Vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi has said the results declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from Anambra state was unacceptable to the party.
He said, “When over 400,000 Card Readers got burnt it became clear that something was wrong somewhere and INEC could not save the situation and they will not allow people to vote manually.
“But in some other parts of the country people are allowed to vote manually and it was accepted by the electoral body. Now how can you tell me that a state like Yobe and Bornu produced the number of voters that is higher than Anambra and Ebony states put together?
“The two states are areas that have been at war and I wonder how they got Card Readers that are working so well despite the war situation that they found themselves?"
Addressing newsmen in his Onitsha residence, Obi further lamented that the poll was systematically planned to ensure the south-east zone did not participate fully in the election.
The Imo State Commissioner of police, Dasuki Galadanchi has confirmed that a former National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu, was invited, but has been granted bail on self-recognition.
The Police boss said that EFFC operatives actually came looking for Iwu.
The CP told The Punch that, “The EFCC operatives from Lagos arrived in Owerri and reported in my office that they came to arrest Prof Maurice Iwu based a petition against him. This happened on the election day which was on Saturday.
“I called Prof Maurice Iwu who came over to my office. I asked him to make a statement which he did. He was immediately granted bail on self-recognition based on his age and personality, as a man who has served this country as National Chairman of INEC.”
The CP said that Iwu promised to report himself to the EFCC office in Lagos on a later date.
The evils of jungle justice. An angry mob has descended heavily on a woman after she was accused of stealing a man's manhood in Osun. The woman was attacked, beaten and disgraced by the crowd following the shocking allegation.
She was caught by a man near Wema bank at roundabout in Ilesa area of the state.
In the incident which was filmed and posted online, the woman who appears to be mentally unstable, can be seen being interrogated by the crowd after she was seriously beaten and stripped off her clothes.
When asked how many manhood she has stolen, she said 60 and smiled, a gesture which earned her more beating. Internet users have reacted to the video – with many claiming the woman is mentally unbalanced and might have confessed out of duress.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to discontinue the announcement of the presidential election results.
The PDP demanded that the announcement be placed on hold for INEC to release data of the accreditation done by card readers in the election, to prove if the results are real.
The party made the call at a press conference by Kabiru Turaki, deputy director-general of the PDP presidential campaign organisation, addressed in Abuja on Wednesday.
Twenty-eight states have so far been announced by INEC at the national collation centre in Abuja.
But PDP said votes cast it in its strongholds were cancelled, “particularly in Yobe, Nasarawa, Zamfara and Plateau.”
“The PDP demands the immediate discontinuation of the announcement until data from the use of card readers are made available... The data are being reconfigured to align with the manipulations carried out in various polling units across the country,” he said.
A mother and her 19-year-old daughter massacred five of their family members including two nine-year-old twins inside a single bedroom, authorities said. Cops were called to the flat in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on Monday afternoon and found all victims inside a single bedroom.
Suspects Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, have been taken into police custody where they each face counts of homicide.
Found dead were Shana's daughter, 25-year-old Naa’Irah Smith, her son, 13-year-old Damon Decree Jr., her sister, Jamilla Campbell, 42, and twin nine-year-old nieces, Imani and Erika Allen.
A friend of the victims told NBC10 in Philadelphia that a landlord had been called to carry out a welfare check on the residents.
"I saw the landlord and said, ‘What’s going on?’," they said.
"And she said, ‘We are doing a welfare check because trash is piled up out there for awhile to see if they are alright.'"
Morrisville police chief George McClay told LevittownNow.com there was no obvious signs of trauma on the bodies and that fire crews didn’t detect any hazardous materials on site.
The cause of death remains under investigation.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub told a press conference last night: “This is a terrible tragedy.
"I just spoke with the family of the five of the deceased and we’re all heartbroken.”
Speaking to the Bucks County Courier Times, he added: "The people that committed these atrocious acts are in custody and we’ll make them pay for their crimes.”
The motive is not known at this stage.
Police are also searching for Jamilla’s 17-year-old son, Joshua Campbell, to make sure he is safe. He is not a suspect.
Strong man of Benue politics, George Akume, the senator representing Benue north-west senatorial district, has lost his bid to return to the senate, despite putting up a serious fight in his district.
Orker Jev, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member in the house of representatives, sent Akume out of the upper legislative chamber in Saturday’s election.
He polled 157,726 against Akume’s 115,422 votes. Akume is the third ex-governor and serving senator to lose reelection in 2019.
Senate president, Bukola Saraki, a former governor of Kwara, and Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom, had earlier lost out.
A woman has been told by doctors that she might never be able to have babies after damaging her uterus due to abortion. She has undergone about 17 abortions in six years.
It is said that the woman's womb was so badly damaged after all the procedures that her uterus lining was 'as thin as a piece of paper,' according to a doctor at the
Shiyan Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital. The patient, known by a pseudonym Xiao Ju, has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for six years and the couple don't use contraception, reportedly Shiyan Evening News.
According to Daily Mail, the lady told the doctors that she was not ready to get married and was not capable of raising a child, therefore she had decided to terminate all pregnancies, said the report.
Any babies born out of wedlock in China will not be issued an ID, which means they will not be entitled to state benefits or the right to receive education.
Dr. Zhao Qin, head of gynaecology at Shiyan Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital in Central China's Hubei Province, said she had urged a pregnant Xiao Ju to keep her child when she visited the hospital again this month.
Dr. Zhao explained to her that it might be her last chance at motherhood.
However, the 27-year-old insisted on the procedure, leaving Zhao and her colleagues no choice but to perform what was the patient's 17th abortion in just six years.
It is said that Xiao Ju has visited the hospital so often that the doctors call her 'a regular customer'.
Vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, said the results declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from Anambra state was unacceptable to the party.
He accused the electoral umpire of disenfranchising over 8 million registered voters in the South East Geo-political Zone in the last general election.
Addressing newsmen in his Onitsha residence, Obi further lamented that the election was systematically planned to ensure the zone did not participate fully in the exercise.
He argued that only 20% were able to cast their votes out of 10 million registered voters in the area.
He said, “You will recall that on the election day I said that the process was clumsy and we also had major problem of card readers and most people could not vote.
“When over 400,000 Card Readers got burnt it became clear that something was wrong somewhere and INEC could not save the situation and they will not allow people to vote manually.
“But in some other parts of the country people are allowed to vote manually and it was accepted by the electoral body. Now how can you tell me that a state like Yobe and Bornu produced the number of voters that is higher than Anambra and Ebony states put together?
“The two states are areas that have been at war and I wonder how they got Card Readers that are working so well despite the war situation that they found themselves?
Obi regretted the retrogressive disposition the country was tilting to, noting that instead of the country building on achievements of the 2015 general election the country was on a reverse
The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, has paraded Governor Nyesom Wike’s Commissioner for Urban Development and Physical Planning, Dr. Reason Onya; and the representative of Ahoada West constituency in Rivers House of Assembly, Nwanaka Okpokiri, for rigging last Saturday’s elections in the state.
The Camp Commandant of Government House, Port Harcourt, Oyoku Ifelle, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP); Major Akpoge Peter Ubah of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt and thirty one others, including policemen, thugs and ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), including two women, were also paraded.
Maj.-Gen. Sarham paraded the 35 suspects Tuesday through 6 division’s Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, at a crowded news conference at 6 division, Port Harcourt on the discoveries and arrests made by troops of the formation, in conjunction with other security agencies, for electoral offences between February 22 and 23.
All the 35 suspects were handed over to the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Rivers Police Command, Ahmed Kontagora, who represented the Rivers state Commissioner of Police, Usman Belel, at 5:50 p.m. Tuesday.
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court Nyanya on Tuesday sentenced a 27-year–old internet fraudster, Pius Jesse, to two months in prison for defrauding three different women.
NAN reports that Justice Kekemeke convicted Jesse after he pleaded guilty to cheating and fraud.
EFCC had earlier arraigned Jesse and accused him of using the internet (Facebook) under the pretext of being in a relationship with three women, Cindy, Bertha and Janeth.
The EFCC said Jesse had induced them individually and made them deliver to him 300, 150 and 250 dollar itunes card.
The commission told the court that Jesse under the false pretext adopted a European names; Uzzisavage and Philplaory with fake photos to accomplish his task.
EFCC said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 322 of the Penal Code Laws of the Federation (Abuja 1990).
The convict had pleaded guilty to the charge and entered into plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the prosecuting agency,
Delivering judgment, Kekemeke held that “in view of this, you are convicted in counts one, two and three.
“You are accordingly sentenced to two months in prison in each of the count and the sentence is to run concurrently.”
The judge also ordered that all the items listed in the plea bargain letter should be forfeited to the Federal Government.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded immediate halt to the ongoing collation of results of Saturday’s presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The main opposition party said collation of results must be stopped until data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units are made available to all the parties in the election.
At a media briefing in Abuja Tuesday, the Deputy Director General (Admin) of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Tanimu Turaki SAN, the party cited manipulations, rigging and over-voting in some states by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The PDP predicates its demand on available evidence to the effect that data from the card readers are being reconfigured to suit the manipulations, rigging and over-voting already carried out during the election in some states by the All Progressives Congress (APC)”, Turaki said.
Turaki added that the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus had already communicated the party’s position to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has declared he would go into a full blast campaign for his anointed candidate, Hon Abdulkadir Akinlade of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) ahead of the March 9 gubernatorial contest.
Amosun, who was reacting to his victory at the last Saturday’s National Assembly election in Ogun Central Senatorial district, said he decided to step down the planned campaign for a day in honour of his aide, Mr. Adeniyi Adesanya, who died in a ghastly auto crash on the eve of the polls.
The Governor, who is Senator – elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), also boasted his God was greater than that of his foes.
He declared this was why they did not succeed when there was a gang up against him during the contest.
According to him, the released results betrayed the fact that there was little difference in numbers votes cast for him and those for President Muhammadu Buhari during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Amosun said irrespective of what you do or how perfect one is, there some people would not like you.
He said: “I’m happy for the result of the election, people have benefited from it, that is the way life is.
“People know who they were voting for in APC, clearly when the result was out, check Mr. President result and check mine you will see the are little difference.
“Those are the people that don’t want us, those that want us are about 80-90 percent and those that don’t want us are about 10 percent, that’s life.
“Don’t think that everybody will love you even how much perfect you may be, we are humans, there are some people that won’t like you and even if they don’t hate you, they will just don’t like you.
“I don’t hate anybody. Truly I wasn’t taking them serious that they wanted to gang up against me but if you see the result of the election you will know that truly they ganged up against me but that God in me is far greater than God that is in all of them.
“Yes, I am happy I want to represent my people, they have given me their votes, I am really grateful, elated and I can’t thank them enough.
“From today, we are stepping down campaigns in memory of our colleague that lost his life and we thank God for SSG’s life, we won’t be able to start the campaign today.
“Indeed we just stepped down the excos and tomorrow we are starting fully for my candidate, our candidate Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade, from tomorrow all our Assembly members and people are ready for the campaign.
“People have benefitted from our APC, but no problem because I have to come out that this election it is APC because President Muhammdu Buhari must win and truly we have demonstrated that.“
A female staffer on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign claimed yesterday that he had kissed her without her consent.
Alva Johnson, 43, said the then presidential candidate grabbed her hand and leaned in for a kiss on the lips as he exited from a car outside a rally in August 2016.
She says she turned her head and the unwanted smacker landed on the side of her mouth – branding it “super-creepy and inappropriate”.
Johnson, now launching a lawsuit against Trump, said: “I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it. I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.
“I’ve tried to let it go. You want to move on with your life. I don’t sleep. I wake up at 4 in the morning looking at the news. I feel guilty.
The only thing I did was show up for work one day.”
The former Trump campaign worker broke her silence, two-and-a-half-years after the alleged kiss, during an interview with The Washington Post.
Events planner Johnson said she told her boyfriend, mother and stepfather about the incident later the same day, an account all three confirmed to the newspaper.
More than a dozen women have publicly accused Trump of inappropriate behaviour, but Johnson is the only woman to come forward since he became president.
She had consider coming forward in October 2016, after video surfaced of Trump bragging about kissing and groping “by the p****”.
The African-American mum-of-four, from Alabama, got involved in the tycoon’s campaign because she thought he could use his business experience to help black communities.
She claimed she first met Trump at a November 2015 rally, where he looked her up and down and said: “Oh, beautiful, beautiful, fantastic.”
Two months later, she joined his campaign as a director of outreach and coalitions in Alabama.
President Buhari today returned to work after taking a break for the presidential election. Among the visitors he received today is Kaduna State Governor, El-Rufai. More photos below…
She wrote this on Instagram, suggesting if fake news is not stopped fast, it might cause war. She then suggested people who spread fake news should be imprisoned for life. She wrote;
''I suggest the punishment for spreading "FAKE NEWS" should be life imprisonment! Fake news has done so much damage to our society.....I'm afraid "FAKE NEWS" may cause war. For the love and unity of our dear nation let's stop FAKE NEWS before it stops us.''
Delay is not denial. 22 years after they got married, a Nigerian pastor and his wife have welcomed their first baby. The couple identified as Reverend and Mrs Nnaghe Itam of Foundation Faith Church (Salem Church) in Calabar, are celebrating the arrival of their baby.
The cute baby girl named Gordalli-Evergreen Nnaghe Itam was dedicated in church on Sunday, Febuary 24, amid joyous cries and praise.
The child dedication programme was shared on the church official Facebook Page;
“Glory to God as our Papa and Mama Dedicate our Global Baby Gordalli-Evergreen Nnaghe Itam, she goes to Church today after 22 years of Marriage. The Joy that fills our Hearts knows no bounds. #BreakingForth #Imagodei #AMCCalabar”
Facts have finally emerged on how a female Divisional Police Officer attached to the Ejigbo Division, CSP Olabisi Ekwuobi, foiled an attempt by the staff of a Lagos based oil business mogul, Solomon Otungo, to kidnap him for N60m ransom.
It was gathered that the suspects, Agu Izuchukwu,19, Tunde Olaewo, 21 and the facilitator, one Sunday Nwankwo, were swiftly arrested based on intelligence gathered by CSP Ekwuobi.
The incident happened at Bucknor Estate in Ejigbo area of Lagos where the two suspects Izuchukwu and Olaewo were at an undisclosed location perfecting their plan.
The failed attempt have landed two of the suspects in police net and their alleged confessional statement led to the arrest of the third suspect described as an accomplice.
This was confirmed by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zubairu Muazu, at the State Command. The police boss said that the suspects were rounded up based on credible intelligence received by the police decoy attached to Ejigbo Police Station.
He explained that the suspects were alleged to be holding a nocturnal meeting with the view to kidnap and keep their employer incommunicado until a ransom of N60million is paid.
Muazu said that based on the tip off, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ejigbo Police Station, CSP Okuwobi Olabisi, reportedly mobilized police detectives who swiftly stormed the venue of the meeting where the employees were arrested.
P.M. Express reliably gathered that the suspects in the course of interrogation named one Sunday Nwankwo as an accomplice and was later nabbed in Isolo area of the state.
CP Muazu while confirming the arrest in a release said all that the suspects have confessed to the crime and to have planned to demand the N60million ransom from their target if their plan had succeeded. Muazu added that all the suspects will be charged to court after the conclusion of investigations.
