Man 50, arrested for sleeping with 14 year-old daughter... 'devil used me' he pleads

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'><a href="http://ift.tt/1y7Xtpv" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ift.tt/1y7Xtpv"/> </a> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />50-year-old Isiaka Alade was led by a teeming crowd, right from the uncompleted building which serves as home for him and his 14 year-old daughter , Sadia, in Ayobo area of Lagos state, to the palace of the traditional ruler of the area, last Tuesday.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />From the palace, he was handed over to policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department , SCID Panti, over allegation that he had been sleeping with his 14 year-old daughter.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />It was gathered that the scary looking man had allegedly been sleeping with his only surviving child, for two years. Sadia, as gathered, was about the 12th and only surviving child of Alade. Her father was said to have married his first wife who had several still births before she died. Sadia’s mother was Alade’s second wife , a union that reportedly produced only Sadia, before both parted ways over what was described as irreconcilable differences eight years ago.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Sadia, a Junior Secondary School 1 student, reportedly left her mother in the village in Osun state , at the age of eight, to join his father in Lagos, with a view to having access to better education.<br/><br /><br/><br />The bubble burst after neigbours reportedly caught her father pants down with her , one afternoon, shortly after she returned back from school.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />However, in this interview with newsmen, Alade, who caught a frightening picture with the loss of one of his incisors teeth, stated emphatically that he was not the one that deflowered his daughter. On a second thought, he stated that he never penetrated into her.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Asked why he chose to unleash his sexual urge on his biological daughter, the Osun state born suspect gave a blank stare at this reporter, as if lost in thought. After a long wait for his response, he burst into tears, saying : “ This thing is not ordinary. I believe I was hypnotised. Or how else can I explain this, when there are commercial sex workers around?”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Asked what attracted him to his daughter, he responded with a dint of exhilaration : “ She usually striped before me any time she finished taking her bath. It all started after we were chased out from our former place at Idimu, following the demise of our landlord. I moved to Oluwanishola area of Ayobo, where I stayed in an uncompleted building with my daughter. We laid cartoons on the bare floor which served as bedspread.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />I noticed that Sadia, had changed completely from being the good girl she was when she came in 2008. She started behaving like a demon- possessed person. For instance if she was sent on errand, she would waste so much time . She also stopped doing the house chores.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />I later discovered that things were no longer moving on well for me since she came. I started contemplating sending her back to her mother. But my constraint was cash. In order to raise money for that purpose, I decided to gather sand from the area to sell”…<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />At this point, this reporter interrupted him and urged him to state his alleged involvement in the sex scandal with his daughter.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>I initiated the move</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Bowing his head to the ground, apparently out of shame, Alade narrated how the abominable act started : “ It all started one night while we were sleeping on the cartoon we used as bed. I did not know what came over me but I found myself drawing my daughter close and she did not bulge. That night, there was no penetration. I only held her close until I messed up myself. It continued that way for some time.'<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />I am not the one that deflowered her because I never saw blood after having carnal knowledge of her and she did not even cry to indicate it was painful.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Seeks help from Pastor</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“ But towards the end of 2014, I discovered I was going insane with the act and decided to approach my Pastor at the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, around my area, where deliverance was conducted. Infact, my pastor even suggested I took my daughter back to her mother. When I told him my constraint was cash, he said he would assist me with N5,000 . I spent four days in church before I returned home ,with the resolve to sell the sand I had gathered and add it to the money my pastor promised me to take my daughter to her mother”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />But that was never to be, as immediately he returned home from church on January 4, 2015, the traditional ruler of the area had left a message for him to report at his palace. It gathered that the palace’s messengers and some curious residents stormed Alade’s abode as early as 5am on Tuesday, to usher him to the palace.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>The devil used me</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Begging passionately to be forgiven , Alade said: “ I did not do it out of starvation . It was the devil’s handiwork. In fact this is a thing that has been concluded in the spiritual realm. It was done by someone from the dark world to destroy my image. I am indeed very sorry”, he stated in tears, with his eyes blinking repeatedly .<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>My father has been sleeping with me since I was 12</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />On her part, Sadia who is currently at the Juvenile Welfare Centre , Alakara, disclosed to the teeming crowd at the palace that her father had been having carnal knowledge of her since she was 12 years.<br/><br /><br/><br />Apparently disturbed the reoccurring act, the JSS 1 student was sais to have confided in a friend who in turn told his mother. The mother of Sadia’s confidant was said to have kept watch on Alade , before he was allegedly caught red handed.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />At the palace, Sadia was requested to state her own side when her father denied the allegation. She simply stated that : “ My father has been sleeping with me since. Infact, I was 12 years old when he started the act and that was the reason why I became hardened and disobedient to him. The last time he had his way was when I was preparing to go to school”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

Man 50, arrested for sleeping with 14 year-old daughter... 'devil used me' he pleads

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You can’t divide Bayelsa, like you did Rivers, youths warn Patience Jonathan

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><span style='font-family: inherit;'><br/> </span><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>A group of concerned youths in Bayelsa State under the auspices of Bayelsa Youth Vanguard has threatened to disrupt the re-election rally of President Goodluck Jonathan slated for 5 February in Yenagoa, the state capital, if the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan attended.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The organisation therefore warned her not to accompany her husband for the presidential campaign. Bayelsa is the home state of President Jonathan, adding that, they will not allow her divide the state like she did Rivers state.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The warning, the group said, was sequel to what it described as attempts by the First Lady to destabilise and fuel needless crisis and political tension in the state.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The spokesperson of BYV, Precious Ebi Johnson, in a statement on Wednesday said the the First Lady would not be allowed to come to the state “unless she retraced her steps or otherwise we will mobilise against the president’s rally.”</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“We are constrained to issue this statement bearing this important warning to bar the First Lady from accompanying President Goodluck Jonathan to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, for the presidential rally on 5th of February,” the statement read in part.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“Our action is well informed by the various steps and activities of the First Lady in recent times which portend clear danger for the good health of our dear state.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“We note with regret the various attempts by the First Lady to create crisis in the state through subterfuge or using surrogates.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“As things are, we want to make it very clear to her that she has to change this attitude or we go against her coming to Yenagoa with the president for the presidential campaign. Indeed, we may be forced to mobilise against the entire rally.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“For the avoidance of doubt, we want to state clearly that we love our dear president. President Goodluck Jonathan is our own even when we have to add that we have not really benefited from his administration as expected.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“We dare say the president should not come to Bayelsa with his wife if she continues to fuel crisis and destabilising the state for no just reason except for selfish reasons.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“This is not Rivers state and we won’t allow it to happen. The youths of Bayelsa will not allow her to step her foot into Bayelsa soil unless she retraced her steps.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“We want to further state that we are not sponsored by anybody but certainly cannot just stand by and allow our peaceful state to be dragged to the mud as she did in Rivers State.<br/><br /><br/><br />We are no fools.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“The First Lady cannot come to our state to dictate for us who to support and vote for. We are matured enough to know what is good for us. Nobody should come and bribe our poor mothers and women with expired bags of rice and little change in the name of politics to mislead our people,” the group said</span><span style='font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;'>.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

You can’t divide Bayelsa, like you did Rivers, youths warn Patience Jonathan

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Boko Haram ‘killed woman in labour’ – Amnesty

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><span style='font-family: inherit;'><br/> </span> <span style='font-family: inherit;'><br/> </span><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Boko Haram fighters killed a woman as she was in labour during what is feared could be the deadliest attack in the militants’ six-year insurgency, Amnesty International claimed on Thursday.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The human rights group said one witness to the assault on Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria, told them the woman was shot by indiscriminate fire that also cut down small children.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“Half of the baby boy (was) out and she died like this,” the unnamed witness was quoted as saying.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Amnesty said this week that hundreds of people, if not more, may have been killed in the attack, which began on January 3 and is thought to have targeted civilian vigilantes helping the military.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“They killed so many people. I saw maybe around 100 killed at that time in Baga. I ran to the bush. As we were running, they were shooting and killing,” a man in his fifties was quoted as saying.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Another woman added: “I don’t know how many but there were bodies everywhere we looked.”</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The testimony chimes with claims from local officials that huge numbers were killed and that of witnesses spoken to by AFP, who described seeing decomposing bodies littering the streets.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>One man who escaped from Baga after hiding for three days said he was “stepping on bodies” for five kilometres (three miles) as he fled through the bush.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Nigeria’s military, which often downplays death tolls, said this week that 150 people died, dismissing as “sensational” claims that 2,000 may have lost their lives.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Security analysts have said that it may be impossible to know exactly how many were killed, with the town and surrounding area still in rebel control and access impossible.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>– Satellite images –</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Amnesty on Thursday also published satellite images of Baga and Doron Baga, 2.5 kilometres away, which it said showed the scale of the attack.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Aerial shots of the two towns — which have been hit previously by fighting — were shown the day before the Islamists moved in and four days later, after they had razed homes and businesses.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“These detailed images show devastation of catastrophic proportions in two towns, one of which was almost wiped off the map in the space of four days,” said the group’s Nigeria researcher, Daniel Eyre.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>More than 3,700 structures were damaged or completely destroyed — 620 in Baga and more than 3,100 in Doron Baga, Amnesty said but added that the number could be higher.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Local officials have said Baga and at least 16 surrounding settlements were burnt to the ground and at least 20,000 people fled.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday that its team in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, was providing assistance to 5,000 survivors of the attack.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The UN refugee agency has said that more than 11,300 Nigerian refugees have fled into neighbouring Chad.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Eyre said the eye-witnesses and images reinforced the view that the attack was Boko Haram’s “largest and most destructive” in its fight to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The statement added: “The deliberate killing of civilians and destruction of their property by Boko Haram are war crimes and crimes against humanity and must be duly investigated.”</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Some 300 women were said to have been rounded up and detained at a school, witnesses told Amnesty, adding that older women, mothers and children were released after four days but younger women kept.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The Baga attack came before presidential and parliamentary elections in Nigeria next month and an upsurge in violence apparently designed to undermine the legitimacy of the vote.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>On Saturday, 19 people were killed when explosives strapped to a young girl said to be as young as 10 detonated at a crowded market in Maiduguri.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Four people were also killed when two female suicide bombers hit another market in the commercial capital of neighbouring Yobe State, Potiskum, on Sunday.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

Boko Haram ‘killed woman in labour’ – Amnesty

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2015: Jonathan, Buhari, APC leaders sign peace deal

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><span style='font-family: inherit;'><br/> </span> <span style='font-family: inherit;'><br/> </span><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday signed the Abuja Accord, a document in which all presidential candidates for the 2015 election pledged to shun words that could incite violence before, during and after the elections.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Jonathan signed the document alongside Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and 10 other presidential candidates vying for Nigeria’s number one seat.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Some of the presidential candidates in attendance were Alhaji Gani Galadima of Congress Party of Nigeria, Mr Tunde Anifowose-Kelani of Action Alliance and Mr Rafiu Salau of Alliance for Democracy.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>Others were Chief Ralph Nwosu of African Democratic Congress, Chief Sam Eke of Citizens Popular Party, Prof. Oluremi Sonaiya of Kowa Party and Chief Chekwas Okorie of Unity Progressive Party, among others.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The presidential candidates appended their signatures to the document after a one-day election sensitisation workshop organised by the Inter Party Advisory Council in collaboration with some international development partners.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The Accord extracted promises from the candidates to take proactive measures to prevent electoral violence before, during and after the elections and re-affirmed their commitment to Nigeria’s constitution.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>It stated that the candidates should be desirous of promoting the unity and corporate existence of Nigeria as an indivisible entity and be determined to avoid any conduct or behaviour that would endanger the political stability and national security of the country.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>The candidates further pledged to place national interest above personal and partisan concern and abide by all rules and regulations as laid down in the legal framework for elections in the country.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“We, the under-signed, pledge to run issue-based campaigns at national, state and local government levels.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“In this, we pledge to refrain from campaigns that will involve religious sentiments, ethnic or tribal profiling, both by ourselves and all agents acting in our name.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“To refrain from making or causing to make in our names or that of our parties any public statement, pronouncement, declaration or speeches that have the capacity to incite any form of violence before, during and after the elections.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“To forcefully and publicly speak out against provocative utterances and oppose all acts of electoral violence whether perpetuated by our supporters and, or opponents.</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>“To commit ourselves and political parties to the monitoring of the adherence of this Accord if necessary, by a national peace committee made up of respected statesmen and women, traditional and religious leaders.”</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;'><span style='font-family: inherit;'>They then urged all institutions of government, including INEC and security agencies, to “act and be seen to act with impartiality.”</span> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

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ACF, NEF back Buhari, reject interim govt

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Sule-led Northern Elders’ Forum, and the Arewa Consultative Forum, have endorsed the All Progressives Congress’ Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, for the February election.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The NEF and the ACF in separate statements in Kaduna on Wednesday said that they would ask all northerners and indeed Nigerians to support Buhari because he was a better candidate than President Jonathan Goodluck, the candidate of the People Democratic Party in the February 14, presidential election.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />According to a communique signed by the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, the Forum noted that it was part of its policy to support northerner in any presidential election.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />However, the NEF, led by a former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, said the group would back the Buhari/Osinbajo for the Presidency because “Buhari is a better candidate, compared with President Goodluck Jonathan in moving the nation forward.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The elders, however, warned against any attempt to form an interim government, as being canvassed by some people in the country. They said that any design to disenfranchise Nigerians in the next month’s elections would be rejected.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />While addressing journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday, the Secretary of the NEF and former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, appealed to Nigerians to support the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidency.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He said a vote for Buhari/Osinbajo would end the fear, impunity and destitution characterised by the Jonathan administration in the country.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Abdullahi said, “Our endorsement of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the same manner all Nigerians from all parts of the country are supporting his candidature, is based on our belief that he and his running mate, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, have the integrity, commitment and experience to resolve our security problems, fight corruption and fix our economy.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Speaking further, the former vice chancellor said they were aware of the issue of an Interim National Government being muted in some quarters. He warned that “such illegal arrangement” should not be allowed to truncate the February elections.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Also, declaring the ACF support for Buhari in a communique signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, after its meeting in Kaduna, the Forum warned against the alleged plan by the Federal Government to disenfranchise some Nigerians in the next election.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The ACF expressed concern over the continued insecurity in the country, particularly, in the North-East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The forum commended the gallantry of the Nigerian military for repelling attack of the Islamic insurgents on Biu, in Borno State.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The Northern body reiterated its call on the Federal Government to step up offensive on the Boko Haram sect and ensure that all internally displaced persons were allowed to vote.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

ACF, NEF back Buhari, reject interim govt

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Amaechi boasts - 'Buhari’ll defeat Jonathan'

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Ahead of the general elections in February, the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed the confidence that Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, will defeat President Goodluck Jonathan.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Amaechi also said that the APC in Rivers State would win in the governorship, state and National Assembly elections.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The governor, who spoke on Wednesday at the APC rally at Abua Central in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area of the state, described Rivers as a satellite Nigeria, adding that the people of the state had always dictated the voting pattern of other Nigerians.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Represented at the event by his deputy, Mr. Tele Ikuru, the governor recalled how Rivers had been following the voting pattern of other parts of the country since 1962 to date, adding that 2015 would not be different.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He said, “Rivers State is a satellite Nigeria. Whatever happens in Rivers State is what will happen in Nigeria. In 1962, Rivers State voted for the NPC (Northern Peoples Congress), and the NPC won in the state and at the national level.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“In the second republic, we voted for the NPN (National Party of Nigeria) and NPN won the election in Rivers State and the national level. In 1999, Rivers State voted for the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) and PDP won in the state and the national level.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“In 2015, Rivers State will vote for the APC and APC will rule the state and at the national level. Any direction the state votes are the direction Nigeria will vote.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The APC governorship candidate in Rivers, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, alleged that the PDP was plotting to rig the general elections in the state.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Peterside called on the people of the state not to succumb to overtures and tricks of moneybags from the PDP, who might want to buy their votes.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He pledged to run a transparent government and improve infrastructural development in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area and the state as a whole if he is elected as the governor.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Reacting to the allegation that the state PDP was planning to rig the general elections in Rivers, the State Assistant Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Peterside’s allegation as false.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“If Dakuku Peterside could make such a false allegation, it is a sign that he has lost the election and it is a welcome development. The truth is that the PDP is not planning to rig any election because we do not need to do that to win the 2015 election,” he said.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

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US links rising Boko Haram attacks to 2015 elections

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'><a href="http://ift.tt/1BtG8Zs" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://ift.tt/1BtG8Zs" width="400"/> </a> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b><br/> </b> <b>The United States government has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government to conduct this year’s general elections despite the fact that the country is facing security challenges.</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />This view was expressed on Tuesday at the US Department of States’ daily briefing in Washington.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a id="more" name="more"> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The US government also said that the recent incessant attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents could be as a result of the approaching general elections in Nigeria.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“There has been a sharp escalation in the number of reported casualties. I think the numbers tend to be from about 2009 to 2013 – there were a little over 1,000 casualties. I mean, we’ve obviously all seen the reported numbers just this week – which we can’t confirm exactly, but it clearly shows there’s been a sharp escalation.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“It’s because Boko Haram has tended to, particularly around something like an election, used political issues or sensitivities to try and inflame tensions. We’ve seen that as one of their tactics, and that’s why it’s so important to move forward with the election, because we believe it’s important. Well, I don’t want to prejudge.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“We’ve seen successful elections go forward in places that have pretty significant levels of violence. So, we believe the election should go forward. We know there are security challenges. We do think that the election is probably a factor. As I said, we believe the election should still go forward, even in the face of this pretty horrific violence,” Marie Harf, the US spokeswoman, told journalists.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />According to her, the US government will continue to assist President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in fighting terrorism, despite the fact that a training programme by the US for Nigeria’s military personnel was cancelled by Nigeria late last year.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

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How to Lose the Presidential Election Four Times (3) - Femi Aribisala

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'><a href="http://ift.tt/17eP4GL" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://ift.tt/17eP4GL" width="640"/> </a> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><span style='font-size: large;'>Fool yourself into believing Christians have forgotten that you are the same man who said in 2003: “Muslims should only vote those who will promote Islam.”</span><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Nothing better encapsulates the pathetic nature of the current re-branding of Muhammadu Buhari than his sudden appearance in a black western suit; something that has not happened before.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a id="more" name="more"> </a>This window-dressing just won’t cut it. Given his sectarian antecedents, Buhari will be hard-pressed to convince anyone that he is western in any way, shape or form. Indeed, in this era of rampant Islamic fundamentalism and insurgency, a Buhari presidency would close the doors of many Western interests to Nigeria in our hour of need.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Here are further precepts from the Buhari School of how to be a serial loser of presidential elections.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Renege on your promises</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Make a solemn pledge to Nigerians, after losing the presidential election by over 10 million votes, saying: “This campaign is the third and last one for me. I will not offer myself again for election into the office of president.” Break this pledge without batting an eyelid.<br/><br /><br/><br /><b><br/> </b> <b>Be a “Northern” champion</b><br/><br /><br/><br />When some Fulani herdsmen who slaughtered Yoruba farmers were killed in return, lead a northern delegation all the way from Daura in Katsina State to Ibadan in Oyo State to complain. Confront the governor of Oyo State, Lam Adesina, as an advocate for the rights of murderous Fulani herdsmen whose cattle graze on Yoruba farmland and destroy their crops.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Show the people of Nigeria that, in spite of the fact that you were a former Head of State of the entire country, as far as you are concerned, your people are the Fulanis. Ask the governor: “Why are your people killing my people?” Also show that you firmly believe Fulanis have an inalienable right to encroach on the land of others, thousands of miles away from home. Be openly rebuked by Governor Adesina for pandering to narrow ethnic interests.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Be the darling of a small coterie of “born to rule” hawks who believe the presidency is the birthright of the North;</b><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Such as Ango Abdullahi, Lawal Kaita and Junaid Mohammed. Refuse to dissociate yourself from those who believe the national patrimony is the personal booty of select Northern politicians bent on feeding fat on the nation. Allow them to make you “the candidate of the North” even though you are seeking to be elected president of Nigeria. Allow them to fool you into believing a Northerner can become president on a platform that sees the South as a colony of the North.<br/><br /><br/><br /><b><br/> </b> <b>Be unacceptable to people outside your region. Run for election as president of Nigeria but hardly campaign in the South.</b> Hold the foolish belief that victory in the North is all you need. As a result, out of 38 million votes cast in the 2011 presidential election, win a measly 391,922 votes (1.031%) from all the states in the entire South put together.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Believe you can make up for this in 2015 by making a political neophyte and Christian pastor, Yemi Osinbajo, as your vice-presidential running-mate;</b> even though this gambit failed woefully in 2011 when you chose an even better-known pastor, Tunde Bakare, as your running-mate.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Attend the Lagos Thanksgiving Service in 2015</b> and say: “Religion must never be used to divide or oppress others or gain unfair advantage. All my life, I have always held the belief that all Nigerians must be free to worship God according to their beliefs.” Fool yourself into believing that Christians have forgotten that you are the same man who said in 2003: “Muslims should only vote those who will promote Islam. We are more than the Christians if you add our Muslim brothers in the West.”<br/><br /><br/><br />Be against the national projects<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Take brazenly sectional stances on policies clearly designed to advance national economic development.</b> For example, call on Northern politicians to oppose the national identity card scheme on the grounds that it would be disadvantageous to the North. Attempt to blackmail them by warning that, if they don’t oppose the scheme, they would be guilty of betraying the confidence the people of the North reposed in them.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Declare unabashedly to that you know the real population of the North off-head.</b> Say: “I warned Northern politicians then, who were supposed to protect the interest and integrity of Northerners, not to accept the national identity card project because our tradition in the North showed that we know the death and the birth record of our people. In every ward, we know those who have reached the age of paying taxes.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Reveal that you decided to sabotage the national identity card scheme when you were military head of state</b> because you saw it as a means of marginalizing the North by showing it does not have a larger population than the South. Show that you are more concerned about perpetuating the myth of Northern population supremacy than in promoting national economic growth by determining the true population of Nigeria.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Discriminate in favour of the North</b><br/><br /><br/><br />As military head of state, prosecute an anti-corruption campaign that allowed core North politicians to go scot-free, while jailing many innocent ones from the South.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Let Nigerians know that as president, you would discriminate unabashedly in favour of your homestead by allocating a disproportionate amount of the resources of the country</b>, which largely emanate from the Southern part of the country, to the North. As chairman of the PTF under the corrupt Abacha government, spend over 70% of the funds in your native North, even though the overwhelming proportion of PTF funds came from the South, which consumes over 70% of the refined petroleum products in the country.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Prompt the Yoruba cultural organization, Afenifere</b>, to make a submission to the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) led by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa that nothing else typifies the marginalisation of the Yoruba in particular and Southern Nigeria in general in the affairs of Nigeria than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF under your chairmanship.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Ensure, for example, that 13,870 kilometers of the road building and rehabilitation projects of the PTF, representing 76%, are carried out in the North. On the other hand, carry out 4,440 kilometers of road projects, representing only 24%, in the entire South. Out of this figure, allocate 10.5% to the South-West and only 13.5% to the South-East and the South-South combined; in spite of the fact that the latter geopolitical zones are bedeviled by gully erosion and swamps.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Allocate 74.7% of all PTF educational rehabilitation projects to the North, with your native North-West obtaining the lionshare of 34.8%. Allocate 80% of all health sector projects to the North, with your native North-West obtaining the lionshare of 55.3%. Allocate 85.3% of all food supply projects to the North, with your native North-West receiving the lion share of 60.54%.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Impede southern economic development</b><br/><br /><br/><br />Derail the Lagos Metroline project, designed to address the perennial problem of traffic jams and gridlock in Nigeria’s then capital city and financial centre out of lack of vision and foresight, as well as contempt for Southern economic growth and development. Refuse to guarantee a loan of $100 million that the Lagos State government needed for the project. Waste thereby close to $80 million of the money of Lagos taxpayers and investors already expended on the project.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Fail to apologise to Lagosians for this faux pas</b>, even though those currently bankrolling your presidential campaign are relying largely on the resources of Lagos State. Still expect Lagosians to vote for you on the assumption that they have forgotten, or do not know, what you did.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Have the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, give this verdict about your chances:</b> “General Buhari has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state, and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.”<br/><br /><br/><br />Be perennially anti-democracy<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Fail to see the contradiction of a coup-plotter becoming an elected president.</b> Would you have a moral right to object to being overthrown by a military coup? Be unable to be part of a political party that does not implode and end up with a short shelf-life. See parties strictly as instruments for actualizing your personal political ambitions.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><b>Sacrifice and humiliate five South-Eastern presidential aspirants on the altar of your presidential ambitions in 2003</b>. Rig them out of the race for the ANPP presidential candidate. Fool yourself into believing that making an Igbo man, Chuba Okadigbo, as your running-mate would atone for this. In spite of this antecedence of blatant manipulation the democratic process to suit your purposes, believe you can still climb a moral high horse to pontificate about the need for free and fair elections to Nigerians.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Get revisionist journalists to tell the lie that you were not part of the military coup that overthrew the democratic government in 1983, but were only invited afterwards. However, in 1982, you called ominously on Nigerian soldiers to start reading the Nigerian Constitution because of a future role they might be called upon to perform.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />While you were the G.O.C. 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, a soldier told the then Governor of Plateau State, Solomon Lar, that you were planning a military coup. Governor Lar, in turn, reported you to President Shehu Shagari, who invited you to Lagos for questioning. Although you denied the allegations, you did, indeed, soon participate in a coup and overthrew the government.<br/><br /><br/><br />Later on, justify your act of treason by saying hypocritically: “Nigerian politicians have no one to blame but themselves when they find themselves out in the cold. They are their own worst enemies. They have little commitment to democracy beyond Election Day. As I said elsewhere, many Nigerian politicians are not true democrats; they are democrats of convenience- extolling the virtues of democracy when they campaign, that’s the rule of the jungle with the added burden of having to vote for it. Conversely, when they lose, politicians refuse to accept the verdicts and invite the military to return.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />This statement has become a self-indictment because, since you became a turncoat democrat, you have refused to accept the verdicts of every election you have lost.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><i>Concluding part next week</i><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

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Omirin asked me for Xmas gift — Fayose

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'><a href="http://ift.tt/14fVcwy" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://ift.tt/14fVcwy" width="400"/> </a> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose yesterday said that the factional Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Adewale Omirin recently called him on phone asking for Christmas gifts for himself and other All Progressives Congress, APC, members currently shut out of the Assembly by minority Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a id="more" name="more"> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He further said he refused to give them; directing them to collect the gifts from the governor or speaker of the State currently habouring them.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />This is coming just as he predicted that the forthcoming Presidential election in the country would be turbulent, but assured that the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan would be re-elected as the President of the country in the February election.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Speaking to aviation reporters at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos on his arrival from abroad, Fayose explained that the forthcoming presidential election would generate reactions if any of the two major contestants wins, but warned that no one has the monopoly of violence.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />According to him; “The speaker just called me recently and asked for their Christmas gifts, I told him they should collect it from Lagos and Osun state governments or the speaker of those states. But in my state, you were elected by some people and the people had read out the riot act to them that they will not come and destabilize the state. If you attempt it, the power of the people will rise against you because their power is higher than those of us who are in power.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />On the crisis in Ekiti State House of Assembly, Fayose insisted that some members decided to stay away from their duties and said he would not appeal to them to come back, but maintained that any attempt to cause crisis in the state would be rejected by the people.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

Omirin asked me for Xmas gift — Fayose

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