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A voter casting his vote. Photo Credit. Capacity4Development Vote to end 12 years of Corruption and Maladministration in Nigeria Twelve years of the corruption and maladministration of the ruling party have left the majority of the citizens poorer and powerless with the nightmares of incessant political assassinations, extrajudicial killings, ethnic and religious riots, terrorist attacks and systemic collapse of government administration jeopardizing public health care, public education and economic security of the poor majority in Nigeria. We had botched National Assembly Elections on Saturday April 2, and there were glaring electoral lapses. Then the elections were rescheduled and the first round of the elections was held last Saturday April 9, 2011. There were critical issues of violence and many cases of malpractices. But before we could read the reports of the total results, the incumbent President of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) rus...

INEC Polling Centre in Nigeria From field reports all over Nigeria, the National Assembly Elections of last Saturday April 9, 2011, have not been really free and fair. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega has shown that he has been overwhelmed by the herculean task of conducting free and fair elections in a nation that is ruled by corruption at all levels of public administration and the unscrupulous citizens prefer ignominious ways of life to honourable and noble values and virtues of a civilized society and they would rather practice kleptocracy instead of democracy. One of the shocking cases of corruption is the current political drama in Anambra State over the polls in the Anambra Central Senatorial District where Mr. Alex Anene, the returning officer/collation officer of INEC alleged that his life has been threatened by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the state government, because he refused the offer of N10mi...

Prof Attahiru Jega Prof Attahiru Jega, Show Your Best Crisis Management Skills in the Next 24 Hours As Nigerians, we must face the reality that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega has spoken and it matters not whether his reasons for postponing the April 2nd parliamentary election to Monday are realistic or not. Why, because we are in a crisis now. What is clear is that we need an environment where this crisis could be managed effectively. There is no doubt that on a psychological and spiritual level, this sudden occurrence is a major event that threatens to harm the faith we have in the system. INEC, on behalf of the general public should effectively manage the threatposed by this huge matter as it relates to the element of surprise, and we all expect a short decision time for this to be done. Jega has told us that he saw what was happening in the last few hours as a crisiswhich needed to be quenched, that is a process of transformation...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria I am posting this press release by the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for reference, since it was released before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, dismissed the suits of former military ruler, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and upheld the fraudulent election of "President" Umaru Yar'Adua in the April 2007 presidential poll . 23 Feb 2008 23:00 Africa/Lagos Atiku Abubakar: Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative A statement by former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar In advance of a decision by a Nigerian tribunal on February 26 on whether the 2007 election of the President was legal, former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar delivers a statement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-...

Alhaji Umaru Yar' Adua Gen. Muhammadu Buhari The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, Tuesday, dismissed the petition of former military ruler, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, because he could not prove his case against the election of "President" Umaru Yar'Adua in the April 2007 presidential poll in Nigeria. Observers expect the same tribual to pass a similar judgment on the petition of the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who has already vowed to accept the ruling of the tribunal. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal may have the brains to pass judgment on the petitions against the disputed election of "President" Umaru Yar’Adua, but will not have the balls to annul the election. The fact cannot be denied, that the April polls in 2007 were not free and fair . Therefore, the electios should be nullified . If the local election petitions tribunals, because of electoral irregularities and fraud, have annulle...

Nigerian Senate President, David Mark, has been sacked by the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State in Nigeria. The tribunal annulled the April 21, 2007 election of David Mark on Saturday, February 23, 2008. More details . The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was abused and misused by the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the local and national elections held in April, 2007. Many voters were disenfranchised as the PDP employed thugs to intimidate the supporters of the opposition parties and over 700 people were killed in the political clashes of the tragic April polls. I have refused to accept the presidential election of President Umaru Yar' Adua, because it has no electoral legitimacy. President Umaru Yar'Adua has commenced electoral reforms without any judicial inquiry into the death of those who were killed during the last elections in April 2007, and without any legal Review Commission. The disgraced Senate President, D...

Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua I won April polls, Yar'Adua tells tribunal Vanguard Online Edition - Saturday, 08 December 2007 © Vanguard Online Edition The fact is, since the local and international monitors have provided facts and figures to prove that the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the presidential election last April, and even Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua agreed that the election was far from being fair and free, therefore, it is contradictory for him to turn around and claim that he won the presidential election based on the final result of the corrupt Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The government has failed to probe the death of over 700 people who were killed during the April polls and the political thugs of the PDP who attacked, maimed and murdered hundreds of people all over Nigeria have not been prosecuted for their crimes. A 17-year-old school girl who was gang-raped by the political hoodlums of the PDP in Osun state in southwestern Nige...

Kano LG Polls - the Inside Story Daily Trust (Abuja) ANALYSIS 25 November 2007 Posted to the web 25 November 2007 By Hassan A. Karofi Kano Last weekend's local government polls in Kano State left traces of violence, destruction and heavy presence of troops, reminding residents of the anarchy that reigned in parts of the state for days during and after the elections. The election was never envisaged to be peaceful. Reason: pre-election campaign tones of the rival political parties dimmed any ray of hope of peaceful polls in the volatile city and across the state. A day to the Saturday, November 17 elections, strange movements of men and materials were noticed, while political party offices soon became munitions depots. The party offices were taken over by weapons-wielding youths, who were publicly smoking marijuana, blowing flutes of hunters-reminiscent of the war period. These election-eve events instilled fear in the minds of residents of the looming danger ahead of the polls. An...