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INEC refuses to bring witnesses because they could not find anyone to come and lie under oath ~ Demola Olarewaju PEPT resumes this morning about this time - 9:30am, I’m sure by now those interested in the outcome of this matter have heard of the disastrous first steps of the Buhari defence: two major fumbles yesterday alone and several others that have been identified and will be exploited. Worthy to note that H.E. Peter Obi was in court yesterday - these are men who fully understand how to go the whole distance in any election and how to stand consistently by what you believe in. If history is to go by, Atiku/Obi are two men with a record of judicial victories. Two of the issues against Buhari is that he wasn’t qualified to run for office and that he swore on and submitted a false and outdated affidavit to INEC for the 2019 election. This burden is what the Buhari legal team tried to upturn yesterday but shot itself in the foot. The brilliance of the Ati...

Akwa Ibom Guber: APC candidate,  Nsima Ekere's Subpoenaed Fake INEC Ad-hoc Staff As Witness,  Presents Fake Video At Tribunal   <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Main ad --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9574780100228130" data-ad-slot="3402560172" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Main ad --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9574780100228130" data-ad-slot="3402560172" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-re...

Ex- NBA VICE PRESIDENT PLOTS MEDIA WAR ON A'IBOM REC Former Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Monday Ubani has been fingered as the ring leader in the current smear campaign plot against Barr.Mike Igini, the Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner. One of such is an alleged doctored audio tape between one Dr. William and a female  supposedly to taint and scandalize  the reputation of the electoral commissioner after failed attempts to relocate the tribunal sitting to Abuja were they boasted that they are in control of  judges who can be given order and  skew  judgements of  the National Assembly Tribunal sitting in Uyo to Senator Akpabio's favour . A very reliable source in their team  who spoke in confidence, stated clearly that, Senator Akpabio, sensing an imminent defeat at the  Election Tribunal due to his inability to defend his alleged victory at the poll, accepted an offer from and  recruited the crude servi...

Election  Election petition: Declare Atiku winner of 2019 presidential election, Areas youth leader tells tribunal 'INEC's refusal to call witnesses proves Atiku won'                                                                       The National Chairman of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has called on the presidential election tribunal to declare the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, the winner of the February 23 presidential election.  Shettima's call came on the heels of the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission to call any witness to defend its case against the petition filed by the opposition PDP, on Monday, at the presidential tribunal sitting on Monday.  Atiku and the ...

Exposed! How Sen. Akpabio Bought Ministerial Appointment For N1.6bn, plot to upstage Amaechi as APC South-South Leader  Things are falling apart in the Akwa Ibom State All Progressives Congress (APC) as top functionaries of the party are no longer at ease with the overbearing attitude of the former Governor of the State,  Senator Godswill Akpabio, particularly the way he allegedly used about N1.6 billion to corner the State sole ministerial slot, despite that he is still at the tribunal, challenging the election of  Senator Chris Ekpenyong of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District election. A chieftain of the party who craved anonymity confided in our reporter yesterday,  that Akpabio boasted that it was his money that earned him the ministerial appointment and that he was ready to spend more to get a juicy portfolio, preferably Petroleum or Niger-Delta Ministry.  The APC chieftain alleged that Akpabio ...

Ondo Monarchs Issue 21-Day Ultimatum to Herdsmen to Vacate their Lands The people of Idoani, Idogun, Imeri and Afo in Ose local government area of Ondo State have issued a 21-day ultimatum to Fulani herdsmen to vacate their farmlands with effect from July 22nd. In a communiqué jointly signed by Alani of Idoani, Oba Olufemi Olutoye,  Onidogun, Oba Moses Bakare, Onimeri, Oba Babatunde Adeniran and Alafo, Oba Adegoke Egunjobi, the royal fathers said their people could no longer tolerate the spate of kidnapping, killing , raping of their wives and daughters by the herders. The royal fathers further expressed worries over the possibility of violent clashes and reprisals between the farmers and herders following the incessant destruction of cash crops by the Fulani herdsmen adding that, “the ultimatum remains the last option to avoid breakdown of law & order as the Fulanis have rebuffed all entreaties to conduct themselves within the confines of the law.”  ...

Nsima Ekere's call for nullification of 2019 election: A cry of a shameless politician ~ Richard Peters I was shocked to my marrow when I heard that the APC gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 election, Obong Nsima Ekere who testified at the election tribunal , prayed the tribunal to nullify the election, which according to him was marred by violence, vote buying, rigging and othe electoral irregularities. He further alleged that he won the election according to the unit results presented by his agents, claiming that INEC's declaration was not correct. But the question that still probes a concerned mind is, why would Nsima call for the cancellation of the election he clearly won? The testimony granted in court by Obong Nsima Ekere, clearly shows that he is such a shameless and futile man, because no sensible person, who claimed he won an election whose petition is still pending in court would wish that the election be canceled, rather he would follow up the proce...

Akwa Ibom Tribunal: APC Guber Candidate, Nsima Ekere Contradicts Own Written Statement ...Wants Total Cancellation Of Guber Results Sensing contradictions by most of his witnesses in the Governorship Elections Petitions Tribunal in Uyo, APC Candidate Nsima Ekere has abandoned almost all the averments in his written statement on oath. Testifying as a principal witness in his petition against Governor  Udom Emmanuel's re-election,  he said clearly that he abandons the areas he said he won,  accepting that he didn't win. Under cross  examination by respondents' counsels, he sought the entire elections to cancelled by the tribunal. This is at variance with the testimonies of some of his earlier witnesses, including a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Essien Udim, Supol Isiek, who two days ago announced that elections were free in his area, and tendered the result in favour of Ekere. Ekere had in his petition stated that election in Etim Ekpo and Essien Udim local govern...

Ekiti PDP Media Group slams Fayemi over fresh N5bn loan, Says "He plans to mortgage Ekiti for 15 years" The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party National New Media Group (PDP-NNMG) has accused the State  Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, of plotting to plunge the State into another round of debt, disclosing that the governor was about taking N5 billion loan from a new generation bank. In a statement on Wednesday, State Coordinator of the PDP-NNMG, Bola Agboola, said the N5 billion loan, processing of which was already at advanced stage, is to be repaid in 15 years at N58 million per month. The PDP group lamented that Governor Fayemi was already threading the same path like his first tenure, noting that the governor was also seeking an unspecified amount as loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB). It said; "It is on record that the loans and bonds taken by Fayemi when he was governor between 2010 and 2014 are still being repaid by the St...

Lay down your arms and stand the chance of becoming Nigerian President; Army to Boko Haram The General Officer Commanding, 7 Division, Maj. Gen Abdulmalik Biu, says repentant terrorists who lay down their arms stand the chance of becoming great in society and even emerging as the President of Nigeria. Biu said this during an interview with journalists in Borno State while calling on Boko Haram members to lay down their arms. He said,“Boko Haram should lay down their arms unconditionally and be accepted in their community; opportunities are out there for them. They can be rehabilitated. An ex-Boko Haram member who has laid down his arms and turns away from negativity stands to become the President of this country and take up any position in this country. “Why is he wasting his time when he cannot even deliver? But we have appealed to them including their collaborator to see reason to drop their arms as quickly as possible so that we can once again re-occupy our posit...

We never announced 61,329 votes for Akpabio in Essien Udim - INEC returning officer  ...carpets APC for parading impostor before tribunal as APC Local Government Agent The INEC Returning Officer for Essien Udim local government at the 2019 National Assembly Elections, Dr. William Olosunde, says the commission could not accept the alleged inflated local government result 61,329 votes by APC candidate Chief Godswill Akpabio, claiming they were not products of any electoral process. He also confirmed that Mr Godwin Michael Afangideh who earlier presented the result before the tribunal as APC Local Government Agent for Essien Udim,  was an impostor who had no dealings with INEC officials at the collation center throughout the National Assembly elections. At the National  Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal in Uyo, Dr Olosunde explained that Dr. Ngozika A. Oleforo the Collation Officer for Ukana West 1 Ward and Prof. David Edem the Collation Officer for Ikpe Annang Ward brou...