All Progressives Congress, APC, on Saturday accused First Lady Patience Jonathan of being behind massive rigging and violence during yesterday’s presidential election in the state.
Below is a statement released by the APC.
Saturday, 28 March 2015
APC accused The first lady of being behind Voilence in River state
All Progressives Congress, APC, on Saturday accused First Lady Patience Jonathan of being behind massive rigging and violence during yesterday’s presidential election in the state.
Below is a statement released by the APC.
Police kill youth for sighting election result sheet.
A youth was on Saturday reportedly shot dead by a mobile police man at Ibiam street, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital for insisting on sighting the result sheets for the presidential and national assembly elections
INEC to hold fresh election in 300 polling units
Following the failure of the card reader in some polling units across the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that elections will take place in 300 polling stations across the federation.
‘PDP shared money at my polling unit’-AMBODE
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, says President Goodluck Jonathan was able to get 71 votes at his (Ambode’s)
INEC must monitor Sunday election closely’
A former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission must monitor the election closely as it goes into the second day of voting.
Suspected PDP thugs snatch ballot boxes
Hoodlums believed to be agents of the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday snatched ballot boxes at Nungudoe Itak, Ikono, in the Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
DPO accused of snatching ballot boxes in Niger
An eyewitness, Mr. Ibrahim Rege, said the accreditation of voters was peacefully conducted and that voting was in progress when the DPO invaded the polling unit, fired tear gas canisters at the crowd and allegedly took the ballot boxes and papers away.
Peaceful election in kogi.
Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly election was largely peaceful in Ankpa, Ijumu, Kabba-Ibunu and Ogori-Magongo Local Government areas of Kogi State although the voters were disappointed by the late arrival of the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Thugs steal ballot papers /Nigeria soldiers disperse voters in Nasarawa
Pandemonium broke out at a polling unit by Sharp Corner in Mararaba, Nasarawa State on Saturday as some hoodlums snatched ballot papers meant for the over 3,000 eligible voters who were waiting to perform their civic duty after accreditation.
Jonathan’s aide escapes lynching in Kano
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on School Agriculture, Dr. Baraka Sani, on Saturday in Kano escaped death from the hands of suspected political thugs, who prevented her from voting.
Voting continues to night in Jos
Voting was still going on in most of the polling units in Jos, the Plateau State capital as at 8 pm due to last arrival of election materials.
In some instances where the materials arrived as late as 3 pm, the voters and the electoral officers decided to accredit and vote at the same time.
Maku rejects card readers
The governorship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance in Nasarawa State, Labaran Maku, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to discard the card
Hoodlums attack ballot boxes
Several cases of election violence were recorded in Ebonyi State on Saturday, as hoodlums shot and snatched ballot boxes in some polling booths across state.
At the polling booth in Nwakpu Market Square, Ikwo Local Government Area, an unidentified man emerged from the bush and shot several times into the air.
Gov candidate, stakeholders want March 28 elections cancelled
The Labour Party governorship candidate in Ebonyi State, Edward Nkwegu, has called for a cancellation of Saturday’s election in Ebonyi State, saying that many eligible voters were disenfranchised during the exercise.
Nkwegu lamented that the number of those accredited by the card readers were lesser than those not accepted by the machines.
“The most disturbing part is that only five incident forms were provided in the polling booth where I voted, while about 200 persons failed the accreditation by the card reader. So how are the rest of the people going to fill the forms?
“It would be proper if the elections were cancelled in areas where there were very severe cases of disenfranchised voters,” he said.
The Ebonyi LP governorship candidate expressed worry that the election may witness a large number of disenfranchised voters in other parts of the country.
Nkwegu, however, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to go ahead with the card readers but to work “assiduously” to ensure that the challenges were solved before April 11 governorship elections.
Meanwhile, political stakeholders in the state have alleged sabotage by the INEC in the distribution of election materials.
Commissioner of Education in the state, Chief Ndubisi Chibueze-Agbo, said that the INEC officials were supposed to arrive in Ohaukwu Local Government Area (Ebonyi North) zone by Friday evening, but they failed to do so.
“The electoral materials had not arrived my polling unit for instance, as at 10.am (Saturday) and the INEC officials brought a ‘GP tank’ on Friday instead of personnel and materials,” he said.
Chibueze-Agbo said he was suspecting sabotage from INEC. He said, “The main intention was to disenfranchise Ohaukwu people.”
Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi North zone, Chief Peter Oge-Ali, noted that voting materials brought to the area were mixed.
“Voting and result sheets were taken to areas they were not meant to be, and this is a serious sabotage from INEC,” Oge-Ali said.
The All Progressive Grand Alliance governorship candidate in Ebonyi State, Senator Anthony Agbo, said that he was ready to take the matter to court.
Ohuabunwa decries card reader failure
The Peoples Democratic Party senatorial candidate for Abia North district, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa has decried the high rate of card reader failure in his Arochukwu Local Government Area.
Ohuabunwa who spoke with our correspondent after he was accredited said something urgent needed to be done to address “the heavy failure” of card readers
Voters abandon Jonathan, Buhari
After a close monitoring of the elections in three senatorial zones of Ebonyi State on Saturday, our correspondent observed that the voters, especially in Ebonyi North and Ebonyi Central senatorial zones, hardly cast their votes for any of the presidential candidates.
Late arrival of ballot papers mars poll
Late arrival of materials and slow accreditation marred voting in parts of Abia State on Saturday.
While voting went on smoothly in some parts of the state, in other places, voters were subjected to long waiting after accreditation as ballot papers were not available.
Ngige refuses to vote, says process faulty
Senator Chris Ngige representing Anambra Central Senatorial District refused to vote on Saturday, claiming that the electoral process had been compromised.
Ngige, who is contesting for a re-election in the Senate, said he chose to waive his right to vote in the on-going elections when our correspondent met him at Alor ward 1, in his home town.
According to him, the poor working conditions of the card readers and the eventual usage of the manual system would lead to manipulations and other fraudulent electoral practices.
“When I came here, they just wrote my name in a piece of paper with some other names. My fingers were not marked with accreditation ink also. I complained to the INEC officials and they told me they were directed not to do so,” Ngige lamented, saying he was not going to be a part of a faulty election.
Majority of the card readers deployed by INEC did not work for hours into the election.
He said the elections should have been postponed after INEC realised that majority of the card readers were not working.
In a bid to check a possible crisis situation in the state, INEC directed all polling stations to revert to the manual process.
However, many candidates expressed worries when some polling stations later stopped the manual accreditation, citing orders from undisclosed authorities.
Ngige said INEC, by the rules, was supposed to have back-up card readers in the event of one failing. According to him, continual failure of card readers should justify a shift of the elections by the electoral body.
He said even President Goodluck Jonathan’s accreditation, which was done manually, should be disqualified by INEC.
The national chairman, All Progressive Grand Alliance and contestant for Anambra Central Senatorial zone, Chief Victor Umeh, said INEC messed up the electoral process by providing non-functional card readers.
He said, “As a result of this, voting was delayed for over five hours in most parts of the state.”
Card reader rejects Ekweremadu, wife
The card reader failed to accredit several registered voters in Enugu, including the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife.
Ekweremadu and his wife were among many prospective voters who were rejected by the card reader at a polling unit in Amachara Mpu Ward 010.
Nigeria Decides between GET and GMB
Saturday's election, delayed for six weeks while security forces attempted to subdue the armed group Boko Haram in the country's northeast, will be the fifth since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
With dusk approaching on Friday in Kano, the biggest city in the country's north, which has been hit by Boko Haram attacks, people waited patiently at ATMs as they prepared for a lockdown during voting.
Inec have been forced to go manually
card readersThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nigeria has adjusted the guidelines for the elections to address some of the challenges being faced during the accreditation process across the country.
The chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee of the commission, Dr. Chris Iyimoga, told reporters that “where card readers fail to work, presiding officers can accredit voters by marking the voter register”.
He also said arrangements will be made for voting to take place tomorrow in polling units where accreditation was suspended.
In some polling units across the country, card readers failed to read the finger prints of voters, causing delay in the process that is supposed to last for at most five hours.
In Otuoke, the home town of Nigeria’s President and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan, the card reader failed to authenticate the finger print of the President and his wife.
President Jonathan was made to fill the ‘Incidence Form’ before he was accredited manually by the ad-hoc staff of the electoral commission.
After waiting trying for over one hour, President Jonathan urged Nigerians to be patient with the INEC, saying everything that is being used for the first time will always have challenges.
Get assuring Nigerians... No test running of the materials aftermath delivery from the suppliers... Lol
GMB arrives polling booth
Welcome to Spruzay's blog: Nigeria Decides: All the news, updates and incoming results (Live Blog)
Welcome to Spruzay's blog: Nigeria Decides: All the news, updates and incoming results (Live Blog)
Nigerians vote amid unassurable security
Kano, Nigeria – Nigerians will vote in what is expected to be one of the country's tightest presidential races ever on Saturday, with a festering insurgency and rampant corruption high on the agenda.
The election, delayed for six weeks while security forces attempted to subdue the armed group Boko Haram in the country's northeast, will be the fifth since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
With dusk approaching on Friday in Kano, the biggest city in the country's north, which has been hit by Boko Haram attacks, people waited patiently at ATMs as they prepared for a lockdown during voting.
Explainer: Nigeria elections in one minute
Analysts are calling the poll a pivotal event for the young democracy. President Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has ruled virtually unopposed for 16 years.
On Saturday, he could lose to former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, who has contested three previous elections but never come close to winning.
Nigerians vote amid unassurable security
Kano, Nigeria – Nigerians will vote in what is expected to be one of the country's tightest presidential races ever on Saturday, with a festering insurgency and rampant corruption high on the agenda.
The election, delayed for six weeks while security forces attempted to subdue the armed group Boko Haram in the country's northeast, will be the fifth since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
With dusk approaching on Friday in Kano, the biggest city in the country's north, which has been hit by Boko Haram attacks, people waited patiently at ATMs as they prepared for a lockdown during voting.
Explainer: Nigeria elections in one minute
Analysts are calling the poll a pivotal event for the young democracy. President Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has ruled virtually unopposed for 16 years.
On Saturday, he could lose to former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, who has contested three previous elections but never come close to winning.
Nigeria Decides: All the news, updates and incoming results (Live Blog)
Expect results of presidential election within 48 hours – Jega
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will announce the result of the elections within 48 hours after voting.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega who revealed this Friday, during a joint press briefing with the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi said
Friday, 27 March 2015
#Nigeria decides
In all countries of the world, elections are characteristically preceded by a strong desire in the citizenry to know who would eventually carry the ballot. All the posturing, politicking, electioneering campaigns and last minutes actions of government can only heighten the inquisitiveness of the electorate and other stakeholders.
#Nigeria Decides: Court adjourns disqualification suit against Osinbajo
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, Friday, adjourned hearing in a suit seeking to disqualify the Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Yemi Osinbajo, from the Nigerian 2015 presidential election.
GMB last address before the election
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I want to take this last opportunity, before we go to the polls on Saturday March 28 and April 11 respectively, to thank everyone who has supported our campaigns. I am humbled and grateful to have had the opportunity to meet so many of my fellow Nigerians who have helped to carry the message of change across our great country.
This is the fourth time that I would be standing for election as the President of Nigeria. All these years, I have been driven by a keen awareness of the potential greatness of our country and the desire to provide the true leadership that will unleash this huge potential. I believe that a stable and prosperous Nigeria is not only important to Nigerians. It is also important to Africa and the rest of the world. The evidence of this is the unprecedented attention that our country will receive this weekend. On Saturday, the whole world would wait with baited breath for the greatest black nation on earth to take charge of its destiny. We must therefore not miss the significance of this moment. We must not let ourselves and our country down.
At no other time in our history is Nigeria in such an urgent need of strong and competent leadership. Sadly, at no other time is this leadership so sorely absent in our country. We live in a time of great opportunities and great peril. It is only a leader that understands these in equal measure that can find the rightful place for Nigeria among the great Nations of the world.
I have travelled extensively around Nigeria in the last three months. In the course of my travels, I encountered directly, what I have always believed: that a Hausa man’s desire for security is not different from the Ijaw woman’s desire to feel secured in any part of our country. An Igbo woman’s desire for her children to get quality education and find employment is not different from the Yoruba man’s dream for his children to become a useful member of our society. A wife’s desperate need for affordable and quality healthcare for her husband diagnosed with prostate cancer in Enugu is not different from a husband’s desire to save the life of his wife diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Lagos. Invariably, our fears are the same; our dreams are the same; and our problems are the same. Regardless of the language we speak, or the way we understand and worship God, what affects anyone of us, affects everyone of us.
Our economy is celebrated as the largest in Africa, yet our country is home to the continent’s highest number of people living in extreme poverty. Our youth population is larger than the combined population of many of our neighbors, yet our failure to plan and create opportunities for them is turning them to a social time bomb rather than economic catalysts. A band of ragtag terrorist group has threatened our territorial integrity, killed thousands of Nigerians, displaced our people and abducted our children. The almost 60, 000 Nigerians who have become refugees in neighboring countries represent a budding threat to sub-regional stability.
However, even in the face of these daunting challenges, I see a great opportunity for change. We have to start by rebuilding the trust and confidence of Nigerians in their government. No citizen will respect a government under whose watch more than 200 girls were abducted. This singular act can only portray the government as insensitive, incompetent or both. When I become president, reuniting these children with their families will, without doubts, be a top priority. Rebuilding the army and other security agencies will also be a top priority of my government. I will ensure that never again will terrorists find a safe haven in Nigeria.
Recent fall in international price of crude leaves us badly exposed and vulnerable. Dwindling oil revenue also means that we are going to face serious financial challenges in the months ahead. However, even as daunting as this appears, it also provides us with great opportunity to diversify our economy a
I want to take this last opportunity, before we go to the polls on Saturday March 28 and April 11 respectively, to thank everyone who has supported our campaigns. I am humbled and grateful to have had the opportunity to meet so many of my fellow Nigerians who have helped to carry the message of change across our great country.
This is the fourth time that I would be standing for election as the President of Nigeria. All these years, I have been driven by a keen awareness of the potential greatness of our country and the desire to provide the true leadership that will unleash this huge potential.
Omawumi, Tomi Odunsi dazzle in The Music
Award-winning artsite, Omawumi, Tomi Odunsi and Beverly Naya are the lead cast in a new movie titled In The Music.
The musical drama will premiere at the Genesis Cinema, Lekki, Lagos, on Friday (today). The trailer affords viewers a foretaste of Chibuzor Afurobi’s directorial effort for the script written by Chidi Udensi and Oluchi Afurobi.
According to the producers, the movie tells the story of two sisters
Davido And Dr Frabz Reunite In The Studio
Davido and Frabz recently hooked up in Texas where the producer quickly helped the artiste lace a new beat that will be featured on his widely expected sophomore album which might be dropping in April when he will be getting his degree from his school. See the photos below..
Apc drags obanikoro, Fayose and others to ICC
The All Progressives Congress has asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to investigate President Goodluck Jonathan and eight others as regards an audio file which allegedly captured some Peoples Democratic Party’s leaders giving orders to a military officer on how to rig the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State in their favour
[Full text] Jonathan’s broadcast message on the general elections
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR ON THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS,FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015
Dear Compatriots,
As we prepare to go to the polls tomorrow, I have come before you this morning to express my immense appreciation for the opportunity you gave me to lead this great nation of ours in the past four years.
I also wish to place on record, once again, my sincere gratitude for the support you have given my administration without which the significant progress we have made in recent years would not have been possible.
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Adebanjo gamble
I read the interview of Chief Ayo Adebanjo published in The PUNCH edition of Friday, March 20, 2015 on why he will not forgive Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) because of the latter’s persecution of the Unity Party of Nigeria leaders as military head of state. While one must concede the Chief’s right to hold his view, the public is entitled to its own reaction to such views on a matter of public interest.
M kido aka French boi had an excusive interview on Unilorin fm.
The fast rising upcoming Nigerian artist had an exclusive interview on Unilorin Fm....the artist which can rap in 4 different languages.....German,french,English,Yoruba...he is in 200 level french department of unilorin..he is looking forward to release the cover of Reekado banks -Katapot
why i am being attacked over card readers
Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor
Attahiru Jega, Wednesday, said he has no regrets for insisting on
deploying Smart Card Reader machines for the conduct of the general
election, saying he knew that the decision would attract unwarranted
attacks on his integrity as a person.i know i will win the presidential election-BUHARI
The Apc presidential candidate stated this at the seventh tinubu colloquium to mark the Lagos state governor 63rd birthday.
he expressed his
appreciation to party leaders and members, saying: “I’m
confident of victory.”He said though the process was awash with money, he was going into Saturday’s election with hope, “because if I could win the primaries without spending money, I will certainly win on Saturday”.
Davido sets to release his album
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The much awaited Election Results From OAU’s Faculty of Law
Below are results from the elections within the Faculty of Law of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) sent in earlier today:
President Void – 21
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