Rigging Plot Exposed: Presidency Contracts Ikimi, Nwosu, Others to Write Election Results

It is becoming increasingly unlikely that the PDP-Led government is prepared to hold on to power at all cost and ensure another four years of leadership in the country.

Already, several theorists have opined that the current regime is too scared to concede to defeat that they are working tooth and nail to sabotage whatever victory strategy the opposition All Progressive Congress has put in place.

In a featured article posted on Abusidiqu.com, the presidency has commissioned a high powered think tank group to write the result of the elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11.

To lead the pack of this high powered think tank is a former Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Tom Ikimi.
Ikimi, famous for his "Oba-sanjo, Oba-sanjo, Oba-sanjo pronunciation, was the returning officer for the 2003 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential primaries held at the Eagles Square in Abuja.

He defected to the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which later joined forces with other political parties to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), only to return back to the PDP after he failed to clinch the Chairmanship position of the APC in 2014.

Another member of the think thank contracted by the presidency include the former Chairman of the defunct of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Professor Humphrey Nwosu, who conducted the 12 June 1993 election, seen as the freest and fairest election to date, in which Chief Moshood Abiola was presumed to have won.

Others include former Chief of Staff to President Jonathan, Mike Oghiadomhe, former Minister Iyorchia Ayu, Chief Tony Anenih, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam and four others.

According to our source, the think tank group are expected to do a clean job of writing the result of the elections in connivance with some top members of the Independent National Electoral Commission and some Resident Electoral Commissioners.

The think tank group particular have a mandate of writing the results in the South South and South East States excluding Imo State, while the results of some states in the South West and the North including Lagos, Plateau, Sokoto and Kano will also be written by the group.

To that effect, the presidency our source said met with some of the INEC commissioners ready to play ball on Sunday evening at Protea Hotels around Apo Road, Abuja with the aim of discussing the rigging of the coming elections.

Prior to involving the commissioners, the think tank group was said to have approached the Chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega to get him to play ball, but Jega insisted on conducting a free, fair and credible election.

In attendance at the Sunday evening meeting said to have been spearheaded by one of the most senior commissioners in INEC, Ishmael Igbani were the president of the Senate, David Mark, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, Chief of Staff to Mr. President, Mr. Arogbofa, spokesperson of the PDP presidential campaign, Fani-Kayode and Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe.

The source added that the INEC commissioners will be paid a sum of N50m each for agreeing to use the results which the think tank group will write in place of the result that would be turned out in the election.

It was gathered that this is about the second time the meeting between the presidency and the INC commissioners to discuss the rigging plan was held.

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Save Me From Defeat, President Jonathan Begs PDP Governors

Not wanting to take chances or ignore the formidable forces arrayed against him within and outside his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the build up to the rescheduled general elections, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday night met stakeholders of the party.

The object of the meeting was how to maximise the opportunity offered by the new poll's date, March 28, 2015, to swing more support and votes for the second term ambition of the President.

According to Dino Melaye, former member of the House of Representatives, who first broke the news in his official twitter handle (@dino_melaye), the meeting was attended by PDP governors, members of the party's National Executive Committee and some key persons, including Tony Anenih, chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and Edwin Clarke, a party leader.

"The President who spoke after lengthy discussions by participants at the meeting chaired by PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu'azu, thanked those present particularly the governors and NEC members, assuring them of his total support.

"He appealed to the governors to stave off the impending loss at the poll and called for collaboration to ensure victory at the polls.

"We must work hard to save the party and all our contestants. It is true, the report out there is call for great concern and this is why we must use the new window in the poll shift to talk to Nigerians, woo them and even beg them where necessary," Melaye said.

Also speaking, Chief Anenih begged the gathering to put more efforts in their various states to ensure victory in the coming election.

For him: "It is either we win or perish together."
Melaye also revealed that Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, blamed the conspiracy by some unnamed elements, in reply to an otherwise rhetorical question by Clark as to why the President is seemly unacceptable despite all his laudable achievements.

"Please my people I beg you, this election is a must win for our president and all of us," Chief Clark was quoted as saying.

The meeting was attended by all governors under the party's platform, except Isa Yuguda and Sule Lamido Bauchi and Jigawa states respectively, who were also not represented.

At the meeting, which held at the First Lady's Conference Hall in the Presidential Villa, ending minutes after 6 a.m. on Saturday, Mu'azu was said to have lamented the way inter-party wrangling had been allowed to degenerate to the point where five governors dumped the PDP at the same time.

The governors are Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) who was subsequently impeached; Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State); Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

They were part of the group called G7 Governors in the aftermath of the elections of the now splinter Nigerian Governors Forum, dumped the party first for the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), before moving to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the nation's main opposition party. The other two: Dr. Babangida Aliyu and Lamido of Niger and Jigawa respectively, however, chose to stay back in the PDP at the last moment.

As the meeting progressed, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State was said to have announced a Presidential approval for the distribution of N20 billion among some state governors, just as key swing states like Kano, Lagos, Rivers and Kaduna would get N2 billion to woo voters.

Another "N2 billion was also set aside to buy some political and public analysts to talk more about Mr. President and his achievements over the last six years. Some TV stations such as AIT and Channels would do the job," he added.

Those at the meeting, Melaye continued, were particular pained by the exit of the governors of Rivers and Kano, which were PDP strongholds before now.

It was further learnt that there was a mild drama at the point when the party chairman tactically blamed the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, for allowing matters to degenerate to the point where the problem she had with Amaechi snowballed into his leaving the PDP.

The intervention of Clark was said to have saved the situation from going worse.
The party's chairman was also said to have taken a hard look at the build-up to the election and cautioned Femi Fani-Kayode, Director, Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, who was also at the meeting, and Olisa Metuh, Publicity Secretary of the party.

Melaye said both men were told that their propaganda activities seem to be having a backlash and rather making the APC candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari more popularly rather than the contrary.

"Instead of the current situation, he called for more issue based campaigns rather than attacking Buhari's people as most of the campaign materials already churned out have done, if the PDP must get good support from the ordinary northerner.

"The meeting agreed to reduce negative adverts on Buhari, but Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti and his counterpart from Ondo saw it differently," he noted.

Calls by Daily Independent to the phone
numbers of Metuh, the PDP spokesman, did not connect, just as short messages to his phones were not replied as at press time.

When contacted on telephone, Fani-Kayode who neither confirmed nor denied that the meeting actually held promised to return a call to him. When he did, he said it was not true.

"No meeting of such took place," he said.

In a phone interview with our correspondent on Sunday evening, Anenih, who allegedly arrived the meeting venue in company of Clarke, denied knowledge of such a meeting, talk more of being in attendance.

He told Daily Independent from his Abuja base:
"I am not aware of such meeting. I have been in Benin and just landed in Abuja.

Chief Anenih: "When was the meeting held?

Daily Independent: "Between Friday night and very early Saturday morning, Sir.

Chief Anenih: "I have been in Benin (City), I just arrived Abuja… Why not call Mu'azu…"

But another source told one of our correspondents that the meeting indeed held and that members of the PDP National Executive Committee moved from the party's Wadata Plaza secretariat in Abuja, where they held a meeting to the Presidential Villa that Friday night.

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I’d Rather Tear My PDP Card Than Sit And Watch Jonathan Use PDP To Destroy Nigeria - Obasanjo

Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday night took to popular social media platform, Twitter, to explain the idea behind his theatrical tearing of his Peoples Democratic Party membership card.

In the tweets, he reiterated his earlier position that the interest of Nigeria was far greater than individual or political interests.

He equally maintained that it was best he served the nation as a freelance citizen rather than be part of a PDP-led government that is already championing the doom of the country.

In the tweets, Obasanjo said: "I'd rather sacrifice my political party for the interest of Nigeria than sacrifice my country for a political party led by a drug baron.

"I'd rather tear the PDP membership card than sit down and let Jonathan use PDP and corruption to tear my beloved country apart.

He concluded by saying, "I have national and international standard to maintain. For this reason I'd rather stand alone than be in the same political party with Kashamu."

According to vanguardngr.com, Obasanjo said that the party card he tore was one of the considerations to him in the bid to project Nigeria, pointing out that there was nothing he could not sacrifice for the interest of the nation.

He boasted that despite the destruction of his party card, he would not be cowed by anyone, as he was still ready to comment on any matter that required his comment or view.

He said: "If there is anything that requires my comment, position or views, I will say it. It is only when you kill me that I will stop doing so."

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Ex-President Of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo Quits Politics, Tears PDP Card

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday tore his membership card of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared he would no longer join any political party.
Obasanjo renounced his membership of the party at his Hilltop Mansion in Abeokuta while hosting PDP leaders from his Ward 11, in Abeokuta North Local Government Area.

According to the Daily Independent,  the party leaders in the ward led by Sunmonu Oladunjoye had gone to see him to clear rumours that the former president had been expelled from the party following his recent comments in the media.
Obasanjo said he was aware of his expulsion rumour from PDP but joked that he was already leaving on his own, promising not to join any other political party.

"They said they want to expel me from PDP, although I have not been told but I have my ears on ground. We've been trying to run away from a man but he pleads we wait for him at the other side of the river.
"I have told you before that I became president on the platform of PDP, once I leave PDP, I will not join any party.
"I will only be a Nigerian; I am ready to work with anybody regardless of political affiliation. Why would some people say they want to send me away? They don't need to bother themselves; here's your membership card, take it."
"From today on in the presence of all us and with your support I am not going to be in any political party in Nigeria. I am no more a politician but a statesman both internally and externally.
"The issue that they want to expel me from the party; once you people are with me, what other people am I looking for?" he queried.
"What is important is that we should hold Ward 11 community together, what we are going to do now is that after I don't have burden of PDP again, help me to tear into pieces my membership card," he told his ward leaders.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo maintained that Nigeria belongs to all, stressing that he would continue to protect the interest of the nation.
"This Nigeria belongs to all of us and it must not be destroyed. This is my PDP's membership card. Where I am standing is that Nigeria belongs to everybody including babies.
"We must not allow anybody to destroy it wherever they come from, whatever they have and if they destroy it, it becomes our burden, our children and the incoming generation.
"I belong to the group that believes that Nigeria must not be destroyed," he stated.
Obasanjo bemoaned the falling value of Naira stressing that the economy is in bad shape in terms of inflation rate.
"Those of you that are marketers you observe that there's inflation in the market.
"The bureau de change operators exchange dollars with N150 then and is going to be N250 to a dollar now.
"What it means is that, what you've been buying for N150 will be bought for N250; this is not the kind of country we dream of," he stated.
Obasanjo lamented lack of employment opportunities saying some people have started destroying the country.
"There's no job, no employment. Some people have started destroying Nigeria and I will never be in a party that will destroy Nigeria. Perhaps, you don't understand that it is because there's Nigeria that is why PDP exists. Without Nigeria, there will be no PDP any more.
"What some of us should be concerned about is how to make Nigeria stronger and our economy would witness growth.
Obasanjo also dismissed the idea of Interim National Government stressing that anybody in his right senses cannot be thinking of ING.
"How can anybody in his right senses talk of ING in a democratic setting? Some of them are working for it; God will not allow it. In my ward, we'll be meeting time to time to discuss and interact on whatever you want and what I want," he told the ward leaders.
Obasanjo, however, used the occasion to call on Nigerians to collect their permanent voter's cards (PVC) for them to vote at the election.
"And on the day of election, what ever it takes, the PVC must be obtained. You don't need to be a politician before you get your PVC. On the day of election, you can vote for your choice, but I will vote for those who will repair Nigeria and not those who will destroy it."
He said he would vote for those that would repair the country and not those that will destroy it.
The Chairman of the PDP in Ogun State, Bayo Dayo, told Daily Independent in a telephone interview that the former President had been expelled from the party.
He said Obasanjo's expulsion came after he tore the party's membership card at his Hilltop residence.
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Jonathan postponed elections to frustrate Buhari – NY Times

The United States-based New York Times says the postponement of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission was orchestrated by President Goodluck Jonathan to frustrate Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress.

The newspaper said this in the editorial of its Monday edition titled, "Nigeria's Miserable Choices".

The publication said, "Any argument to delay the vote might be more credible if President Goodluck Jonathan's government had not spent much of the past year playing down the threat posed by the militants and if there were a reasonable expectation that the country's weak military has the ability to improve security in a matter of weeks.

"It appears more likely that Mr. Jonathan grew alarmed by the surging appeal of Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who has vowed to crack down on Boko Haram. By dragging out the race, Jonathan stands to deplete his rival's campaign coffers while he continues to use state funds and institutions to bankroll his own."

The newspaper warned that election postponement might increase the level of insecurity rather than reduce it.

"The security forces may not be able to safeguard many districts on Election Day. But postponement is very likely to make the security threat worse."

It added, "Beyond security matters, entrenched corruption and the government's inability to diversify its economy as the price of oil, the country's financial bedrock, has fallen and has also caused Nigerians to look for new leadership.

"Nigeria, the most populous African nation, and a relatively young democracy, cannot afford an electoral crisis. That would only set back the faltering efforts to reassert government control in districts where Boko Haram is sowing terror.

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Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan Appeals To The People of Ughelli To Vote For Ifeanyi Okowa

Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has appealed to the people of Ughelli North Local Government Area not to deny Ifeanyi Okowa their votes the way they did to him in the previous elections, Daily Independent Reports.

Uduaghan said they should not vote for the candidates of the party with broom, as it (broom) is meant to pack excreta, urging Ughelli people not to go back to the old days of excreta packing.
He made the appeal in Ughelli at the weekend during the commissioning of the dualised Ekuigbo Ughelli Township road.
The governor maintained that Okowa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, has all the credentials, experience and is more capable than other candidates from the other political parties.
According to him, the road project was made possible because the PDP-led administration is sensitive to the plights of the masses.
He said a vote for the PDP in the forthcoming elections means a vote for continuous development and empowerment of the people.
While calling for massive votes for all the candidates of the party in the general elections billed to hold in March and April, he advised the youths to be hardworking, engaged and make sure they mobilise for the success of PDP in the area.
He assured them that the party would make sure the youths are not left out in the scheme of things.
The state Commissioner for Works, Solomon Funkekeme, observed that it was on record that Uduaghan has constructed more than 3, 000 kilometres of roads in the state, thanking him for the socio economic development of Delta, which are part of the hallmark of the three points agenda. He appealed to the people to give appreciation in return.
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Breaking News: Obasanjo tears PDP membership card in public

Information reaching NewsbeatPortal from very reliable sources says that the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, today shredded his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card to pieces.

As at the time of filing this report it is unclear on the possible reasons behind his action.

However, some sources opine that the tearing of his PDP membership may have a bearing on the recent public face-off behind Obasanjo and the presidency.

It would be recalled that the presidency, towards the end of last week, accused Obasanjo of nursing the ambition of heading an interim government should elections be postponed from the rescheduled march 28 date, and the need for an interim government arises.

The accusation by the presidency on Obasanjo is not unconnected with Obasanjo's recent verbal attack on the presidency, where he accused president Jonathan of being desperate to remain in power.

More details on this report to follow...

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Exposed: Great Ogboru Connived With PDP Members To Rig 2013 Delta Central Senatorial By-Election

Authoritative facts are beginning to emerge that Great Ovedje Ogboru who poses as the gubernatorial flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) is not the change he claims to be, but a smooth political betrayal.

Days of private investigations on why the once diehard loyalist and son of the prominent Dafinone family, Ede Dafinone abandoned the political sinking ship of Ogboru has yielded results.

According to credible sources who spoke in the course of the investigation; during the Delta Central Senatorial by-election that took place on October 5 2013, Ogboru was the brain
behind his candidate, Dafinone who contested under the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), losing to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Edesiri Aguariavwodo, who is best known as the bench warmer of the Red Chambers, for being inactive since he was rigged into power.

It was gathered that during the by-election, an unwritten agreement was reached between Ogboru and power brokers of the PDP who visited his Abraka hometown to plead with
him to support Aguariavwodo.

The deal according to sources will see him benefiting massively from the Federal Government through awards of contracts, especially as he was already cash strapped.

As expected, the whore politician bowed to their wishes to allow the PDP in Delta Central have their way, while Ogboru pretended to be supporting Dafinone.

One of the sources confided in this reporter that while the election was ongoing, Ogboru was in his home, painted white in Abraka snoring away, while he purposely switched off his phones.

"That was not the Ogboru we know. In past elections, that man will make sure that votes from Abraka and Ethiope East were protected, as he moved from ward to ward. But that day own, he was in his house sleeping away. Even when we sent people to meet him, that they were rigging the elections in his ward; he told the security men to tell us that he is sleeping. That was when we began to suspect that he was playing a foul game with DPP", stated a source.

Further facts emerged collaborated our sources, as we gathered that immediately after the election; Ogboru came to Dafinone house at Sapele on the 6 of October 2013 to meet some newsmen, who were invited by the Senatorial aspirant, where he planned to reject the election, which was described as hoax. Wearing a white kaftan, according to our
sources, Ogboru pleaded with his party candidate to let bygone be bygone, especially as DPP came a distant third. Shocking as this was to Dafinone; he later gave in to Ogboru's pressure and never pursued the case.

This betrayal by Ogboru, whose effect alone secured victory for Late Senator Pius Ewherido in 2011 was said to have surprised Ede Dafinone, who noted that he could not be
under the same party with a man, who bites your heel like a rat, and blow it at the same time to ease your pain; hence his defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

True to the gentleman agreement reached with the PDP, Ogboru was given some undisclosed sum of money, with a multi million Naira contract lately from the FG, the money which is believed in some quarters is being used by him to fund his 2015 guber race under the LP.

Ogboru remains the only unenviable politician in Nigeria who has contested governorship elections with different political parties, whenever the poll doors open.

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Exposed: Presidency Schemes To Bribe National Assembly Members To Postpone Elections Again

President Goodluck Jonathan and his inner circle have begun new moves to jettison elections altogether, hoping that members of the National Assembly will agree to postpone polls once again and instead settle for a so-called interim national government, according to information received from several sources, one of them embedded in the Presidency in Abuja.

The sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan, Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the chairman of the PDP's board of trustees, Tony Anenih, Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko and Ijaw political figure, Edwin Clark, were the main players in the new scheme. They are reportedly determined to sell their new plan to a small nucleus of key legislators at the National Assembly to discuss how best to recruit supporters, sources knowledgeable about the astonishing plot revealed.

The team pushing this new idea, one source said, is operating on the premise that it would be "dangerous to hand over power to Muhammadu Buhari." Ms. Alison-Madueke was reported to be a hawkish pusher of the idea, with one of our sources adding that the Petroleum Minister was extremely anxious about the prospect of a Buhari Presidency exposing her numerous shady deals in the oil sector through which she and a few players selected by her have drained billions of dollars of oil revenues into their private holdings.

Ms. Alison-Madueke has assured the group that some officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as several big-time beneficiaries of oil sector deals, including importers of refined fuel, were committed to the plan and willing to provide slush funds to pay a bribe of $2 million dollars to each senator and $1 million to key members of the House of Representatives to persuade them to endorse the plot to derail elections permanently and install an interim national government. The president is working through officials of the NNPC to fund the massive bribe scheme.

Mr. Jonathan's henchmen have begun discussions with some members of the National Assembly as the legislative body prepares to resume another legislative session in Abuja next week. It would be the first time the legislature would sit after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced last week that polls, which were scheduled for February 14, 2015, had been postponed for six weeks.

According to those who briefed SaharaReporters on the latest scheme by the Presidency, Mr. Jonathan plans to sell to key legislators the argument that, since Nigeria is at war at the moment, the government would need another six months at least to fight off Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast of Nigeria before elections can take place.

A source close to a former military head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan had approached the retired officer and pleaded with him to consider heading an interim national government that would be put in place on May 29, 2015 if Mr. Jonathan's plan prevails.

"General Abubakar promptly declined the offer and immediately informed some ex-heads of state about the offer," the source disclosed.

Mr. Jonathan and Ms. Madueke have revived the scheme to avoid elections after a sobering meeting the president held last Thursday night with PDP governors and top party figures. The participants at the meeting were candid in conceding that the forthcoming presidential elections would not favour President Jonathan despite its postponement for six weeks.

A source close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo told SaharaReporters that the incumbent president's machination to thwart elections was the provocation for a recent intensification of verbal warfare between Mr. Jonathan and ex-President Obasanjo. The latter has publicly accused Mr. Jonathan of plotting to stymie election now scheduled for March 28, the same way former President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire caused a political crisis in his country after loosing an election, bringing his country close to a civil war.

The latest plan by Mr. Jonathan, several sources said, is driven by Ms. Alison-Madueke's desperation. The Petroleum Minister is reportedly worried that she would not be able to avoid prosecution for several questionable deals in the oil sector that have catapulted her and her minions to billionaires. Her fear is reportedly heightened by the fact that she does not see the prospect of being granted asylum in any European or North American nation should she decide to flee abroad if Mr. Jonathan loses.

A source close to Mr. Jonathan revealed that First Lady Patience Jonathan has occasionally fumed and blamed Ms. Alison-Madueke of causing her husband's popular unpopularity.

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Borno State Declares Monday Public Holiday For Buhari’s Campaign Rally

The Borno State Government on Sunday announced Monday to be a work-free day for all the residents in the state.

This announcement was necessary in view of the presidential campaign rally of Muhammadu Buhari.

The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Jidda, made the statement available to journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday.

Jidda said, "The Borno State Government has declared Monday as a work free day.

"The declaration is to enable the people of the state to welcome the APC presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, who will arrive Maiduguri on a campaign visit on Monday."

Jidda added, "Governor Kashim Shettima has enjoined all Borno residents to come out en mass and line up the streets to welcome the Peoples' General."

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