State Election Reports

[Chinkata]

Anambra has been called for PDP's Andy Uba and Enugu is inconclusive


Updated List of Governors by State:

Abia Theodore Orji (PPA)
Adamawa Murtala Nyako (PDP)
Akwa IbomGodswill Akpabio (PDP)
Anambra Andy Uba (PDP)
Bauchi Isa Yuguda (ANPP)
Bayelsa Timipre Sylva (PDP)
Benue Gabriel Suswam (PDP)
BornoAli Modu Sheriff (ANPP)
Cross RiverLiyel Imoke (PDP)
Delta Emmanuel Uduaghan (PDP)
Ebonyi Martin Elechi (PDP)
Ekiti Olusegun Oni (PDP)
Enugu Inconclusive; to be re-run
Gombe Mohammed Goje (PDP)
Imo Result voided; fresh vote April 28
Jigawa Sule Lamido (PDP)
Katsina Ibrahim Shema (PDP
Kebbi Usman Saidu Nasamu (PDP)
Kogi Ibrahim Idris (PDP)
Lagos Babatunde Fashola (AC)
Nassarawa Aliyu Doma (PDP)
Niger Muazu Aliyu (PDP)
Ogun Gbenga Daniel (PDP)
Osun Olagunsoye Oyinlola (PDP)
Oyo Christopher Alao-Akala (PDP)
Rivers Celestine Omehia (PDP)
Sokoto Aliyu Wamakko (PDP)
Yobe Mamman Ali (ANPP)
Zamfara Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi (ANPP)

[Chinkata]

Three additional elections just called:

Kwara Bukola Saraki (PDP)
Kaduna Mohammed Namadi Sambo (PDP)
Edo Oserheimen Osumbor (PDP)


I am just shaking my head at the Edo result. Very sad, very sad indeed.

[salstep]

Originally Posted by Chinkata

Three additional elections just called:

Kwara Bukola Saraki (PDP)
Kaduna Mohammed Namadi Sambo (PDP)
Edo Oserheimen Osumbor (PDP)


I am just shaking my head at the Edo result. Very sad, very sad indeed.

I hope there is civil unrest. The Edo people should rise up.

[Shoko Loko Bangoshe]

It's all well and good re-reporting stories from news media sources, but I'll also like to suggest that we also add our own stories for posterity.

If you voted and you observed any of the irregularities that have been reported, then please post details of what transpired (as others have done). If you are in Nigeria but weren't able to vote, or if you live abroad, then call your friends and relatives and ask them to give you details of what happened when they voted.

As has been said before, the more detailed stories of vote rigging that are reported, the harder it becomes for these thieves to proclaim that the election was "free and fair" (hawks up phlegm and spits in disgust).

[N.A.R.]

In this age of minature cameras and recorders, there should be ample evidence of ballot snatching, stuffing, and under-age voting, one fellow with an armful(and neckfull) of ballot boxes is already on the 'net. It is also impossible for all the people voting at one center to have the same five thumbprints. Since we are in the age of due process it would make sense that complainants would present evidence, unless perhaps they are scared of being exposed for doing the same things.

Enough with the incitement, aggrieved parties should start immediately to document and present their cases. Due process is not a seasonal thing.

What?
Precisely. But was this done? Lets keep an eye on You Tube and see if Nigerians have videos to post. And letts hope that those claiming the election was rigged have adequate proof for the courts. I hope they learnt when Buhari lost to Obasanjo challenging the 2003 election. But I doubt that.

[katampe]

"In a society where it is more profitable to be a prayer warrior than an economist, then you know what to expect"

-Rev Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah

This quote caught my attention .I think this is very true. We are expecting too much, someone mentioned we needed a re-orientation.We are very lost, and I hope we have a leader with a national appeal that bails us out in later years. It is a serious issue of when everything goes wrong.

I think it would take a generation to fix the problems. We need serious thinkers and intellectuals to help with solutions. Right now, the serious thinkers we have are separatists, mostly a bunch of losers.We keep getting shouts of break-up, national conference .Are there any original ideas that suits our situation, the prayers we have been praying since SU days till today are not working at the moment.

[Chinkata]

How PDP won Ekiti, by the director of London based Royal African Society.


Ruling party 'trying to rig Nigerian vote'
By Richard Dowden in Oye, Nigeria
Published: 16 April 2007

The mayhem started as soon as Nigeria's state polls opened. The first polling station we visited had just been raided. A gang had stolen one book of ballot papers and half-filled another with votes for the candidate of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). At the second, the register was missing and, as we were asking what happened, shots were fired from a passing BMW. Party agents gave chase and got its registration number. They said it was a state government car.

At the third, an angry crowd which had seen one ballot box stolen by PDP activists was setting up a roadblock. A heavily armed police unit was trying to remove it, but the crowd shouted that the police were trying to steal ballot boxes and stuff them.

Back at the first polling station, a crowd of young men were running off with the ballot box. After a chase and a spate of shouting, they returned it. Everyone had voted and they were keeping it for safety, they said. But the election official said they were members of the PDP. Just two out of 286 registered voters had been brave enough to vote.

At the town of Oye, a line of soldiers blocked the road while a silver Toyota with no number plates sped off. We were mobbed by a furious crowd. " No vote here; there has been no vote here," they bawled. Since the polls opened, thugs from the PDP had been shooting in the air to disperse voters. But now,a crowd gathered around a blue Pajero, pulled the occupants out and began to beat them. Only the intervention of one of the candidates' bodyguards prevented the men being killed.

In another part of town, a furious crowd swirled around a house. Five people were brought out - one a woman - to a deafening roar. Half a dozen ballot boxes had been hidden inside. The crowd went wild, kicking, punching and hitting the men with sticks and whips - only the woman was spared. Battered and bleeding, they were pushed into the back of a car and driven off to be handed over to the police.

In the evening, Maurice Iwo, the commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, said on Nigerian television: "We are very happy with what we have seen so far." And President Olusegun Obasanjo said: " So far so good."

Events in Ekiti state may have been the exception, but they showed how crude the PDP can be when trying to rig an election. The areas that Mr Obasanjo wants to win are Ekiti and the Delta states, Balyelsa and Rivers.

The elections for state governors and senators may be more important for ordinary people than next Saturday's presidential vote. The governor of Ekiti, a poor, rural state with just 2 million people a few hours drive from Lagos, receives 19.5bn naira (£77m) a year from central government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which is investigating 31 of the 36 incumbent governors, has impeached five, including the previous governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose. The final straw was the murder of a potential rival last July. The President put Ekiti under a state of emergency.

The state is the most ethnically homogenous in Nigeria; everyone is Yoruba. With no ethnic divisions, parties are simply a vehicle for mobilising support. Aspirant politicians shop around for a nomination.

The Action Congress (AC) candidate challenging for state governor was Kayode Fayemi, formerly a London-based activist who worked to restore democracy during Nigeria's 16 years of military rule. His campaign cost £2m, and he admits that, in Nigerian politics, "there are things you must do in the short term to achieve something long term". On Saturday, he travelled through the district trying to calm his supporters.

That evening, I went to the centre were the results were to be checked. A power cut had left it in darkness but officials were counting by the pale light of mobile phones. Reports came in from all over the state of ballot box thefts and PDP intimidation of voters. But on the votes counted, Mr Fayemi was clearly in the lead, beating his rival two to one in two wards. The electoral commissioner in charge of the centre, however, was closeted in his office with some Big Men including President Obasanjo's adviser on political affairs. The PDP candidate, Olusegun Oni, was declared the winner yesterday morning.

* At least 21 people were killed across the country in election-linked violence. Some estimates put the toll as high as 50. The PDP was declared victorious in 11 of the first 13 states to announce a result.

[Tochukwu]

Atiku Wins in Supreme Court. Hurrah judiciary.

[UglyMan]

MEDIA SUMMARIES


INEC DECLARES FASHOLA, ORJI, OMEHIA, SHEMA WINNERS ThisDay

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday announced the results of the governorship and state houses of assembly election in no fewer than twenty states and declared the Action Congress (AC) candidate in Lagos, Babatunde Fashola the winner.
The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) candidate in Abia, Chief T.A Orji; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Niger state, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu; his Oyo state counterpart, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala; and their Ebonyi state counterpart, Mr. Martin Elechi were also winners.



The Governors-Elect

Ogun State: Gbenga Daniel (PDP)
Osun State: Olagunsoye Oyinlola (PDP)
Delta State: Emmanuel Uduaghan (PDP)
Kwara State: Bukola Saraki (PDP)
Oyo State: Adebayo Alao-Akala (PDP)
Kogi State: Idris Ibrahim (PDP)
Ekiti State: Segun Oni (PDP)
Borno State: Ali Sheriff (ANPP)
Lagos State: Babatunde Fashola (AC)
Rivers State: Celestine Omehia (PDP)
Bayelsa State: Timipre Sylva (PDP)
Ebonyi State: Martin Elechi (PDP)
Abia State: Emefile Orji (PPA)
Katsina State: Mohammed Shema (PDP)
Jigawa State: Sule Lamido (PDP)
Niger State: Babangida Aliyu (PDP)
Sokoto State: Magatakarda Wammako (PDP)
Gombe State: Danjuma Goje (PDP)
Yobe State: Mamman Ali (ANPP)
A/Ibom State: Godswill Akpabio (PDP)
Kaduna State: Namadi Sambo (PDP)
Nasarawa State: Aliu Akwe Doma (PDP)



...7 CANDIDATES REJECT RESULT Champion

Seven gubernatorial candidates of last Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly general election in Lagos State yesterday rejected the electoral process that shot the Action Congress (AC) candidate Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola ahead of them, and consequently called for it’s cancellation. The candidates were the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, the Labour Party (LP) Otunba Olufemi Pedro, Chief Oluremi Adiukwu-Bakare of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) and Chief Aro Lambo of the Accord Alliance (AA). Others were the governorship candidates of the Democratic People’s Alliance (DPA), Jimi Agbaje, Alliance for Democracy (AD) and that of Fresh Party (FP) Hakeem Gbajabiamila and Mrs. Uche Ibukun Ohimai respectively. The state Action Congress however reacted to the call of the politicians, describing it as a "wrantling of disgruntled and defeated politicians whose utmost reason is power at all cost."



...TENSION IN EDO, ONDO, KANO ThisDay



Amid tension and fear of breakdown of law and order, the Independent National Electoral Com-mission (INEC) yesterday announced the indefinite suspension of the results of the Saturday’s Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections held in Ondo State. A similar situation obtained in Edo State where as at last night, results of the elections were yet to be announced while in Kano with supporters of the two leading parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) massing on INEC Headquarters in the state, announcement of result was deferred till 11am today. The Ondo state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Josiah Uwazuru-onye, said the suspension became necessary to enable the commission to investigate all allegations of malpractices. He also said INEC was still awaiting the results of Ile –Oluji/Okeigbo and Ilaje Local governments.



S-COURT BEGINS HEARING IN ATIKU'S CASE TODAY Vanguard

A FULL panel of the Supreme Court will, today, examine the merit of an appeal filed by Vice President Atiku Abubakar challenging the powers of INEC to unilaterally screen and disqualify candidates from contesting election. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja had, about two weeks ago, upturned a Federal High Court verdict which held that INEC had power to screen candidates jostling for elective offices in the country but had no power to disqualify any candidate from contesting election. The appellate court held that INEC could wield such power if such candidate was caught by the eligibility clause in the 1999 constitution.





SOLDIERS HORSEWHIP ONOH, TEARGAS ONYIA, OTHERS IN ENUGU The Guardian



Enugu enveloped into violence yesterday when a clash involving army, police officials and protesting opposition political parties left several persons severely wounded, with several vehicles belonging to the protesting politicians damaged. The candidates and their party supporters were in protest over alleged irregularities in the conduct of the governorship/State Assembly election held in Enugu on Saturday. The protesters who were demanding to see the Resident Electoral Commission for Enugu, Abdul Bulama over the election had ended up receiving volley of tear gas, gunshot wounds, and dynamites shot sporadically by the security officials numbering over 500. Elder statesman and former Governor of Old Anambra State, Chief Christian Onoh, who led a protest with some other statesmen in the state to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC headquarters in Enugu was severally horse whipped by stern looking Soldiers armed to the teeth, who barricaded the entrances to the Commission's office after he narrowly escaped death when a bullet fired into his vehicle missed its mark and shattered the glasses.



280 PERSONS ARRESTED FOR VIOLENCE – IG Punch

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, on Sunday said that 280 persons had been arrested for their involvement in violence during Saturday‘s governorship and house of assembly election. Ehindero told correspondents that there were about 87 cases of violence, and that the police were able to forestall many of them. He noted that many of the offences recorded were unlawful possession of arms, arson, destruction of Independent National Electoral Commission materials and snatching of ballot boxes. The IG said five people were killed in Edo State and 25 suspects arrested. He added that six arms and ammunition made up of revolvers and short guns were recovered in the state. Ehindero said, “We have learnt a lot from this one and preparations would be much better than what we have now on Saturday (for the presidential and National Assembly elections).



ECOWAS OBSERVERS ADJUDGE POLLS, FREE FAIR The Guardian



THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Observer Mission had declared last Saturday's gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections "relatively free and peaceful." The mission, headed by Dr. Dauda Jawara, in Lagos yesterday stated that majority of voters across the country were able to cast their votes peacefully despite the initial difficulties which characterised the exercise. It however noted that the exercise began slowly in many parts of the country for reasons connected with late release of funds to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the introduction of new registration technology, inadequate registration equipment and political apathy. It however urged INEC to mobilise all available resources to eliminate the noticed shortcomings before the presidential and National Assembly elections next Saturday.



MILITANTS ADMIT KILLING 4 SOLDIERS ThisDay



A group of militants operating under the name Coalition for Militant Action (COMA) has claimed killing four soldiers of the Joint Task Force in Degema, Rivers State in retaliation of the killings in Cawthorn channel of Niger Delta youths. This claim is coming on the heels of the lamentation of the facilitator of the Niger Delta Peace Forum, Mr. Moses Siloko Siasia of the refusal of State and Federal government to sponsor their efforts at making the armed youths drop their weapons which he blamed for the upsurge in clashes between the youths and security forces

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Originally Posted by What?

If you believe the all the "International Monitors" have your best interests at heart, good luck my brother but please be careful. There should large amounts of video and audio from these "foreign media and International monitors" to document these cases of electoral fraud, hopefully they will be benevolent enough to help us by producing the evidence to back up all of their their claims. Perhaps they will also help the aggrieved candidates by taking up their cases in the Nigerian courts.

Please just save us the cacophony have no reasonable contribution to this charade going us. So is it OBJ that has my best interest at heart? You mean to tell me, that you are perfectly fine with a 70 years old senile defecating on your grand parents grave and selling off your kids simply because he has the same tribal marks as you do? Wow- so much for western education!

By the way, say Amen to the prayer I have said . If you agree with the way this election is being handled, May God in his infinite mercies handle your life matters in such manner. pls say Amen if you agree