vedaxcool:
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When you and your criminal party Poverty Development Party explain what you used $2B for only then will you have any moral justification to question what PMB has done with $1B

TonyeBarcanista:
In April 2018 it was reported that the Federal Executive Council approved $1bn for purchase of arms to tackle BOKO HARAM and other insurgents.

https://dailypost.ng/2018/04/04/buhari-approves-release-1bn-security-equipment-fight-boko-haram/

The National Economic Council equally approved $1 billion for the fight against Boko Haram same April 2018.

However, in December 2018, the Nigeria Army through its acting Spokesman complained that the money is yet to be released despite the approval.
http://saharareporters.com/2018/12/03/fg-yet-release-1bn-fight-boko-haram-–-army

We are rounding off June 2019, more than 14 months after approval yet NOTHING has been released to the Army/Military yet, miscreants, kidnappers, bandits, terrorists and insurgents have been having a field day in Nigeria.

Where is the $1bn as approved? Who is sitting on it?


PIX: US Army's Drone Vs Nigeria's Army Drone

Buhari Denies Approving U.S.$1 Bn for Arms Purchase

https://allafrica.com/stories/201804100041.html

junkiesneverdie:
Can we as Nigerians be rational for once!!! Great move by the Federal government I hope they cancel it permanently how can you have 3 seaports in one state when there are other States like Cross River, Delta, Anambra and Rivers State that needs more improvements on their ports we are complaining of a papa gridlock and here we are trying to build new seaports in the same Lagos that is too congested how about moving to other parts of Nigeria must everything be centred in Lagos.. this is the injustice people are crying and talking about...

Blue3k:


If they're cancelling this over its proximity to lekki they can build another deep seaport in Ondo. That governor has been asking for this project forever. Hopefully they get better deal after renegotiating contract. Where is the port master plan?



She sounds confused aren't same project under different names?

JosEast:
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the February 23, 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal did not reject his request to check the INEC server as claimed by the Presidency.

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement on Monday had praised what he called a “landmark ruling” of the Tribunal, which “rejected” the request by Atiku and the PDP to have access to INEC server used for the 2019 presidential election.

But Atiku in a statement today by his Special Adviser on Media, Paul Ibe, argued that “What the honourable Tribunal said is that it is still at preliminary stages and the main case has not begun and that the matter of granting access to inspect the INEC server is not relevant to the preliminary stages. It is a matter to be adjudicated upon when the case proper is being heard.” Atiku said the celebration by the Presidency was therefore premature.

“Their giddiness has even blinded them to the eye witness testimony given to multiple media in interviews by staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission that there is indeed a server and that they actually submitted results and accreditation through it. “In their rush to claim a Pyrrhic victory, the Buhari administration missed out the fact that the 2019 budget has multiple line items for procurement, maintenance and service of the server they claimed does not exist. “Furthermore, the statement tried to spin the recent verdict on the election passed by the EU election observers.

For the avoidance of doubt, what the EU report said is that the 2019 elections had significant defects and fell short of expectations. It should be noted that one of the issues they raised is the attempt to muzzle not just the media, but more importantly, the judiciary. “In the light of this, we remind those who are gloating in their ignorance that ‘he who laughs last, laughs best’. “The last has not been heard of this matter and we eagerly anticipate the actual ruling of the Tribunal when the case proper begins,” he said.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/just-in-my-request-to-inspect-inec-server-not-rejected-atiku-tells-presidency.html

zoedew:
He is welcome! Which nation was looking forward to the Ruling! It is Abubakar Atiku and friends who he said on www he will enrich - obviously at our expense - when he becomes President that looked forward to the Ruling. His strategy is obviously to keep the matter in court for as long as he can so he can remain in the public consciousness till a time as closely as possible to the next Presidential elections when he is sure to give the Presidency another shot. No plausible explanation is there to appeal a decision that says it would amount to making an order in space and in vain to order the inspection of a server whose existence and or use in the transmission of the results is already in contention in the suit. Indeed best to prove in the course of the trial by tested oral testimony its existence, its use in transmitting the results and tender same. Only then can the court properly order such inspection.
In any event, Election Petitions are of a special kind and know no such appeal. The Petitioner must await the judgment and comprise the ruling he disagrees with in his appeal.

Neoteny:




Did anyone stop you from voting?

Did anyone demand you vote a candidate other than your choice?

No?

Then it's free and fair

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".

- Karl Marx

Paccus:

Nice one.. The law did not permit electronic transmission of results, but there was electronic collation of results in the last elections.. Inec is the cause of this confusion and they are trying to back out

The Electoral Bill which mandates the immediate transmission of voting results from polling units to collation centres is not yet operational, and as such, the transmitted result is invalid and any reliance place on it is null and void,’’ the lawyers maintained.

Dr. Ajulo, who is the founder of Egalitarian Mission in Africa, said that the PDP candidate (Alhaji Atiku Abubakar) has embarked on a fruitless venture with the results he claimed he got from INEC server.

Ajulo asserted that the result is not admissible in law, adding that ‘’if President Muhammadu Buhari had signed the amended Electoral Act, which included electronic transmission of results, Atiku would have had a valid case against INEC, but as it is, he cannot even tender the results at the tribunal.”

He said that electronic transmission of result is not recognised by the Electoral Act and, therefore, the result Atiku claims he got from INEC server is “just a piece of paper.”

‘’He can’t use it at the tribunal because the law does not even recognize the transmission of result electronically. I want to believe that Atiku was not properly advised before approaching the tribunal to challenge the results of the election,” he said.

https://leadership.ng/2019/04/27/electronic-transmission-of-election-result-illegal-lawyers/

jaxxy:



When did u have to prostrate for people and go state to state to be elected speaker if Smtn isn’t wrong smwhwre? He went to pacify people to accept his selection not election. What happened in the senate itself is still similar to what Saraki did if not worse based on what’s coming out bt with godfathers blessings.

jaxxy:


How did he campaign when he was literally forced on others? Where any other people allowed to freely vie for the post in the party after threatening them with party whatever?

What kind of hypocritical statement is this?


I don’t see Americans or British doing homecoming for being elected speaker or public office like this. No performance or anything to show as work done just merely elected or rather selected. We celebrate posts/positions not work done. This reverse mentality leads us nowhere.

Generalpatton:

Tinubu doesn't have brownish teeth as widely speculated

9jahotblog:
Raw evidences Nigeria lawmakers sold their votes to crown femi gbajabiamila as the speaker of representatives


To prove that they voted for Gbajabiamila after collecting $10,000 each, reps members snapped their ballot papers after voting in the House of Representatives Same way you showed your ballots after collecting N500 to
vote for APC at the Polling Units..

https://www.youtube.c

Benekruku:



You said it all. Am still looking for one to proof to me where a server came to play. Voting was done manually. Thumbprinting on ballot papers was used. So am waiting to hear where a server was storing votes across the country simultaneously during the election.

All I hear is server. What server are we talking about here? Except the one containing the data of the electorates which definitely could not capture votes.

Or is someone telling me the ballot papers are electronic.

Lovelive:


Wait patiently. Time will tell and the world in large will hear if or not there is server(which can be used to proof a point .

Let me speak a very simple English for better understanding for the story I am about to tell you(benekruku).
As was told(a familiar story): there was a time when a lawyer just to proof a point, when to toilet and came back to courtroom with opened zip trouser(simple pretence). When it was his turn to make his submission to the court, the chief judge discovered that the lawyer's trousers zip was opened and made it know to the lawyer that he forgot to zip up his trousers. And the lawyer also made it know to the court that he did it consciously so to proof a point to the court.
You know the rest. He won the case.

This server's issue, let's wait an see the end.

udemzyudex:


I told you to Google search too but your bias mind only read the part of programming card reader, well since that's all you know, no problem then.

kayroc:


He won those areas but the turnout is what they used to finish him. Turnout in South East and South South was too low to meet up against North East which is where Bihari and APC did magic.

He needed turnout of about 75% in South East and South south to neutralize North East and North West votes but his people on ground could not deliver.

If he had relied more on generating excitement via online campaign and social media he would have squeezed out more voters but no road.

I hope I explained better.

udemzyudex:


It's obvious you don't know anything and you really don't want to know.

Well I can't force you to educate yourself.

udemzyudex:


If this is all you could get from your research then no problem.

https://www.nairaland.com/5153169/2019-election-tribunal-demola-olanrewaju#77843991


I leave you with this but you can do more research on those words if you really want to enlighten yourself.

udemzyudex:


If this is all you could get from your research then no problem.

kayroc:
The way I am looking at it they will drag this case and silence the case over technicality of the 2010 Act. The issue is that Atiku's last hope was south east turn out, south south rigging and sharing votes in South West.

Best case scenario would have been recreation of Jonathan's 2011 map aka Orkar Map, but he was not able to gather the votes from South East and SS due to the last minute card reader changes.

If only he could gather the votes from East and South South he would be president today.

udemzyudex:


Google INEC RATECH or search for the words here on nairaland and find out what their job was at the just concluded election.

vacanci:
When you use a POS machine, the operator shows you what is about to be transmitted before you supply your PIN for transmission.

Now with the election, did the presiding officers show anyone what they were transmitting? I know the machine is called a card reader which is allowed by the law. Results were counted and collated manually and you guys want me to believe that after the collation, one PO will now enter a certain figure and transmit without any of the agents vetting it.