3 weeks later, another INEC office razed by fire in same zone

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It’s false and embarrassing,’ Presidency responds to 2trn campaign fund report

It’s false and embarrassing,’ Presidency responds to 2trn campaign fund report



President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed the report, originally published on Sunday Punch of April 19, stating that the incumbent demanded a refund of over N2 trillion disbursed for the purpose of election campaigns.


Reacting to the report in a statement released by  his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati on Sunday, Jonathan also denied setting up a five-man committee to audit and retrieve the rest of the fund.


The story, which was also reported by Pulse, said the millions of naira were shared within government officials, Peoples Democratic Party, traditional rulers and others.


Abati however described the claims as “mischievous, false and embarrassing.”


The presidential spokesman said, suggesting that N2 trillion was spent on election when the country’s budget is a little above N4 trillion insinuates that the people behind it meant to instigate a national crisis.


The statement reads in part, “the front-page story of the Sunday Punch of April 19 alleging that the Presidency spent a whopping N2tn on the 2015 general elections, and that a Committee of Five has been set up by President Jonathan to conduct an audit of how the funds were disbursed by party members and state officials is mischievous, false and embarrassing.


The President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used state funds, or spent N2tn on the campaigns. The innuendoes are wrong-headed; the motives behind the story are suspicious.”


He insinuated that some people have been trying to diminish Jonathan’s presidency since the March 28 and April 11 general elections.



Our people are preparing for war against all foreigners

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Xenophobia: 50 Nigerians affected in South African attack

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South Africans Speak: Nigeria Deported Our People, And Nobody Complained; Millions Will Die Here!

South Africans Speak: Nigeria Deported Our People, And Nobody Complained; Millions Will Die Here!


Nigerians says that currently WhatsApp messages are currently being distributed by xenophobic anti-expats in South Africa, telling them to go home or there will be more killings to come.

“We were seven million people in Johannesburg city in 2011," the message said earnestly, "today, we have an estimated 13 million. In Johannesburg alone, you have taken over entire suburbs: Yeoville, Berea, Bez Valley, Turfontein, among many. You have even moved into rural parts of our country that have 80-per-cent unemployment, and there are no visible signs that you have jobs either.

The message, signed by groups such as Patriotic Movement, Pan Local Forum, Unemployed Workers Forum and Anti-Crime Movement have asked Nigerians and other Africans to return to their home countries.

If there is a failure to comply, "the genocide in this corner of Africa will be far worse than what happened in Rwanda in 1994. Then the entire continent will be condemned to ashes. Is that what you want?"

“South Africans not fully employed or who were found guilty of crimes, were recently repatriated from Nigeria and rightly so.

“Our people are preparing for war against all foreigners (from Bulgaria, Pakistan and Bangladesh to Africa, north of the Limpopo) and we are all very scared. Please go home and build Africa. Millions will die if you don’t. This we can guarantee.”

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Re-run election: Security agents arrest 10 APC supporters, recover guns in Nasarawa

Re-run election: Security agents arrest 10 APC supporters, recover guns in Nasarawa


THE combined team of soldiers and members of the Nasarawa State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), on Saturday, arrested 10 supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with seven AK47 rifles at Agwan Mangu unit 032 in Chiroma ward of Lafia Local Government Area of the state.

Witnesses told Sunday Tribune that the APC members, who concealed the rifles and other dangerous weapons in their three vehicles, were moving from one unit to another within Chiroma ward, disguising as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials, with a view to causing unrest and snatching ballot boxes, if they discovered that eligible voters were not voting for APC.

They were apprehended during stop and search on Jos/Lafia road in Lafia, the state capital, when security operatives searched their three vehicles, having told the security personnel that they were on election duty.

The accreditation for the re-run election for Lafia/Obi federal constituency, which had earlier commenced peacefully without hitches, later turned violence, when APC supporters began to humiliate eligible voters.

One of the voters, who did not want his name in print, alleged that many APC supporters besieged unit 032 with fake Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs).

According to another voter, Salihu, “Many APC women, whose units are not here, but because they used hijab in their PVCs,  came here with their cohorts to cast their votes”.

When contacted on phone in Lafia, the state Police Public Relations  Officer (PPRO), Ismaila Numan, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said he was out of the state for an official assignment.

It will be recalled that INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Danyaya, had announced that the result of the election for Lafia/Obi federal constituency was inconclusive, hence, the need for a re-run in 71 units of Chiroma ward, where discrepancies had been noticed.