Former Kaduna State Governor, Balarabe Musa, on Saturday expressed disappointment over the postponement of the general elections and argued that INEC was never prepared for the exercise in the first place.

INEC announced the postponement few hours to the kickoff of the February 16 presidential and National Assembly polls.

The chairman of the Commission, Mahmoud Yakubu, while announcing the postponement in Abuja, attributed the step to “overwhelming logistics and operational challenges”.

The commission fixed Feb. 23 and March 9 as new dates for the Presidential and National Assembly elections and, the Governorship and State Assembly polls respectively.

Mr Musa, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Kaduna on Saturday, said he was disappointed, but not surprised, at the development.

“I am not surprised because INEC was never ready for the exercise, given the level of its preparations,” he said.,

“INEC had serious funding challenges; what was appropriated to the commission by the National Assembly was not adequate and everyone knew it.

“We are not even sure if the approved amount was released to the electoral body by the Federal Government.

“The logistics and operational challenges are glaring. There are also serious security challenges that may affect the agency in the course of the elections.

“The security services are facing the same funding crises and most of them are living in fear.

“You can also see the serious challenges being faced by the Judiciary, who are supposed to play a major role in the election process,” Mr Musa said.

“So, I must say that I am disappointed, but, again, as I said, I am not surprised.

“I hope that all the stakeholders will take the necessary measures to help INEC address the issues before Feb, 23, the new date for the Presidential polls, because the President can only hand over power to an elected person.”

Mr Musa called on Nigerians to remain calm, while waiting for the new dates for the polls. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/313267-inec-was-never-prepared-for-2019-polls-balarabe-musa.html

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INEC and Co. are complicit

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Indeed Nigerians and not Atiku are taking back their democracy.

Nigerians

Nigerians

A bunch of brigands cannot overcome us.

APC is a scourge

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Billions of Naira yet this is what INEC has to offer.

Something doesn't smell right....

Outside of the obvious bias, somebody somewhere is ripping us off and putting others at risk.

Meanwhile shay na Logistics dem say cause d postponement ba?

See who's in charge of NW logistics.


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Dear Nigerians

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Yeye fowl!!

You and your people were here online just hours ago claiming that it was the PDP that wanted a postponement and that APC is ready for polls.

See Tolu's tweet below

Shay na PDP dey remote control INEC.

You have idiotically talked yourself into a corner..

Mehn... I don't envy you.

Many of you will actually need Presidential pardons from the new government just to get by..

You have turned yourselves into accredited international and local pariahs.


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NONE, absolutely NONE of the reasons given account for POSTPONEMENT ON THE SAME DAY OF THE ELECTIONS.

Is it on the morning of elections that bad weather won't allow planes to land?
When were they supposed to have delivered the sensitive instruments? Surely not on the morning according to their own protocol.
The card readers burnt by you know who, is it not the same INEC that released a statement on Wednesday that they are good to go?
What changed? Beyond the stark realisation that the game is up.

AND SOME OF YOU THOUGHT INEC WAS INDEPENDENT!!

DEM NO REEESHH!!!




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They saw the polls

They have LOST their base!

No more 12million Northern block votes.

New voters got registered simply to vote APC out

They knew it was over

They are only postponing the inevitable


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This dear Toke goes way beyond disgust.

The 2015 polls were manipulated in Buhari's favour.

Many bought into the "Jonathan and PDP are demonic" narrative.

Only for these ones to get there and PROVE beyond all reasonable doubt that they are ONLY interested in money and power.

It is all over for Buhari and the APC.

What they should be more concerned with (the intelligent and sadly more scrupulous ones among them) is how to get a soft landing.



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E no reesh to speak Pidgin?

One simple reason among many...

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Quite frankly APC is a plague, a scourge on this Nation.

As opposition they politicised deaths as the government in power they have almost institutionalised death.


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Ladies and gentlemen

Wón ti gba penariti lo trow-in





When will they realise the game is up? Who will tell them?

Every play they make has been anticipated four years, four whole years ago and they think they can manipulate elections...





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This margin is small

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Nigeria will be well

May the souls of the departed who have paid the ultimate price rest in peace

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Almost everyone is suffering.

Some people are cleaning out while pretending to be fighting in the masses interests.

They are actually even stealing money for their own APC campaign!!

It's part of why they are failing woefully!

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Photos are far from the reality currently on ground!

Agenda of emergency meeting is to announce postponement.

The plan orchestrated by the APC to postpone and stagger elections citing arson, alleged PDP sponsored violence and Logistics is underway.

INEC is complicit (as we have always known).

They just may announce the postponement shortly!!


DESPERATE APC & BUHARI

YOU'VE FAILED

JUST GO ALREADY


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DESPERATE APC/BUHARI WANTS TO POSTPONE THE POLLS!!
DESPERATE APC/BUHARI WANTS TO POSTPONE THE POLLS!!
DESPERATE APC/BUHARI WANTS TO POSTPONE THE POLLS!!

STAGGERED LOCALISED POLLS EASIER TO RIG


Dem neva cheechumchin

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APC IS DESPERATE, DESPERATE, DESPERATE!!!


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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Saturday’s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm that the Managing Director of Activate Technologies Limited, Mohammed Sani Musa , whose company supplied the machines used in printing the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Niger East Senatorial district for tomorrow’s poll.

In a press statement issued on Friday in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Atiku stated that the revelation is a result of his team’s extensive intelligence gathering network to identify and prevent the ruling party from rigging the election.

The statement said, “It is public knowledge that Sani Musa, popularly known as Sani 313 is a card carrying member of the APC and a close associate of several stalwarts of the party, including President Muhammadu Buhari who apparently pushed his nomination. But shockingly, the APC Senatorial candidate for Zone B of Niger State,Mr. Mohammed Musa, has a contract with INEC to supply key voting materials in an election he is participating in, which is a clear conflict of interest and raises questions of probity and oversight in the issuing of INEC contracts.”

“The INEC contract was to ‘upgrade’ the card readers and to print PVC cards. Further investigations have shown that the ‘upgrade’ consisted of pre-programming the card readers to accept fake replica PVCs (copies of genuine PVCs) that the firm printed in Nigeria. These two activities were undertaken so that the APC could boost its vote tally in its strongholds or force votes in Polling Units at PDP strongholds to be null and void by over-voting .

“Our investigation also identified the seven States where this activity was due to take place and we have therefore informed the Observer Community and our own extensive network of over 176,000 Party Agents so that they can forestall this activity by checking cards as allowed under INEC guidelines.

“Given that that Mr.s Musa’s previous company, Act Technologies, had a contract to supply and install PVC card printers in the INEC Headquarters, it does beg the question why Mr Musa’s new company, Activate Technologies, was given a subsequent contract to print PVC cards itself?

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“Other investigations have revealed that an employee and Director of Activate Technologies and an APC member, Mr. Mohammed Keffi, was filmed at Abuja Airport Domestic Departure Lounge on 29th December opening an official INEC envelope and then handling multiple ballot forms which he was checking off against his mobile phone. Sources also confirmed that this person was one of the people who was loading the fake card numbers into the ‘upgraded’ card readers in the Residence of the former Governor of Akwa Ibom, as well as other ‘Card Reader Farms’ in Abuja and Kano. These ‘farms’ are under guard by members of Government Security agencies.”

“The PDP Presidential Candidate said while Alhaji Sani Musa has the right to hold any public office in spite of his line of business, it is morally unjustifiable to allow a well-known supplier of sensitive INEC materials to partake in an election in which the key materials to be used for the poll were supplied by him.

“A search at the Corporate Affairs Commission showed that most of the directors in Act Technologies are the same as those in Activate Technologies.The directors of Activate Technologies except Musa (now APC candidate) include: Abubakar Musa, Kabiru Abdullahi Bawa, Suleiman Danladi, Akinsuyi Akin Najeem. Activate Technologies located on Ganges Street, Maitama, learnt that is shares the same address as Act Technologies.”

He lamented that Activate Technologies was given contracts by INEC to supply PVCs for the 2019 general elections in spite of the fact that the owner of the firm is a candidate in tomorrow’s poll.

“A copy of one of many such contracts with reference number INEC/HQ/PROC/ICT/S106/1 dated October 4, 2017 and signed by the Secretary to INEC, Augusta Ogakwu, stated that the firm would need to print 112, 218 PVCs, ” Atiku said.

“Mr Musa had attempted to hide his ownership via proxy shareholders who have been revealed as members of his own family. However his position as Founder and MD of Activate Technology Limited was clumsily exposed to the world via his Linked-in page where he bragged about his firm to secure more business for it. The expression “Pride cometh before a fall” comes to mind and is a suitable epitaph for the arrogant and brazen people who form this failed government.”

“Our candidate and the Party has conducted extensive research into what the APC will be attempting to do to shore up their collapsed vote share in these elections having studied what we call the “Osun Playbook”. We have been able to implement extensive preventative measures to pre-empt their plans. So the Nigerian public can go out and vote confident in the knowledge that their vote will count”. “Our candidate has said on record that “even if you do not vote for me, please go out and vote as this election is not about me, it is about Nigeria and your future.”




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“So we would like to ask General Buhari, the self-declared “reformed democrat” whether what happened in Osun was an exception to his promise or his definition of what ‘free and fair’ means?

“We believe that on the basis of what we have exposed here today the Nigerian public can make up their own minds about this question and demonstrate their views at the polls tomorrow, secure in the knowledge that their votes will count.”

“So we would like to ask General Buhari, the self-declared “reformed democrat” whether what happened in Osun was an exception to his promise or his definition of what ‘free and fair’ means?

“We believe that on the basis of what we have exposed here today the Nigerian public can make up their own minds about this question and demonstrate their views at the polls tomorrow, secure in the knowledge that their votes will count.”



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/313157-atiku-alleges-plot-by-apc-to-rig-saturdays-presidential-election.html

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RIP

From May 29 2015 it was pretty certain that the number of deaths from ethnic attacks, Herdsmen and Boko Haram would increase.

People who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.

#ElrufaiBodyBags

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Before, what will INEC say?

Question: Has INEC in all its voter education for adhoc staff displayed the distinguishing features of a specimen ballot?

How do INEC staff and the public know how to tell the difference.

Never mind INEC, we are watching and recording EVERYTHING this time.




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