elections and a deal was struck. The government’s oil earmarked for Nigerian industry was delivered to the oligarchs at extremely cheap rates and then sold at the prevailing world market price. Three million metric tons of fuel was sold to the duo at $59 and sold at $350. The duo thus made a profit of $299/mt or $873,000,000. Needless to say, Nigerian industry never received the cheap fuel that the government promised them and the state was robbed of $873 million.

Aliko Dangote did not have a house in Abuja and was found sleeping in Femi Otedola’s residence. His passion was sleeping with other people’s wives but, unknown to him, Femi’s passion was to secretly videotape others and use these tapes at the right time to blackmail his victims.

However, Aliko did not trust Femi and requested that their illegal profit of $873 million be paid to his younger brother, Sayyu Dantata’s, account. The money was paid into MRS account of BNP Paribas.

Femi now wanted some gas stations of his own and told Aliko Dangote that Chevron was planning to sell its gas stations in West Africa, under the Texaco banner, and that he would bid $200 million for the assets.

Aliko then instructed his younger brother to overbid for the gas stations, using up the entire $873million plus taking out a loan to make it look as if he had borrowed the money, but secretly splitting the proceeds of the sale with the sellers in an illegal kickbacks scheme.

Femi Otedola was outfoxed by Aliko Dangote and Femi went mad. The quarrel became one of the nastiest in Nigeria. Rarely had so much dirty linen been washed in public, forcing well-meaning Nigerians to intervene between the two as marriages were breaking up due to the revelations and circulations of video tapes of whose wives they were sleeping with.

In the wilderness

These were the facts observed by President Yar’Adua, which led him to immediately cancel many of the illegalities, such as the purchase of the refinery, reopening competitors’ factories, issuing import licenses to others and ordering an investigation into how many billions the duo owed in unpaid taxes and duties.

In addition to this, the duo was found to be Nigeria’s biggest debtors, owing banks billiosn of dollars. As Aliko Dangote did not want to pay the banks back, he pushed the business on his brother Sani Dangote, who took the heat for defaults (e.g. Dansa Juice).

Femi Otedola became the biggest defaulter of loans in Nigeria and his loans were passed on to AMCON as he could not repay back his loans. It was no longer business as usual for the former loan shark.

Femi rebranded his company from ZENON to FORTE OIL and went public, whilst Aliko Dangote also listed and went public. PR experts were hired to rewrite their stories and make them look good. In the stories, they were made to look like Western billionaires but, in reality, they were sinking in debt as they no longer had the ear of the President. Worse, the president was preparing to reveal to Nigerians that the two were the countries’ biggest economic enemies.

The duo found themselves in the political wilderness and Femi Otedola even admitted that he contemplated suicide as a way out. As they could no longer manipulate the President, they found a gentleman in the Vice President who would listen to them.

Then President Yar’Adua died and Goodluck Jonathan became President… and the duo sprang back to life once again.

Debt written off, waivers resuscitated

Femi Otedola now threw himself at the new President Goodluck Jonathan and pretended to be one of his best friends, but Jonathan has now realized that he had a Judas on his hands, as Dangote betrayed him at the last possible moment when he heard that the incumbent President had lost the elections to Muhammadu Buhari.

The Managing Director of AMCON was called by President Jonathan to write off most of Femi Otedola’s loans from Nigerian banks. In theory, Nigerian taxpayers’ money was used to pay back banks for private loans that Femi took and $1 billion was written off for Mr. Otedola in total. Immediately after this happened, Femi called his PR agents and had them relist him on the Forbes billionaires list and even went on to buy the GEREGU power station.

Mr. Dangote once again became the king of import duty waivers and unpaid taxes, and now started using the billions of dollars of waivers and unpaid taxes as equity to take more loans. Soon, he was announcing projects all over Africa ranging from cement plants to refinery and to a fertilizer plant.

In his typical fashion of wanting to monopolize all commodities, he announced projects that covered the entire national demand of Nigeria, getting the Minister of Trade to bans all imports from competitors. As a result, Dangote effectively supplied all the cement, sugar, salt, rice, petrol, diesel kerosene and pasta of Nigeria. What Nigerians did not realise was that his equity contribution for all these projects was simply the waivers for the import of these commodities that he was enjoying and the rest were loans that he took.

Aliko Dangote has not hidden his ambition that he wants to be the richest man in the world by 2017, when he turns 60 years old.

Given the way he robs Nigeria of billions of dollars of unpaid taxes each year, then uses this cash to monopolise commodity markets and push out any potential competitors, he could be in decent shape to reach this target if he manages to do the same in other African countries, where there is a general lack of strong antitrust laws.

Nevertheless, there is one man that has the power to stop Dangote in his tracks and this is President Buhari, following in the footsteps of the late President Yar’Adua.

There is hope for Nigeria if President Buhari investigates these two Nigerians, makes them repay the billions they stole from Nigeria and creates a level playing field for all Nigerians to succeed in business.

https://link.medium.com/tHm9djvRfW

Cc: Lalasticlala

Unfortunately this Buhari is not Yar'adua and can never be reliable to redress this anomaly.

chukel:
this nonsense link you put up wasn't even released by inec but by a sponsored group(a group openly in support of atiku). Can you have some sense please. Show me on inec electoral guideline and procedure where it stated that results will be entered into SCR and transmitted. Show me that. Not nonsense written by a group.

Did your Buharideen eyes suddenly went dim to see the sources (the sun, punch links quoted in the body of the article) or you just want to appear funny to entertain us this afternoon. Go back and read the article again.

ahiboilandgas:
which school did u go to ?ur parameter and research method are wrong and faulty and aim at wiping ethnic sentiments not knowledge....if landmass was used then Lagos is suppose to be least populated while bronu will be more Russia will be the most populated nation in the world ..if religion of Islam and land mass then niger will be not Indonesia....

I don't even think you have an understanding of how po population are swelled in any environment perhaps you need to make friends with your geography textbooks from time to time. I am surprised you are even arguing this. ..

chukel:
i dont know how you guys reason this o. But let me make things clearer. Each SCR was configured to each polling unit. If I'm meant to vote in polling unit A and I go to polling unit B, the SCR will not recognise my card. If I'm allowed to vote in B despite failure of SCR to accredit me, I can still move to A where I will be accredited and vote. Now that's multiple voting. Again SCR may not recognise the card if it's fake. So I don't really understand what u guys argue about. There is no provision for parties in the SCR. None. It doesn't work like phone. How many parties participated in the presidential election. Ask any P.O who claims he/she transmitted result through SCR how he or she keyed in the results. Despite being Corp members, some of them are stark illiterates. What they transmitted (if at all there was transmission) was total number of registered voters (which was already saved in the SCR), total number of accredited voters. The later is even automatically saved in the SCR. This is the reason every card reader is returned to inec headquarters. This is part of what they use for forensics. SCR does not have provision for votes scored by each party. I'm really shocked atiku bought into that dummy. Shows he is senseless

Visit this thread now and read it meditatively to cure your ignorance on the Smart Card Reader In this 2019 elections also inform your friends too and stop embarrassing yourself online. https://www.nairaland.com/5093805/year-2019-elections-smart-card

ericsmith:
Really do not understand you but i believe we can learn from ourselves stating facts n not just opinion guided by interest.
When you a redress in court it is paramount the laws be interpreted accordingly ....
under electoral process we have i. voting process ii. coalition process ... if you cannt understand both process are govern by different laws you cannt promote to the next level ...

I don't think you have a clearer understanding of my submission here or you did but trying to evade it like a smart dude anyway guy the summary of my message is, smart card reader (instrument of e-collation) will be loud in this case

*THE POPULATION FRAUD IN NIGERIA.*

1. *Saudi Arabia is the headquarters of the Islamic religion.* They practice the religion to the core. In fact the holiest Islamic site is there. *They practice polygamy. Mortality rate there is low. Standard of living and health condition there is very excellent and they are very wealthy They have access to the sea on all sides. Have land mass of 2,149,000 sqkm.*
Their *POPULATION as at 2015 = 28 million* of which, *8 million are foreigners.*

2. Nearer home in Africa . Our next door neighbors up north is Chad . Land mass of *Chad is 1,280,000sqkm.* They are almost 100% an Islamic state with the same culture , religion, *agrarian and animal husbandry* profession and even ethnicity as our brothers in the Northern part of Nigeria . They marry many wives too. But with a *population of 13 million* people. *Ndjamena* there capital city nearer the Chadian basin and rivers have population of *700,000.*

3 Our other neighbor *Niger Republic , with a landmass of 1,270,000 sqkm,* who share the same culture, language, ethnicity, *agrarian and animal husbandry profession* and religious practice that allows polygamy like our brothers up north has a *population of 18m people.*

4, Now fast forward to *NORTHERN NIGERIA,* with a land mass of *614,000 sqkm.* Which is a *quarter of that Saudi Arabia.* *Half of that of Chad and Niger.* With very *much higher mortality rate than Saudi Arabia.* Ravaged by *poverty and disease with one of the worst health care system in the world.* No access to any river , sea or body of water like Saudi Arabia, yet someone want me to believe that *they have 90million human* beings living there .

*Now wait for the bigger contradiction, Benue and Plateau states, the richest and greenest belt within the North does not have as great a population as their neighbours, who live in the arid desert.* Haba! HOW? By what magic ? If you query them , they will tell you that their religion allow them to marry many wives . So how come your brothers in Chad that marry so many wives and who also live by the great lake Chad are not as populated as you are ? Common people .

*Festus Odimegwu was on the verge of unraveling this mystery and exposing this grand fraud foisted on us by the Britishers by resolving to conduct fraud free census, before Jonathan sacked him* because Jonathan was blackmailed. That was one of the unforgettable and *unforgiving sins of Jonathan against the Nigerian state.*

*Look around you , from Sudan to Mauriania to to Somalia to Egypt to Morroco, practicing Muslim countries in the Northern part of Nigeria and Africa with the same polygamous religious culture , some even with access to the sea, far greater land mass and healthier and richer health conditions . Check out their population.*
Please kindly review the factors that influence the population of a given region or location at any time (it is an assignment) and tell me what you get .

*I have a friend , who is a pilot . He has flown the length and breadth of Nigeria. The guy is at a loss as to where the 90million are hiding in the Northern part of Nigeria. He cannot understand the mystery.*
It is this kind of unresolved mystery and fraud, which has continued to fuel the *agitation of progressive folks for a total overhaul and restructuring of Nigeria, which the north is viciously resisting.* We cannot continue in this lies without resolving it. *It is offensive, insulting and annoying for you to continue to throw a false and bogus population figure* at my face. *A figure that does not show at all in the bottom line, a figure that adds NO much value to the common wealth.*

*Enough is Enough*.

*My own analysis:*
Another thing that proves Nigeria population is a hoax is the number of registered active GSM lines which lies between 100 million and 110 millions. On the average, every Nigerian gsm user has 3 active lines. This brings the number of active subscribers to less than 40 million. If you add the number of children and non gsm users you'll arrive at a figure of nearly 80 millions to 100 millions. I dare say that Nigerian population is not more than 100 million. During voters registration, we get mind boggling figures, yet during election, with all the massive multiple thumb printing that goes on, we always end up with figures less than 30 million. Who is fooling who? We suck as a nation.

I can tell you that if census figure is used for taxation instead of revenue sharing, we won't have more than 80 million Nigerians.

*-Chidiebere Chukwuneme*

ericsmith:
Stop mixing things up & confusing yourselves .... the only reform we had was the for voting process ... electronic accreditation which legalises card reader.
Coalition process as stipulated by nigeria constitution till today remains manual coalition process ...
the 2018 electoral law amended would av enacted E coalition but was not signed which means Manual coalition of election result remains the only legal means of computing & presenting results before any court of jurisdiction ... inec server will be thrown out just like juju in any court

....and you wondered why those whose finger prints cannot be read by the smart card reader (instrument of e-collation) were asked to fill voters registration form in order to be eligible to vote manually? This same smart card reader must read your voters card for you to be abe to vote or else you are not eligible to vote manually. can you read me now?

Bunch of APC miserable lawyers and charge and bail comedians. When the burden of proofs in a law court rest on a defendant's shoulder in a sensitive case as this then whatever that can be submitted at the court of law to substantiate the body of evidences validity will be admissible as exhibits in court. In this case, the Atiku legal team had proven beyond reasonable doubt that INEC had grossly compromised the law guiding the principle of electoral process in the land and they have no case to prove nor evidences to support their wild claims. Atiku is almost here.

Thanks to ChristianNorth engineerboat tuniski Esseite and other brilliant contributors here so far

dadexcel:
............your so matured , descent and intelligent in your arguments and I love you for that....always look forward to your opinions on issues ...Please keep it up and refuse to be distracted. Cheers

You really have eyes for raw talent. That my comrade you just quoted is one of the brightest minds around and one you should watch out for in the future.

NgeneUkwenu:
Fantasy, purely and solely made for the brainless ipob pigs to masturbate upon as a consolation..

You will be alright at last since you are totally sold out to gross hypocrisy. Perhaps you know better than Femi Falana SAN below;

How Electoral Act 2015 Legalised Card Reader – Punch Newspapers

Femi Falana

In December last year, the Supreme Court upheld all the disputed governorship elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission on April 11, 2015 and undertook to adduce reasons for each of the judgments at a later date. Last month, the court announced the reasons for the decisions. Essentially, the apex court vehemently disagreed with the judgments of the Court of Appeal which had set aside election results which emanated from manual accreditation instead of the card reader machines prescribed by the INEC. For not validating the use of card reader for voter accreditation some commentators, including lawyers, have criticised the verdicts of the apex court. The criticisms which have greeted the judgments are not unexpected given the controversy which trailed the use of card reader for the elections.

Although the National Assembly had approved fund for the purchase of the card reader machines in the Appropriation Act of 2014, the then ruling party wanted to use its control of the federal legislature to discredit the electronic device. Hence, the immediate-past chairman of the INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, was summoned to the Senate to justify the introduction of the card reader for voter accreditation. In taking up the challenge, Prof. Jega demonstrated the use of card readers and its capacity to eliminate electoral fraud perpetrated at the accreditation stage of election. At the end of the exercise the Senate was compelled to endorse the use of card reader for the 2015 general election. Thereafter, the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015 which sought to legitimise the use of card reader was unanimously passed by both chambers of the National Assembly. The bill was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan on March 20, 2015.

Prior to the amendment, Section 52 of the Electoral Act had prohibited the INEC from the use of any form of electronic voting. But following the amendment of the provision, the INEC has been conferred with the power to determine the procedure to use for any election. Specifically, Section 52 states that “voting at an election shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the Independent National Electoral Commission.” With the amendment of the law the INEC was on terra firma when it decided to use the card reader machine for the accreditation of voters for the 2015 general election.

In spite of the initial hiccups encountered by voters with respect to the use of the card reader machines it is generally agreed that the technological device enhanced the credibility of the 2015 general election. Indeed, a number of the election petitions filed by aggrieved candidates were anchored on the gap between the number of voters accredited with the card reader machines and the fake election results declared by some returning officers. At the election petition tribunals, the INEC, through its lawyers, canvassed rather curiously that the directive on accreditation of voters with the aid of card reader machines was not backed by any law. And that the failure to comply with the directive could not vitiate any election conducted by the INEC.

Some members of the Election Petition Tribunals and the Justices of the Court of Appeal upheld the submissions of the INEC lawyers. In their judgments they ignored the figures of accredited voters obtained via the card reader machines. Others were however convinced that the directive on the use of card reader was backed by the letter and spirit of the Electoral Act. In the case of APC v Kolawole Agbaje, Ogbuinya JCA traced the genesis of the card reader when he said, “The evolution of the concept of smart card readers is a familiar one. It came to being during the last general election held in March and April, 2015 in Nigeria. On this score, it is a nascent procedure injected into our infant and fledgling electoral system to ensure credible and transparent election. Specifically, it is aimed to concretise our fragile process of accreditation – the keystone of any suffrage. The concept, owing to its recent invention by INEC, a non-legislative body, traces its paternity to the manual for election officials, 2015.”

The above view of Ogbuinya J.C.A was adopted in toto by Ejembi Eko JCA in the case of Umana v Emmanuel, when he stated that, “I do not believe that with the fast pace of development globally and the whole world embracing the latest IT technologies, that resistance should be placed to emerging technologies geared towards transparency in elections, by backward thinking interpretations that can only be deleterious to the system. Holding otherwise would be to truncate the great efforts of the 3rd respondent (INEC) in its bid to ensure a credible election and in so doing attempt to plug all loopholes that can be exploited by unscrupulous persons.”

Regrettably, the Supreme Court did not share the progressive view of both Ogbuinya and Eko JJCA on the legal validity of the technological device. Thus, in the case of Edward Okereke v Dave Umahi the apex court held that the appellant failed woefully to prove the allegation of over-voting as he did not tender the voters’ registers along with the card reader reports. Justice Cletus Nweze, who read the lead judgment of the court, held that, “Indeed, since the Guidelines and Manual, which authorised the use and deployment of the electronic card reader machine, were made in exercise of the powers conferred by the Electoral Act, the said card reader cannot, logically, depose or dethrone the Voters’ Register whose judicial roots are firmly embedded or entrenched in the selfsame Electoral Act from which it (the Voters’ Register) directly, derives its sustenance and currency….since the National Assembly has not deleted the provision of Section 49 of the Electoral Act (2010), which allows manual accreditation, it would be wrong for any petitioner to seek to rely solely on the report of the card reader (which is intended as a supplementary measure to the already provided means of accreditation) to prove over-voting.”

However, in spite of the clear position of the INEC on the mandatory use of card readers for the governorship and state legislative elections it did not adduce any argument in favour of the use of electronic device at the various election petition tribunals and the appellate courts. It is particularly intriguing that the INEC did not defend the card reader by relying on Section 52 of the Electoral Act (Amendment Act) 2015. If the attention of the Justices of the Supreme Court had been drawn to the 2015 amendment of the Electoral Act they could not have held that accreditation by the card reader machine was supplementary to manual accreditation. In other words, the judgments of the apex court would have legitimised the use of card reader for voter accreditation. No doubt, the legitimisation of the card reader would have had dire consequences on the results of the disputed governorship elections.

Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, writes from Lagos

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Note: the above narratives was written by a renowned SAN, Femi Falana in support of the Card Reader as a tool of transparency in 2015, now this is 2019 where legal backings to the usage of the 2019 elections held sway so it is practically unprofessional for any legal team to downplay the importance of the Smart Card Reader in this legal tussle between Atiku and Buhari.

How Electoral Act 2015 Legalised Card Reader – Punch Newspapers

Femi Falana

In December last year, the Supreme Court upheld all the disputed governorship elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission on April 11, 2015 and undertook to adduce reasons for each of the judgments at a later date. Last month, the court announced the reasons for the decisions. Essentially, the apex court vehemently disagreed with the judgments of the Court of Appeal which had set aside election results which emanated from manual accreditation instead of the card reader machines prescribed by the INEC. For not validating the use of card reader for voter accreditation some commentators, including lawyers, have criticised the verdicts of the apex court. The criticisms which have greeted the judgments are not unexpected given the controversy which trailed the use of card reader for the elections.

Although the National Assembly had approved fund for the purchase of the card reader machines in the Appropriation Act of 2014, the then ruling party wanted to use its control of the federal legislature to discredit the electronic device. Hence, the immediate-past chairman of the INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, was summoned to the Senate to justify the introduction of the card reader for voter accreditation. In taking up the challenge, Prof. Jega demonstrated the use of card readers and its capacity to eliminate electoral fraud perpetrated at the accreditation stage of election. At the end of the exercise the Senate was compelled to endorse the use of card reader for the 2015 general election. Thereafter, the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015 which sought to legitimise the use of card reader was unanimously passed by both chambers of the National Assembly. The bill was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan on March 20, 2015.

Prior to the amendment, Section 52 of the Electoral Act had prohibited the INEC from the use of any form of electronic voting. But following the amendment of the provision, the INEC has been conferred with the power to determine the procedure to use for any election. Specifically, Section 52 states that “voting at an election shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the Independent National Electoral Commission.” With the amendment of the law the INEC was on terra firma when it decided to use the card reader machine for the accreditation of voters for the 2015 general election.

In spite of the initial hiccups encountered by voters with respect to the use of the card reader machines it is generally agreed that the technological device enhanced the credibility of the 2015 general election. Indeed, a number of the election petitions filed by aggrieved candidates were anchored on the gap between the number of voters accredited with the card reader machines and the fake election results declared by some returning officers. At the election petition tribunals, the INEC, through its lawyers, canvassed rather curiously that the directive on accreditation of voters with the aid of card reader machines was not backed by any law. And that the failure to comply with the directive could not vitiate any election conducted by the INEC.

Some members of the Election Petition Tribunals and the Justices of the Court of Appeal upheld the submissions of the INEC lawyers. In their judgments they ignored the figures of accredited voters obtained via the card reader machines. Others were however convinced that the directive on the use of card reader was backed by the letter and spirit of the Electoral Act. In the case of APC v Kolawole Agbaje, Ogbuinya JCA traced the genesis of the card reader when he said, “The evolution of the concept of smart card readers is a familiar one. It came to being during the last general election held in March and April, 2015 in Nigeria. On this score, it is a nascent procedure injected into our infant and fledgling electoral system to ensure credible and transparent election. Specifically, it is aimed to concretise our fragile process of accreditation – the keystone of any suffrage. The concept, owing to its recent invention by INEC, a non-legislative body, traces its paternity to the manual for election officials, 2015.”

The above view of Ogbuinya J.C.A was adopted in toto by Ejembi Eko JCA in the case of Umana v Emmanuel, when he stated that, “I do not believe that with the fast pace of development globally and the whole world embracing the latest IT technologies, that resistance should be placed to emerging technologies geared towards transparency in elections, by backward thinking interpretations that can only be deleterious to the system. Holding otherwise would be to truncate the great efforts of the 3rd respondent (INEC) in its bid to ensure a credible election and in so doing attempt to plug all loopholes that can be exploited by unscrupulous persons.”

Regrettably, the Supreme Court did not share the progressive view of both Ogbuinya and Eko JJCA on the legal validity of the technological device. Thus, in the case of Edward Okereke v Dave Umahi the apex court held that the appellant failed woefully to prove the allegation of over-voting as he did not tender the voters’ registers along with the card reader reports. Justice Cletus Nweze, who read the lead judgment of the court, held that, “Indeed, since the Guidelines and Manual, which authorised the use and deployment of the electronic card reader machine, were made in exercise of the powers conferred by the Electoral Act, the said card reader cannot, logically, depose or dethrone the Voters’ Register whose judicial roots are firmly embedded or entrenched in the selfsame Electoral Act from which it (the Voters’ Register) directly, derives its sustenance and currency….since the National Assembly has not deleted the provision of Section 49 of the Electoral Act (2010), which allows manual accreditation, it would be wrong for any petitioner to seek to rely solely on the report of the card reader (which is intended as a supplementary measure to the already provided means of accreditation) to prove over-voting.”

However, in spite of the clear position of the INEC on the mandatory use of card readers for the governorship and state legislative elections it did not adduce any argument in favour of the use of electronic device at the various election petition tribunals and the appellate courts. It is particularly intriguing that the INEC did not defend the card reader by relying on Section 52 of the Electoral Act (Amendment Act) 2015. If the attention of the Justices of the Supreme Court had been drawn to the 2015 amendment of the Electoral Act they could not have held that accreditation by the card reader machine was supplementary to manual accreditation. In other words, the judgments of the apex court would have legitimised the use of card reader for voter accreditation. No doubt, the legitimisation of the card reader would have had dire consequences on the results of the disputed governorship elections.

Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, writes from Lagos

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Note: the above narratives was written by a renowned SAN, Femi Falana in support of the Card Reader as a tool of transparency in 2015, now this is 2019 where legal backings to the usage of the 2019 elections held sway so it is practically unprofessional for any legal team to downplay the importance of the Smart Card Reader in this legal tussle between Atiku and Buhari.

ChristianNorth:
Too cluttered, incoherent as always.

Try to de-clutter with paragraphs and learn to respond to submissions without bias and stupid hates.

ChristIanNorth stop quoting this dude I beg of you please. He has nothing reasonable to offer in debates just ignore him and let him do the talking I beg of you.

dammylink5:
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has threatened to pursue the imprisonment of the Chairman of the Independent read more

I concur this is the ideal thing to do now.

netpro:
I will NOT. It is completely none of your business.

Please don't hang yourself because majority of Nigerians loves President Buhari

This one is a fully automated zombie

netpro:
Pathetic Athiefkulators asking useless question since time immemorial.

You all have insulted Buhari, abused him, prophesied doom and wished him evil - yet Mr. President is waxing strong and command the largest support any politician can in Nigeria.

Hate him OR love him - It is Sai Baba all the way. The Man is a Legend. Haters can continue. Up Nigeria.

A simple question was asked not that the Op demanded for your kidney or liver and the next thing like a typical zombiefied Zombie nigga went haywire ranting in unnecessary diatribes can you answer the simple question now?

Waste of time, money and efforts.

ChristianNorth:
Incoherent as usual.

Exactly how a learned counsel interpreted the case for me you are such a brilliant guy so sorry I was away couldn't respond to the debates but you engineerboat and other comrades made my day on this. Will be back later.

BREAKING: INEC Says No Voting Without PVCs Accepted By Smart Card Readers

"The commission has operated under the policy that no citizen can vote without the PVC issued by the commission and read by the smart card reader," Mahmood Yakubu said.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 21, 2019

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that anyone whose Permanent Voter Card (PVC) is not recognised by the Smart Card Reader will not be allowed to vote.

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, said this on Thursday in Abuja during a press briefing on the commission’s readiness to conduct the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, February 23, 2019.

He also answered questions on the logistics preparations for the elections.

He said: "The commission has operated under the policy that no citizen can vote without the PVC issued by the commission and read by the smart card reader.

“Having announced the total number of registered voters and their distribution by age, gender and occupation, citizens deserve the right to know how many PVCs have been collected across the country.

"The last date for the collection of PVCs was Monday 11th February 2019. Out of the 84,000,484 registered voters, the total number of PVCs collected stands at 72,775,585, which represents 86.3% of the total PVCs produced. Detailed breakdown and percentages of collection on state-by-state basis have been published on our website few minutes ago."

In the 2015 elections, electoral officers had to resort to the manual process as the card readers failed to read the PVCs.

In fact, former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience Jonathan, spent more than almost an hour at their polling station in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, as at least four card readers failed to capture. He was eventually accredited to vote manually without a card reader.



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