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Graphic photos: APC members shot dead in Rivers state, many arrested

I just received gruesome photos of dead men and a press statement from the APC in Rivers state.

Looks like election in some areas in the state was very violent. Read statement below and see the pics after the cut..

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Today’s presidential and National Assembly elections have turned out to be a big nightmare for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, with the members being killed, attacked and disenfranchised in various parts of the State.

“Armed militias working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have intensified their killing of APC members. Scores have already been killed and several others marked for elimination. This morning in Kpite Town, Tai Ward 2 and other areas of the State, five people were shot dead by PDP’s armed militia, and that was before accreditation commenced,” Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said in a statement in Port Harcourt. Pictures of our killed members are attached.

Lamenting his party’s ordeal, Ikanya said: “It is sad that PDP and its collaborators are targeting APC strongholds and chieftains for attacks and killings. To intimidate our people and contrary to the court ruling forbidding the use of the Army in this election, there has been a massive deployment of soldiers in the State with clear instruction to shoot at sight any APC agent that refuses to comply with the evil plot of PDP to write the results of the election at some designated areas of the State in favour of PDP.”

Chief Ikanya gave the following specific horrifying examples of APC’s travails:

•Hon. Chidiebere Okwuwolu, former Commissioner and currently an APC leader, was arrested by police and taken to Olu Obasanjo Police Station in Port Harcourt along with 99 other arrested APC members scattered in various Police Stations in the State.

•At Ubima, the home town of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, the INEC results sheets are currently with Chief Nyesome Wike, the guber candidate of PDP in Rivers State. Governor Amaechi has refused to embark upon any accreditation because of lack of result sheets in all the polling units in the State, a situation contrived by INEC and PDP to make room for PDP to rig the election.

•At Andoni, the Local Government Area of Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and Chief Uche Secondus, the National Vice Chairman of PDP and his cousin, Engr Tele Ikuru (the Deputy Governor of Rivers State who few days defected to PDP) hell has been let loose; electoral materials have been hijacked by PDP agents in connivance with the Army that has been threatening to arrest and kill any APC chieftains in sight.

•The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Andoni Local Government area, Esuku Esuku, has been ordered out of Ngo, headquarters of Local Government, by the Joint Task Force (JTF)/army personnel deployed to Ngo, or be killed. •At Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local Government, materials are being distributed from the house of Minister of Sports, Chief Tammy Danagogo, instead of the INEC office, without any security personnel. Danagogo has held the policemen that ought to escort these materials to the polling units hostage and injuring DPO of Abonnema, Mr. Joseph Kayode for daring to accompany Hon Isobo Jack the Commissioner for Urban Development to the Polling Unit, relevant pictures attached.

•PDP thugs hijacked materials and INEC personnel meant for Akuku-Toru Wards 15, 16 and 17. The hijacked materials and men were taken to Freetown, a hinterland coastal community. The attack was led by two youths whose identities are known. •In Tombia, in same Akuku-Toru Local Government, PDP had by Friday night filled the community with Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) bouncers who were attacking APC members and, at the same time, preventing those returning home to vote from entering the town. They were doing so in the presence of soldiers who were too few in number. The Caretaker Committer Chairman and others were injured on Friday. The over 30 APC members that were to act as agents were arrested. •In Buguma, which is the Headquarters of Asari-Toru Local government, policemen were busy all day arresting APC chieftains. •In Gokana Local Government, trained INEC ad-hoc personnel were replaced with untrained manpower suspected to be PDP members. This is believed to have been done in connivance with the LGA Electoral Officer (EO).

•At Opobo/Nkoro, the Local Government Area of Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, the gubernatorial candidate of APC, the house of Opobo/Nkoro Caretaker Committee Chairman, Loveday Jaja, was torched after he escaped to avoid being killed by the PDP hoodlums. Electoral materials meant for the Local Government Area have been diverted to John Africa/Ada Tom Pepple Compound area where they are thumb-printing in favour of PDP. One Barrister J.B Pepple was caught with stained thumbs and he admitted to thumb-printing. Another person Alafagha Oko-Jaja had his head broken head and he is seriously bleeding. No one is sure if he will survive. The army has been going around the community harassing people while Chiefs in Kalaibiama are compelling them to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP. This is said to be on the orders of Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Kenneth Minimah, who is also from the town.
Mr. Harold Peterside a PDP Agent in Unit 006 Ward, Oopbo/Nkoro was caught with INEC Register and fake Results Sheet at the Polling Unit.
•At Oyigbo LGA, 40,000 incident forms were being given out at 6:30 a.m. but they stopped when the APC Agent complained about it. He was however asked to leave the INEC office at about 11:30 a.m. Already, 120,000 incident forms have been to Port Harcourt LGA, 80,000 to Obio/Akpor and 50,000 to Ikwerre LGA. The incident forms are one of the ways PDP plans to use to rig the elections around the country, especially in the South South and South East.

•In Okrika, there was sudden change and appearance of fresh and inadequately trained INEC ad-hoc staff who tried to persuade voters to undergo manual accreditation, claiming that card readers assigned to Okrika LGA polling booths were not working (even without trying them). In a few units where APC supporters insisted on ‘No Card, No Accreditation’, the card readers mysteriously began to work. But in majority of the places manual accreditation is being undertaken. Also in Okrika, there is insufficient delivery of electoral materials by INEC. Up till now no one, not even party agents, has seen the original result collation sheets. The INEC officials claim it is not everything that they must explain. Meanwhile, INEC delivered incident forms far excess of the number of registered voters.

Meanwhile, PDP stalwarts are openly parading bundles of PVC cards in their possession. Rowland Sekibo, accompanied by police and PDP thugs armed with guns, are going around chasing away APC members from doing accreditation. They had done so in wards 1, 7, 8, 9 and 2. They tore the tags of our agents, beat them and chased them away, injuring scores of them.

“We condemn this brazen rape of democracy by PDP in collaboration with INEC and the security agents. It is unacceptable as this is not what democracy should be. PDP should allow Rivers people to vote without guns pointed at their throats,” Dr. Ikanya said in the statement.

Dr Ikanya passed a vote of no confidence on the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Gesila Khan, declaring that she has failed woefully as she is bent on carrying out her secret agreement with PDP to return victory to the party at all cost. Whatever trash she will announce as the result of today’s election is not acceptable to us and we ask for her immediate transfer and a new date be set for a proper election in Rivers State than the sham and charade that was calculated to rubbish INEC and democracy.

The pictures of our killed members are attached.

Long Live APC!
Long Live Rivers State!!

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State.


SOURCE:http://lindaikeji..com/2015/03/graphic-photos-apc-members-shot-dead-in.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

This was the exact way Herod,Pharaoh,Nebuchadnezzar,Mobutu Sese Seko,Joseph Kabila,Laurent Gbagbo all started in their descent into the HALL OF SHAME

Jonathan is now doing all he could to surpass the records of all the dictators the world has known

Let him ask IBB( his self-confessed Father) who thought he could take on Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie........

Breaking news: EFCC freezes all Father Mbaka Accounts




By Ifeoma Ononye

Senior reporter, Lagos



The information reaching us from Enugu says Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) have frozen all accounts of well known Enugu based reverend father Ejike Mbaka.

According to our source who was present at Mbaka’s Wednesday adoration Mass for the sick and needy, the reverend while giving his sermon narrated to his congregation how he went to withdraw money to buy food items for the poor masses that moved down from north because of the election, but to his surprise his cheques were returned.

When he enquired why he could not make any withdrawals, he was told EFCC has directed his accounts to be frozen. He stated that the commission is also inviting him to EFCC office in Port Harcourt for questioning.

The Reverend guessed the order may have been from President Goodluck Jonathan to cripple his activities during the elections that is coming up this weekend.

He further stated that he is not scared but in order to be cautious and not fall victim of assassination, he will not honor the invitation from EFCC. “They have threatened to arrest me at the cathedraticum which will take place at holy ghost cathedral, Enugu.

I won’t fail to be there on Friday” he said

The source who gave his name as Benjamin disclosed that President Goodluck is lucky that it is just one day to the election before the EFCC issue with father Mbaka cropped up. “the situation Would have messed him up”

Another ardent follower of the popular Mbaka adoration confirmed the story. But we could not get the father to confirm the story himself.?


SOURCE: http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/breaking-news-efcc-freezes-father-mbaka-accounts/

anneedu:
[s]Text of press conference by the Director of Media and Publicity, PDP presidential campaign organization, Femi Fani-Kayode.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, 
It is with a heavy heart that we are compelled to share with the Nigerian public the following sensitive information which we believe, if not handled properly and looked into, is serious enough to affect the outcome of Saturday’s presidential election in a negative way.
Before we go into detail permit me to make an important assertion which cannot be overstated or over-emphasised. That assertion is as follows: the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation and our candidate President Goodluck Jonathan are not in the least bit worried about what the outcome of Saturday’s election will be. We believe that we have the backing and full support of the Nigerian people and we believe that we shall not only win but that we shall win convincingly.  



Whatever we share with you here today does not, in anyway, mean that we shall not participate in Saturday’s election or that we are worried about how we will fare. The fact of the matter is that we shall not only participate but we are also very confident of winning. We believe that the Nigerian people will give President Goodluck Jonathan a fresh mandate for the next four years regardless of the shenanigans of the opposition and those that are covertly working for and with them. 


The purpose of this briefing and of sharing the following information with the Nigerian people is simply to ensure that they are fully aware of what is going on and to enable our security and intelligence agencies to ensure that INEC does the right thing, answers some of these questions and put their house in order so that the outcome of the election is not in any way questionable.  


We cannot sit by idly and remain silent when a desperate group of ruthless and greedy little men, in collusion with their friends in the APC, rob the Nigerian people of their historic opportunity to elect a President of their choice. This they intend to do by sitting in a dark room somewhere and rigging the election in the most sophisticated manner even before it holds.  


This is unacceptable and it is incumbent upon us, as a responsible, accountable and sensible campaign organisation to expose the rot, point out the dangers of doing nothing about it, finger and identify those that are involved and call on the authorities to do something about it before it is too late. We shall share this information in good faith and we shall then leave the matter for necessary action by the relevant security agencies and authorities.
 


Our concerns stem from the fact that the moving spirit and a major shareholder and board member of the company that supplied the card reader system and machines to INEC is not only a friend of but also an ardent and keen supporter of General Mohammadu Buhari and the APC. That man's name is Sani Musa and he is indeed the main force behind the company. The company's name is Act Technologies Ltd. and the Chairman of the company is one Engineer SK Danladi.  


How and why INEC would give the contract to supply the card readers to a fanatical APC supporter and to a man whose other company was officially blacklisted by INEC a couple of years ago for sharp practices, needs to be explained. Sani Musa has expressed his undying support for the APC and General Buhari and his hatred and virulent opposition to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan openly and publicly on his Facebook wall. Some of his comments on Facebook read as follows: ''I stand with him (Buhari) for whatever reason” and “Imagine the kind of people given spaces in our nation’s news tabloids.  Hoodlums are having field day in Nigeria since the inception of GEJ’s administration.  Mad men, hooligans and vultures have taken over decency of the society.  May Allah save us from the torments of this (sic) rascals and expose their intentions on our nation state be it the Boko Haram, killer militants or by extension those in authority with wicked intentions-Amen.”  Photocopies of his Facebook wall where these comments were made and his picture will be made available at the end of this briefing.     
        


Worst still, it is clear that certain aspects of and electronic components within the card reader system which will be used in Saturday's election have not only been compromised but that the encryption codes and so-called ''master key'' may have been made available to the opposition or their friends and agents. This will enable them to access the system, fabricate and generate fake votes and manipulate the voting patterns to their advantage.  


This constitute a very serious breach of security and it is a criminal offence. It is also very dangerous. Worst still it can easily be carried out successfully because, if done quietly and properly and without any deep scrutiny, it is virtually fool-proof. All you need to make it work is to have certain relevant and key INEC officials that are in the know to work closely with the supplier of the card readers and an opposition party that is so hungry and desperate for power that they are ready to pay large sums of money to their friends and associates to help them get it by hook or by crook. 


We believe that all those components are now in place and that the biggest and most brazen attempt to rig elections in the history of our country will take place on Saturday if the necessary measures are not taken to prevent it. If the conspiracy is not exposed, if the Nigerian people do not rise up and demand answers, if the plan is not intercepted and aborted, if the Chairman of INEC does not answer the relevant questions and take the necessary steps and if the relevant individuals, including Sani Musa and his collaborators and co-conspirators in INEC and the opposition, are not called to order, arrested, interrogated and prosecuted their plan may well succeed. 


In view of this dastardly plan that is in the offing and this unwholesome conspiracy, we call on the party leadership and faithful to direct our supporters and polling agents to be very vigilant at every polling booth and to guard and protect their votes. After voting they should stay at the polling booths to ensure that their votes are counted and that they are not manipulated or changed.                      


Ladies and gentlemen, the facts, the evidence and our recommendations are as follows:         


INEC has concluded plans to utilize its recently acquired Smart Card Readers for the forthcoming presidential elections scheduled for March 28th 2015. INEC has carried out a mock poll to test-run the functionality of the Smart Card Reader in 12 states of the Federation with mixed results.


There is an on-going public debate regarding the pros and cons of the planned Smart Card use by INEC with a number of questions being asked regarding the security vulnerabilities of the technology. 


The purpose of this document is:


To highlight the most serious of such security vulnerabilities that are critical enough to justify a halt in INEC's plans to use the Smart Card Readers for the forthcoming general elections (until such issues are satisfactorily resolved and fully certified as being secured by reputable independent third party security auditors).
To demonstrate that the opposition APC has already secured, through rogue means, an unassailable advantage over the ruling PDP which will most likely result in a resounding electoral victory for it irrespective of PDP’s actions or inactions, in the event that the Smart Card Readers are used for the elections.


To highlight the need for INEC to admit to the security-related failings of its Smart Card Readers implementation under circumstances that will be credible to local and international observers, such that it will become obvious that the use of Smart Card Readers for the forthcoming polls cannot guarantee free, fair and credible elections.
The major issues that are worthy of consideration are summarized below. Each issue can be readily substantiated by verifiable sources of evidence.
i. Compromised Master Encryption/Decryption Key: The Master Encryption/Decryption Key that can "unlock" and simulate the PVC data processed by the Smart Card Reader has been compromised.  There is only one copy of the Master Key in Nigeria and it is in the possession of an individual who is a known APC sympathizer/supporter (and also the contractor responsible for the production of PVCs and manufacture of Smart Card Readers for INEC who was already blacklisted by INEC following his inability to deliver ballot papers during the 2011 elections).  The Master Key should rightly be in the possession of INEC, as the neutral umpire, under the most stringent access control protocol imaginable and not freely in the possession of a partisan actor.
INEC has already expressed concern over intelligence reports that APC has been purchasing VINs (Voter Identification Numbers uniquely identifying each PVC), which can only mean that the Party is already in possession of the Master Key (as the purchase of VINs would otherwise have been a fruitless exercise).
This has grave implications for the PDP as the opposition APC, armed with the Master Key and sufficient VINs, can actually simulate the same data transmitted from any Smart Card Reader deployed for the elections at will. The situation is even now worsened by the fact that APC no longer has to purchase VINs or PVCs as they can now download the entire VINs directly from the INEC database which they have successfully “hacked” into.
RECOMMENDATION: INEC should be officially requested to IMMEDIATELY produce the Master Encryption/Decryption Key (before it has the opportunity to cover up this monumental act of negligence).
ii.    Failure to carry out Independent Security Audit of its IT Infrastructure: Contrary to what the average political commentator thinks, the critical IT infrastructure for the use of the Smart Card Readers by INEC is not necessarily the actual device itself, but the back-end IT infrastructure comprising INEC servers, database, network, personnel and processes. Given the critical nature and purpose of this infrastructure, the standard global best practice is for the organisation to enlist the services of an independent third-party IT Security Audit firm to carry out a comprehensive (and indeed, periodic) Security Audit of its entire end-to-end IT infrastructure and prepare a Security Audit Report which forms the ONLY basis upon which INEC can certify its proposed technology as secure and safe from vulnerabilities that can be exploited by rouge persons/systems.
There are various internationally-acceptable information security standard certifications that a reliable back-end IT infrastructure like INEC's should pass in order to command public confidence, such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 27018, etc. The lack of such security-related certifications simply means that INEC cannot confidently assert that its systems have not been "hacked", compromised or otherwise illegally accessed by unauthorised persons. 
RECOMMENDATION: INEC should be officially requested to IMMEDIATELY produce a copy of any Security Audit Report independently authored by a reputable and certified third party (before it has the opportunity to cover up this monumental act of negligence).
If INEC fails to produce a satisfactory Security Audit Report, then it should be compelled to conduct a fresh Security Audit of its entire IT infrastructure which can even be extended to its production/manufacturing facilities in China (indeed the only other copy of the Master Encryption/Decryption Key is in the possession of the Chinese Manufacturers) - this process of auditing cannot possibly be completed before the general elections.
iii.    Compromised back-end Personnel: Contrary to standard industry practice, INEC opted for the engagement of relatively inexperienced, “suitcase” IT Consulting Companies for the development of its back-end collation and transmission systems and other core server and database applications, using predominantly open source software characterised by publicly-available source code – another major security vulnerability. While significant budgets were made available for this purpose, INEC's choice of "greenhorn" consultants was due to the ridiculously low contract sums paid for these consultancy contracts. The unfortunate consequence of this indiscretion, however, is that the personnel associated with these firms are poorly motivated, ill equipped, poorly supervised and easily compromised. It is, therefore, easily understandable why the opposition APC has been able to compromise INEC's back-end personnel to its advantage.
RECOMMENDATION: INEC should be officially requested to make public the company profile of the IT Consulting Firms it contracted to develop its back-end IT systems, the Curriculum Vitae of their personnel, their known connections to opposition APC figures as well as the financial details of their associated contracts (vis-a-vis the approved budgets). This will clearly prove the lack of credibility of INEC's critical back-end systems.
iv.    Millions of Unprinted PVCs: Contrary to the public perception that INEC has virtually completed the production of PVCs, the true situation is that, as at last week, INEC was yet to take delivery of over 2 million PVCs that were yet to be produced by the contractor, Act Technologies. It is not certain that the production of these PVCs will be completed before the presidential elections scheduled for March 28th 2015. It is, therefore, obvious that a significant number of eligible voters will definitely be disenfranchised in the process.
RECOMMENDATION: INEC should be officially requested to invite stakeholders to an impromptu visit of the PVC production facility of ACTS Technologies in Ganges Street, Maitama, Abuja to observe, first hand, the on- going production process and take stock of the current and outstanding inventories in a transparent manner.

Absence of Quality Control (QC) Measures and Defective PVC Deliverables: INEC has failed to put in place reasonable Quality Control (QC) measures for the PVCs delivered to it by the contractor - ACTS Technologies. The implication of this procedural loophole is that INEC had and still has no way of determining the extent of "defects" in the supplied PVCs. 
This became most apparent during the recently-concluded mock polls in which a variety of very serious, but avoidable, problems were experienced during the exercise, including PVCs with absent fingerprint data; PVCs with poor picture quality; PVCs with mismatched data (i.e. encoded data different from printed data); Card Readers with low battery lifespan etc. INEC has deliberately hidden the extent of these problems from the general public as there would have been considerable outrage if the scope of the challenges is made known. 
Furthermore, nobody in INEC can reliably predict the likely percentage of defective PVCs that have already been distributed until during the actual election itself. If the percentage is significant and more concentrated to specific geographic locations, as is being suspected, then it is no doubt a recipe for disaster - as it can fuel electoral violence of immense proportions. 
If, however, INEC steps down the use of Smart Card Readers, then the aforementioned “defects” will become irrelevant as the PVCs will then be used as regular Voter Cards without the added complication of authenticating the encoded data. 
RECOMMENDATION: INEC should be officially requested to IMMEDIATELY produce its Quality Control Policy with respect to PVC and Smart Card Reader deliverables.
INEC should also be officially requested to make public the detailed report of its mock poll exercise and its forecast of the probable extent of defective PVCs during the general elections. 
I thank you all for your attention[/s]

Lamentation of a soon-to-be opposition party

Some children of sorrow have started saying the article posted is a lie

Yet i just watched Channels TV News where Femi Fani Kayode just alleged that the man in SSS detention has given the codes to the Card Readers to Buhari

This is a ploy to whip up propaganda against their own plan which stemmed from the fear they have expressed against the use of the card reader ab initio

BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING!! BREAKING NEWS!!! CARD READER SUPPLIER IN DSS CUSTODY.

The fight against the card reader is not over.

Our usually reliable source has informed us that Alhaji Sani Musa, the proprietor of ACT Technologies, the company that supplied the card readers (Via LCs opened with the bank), has been in DSS custody since yesterday. Alhaji Sani Musa's crime?

Refusal to supply the DSS with the codes of the Card Readers across the nation.

While President Jonathan is squandering State funds on campaign and governmental agencies such as the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) are actively involved in the political campaign to reelect Pres. Jonathan, we continue to confirm that Pres. Jonathan and the PDP are still terrified of the card reader.

Old habits die hard. The PDP are used to conducting elections in which they allocate votes to other political parties as it suits them. Some weeks ago, we had exposed their plans to do the same in this election. In that report, we had informed the Nigerian people and the world at large that a high powered Think Tank was put together by PDP to write the results of the forth coming election in the South South and the South East excluding Imo State while they shopped from China to Israel for IT companies that can hack into the card readers.

To head this group was Chief Tom Ikimi. Members included Mike Oghiadomhe, Ayu Iyorchia, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, Chief Tony Anenih and four others. Other states included Plateau, the states of the South West especially Lagos plus Sokoto, Kano and some states in the North this source couldn't remember.

As Jega refused to play cards by insisting on free, fair and credible elections through the use of the Card Readers, they approached some INEC National commissioners with a handshake of 50million Naira each, hoping to buy their support of the card reader

They rolled our a massive amount of funds to fight the use of the card reader. But the card reader, like the proverbial beetle, refused to be killed.

Three days before the elections and it dawns on PDP that they are facing the people of Nigeria in an election and that the results of this election, would totally be out of their control and manipulation.

The Card Reader which promises to ascribe credibility on the forth coming elections is therefore, inimical to the plans of President Jonathan and his co-travellers to steal victory from the people of Nigeria.

All meaningful Nigerians must rise up and urge President Jonathan to urge PDP to direct the DSS to let an innocent man go. Let Alhaji Sani Musa go!


SOURCE:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=829449837133646

folawiyoma:
[s]Hello guys, Its good to be back here on nairaland. The reason am typing today is because I want to advice all the sai baba supporters to pls desist. From violence utterances when someone is arguing with them on issues of polities that consine GOod luck JOnathan and general buhari.

Imagine today, I was having this serious debate with my boss at my office this morning about this presidential election which I told her that I strongly believe Jonathan will win the election above buhari. Therefore I gave her concrete reason and I told her reason I will vote Jonathan on Saturday.

She could not give me any concrete reason why she is voting for the general but just the change and corruption slogan everyone. Is shouting. I was frustrated and I forgoT I was having a argument with my boss because I just told her (why can she be constructive in her opinion ).

I was surprised and I came back to my sense when she told me that if I vote for Jonathan on Saturday and he eventually emerge has the president again , I quote ( Seun I will sack you ).
This kind of act is unacceptable . If you believe in change, change your way of violence and aggression first .[/s]

Sounds like Tales By Moonlight to me if you ask my opinion

dearpreye:
[s]Its GEJ all the way!



‘Why Jonathan’ll get majority votes in South-West

By gbenga oluremi

Two recent developments may have altered political calculations in the South West, changing the tide in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan in the general elections.
The first was the profound forays into the South West political spectrum by the Jonathan campaign group, led by the President himself. The second was the aftermath of a series of post National Conference Summit convened by Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, who is also the South West Coordinator of the Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organization.
Prior to the postponement of the general elections, the zone was a practically locked down territory for the APC. The reason is not far-fetched. Over time, the opposition was able to hoodwink south westerners with their unmufflered propaganda machine into believing that Jonathan was running an inept government that could not boast of any concrete achievements.
Quite a large number of people swallowed these lies and deceits hook, line and sinker. The APC propaganda effectively veiled unprecedented achievements of the Jonathan Transformation Agenda, while poor grassroots communication strategies on the part of the Federal Government allowed these lies to stand.
As a consequence, the President lost considerable grounds in his erstwhile stronghold. His support base in the South West ebbed and his popularity waned considerably.
A shift in election date by six weeks therefore presented Jonathan an opportunity to make amends. The President pursued it with great determination and candor. He made the South West his second home, traversing the nooks and crannies of the region preaching the sermon and spreading the gospel of his veritable achievements.
The incursion into the zone was as intense as it was persuasive, with facts and figures to convince his numerous audiences that he remained the best president in Nigeria so far, having performed better than all his predecessors in office.
From town hall meetings to one-on-one parley with traditional rulers, to interactive sessions with the youths and other segments of the society, the President was able to articulate intelligently his laudable achievements in office so far and the need to be re-elected for a better tomorrow for Nigerians.
He was able to inform a cross section of Yoruba political and opinion leaders such as Yoruba Council of Elders, market women groups under the aegis of the Iyalojas, the Oodua Cooperative Alliance and representatives of other ethnic groups, about how he had worked tirelessly to deliver on all his major promises to Nigerians in spite of the huge distraction presented by the Boko Haram insurgency and other forms of violent acts.
The President told them how he had developed the economy and created millions of jobs; created greater access to quality education and improved medical care; how he had given special attention to the agricultural sector to enable it play its role in ensuring food security and massive job creation for our people, the significant progress he made in establishing more federal universities so that every state in the country can boast of at least one federal university in its domain, rehabilitating and expanding national rail transport services, reconstructing, resurfacing and expanding our roads.
He further told his audiences at different fora how he has given Nigerians the opportunity to choose their leaders without hindrance or harassment, how he provided the platform for a National Conference of the Nigerian people that would bring about greater cohesion and peaceful co-existence, how he eradicated guinea worm, stopped Ebola in its tracks, successfully privatized power generation and distribution etc.
Another issue at play was the strategic Yoruba Post-National Conference Summit that took place in turns across the South West, a veritable campaign strategy to garner votes for Jonathan.
The parleys were convened to sensitise the Yoruba people and by extension the general public about the advantages inherent in the implementation of the national conference reports, that putting the confab resolutions into effect, only could guarantee the overarching sustainable changes Nigerians have forever been agitating for.
A direct consequence of these post confab conferences was indeed to drive home the imperative of continuity of a government that convoked the confab and promised full implementation of the confab reports which would eventually restructure Nigeria, something that Nigerians, particularly the Yoruba nation had forever been agitating for.
For example, federalism, which the Yoruba people have always advocated formed a major aspect of the confab resolutions, the implementation of which would put the nation on a steady path of development.
Furthermore, majority of the challenges confronting Nigeria as a nation would be tackled, thus creating enabling and conducive atmosphere that would promote overall growth in the polity and address all peculiar problems inhibiting the greatness of our dear country.
This is the change we want. This is what the Yoruba people want. Is it the opposition that boycotted the national confab that would be committed to implementing what they never supported or believed in?
The bottom line was that this sustainable changes can only be achieved with the full implementation of the National Conference Report, which the President did not only promise to implement, but has started the process with the Federal Executive Council’s approval for implementation of the 2014 National Conference Report to commence in full gear.
This was why Yoruba leaders at the various summits unanimously endorsed Jonathan for a second term which in a subsequent manner, triggered off a gale of endorsements from all segments of the society in the South West.
These two developments have not only activated the panic button in the APC’s South West enclave, but has proved to be an eye opener to the fact that Nigeria would be better off with continuity of the Jonathan administration that is doing well and moving the country forward, than to accept the APC’s “Greek” offer of “Change” that would only draw us back.
For Jonathan, the ovation is getting louder, resonating across the South West, while the once reluctant cheers for him have begun to crescendo and set to translate to garnering South West majority votes for his re-election.

• Gbenga Ogunremi, a public affairs commentator, lives in Ibadan, Oyo State.[/s]

I laugh in Baruten dialect!

Thank God Jonathan/PDP knew of the fact that the SW was already locked down for APC

But to think that his 90th minute gri-gri and unending pilgrimage to Lagos( 10th time under 2months) and the poisoned chalice called CONFAB report have suddenly changed people mind towards him is the height of delusion and ogogoro-induced tomfoolery

So SWners have suddenly forgotten about all the 6years of DO-NOTHING presidency and the 6weeks fire brigade performance

So PDP believe that SWners will forgive them of crowning a Musiliu Obanikoro as a Minister again after the Ekitigate scandal

Jonathan is living in paradise of the unwise if he thinks SWners will vote for him having seen him allegedly bribing some Traditional Rulers,Pastors, Cleric and trying to corrupt and set us against each other on the basis of religion and Ethnicity


Ok Kontinu

barcanista:
[s]1. The Presidential committee rÉport BLAMED Buhari for the crises. According to them, Buhari had told his supporters on several occasions to "DEFEND" their votes, the supporters may have interpreted it. Also Buhari said nothing when the violence started until after 3 days. The record is there![/s]

[s]2. It is immaterial on who said "I will make Nigeria Ungovernable". By the way it wasn't "PDP" but a PDP Chieftain(note the difference). However, the people that took to violence were not chanting PDP-Power, but Sai Buhari...."Chanji"..."CpC" and were core Buhari fans. Again it was the same Buhari and his party that rescued perpetrators of the crime from Police custody. The record is there.[/s]

3. Azazi said the dimension of BH has taken because of some aggrieved members of PdP are into it. GEJ admitted that there are moles which everyone agrees. Read what he said. However, the 2011 violence isn't boko haram but Buhari supporters that went beserk.

4. You shouldn't lie oga. The Presidency begged Buhari to withdraw his libel suit against Abati because Abati had falsely attributed the statement of "ungovernable" to Buhari. This has nothing to do with who sponsors BH, and it doesn't negate the fact that GMB's supporters went viral killing everybody on sight.

5. Modu Sheriff has been with Buhari since 2002-2014, GMB did not call for his prosecution. Though I want him prosecuted but the DSS said he's under investigation. That has to do with BH and not 2011 violence. It was Sai Buhari group that killed people in 2011 not Sheriff. Sheriff lost his Senatorial election in 2011 to PDP but he didn't kill anybody through uprising.


Vote GEJ

It is only a child of sorrow sired by a Jezebel that will spew that cancelled part

Since you have become an all knowing political analyst and know all that trash you said

One question that every right thinking Nigerian is asking is that WHY DID NT JONA.DAFT TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORN arrest and prosecute Buhari in the face of all allegations still being peddled by charlatans like you

What shall we call this lie by the Jonathanians

praise010:
Country of militants.

Touts make more money than certificate holders.

God have mercy.

To think that there are educated youths who also join in shouting GEJ TILL 2099 despite the penury associated with their existence under PDP will make one ask if some of them have an anointing for suffering

Gani Adams please just tell us that you are hungry....we will understand

Ebi nna

SEE CROWD.....

True Nigerians including the rank and file of the Nigerian police and all other Security forces know that Buhari will protect them from those who are short-changing them

That is what Jimi Agbaje's campaign has been about all this while

It has been a litany of brigandage,arson,destruction and woes consistently unleashed on the masses he wants to govern

Bunch of accursed soul!

Atiku Abubakar just arrived at the venue

What a mammoth crowd........

paulolee:
GEJ is surely winning Lagos coz d igbo's n odas are much more dan d Yoruba's dt ar claiming dt deY owned Lagos.... if A.P.C goons n dier leaders don't face reality n share d moni lyk dier opposing counterparts ar doin, deY wud b shocked wen GEJ n JK sweep d presidential and Lagos seats coz xo many Peps shouting CHANGE and Sai baba ar simply pretenders n hustlers.... its either deY ar doin it to get noticed or look different or deY ar doin it on nairaland for d likes coz many of dem wud b at dier respective ouses dis weekend coz deY ain't dt desperate n wud NEVA and CANT stand under d harsh Lagos sun to vote and some wud simply ignore d election coz of d crowd n fear of violence..... #election can't b won on d Internet #

You charlatan......Keep mortgaging your future on the altar of little token

Okorocha is a charismatic leader and a bridge-builder

As a SWner, i will gladly champion his Presidential aspiration after Gen Buhari...........

Firstly,let me ask you OP and all the previous commenters.....HOW OLD ARE YOU

Because for y'all to be saying what you dont know just to spite a man says so much about how intellectually bereft most youths of nowadays are( apologies to those who are not)

This your attempt at historical revisionism is sheer waste of time

As much as we dont want to speak ill of Late MKO Abiola

The fact was that he was never a part of Buhari ascendancy as Head of State

The story of how Buhari was settled on as a compromise candidate to be made The Head of State have been told and re-told by the dramatis personae including Col Nyiam who said Buhari was never a part of the coup but was brought in later


Now to those who dont know,MKO Abiola was one of the major financier of the NPN infact he lend his resources and did everything possible then to ensure Pa Awolowo never became President via the rigging machinery of the NPN

Infact he wanted to contest for the Presidency in 1983 but was told by the NPN oligarchs that Nigerian Presidency is not for the highest bidder,in order not to rock the boat and safeguard his investments,he stayed in the party and financed it heavily

In order to counter the Pro UPN stance of the Tribune Newspaper,he established The Concord Newspaper which the Government of Shagari patronised heavily to dish out heavy and damaging propaganda against UPN/Awolowo

As a member of the party and financier he obviously enjoyed some concessions from the Government like Import Duty Waiver on imported Newsprint paper

It was in the bid of the Buhari regime to sanitise the corrupt system where the Rich dont pay tax or import duty on several commodities which they even enjoy near-monopolies then that made him cross path with Abiola,Dangote and few other Multi Millionaires then and the seizure of his imported newsprint items were in lieu of the money he should have paid on them as import duties but was granted a waiver by the Shagari government but which Buhari cancelled and gave him time frame to pay up or forfeit his consignment

That is how it is done even till today....if you fail to clear your goods on time and it enters demurrhage,the government will seize and auction it off

Hence the Buhari Government was battled by the corrupt cabals most of whom were Government contractors in the NPN regime


Knowing the power of media Propaganda,Abiola and few media moguls who were bitter that the 1983 Coup against Shagari was an indirect means of crippling them and shutting the tap of Government contracts they all were benefitting from began to mount propaganda in their Newspapers against the Buhari/Idiagbon regime using the cover of gross human right abuse

The fact of the whole matter was that Buhari stepped on so many powerful toes which cuts across all the regions because people were just feeding fat on the Shagari Government who was an exact replica of Jonathan today

Shagari then was President hear no evil and see no evil,he was always smiling..........in as much as the person who committed an alleged corruption offence is a member of NPN,President Shagari will not move against you

The exact replica of what happened during Shagari regime is the same thing happening under Goodluck Jonathan but in a more humongous manner

This news don tay nah

dagbokoncept:
All APC warriors on nairaland are busy shouting sai Buhari. The PDP candidate(GEJ) still have an edge over that of the APC (GMB). Buhari should not expect such huge amount of polls in 2015 election unlike the previous elections. Their Underaged voters, foreigners, cows and horses would not be able to participate in Saturday's election. I have been in Maidugiri for 5 years, the southern part of borno are dominated with Christians who will vote massively for Gej on saturday even not for anything, the agony they are living due to Bokoharm insurgency. So also Adamawa, Gombe.Gej till 2019 nothing can stop that!

Go and look at all the election result from the beginning of 1999 and come tell me if PDP has ever even won any election in Borno before

The Boko Haram issue is even an albatross on Jonathan's neck not Buhari.......The only people using Religion and Ethnicity as a campaign tool against Buhari are the bigot Igbos( not all of them)

Every sane,detribalised and clear-thinking Nigerian know that Jonathan de;liberately refused to do anything about the Boko Haram for 5 good years in order to spite the North until recently when he knew he will be facing elections

taharqa:
Punch been an official APC newspaper, what other predictions do we expect from then.

But what really got me laughing is the claim in this hacked job if an article that over a million people came to welcome Buhari in Motion Hill when he came to campaign in Oyo.

I mean, must you openly lie in other to push an agenda, APC??

Charlatan saying what he does not know

Where is Motion Hill in Ibadan

Omo Karambani....akuya!

God bless you OP

The fact of this election cycle is that APC have defied all the odds and postulations of doom by the PDP

From Genesis to revelation of the formation of APC up till now,PDP has done everything humanly possible including the ridiculous and outlandish to truncate the delivery of this baby of change yet they have met with humongous failure

Infact i was just reminiscing on the useless no-jobber individuals that PDP commissioned to claim they own the patent right to the acronym APC in order for APC not to be registered in 2014,they have fizzled out like gas

Every moves of the APC have left PDP gasping and panting for breath.......

Now the latest is the fact that they felt APC was going to be outshone and outspent within the 6 weeks extension yet APC have been very steady and rugged

The icing on the cake will be the victory of Gen Buhari which will nail the coffin of the agents of gloom and doom

doctokwus:
Sorry for d o boy part. Its just a tag of solidarity not necessary an age classification.
Indeed, d battle may go beyond next week,but once an official buhari victory is announced by INEC, nothing on did earth can undo it or thwart his being sworn in.GEJ has got so much badwill I wudnt b surprised to see even that his ADC b amongst those to arrest him if he tries any rubbish. Never have Nigerians been so determined to get rid of a regime than now.

The bolded part got me laughing so hard

To think that the ADC in question is massively built makes your description very funny

God bless you OP......


The pictures are awesome and inspiring

Change will berth in Nigeria come March 28th

SeverusSnape:
The igbos(... And most well meaning yorubas) right from time immemorial don't have that "slavish" tendencies, The Hausa/Fulani don't have monopoly for power.

If you are not a juvenile

Go and ask who was that Igbo man who called The Igbos the beautiful bride of Nigerian politics and for several years had always aligned with the Northerners

Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe was his name

Also The revvered Eze Ndi Igbo Gburu Gburu.............Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu was for several years a Member and Later Chairman Board of Trustees of All Peoples Party which later became All Nigeria Peoples Party a party which is predominantly Northern in outlook and personality


So when some of you talk,its obvious you are children born yesterday because you dont know jack about your own people's history

These PDP Charlatans think all Nigerians except the TANmites are Educated illiterates like them

The PDP led Government have been battling the Boko Haram and been at a loss as to who their sponsors and financiers are despite the fact that they claimed they know them

Now you just claimed that Buhari is getting funding via 2 Saudi Billionaires with links to ISIS,Hezbollah,ISIL and even the Devil.......

What stops PDP which have been sweating profusely and jittery about how to defeat Buhari in this coming election from just using the evidence they have since gathered so far to prosecute Buhari and disgrace him once and for all rather than come here and AIT/NTA to just cast aspersion which is only aimed at bad mouthing an election opponent but not to bring him to justice if they are sure of their allegations

emmasege:
Please delete bukola saraki from that least. That boy is unlike his father. He's too arrogant, stingy and non-Nigerian for my liking. He can't even communicate fluently in Yoruba. He's only morphologically similar with his dad but behaviorally, they are worlds apart.
I don't know what Edwin Clark is also doing on the list when Atiku is not there. OBJ is another overrated politician. He's never been a factor even in his own ward.

Can you please explain the bolded?

Are you one of the people who believe politicians must share money to the masses rather than delivering dividends of democracy which will allow you live a better life and get a fair shot at being successful rather than being spoonfed in the name of stomach infrastructure

Kestolove:
Now let's look at dix...if gej shud win...he. will hand ova back power to d people dey. Term "born to rule"....but if buhari shud win den base on dia zonin. formular..rochas will b d next president or an igbo man...so who shud d igbo's. Vote for if. Dey want to rule nigeria not biafra?

This is what the Igbos have failed to consider in APC

Has anyone noticed that most of the guys in PDP including their Governors have been drumming it in our ears that after Jonathan,power will revert back to the North.....Hence under the PDP,Igbos fate is sealed

You all can choose to be recalcitrant about these obvious truth......