Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly.

In the face of dwindling prospects for his re-election bid, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on a renewed three-pronged approach to scuttle the presidential election scheduled for February 14, several sources within the Presidency have disclosed. In a startling disclosure, our sources said Mr. Jonathan was willing to entertain a military take-over as one of his options.

Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly. Our sources said the president was deeply distressed to find out that several governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been working quietly with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart his re-election. “Apart from Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Mr. President is no longer sure that he can count on the support of any of our other governors,” an insider in the Presidency said.

Another source said several PDP governors were aggrieved that Mr. Jonathan shortchanged or abandoned them during the party’s primaries. Several of them are reportedly paying the president back by standing aloof from his campaigns or actively mobilizing support for Muhammadu Buhari, the APC’s presidential candidate.

Our sources revealed that the president and hawks within his administration held a prolonged meeting yesterday and decided that the elections must be frustrated at all cost.

OPTION 1
Two of the sources said Mr. Jonathan intends to call a meeting of the Council of State for Thursday to persuade its members to back a proposal to postpone the polls. In place of an election, the president wants to set up “a government of national unity” to be headed by him for 18 months to two years. It is unclear whether the council would endorse the plan to reschedule elections. The council’s membership includes past heads of state and presidents, and some of them have been openly critical of Mr. Jonathan’s record.

OPTION 2
One source stated that, as part of the broad strategy to scuttle the elections, the Presidency would refuse to pay the balance of the contract for the printing of ballot papers. The contract was awarded when the Nigerian currency, the naira, officially exchanged for N165 to a dollar. The source said the contractor, who claimed to be sourcing his foreign currency from the black market, is now seeking an adjustment to his contract. “The contractor wants to be paid N210 to a dollar, but President Jonathan and his team have refused to help the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) source the balance,” our source revealed.

Instead, the president and his team have advised INEC to look for a local Nigerian printer to print the ballot papers. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega and some of his top aides have balked at the idea of using a local printer. They argue that such an arrangement would be a perfect recipe for chaos, allowing the Presidency to use its considerable slush funds to illegally print duplicate papers with which to rig the election, as happened in several states in 2011.

A source at INEC told SaharaReporters that the commission’s chairman and some top officials suspect that the Jonathan administration was working seriously to undermine the commission’s credibility. “There is a lot of internal sabotage going on at INEC,” the source said. He disclosed that some resident electoral commissions were giving contradictory statements and reports about the commission’s preparedness for the February elections, without clearing with the headquarters. “Can you imagine also that even non-essential materials are being stolen from INEC offices, all in an effort to undermine the effort to hold elections,” said the source.

OPTION 3
The Presidency’s second option is the recruitment of some members of the defunct National Conference to press the case for postponing the elections until Nigerians discuss, adopt and implement the resolutions of the confab. In order to push that agenda, the Presidency has released more than N2 billion to Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Africa Independent Television (AIT), to coordinate the campaign for postponement of the elections. Using AIT and other willing media, Mr. Dokpesi is expected to press the case for constituting an interim national government headed by Mr. Jonathan. Earlier today in Abuja, Mr. Dokpesi’s AIT aired a live discussion by members of a “post national conference consultative committee”, to begin framing the case for postponement. The live program featured Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Femi Okurounmu, who headed a nationwide consultation for the national conference, Maurice Iwu, a notorious former INEC chairman, Mike Ezekhome, a lawyer, G.G. Darah, a professor and close associate of jailed former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, and Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna State whose involvement is perhaps the only surprise.

Dokpesi’s group is expected to use its huge war chest to argue that elections are untenable because of INEC’s questionable preparedness as well as the tense security situation in Nigeria’s northeast.

OPTION 4
The Presidency’s third option is the possible use of the Nigerian military to scuttle the election. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, General Tobiah Minimah, is reportedly a key player in executing the military option. One source reported that General Minimah, who is from President Jonathan’s Niger Delta region, was initially reluctant, but eventually signed up for the scheme to use the military to intervene should the elections proceed and not go President Jonathan’s way.

Our sources said the president was irate that INEC chairman, Mr. Jega, had been avoiding meetings with him and his presidential aides. “Professor Jega has maintained that he wants to be seen to have conducted a free and transparent election, even if imperfect. He has therefore maintained that there is no point going to Aso Rock to hold meetings exclusively with Mr. President, who is a candidate, and the president’s team,” one source close to Mr. Jega said.

Our Presidency sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan had started looking for ways to remove the INEC chairman from office. “If they succeed in postponing the elections, the president will either suspend Prof. Jega, the way he did to former Central Bank Governor [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] or ask him to go on compulsory leave pending the end of his tenure.”

While SaharaReporters was about to publish this report, several sources told our reporters that President Jonathan and his co-travelers have moved to the courts as a way of scuttling the elections, at least five court cases have been filed to either postpone the elections and disqualify the APC candidate , Muhammad Buhari.

A reliable source told our team of investigators that President Jonathan is shopping for a federal high court judge to scuttle the elections with a court order in the next few hours.

SOURCE: http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/02/jonathan-renews-push-election-postponement-hope-fades-victory

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Elections must take place come febuhari 14th... inec had 4yrs to prepare for it. Jona pack ur load and Go. thank U for ur services. E don do Us


Sai Buhari

In the days leading to 2015 election, many unfounded news and propaganda would emerge.

Many will tell unverified lies. Falsification, caricature and propaganda shall be on the increase.

Watch that you are not deceived.

If you need any clarification consult your subconscious mind.

Peace!

hmmmmm. Problem .......

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In every rumour there always lies an element of truth. My prayer is dat d evil plan of jonathan to hinder dis election shall not prosper. Feb 14 is d judgment day.

Scuttle or no Scuttle

Military or not

Any thing that will ensure Team GEJ leaves is a welcome idea.

What am i saying self, Febuhari Election must hold

hmm!
It is very pathetic that gej could be this power hungry afterall he had admitted that if he cant do it in 4years even though he spent 100years he will not do anything. by his words I stand out of his 4years we experience
NAIRA devaluation
job scam by abba moro
plummeting of the economy
high scale corruption
all his score card did not made up to average

I pray God will take control in Nigeria and glorify himself.

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THIS IS ONLY AN IMAGINATION OF APC AND THE MEDIA WING(SHAHARA REPORTERS).

CONFAB RESSOLUTIONS MUST BE IMPLIMENTED AND GOODLUCK JÖNATHAN CONTINUE AS OUR PRESIDENT TILL 2019.

What else can be more useless than this speculative report?

All i see is OUR SOURCE SAID .please,anytime you read "our source said report'',tell them to go to hell,if they can't mention names,or profer evidence.

BTW, i saw "three" throng ed ways to linger the election,but Sharia Reporters in their usual stupidity,wrote down four speculative lies.

Please,how can this idiot reporters associate Gej,with the ongoing multiple cases against Buhari,by patriotic Nigerians,who sorts to prosecute him for Forgery,Perjury and non proper filling of INEC forms,which automatically voids the papers?.

Shm on Sahara SHARIA Reportes .

GEJ All the way.

What type of lies are all these? SR should increase the options to 10 and not 5.

SR please name this your source or is this a figment of the writers imagination?

All options are dead on arrival.

Click like if you agree that the election must hold starting on Saturday, 14 February 2015.

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Keneking:
All options are dead on arrival.

Click like if you agree that the election must hold starting on Saturday, 14 February 2015.

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gabriel212:
hmm!
It is very pathetic that gej could be this power hungry afterall he had admitted that if he cant do it in 4years even though he spent 100years he will not do anything. by his words I stand out of his 4years we experience
NAIRA devaluation
job scam by abba moro
plummeting of the economy
high scale corruption
all his score card did not made up to average

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We the youth should blame tinubu for fielding such a man,Nigerians would suffer lets not deceive ourselves like we are doing by saying Pa super clueless Buhari is change that we don't need at this point in our nascent democracy , 2019 would have been the best time to make an easy and smooth change right now we got two choices which is it's either we take a NO deal over a bad deal,because Pa super clueless Buhari does not appeal to everyone at this point in nigeria history this would lead to a NO deal or we take a bad deal which can eventually lead to a good deal at the end for everyone, don't let the urgent trump the important, mark my word Pa super clueless Buhari is a no deal and this can only lead to destruction of our refinery and bringing the boys back to the creek thereby crippling our economy no one gives out power without a fight and mind you Pa super clueless Buhari would not rule by decree again so don't expect what ever clueless success he had then to be achieved now in a democratic dispensation, the same man that destroyed our democracy in the past is coming back to enjoy it, pa Buhari got to moral justification to do this if not for the lame frog eyed thiefnibu that projected him if GEJ did not do well why can't the fight him individually ?they had to gang to to fight him so they can have their hands on our collective wealth am no fool I can read the signs even with the frustration and distraction the man worked imagine giving this man a free and fair hand to operate just like the past head of state.



How on earth would you say someone should take an uneducated 83 years old man that has been out of government for over 30 years to be his president?


Well, if you may care to know, Buhari won't rule with decrees and this time around it will be laws as entrenched in the constitution. So the era of waking up and enacting a decree is over. Looking at the people bankrolling his campaign and the party, they are a collection of aggrieved congregational congress according to Soludo. These guys are angry because, they have not being able to lay their hands on our common wealth.

Come to think of it Nigerians ,can Buhari cope with the complexities of modern leadership? We are in a situation in Nigeria where the President outsourced his responsibilities because he isn't capable and we are clamouring for someone that is even super clueless. Yes, he has no integrity........Well, time will tell. Fighting corruption in Nigeria is like fighting unemployment benefit and immigration issues in the UK.

Dont believe all those propaganda they all want in on the action , them wan chop too at our detriment, for those who care to know it takes faith, understanding plus patience in the system to experience growth and to experience the growth we must avoid the path of confrontation, a bitter truth ,2019 would be the best time for us to evaluate ourselves and make a peaceful hitch free change ,you can't take power from the ss without confrontation because the north would be getting it through violence as Nigerians we need to let them know that violence is not the way to get power because if it's that way don't expect a stable government from pa Buhari this is democracy we either choose to move forward or remain stagnant. The world is watching us and our stupidity.

For those that are married would you chase your wife out of the house because she's not perfect just to marry another one who you think is perfect when you know that no human is perfect who's fooling who?

abeg stop all this useless propaganda.If GEJ wants to rig the elections he does not need to go through all this hassles you just listed as options.There are better and far easier ways of rigging elections than the nonsense you idiots just posted

Na laugh I dey laugh

Firefire:
In the days leading to 2015 election, many unfounded news and propaganda would emerge.

Many will tell unverified lies. Falsification, caricature and propaganda shall be on the increase.

Watch that you are not deceived.

If you need any clarification consult your subconscious mind.

Peace!

The best response that could ever be given for such stoopid blatantly false and patently inciting trash.

February 14 presidential election date is sacrosanct and not negotiable. Any attempt to shift it will be seriously resisted through civil disobedience. GEJ better be properly guided.

Only time will tell if the news is true or false .

True or not.

In gathering they shall gather….but since their gathering is against NIGERIA. They shall not prevail.

Jonathan should be mindful and accept defeat honourably when he is defeated. Using the military to scuttle the electoral process is tempting retired general and former heads of state like Obasanjo, Babangida and Abubakar. These men have loyalty among officer and soldiers in the Nigerian Army. Babangida has warned that the military should not be politicised as the 2015 election draws close. We should learn J. J. Rawlings of Ghana, an Airforce officer, who after handing over power to a civilian government, gathered some military men to take over power again when he realized the lapses in the government.

Anyone that says this report is mere speculation is either a fo.ol or a blood.y hypocrite.....

....why......these plans of Jonathan are already unfolding... Jonathan is really desperately looking for a way to scuttle the elections.

Elections must hold

This is serious