Political Thugs Attack INEC Secretariat In Akwa Ibom State Ahead Of Today’s Election (Photos)

Some political thugs in Akwa Ibom State on Friday evening attacked the Secretariat of the Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC) located along Udo Udoma Avenue in Uyo ahead of the December 2nd Local Government Elections in the State..

Eyewitnesses report that the miscreants began to hurl stones at the building and personnel of the commission at about 6pm.
No one was reported dead in the attack but scores of persons were reportedly injured from the stones and broken bottles which were flying freely int the area.

The thugs, who according to eyewitnesses were chanting “No Election” said they will stop the elections from taking place.

A Yoruba Man Will Win 2019 Presidential Election – Prophet Onyekachukwu

Prophet Onyekachukwu Okolie who predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2015 election has prophesied that a Yoruba man will win the 2019 elections.

In an interview with The Sun, the founder and general overseer of Living Abundance (Mount Zion) Prophetic and Deliverance Ministry in Lagos said that he told Nigerians that God told him that Goodluck Jonathan will lose the 2015 presidential elections.
He said God has also shown him now that a Yoruba person will win the 2019 presidntial elections.

He said: “I said it and it came to pass that Jonathan would vacate Aso Rock for Buhari to take over in 2015. Before the election proper in April 2015, God revealed to me that the then President Goodluck Jonathan had lost out even before the first ballot was cast. The Holy Spirit showed me where Jonathan and Buhari embarked on a journey.

Suddenly, Jonathan’s car broke down, while Buhari speedily overtook him. Having gone too far, Buhari looked back and saw Jonathan far behind him looking helpless and dejected.

“Buhari pulled over and got to Jonathan, commanded him to enter the car and finally used his (Buhari) car to tow both Jonathan and his car and zoomed off on a very high speed. When I woke up it dawned on me that Jonathan was bound to lose the election and it happened just the way I saw it.

“I also predicted the current hardship ravaging the country right now. On December 31, 2015, during the New Year eve service I warned the congregation to brace up for hard times that will befall the country. It was like what the Bible recorded in 2Kings 7:1 where there was so much famine and drought in the land that men had to slaughter their own offspring for food. I urged the worshippers to be strong in prayers to survive the ugly situation.

“God has clearly revealed to me what will happen in 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari will complete his tenure, but will not run for the elections in 2019. The Holy Spirit told me that the next president of Nigeria will come from Yoruba land. Note it down this day that I, Prophet OnyekachukwuOkoli, prophesied that a Yoruba man will emerge as the president of Nigeria in 2019.
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He also insisted that Igbos are from Israel and gave biblical reference to support his claim.


"The Igbo people are Hebrews from Israel. They have common traits with the Hebrews. The word Jewish is a misnomer. Jewish, is a term used for people who misbehaved and are not orderly. The states of Israel today, hold the Igbo people in very high esteem because they share both biological and ethnic ties. Several portions of the bible including Genesis 48:18 and Leviticus chapter 12 vividly lend credence to the fact that the Igbo people are one of the 12 tribes of Israel."

Meanwhile, the 2019 presidential ambition of Governor Ayodele Fayose hit the rocks even before it began as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), under which he hopes to achieve this feat, has asked him not to waste his time.

The party informed him the slot for the presidency had been zoned to the northern part of Nigeria, adding that all its members were aware of this.

Edo 2016: INEC Official Results So Far, See Current Updates

The governorship election voting in Edo state was concluded on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 voter's has openly supported their choice candidates.

Edo state has a total of 1,925,105 registered voters; 192 Registration Areas (RAs); 2,627 Polling Units (PUs); and 4,011 Voting Points (VPs).


Security:
A total of 25,000 police officers were deployed across the state to maintain peace and security during the election exercise, while 44 groups of observers were accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as election monitors.

Following conclusion of voting on Wednesday, INEC begins collation of results for the Edo governorship election today, September 29.

At 9am this morning, INEC began to announce the election results which is as follows:

9.26: Three polling units cancelled.

450 votes cancelled due to snatched boxes and destruction of electoral material.

9.27: LGA: Owan West

Number of registered voters: 54,406

Number of accredited voters: 24,487

APC: 12,862

PDP: 10,132

Total votes cast: 23,290

Rejected votes: 1,002

9.27: LGA: Egor

Number of registered voters: 184,296

Number of accredited voters: 49,802

APC: 26,177

PDP: 19,514

Total valid votes cast: 46,728

Rejected votes: 2,811

One polling unit cancelled because of failure to use the card reader.

9.35: LGA: Esan North East

Number of registered voters: 74,293

Number of accredited voters: 27,121

APC: 9,130

PDP: 16,220

Total valid votes: 25,747

Rejected votes: 1,197

Three cancellations due to number of votes cast exceeding number of accredited voters.

9.55: Igueben

Number of registered voters: 42,655

Number of accredited voters: 16,482

APC: 7,802

PDP: 7,560

Total valid votes: 15,506

Rejected votes: 580

Two polling units cancelled.

9.56: LGA: Uhunmwode

Number of registered voters: 62,987

Number of accredited voters: 21,927

APC: 10,911

PDP: 8,667

Total valid votes: 19,971

Rejected votes: 1,759

There was cancellation of results in three polling units due to violence and discrepancy between the number of accredited voters and total votes cast.

10.09: LGA: Esan South East

Number of registered voters: 66,695

Number of accredited voters: 22,522

APC: 9,554

PDP: 11,466

Total valid votes: 21,250

Rejected votes: 806

In My Second Term, One Student Will Be Entitle To One Tablet - President Mahama

Carrying so many books to school era have passed. As soon as he come into power in this December 7 election, his administration will convert those bunch of books into an electronic  module.

Each Students will be entitle to a tablets that will contain all their core causes on the tablet. If student can use it conveniently, mean their plan work, they will expand the programme he noted.  

President Mahama of ghana assured that there will be a lot to see in education sector if they will support him as he bids for second term in December 7, general election.

"We will accept the teachers who will be posted to the rural areas and provide accommodation for them , " he added .

The President made this Declaration in NDC 2016 , Tuesday's highlights famous.

Nursery teacher training colleges

When the election took a Mahama -led government we will establish a College of Education to train teachers in early childhood care .

According to President Mahama , " our commitment in my second term is to establish a College of Education to train teachers for the sole purpose of early childhood care and development. What we have done is that we 've added to our nursery school system for two years.

 Unfortunately, although we are in the training of teachers elementary, middle and high school , we are not learning the training of teachers of young children , so it is usually done by the day-care staff , in general , if you give the child a good start in kindergarten, they are able to maintain it throughout the education. Therefore, we must establish a College of Education who will train from more than four years ' specialized training in early child a teacher

Tribunal Nullifies Taraba Speaker’s Election Orders Fresh Elections In Eight Polling Units

The election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, yesterday nullified the election of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Abel Peter Diah.

The tribunal, not convinced of the evidence made available to the tribunal by counsel to first, second and third respondents, ordered a fresh election to be conducted in eight out of the forty-eight polling units of the constituency.

The said election of the Speaker representing Mbamnga Constituency in the state House of Assembly, according to the three-man panel, was characterised by irregularities, which include non-accreditation of eligible voters.
Holding tenaciously to the evidence presented by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the election, Emmanuel J. Bongo, the panel unanimously agreed that elections in eight of the polling units were done in non-compliance with the Electoral Law of 2010.

The tribunal’s three-hour judgment, which was read by Justice A.M. Ali, also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, as a matter of urgency, withdraw the Certificate of Return earlier issued to the Speaker pending when fresh elections are conducted in the polling units and a winner emerges.

It directed INEC to re-conduct elections in the eight polling units within the next 90 days and the results should be added to the already declared results of the candidates which would lead to the emergence of a “duly-elected representative of the constituency.”

Answering questions from newsmen, the lead counsel to the petitioner, Festus Kayode Idepefo, said the activities of the panel in the state have further demonstrated the need for the common men and the oppressed to always take refuge in the judiciary.

Idepefo, who has won all the various petitions filed by his clients from the APC since the commencement of the tribunal, said he was optimistic of triumphing at the Appeal Court as well.

Though the Speaker could not be reached, but his lead counsel, L. J. Ezekiel, said the next line of action would be known after consulting with their client.

On his own, the APC Chairman in the state, Alhaji Hassan Jika Ardo, said: “When we told the world that APC won the entire elections in the state but was “robbed by PDP, some few persons thought we were lying, but thank God we have been vindicated by the tribunal.”

Source: guardianngr

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Alassane Ouattara Wins Second Term In Ivory Coast Election

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has won a second five-year term with nearly 84% of the vote, electoral commission officials say.

Mr Ouattara won a total of 2,118,229 votes, or 83.66% of votes cast, the commission said. Turnout was 54.63%.

Several opposition candidates pulled out of the campaign, complaining that it was not free and fair.

The last vote in 2010 was bitterly contested and resulted in a civil war in which 3,000 people lost their lives.

Mr Ouattara required more than 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off. His closest opposition rival, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, got just 9%.
In the 2010 vote Mr Ouattara defeated then-President Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to step down triggered months of violence in which thousands of people were killed.

Mr Ouattara’s campaign this year centred around his economic programme. Critics accused him of failing to foster reconciliation or reduce poverty.

The 54% turnout was down from the 2010 first-round turnout of about 80%.

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Eight Candidates To Run For FIFA Presidency But Zico Misses Out

The deadline for FIFA presidential election candidates to declare they are standing has passed with eight contenders to replace Sepp Blatter.

UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino will run for the highest position in world football with the unanimous backing of UEFA’s Executive Committee.

Former Brazilian international Zico will not be in the running though after he was unable to get the letters of support he needed from five member associations. It is understood he only had four.
The 11pm deadline on Monday evening passed without him getting the elusive fifth letter which would have ensured he would be part of the vote on February 26.

A statement from European football’s governing body confirmed Infantino’s candidacy – but that does not mean the end of Michel Platini’s continued participation in the contest to succeed Sepp Blatter.

Platini is currently banned from football, and an investigation into an allegedly “disloyal payment” he received from FIFA remains ongoing, but sources close to the Frenchman say he will “absolutely not withdraw” from the race and has vowed to clear his name.

It now seems likely that if Platini is cleared, he will be UEFA’s candidate and Infantino will drop out of the race. If, however, Platini is not cleared, the expectation is Infantino would stay in.

Infantino said: “I will in due course be setting out my detailed thinking in a manifesto which will address the challenges and opportunities ahead.


UEFA president Michel Platini has previously said he will clear his name and stay in the FIFA race

“It will be based on the need for reform and also for a FIFA that genuinely serves the interests of all 209 national associations, big or small, and that puts football and football development at the top of its agenda.”

A UEFA ExCo statement on Infantino read: “The forthcoming election for a new FIFA president represents a crucial moment‎ in the governance of the game and the future of FIFA itself.

“We believe that Gianni Infantino has all of the qualities required‎ to tackle the major challenges ahead and to lead the organisation on a path of reform to restore FIFA’s integrity and credibility.

“We are delighted that Gianni has agreed to stand and he knows that he has our full support in his campaign to become FIFA president. He is in the process of submitting the required nominations and will issue a statement on his candidacy later today.”

Liberian FA boss Musa Bility and the president of the Asian Football Confederation, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, also announced their candidacies on Monday.

They join Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Tokyo Sexwale, Jerome Champagne and David Nakhid in the race after they – unlike Zico – were able to obtain five letters of support from FIFA member nations.

A look at the candidates

Sheikh Salman of Bahrain



Sheikh Salman has been the president of the Asian Football Conference since 2013. He backed outgoing president Sepp Blatter at the last election in May. He is the most powerful man in Asian football and chaired the FIFA taskforce that moved the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to winter.

He is a close friend and ally of key IOC and FIFA powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait.

Sheik Salman has denied allegations that, as the head of the Bahrain FA and a member of the royal family, he was involved in a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2011.

Michel Platini



The UEFA president was the favourite for the position until he was questioned by Swiss prosecutors last month about a £1.3m payment he received from Blatter in 2011.

Platini has vowed to stay in the race and clear his name. UEFA have now put up another candidate, Gianni Infantino – who may step aside if Platini is cleared. If Platini fails to clear his name, then Infantino will be UEFA’s candidate.

Gianni Infantino



Infantino is currently the General Secretary of UEFA, a position he has held since October 2009 and is currently also serving as a member of FIFA’s Reform Committee.

A trained lawyer, Infantino joined UEFA in August 2000 as part of their legal team and was appointed Director of UEFA’s Legal Affairs and Club Licensing Division in January 2004.

He was promoted to Deputy General Secretary before becoming General Secretary. He speaks fluent English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Prince Ali of Jordan



The Sandhurst graduate and brother of the King of Jordan is the only man who took on Blatter in last May’s election. With the backing of UEFA, he won 73 of the 209 votes, but without that backing this time, he is unlikely to do any better. Ali has lost support in Europe after he turned on Platini, describing him as “the son of Blatter”.

Ali wants FIFA to be truly democratic. He says the World Cup in Qatar will be a wonderful tournament.

Jerome Champagne



Champagne is a former FIFA deputy secretary general who announced on Friday that he would stand. The former French diplomat failed to receive the five letters of support he needed to stand in last May’s election.

Champagne has called for greater transparency at FIFA and wants to cut the number of European teams in World Cups from 2026.

He is also in favour of video technology to help referees and would introduce quotas to encourage more women to work at member associations.

Tokyo Sexwale



South African Sexwale is a diamond magnate who is close to Blatter. He was appointed by Blatter to mediate on football disputes between Palestine and Israel and is also a FIFA anti-racism adviser.

Before making his money, he was an anti-apartheid activist who spent 13 years in prison with Nelson Mandela. Sexwale was on the organising committee of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

He was also the host of the South African version of The Apprentice.

David Nakhid



Nakhid is a former Trinidad & Tobago midfielder who now runs a football academy in Beirut.

Caribbean associations have 25 of CONCACAF’s 35 votes in the presidential election.

Nakhid is campaigning on a platform of more transparency and an increased emphasis on football development worldwide.

He also wants to repair the damage done to the reputation of Caribbean football by former CONCACAF president Jack Warner.

Musa Bility



Bility has been the president of the Liberian FA since 2010. He is not afraid of speaking his mind or challenging the African Football Confederation, which has been run since 1988 by Issa Hayatou. Hayatou is the acting president of FIFA.

In the 2011 FIFA presidential election, Bility broke ranks with other African associations by declaring his support for Mohamed Bin Hammam instead of Sepp Blatter.

In 2013, he was given a six month ban for breaking African Football Confederations rules about the use of confidential documents. He denied any wrongdoing and said he had been targeted because he had challenged the confederation leadership.