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The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Peter Onwusanya, was angry as the Card Reader rejected 10 persons within 15 minutes in his Ward 4, Unit 8, at Asagba Model Primary School in Oshimili South LGA

He charged personnel to embrace peace and work hand in hand with other sister security agencies for efficient manning of sensitive and non-sensitive election materials, the polling venues, election officials and protecting collation centres and other designated areas

Adams said: “I remain convinced that reasons for the protest is sacrosanct and important to the success of the general elections, but I feel there is need for me to clear the air on some areas where some mischiefmakers have tried to distort

In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, the government said: “We wish to alert the Nigerian public, foreign election observers and lovers of democracy to an evil plot by the presidency to clamp down on All Progressives Congress in a last-ditch attempt to rig the coming general elections in Edo State in favour of Peoples Democratic Party

The party also said it had information that Abuja had sent a contingent of armed men to lock down the state and start arresting APC members from Wednesday to unsettle the party ahead of March 28 presidential and National Assembly polls

Aliyu said at the occasion of the official commissioning ceremony of the Nigeria Union of Teachers’ EndWell Model School and tractors hiring scheme in Minna that the people of Niger State will accept the results as will be released by the Independent National Electoral Commission

In a statement in Ado Ekiti by its Public Relations Officer, Alberto Adeyemi, the Command said the step was taken in view of the peculiarity of the state, particularly in terms of perceived high level of political intolerance among the political class

Speaking at a town hall meeting with APC supporters in Ado Ekiti on Monday, Osinbajo said the Peoples Democratic Party-led government has grounded the country through pervasive corruption and other socio-economic problems occasioned by clueless governance in the last 16 years

Fayose, who stated this through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, added that the APC would, by the election, be taught a political lesson that elections are not won on pages of newspapers and through sheer propaganda

Kerry and Hammond, in an op-ed titled: “Global Spotlight is Firmly Fixed on Nigerian Elections,” said there were good reasons why the international spotlight was firmly fixed on Nigeria

Even if by some tenuous interpretation, a voter could automatically be deemed a

loiterer the moment he casts his vote and exit the polling booth, still, Section 129 (1)

(i) did not outlaw the idea of loitering around the polling center: it only frowns at

loitering devoid of „lawful excuse‟. In other words, IGP Abba would have to point at a

law in Nigeria which makes unlawful the innocuous act of Nigerians waiting around

peacefully to observe the counting of their votes and the announcement of the final

outcomes for the polling units as stipulated under the Electoral Act. Instructively, the

Electoral Act provides its list of what would not qualify as lawful excuse –and staying

behind to observe counting of the ballot cast and announcement of the result is not

one of them

The IGP therefore warned those who have concluded or are making plans to foment trouble or cause confusion on Election Day or after the general elections to desist from such in their own interest or be ready to face the full wrath of the law

He said: “As far as we are concerned in the state and even my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, is concerned, we are ready for the general elections if they are to hold today

Jega made the remark on Saturday in Abuja when he and other officials of the commission met with representatives of the REGISTERED political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja

The protesters, in specific term, demanded for the postponement of the February 14presidential and National Assembly elections as well as the February 28Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections

Aregbesola called all eligible voters to see the elections of this month as a date with destiny, which must be accorded full concentration and diligence

A statement from the AU on Thursday in Addis Ababa said prior to the arrival of the short-term observers, AU would deploy a team of 15 electoral experts as long-term observers

The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said this on Thursday in a statement in Abuja

Chief Anenih, in a statement titled: “2015 Elections: Nigeria must keep moving forward in unity,” acknowledged both national and international concerns about the ability of Nigeria to conduct free, fair, credible and peaceful elections

He also said that Nigerians would be happy with the police if they exhibited non-partisan trait, became accessible and offered necessary assistance aside from providing them with security for the exercise