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SeeWahala:
How I cope?

It's either 001, 100 or 010

But I don't know how my maker does it that 1 will always find a way to be entering 0 steady 😏

kitombo:
How can you take money from your partnership account without informing and agreeing with your partner? Very wrong!

Cousin9999:
Ah, yes. Rapping. Which requires no talent. I really want people to try harder.

dgitrader:
PremiumTimes may I ask who is bankrolling you now?

Yorubas are indeed very sophisticated.

Let the shenanigans continue

Bahamas95:
The man doesn't look like someone that has 100k in his account sef.




His senior colleagues in pulpit banditry won't have time for this nonsense, they prefer going on gospel tourism to rake in more cash.

szczescie:
I hope this solves the issue.

But I’m disappointed at the Itshekiri people with the way they handled the situation.

In a community or space where you are majority you don’t need to make noise, you don’t have to threaten people, it is normal for the small guy to shout and scream for help but you being the one in charge should have handled the issue better.

Oga historian, u have another job. Urhobos are the majority ethnic tribe in Warri South LGA, I dont know about Warri South West n North.

The new Inec Ward delineation Says so.

Go verify.

Let me burst your brain, As an avid lover of history and genealogy.
When it comes to the Niger Delta; as at today scientists have not been able to identify a difference between many closely related tribes especially those in the Niger Delta, Ijaws from Bayelsa, Edo, Delta and even Kalabari (Ijaw in rivers state dna) have similar dna and those dna are still somehow closely similar to those from Ogoni dna, Itshekiri dna and Urhobo dna have a long history of intermarriage so it is becoming difficult to even say for sure this is Urhobo and this is Itshekiri dna so usually they are lumped together as one indistinguishable group.

Maybe in future the technology and interest in African dna especially at the local tribal level may increase and things may become clearer but as at today to my own understanding tribes within the Niger Delta are more similar than they are dis similar

The igbos for example do not have one dna, they have many different DNA’s I don’t want to bore you with details so I will explain it this way the igbos in okigwe have different dna from igbos in Okija and they both have different dna from igbos in EBONYI and those once have different dna from others I was able to count over 20 different Igbo dna.

Same thing for the Yorubas they also have very different DNA from one another

You’ve probably heard them say things like “you are not pure Igbo” or “you are Ijebu ode” and they say it in a tone that either demeans or uplifts either to say you are pure or real or original or you no follow there is a reason for that

Whereas for tribes in the Niger delta it’s not the same, I say all this to say we are more alike than we are dissimilar.

So to cause a tribal war over political office or land makes no sense at all.

We will all die and go that land will still remains 1000 men have owned that land before you and a thousand more will own the land after you

So why waste your temporary 40 good years you have on earth (not counting the first 15 years when you were too young to enjoy life or understand what’s going on around you and the last 20 years when you are too old and too frail to enjoy life if you live long enough)

Why waste your life on things that you cannot truly own.

Life is for experiences not dragging land.
I say all these to say these people are your brothers and they are few amongst you what is difficult in letting them have 4 or 8 years eventually you know it will come back to you just based on your size alone instead you have to wait for presidency to come and tell you to zone the office before you agree

You shouldn’t have waited till then you should have just let them taste 4 or 8 years and then you can take it again for 16 then give them again for another 4 or 8

The way Ikwerre people are doing the Ijaw people in Rivers now they won’t even notice what’s going on.


Also why are you guys fighting for offices that guarantees you nothing.

Those offices only benefit the political class I mean the politicians at the very top not the wanna be local political jobbers who think that by azz kizzing the ones at the top they will get to the top that top is reserved for the current top politicians and their children if enough space open then they throw in their brothers or their brothers children but even that is extremely rare ask Wike he will tell you how Odili kicked out his brothers children from politics when Wike and co. Suggested they compensate Odilis brothers family with one political or judicial office since the brother just passed on Odili said no they should give it to his younger daughter instead

That’s how the girl was made a magistrate (judge of the lower court in Rivers state) that year.

So all of you thinking because someone from my tribe is in office my people will enjoy I laugh at your ignorance instead that person in most cases will personalize everything coming to that community or tribe or state

Nteogwuija:
I saw those erats on the Iya Akara thread praising Tinubu. I know I won't see them here.

Very predictable single-digit eye-q fellows.

Kukutente23:
Why do you say he didn't visit the place
This is a serious allegation

Helinuse:
Thank you ChatGPT.
Thank you very much.

plsdisvirginme:
Male.
This woman made my life miserable.
This my stature lost me so much opportunity in life

Cyberterror:
Wike and Umahi are fighting for 2031 VP behind the scene but I go for Wike. He is strong and his opponents fear him.

Drsnives:
Good day my people
So this morning I went to my farm to observe my yams because I learnt last week wind that blew did havoc.
After observing the destruction I was bitter. How to get some bamboo sticks to support the broken ones was on my mind so I said make i search the adjacent farm if I can get any.. There's this abandoned pit at the edge of my farm, as I walked passed it something got my attention, lo and behold it was a python as shown in the first pic.
Omoh no dulling as protein dea expensive God provided me with a more nutritious one. Sharply I had to do justice to it.
I quickly sent it's spirit to where it came from and collected the prize which is the flesh for proper pepersoup later in the evening.
Wished lalasticlala was still on board oo..him and snake n 5 n 6

SeeWahala:
Hehehe 🤣 😂 see naptuti dancing upandan her thread back when I was telling her she's chewing corn 🌽 see denials and vexation but today the masks and veils have fallen off 🤗 same with her sister aswani

Once her eye make mistake SeeWahala Na to run enter my profile go press her block button STRAIGHT then go dey dance shameless skelewu for her literature section echo chamber

I no blame am sha she sabi the obidients wey their bite dey pain pass 😏

naptu2:
This is my election money post.

I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2020

(Naptu2's note. I actually started writing this in the middle of the night on September 18th/early morning September 19th).



Money elections

I started writing this on Friday night/Saturday morning, but I had to leave for my adventure before I could finish it and I didn't save what I had written, so I'm giving it another go.

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I heard about this issue in 1983, 1987 and 1989, but it wasn't until 1991 that I got the opportunity to see it firsthand.

Dear diary, do you remember that I told you about a man that lived at a place called Ekiti Lodge? I told you that he was a politician and businessman in the 1950s and '60s, a judge in the 1970s and '80s and he became a politician again in the early 1990s.


He wasn't very successful in his second stint as a politician. You see, he had a reputation of being an honest and no-nonsense judge. He was the kind of person that some Nigerians would describe as being troublesome (because he didn't take any nonsense and he didn't allow people to dish any nonsense) and Nigerian politics doesn't like honest people who that are very principled. But that's not the theme of this piece.


The man contested in an election in 1991 and that gave me an opportunity to study this issue from the inside.


There are three sets of people that usually sign the result sheet after an election and these three set of people are usually given original duplicate copies of the result. The three set of people are (1) the returning officer, (2) the party agents (3) representative of the police.


Police

Usually the duplicate copy is given to a representative of the divisional police officer (DPO) if the election/collation is at the ward level, a representative of the area commander if the election/collation is at the local government level, a representative of the commissioner of police if the election is at the state level and a representative of the inspector general of police if it is a presidential election result.

(Now I'm going to deviate from what I planned to post on Saturday because I've realised that this is an opportunity to post something that I've wanted to post since January. So here is one of my abandoned posts).

It was this fact that gave governor Hope Uzodinma victory at the Supreme Court.


INEC had conducted the Imo State governorship elections in 2019. The results that INEC declared (at the end of the process) showed that Emeka Ihedioha had won the election, Uche Nwosu came second, Ifeanyi Ararume came third and Hope Uzodinma came fourth. Many of the contestants were not happy with the results and they headed for the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge it.


Hope Uzodinma of the APC alleged that INEC did not include results from 388 polling units in areas where he had a strong support base and he claimed that he would have won the election if those results were added.

INEC claimed that elections in those polling units were marred by violence, ballot snatching and other irregularities. It claimed that it cancelled the votes in those polling units because of the irregularities.

However, the APC stated that INEC had no authority to cancel votes from those polling units because it is only the courts that can annull the votes. It stated that cancelling the votes amounted to disenfranchising voters that voted at those polling units.

INEC stated that it had no results from those polling units.

The APC then got its polling agents to testify and they tendered their copies of the results, but the PDP poked holes in their stories during cross examination. For example, the PDP showed that some of the results sheets did not have the signatures of all of the party agents that were present during the election.

Then the APC subpoened the Imo State deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations (DCompolOps), Rabiu Hassaini, to bring the police's copy of the results and testify at the tribunal. DCompolOps are usually in charge of election security at the state level, while DIGPol Ops is usually in charge of election security at the federal (presidential and National Assembly elections) level.

Rabiu Hassaini arrived at the tribunal with large bags filled with the police's copy of the results from the 388 polling units and he testified in support of those results.


However the PDP objected to Hassaini's testimony on two grounds.

1) The PDP stated that Hassaini did not provide evidence to show that he had the Inspector General's permission to testify.

2) The PDP also alleged that the results that were presented by Hassaini were forged.

The tribunal accepted the PDP's objection and excluded the results that were presented by Hassaini. Therefore, it declared that Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP was the winner of the election. The APC appealed the decision of the tribunal.


The Appeal Court upheld the decision of the tribunal. However, one of the judges gave a dissenting opinion. He wrote that the subpoena to Hassaini was routed through the office of the Inspector General of Police and that meant that the IGP was aware and gave his approval for Hassaini to testify, otherwise he won't have appeared at the tribunal. He further wrote that the PDP did not provide any evidence to show that the results that were tendered by Hassaini were forged.


The APC appealed the decision of the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court unanimously alligned itself with the dissenting judgement from the Appeal Court. The Supreme Court ruled that Hassaini had the permission of the IGP to testify and that the PDP did not prove that the results that were tendered by Hassaini were forged. Remember that by law, Hassaini, who was the representative of the Imo State commissioner of police, was entitled to an original duplicate copy of the result.

The Supreme Court therefore ruled that INEC unlawfully excluded the results from 388 polling units and when those results were added the total enabled Hope Uzodinma to leapfrog from the fourth position to the first position. And that's how Hope Uzodinma became governor of Imo State.

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But that's not the main theme of this post. The main theme of this post is the party agents and the huge amount of money that is required to mobilise them on election day.




As you've seen in the previous section, it's very important that you have agents at all the polling units and collation centers. The polling agent serves the following purposes:

1) He enables the candidate to know the actual result of the election.


2) He enables the candidate to know if there has been any electoral  malpractice at the polling unit or collation center and he also enables the candidate to gather evidence of such malpractice. This evidence will be very useful at the tribunal.


3) He enables the party and candidate to know if the electoral umpire has made a genuine mistake and he also ensures that the mistake is corrected. This evidence will be


4) Basically, the party agent protects the interest of the party and the candidate at the polling units and collation centers.





So, as you can see, the party agent is very important. The candidate/party must have an agent at every polling unit and every collation center so that there'll be someone to protect his interest at all these places. Now imagine if it is a presidential election!

There are 119,973 polling units in Nigeria and 57,000 other polling centers. This makes a total of 176,973 places where voting is conducted. That's not including the collation centers!

These are the possible collation centers.


1. Registration Area (RA)/Ward Level

2. Local Government Area (LGA) Level

3. State Assembly Constituency Level

4. Federal (House of Representatives) Constituency Level

5. Senatorial District Level

6. State Level

7. Collation and Declaration of Presidential Election Result at the National Level.

According to INEC. . .




So you need to have your party agents at these collation centers in addition to the polling centers. Nowadays, with the advent of information communication technology, particularly the Internet and mobile phones, political parties and candidates also set up situation rooms where they'll receive reports from their agents in the field in real time. They also have analysts in these situation rooms who can analyse the data that's gotten from the agents and advise the candidate accordingly.




The staff at the situation rooms during a governorship election are usually from out of state. This because they need to monitor the situation right from the release of sensitive materials in the early hours of election day until the final result is released and this means that they need to be at the situation room for two or three days straight. Meanwhile the candidate needs every vote that he can get, so he wouldn't want potential voters locked up in the situation room.






All of these people must be mobilised and the equipment in the situation room must be procured


Elections usually begin early in the morning and continue till around 10 or 12 o'clock when counting begins. Sometimes the elections are extended due to late arrival of materials and the party agent might be at the polling unit till 3pm. These polling agents must eat breakfast and lunch while they are performing their duties.

Collation of the results might start in the afternoon of election day and continue all night and into the next day. The party agents at the collation centers must eat lunch, dinner and breakfast while performing their duties.

Furthermore, nowadays, these agents need mobile phone airtime in order to relay reports to their situation rooms and they also need to be able to transport themselves to their duty posts and to be able to monitor the movement of results from the polling units to the collation centers.

All of these cost money.




That takes me back to the stories from 1987, 1989 and 1991 (and even from the early 2000s). There were stories of political parties and candidates bringing food to polling units and feeding everybody there, including their opponent's agents. There were also stories of parties and candidates inducing their opponent's agents to switch allegiances. Can you imagine a situation in which an agent appears at the tribunal to testify against his own candidate?

Party agents usually refuse to sign the result sheet if they believe that the election was compromised, but can you imagine a situation in which a party agent not only signs the result sheet, but he also testifies that the election was free and fair, despite the fact that it was rigged against his candidate?




This is why political parties and candidates do all they can to select their most loyal followers to act as polling agents and they also spend a lot of money to ensure that the agents are happy and fully mobilised on election day.

TheWebbers:
Whats so special about this Alvarez. He is good but not worth all the hype.

Will pick Osimhen over him x20

Lanruze:
Lerè Olayinka is very active on Nairaland so he will read this piece.

I have known Lere Olayinka for more than 10 years. I knew him when he was holding same position for former Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose In Ekiti-State.

During his tenor as SSA Media & Publicity for Fayose he was very controversial and move from one negative media issue to another. Lerè was arrested by EFCC for stealing Public money also.

Lerè Olayinka must be prosecuted and properly arrested. He enjoys no immunity of any sort.

This screenscot of Emeka Ike's backend CVR details shared brazenly by Lerè is an affront on over 90million+ registered voters and a national security private breach.

This is a purely criminal offence. Have you wondered why APC has not lost any elections since year 2023 ? Including the FCT L.G Elections?

Lerè should be disengaged and detained ASAP. Nigerian Voters can't be taken for granted again.

koxyz:
Amaechi remains there best bet, if they know what they are doing.

AMINDA:
Forget the optics, Tinubu betrayed and sidelined Ganduje but he can't decamp due to fear of the unknown from EFCC and the likes. Ganduje will at best be passive in 2027. Even Jibrin Barau have gone quiet.

enemyofprogress:
How did these men become so rich in less than three years of serving as Inspector General of Police?

Two former Inspectors General of Police under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Usman Alkali Baba and Abubakar Mohammed Adamu, both contested for governorship tickets under APC in Yobe and Nasarawa States.
Both men bought APC nomination and expression of interest forms reportedly worth about ₦50 million each.

These were public servants. Police officers who spent most of their careers in government service. Yet immediately after leaving office, they suddenly became wealthy enough to spend ₦50 million on forms alone, not including campaigns, consultations, logistics, delegates, and elections that could easily cost over ₦500 million or more if they had won the primaries. And Nigerians are expected not to ask questions?

Abubakar Adamu served as IGP from 2019–2021. Usman Alkali Baba served from 2021–2023.

In less than three years in office, they became powerful political figures with enormous financial strength. Meanwhile, millions of Nigerians became poorer during the same period. Inflation exploded, insecurity increased, businesses collapsed, and the economy suffered heavily.

This is why many Nigerians keep asking: What really happened during the Buhari years? How did public service suddenly become a gateway to massive wealth? Why are retired security chiefs immediately turning into heavyweight politicians?

The painful part is that ordinary Nigerians struggle daily to survive, while many former public officials move from government office straight into politics with unbelievable financial capacity.

Nigeria cannot truly recover from what Buhari, Tinubu and APC did to this country until citizens begin asking hard questions without fear or tribal sentiments.

Some truths are uncomfortable, but silence has cost this country too much. How did these men become so rich in less than 3 years of serving as Inspector General of Police?

Ndubuisi Nicholas Ifedoro ✍🏻


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