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Ahead of this weekend’s Presidential elections in the country, Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba has ordered the restriction of vehicular movement across the federation on elections days from 8AM to 5PM..
A statement signed by the Force Public Relations officer, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu reads, “As part of efforts to ensure adequate security in the forthcoming general elections across the Federation on Saturday 28th March, 2015 and 11th April, 2015, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, has ordered the restriction on vehicular movements as follows:
“Saturday 28th March, 2015, 8.00am – 5.00pm only. Saturday 11th April, 2015 8.00am – 5.00pm only”
“This total restriction of movements order applies to all, except for Ambulances, Fire service trucks and others on essential duties.
“Consequently, travellers and citizens who intend to use roads on these days and hours are advised to plan alternative times for their travelling.
“While expressing his regrets over the inconveniences that road users and the general public may encounter as a result of this restriction, the IGP appeals for the understanding and cooperation of the entire citizenry, as the restriction is done in the nation’s interest.
“The IGP assures that adequate security logistics and manpower have been strategically deployed to achieve a most conducive electioneering atmosphere.
“In this regard, Policemen for election duty have been properly trained, briefed and sensitized on their roles as stipulated in the Electoral Act.
“They are expected to be professional, non-partisan, civil but firm in their approach and relation to the public.
“Meanwhile, citizens are enjoined to remain vigilant and report all suspicious movements or dealings to appropriate Police authority.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, restrained the Federal Government from deploying soldiers for the general elections beginning on Saturday with Presidential and National Assembly polls.
The court held that there was no part of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which empowers the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces to deploy military for election purposes.
Trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, also held that “it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government to deploy military for the supervision of election purposes without the approval of the National Assembly.”
Delivering a jugdment in a suit filed by a member of the House of Representatives and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, the judge declared the deployment of military for election as unconstitutional.
Gbajabiamila, leader of opposition in the House of Representatives, had gone to court challenging the power of the President to deploy soldiers for the elections.
Defendants in the suit were President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Chief of Naval Staff and the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister.
The judge added that a careful perusal and research into all Nigerian laws would reveal that there was nowhere where it was stated that the President could single-handedly deploy the military for elections.
In his argument, plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr Seni Adio had contended that there were allegations and evidences that the military inhibit free movement, free access and intimidated voters in states like Osun, Ekiti, Edo and Anambra states where they were deployed for election purposes.
He argued that it was not ideal to deploy the military for the supervision of elections in a democratic setting.
However, in response, defendants’ lawyer, Mr Dele Adesina, SAN, argued that the President, being the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces was empowered under the Armed Forces Act to deploy military to maintain law and order.
The deployment of troops, according to the defendants, was largely due to the peculiar nature of elections and electioneering in the country.
The Court of Appeal in Abuja had recently made a similar pronouncement on the role of the military in the conduct of elections, saying troops ought not to have been deployed during the polls.
The appellate court had held that based on the provisions of the law, the military had no role to play in electoral process, adding that whoever deployed the military during the election in Ekiti State had breached the law.
Obama also did not fail to call for the safe rescue of the more than 200 kidnapped Chibok girls by Boko Haram.
In a video posted on Monday on the White House official website, President Obama conveyed the message to the Nigerian people to highlight the opportunity that the upcoming elections presents for them to stand together in rejecting violence and extremism and instead show their support for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous future.
“So I call on all leaders and candidates to make it clear to their supporters that violence has no place in democratic elections—and that they will not incite, support or engage in any kind of violence—before, during, or after the votes are counted. I call on all Nigerians to peacefully express your views and to reject the voices of those who call for violence. And when elections are free and fair, it is the responsibility of all citizens to help keep the peace, no matter who wins,” Obama said.
In his message, the US President made it clear that his message was for Nigerians who will be voting in the March 28 and April 11 elections, urging them to safeguard the democratic process by performing their civic responsibility peacefully.
Obama said, “Today, I want to speak directly to you—the people of Nigeria. Successful elections and democratic progress will help Nigeria meet the urgent challenges you face today.
“Boko Haram—a brutal terrorist group that kills innocent men, women and children—must be stopped. Hundreds of kidnapped children deserve to be returned to their families. Nigerians who have been forced to flee deserve to return to their homes. Boko Haram wants to destroy Nigeria and all that you have worked to build. By casting your ballot, you can help secure your nation’s progress.”
Obama also urged all Nigerians to put their ethnic and religious backgrounds behind them ahead of the polls, saying that the task ahead of the country requires the people to be united.
“I’m told that there is a saying in your country: ‘to keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.’ Today, I urge all Nigerians—from all religions, all ethnic groups, and all regions—to come together and keep Nigeria one. And in this task of advancing the security, prosperity, and human rights of all Nigerians, you will continue to have a friend and partner in the United States of America.he added.
This letter is not designed at tarnishing your good credentials neither is it an exercise of crying over spilt milk. Rather, it is a cry for attention; a passionate appeal to you to take a second look at an issue very dear to the people of Ado local government area and Idoma land. Fortunately, His Excellency, Mr. President shall be with us at Otukpo in two days time and so it’s a great opportunity for you to share this matter with him.
I am one of your loyal and very supportive constituents who have on several occasions stood up to your defence when entrenched reactionary forces of ethnic bigotry and backwardness took salvos at your person. At every occasion, I have consistently stood up to them and the interests they represent.
I am enthralled and proud of your achievements as the President of the Nigerian Senate. You brought stability and credibility to the Senate and transformed it from a House of leadership crises and banana peels to one that today commands the respect of all Nigerians.
There is no doubt, Your Excellency that you are a great statesman. Your leadership of the Senate both in times of turbulence and times of calm marks you out as a true statesman. Your espousal of the doctrine of necessity at a time the country was almost drifting apart due to the question of succession to the terminally ill President Umaru Yar’Adua was the magic wand that kept us together.
I also wish to acknowledge here that apart from your quality leadership at the Senate, you have attracted a number of projects to your constituency, among them, the multi-purpose Otobi dam, the Oweto Bridge, several projects in water, health and education sectors under the Millennial development Projects (MDG’s), establishment of the medical campus of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi at Akpa and the establishment of the Otukpo study centre of the National Open University of Nigeria.
There is however one very vital project which escaped you and which you should make a major priority in the next legislative session for its relevance to the people of our constituency. It is a project you could have done before now with ease and resounding acknowledgement but unfortunately, failed, neglected or forgot to do it.
That project is the Otukpo-Igumale-Agila-Ngbo road; an inter-state federal road to link our constituency, Benue South Senatorial district to Ebonyi state. That road, when constructed would open up another corridor of development in Idoma land, providing great benefits to several communities in Otukpo, Ado, Okpokwu Obi and Oju local government areas among others.
Your Excellency, I know that, that road was included in the 2011/2012 federal budget after much lobbying by some prominent Idoma sons among them, Chief Mike Onoja, a retired federal Permanent Secretary and Chief John Aboh, former Group Managing Director of the defunct Oceanic Bank. I also know that what was needed for that road to be constructed then was for the National Assembly which you have the privilege of presiding over to appropriate sufficient funds to it and then, for you, my senator to monitor its implementation.
Unfortunately, sufficient funds were not appropriated for it despite several presentations made to you. Till date, that road has remained untouched; worse today than it was then. Some of the pictures here tell the harrowing experience the people go through using one section of that road.
You could recall that soon after your re-election into the Senate in 2007, the Agila community, to which I belong, paid you a solidarity visit at your Otukpo residence during which we complained bitterly about the state of our insecurity and made a strong case for the construction of that road as one way of reducing tension along the Benue/Ebonyi state boundary and in particular the incessant bloody clashes between us and the neighbouring Ngbo people of Ebonyi state.
Not long after that, on 25th July 2007, the Ngbo Ejeogu people of Ebonyi state also paid you a visit at your office in Abuja where they also complained about the conflict with us and the need for your intervention.
Whereas they made the preposterous claim that the entire land that is today Agila belongs to them and is therefore part of Ebonyi state, they didn’t lose sight of the benefits of the construction of the Agila-Ngbo road as they also called for its construction “to enhance trans border cooperation.”
Your Excellency, the security situation in Agila is not new to you. It is a community on a constant standby; a community at war that never seem to end! I still remember that when you came to Agila in 2007 during your electioneering campaigns, it was to a people yet to recover from a pre-dawn attack on them two days earlier. I recall that when you went to Ogbilolo, one of the scenes of heavy fighting, you picked a number of the expended shells fired by the invaders. I was by your side and I still remember what you said, Your Excellency, when you saw their dare-devilry and the sophistication of their weaponry.
I also remember, very vividly the look of melancholy and agony on the faces of those in your entourage who saw the gory pictures of teenagers, young children and adults who were mowed down innocently by the weapons of war from across the border. Of particular note was the case of Miss Grace Ori Echo, a young, brilliant 18 year old girl who had just finished from the College of Education Oju and was home to see her parents. She had gone to the farm to fetch firewood for use at home only to be abducted few metres away from her home, savagely killed and had her arm chopped off. It was such a gory sight even for a picture!
That part of your constituency and indeed the whole of Ado local government area need your attention. It is a place everyone including the state government seems to have forgotten, yet it is one that has over the years consistently provided bulk support for the People Democratic Party (PDP).
The people of Ado are yet to get commensurate reward for their labour and support for you and the PDP. While we appreciate the few appointments to our sons and daughters, we wish they were more in number and the positions given more substantive and impactful.
We are sad and baffled that the problem of insecurity in Ado is being ignored and has not even been mentioned on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives. I hope we are not waiting for Agila and subsequently the entire Ado to be overrun before we start taking the matter seriously. Agila is strategic to Ado and anything that happens there affects the security and peace of the entire local government area.
When in June 2012, a powerful delegation of the local government council took the matter to you in Abuja and our representative at the House of Representative it was to seek through you, the intervention of the federal government. While you received the team, Hon. Hassan Saleh, our able representative shunned them and refused to even receive the delegation though he knew and approved their coming.
The highly volatile and unpredictable security situation in Ado is not imagined. It is real, it is serious and it is highly combustible. It is important to note that the age-long fight with our bellicose neighbours from Ebonyi and Enugu states for the right of ownership and use of what clearly belongs to the Idoma nation is not confined to Agila. Ulayi, Ijigbam and Ekile districts are equally affected, though in varying degrees.
The bloody massacre that took place at Egba, Agatu where over 84 of our brothers and sisters were savagely killed, most of them in their sleep could have been averted if the government had been more responsive to the security concerns of the people and had taken appropriate steps to contain the build up to the explosion. Regrettably, they did nothing and today, the whole Idoma nation is in mourning.
Your Excellency, there is no doubt that you are returning to the Senate on May 29, 2015 as there is no alternative to you on March 28. The Ado people would as usual support you massively. However, we would wish that this time, you will take the issues raised here as priorities; work for the construction of that vital inter-state road and bring the full weight of the federal government into resolving that inter-state boundary conflict which if not done could mean continuous bloodshed and permanent under-development of the area.
That, I think is not your wish for your own people. As I round up this short letter, please accept my felicitations on your victory and the assurances of my continuous support on issues and programmes that promote development in Idoma land. Thank you, sir, for reading me.
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“We have said it before and we shall say it again: the APC are not only delusional but they are suffering from chronic paranoia. Why should Tinubu be scared of arrest if he has done nothing wrong. Why should Buhari be scared of EFCC if he is clean?
“They should stop raising all these false alarms and they
should just grow up.
“We are far too busy and focused on winning an election than on planning any witch hunt. Those that have a case to answer know who they are and eventually they will be made to answer that case. Whether it be for murder, theft or graft they will surely answer that case sooner than later. God will see to that.
“The radio station that they set up to throw Nigeria into chaos woth after they lose the election has been exposed and we are waiting for them to begin their incitement. When that happens every single one of them will be arrested, rounded up and made to face the full wrath of the law.
“Defeat is staring them in the face and they are having sleepless nights. That is what has informed all this rubbish that they keep peddling out on a daily basis.
“Let them be clear about one thing: no matter what they say or do on March 28th this matter will be settled once and for all and they shall be utterly humiliated at the polls.
“When that happens and when the President gets a fresh and new mandate then we will revisit all the issues and very serious allegations that have been made against Buhari, Tinubu, Saraki, Amaechi, Shettima and all the other APC leaders.
“They should prepare for the very worse because nothing but humiliation, defeat, shame and dark days lie ahead of them
Former Vice President and Chieftain of the APC, Atiku Abubakar says he's not seeing at APC campaigns because the party secretariat do not invite or consult him. The former vice president said this in an interview yesterday.
"I campaigned for late Shehu Yar’Adua twice successfully. We did that of Abiola, Obasanjo and for myself. I am not a light
weight politician, whoever needs my presence should contact and extend invitation to me. They need to check the strategy they are adopting and I made that clear to the campaign DG, Rotimi Amaechi and I told him that if you don’t consult or invite me, you will not see me" he said
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