Friday, March 15, 2019

Happy birthday to me



Happy birthday to me, just cant help but celebrate myself and remain ever grateful to the almighty God for his love.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Atiku vs Buhari: PDP releases letter to INEC detailing ‘manipulation’ of presidential election

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday released the letter of protest its National Chairman, Uche Secondus, submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In the letter made available to DAILY POST, PDP insisted that the presidential election was manipulated in favour of the ruling party.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner, having polled 15,191,847 votes as against PDP’s Atiku Abubakar’s 11,262,978 votes with a victory margin of 3,928,869 votes
On Tuesday, the PDP and Atiku filed a case against Buhari’s victory at the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja.
The PDP letter to INEC below:
PDP/DOM/INEC/19-004
The Chairman
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Zambezi Crescent
Maitama District
Abuja, FCT.
Dear Sir,
CASES OF INFRACTIONS AND DELIBERATE VIOLATIONS OF THE ELECTORAL LAW AND GUIDELINES
We want to place on records and bring to your attention the very obvious and noticeable infractions and violations of the Electoral Law and the Regulations/Guidelines regulating the 2019 general elections which have very negative implications on the credibility, transparency and integrity of the entire electoral processes particularly the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.
This has become imperative as we approach the Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections billed for Saturday, March 9,2019.
These infractions and deliberate violations include but not limited to the following:
1. The non-usage or selective enforcement of the Smart Card Reader (SCR) machines across the country. We observed with regrets that the usage of the SCR machines were enforced strategically in the South-South, South-East and the North-Central zones of the country which are essentially PDP strongholds. This is radically different from what transpired in the North-West, North-East and the South-West which were estimated as the APC strongholds. This is quite contrary to the provisions of Paragraph 10(a) & (b) of the Regulations and Guidelines governing the 2019 General Elections and all the assurances you, Prof. Yakub Mahmood, frequently gave up to the last hours before the elections.
2. The deliberate non-deployment of the Electronic Collation System (E-Collation) for the elections results from the units, through the ward centers to the Presidential Collation Center in Abuja as provided for in the 2019 Electoral Regulations and Guidelines made by you, and as contained in your several official Press Statements is very suspect. This is more so when you have never bothered to explain to Nigerians the justification for this sudden official somersault on such a critical component of the electoral process especially with all the tax payer’s money spent to install the facilities.
3. The unconstitutional deployment of the armed forces especially soldiers and police for the illegitimate purposes to harassing, intimidating, suppressing of leaders of the PDP and suppression of voters in PDP strongholds across the country which are very well known to you. The use of these same security agents by the government to harass and intimidate Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and certain INEC’s National Commissioners for the sake of forcing them to declare votes for the APC’s candidates throughout the country have been officially or otherwise brought to your knowledge by the affected officers who even threatened to resign from their positions, yet you have decided to keep mute over it in a way portraying outright conspiracy and collusion of yourself and the commission with the APC government perpetrators.
4. We also want to bring to your knowledge that most of the collation centers in the country were cordoned off by officers and men of the armed forces who chased away accredited agents and or candidates of our party, the PDP, from such centers while the results of the elections from the units were being manipulated, mutilated and altered to suite the dictates and criminal desires of the APC led government. These results that were tampered with were accepted by you and your commission and announced as the results of the elections.
5. In places like Lagos, Rivers, Nassarawa, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Ondo, Osun States el al, results of duly conducted elections were illegally canceled especially in the PDP dominated areas to reduce the margin of victory in those states in Favour of APC candidates. Is it not surprising to you that Lagos state with over six million voters can only return less than one million votes? This was the case in virtually all PDP dominated states where voter’s suppression was deployed as a major strategy by you and the APC government in active collaboration of some of your unscrupulous RECs and staffers.
6. We are sure that till date the commission does not know the number of polling units where elections were cancelled and the total number of registered voters at such polling units. Yet you hurriedly announced the results of the elections especially the Presidential election only to come up with a Press Statement that supplementary elections will be conducted on March 9, 2019 along with the Gubernatorial and House of Assembly Elections. This to say the least is a major dent on the credibility and image of the commission.
7. Under your watch as Chairman of INEC for the first time in our nation’s history, the election materials of all categories; sensitive and non-sensitive, were contracted to be printed by a person who is not just a card-carrying member of a political party; the APC but also a Senatorial Candidate of the party in Niger State. Arising from this, these sensitive materials were seen in several wrong and unauthorized hands and places before and during the elections. Till this moment your commission has not raised any concerns or set up any enquiry to uncover the immediate or remote causes of such criminal and unconstitutional bastardization of the electoral process.
We have taken time to chronicle the above fundamental deliberate violations and infractions of the Electoral Law, Regulations and Guidelines and all known canons of electoral best practices by your Commission in obvious complicity and collaboration with APC and security agencies to rig the elections and rob our party of victory.
We want to remind you that as we inch towards Saturday, March 9, 2019 elections, you must do everything to right these grave anomalies to save yourself and the commission from this woeful embarrassment as you may go down in history as the worst Chairman of INEC in our history.
Accept our regards.
Prince Uche Secondus
National Chairman
Sen. Ibrahim Umaru Tsauri
​​​​​National Secretary
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I‘ll go to Daura and settle down after my second term– Buhari

By Nwafor Sunday
President Muhammadu Buhari, has promised to return to Daura, after his second term. Buhari said he would settle down in his home town when he finishes his second term.
Buhari
Buhari
He disclosed this when he received members of the National Council of Traditional Rulers led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, at State House, Abuja.
Urging traditional rulers to support fight against criminality, Buhari opined that they should be prepared to play a crucial role in the prevention and detection of criminal activities in their domains.
In a statement made available to newsmen by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media & Publicity, Buhari averred, “You know all the families who harbour criminals and you know those who produce respectable individuals. You know the weaknesses of our society. We need your support to consolidate our achievements.”
President Buhari listed several significant efforts by his administration to enhance national security while emphasising the overall need for stability in the country.
“What we need now is your support. No government can serve creditably without your support. We will always count on your support,” he told the traditional rulers.
The President also welcomed the royal fathers to his “second and final term, at the end of which I will, God willing, go to Daura and settle down.”
The Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of the Council, told President Buhari that the body “on behalf of all the Traditional Rulers in Nigeria, is here to congratulate you on your re-election as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Urging “all Nigerians to accept the election result as the will of God,” the Sultan assured the President of the traditional rulers’ “continued unflinching support in your laudable projects, particularly your government’s cardinal objectives of fighting corruption, containing insecurity, generally sanitizing the governance machinery, entrenching discipline, hard work and peaceful co-existence amongst the citizenry.”
The Co-Chairman of the Council and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, assured President Buhari that their members would work very closely with his administration to fight criminal activities.
The Ooni urged the re-elected Nigerian leader to be a President for the whole nation and father to all citizens.
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Chelsea lodge transfer ban appeal

Chelsea have appealed against the one-year transfer ban handed to the Premier League giants, FIFA confirmed on Tuesday, but will have to wait to discover whether the ban will be temporarily lifted pending the outcome of the appeal.
Chelsea’s French striker Olivier Giroud lies injured during the English Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Chelsea at Selhurst Park in south London on December 30, 2018. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)
Last month the club were issued with a two-window registration ban and fined 600,000 Swiss francs (over £460,000) by FIFA’s disciplinary committee over the recruitment of 29 foreign players aged under 18.
Chelsea immediately said they “categorically refute the findings” but having now appealed, they must await a decision from FIFA’s appeal committee about whether there will be an easing of restrictions ahead of a hearing being convened.
Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have all been sanctioned for similar offences, but all three managed to delay the ban pending appeal to allow them extra time to prepare.
Barcelona and Atletico unsuccessfully contested their two-window ban, while Real Madrid’s penalty was reduced on appeal to one January window which had little impact.
“We can confirm that FIFA has received an appeal from Chelsea FC over the said case,” a FIFA spokesman said.
“As a general rule we do not make comparisons with previous cases.
“There is no exact timetable for the hearings and decisions taken by the FIFA appeal committee.”
The ability to recruit new players this summer is pivotal for Chelsea with doubts over Eden Hazard’s future at the club with little progress made on extending the Belgian’s contract beyond 2020, while strike Gonzalo Higuain is only on loan from Juventus until the end of the season.
FIFA probed Chelsea’s signing of foreign under-18 players, including the club’s former forward Bertrand Traore, a Burkina Faso international who now plays for French Ligue 1 club Lyon.
French website Mediapart, quoting documents from Football Leaks, reported that FIFA found evidence that Chelsea had supplied misleading information about Traore’s signing and that he had made more than 20 appearances for the club at different age levels despite not being registered by the Football Association (FA).
FIFA also fined England’s football association 510,000 Swiss francs for breaking the rules on signing minors.
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Ajax Knock Shambolic Real Madrid Out Of Champions League

Ajax’s Brazilian forward David Neres (C) scores against Real Madrid’s Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (L) during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match between Real Madrid CF and Ajax at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on March 5, 2019.
JAVIER SORIANO / AFP
Real Madrid’s reign in the Champions League ended in a disastrous fashion on Tuesday as a youthful Ajax side put in a brilliant performance to defeat the defending champions at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Ajax started the game with greater desire than their struggling hosts and seven minutes letter they were rewarded with a fine goal by Hakim Ziyech.
The Dutch side who have not proceeded beyond the knock out stage of the Champions League turned the tie in their favour 11 minutes later when David Neres hit the target again and gave them a 3-2 aggregate lead. Real Madrid had won the first leg of the tie 2-1 in Amsterdam.
Real Madrid came into the game trying to put the nightmare of back-to-back defeats against eternal rivals Barcelona behind, but their hopes of making something out a troubled season looked bleaker as the minutes sped by.
Without their all-time greatest scorer Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane who guided them to a historic three consecutive Champions League titles as well as Captain Sergio Ramos’s absence through suspension, Santiago Solari’s men were bereft of ideas.
Injuries to Lucas Vasquez who started ahead of the out of sorts Gareth Bale and Vinicius Junior in the first half disrupted whatever plans Solari had and forced him to introduce Bale and Marco Asensio.
Their experience didn’t offer Madrid much and Ajax continued to pick the hosts’ defence apart in the second half with Dusan Tadic making it 3-0 in the 62nd minute.
Asensio looked to spark his side into life when he made it 3-1 in the 70th minute, but Ajax struck again only two minutes later and held on to put the game to bed at 4-1.

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