APC Wants Poll Results Cancelled

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been told to cancel the entire results of the 2015 Presidential Election and National Assembly elections in Enugu and Akwa-Ibom states, This Day reports.

The All Progressive Party, APC, made he call because as at 8pm, Sunday, only three out of 17 local governments in Enugu state had had their presidential election results released.

None of the National Assembly results had been released as collation was still ongoing at different collation centres.

The Chairman of APC in the state, Dr Ben Nwoye, who spoke to reporters Sunday night , accused the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukaogu of conniving with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and security agents to rig the election in favour of the PDP.

The Akwa Ibom State Chairman of the APC, Dr. Amadu Attai who made the call yesterday evening at a press briefing also demanded that the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State Barrister Austin Okoji should be redeployed immediately.

The position of the party was also collaborated by the APC governorship candidate, Obong Umana Okon Umana who said with the conduct of the election outside the INEC guidelines it was very clear that the election was not free and fair in the state.

Already, a petition dated March 29, 2015 has been forwarded to the National Chairman of INEC and the State Resident Electoral Commissioner over alleged connivance of PDP with institutions meant for the conduct of the election including INEC officials and Security operatives to rig the election.

The party displayed some of the recovered ballot papers thump printed by officials of the Peoples Democratic Party saying that the party intends to carry the exhibit to INEC office in Abuja today.

Oyegun Suffers Major Setback In Edo

Reports coming in from Edo state indicate that, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, suffered a major setback in his ward yesterday.

The reports reveal that Chief Oyegun lost his ward to the People’s Democratic Party in Saturday’s Presidential elections.

Punch reports that two units made up Ward 2 of the Staff Training School at GRA Benin and the APC lost in both units.

At Unit one, the PDP polled 95 votes in the presidential election while the APC polled 78 votes.

The party also polled 94 votes in the Senatorial election while the APC polled 85 votes.

In the House of Representatives, the PDP polled 95 votes while the APC polled 80 votes.
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At unit two where Oyegun voted, the PDP polled 88 votes in the Presidential election while the APC polled 65.

For the House of Rep, the PDP polled 79 votes while the APC polled 75.

INEC Website Has Been Hacked

The website of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been hacked. The website is hacked by a group that parade itself as Nigerian Cyber Army. The hacking was confirmed by INEC on its Twitter handle, @inecnigeria
“We are aware of the recent hack of our @inecnigeria website, we are currently investigating this incident
#NigeriaDecides”
Information on the INEC website: www.inecnigeria.org reads:
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Its 2015 Elections And We Are Here AGain But This Time In A Different Form, APC Claimed They Hacked Into INEC DATABASE But We Own The DATABASE Long Before Now So No Worries No Fear To All NIGERIANs…GO And Cast Your Vote And We Assure You That Your Vote Must Count Because We Are The Kings Of The NIgerRian CYber SPACE.
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INEC orders manual accreditation, extends exercise till Sunday

Prof. Attahiru Jega, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the use of manual accreditation in areas that the Smart Card Readers malfunctioned during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the country.
He also extended the exercise till Sunday in where the elections were not held, directing all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the country to conduct the election on Sunday in areas where there were hitches.
Here is a statement from the Independent National Electoral Commission.
INEC has been monitoring field reports on the accreditation process since commencement this morning. Whereas the process has gone well in several places, in some others it has encountered some challenges especially the card readers.
Consequently, accreditation has been slow in many places and has not commenced at all in some others .
Even though the guidelines for the 2015 general elections provide that where card readers fail to work and cannot be replaced, elections in such PUs will be postponed to the next day.
The scale of the challenge we have observed has necessitated a reconsideration of the provision of the guidelines
The Commission has therefore decided that in PUs where card readers fail to work, the Presiding Officer shall manually accredit voters
The Presiding Officer shall mark the voters register upon being satisfied that the person presenting a PVC is the owner.
Notwithstanding, in PUs where accreditation was suspended to the next day in accordance with the guidelines, arrangements will be made for voters to vote tomorrow, subject to the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010
The Commission reassures the public that it will thoroughly investigate what happened while it stays committed to credible elections

Experts Raise The Alarm Over INEC Website Hacking

While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) dismissed as nothing the hacking of its website during accreditation time for final voting yesterday, information and communication technology (ICT) experts have said that INEC may not be telling the nation the truth.

Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman while responding to questions on the hacking of its website said there was no cause for alarm as the engineers were in full control. But the ICT experts that spoke to The press said that contrary to the INEC position there was real cause for alarm. The experts said what the hackers did was that they brought down the index page of INEC website blocking the Commission from having access while doing damage on its database.

They said the implication is that every information INEC had on its database must have been tampered with and this is not good for the nation.

Godwin Uche, one of those who spoke said it is shame that INEC website could be hacked on day like this. He wondered how much the Commission must have budgeted for IT and how much that was actually spent to do the job.

“It simply showed INEC hired the wrong people to do the job and this is incompetence on the part of the INEC Chairman. What does it take to provide 24 hour security for INEC website on a day like this”, he snapped.

He said that the manner of hacking showed that apart from the fact that the hackers may have been hired by some desperate politicians who wants to do damage, the manner of hacking and the comments that followed it, showed that it was done by youths who may be aggrieved with the system and who may be reacting to the fact that the right professionals were not hired to do the job.

“When INEC advertised for IT staff, most of Nigerian youths that applied did not even get acknowledgment for their application
letters not to talk of being called up for interview.

When they complained nobody bothered to do anything about it. “Some of these people that applied were professionals who knows the job. Now if people could hack into INEC website for any reason on a voting day like yesterday, when professionals were supposed to be securing the site; it means that those manning the website are not the right people and may have been hired on man know man basis which is really dangerous for this country”, he said.

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MASS EXODUS FROM APC TO PDP IN NIGER & KEBBI STATES

Thousands of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger and Kebbi States. News Agency of of Nigeria (NAN) reports indicate that, while 2,000 members left the APC for the PDP in Suleja, 2,750 members also defected to the PDP in Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi state.

Speaking on behalf of the defectors in Suleja, Niger State, a three-time chairman of the local government area, Alhaji Abdullahi L. Suleiman, said they had to leave the APC because the party had no direction, adding that they were also made to swear by the Quran to abide by rules and directives from the party.

“APC is the only party that will make you swear with the Quran to abide by rules and directives of the party, which we did but when we discovered that it is all deceit, we had to leave the party back to the PDP where we left from.

“We had to return to the party that we can see its structures and development on ground, because there is no ward in the 25 local government councils in the state that has not received dividend of democracy through the Ward Development Project,” he explained.

He also stated that the over 2,000 decampees are from ten wards in the state adding that more would join them. According to Suleiman, he was not financially induced to return to the PDP, adding that he returned because of his conviction that PDP has better things in stock for the people of the state.

He stated that people are worried about the continuity of some of the policies of the Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, adding that voting for the APC will mean discontinuation of the policies like paying of NECO and WAEC fees, which is difficult for some parents to pay.

Speaking after he received them into the party, Aliyu said most people, who left the PDP felt that the popularity of the APC because of the Presidential candidate was going to ‘catch fire’ but when reality dawned on them that it’s a party revolving around one person they had to come back home. “They had to come back to what they are used to.”

Meanwhile, in Kebbi State, the spokesperson for the defectors, Alhaji Maikano Koko, told Governor Saidu Dakingari in Koko yesterday that the defection was sequel to the numerous development projects sited in the area by the current administration.

He said the PDP-led government had provided infrastructural facilities while giving attention to agriculture and youth empowerment. Koko also said the defectors decided to join the PDP due to the equitable provision of state resources.

Also speaking, the state Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bello Doya, assured the defectors that they would be treated fairly, saying “ the PDP family cherishes honesty and fairness among members. “

Doya, who called on the new members to shun money politics, said “ we need trust worthy leaders who fear God and can impact positively on the lives of the people.’’ In his remarks, Dakingari commended those who defected and promised them equal treatment.

“Political activities are for development to take place and not primitive accumulation of wealth to the detriment of the generality of the people. We would sustain prudence and equity in leadership,’’ he said.

He urged the defectors to eschew violence and politics of blackmail and thuggery, stressing that peace was paramount to the nation’s existence and development.

The PDP governorship candidate in the state, Sarkin-Yaki Bello, has promised to lead by example if elected. Bello, who said he would consolidate on the gains recorded by the present administration in the state, advised those who defected to ensure that they collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), thousands of APC supporters recently defected to the PDP in Sakaba, Fakai and Shanga Local Government Areas of the state, as well.

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