Southern Kaduna like blacks in South Africa’s apartheid – Shehu Sani

Senator Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker has described the situation of the people of Southern Kaduna under the leadership of APC in the state in the last eight years as that of “blacks in South Africa during the apartheid regime”.

He congratulated the people of Southern Kaduna for surviving the most difficult period of their existence in the hands of the APC-led administration of Nasir El-Rufai in the state, describing it as the hardest moment in the history of the people under any leader in the state.

Speaking as the chairman of a party organised by supporters of Senator Sunday Katung Marshal in Kaduna on Saturday, Sani said, “I am always so passionate about the people of Southern Kaduna because the area occupies a special place not only in Kaduna state but in Nigeria as a whole.”

He hailed the efforts of the people for standing their ground irrespective of any difficult situation to defend their ancestral land at all cost and their resolution to support PDP and its candidates in every election.

He enjoined the people to pray and support Senator Sunday Katung Marshal and other representatives from the area to succeed in their official assignments and ensure that they deliver their people from Egypt to the promised land.

The PDP gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 election in the state, Isa Ashiru, enjoined Senator Sunday Katung Marshal and other representatives from the zone to remain focused and deliver the people by doing all that is necessary to restore the good fortune of the area.

Senator Sunday Katung Marshal while responding, thanked the organisers of the programme, saying it was a challenge to him and other representatives from the area to deliver on their mandate and make life more meaningful to the people of the zone.

According to him, “I decided that I was going to commune with my brothers from the House of Representatives and State House of Assembly to ensure that we do an assessment of the Senatorial District to actually understand what the people really expect. That we have done, we have articulated it and all about security, with security, people will be able to carry out their businesses, go to farm and children go to school without any problem.”

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How the British introduced ethnicity, religion to Nigerian politics –Pogu, Middle Belt leader

National President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr Bitrus Pogu, has accused the British of introducing ethnicity and religion to politics in Nigeria, thereby creating a cog in the wheel of development of the country.

In an interview with VINCENT KALU, the MBF leader noted fuel subsidy was a creation of fraudulent politicians.

Over 60 years of independence and over 50 years of civil war, why are ethnic and religious considerations still strong points in determining who gets what in this country?

It is unfortunate that many people, including you and I, have made wrong assumptions right from the onset. While Nigeria was under British rule before independence, the British had already created a dichotomy, which introduced religion and ethnicity in the formative years of the country we called Nigeria today. The British favoured the northern oligarchy, that is the Muslim north over other parts of the country before independence to the extent that even in 1957 and 1958, when the Willinks Commission was constituted to look at the plight of the northern minorities and southern minorities with a view to creating regions for them.

Reports that were disclosed after 50 years indicated clearly that there was a conspiracy among the colonial government, the Northern regional government and the Willinks Commission to ensure that no region was carved out of the north, so that the north would be favoured to take over the helms of affairs of Nigeria.

So, the northern minorities were used ab initio as a buffer to assist the north to be in control, though the census of 1958 or thereabouts indicated clearly that the Eastern Region and Berminda – by then it was one bloc – had the highest population followed by Western Region, and sadly following was the north, which included the Middle Belt area.

So, you can see that this issue of ethnicity and religion were established by the British even before independence, and at independence though the far north educationally and otherwise was disadvantaged, but everything was put in place to ensure that there was a dominating north in the whole equation, and the north that was aware of this situation thrived to ensure that this dichotomy is maintained all through this period.

Our brothers in the Middle Belt naively continued to toe the line of one monolith north, but the far north, the Muslim north has a different agenda and it was never like that. So, we have gone 60 years down the lane, religion and ethnicity were there at the beginning and they continued to manifest, and might continue to manifest unless we get a leader who will stamp his feet and say this is how things should be because even during the military regime, you can see the kind of constitution, which has a very strong northern Muslim undertone that was produced in 1999 under the supervision of General Abdusalam (retd), using Prof Awal Yadudu.

Ethnicity and religion were there before independence; they were there and practised and maintained by the far north, and naively, the Middle Belters were used as willing tools by the far north to achieve its objective. Today, whether it is the military, police or whatsoever, that manipulation seems to have gotten to the state where some elements from the north would now come and be lifted up on Nigeria to take total control. It is unfortunate that these are realities that are staring us in the face.

What do you think the President should do to bring unity to the country?

It is not for me to be his adviser. Mine is to say, let’s wait for the court because as far as I’m concerned, I don’t know who is eventually going to be the president because a lot of things that were unconstitutional were committed. And as far as I’m concerned, I’m still waiting for the rightful president to emerge through the court process. Some people have dismissed the court, but with the evidence coming out, I don’t think we can just wish away things like that.

However, setting up commissions here and there doesn’t solve the problem. The problem is change of behaviour by Nigerians. It is not the government that gave birth to Boko Haram, the Fulani herdsmen, militia that is killing people in the Middle Belt and in the south. It is Nigerians who want to dominate others by all means, using religion and ethnicity as tools. So whatsoever the president does, unless Nigerians are willing to be Nigerians and not to be Fulani, not to be Muslims, not to be Christians, not to be Kanuri, not to be Igbo, not to be Yoruba, not to be Middle Belters, etc, it won’t solve the problem. So, unless we all agree to be Nigerians because we are not yet a nation, we are just being patched up. Some people out there believe that they have Sharia, which is their main thing; some states in response to that says, theirs is a Christian state. Unless we all agree to be Nigerians and adhere to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, no commission, nothing will solve our problems because people fall for another constitution, which is different from the Nigeria constitution because they want to benefit from what it provides. Without the constitution, we are not one entity, but yet, both the one that wants to benefit and the one that wants to go by a different rule not by the constitution are the problem.

Tinubu is being applauded because of the reforms he is carrying out. What are your views?

I told you that the court will determine. However, what he has done so far seems to be more Nigerian than what Buhari has done. Fine and good, let’s wait and see what will become of this, whether he just wants to appease us, knowing that he has problem in the court so that he would get the sympathy of Nigerians. Some of the things he has done are good. If somebody does a good thing, you say it. In the same way, if somebody does what is bad, we say it. So, many of the things he has done are good. Many of the appointments he has made are also good; some of them have question marks because some of the characters have lot of baggage, but all the same let’s wait; time will tell. He as a person that was accused of so many things, including drugs. But people can repent and become even better people than those who have not done anything. Let us wait and see. What he has done, a lot of them are good, but there are a lot of things which need more tinkering here and there. You don’t lord fuel subsidy removal on people who cannot earn what can fuel their vehicles, and you say you have palliative. Which palliative?

So what is your view on the removal of fuel subsidy, because there are divergent opinions about it?

Nobody in Nigeria knows the truth about this fuel subsidy thing. I’m not a technical person. The crude oil is being extracted from our soil. Do you have to send it abroad, refine it and bring it back, and then use the international standard to determine what is ours, the price of fuel? This is our product. We killed our refineries deliberately. We were told that the money contributed or the shares bought by government in Dangote Refinery can even build a refinery. That means the government gifted that refinery to Dangote and now you slammed this money on Nigeria so that we pay and you remit to Dangote. When you look at government, and previous governments, you realise that we don’t love this country and we don’t love ourselves. We only want to impoverish people; torment people. Sometimes we even ask, what is the difference between democratic rule and civil rule? Are we being democratic? In what way? Has the government considered it the right thing to inform Nigerians, whose earnings, remunerations, salaries, etc can afford this kind of money on fuel and transportation?

I travelled home because a bosom friend of mine died last week, and to get to my village and come back, I spent up to N300, 000 on fuel. If I didn’t have this money, I wouldn’t have gone and it would have been better for me if I had to send N100, 000 to the person. But I ventured out and discovered that I was already in deep shit. It is terrible. Tell me how many people in this country earn up to N300, 000 in a month, which I spent on petrol just to travel to my village and come back? It’s a long journey. It is criminal, and nobody even knows the truth about the matter. This is our product and you are foisting on us international standard because you deliberately killed our refineries. It is unfortunate.

Why is it difficult for the anti-graft agencies to go after these people who are allegedly scamming the government and benefiting from the subsidy regime?

It is the government. Who is paying them? Is it not government? Anybody stealing our money through fuel subsidy, it is the government. The government is the one who determines and pays these people. Do we have to import fuel, which we extract locally? How much did Dangote spend to build that refinery? What is Nigeria’s budget every year? Is it too difficult to build new refinery or maintain the existing ones. It is just a fraud from the government and not from the so-called beneficiaries because the government determines who collects what and who gets paid. So the whole conspiracy is that we had and have bad leadership. I’m sorry to say this; many people castigated the late Gen Abacha and up till now still castigate him. When Abacha was in office, he was able to maintain a stable exchange rate, and even fuel price up till the time he died. Did he come from the moon? Those who were castigating him are today the people destroying this country. If Abacha could do it as a military Head of State, why couldn’t others do it?

How did this fuel subsidy come into our polity?

Fuel subsidy is a creation of fraudulent politicians and others who are benefiting from it. Unfortunately, the lifespan of majority of us is hardly beyond 70 years. Whatever one has accumulated would go down. Patriotism is lacking, we have people who come into politics just for making themselves richer than they were before. With this kind of development facing us, we cannot make progress.  Look at the solid minerals, which the Chinese, who are all over, are taking out of this country. You ask yourself, how much have we made from solid minerals over these years? It is very minimal and very unfortunate. So many things are wrong. Our problem is bad leadership. When we have the right leaders, things will turn around and all these wrongs can be done rightly and then Nigeria will be better, which is what all of us are looking out for.

Some people are calling for Tinubu to probe Buhari. What is your position?

I’m not somebody who will say probe this and that. All I’m saying is that we had a bad government, and that bad government gave birth to Tinubu himself. So, whatever that is happening, Tinubu is the product of it. If it was a different political platform, we can say, but Tinubu himself is a product of what Buhari did. He didn’t appoint Prof Yakubu; it was Buhari who appointed him. Tinubu, whether he probes Buhari or people around Buhari like Godwin Emefiele, the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, it is to me immaterial; they are all one and the same because they are both All Progressives Congress (APC) members. I’m not an advocate of probe here, probe there. What I’m saying is let us have good governance and let government work properly and let Nigeria develop. I hold similar view with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who asked, will he leave his shop and go running after thieves? He said he would rather take care of his shop for it to grow. People have messed things up. Many of them deserve to face the law. We have institutions out there, but whether they can do that is another thing. But the important thing is, let us have good government.

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JUST IN: Akpabio Emerges President of 10th Senate

Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, was chosen to serve as Senate President during the 10th Senate’s inauguration on Tuesday morning.

The 109 Senators had gathered to elect key officers for the National Assembly’s upper legislative chambers.

The two candidates for the position of number three citizen were Senator Godswill Akpabio, an APC legislator from Akwa Ibom North West, and Senator Abdulaziz Yari, an APC legislator from Zamfara North West.

You cannot Keep us in IDP Camps and declare Invaders occupying our communities as owners of land -Benue IDPs Cry out

Internally displaced persons in Benue have taken their protests against the conduct of the scheduled 2023 national population census to the Benue state office of the population commission.

The displaced persons majorly women holding different placards bearing anti census inscriptions said the government is keeping them in IDP camps while their former communities are occupied by invaders. They expressed fear that the invaders may be documented by the national population commission as the owners of the lands.

Speaking to Middle Belt Times reporter in Makurdi the Benue state capital on Thursday, one of the women who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of persecution said they are aware of plots to document terrorists occupying their communities as real owners of the land.

Recall that three weeks ago terrorists suspected to be Fulani militias attacked an IDP camp in Benue state killing no fewer than 50 displaced persons.

Benue state as well as neighboring Nasarawa, Plateau and Southern Kaduna have all had their shares of attacks largely blamed on Fulani terrorists leading to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people.

With the government claiming it has budgeted $1.3b for the 2023 census, Nigerians are questioning the integrity of the exercise with many fearing that the outgoing government may have ulterior motives.

Middle Belt Patriots Encourage Middle Belt Governors to follow the lead of South West Governors

Recently, the Governors of the South West states were reported to launch regional electricity and rail projects. This comes at the back of their successful launch of their regional security outfit “Amotekun” which in the past days reportedly was able to drive out a large portion of the criminal terrorists known as “Fulani herdsmen” from their bushes.

A Middle Belt organization known as the Middle Belt Patriots, a movement focused on the economic and political emancipation of the Middle Belt people has urged the governors of the Middle Belt states to emulate their Southwest counterparts in setting up similar structures in the Middle belt.

In a statement signed by the secretary of the group Steven Kefas and made available to newsmen on Friday, Kefas said: “The Middle Belt emancipation must be multidimensional. We must not only be focused on solving the security issues in our region, but rather, we must also ensure to develop our region in terms of infrastructure and social programs.

We must strive to continue the policies of the first Middle Belt political party which went into the infamous alliance with Awolowo’s Action Group which prioritized regional solidarity, education, agriculture, and social welfare schemes for the people of the Middle Belt.

Currently, we lag behind all the Southern States and if we are to catch up with them, we need to be proactive”.

The group said its past alliance with the core north has benefited the people of the Middle Belt nothing other than blood, tears and sorrow. It said the time has come for the Middle Belt to forge a new alliance across the Niger that will benefit its people.

The 1999 Constitution Makes Nigerians Subjects Not Citizens

By

Ndidi Uwechue

The aim of this article is to open up the thinking ability of young Nigerians who continue to be manipulated by their elders whom they look up to for guidance. Having successfully dragged young people to give themselves to elections 2023 instead of first correcting the faulty constitutional arrangements of the Nigeria Union, using the misleading slogan that “a new Nigeria is possible” under the fraud called 1999 Constitution foisted upon Nigerians, now the same cunning individuals have started a new deception over the meaning of “citizen”.

One such influencer is a celebrity lawyer who helped to drag his many followers to those doomed elections, and rather than now tell his depressed and disappointed followers that their vote never counts in unitary Nigeria, but it is their act of going to vote that is needed to be seen by the watching world, he is leading them down another dark byway this time telling them that elections having been rigged, they can still salvage something by reclaiming their citizenship!

Just because a word can be applied in Europe, Australia and North America does not always mean that it is applicable in Nigeria. Such are the words “citizen” and “citizenship”. Nigeria is an artificial country created and maintained by a unitary Instrument of Governance, deceitfully called “1999 Constitution” that does not have the mandate of Nigerians because they never made it or agreed it. Such is this place called “Nigeria”. It is the owners of that imposed Forgery, ie the 1999 Constitution who are the lords of Nigeria and who by force and deception keep Nigerians inside the unitary Union they created. We know who they are, they are the immigrant settler Fulani, helped into a dominating position by the departing British around the time of Independence in 1960. Making no secret of their agenda, Ahmadu Bello the then Premier of the Northern Region, declared that henceforth Nigeria would be “ruthlessly” turned into the “estate” of the Fulani, and Nigerians would be a “conquered” people – as reported on 12^th October 1960. That 1999 Constitution is the Instrument that brings about the Fulanization Agenda declared by Ahmadu Bello: it overrides Sovereignty, and hijacks the Self-Determination of indigenous Ethnic Nations. HOW then can Nigerians ever think to apply the word “citizen” of Nigeria to themselves? As a consequence of that 1999 Constitution Nigerians are a CONQUERED people, so cannot truthfully be referred to as “citizens” of Nigeria. What they are, are SUBJECTS of Nigeria.

The word “subject” has Latin roots. “Sub” means under, and “jacio/jacere” means to throw. So subject means someone “thrown under” something or someone else. Thus, a subject is someone who is under the power of another. To put it plainly, as long as Nigerians accept the fraud called 1999 Constitution to govern them, since it was not made or agreed by them, they place themselves under the power of the Fulani Caliphate who are the owners of that 1999 Constitution, and, in so doing, Nigerians are in reality subjects of the Fulani’s unitary Nigeria not citizens in the real sense.

We can use an example from history to illustrate how Nigerians are subjects of Nigeria as presently constituted, not citizens by looking at the country that became the United States of America, quoting from and using material from The Difference Between A Citizen And A Subject by W R Miller, 2015.

With the Declaration of Independence by Congress, on 4^th July 1776, “a nation was born in a day”, so those who had been subjects of the English Crown now became citizens of the free independent states that had now confederated together and started a new political association.

“The United States are a new nation, or political society, formed at first by the Declaration of Independence, out of those British subjects in America, who were thrown out of royal protection by Act of Parliament, passed in December, 1775. A citizen of the United States, means a member of this new nation. The principle of government being radically changed by the revolution, the political character of the people was also changed from subjects to citizens.

The difference is immense. Subject… means one who is under the power of another; but a citizen is an unit of a mass of free people, who, collectively, possess Sovereignty.

Subjects look up to a master, but citizens are so far equal, that none have hereditary rights superior to others. Each citizen of a free state contains, within himself, by nature and the Constitution, as much of the common Sovereignty as another…”

Despite being warned by NINAS that Nigerians should FIRST correct the faulty constitutional basis of the artificial Nigeria Union, Nigerians went headlong towards the sham elections 2023. As predicted, their problems have multiplied, and the existential threats they face from the Fulani Conquest Agenda have increased. So what should Nigerians do now? The solution remains what it has been since 1999 when the 1999 Caliphate Constitution was foisted upon Nigerians. The solution is therefore to TERMINATE the operation of that 1999 Constitution. The NINAS Proposition to do so is an ORDERLY PROCESS based on United Nations instruments (eg UNDRIP) and international law, and has been on the Table since 16 December 2020 when the Constitutional Force Majeure was Declared. It involves Transitioning to Renegotiate the Nigeria Union. Yes, sham elections have taken place, but Nigerians can stop further crises and further insecurity by even now Rejecting and Repudiating the fraudulent and illegitimate 1999 Constitution then going to Transitioning.

We should also consider why so many Nigerians are gullible and so easily deceived by influencers and by the Fulani Caliphate’s willing tools. An elderly gentleman has answered that for us, he said that it is because of a “sheer unwillingness to learn”. Reader, especially if you are a young Nigerian, it is hoped that is not your attitude, but that after reading this article you will do your own Research about the grand swindle called 1999 Constitution

Ndidi Uwechue is a British citizen with Igbo heritage from the Lower Niger Bloc. She is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer, she is a signatory to the Constitutional Force Majeure, and she writes from Abuja.

Herdsmen murder Labour Party Chairman in Benue

Mr. Nathaniel Ochoche, the chairman of the Labour Party, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen who brought about havoc in Benue State.

The party’s Edikwu Ward 2 Chairman in the state’s Apa Local Government Area, Ochoche, and four other people were killed over the weekend.

The incident was confirmed in a statement released and made available to media on Monday by the party’s publicity secretary for the state, Mr. Tersoo Orbunde.

The statement reiterated the news of the gruesome murder of the Labour Party’s chairman who was ambushed and slain by armed Fulani militia,  and that until his passing, Mr. Ochoche was the epitome of a party man, working tirelessly to advance his community, constituency, and nation through both words and deeds

Tersoo urged the federal government to act quickly and put safeguards in place that would guarantee an ideal resolution to the threat.

Nasarawa Election: INEC Disobeys Court Order, Threatens to Destroy Evidence

Following an order of the court mandating the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to allow the Peoples Democratic Party PDP access to inspect election materials used in the just concluded gubernatorial election in Nasarawa state, the PDP has raised concerns over what it described as threat of the Nasarawa state INEC office to destroy election materials used in the election.

The PDP raised the concerns in a statement signed by its Nasarawa state Secretary, Alhaji Adamu Bako Ninga and made available to Middle Belt Times in Lafia on Tuesday. The party said the state INEC office has denied her access to inspect the election materials as ordered by the court.

Recall that the PDP in the state had earlier rejected the declaration of Governor AA Sule as the winner of the Saturday 18th March governorship election. The declaration made by Professor Ishaya Tanko of the University of Jos has received wide condemnations leading to mass protests in the state.

The statement reads in full;

INEC Nasarawa State Office yesterday refused to obey the court order directing them to allow the legal team of the PDP to inspect the documents/reports of the 18 March 2023 governorship election in the state.
Even more disturbing is the alleged threat by the administrative secretary of INEC In the state Alh Musa Usman Wase to destroy the documents/reports in order to hide the evidence of the massive rigging that took place at Gayam and Chiroma wards in Lafia and in Tunga in Awe LGAs.
The Admin Secretary Alh Musa Usman Wase reportedly directed that no document on the election should be released to our lawyers despite the the court order and our official request for the documents.
Besides, there are strong rumors of threat by the Admin Secretary to tamper with the documents because of the obvious discrepancies between the iRev results and the figures announced by the INEC returning officer declaring Abdullahi Sule as winner.
The PDP wishes to alert the public that Usman Wase is working to frustrate the PDP Legal team and to tamper with election documents to hide the rigging that took place in Lafia and Awe LGAs.
PDP calls on the INEC National Chairman to direct the Lafia office to respect the Order of the courts and to immediately release the certified true copies and allow our legal team inspect the election materials.
We condemn the blatant partisanship of Usman Wase and the Director of Operations and the alleged threat to tamper with records of the Governorship election in Nasarawa state.

Uni Jos VC, Tanko, Other Profs Listed Among 2023 Election Riggers by Intersociety

..FUTO VC, Prof Oti, few others exempted

Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, Sunday 26th March 2023.

Professor Ishaya Tanko, the Vice Chancellor of the prestigious University of Jos was over the weekend listed in an inglorious list of intellectuals who helped mastermind electoral frauds in different parts of the country during the just concluded 2023 general elections. The list compiled by The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) described the acts of the intellectuals as shameful while commending few intellectuals who distinguished themselves despite so much pressure during the elections.

Recall that Professor Tanko, a professor of computer science was the state returning officer for the Nasarawa state gubernatorial election. The election has been widely condemned for its lack of credibility with mass protests rocking the mineral rich state since the declaration of Governor AA Sule as winner.

The report reads in full;

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has investigated and found that 50 top Nigerian university professors played various conspiratorial or vicarious roles in the brutal poll rigging and voter suppression in the 25th Feb Presidential/National Assembly and the 18th March 2023 Governorship/State Assembly Polls. Among the 50 university professors conspiratorially or vicariously involved are 34 Vice Chancellors and a Deputy Vice Chancellor drawn from Federal, State and Private Universities across the country. Apart from the 50 culpably or conspiratorially involved Nigerian University Professors, there are also 34 others involved; including ten Doctorate Degree holders and other former top military, police and spy police officers and former ministers and Government Commissioners including Engineer Olufemi Odunbiyi, former Commissioner for Science and Technology in Lagos State and APC chieftain who was recently placed in charge of INEC ICT as Director. There are also 17 university professors among the 37 INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners and 12 National Commissioners widely or publicly accused of coordinating the 2023 armada of electoral fraud. Generally speaking, a total of 88 university professors and other experts are found to be conspiratorially or vicariously involved out of the number, only four are exempted and worthy to be celebrated as heroes of Democracy in Nigeria or any part thereof.

UNIZIK, FUTO, Umudike Agric VCs And Abia REC Exempted

Exempted from the culpability list are Vice-Chancellors of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Prof Charles Esimone, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Prof Nnenna Otti, Michael Okpara Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Prof Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe and Resident Electoral Commissioner for Abia State, Prof Ike Uzochukwu. VC Esimone of UNIZIK was exempted on account of his doggedness and refusal to compromise the results of the Presidential Poll in Imo State where he served as the ‘State Collation Officer’. His refusal to compromise also pitched him against the State Government and Commissioner of Police. VC Nnenna Otti of FUTO, Owerri was outstanding in her handling of the Abia State Governorship Election of 18th March 2023 where she served as ‘Collation Officer’. Even at the risk of her life and liberty, she remained adamant for truth and in the end, her resilience and resistance triumphed. VC Maduebibisi Iwe of Umudike Agric University was exempted for being resolute and refusing to compromise the Nkanu East doctored results in the Enugu State Governorship of 18th March 2023 where he served as “Collation Officer”. Intersociety also gathered that the erudite and courageous VC held his ground at INEC Headquarters during the “review” and back in Enugu; he still held his ground until the results were corruptly announced against his will. REC Prof Ike Uzochukwu as Abia REC is singled out for exemption on account of his courage and refusal to compromise the results of the State’s Senatorial and House of Reps poll leading to ‘his executive captivity’ until after the announcement of the results at gunpoint using an INEC Admin official. Abia REC’s ‘executive abduction’ was blamed on the on the Abia State Police Command and the State DSS Directorate. On regaining his liberty, Abia REC Prof Uzochukwu addressed the media and disclosed that “some candidates announced as winners were not the real winners of the poll”.

A Society Where University VCs/Professors Have Become Election Riggers Is Irreparably Doomed

By direct perpetrators, they are unlawful conducts direct perpetrators that order, supervise and execute the unlawful acts such as coordination of election rigging or voter suppression and facilitation or supervision of the destruction of evidence-to cover up the unlawful acts. By vicarious liability or responsibility, it is the inescapable responsibility of the superiors for the acts of their subordinates or, the responsibility of any third party that had the “right, ability or duty to control the activities of a violator or a perptaror, but failed or declined to do same.” It is also a liability assigned to an employer or other principal for his agent’s or employee’s acts performed in the course of employment or other duty. The two definitions above aptly capture the involvement in the referenced armada of electoral fraud, of Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the Commission’s National Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye Esquire and its serving 12 National Commissioners and 37 State Resident Commissioners and Director of ICT as well as the Commission’s hired 37 ad hoc States and FCT Collation Officers. Intersiociety is deeply worried that Nigeria has become a country where university vice-chancellors and professors engage in brazen election rigging and widspread suppression of voters. The damage done on Nigerian universities and their students as well as the country’s corporate image is also gravely irraparable. The rigger-professors and experts involved deserve nothing less than international visa bans and international movement and exchange programs’ restrictions in Europe, North and South America and democratic South-East Asian countries.

We Saw It Coming When APC Apologists And Integrity Challenged Others Became RECs In 2022

The road to the current messy situation at INEC became well noticed following the flooding of the INEC’s list of Electoral Commissioners (14 new RECs and 5 reappointed others) with APC apologists and integrity challenged others. The Buhari/Osinbajo Presidency had on 26th July 2022 forwarded the list to the Senate for confirmation. Critics and activists raised serious concerns over the inclusion of such integrity challenged persons as RECs in brazen violation of paragraph 14 (2a) of the Third Schedule to Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution and Section 2 (3) of the INEC Establishment Act of 2004. According to the Constitutional Paragraph 14 (2a): “a Resident Electoral Commissioner shall be non-partisan and a person of unquestionable integrity” and by Section 2 (3) of the INEC Establishment Act, 2004: “the Chairman and members of the Commission (INEC) shall be non partisan and persons of unquestionable character”. According to informed critics, among the card-carrying APC members and apologists nominated as Resident Electoral Commissioners are: Muhammad Lawal Bashir, a 2015 APC governorship aspirant in Sokoto State; Pauline Onyeka Ugochi, a former head of INEC’s ICT in Imo State publicly accused of corruption and conniving with politicians in undermining elections; Elizabeth Queen Agwu, a former Accountant General of Ebonyi State reportedly suspended in 2016 for corruption and incompetence; and Prof Uchenna Sylvia Agu, a Enugu State APC nominee and younger sister of the current APC National Deputy Chairman for South-East Region. Criticism against them and others was part of the findings by some Civil Society Organizations ‘working for the promotion of Democracy in Nigeria’ as contained in their recent press conference addressed by the Director of Int’l Press Centre, Mr. Lanre Arogundade. The CSOs critic include: Yiaga Africa, the Kukah Centre, Int’l Press Center, Centre for Media and Society, the Albino Foundation, Elect Her, Nigerian Women Trust Fund, Partners for Electoral Reforms and Inclusive Friends Association.

Names Of 34 Conspiratorially Culpable University VCs /Professors As “State/FCT Collation Officers”

Abia: Professor Abel Ezeoha Deputy Vice-chancellor Alex Ekwueme University Abakaliki, Adamawa: Professor Muhammad Laminu Mele, Akwa Ibom: Professor Emmanuel Adigio Vice-chancellor Nigeria Maritime University, Bauchi: Professor Abdulkarim Mohammed Vice-chancellor Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Bayelsa: Professor Lilian Salami Vice-chancellor University of Benin, Benue: Professor Faruk Adamu Kuta Vice-chancellor Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Borno: Professor Jude Rabo Vice-chancellor Federal University Wukari, Cross River: Professor Akpofure Rim-Rukeh Vice-chancellor Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, Delta: Professor Owuneri Abraham Georgewill Vice-chancellor University of Porth Harcourt, Ebonyi: Professor Charles Arinze Igwe Vice-chancellor University of Nigeria Nsukka, Edo: Professor Nyaudoh Ndaeyo Vice-chancellor University of Uyo Akwa Ibom, Ekiti: Professor Akeem Lasisi Vice-chancellor Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun, Gombe: Professor Maimuna Waziri Vice-chancellor Federal University, Gashua, Jigawa: Professor Arma-Ya’u Hamisu Bichi Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, Kaduna: Professor Saleh Ado Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kano: Professor Sulieman Bilbis Othman Danfodio University Sokoto State, Katsina: Professor Mu’azu Abubakar Gusau Vice-chancellor Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Kebbi: Professor Usman Saidu, Kogi: Professor Wahab Egbenwole Vice-chancellor University of Ilorin, Kwara: Professor Paul Annune Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (formerly Federal University of Agriculture), Lagos: Professor Adenike Oladiji Vice-chancellor Federal University of Technology Akure, Nasarawa: Professor Ishaya Tanko Vice-chancellor University of Jos, Niger: Professor Clement Allawa Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration University of Abuja, Ogun: Professor Kayode Adebowale Vice-chancellor University of Ibadan, Ondo: Professor Abayomi Fashina Vice-chancellor Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Osun: Professor Tolulope Ogunsola Vice-Chancellor University of Lagos, Oyo: Professor Olusola Kehinde Vice-chancellor Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Plateau: Professor Shehu Abdulrahman Federal University, Lafia, Rivers: Professor Williams Addias Vice-chancellor Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Sokoto: Professor Muhammadu Kabir Bala Vice-chancellor Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Taraba: Professor Mohammad Ahmad Abdullaziz Vice-chancellor Abubakar Tafawabalewa University Bauchi (ATBU), Yobe: Professor Umaru Pate Vice-chancellor Federal University Kashere Gombe State, Zamfara: Professor Kashim Shehu and FCT: Professor Olayemi Akinwumi Vice-chancellor Federal University Lokoja

Names Of National Chairman And 12 Perpetrator-INEC National Commissioners

Prof Mahmood Yakubu (National Chairman), Prof Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, Prof Sani Muhammad Adam, Prof Muhammad Sani Kallah, Prof Kunle Cornelius Ajayi, Prof Sam Olumekun, Prof Rhoda Gumus, Retired Major Gen Modibbo Alkali, Mohammed Kudu Haruna, Festus Okoye Esquire, May Agbamuche-Mbu, Ukaegbu Nnamdi and Dr Baba Gila.

Names Of 37 Perpetrator INEC State Resident Electoral Commissioners And ICT Director

North-West: Prof Saidu Babura (Zamfara), Prof Muhammad Lawal Bashar (Jigawa), Prof Ibrahim Makarfi (Kastina), Ambassador Zango Abdu (Kano), Ahmed Bello Mahmud (Kaduna), Muhammed Ahmed Ushama (Admin Sec, Kebbi) and Dr Nura Ali (Sokoto-removed). North-East: Alhaji Mohammed Nura (Bauchi), Mohammed Ibrahim (Borno), Ibrahim Abdullahi (Yobe), Umar Ibrahim (Gombe), Hudu Yunusa Ari (Adamawa) and Alhaji Umar Muktar Gajiram (Taraba). North-Central: Alhaji Ahmed Yusha’u Garki (Niger State), Malam Attahiru Madami (Kwara), Dr. Hale Longpet (Kogi), Dr Uthman Ajidagba (Nasarawa), Prof Sam Egwu (Benue), Dr Tersoo Agundu (Plateau).

South-West: Dr Adeniran Tella, Dr Mutiu Agboke (Osun), Retired Spy Police Director Olusegun Agbaje (Lagos), Niyi Ijalaye (Ogun), Oyekola Oyelami (Ondo) and Prof Abayomi Salami (Ekiti). South-South: Prof Gabriel Yomere (Cross River), Johnson Sinikiem (Rivers), Hon Obo Effanga (Edo), Monday Udoh Tom (Delta), Dr Cyril Omorogbe (Akwa Ibom) and Emmanuel Alex-Hart (Bayelsa). South-East: Prof Sylvia Agu (Imo), Dr Queen Elizabeth Agwu (Anambra), Prof Chukwuemeka Chukwu (Enugu) and Mrs Pauline Ugochi Onyeka (Ebonyi). INEC Director of ICT: Olufemi Odunbiyi (former Commissioner of Science and Technology in Lagos State and APC chieftain).

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PDP National Chairman Ayu ‘Suspended’ Over Alleged Anti-party Activities

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis assumed a new dimension on Sunday when Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman, was’suspended’ by the party executives in his Igyorov Ward in the Gboko local government area of Benue State.

Ayu was charged with anti-party behavior.

Ayodele Fayose, the former governor of Ekiti State, as well as the former Senate President, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, were suspended by the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), which also directed the Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, to appear before the party’s National Disciplinary Committee.

Ayu was suspended on Sunday as a result of the Ward Executives’ vote of no confidence in him and suspended him from the party, according to a resolution passed at the conclusion of the Ward meeting and read by the Secretary of Igyorov council ward, Mr. Banger Dooyum.

Mr Dooyum, while reading the resolution of the Ward Excos, said: “He (Ayu) was involved in anti-party activities making the PDP to lose at his ward and local government along with his allies who also didn’t vote at the Governorship Election.”

He was also accused of not paying his annual dues as enshrined by the party’s constitution.

It will be recalled that shortly after the Benue State Governor was referred to the National Disciplinary Committee of the PDP for anti-party activities by the National Working Committee, NWC, of PDP chaired by Ayu, the Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, reacted by declaring that his Benue State counterpart will not appear before the Committee.