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The Nigeria Police Force on Monday made a U-turn on its earlier warning to voters to stay away from polling centres after exercising their civic duty on days of elections.

The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, had on Thursday said there was no need for voters to stay back after casting their votes because two or three policemen would be stationed at every polling unit to guard their votes.

“Cast your votes and go and cool down. If you remain there, there is a likelihood that you will commit an offence,’’ he had said.

But the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party and others faulted the warning, saying there was no aspect of the electoral law that prohibited voters from stay behind to monitor ballot counting.

“As many of the voters may wish to remain to see the actual counting of the votes after voting has ended,” Jega had stated.

However, the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said that people could stay behind as long as they maintained the peace, and obeyed the electoral guidelines.

“Anybody who commits any offence against the Electoral Act would be dealt with in line with the law. Voters are free to stay behind if they chose to,” Ojukwu stated.


Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/police-make-a-u-turn-say-voters-can-protect-votes/

People power is beginning to take roots in Nigeria; gradually, all our armed security operatives would come to terms with the fact that in a democratic setting, the ultimate power lies with the ordinary people, the voters, whom the security agents are so much used to harassing, brutalizing with little or no provocation.

Sooner rather than later, God willing, we shall have a country where no police/army officer would be behaving as if they are above the law; so it is good that Prof. Jega maintained his grounds that as far as the electoral law is concerned, the voters have the right to wait and see the counting of the votes; and it is equally heartening to see the IG backtrack.

They don't need to tell us,we know our right.

I was saying the other day that "I will vote and wait there with my video camera recording everything.





SAI BUHARI


06:26:36
Tue, Mar 24, 2015

Its once again a show of the power of the people! Government must exist for the people.

We are definitely getting there.

This is another small victory for people's power.

Electorates will in no way affect the outcome of an election if they choose to stay behind and watch their votes count. If anything, it re-assures them that there hasn't been any magomago whatever the outcome represents to them.

Who cares?
Rubbish

Jonathan will still win this election. his victory is sure.

I think the country we all want is gradually emerging.

The degree to which any government is ineffective is determined by the level of political awareness of the People.

Its a step in the right direction. There's NOTHING absolutely wrong with the electorates insisting on staying behind after casting their votes. No law is broken!

hamaworld:
Who cares?
Rubbish

Simple people really do.

before nko?

May my enemies be as confused as the PDP and the Nigerian police

GEJ till 2019!!!

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!!

Supported!

Now that albino Aye Dee can take that inane tweet of his and shove it up the hole in the darkest spot on his body.

The will of my people would surely triumph this time whether the establishment likes it or not. The eyes of the world is trained on Nigeria and should these hardened crooks do anything to derail the electoral process, they would have nowhere to run to.

Change has come to stay.

Sai Grandpa!
Sai PYO!

The people have decided, police must comply

PDP! Power to the People!!
PDP! Iwuek!!

siraj1402:
They don't need to tell us,we know our right.

$sha sha Gej till 2019

If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country.

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

OBJ's use of JTF force could not help as no Oil producing company will risk producing crude and killing staff in a volatile region.

GEJ under Yaradua had to get down to the creeks to to talk to these boys and effect the amnesty program because they found him as a representation in government.

If after GEJ's achievements in almost all sectors, roads, bridges, railways, agriculture, automobile, alamajiri schools, new universities, fertilizer and ghost worker scam elimination, freedom of press, FOI, free and fair elections, power sector. .........etc, he is still booted out. It will be impossible to convince a ND minority albeit a militant that their own was not persecuted out of office. And that will be the theme of the new struggle. The long term solution to this mess is implementing the Confab report and enthroning true federalism.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investments will seize in all sectors.

And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc.

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished.

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

This is a victory for ordinary Nigerians

The voice of the people is the voice of God!

We must see the votes counted with our koro koro eyes

During the time of Obasanjo as president , Nigerians
artists sang songs like;
Nigerian jaga jaga by Idris
Food no dey my brother water no dey by African
china
You don hit my car by Tony Tetula
we go flog politicians koboko dem dey do us ojoro by
Oritse femi
Because there was so much hunger and corruption
evrywere!
During GEJ tenure our artists are singing songs like
chop my money by Psquare
show you the money by wizkid
emi omo baba lowo by Davido
Emi ni baller by Miss Kedike
Limpopo by Kcee
Godwin by Kerodo Bello
........meaning hunger don reduce
please dont take us back to Egypt when we r almost
at the promise land
Oga GEJ surulere
while
Oga Buhari pullover

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