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Election Security: Successful conduct of Governorship/Re-run National Assembly elections:
Edo State Governorship election held on 28/09/2016
Ondo State Governorship election held on 26/11/2016
Re-runs National Assembly election in Imo and Kogi 23/07/2016
Rivers States Re-runs National Assembly election 10/12/2016
Anambra State Governorship election held on 18/11/2017
Anambra Central Senatorial Re-run election held on 13/01/2018
Ekiti State Gubernatorial Election held on 14th July, 2018
Osun State Gubernatorial Election held on September 22, 2018.
Prosecution of Electoral Offenders; During the 10th of December, 2016 Rivers State Re-run National Assembly Election, Six (6) Police Officers who violated the Electoral Act 2010 (As Amended) were tried, found guilty and dismissed from the Force while twenty three (23) INEC Staff were arraigned in court and undergoing prosecution. ₦114,000,000 Million Naira recovered from the INEC Staff was deposited in Federal Government Treasury as exhibit.

Great Achievement Of IGP Ibrahim Idris As Inspector General of Police Opinion / Security/CrimeGreat Achievement Of IGP Ibrahim Idris As Inspector General of Police January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 - by admin By Adewole Kehinde The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris since his appointment as IGP as been able to manage the herculean responsibility of oversee...

IGP Idris absolved the Police of any blame after a closed-door meeting with the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the standoff at the NASS complex reached him as a surprise, adding that the Police would soon issue a statement in relation to the impasse.

Police Not Involved In NASS Siege – IGP Idris – Swift Reporters News / Security/CrimePolice Not Involved In NASS Siege – IGP Idris August 7, 2018August 7, 2018 - by Swift Reporters The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has said the Nigeria Police Force was not involved in the siege on the National Assembly (NASS) by security operatives. IGP Idr...

Nigerians Still Believe In PDP - Former President Goodluck Jonathan (photos)

The former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan said Nigerians still believe in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) - Jonathan said it is heart warming to know that Nigerians still believes and trust the largest opposition party - He called on all members to work together to ensure that the PDP is strengthened

The former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians still believe in the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Jonathan said despite all its struggling within the past 14 months, it is heart warming to know that Nigerians still believes and trust the largest opposition party.
While speaking in Abuja on Monday, July 17, at the PDP's national expanded caucus meeting, the former president said he only attended the meeting to thank all the party members for staying strong and steadfast during its leadership crisis.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/1115478-nigerians-pdp-former-president-goodluck-jonathan-photos.html

Nigerians still believe in PDP - Former President Goodluck Jonathan (photos) The former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians still believe in the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) despite its challenges.

Why Nigeria Should Be Begging Igbos – Fani-Kayode.

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said Nigeria should be begging Igbos for forgiveness and not threatening them.

According to Fani-Kayode, the people from the South East need to be apologized to, after “we killed 3 million Igbos in the war including 1 million children.”

He wrote on his Twitter account: “We killed 3 million Igbos in the war including 1 million children. We should be begging them for forgiveness and not threatening them.”

Before tweeting that, Fani-Kayode posted a cryptic tweet that read: “O Lord honor thy word. That which u said will happen that will shake this nation let it happen quickly. Crush the heathen and let him perish.”

Recall that he had claimed to be in possession of an audio tape , where Northerners were ordered to kill Igbos on October 1.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/06/nigeria-begging-igbos-fani-kayode/

Why Nigeria should be begging Igbos - Fani-Kayode - Daily Post Nigeria Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said Nigeria should be begging Igbos for forgiveness and not threatening them. According to Fani-Kayode,

Gowon, Obasanjo Warn Against A Repeat Of 1966 Events In Nigeria

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Tuesday warned Nigerians to do everything possible to avoid the repeat of the 1966 coup and the events that led to unprecedented bloodshed in the country.

The two eminent citizens and elderstatemen sounded the warning at the launch of the biography of late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

The book, a biography of Brigadier Maimalari, was authored by Haruna Yahaya Poloma with the title ‘The First Regular Combatant: Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari”. It was reviewed by General Ike Nwachukwu (Rtd).

The book presentation was attended by eminent Nigerians and serving military Officers among whom was the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai. Brigadier Maimalari was among top military officers killed during the nation’s first military coup on January 15, 1966.


Former President Obasanjo who gave reasons for some of the decision taken by his government in his second coming as civilian president in 1999, said the top most lesson for Nigerians to learn from unfolding events in the country is that the nation has had enough of tragedies.

He said he decided to retire Maimalari’s son who was the then Military Administrator of Jigawa State for certain reasons. Obasanjo said: “What lesson can we learn? The lesson we can learn is that we have had enough tragedies in this country.”

“I have no apology but I have explanation. It’s because it’s necessary to stop this sort of things that took the life of your father prematurely, that we had to take the decision that all those who have tasted power, that they should never have tasted, of political office that we should ease them out of the Army so that we can have an Army that is free from political aberration.

“So far, since 1999, it seems that we have got it right. Let us hope that we continue to get it right and learn that Nigeria has had enough of bloodshed, enough of sacrifices by those victims, that Nigeria deserves peace, unity and progress,” Obasanjo asserted.

On his part former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon said “several of our institutions have been poisoned mostly by the virus of corruption.

“Our people are in pain and require deliverance. But the rot is not all round,” he said.


Gowon stated that “in the years that follwed, he enjoyed steady professional advance and was favourably mentioned as one of the likely successors to ultimate authority on the departure of the colonial masters.

“Many things happened and many things failed to happened. He (Maimalari) was denied the ultimate prize and this denial produced widespread consternation.

“No one less deserved the sort of death visited on Brigadier Maimalari. I have sometimes wondered just what might have been had he survived the mutiny of that night.

“To my mind, Maimalari would perhaps have used his huge influence to reestablish civic order and governance. Perhaps in which case, there might not have been no further killings.

“Perhaps, maybe in the absence of the killings, the violence which became part of our nation’s vernacular would have been asbent.

“Perhaps, there would have been no Biafra, no Ojukwu, no Gowon as we know them, no war and our democratic governments would have grown in stature as vehicles of popular service.”

The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who was represented by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu said “often, the Nigerian landscape has been disfigured by appalling examples of poor leadership and bad governance.

“So dominant has this been that our youth can be misled into feeling that there is a total absence of idealism and heroism in our society.

“Yet, nothing can be further from the truth, in our past and in our present, we can find exceptional examples of selfless service and notable deeds with which we can inspire in our youth.”

Osinbajo said “the example of Maimalari, particularly, his growth from humble beginnings, through diligence and hard work, to the dizzy heights of public service success is worth sharing. History can thus be a useful tool in the propagation of good examples.

“History as a subject in our schools has become fairly infamous, with students often feeling that the subject has no practical value.

“Yet, without a grounding in history, how do we know we who we are, where we come from, and more importantly, as a people, where we are going to?

“As a government, we have been concerned with the decline in the decline and the study of history and this has seen us recover history from the place where it has been ignored for too long and placed it back firmly in school curriculum.”

Also, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen. Tukur Buraita paid glowing tributes to Brigadier Maimalari and commended the efforts of the author of the book for the documentation of events in the past.

http://thenationonlineng.net/gowon-obasanjo-warn-repeat-1966-events-nigeria/

Gowon, Obasanjo warn against a repeat of 1966 events in Nigeria - The Nation Nigeria Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Tuesday warned Nigerians to do everything possible to avoid the repeat of the 1966 coup and the events that led to unprecedented bloodshed in the country. The two eminent citizens and elderstatemen sounded th...

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Restructure Or Split Nigeria Now – Niger Delta Tells Federal Government

Traditional rulers and Civil Society Organiations in the Niger Delta region have demanded for the immediate restructuring of Nigeria.

The people of the region slammed the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for feigning ignorance of the term ‘restructuring.’

The groups, Niger Delta Security Watch Organization of Nigeria, NDSWN, Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, and Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, led by Bekederemo Dickson, Austin Ozobo and Alawoei Cleric, respectively, in a statement, said the only alternative to restructuring was separation.

On his part, a royal father in the Niger Delta region, Dr. Chukwumela Nnam-Obi, II, the Oba of Ogbaland, said that restructuring was the recipe that would ensure unity and the development of every part of the country.

The rights groups in a joint statement declared that, “We read with shock, the outburst by the APC National Chairman, Odigie-Oyegun, saying that APC is not in support of restructuring of Nigeria. It is imperative to note that Nigeria is bigger than APC, Odigie-Oyegun and that their position will not really determine the divisibility of Nigeria.

“Whether APC manifesto supports restructuring or not, it does not matter. What matters is the wishes of generalities of Nigerians. We want to state here that the quest for restructuring this structurally defective country back to the very political structure at independent is beyond Odigie-Oyegun and his party.

“It is a political tsunami that no man can stop with rhetoric or appeal to sentiment. The alternative to restructuring of this country to the very structure at independent upon, which our unity and indivisibility was built is separation by any means necessary.

“In the very words of lBB, it is an ideal that has come to stay. Those who are opposed to restructuring will live to regret their ill informed decisions. The claim that APC is about providing food for Nigerians and not restructuring falls below expectation. We are constrained to inform Odigie-Oyegun and his APC that what Nigerians desire urgently are justice, fairness and equality. These can only be actualized through restructuring.

“We want Nigeria to be a true federal state with six autonomous regions. Each of the regions contributing equally to a common pulse as it was in our independent constitution of 1960.

“Again, we equally disagree with Junaid Mohammed of his uninformed position of no restructuring of this lopsided Nigeria state. We are not surprised to hear this from the likes of Junaid Mohammed, who is from a region that is benefiting from the defective federal structure at the detriment of other regions.”

The people of the region slammed the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for feigning ignorance of the term ‘restructuring.’

The groups, Niger Delta Security Watch Organization of Nigeria, NDSWN, Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, and Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, led by Bekederemo Dickson, Austin Ozobo and Alawoei Cleric, respectively, in a statement, said the only alternative to restructuring is separation.

On his part, a royal father in the Niger Delta region, Dr. Chukwumela Nnam-Obi, II, the Oba of Ogbaland, said that restructuring was the recipe that would ensure unity and the development of every part of the country.

The rights groups in a joint in a statement stated that, “We read with shock, the outburst by the APC National Chairman, Odigie-Oyegun, saying that APC is not in support of restructuring of Nigeria. It is imperative to note that Nigeria is bigger than APC, Odigie-Oyegun and that their position will not really determine the divisibility of Nigeria.

“Whether APC manifesto supports restructuring or not, it does not matter. What matters is the wishes of generalities of Nigerians. We want to state here that the quest for restructuring this structurally defective country back to the very political structure at independent is beyond Odigie-Oyegun and his party.

“It is a political tsunami that no man can stop with rhetoric or appeal to sentiment. The alternative to restructuring of this country to the very structure at independent upon, which our unity and indivisibility was built is separation by any means necessary.

“In the very words of lBB, it is an ideal that has come to stay. Those who are opposed to restructuring will live to regret their ill informed decisions. The claim that APC is about providing food for Nigerians and not restructuring falls below expectation. We are constrained to inform Odigie-Oyegun and his APC that what Nigerians desire urgently are justice, fairness and equality. These can only be actualized through restructuring.

“We want Nigeria to be a true federal state with six autonomous regions. Each of the regions contributing equally to a common pulse as it was in our independent constitution of 1960.

“Again, we equally disagree with Junaid Mohammed of his uninformed position of no restructuring of this lopsided Nigeria state. We are not surprised to hear this from the likes of Junaid Mohammed, who is from a region that is benefiting from the defective federal structure at the detriment of other regions.”

http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/03/restructure-split-nigeria-now-niger-delta-tells-federal-government/

Restructure or split Nigeria now – Niger Delta tells Federal Government - Daily Post Nigeria Traditional rulers and Civil Society Organiations in the Niger Delta region have demanded for the immediate restructuring of Nigeria. The people of the reg

EXTRA: I’m A Child Of God… Those Who Didn’t Call Me Can’t Recall Me, Says Melaye.

Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, says those who did not call him cannot recall him because he is a child of God.

Some of his constituents have submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking to recall him from the red chamber.

The commission has written to the lawmaker to inform him that it had received files of signatures of voters in his district and that the process of his recall will start on Monday.

But in a series of tweets, the lawmaker waxed spiritual, saying every effort to pull him down “will be scattered by fire”.

“Those who did not call me cannot recall me… Every joint effort to pull me down, I declare be scattered by fire in Jesus name,” he wrote.

“Father uproot every institution that has been empowered to see to my frustration in Jesus name

“Mighty God give an uncommon blessing that will draw people’s attention to my life

“God I am grateful for everything. By the Grace of God my enemies will remain under my feet.

“I thank God because He is my Compass. Surely He shall deliver me from the snare of the Fowler. I am saved and secure

“Brethren fear not, you will not be put to shame because I’m a child of God.”



Those who did not call me can not recall me

— Senator Dino Melaye () July 2, 2017

Every joint effort to pull me down. I declare be scattered by fire in Jesus name

— Senator Dino Melaye () July 2, 2017

Father uproot every institution that has been empowered to see to my frustration in Jesus name

— Senator Dino Melaye () July 2, 2017

Brethren fear not,you will not be put to shame

— Senator Dino Melaye () July 2, 2017

Because I’m a child of God. Am above reproach and reticule

— Senator Dino Melaye () July 2, 2017

Melaye has accussed Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, of masterminding the process to make him lose his seat at the upper legislative chamber, but the governor has denied the allegation.

EXTRA: I’m a child of God… those who didn’t call me can’t recall me, says Melaye - TheCable Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, says those who did not call him cannot recall him because he is a child of God.

All that we said during campaign about the abduction of Chibok girls is coming out now and all can now see that it was all scam

Nigerians were not suffering before Buhari came into government, so he should stop saying as you suffer now you will enjoy tomorrow

We must not allow Buhari succeed with the plan of Sherif disorganize PDP

I see Nigerians crying out for Jonathan Goodluck