ahidjo:

No amount of propaganda, emotional and inciting outbursts will justify the electoral fraud perpetrated in the south east and south south and some other parts of Nigeria. I have come to the conclusion that most people from the south are fraud infested that's why they enjoy it. Time will tell. I am still waiting for the clueless Jonathan regime to arrest and prosecute all previous perpetrators of violence in Nigeria starting from Jos, Akwa Ibom, Abuja, Kaduna etcetera. It is the job of the government to prevent and stop violence no matter the circumstance. As we wait for them to do this, let lovers of fraud like Beaf continue to rule the waves with their illogical rhetoric. Honest people will definitely laugh last

ziccoit:

This guy called Beaf will never stop looking for a story told by somebody who doesn't get his facts right about Buhari/CPC. The likes of Beaf can assassinate a fellow human being when at oppose camp/interest. You no de tire

Beaf:

[size=14pt]CPC Justifies Killings[/size]
“Yet, till date, we do not seem to have learned our lessons. With every election, including the last presidential election, the electorate continue to lose confidence in the ability of the ballot box to express their will. This is a dangerous trend that must not be allowed to continue, lest we find our country sleepwalking into a disaster that we may not come out of,” he said.

[size=14pt]Ironically, CPC won the presidential election in Kaduna and Bauchi – two states where killings and violence erupted after the poll.[/size]

Malami cited the polling unit where Jonathan voted to illustrate what he called the level of electoral fraud allegedly perpetrated.

According to him, Osazi Playground Polling Unit had a total number of 908 registered voters. On the April 16 election, only 424 voters turned out to cast their votes, with 413 voting for the president, while 11 ballots were invalidated. This, he said, represented a total of 47 per cent voter turnout in that unit. However, for the rest of Bayelsa State, the total voter turnout as recorded by INEC was 87 per cent with a total of 96 per cent voting for the president.

Meanwhile, a legal crisis is brewing between CPC and INEC over whose duty it is to gather electoral materials used for the presidential election for the purpose of inspection.

CPC had written to INEC asking it to produce materials used for the presidential election for the purpose of inspection and to subject them to forensic test.

In its reply, INEC directed the party to go to the various states where the materials were located.

This, however, did not go down well with CPC. It therefore refused to follow INEC’s directive of approaching its state secretariats to retrieve the materials.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cpc-justifies-killings/91097/

naijaking1:

He should have the gut and manpower for example to come to my village to see that out of 2700 votes for president, 2650 went to GEJ, 10 to Buhari, 20 to Ribadu, and the rest were voided. Oh, and there no underage voters, and no violence!

Beaf:

[size=14pt]CPC Justifies Killings[/size]
10 May 2011
By Tobi Soniyi and Adebiyi Adedapo in Abuja

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Monday justified the post-presidential election riots and killings in parts of the North, describing them as a consequence of the win-at-all-cost mentality of the incumbent president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

It has also emerged that the CPC may be heading for a showdown with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over access to the electoral materials with which the party wants to prove its allegation of rigging.

The party also finally commiserated with the relatives of those who lost their lives and property as a result of the violence that occasioned the April 16 presidential election, which led to the death of 10 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

Addressing judicial correspondents at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, CPC Legal Adviser, Abubakar Malami, said: “To us in the CPC, it is our belief that the breakdown of law and order that ensued after the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan as the president-elect on the basis of concocted results was the by-product of the determination to win elections by incumbents by any means which has always characterised such actions by historical antecedence.

“Our national history has however taught us that the determination to win elections by incumbents by any means has always given birth to spontaneous reactions in the form of breakdown of law and order.

“We recall the anger of the people of the Western Region in 1965 and the people of Ondo State in 1983 against the use of federal might to dislodge opposition governments in the South-west in favour of the ruling parties at the federal level with concocted results.

“The people spontaneously rose against these barbaric actions of the government. Police stations and houses of prominent NNA and NPN supporters were burnt and many people killed. In the case of Ondo State, the judicial decision that ceded Ondo back to the UPN came within the context of citizens’ determined effort to protect their votes.”

He said CPC believed that the declaration of false results assembled in places other than the polling units during the presidential election was another reminder that the political class “ruling and ruining Nigeria” was not ready to allow electoral reform to work.

Malami said CPC could not sit by and allow electoral misdemeanours wreaking the very foundation of the country’s stability, prosperity and unity to continue unchecked forever.

He observed that since independence, the major political problem of the country had been elections.

According to him, transiting from one government to the other through the ballot box had always been the most difficult aspect of the nation’s democratic experiment.

He recalled that on the two occasions the military took over the reins of power from civilian regimes in 1966 and 1983, election malpractices were cited as justification.

“Yet, till date, we do not seem to have learned our lessons. With every election, including the last presidential election, the electorate continue to lose confidence in the ability of the ballot box to express their will. This is a dangerous trend that must not be allowed to continue, lest we find our country sleepwalking into a disaster that we may not come out of,” he said.

Ironically, CPC won the presidential election in Kaduna and Bauchi – two states where killings and violence erupted after the poll.

Malami cited the polling unit where Jonathan voted to illustrate what he called the level of electoral fraud allegedly perpetrated.

According to him, Osazi Playground Polling Unit had a total number of 908 registered voters. On the April 16 election, only 424 voters turned out to cast their votes, with 413 voting for the president, while 11 ballots were invalidated. This, he said, represented a total of 47 per cent voter turnout in that unit. However, for the rest of Bayelsa State, the total voter turnout as recorded by INEC was 87 per cent with a total of 96 per cent voting for the president.

He said: “One would have expected that if there was going to be a massive voter turnout, no other place would have surpassed the president’s own unit. Because this unit comprises his close and distant relatives – his parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, cousins, nephews, childhood friends, etc.

“But surprisingly, not half of these came out to vote for their own, yet the rest of Bayelsa and the South-south turned out over 90 per cent to vote for their son.

“The truth is that the president did not want anything to cause problem in his ballot box which would have embarrassed him politically. So that box was guarded against any malpractice and so what came out of the box was actually what transpired; but the rest of Bayelsa and others can do as they pleased. This is electoral fraud personified!”

He recalled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government rejected the recommendation from the Electoral Reform Committee it set up that the new INEC should be appointed through an independent process anchored on the National Judicial Council (NJC).

He said in the life of a society, there would come a time when a group of people must have to stand up and point out when the leadership was destroying the nation; explain why things were going wrongly; demonstrate how things could be done rightly; and work towards making a clear difference.

He said this was why the CPC had to go to the tribunal. He noted that in the past, lack of evidence did not allow election petition to succeed.

This, he said, explained why the party was relying on scientific ways, means and methods as the best and most effective platform to prove its case.

He said since there were no two people with the same fingerprint, every fingerprint could be scientifically verified basically through biometrics/forensics methods. (This is a good development. Riggers should be jittery wherever they are right now)

Malami also said if at the end of this case, the truth was undeniably established and it was found out that the allegations of the said electoral fraud were true, then the blame of the post-election violence should be squarely put on the perpetrators of the fraud – for they are the real cause of the violence, which will then be the natural principle of cause and effect.

On the other hand, he said: “If it was established that the PDP got its votes as announced authentically, then our presidential candidate (Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari) will lead us to the Villa to formally congratulate the president and his deputy to the advancement of democracy, unity and stability of Nigeria."

Meanwhile, a legal crisis is brewing between CPC and INEC over whose duty it is to gather electoral materials used for the presidential election for the purpose of inspection.

CPC had written to INEC asking it to produce materials used for the presidential election for the purpose of inspection and to subject them to forensic test.

In its reply, INEC directed the party to go to the various states where the materials were located.

This, however, did not go down well with CPC. It therefore refused to follow INEC’s directive of approaching its state secretariats to retrieve the materials.

CPC was irked by the fact that INEC had earlier agreed to avail the party all that it required from it (the commission) only to change later and directed the party to go to the states.

The National Chairman of the party, Prince Tony Momoh, said the CPC would not abide by the directive given by INEC that it should go to the state electoral offices for the required materials.

He said the party would insist on examination of the documents at the INEC’s National Headquarters in Abuja. (this i also believe should be the right thing since its a national election)

He said: “We will not accept any diversion being introduced into the matter by INEC asking us to go to their state electoral offices in the country.

“We will insist on examination of the documents at the INEC’s National Headquarters. We are aware that the original of forms EC8D and EC8E are with INEC here in Abuja; form EC8D is the summary of results of all local governments in each state, and form EC8E is a summary of results of all the states in the federation and FCT.”

Momoh said the party was ready to submit all the materials stated above to forensic examination in order to buttress the claims of substantial non-compliance with the provisions of Electoral Act 2010 during the April 16 presidential election.

CPC, in another statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary Rotimi Fashakin, also accused INEC of not responding to the party’s demand in good faith.

Fashakin explained that the commission had in response to the party’s request promised to make the materials available to it, only for INEC to later direct CPC to the INEC secretariats in the affected states.

He said: “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had promised in a letter dated 18th April, 2011 (in response to our letter dated same day) to make available all ballot papers and result sheets, which are in safe custody, upon request and payment of necessary fees. The INEC Headquarters that, had all along assumed responsibility, now directed us to liaise with the various State INEC, in pursuant of this noble objective.”

He stated further that the party was ready to meet the necessary financial condition as required by INEC, but according to him, the commission is reluctant to give details of payment.

“We demanded the amount of the fees to be paid and to which account.”

CPC had on Sunday filed a petition seeking to nullify the declaration of Jonathan of the PDP as winner of the April 16 presidential election by asking the court to cancel results in 24 states.

Those in contention are all the states in the South (17); Sokoto, Kaduna, Plateau, Kwara, Benue, Adamawa and Nasarawa in the North, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cpc-justifies-killings/91097/

texazzpete:

That's exactly what this suit wants to do.

The voter turnout in my PU in Rivers state was 45%. I've seen similar figures from at least 4 other PUs in Rivers state. Any final result with a 70+% turnout has to be heavily cooked up.

More recently, in Imo state where the Governorship election was keenly contested, the turnout hovered around 50%. Yet the turnout in the Presidential elections miraculously came to 83%. Rigging par excellence!

I still think GEJ would have won even without all the SS and SE rigfest. If there's a rerun election, Buhari will even fare far worse thanks to his reputation taking a hit after the post-election violence. I see no reason for the court case at all. But still, it is self deceit to claim that the votes from the SS and SE were not massively inflated.

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abibio2001:

I have read the article  and didnt see where CPC actually justified the killings. They just gave a reason for what they felt caused the violence and also commiserated with the families of those who died. It seems the easiest way to make headlines these days or get your paper to sell more, is to put up CPC/Buhari stories with captivating headlines.This is how the Punch put it : CPC explains northern uprising and The Nation: Why there was violence in the North, by CPC, both of which makes more sense than the Thisday headline

texazzpete:

That's exactly what this suit wants to do.

The voter turnout in my PU in Rivers state was 45%. I've seen similar figures from at least 4 other PUs in Rivers state. Any final result with a 70+% turnout has to be heavily cooked up.

More recently, in Imo state where the Governorship election was keenly contested, the turnout hovered around 50%. Yet the turnout in the Presidential elections miraculously came to 83%. Rigging par excellence!

I still think GEJ would have won even without all the SS and SE rigfest. If there's a rerun election, Buhari will even fare far worse thanks to his reputation taking a hit after the post-election violence. I see no reason for the court case at all. But still, it is self deceit to claim that the votes from the SS and SE were not massively inflated.

abibio2001:

I have read the article  and didnt see where CPC actually justified the killings. They just gave a reason for what they felt caused the violence and also commiserated with the families of those who died. It seems the easiest way to make headlines these days or get your paper to sell more, is to put up CPC/Buhari stories with captivating headlines.This is how the Punch put it : CPC explains northern uprising and The Nation: Why there was violence in the North, by CPC, both of which makes more sense than the Thisday headline

hillsate:


you need more? Read this by thesame liar, sorry lwayer

Malami said CPC could not sit by and allow electoral misdemeanours wreaking the very foundation of the country’s stability, prosperity and unity to continue unchecked forever

Invariably what he's saying is that '' we couldnt as cpc sit down and just watch things, we needed to stand up and register our displeasure by using historical antecedence"

Beaf:

Pitiable.

Eziachi:

Beaf my good friend, I don't think its pitiable. CPC has said it the way most honest people from the South who is ready to say the truth sees the fraud that brought GEJ the presidency he is position to win without resulting to inflating both voters turn out and his share of the votes in both the South East and South South for example. You may decide to believe what you want to believe to justify what our people did that day but that is your choice.

The number of lives and property lost in Akwa Ibom alone in the last election is more than what wss lost in the north but we tend to turn the blind eyes and no one is setting up a judicial enquiry on Akwa Ibom. That is not a justification of what happened in the north but we can't go into cherry picking on which violence attention should be ppaid to and which should be ignored and pushed under the carpet as if it never happened.
You just asked someone to deal with the fact but the fact so far is:
In Jonathan own polling booth, there was only 47% turn out, how then miraculously in every other polling booth in the state of Bayelsa there was close to 90% turn out?
How can anyone logically explain that? You telling me that my village in Igboland care more about Jonathan than his own flesh and blood?  Because in my town, INEC/PDP got themselves a 89% turn out and then 99.6% share of the vote for GEJ.
PDP has always been using this tactics in rigging election especially in 2003 before they brought in snatching ballot boxes and multiply thump printing IN 2007.

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Eziachi:

Figures release today in some newspapers showed that the figure allocated to OBJ in many places in Ogun state FOR INSTANCE in 2003 surppasses the total number of registered voters in 2011 in those same area. Unbelievable fact!
That is one just example.
Look at the Gubernatorial election in Imo, Jonathan somehow managed alone to get more votes than all the 21 gubernatorial candidates in Imo put together in an election Ohakim the incumbent is desperate to win for himself. What it shows was that on the presidential election day, everybody was happy with the rigging for Jonathan since a bloody Fulani man is the victim without any opposition. But on the gubernatorial election day, that was a different story, as real votes was gaurded against PDP by both APGA, ACN and others in majority of the places in Imo on the day and this time all the potential victim of any fraud is close to comfort.
Like I said before, I had no doubt in my mind that Jonathan can beat Buhari in that election but it will be by a very slim margin of overall votes, a slim victory. And my HONEST belief is, based on how Nigerians vote based on tribe/religion, that election should have gone into a run-off, tht means no overall winner in the first ballot, which is what I believed, most of them in CPC/ACN thought honestly would happened when their plan of a single candidacy flopped.