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Nigeria - Online news media Sahara Reporters say President Goodluck Jonathan is directly involved in a sinister plan to scuttle Nigeria's presidential elections and kidnap Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independnet National Electoral Commission.
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President Goodluck Jonathan played a direct role in efforts to rig Nigeria’s presidential election that took place March 28, 2015, including placing telephone calls to pressure returning officers to alter vote tallies, an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed.
The extent of the effort to rig the polls for Mr. Jonathan, and the outgoing president’s direct role in the scheme, emerged from interviews and tips offered by electoral officials, security agents, foreign and Nigerian election monitors, and members of the president’s own Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Weeks before the election, as Mr. Jonathan’s internal pollsters warned that his reelection prospects looked dire, the president and his inner circle of associates approved several measures to rig the elections. These included massive deployment of soldiers to several states in Nigeria’s southwest to help intimidate voters sympathetic to the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), the redeployment of police and other security officials to ensure that those who favored the incumbent president were assigned to “politically tough” states, and the movement of massive amounts of cash to designated states to entice both voters and opposition party agents to swing their support to Mr. Jonathan.
When all the steps failed to deliver enough votes to the president, Mr. Jonathan and his inner circle went into panic mode once collation of results began. At the end of the first day of election collation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as it dawned on the president’s team that he was headed for defeat, Mr. Jonathan sent retired Colonel Bello Fadile to shop around for any judge who would give an order to stop the collation.
A judge told SaharaReporters that this effort largely failed because the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court had warned other judges to refrain from entertaining such controversial and potentially incendiary election-related cases. The one judge Mr. Fadile thought he could count on pleaded that he had left Abuja for his hometown for Easter holidays.
Once the plan to use the judiciary to scuttle the collation collapsed, Mr. Fadile recruited former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, to play the key role in a plan to physically disrupt the collation of results.
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Source: Sahara Reporters
Excerpts:
President Goodluck Jonathan played a direct role in efforts to rig Nigeria’s presidential election that took place March 28, 2015, including placing telephone calls to pressure returning officers to alter vote tallies, an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed.
The extent of the effort to rig the polls for Mr. Jonathan, and the outgoing president’s direct role in the scheme, emerged from interviews and tips offered by electoral officials, security agents, foreign and Nigerian election monitors, and members of the president’s own Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Weeks before the election, as Mr. Jonathan’s internal pollsters warned that his reelection prospects looked dire, the president and his inner circle of associates approved several measures to rig the elections. These included massive deployment of soldiers to several states in Nigeria’s southwest to help intimidate voters sympathetic to the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), the redeployment of police and other security officials to ensure that those who favored the incumbent president were assigned to “politically tough” states, and the movement of massive amounts of cash to designated states to entice both voters and opposition party agents to swing their support to Mr. Jonathan.
When all the steps failed to deliver enough votes to the president, Mr. Jonathan and his inner circle went into panic mode once collation of results began. At the end of the first day of election collation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as it dawned on the president’s team that he was headed for defeat, Mr. Jonathan sent retired Colonel Bello Fadile to shop around for any judge who would give an order to stop the collation.
A judge told SaharaReporters that this effort largely failed because the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court had warned other judges to refrain from entertaining such controversial and potentially incendiary election-related cases. The one judge Mr. Fadile thought he could count on pleaded that he had left Abuja for his hometown for Easter holidays.
Once the plan to use the judiciary to scuttle the collation collapsed, Mr. Fadile recruited former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, to play the key role in a plan to physically disrupt the collation of results.
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Source: Sahara Reporters
