Postponement Of Elections In Nigeria, American Government Release Statement Says They Are Deeply Disappointed

                       

Postponement Of Elections In Nigeria, American Government Release Statement Says They Are Deeply Disappointed

Press Statement

John Kerry
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

February 7, 2015

The United States is deeply disappointed by the decision to postpone Nigeria’s presidential election, which had been scheduled for February 14.

Political interference with the Independent National Electoral Commission is unacceptable, and it is critical that the government not use security concerns as a pretext for impeding the democratic process.

CSOs Call For Resignation Of Security Chiefs Over Election Postponement

                                         

The  Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) has called on the security chiefs in the country to resign their appointments immediately over their inability to provide security for millions of Nigerians. 

According to a statement from Agianpe Ashang of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), said that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, at a meeting with 12 national commissioners and other stakeholders conveyed that he had received a letter from the security services advising that he postponed the general elections on the grounds that the security agencies were engaged in a renewed battle against insurgency in the North-East that would require their full concentration.

According to Jega in the letter, the military was demanding a rescheduling of elections by at least six weeks.

Full INEC Press Statement on Election

   

Last night being the 7^th of February 2015, INEC chairman Attahiru Jega announced the postponement of the 2015 general elections. Below is the full statement he gave to the press... 

Ladies and Gentlemen, We invited you here today to make known the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the timetable for the 2015 general elections. Let me state from the outset that the Commission’s position was reached after carefully weighing the suggestions from briefings held with different stakeholders in the electoral process. 

The conduct of elections in a country like Nigeria is invariably a collective venture that involves not just the Election Management Body (EMB), but also a diverse range of stakeholders, notably security agencies, political parties and their candidates, voters, as well as interest groups, such as the civil society organizations and the media.To guarantee successful conduct of elections, there are things that are wholly the responsibility of the EMB. But there are other things critical for the success of elections, which fall outside the control of the EMB. Continue reading after the cut....

INEC Postponed February 2015 General Election. {Official}

             

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced a shift in the 2015 general election earlier scheduled for February 14 and 28. See the Official statement below after the cut....

17 parties demand poll shift at meeting with INEC

Seventeen out of the 28 registered political parties have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to shift the conduct of the general elections scheduled for February 14 and 28.

The parties canvassed the position at a consultative meeting with INEC, which ended a few hours ago at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.

INEC had on Friday announced that it would hold consultative meetings with all relevant bodies, including the political parties, civil society organisations and the resident electoral commissioners.

A source at the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES that leaders of 12 others, including the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress, stoutly opposed their colleagues who were demanding the shift of the election.

INEC Denies Postponing Election

 
INEC said it has not made such comment.

"The Transformation has Headed South not West "The difference between APC nand PDP" Gov. Fashola

               

Lagos state governor, Babatunde fashola while Speaking during an APC meeting with organized private sector at Marina, Lagos, today February 2nd, told his audience the difference between APC & PDP, is that “the transformation agenda has headed south not west”

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U.S Oil Resumes Strike.

Oil workers in the U.S. began the largest national strike since 1980 on Sunday, after failing to agree on new labor contracts.

The United Steelworkers Union (USW) called for about 3,800 employees to strike in nine sites across the country, affecting plants that account for 10% of the total U.S. refining capacity

Court in Egypt upholds death sentences against 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over police killings in 2013

Court in Egypt upholds death sentences against 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over police killings in 2013

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Gen Buhari Declines Presidential debate organized Channels TV, Arise TV and NPAN

                   

APC Presidential candidate Gen. Buhari has declined the invitation to attend a presidential debate organized by Channels TV in conjunction with the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN and Arise TV, which was supposed to hold tomorrow February 3rd.

Speaking on Channels TV this morning, the APC Director of strategy, Dele Alake, said Buhari will not be attending the debate because their party believes some media organizations have been compromised. He said that they can not vouch for the independence of some organizers of the debate but refused to he disclose those that he claims have been compromised.

If President Goodluck Lose: Niger Delta Militants Receives MASSOB, OPC Backing.

                              

The Niger Delta militant has received a boost from other ethnic pressure group should Goodluck Jonathan loses the february 14 presidential election which is scheduled to hold in space of two weeks from now

Remember that former Commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Victor-Ben Ebikabowei, aka Boyloaf; leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari; and Government Ekpudomenowei, aka Tompolo, the militants had threatened unrest if the President loses his second term bid.

The Ohanaeze Ndi’gbo argued that what the militants meant was that if the election is not fair and credible and Jonathan loses, they will reject the result. This, the Igbo group said, “is a right position to take.”

"If Europeans Will Accept to be Tried in an African Court, We will also Accept to go to ICC." - Robert Mugabe

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Mugabes quotes!

"If Europeans will accept to be tried in an African court, we will also accept to go to ICC." - Robert Mugabe #AUSummit2015

Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker dies at 94

Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, who was president from 1984 to 1994, dies at the age of 94

PRESIDENT JONATHAN NOMINATES OBANIKORO, SIX OTHERS AS MINISTERS

President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the names of seven new ministers to the Senate for confirmation, African Independent Television [AIT] is reporting.
Among the nominees are a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, Kenneth Kobani, a former National Treasurer of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN], who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, and a former Senator, Patricia Akwashiki.

More details Later....

Murtala Foundation Offers Buhari Fresh Opportunity To Debate With Jonathan

                         

Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), withdrew from the presidential debate organised by Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG) on Thursday citing bias for President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) has now presented both men with another opportunity to face off.

Announcing Buhari’s withdrawal, Garba Shehu, directorate of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign organisation, explained that the boycott was due to the “unhidden bias and campaign of calumny by some key organisers of the programme, against the corporate political interest of the party (APC) and its candidates”. Shehu argued that the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG) powered debate was fraught with fundamental errors from the outset, by wearing the toga of government control, especially being composed mainly of agencies and allies of the incumbent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration. “A salutary inspection of the composition of NEGD brings into focus the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), National Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Africa Independent Television (AIT, owned by a PDP chieftain),” he said.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is the new chairman of the African Union.

                                      

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is the new chairman of the African Union for the coming year.

ISIS To Obama: 'We Will Cut Off Your Head In The White House'

                           

The video shows ISIS militants standing in the streets of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, following an artillery barrage on the city by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. In front of the militants is seated a Kurdish soldier who is executed at the end of the video. 

Prior to the Kurdish soldiers execution, the ISIS executioner delivered a message in Kurdish which was subtitled into Arabic in the video. 

Nigeria Will Break If President Goodluck Loses, I Insists - Tompolo

                              

Nigeria: 

The former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) has restated the resolve of the Niger Delta warlords to make Nigeria ungovernable if President Jonathan fails to return as president in next month's general election.

In a statement released by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Bebenimibo, in Warri yesterday January 29th, Tompolo attacked Gen Theophilus Danjuma for calling for his arrest alongside Asari Dokubo and other Niger delta warlords. He said the treaty that merged the Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria expired last year and everyone should be grateful to President Jonathan for keeping Nigeria together. Part of his statement after the cut...but meanwhile, the presidency has condemned this war threat from Tompolo and others.. 

Reasons Why Buhari will not participate in BON "presidential debate" - APC

                        

......says organisers are agents of Goodluck.

APC says it's presidential candidate Gen Buhari will not be participating in the presidential debate being organized by the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria BON and the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG) .

In a statement released today January 29th by Garna Shehu, the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), they said Buhari will not be participating in the debate as the composition of those organizing the debate was mainly of agents of Goodluck. 
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APC Alleges Plot To Disqualify Buhari

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) plans to get Muhammadu Buhari disqualified from the presidential race so that there would be riots and postponement of the polls.

In a statement on Thursday, APCPCO alleged that the PDP wanted to get a court to pronounce that Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, lied under oath in saying that the military had his certificates.

The military denied being in possession of the certificates in a saga that has continued to dominate the campaign.

Garba Shehu, APCPCO’s director of media and publicity, said a federal high court judge had been hired to do a “dirty hatchet job”.