GOVERNOR PETER OBI AS A VICTIM OF RIGGED ELECTIONS & GODFATHER ISM ** HOW FAR TODAY ?

Watch and listen to peter Obi Complain then when...HE WAS A VICTIM OF RIGGING.

Peter Obi an opportunistic  child of circumstance from the fallout between Chris Uba and Chris Ngige was  sworn in on May 29, 2003 and he became governor following a prior hopeless legal battle, but then followed a Pyrrhic legal victory sequel to receiving a certificate of return issued by INEC.

He benefited from a rigged election and a fallout in which Obasanjo reluctantly had no option than to call him up and hand him the position with conditions " hold forth for my beloved Andy Uba"  which he later reneged on . Can you now believe that the same person has now master minded the mother of all rigging in the history of Nigeria? Watch him complain when he was on the receiving end a few years back , but today after an amateurish rigging that he master minded called upon Ngige not to go to court but to accept the result as it stands for the sake of Ndi Igbo. What an irony of fate and a twist of hypocrisy ! We have never seen such a determined effort by an outgoing Governor to install an incoming , but the question is what is the motivation behind this install WILLIE OBIANO by all means? 

Awka May 2003— APGA governorship candidate in Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi who has taken his protest against the result of the election to the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Awka has urged the people of the state not to lose hope if Dr. Chris Ngige is sworn-in on Thursday, saying Ngige's swearing-in would not mean the end of the fight. According to Obi, he is pursuing the case to the last point, saying that "we will not recognise a government we did not vote for." He urged his supporters to remain calm and not to be worried about the swearing-in ceremony. Obi's appeal came just as two groups, Peter Obi Supporters Movement (POSM) and Anambra Indigenes Solidarity Movement (AISOM) joined his voice to call on the people of Anambra State to remain calm, saying they have confidence that the tribunal would ensure justice in Anambra State. The appeal came following protests in Nnewi and Ekwuluobia last Friday by the Igbo Youth Alliance who was calling for justice in Anambra State.

I urge the people of Anambra State not to be worried about the swearing-in of Ngige, I am pursuing the case to the last point in the world. It is a cause I very much believe in. Please keep calm. In the last four years Anambra State was destroyed, they want to continue to destroy it. We will not recognise government we did not vote for. We know those we voted and we will only support them. This is not the end or the beginning to the end of the fight," Obi assured. In a joint statement signed by their leaders, Evangelist Uche Odinaka and Onuchukwu James (Jnr) for POSM and AISOM, respectively, the groups called for calm while the tribunal concludes its sitting.

Fast forward November 2013...

 Well, well today  over 506,000 votes were compromised, voters in  strong holds of opposition were disenfranchised , INEC staff delibrately withheld materials or in some cases dissappeared completely .

More than 200,000 manipulated votes spread across Anambra West and East, Awka North and South, Ihiala and other uncountable polling units, as evidence by reports of local and international observers.

INEC has now confessed that of  the 1,770,125 registered voters, only 451,826  or 25.53% were accredited, and of which 421,052 or 23.79% of the registered voters were valid (16,544 rejected) and that wide-spread irregularities occured in  208 Polling Units spread over 14 Local Governments leading to a  total registered voters of 113,113 being cancelled, and subsequently Prof Jega after much pressure ordered arrest of certain INEC officers and ordering a  Supplementary Elections at a date uncertain.

As we speak the results declared so far are as follows:

 - Obiano of APGA: 174,710 (won in 16 LGs),
 which is 9.87% of registered voters, and 38.67% of the accredited voters.

 - Nwoye of PDP: 94,956 (2 LGs)

 - Ngige of APC: 92,300 (2 LGs)

 - Ubah of LP: 37,446 (1 LG)

- Ezeemo of PPA: 5,096 (no LG)

As lucid as any unbiased and neutral reporter LILIACFIRE can tell you is that with the number of voters left for the supplementary election either Comrade   Nwoye and Dr Ngige can still overtake Obiano in terms of total voters unchecked in addition to the areas were the INEC STAFF committed crimes of which they have been arrested.  Consequently, the polling is inconclusive, and, according to INEC, there is need for supplementary polling at a date yet to be announced.

Jega went further to allege sabotage on the part of its officers during the election.

Speaking on AIT yesterday, the electoral chief said that a particular officer who masterminded the derailment of the distribution of election materials to Idemili North Local Government Area of the state has been identified and would be prosecuted.

He said:

“We made all the preparations and decentralised the process of distribution of materials in order to ensure that they get to the polling units in time for the commencement of the election. That was before Saturday.

“Unfortunately and regrettably – we are humans. We can do all the preparations, but if people are determined to subvert the process, one way or the other they will subvert it.

“So, they used our staff. I think we should be very careful when we have a staff of about 12,000 in INEC, when one person has committed an offence and then you use it to generalise or condemn everybody in INEC.

“Our Electoral Officer in charge of Idemili North Local Government, for inexplicable reasons, messed up the distribution of ballot box papers and result sheets. That was the cause of the delay in the distribution of materials in Idemili.

“All materials were to have been distributed by Friday evening, but for some odd reasons, they made sure that they held onto some of the result sheets, and they also gave wrong result sheets to different polling units.

“For Anambra election, as we did in Edo and Ondo, every polling unit has a unique result sheet. So, you cannot take one result sheet to a different place, because it will not work.

“I assured the stakeholders when we met in Awka that materials must get to the polling units before commencement of election.

“So, when we discovered at about 1am that there was this mix-up, and we tried to reach the Electoral Officer and the supervisor and there was confusion, and we knew something was fishy, we said there would be no deployment until we sorted out the problem.

“As I speak, we have handed over the Electoral Officer to the police because clearly what he did is a sabotage of the electoral process, including the Local Government supervisor.

“It took us until about 1pm to be able to sort out what they had jumbled up. We communicated with the community as at 1pm that we were ready to distribute to all the other wards, and materials were distributed.”

The three opposition candidates of PDP, APC and LP, at a joint press conference vowed to reject whatever result that would be announced by INEC from the elections in AnambraState.

The three candidates had earlier in the day expressed their dissatisfaction with the outcome of the election which is yet to be announced by INEC as at press time last night.

Ngige who was flanked by the other two and spoke on behalf of the trio said:  ”Our stand is that Saturday election was characterized by  fraud, malpractices  and massive irregularities and we call on INEC to put in place another process to conduct a fresh election to enable the people of Anambra elect their governor that will take over from the present governor on March 17 next year.

“The irregularities clearly noticed included the  omission of the names of many voters in the registers presented for the election in the  over 4,000 polling units.

We were assured that the process will be free and fair during the stake holder’s meeting with the INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, but little did we know that they had planned to disenfranchise many of our supporters by deleting their names from the register everywhere in the  local government areas. It was so massive and we hereby reject the voters registers used for this election.

“We were assured by the INEC chairman that the electoral process would be transparent but we experienced was to the contrary.

“Thirdly we discovered that result sheets were translocated other than the purpose for which they were meant. For instance some result sheets meant for some polling booths in Idemili were taken to another area even when they were coded.

“There were massive. harassment and intimidation of voters and our party agents. The party agents’ accreditation cards were described as fake and they were hounded out hence we had no agents at most poling booths.

“There was massive deployment of money by APGA through its serving commissioners, party chieftains, contractors and some other individuals who  were deployed to pay each voter as much as N10,000 to vote for APGA.

“Having noticed the various flaws …we have come to inevitable conclusion that this commission is determined to go back to its old ways and that the  much gains made in 2011 election is being reversed.

“We, therefore, urge the INEC to cancel the charade called election conducted in Anambra and deploy transparent officials including a new Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC to conduct a fresh election in the state.

“No election result should be announced as the elections have not been concluded. What they are doing now is an exercise in futility.

“We are peace-loving people in Anambra state and they should not provoke the people to violence. A word is enough for the wise.”

Both Ubah and Nwoye said they all agreed to take a common position on the issue, insisting that the election should be cancelled.