TOP flight security reports arising from arrests of northerners in the southern region have revealed a plot by one of the leading opposition parties to flood the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones with northern migrant voters ahead of the 2015 presidential polls.

The plot, already under implementation, has led to movement of thousands of northerners to all states of the South-South and South-East, as well as part of the South-West.

The movement reportedly started mid last year and had gone undetected until the Boko Haram insurgency necessitated closer security checks across the country.

Sunday Tribune exclusively gathered these details from closely-guarded security reports compiled by security officials who investigated the 486 northerners arrested while travelling in a convoy of 33 buses to Abia State last month.

It will be recalled that several hundreds of northerners were intercepted in Rivers and Bayelsa states early in the year but were released following outcry over alleged profiling of northerners in the South.

Previous arrests and investigation were focused on Boko Haram links until recently when some of the arrested northerners opened up on their mission to the region.

The opposition party’s alleged involvement exposed
According to the security report, investigations have unearthed a plot by the political party to move thousands of eligible voters from the North-West and Northeastern part of the country to the South-East and South-South in the next few weeks, where they could register as eligible voters ahead of the presidential election in February next year.

Informed sources, who spoke to Sunday Tribune, further disclosed to our reporters that many of the 486 people who were arrested and detained had confessed to having been mobilised by political party chieftains to relocate to the South and integrate into the civil populace ahead of the 2015 polls.

The plan, according to a top security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, is to increase the voting strength of the opposition political party and secure the mandatory 25 per cent of votes cast in those states and thereby enhance its chances of winning the presidential election.

“When one considers the fact that the constitution requires that for a person to be declared winner in a presidential election, he must score, at least, one quarter of votes cast in 24 states in addition to scoring the highest number of votes cast nationwide, it becomes clear that a party which does not score this mandatory percentage in the 11 states of the South-East and South-South will be in a very precarious situation” the source said.

The investigation team was also said to have gathered that the arrested travellers were just one tranche of thousands of others who had moved earlier into different states and registered during the continuous voter registration exercise in six states.

Most of the arrested persons said they had never travelled out of the North and were told that arrangements had been made for their accommodation and feeding for the next six months.

A leader of the group, who is from one of the states in the North-West, was said to have confessed during interrogation that the logistics for the night journey was provided by a former member of the National Assembly, who is also a coordinator to a presidential aspirant from the zone.

According to the Sunday Tribune source, “several funds transfer by politicians into accounts of those arrested are currently being investigated while security agents have been put on alert to mount surveillance on those who had moved into the South much earlier. The nation’s law does not recognise migrant voters. Everyone is expected to vote in his or her normal place of residence. This development is worrisome as it portrays the desperation of our politicians”

The source explained that a similar scenario had played out in South-West state, leading to the redeployment of a Resident Electoral Commissioner, after being fingered in conducting clandestine voter registration for about 6,000 persons whose identity could not be ascertained by the local community.

The REC, it was gathered, was ordered to proceed on an annual leave after the top echelon of INEC was alerted by security agencies of his connivance with some politicians to conduct the surreptitious registration exercise where thousands of people of Northern origin were registered within a space of three weeks during the voter registration update in the state.

Security implication of voter migration under investigation
Another angle being investigated by security agencies, according to the source, is the security implication of the act, in view of threats by some politicians to instigate violence in the event of losing the 14 February, 2015 election.

It is the fear of security men that most of these persons who are mostly between the ages of 17 and 24 could be used by politicians to cause havocs before, during and after the general elections.

The security chiefs confirmed that investigations are still on to unravel the extent to which this plan had been hatched by the politicians and to determine the culpability of some officials of the electoral body.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/9864-2015-opposition-floods-south-with-northern-migrant-voters-arrested-suspects-open-up-as-security-reports-fingers-senator

APC, why, why are you people doing this to the South

Rochas, why ?

Tinubu, why?

It is only God that gives power. Why doing this magomago politics ?

Posterity shall judge you ALL.

Could this be true

Importation of extremists

Na wa ooo

I am scared for my people.
All because of one man's ambition!!!
Awa yoruba, ejo e ronu o!!!

HEY PEE SEEEEEEEEE...........pomo to the people

smh

Firefire: APC, why, why are you people doing this to the South

Rochas, why ?

Tinubu, why?

It is only God that gives power. Why doing this magomago politics ?

Posterity shall judge you ALL.

You Ibos are just pathetic! You believe this because it is APC, but when he story of BH killing and kidnapping almost 300 girls, you don't believe! In Asaba 700 ibos were machine gunned, you believe this which you were never eye witnesses, but you do not think that the army was provoked by an attack on their commander. You are so fhoolish to mention Tinubu's name but it is because he scares your PDPShit shitless! And Rochas name? Ko ni da fun aye gbogbo Iran eyin omo olori pelebe yi, eru egbe yin lee am se!

This report has every element of truth. If the ediots in APC can be go to this lenght because of politics, why wont they sponsor Boko Haram and even stage manage the kidnapp of chibok girls? They will not empower their people, rather they'll impoverish them and use them during elections for this sort of atrocities. Smh

Firefire: [s]TOP flight security reports arising from arrests of northerners in the southern region have revealed a plot by one of the leading opposition parties to flood the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones with northern migrant voters ahead of the 2015 presidential polls.

The plot, already under implementation, has led to movement of thousands of northerners to all states of the South-South and South-East, as well as part of the South-West.

The movement reportedly started mid last year and had gone undetected until the Boko Haram insurgency necessitated closer security checks across the country.

Sunday Tribune exclusively gathered these details from closely-guarded security reports compiled by security officials who investigated the 486 northerners arrested while travelling in a convoy of 33 buses to Abia State last month.

It will be recalled that several hundreds of northerners were intercepted in Rivers and Bayelsa states early in the year but were released following outcry over alleged profiling of northerners in the South.

Previous arrests and investigation were focused on Boko Haram links until recently when some of the arrested northerners opened up on their mission to the region.

The opposition party’s alleged involvement exposed
According to the security report, investigations have unearthed a plot by the political party to move thousands of eligible voters from the North-West and Northeastern part of the country to the South-East and South-South in the next few weeks, where they could register as eligible voters ahead of the presidential election in February next year.

Informed sources, who spoke to Sunday Tribune, further disclosed to our reporters that many of the 486 people who were arrested and detained had confessed to having been mobilised by political party chieftains to relocate to the South and integrate into the civil populace ahead of the 2015 polls.

The plan, according to a top security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, is to increase the voting strength of the opposition political party and secure the mandatory 25 per cent of votes cast in those states and thereby enhance its chances of winning the presidential election.

“When one considers the fact that the constitution requires that for a person to be declared winner in a presidential election, he must score, at least, one quarter of votes cast in 24 states in addition to scoring the highest number of votes cast nationwide, it becomes clear that a party which does not score this mandatory percentage in the 11 states of the South-East and South-South will be in a very precarious situation” the source said.

The investigation team was also said to have gathered that the arrested travellers were just one tranche of thousands of others who had moved earlier into different states and registered during the continuous voter registration exercise in six states.

Most of the arrested persons said they had never travelled out of the North and were told that arrangements had been made for their accommodation and feeding for the next six months.

A leader of the group, who is from one of the states in the North-West, was said to have confessed during interrogation that the logistics for the night journey was provided by a former member of the National Assembly, who is also a coordinator to a presidential aspirant from the zone.

According to the Sunday Tribune source, “several funds transfer by politicians into accounts of those arrested are currently being investigated while security agents have been put on alert to mount surveillance on those who had moved into the South much earlier. The nation’s law does not recognise migrant voters. Everyone is expected to vote in his or her normal place of residence. This development is worrisome as it portrays the desperation of our politicians”

The source explained that a similar scenario had played out in South-West state, leading to the redeployment of a Resident Electoral Commissioner, after being fingered in conducting clandestine voter registration for about 6,000 persons whose identity could not be ascertained by the local community.

The REC, it was gathered, was ordered to proceed on an annual leave after the top echelon of INEC was alerted by security agencies of his connivance with some politicians to conduct the surreptitious registration exercise where thousands of people of Northern origin were registered within a space of three weeks during the voter registration update in the state.

Security implication of voter migration under investigation
Another angle being investigated by security agencies, according to the source, is the security implication of the act, in view of threats by some politicians to instigate violence in the event of losing the 14 February, 2015 election.

It is the fear of security men that most of these persons who are mostly between the ages of 17 and 24 could be used by politicians to cause havocs before, during and after the general elections.

The security chiefs confirmed that investigations are still on to unravel the extent to which this plan had been hatched by the politicians and to determine the culpability of some officials of the electoral body.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/9864-2015-opposition-floods-south-with-northern-migrant-voters-arrested-suspects-open-up-as-security-reports-fingers-senator [/s]

Frail propaganda. Tribune can do better than this.

All these APC thieves should "GO and DIE"!

See them thieves, only they and their families have been stealing the SW states dry.

TinubU Dynasty:

Wife - Senator (Rumor has it that it was her birthday present.)
Daughter: Iya Oloja (Closed Sabo Market, sellers lost millions of Naira)
Son-in-law: House of Representative (State)
Son in Law: House of Representative (Federal)
Tinubu himself: Royal Garden Estate, Oriental Hotel, Alpha Beta etc

Funny enough, these same people are telling us about corruption? Why did Tinubu and Buhari meet with Oyinlola, OBJ etc? Were they not corrupt? Or they are only corrupt when they are not on Tinubu's side.

Why are we pay tolls in Lagos? Did we not pay our taxes? Sometimes we are even double taxed, yet we pay toll on road BUILT with our money. Are LASU students not humans?

Government for the Elites, by the Elites

Lairs and hypocrites. May the God of Lagosians visit you all as you sleep!!!


[size=15pt]SEE YOU 2015!!![/size]

Since oluwole awolowo died,
Tribune has truly gone to the dogs.
The question is ,who amongst awo's children is in effective control of that newspaper?
I won't be surprise if it is controlled by that daughter who became a minister under obasanjo.
A newspaper that was founded by the old man to project his socialist ideology ,as well as report the news as it is ,has been turned into almost the equivalent of elombah report.
Simply pathetic.
If that newspaper had any shred of dignity left, should they not have gone down to the field to investigate these insinuations/accusations ?
Or tribune does not have a due diligence process ni?
How do you flood a place with voters when there is no voters registration going on or any plan to conduct anytime soon.
These folk honestly believe that the world is made to cater for their whims and caprices .
Is it possible that those folks are migrating for the very reason why them folks like to migrate as well.
Cannot wait for that useless one nigeria to fall apart.
Cannot wait.

You have to expect anything from a party run by demons. After supporting the carnage by their militant wing call boko haram, voters exportation will be no big deal for them. You people are only putting your northern brothers in the SS on the firing line. Operation clear Islamist from the SS will now kick off.

madam_oringo:

You Ibos are just pathetic! You believe this because it is APC, but when he story of BH killing and kidnapping almost 300 girls, you don't believe! In Asaba 700 ibos were machine gunned, you believe this which you were never eye witnesses, but you do not think that the army was provoked by an attack on their commander. You are so fhoolish to mention Tinubu's name but it is because he scares your PDPShit shitless! And Rochas name? Ko ni da fun aye gbogbo Iran eyin omo olori pelebe yi, eru egbe yin lee am se!
shame on me,oringo

you're truly shameless...
the worst thing Igbos have done is to still remain in the same country with subhumans like oringo.
sound the call to arms let all full bloodied Igbo rise to defend the Igbo nation from the vitriol of roaches and vermin in the person of oringo

No doubt reading these posts, majority of Nigerians deserve to be punished by the PDP government by making their lives worth less than that of a chicken.

APC
Is too desperate for power.

They are gradually ruining this country.

madam_oringo:

You Ibos are just pathetic! You believe this because it is APC, but when he story of BH killing and kidnapping almost 300 girls, you don't believe! In Asaba 700 ibos were machine gunned, you believe this which you were never eye witnesses, but you do not think that the army was provoked by an attack on their commander. You are so fhoolish to mention Tinubu's name but it is because he scares your PDPShit shitless! And Rochas name? Ko ni da fun aye gbogbo Iran eyin omo olori pelebe yi, eru egbe yin lee am se!

Nkechi pls feed this goat with grasses.

So Asaba massacre never occurred.

Pls hurry up Nkechi before he dies of hunger.

I thought nairaland is mostly for matured mind. we quickly resort to name calling and insults without quickly exermine the implication. Nigeria which way,we the youth are now the publicity secretary of the various political parties in this land. I believed we are all victims of neglect and marginization from our present government. we should just think deeply.........what have we benefited so far other than extreme poverty and massive unemployment. May God see us through.

I knew tribune had gone down,but i didnt know they could go so low like they did in this story.even if this story were true,which it cant be,didnt tribune use their brain to realise that migration means that the source region will have their population reduced?na wa o

Why cant you all read. Opposition party can be PDP or APC. please read and digest before posting.

Shameless Govt. Paranoid thieves.

Who stopped the teaching of verbal and quantitative reasoning in our primary schools? This generation can't reason..jeez.

Are elections in the SE and SS different from the ones in the North and SW in terms of dates?
So the Northerners will be shipped from where they are registered to vote to an alien territory where they are not registered to vote? and pdp'd INEC will gladly allow them to vote?

The labour of our heroes past have been exchanged for bags of rice and some packets of indomie.
Generational mumus

EasternLeopard:

Nkechi pls feed this goat with grasses.

So Asaba massacre never occurred.

Pls hurry up Nkechi before he dies of hunger.

Nkechi, biko hurry up na wa for that Nkechi ooo

ola@:
All these APC thieves should "GO and DIE"!

See them thieves, only they and their families have been stealing the SW states dry.

TinubU Dynasty:

Wife - Senator (Rumor has it that it was her birthday present.)
Daughter: Iya Oloja (Closed Sabo Market, sellers lost millions of Naira)
Son-in-law: House of Representative (State)
Son in Law: House of Representative (Federal)
Tinubu himself: Royal Garden Estate, Oriental Hotel, Alpha Beta etc

Funny enough, these same people are telling us about corruption? Why did Tinubu and Buhari meet with Oyinlola, OBJ etc? Were they not corrupt? Or they are only corrupt when they are not on Tinubu's side.

Why are we pay tolls in Lagos? Did we not pay our taxes? Sometimes we are even double taxed, yet we pay toll on road BUILT with our money. Are LASU students not humans?

Government for the Elites, by the Elites

Lairs and hypocrites. May the God of Lagosians visit you all as you sleep!!!


[size=15pt]SEE YOU 2015!!![/size]