By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Joseph Erunke & Caleb Ayansina
ABUJA — [b]NIGERIAN Security Chiefs, yesterday, said the military was ready for the general elections expected to commence on February 14 with the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Service Chiefs who revealed this at the National Peace Committee for the 2015 elections meeting with representatives of different political parties in Abuja said that all the logistic problems that had affected the 2011 elections had been taken care of to ensure that the elections go as scheduled.
Specifically, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosun said; “We have commenced the airlift of the materials needed for the elections starting from Abuja, we will continue with the elections. The whole spectrum of the elections would be involved. It was logistics problems that made us to postpone the election four years ago, it is not going to happen again, we are already ahead of the game.
“We have a lot of unmanned airports in Nigeria, we have already deployed our men, we are going to man those airports. So, should we have saboteurs planning to use any of those airfields, it will be difficult for them. We are going to block all those unmanned airfields. We have already deployed and set up our soldiers to man those airfields. Those are the areas we may have linkages, the airport security, we are already ahead of the game to man the airfields to stop those that will want to bring in illegal materials into the country.”[/b]
[b]The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, said that though the military was much occupied with the insurgency in the north-east, they had capacity to tame any act of violence before, during and after the election. He said, “We are not directly involved in elections and electioneering but before the elections, we deploy will our personnel across the nation to assist civil powers and authority. During the elections, as we have done in other states, we also ensure that people are not used to go and cause trouble or mayhem after the elections and should there be any disturbances, we will assist the police.
“The military will deploy as much as we can across the nation. Even though we are busy in the north east, we also have capability across the nation.”
Chief of Army Staff General Kenneth Minimah said, “We are aware of the need for security before, during and after the elections. We will deploy across the states of the federation, in areas we discover that have capacity for violence. We are prepared to ensure we have a peaceful election. I appeal to politicians to obey the rules of the game and advise their followers to respect the laws of the land. As stipulated in the Electoral Act and the Constitution, no individual or groups should take the laws into their hands. We want the nation to have peace after this election.”[/b]
The former Head of State, Genera Abdulsalam Abubakar who is the Chairman of National Peace Committee for the 2015 elections said that Nigeria could not afford to experience the kind of electoral carnage that followed election process in some parts of the world, urging politicians to desist from making provocative statements that are capable of disrupting the nation’s peace.
“I have been involved in a lot of peace talks. It is sad when you go round Africa and see the kind of injuries inflicted on people as a result of electoral violence. We appeal to Nigerians to eschew violence. The contestants signed an accord to maintain peace; we demand that their followers maintain peace. The media has a herculean task to preach peace and avoid sensational reporting. We are not taking these threats lightly; we have noted the various utterances.”
Support for civil authority
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Suleiman Abba said that the military will have no business to be at the polling booths as it was not its responsibility. He also noted that the support for the civil authority by the military is statutorily provided as it was constitutionally provided in Section 217, adding that the military has the responsibility to support the civil society in maintaining internal security.
Chairman, Vanguard Media Limited, who is a member of the committee, Mr. Sam Amuka, in an interview said it was the responsibility of the media to undertake certain amount of self censorship, adding, “we should be wary of publishing some statements that can provoke anger and lead to violence.”
On the bashing of the media for allegedly heating up the polity, Mr. Amuka said, “there is no way you won’t bash the media. If you make a statement and the media does not give it attention, how many people will hear it. So the mass media have an important role, to preserve the peace of the country.”
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu who was represented by the party’s Deputy National Legal Adviser said the leader of the PDP and President of the country, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had in a number of occasions clearly said that his ambition did not worth the blood of any Nigerian, expressing that the president had showed enough commitment towards ensuring a credible and peaceful election.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/ready-elections-service-chiefs/

See shameful, disgraceful, corrupt and incompetent human contradictions by taxpayers funded civil servants.

What changed within 4 days?

Okay

This will never hit FP

sai GMB

OP, for reference sake, paste a direct link to the article on the OP.

What a contradiction this security chiefs have turned themselves and their lifes into!

The calamity that will befall jonathan,service chiefs and all those behind the attrocities in this country will surely cry with blood at the end of 29th May. Justice will be metted on them. All the chua chua they have taken MUST be taken back. Click like for freedom,justice and GMB.

Johnpaul88:
What a contradiction this security chiefs have turned themselves and their lifes into!

so you believe this OP? Use your mind a little & imagine why this meeting is just coming out today &it is here in Nairaland.

Now take your mind and tell me the day & date the NSA Dasuki called for postponement of the election. Now fast forward yourmind a little,tell me the day National Council of States met. If this thing this guy wrote is true, it would have gone viral on friday after NSC meeting on thursday and NSC through Abdulsalami could have reminded service chiefs what they said.

@ aresa please put a link on this.

We want frontpage,we ordinary Nigerians built nairaland to what it is now,not pdp.seun do d needful. Fp please

Front page please

God don catch them... Who even believed their excuse? Jega even know that the excuse is a ruse yet he played along. PDP in conjunction with the Military are planning something sinister. Whatever it is, the Nigeria masses will resist them and bring them down. Sai Buhari

dustmalik:
OP, for reference sake, paste a direct link to the article on the OP.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/ready-elections-service-chiefs/



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barcanista:
God don catch them... Who even believed their excuse? Jega even know that the excuse is a ruse yet he played along. PDP in conjunction with the Military are planning something sinister. Whatever it is, the Nigeria masses will resist them and bring them down. Sai Buhari

Jega sounds to me like an accomplice and part of the staged coup.


1. Jega functions under a civilian government and not under a military government so he shouldn't have paid the military any attention.

2. Jonathan is the commander in chief so the service chiefs should have tabled their concerns before the president and commander in chief. They have no constitutional rights to say anything to INEC under any circumstances and all security matters should be taken the their BOSS/The President and the president taking the issue to the National assembly for deliberations and action.

Jega either crumbled under pressure and threats or participated willingly.

Either way, the service chiefs are heading to jail with their masters, it's just a matter of time..

aresa:



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/ready-elections-service-chiefs/



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we are waiting for Tinubu to come and negotiate yorubas votes for Lagos or he should say bye bye to Lagos.

Jega should have gone ahead with the elections, these crop of service chief are unwell drunks like their boss that appointed them.

APC needs to come up with a game plan, gradually the parasites destroying people (pdp) are subverting democracy, the supreme court must be brought into the issue, state govs should drag the fg to court on this matter, it is a military coup in the making. The clueless drunk is epiclly daft that he has forgotten that in his gang of criminals he is merely a figure head being strung along a murky path!

barcanista:
God don catch them... Who even believed their excuse? Jega even know that the excuse is a ruse yet he played along. PDP in conjunction with the Military are planning something sinister. Whatever it is, the Nigeria masses will resist them and bring them down. Sai Buhari

...and you believe the crap above. Smh

mods......pls front page

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FreeGlobe:

we are waiting for Tinubu to come and negotiate yorubas votes for Lagos or he should say bye bye to Lagos.

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Tinubu is not a public official and he's not contesting for any public office so your life long shallow and irrelevant gayy fixation on Tinubu is your problem and not ours.

There's got to be more to you as a human being than trolling on the internet.....

Jonathan has successfully destroyed all our once revered institutions...

Very shameful...

FreeGlobe:

we are waiting for Tinubu to come and negotiate yorubas votes for Lagos or he should say bye bye to Lagos.

We are waiting for jonathan to negotiate on keeping 10 percent of his loot while snitching stealer oduah, athiefzon frog eyes, and the rest of his clique of bandits looting Nigeria!

vedaxcool:
Jega should have gone ahead with the elections, these crop of service chief are unwell drunks like their boss that appointed them.

APC needs to come up with a game plan, gradually the parasites destroying people (pdp) are subverting democracy, the supreme court must be brought into the issue, state govs should drag the fg to court on this matter, it is a military coup in the making. The clueless drunk is epiclly daft that he has forgotten that in his gang of criminals he is merely a figure head being strung along a murky path!

Their crimes in office is too huge for they themselves to comprehend and the fact that they see jail in their immediate future is driving they crazy and to the extreme...

They are basically looking for a safe way out and they'll do anything to get that way...

vedaxcool:


We are waiting for jonathan to negotiate on keeping 10 percent of his loot while snitching stealer oduah, athiefzon frog eyes, and the rest of his clique of bandits looting Nigeria!

the way yorubas defend Tinubu, an international convicted felon and former drug dealer is amazing

FreeGlobe:

the way yorubas defend Tinubu, an international convicted felon and former drug dealer is amazing

Mumu, I am not Yoruba, stop acting like a foolish tribal bigot and senseless gej mucus licker!

This is disgraceful. The once respected military has been turned into nothing more than a doormat at Aso Villa.

How did we get here??

aresa:
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Tinubu is not a public official and he's not contesting for any public office so your life long shallow and irrelevant gayy fixation on Tinubu is your problem and not ours.

There's got to be more to you as a human being than trolling on the internet.....

mr Fashola photographer, advice your senior master Tinubu, wisely. Time is ticking fast.

Cc: Seun, Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy.

aresa:



Their crimes in office is too huge for they themselves to comprehend and the fact that they see jail in their immediate future is driving they crazy and to the extreme...

They are basically looking for a safe way out and they'll do anything to get that way...

The fools forget that there is such a thing as sanctioning individuals internationally, the kindergarten bandits fail to understand they do not have the intelligence to survive an international uproar that would greet whatever evil they are planning, if na jail they fear them no be to return the loot wey dem steal?

vedaxcool:


Mumu, I am not Yoruba, stop acting like a foolish tribal bigot and senseless gej mucus licker!

And yet you chose a Tinubu over a newspaper convicted Amazon whose only crime was transforming our airports? keep playing yourself senseless Buhari and Tinubu mucus drinker

>>>> This post is for sane minds <<<<<<

The rot of the Military in any country is the measure of the highest point of corruption.

The Military is known to be disciplined, resolute and firm.

But under this administration, they have been used to:

1) rig elections as in the leaked tape in Ekiti.
2) discredit the opposition as in Buhari's certificate saga
3) enrich the cabal while disarming the gallant soldiers in the war against Boko Haram - monies meant for the procurement of weapons been siphoned while soldiers die on the battlefield just as stated in the letter one of the soldiers wrote to the President
4) And now to threaten democracy by arm twisting INEC to postpone the elections.

Any sane mind, who truly has a thinking cap would've asked why NOW?

However, we will wait; we will walk; we will live and VOTE for a new government. Enough is enough.

A president that asked how much Jim Nwobodo stole, a man who stole 5 million dollars back then, does not deserve a sane man's vote.

Frawzey

Aresa, I agree with you on Jega. He's not an honorable man. Jega is an accomplice and a traitor. But we shall bring them down

aresa:



Jega sounds to me like an accomplice and part of the staged coup.


1. Jega functions under a civilian government and not under a military government so he shouldn't have paid the military any attention.

2. Jonathan is the commander in chief so the service chiefs should have tabled their concerns before the president and commander in chief. They have no constitutional rights to say anything to INEC under any circumstances and all security matters should be taken the their BOSS/The President and the president taking the issue to the National assembly for deliberations and action.

Jega either crumbled under pressure and threats or participated willingly.

Either way, the service chiefs are heading to jail with their masters, it's just a matter of time..

What makes it a crap?

Descartes:
...and you believe the crap above. Smh

look at their tears flowing freely