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Urges INEC to order for rerun in affected units, EO Ughelli north
should resign immediately
*The EO is in perfect knowledge of the crime, Evwreni Results cannot
be accepted – Delta REC

THE candidate of ACORD Party in the last Saturday Delta State House of
Assembly election for Ughelli constituency 1, Rt. Hon. Christopher
Obiuwevbi Ominimini has called on the chairman of Independent
Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahamood Yakubu to cancel elections in
Evwreni wards, Omo-Agege Unit and three other units in Orogun ward 1
and 2 all in Ughelli north local government area of Delta State.
The Accord Party candidate accused the Executive Director of Niger
Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Samuel Adjogbe of hijacking
voting materials and using his security men attached to his office to
insult and intimidated INEC ad-hoc staffers deployed to Evwreni ward
from their constitutional duty.
According to him, “the Executive Director Projector of NDDC, Engr.
Samuel Ajogbe has brought himself so low and demonstrated what can be
best described as 21st Century barbaric act in the history of the
world by using his security operatives attached to his office and
Soldiers to collect Accord Party Agent’s tags and chase them away from
the ten polling units of Evwreni.
“Adjogbe took all the voting materials and INEC ad-hoc staffers from
the polling units to the community town hall for massive thumb
printing to match with the earlier accredited numbers of voters by the
card reader, and collation was simultaneously carried out in the town
hall instead of the approved collation center”.
Narrating his ordeal in the hand of the police, he said, he went to
the police station to complained when his party agents called that
they were chased away from accessing voting papers and result sheets
when the election was about to conclude, he was directed to make
complains known to the Commissioner of Police on Election, CP Cyril
Okoro who in turn called the EO (name withheld) on phone and I was
asked to narrate what happened to the EO adding that after narrated
what is going on in Evwreni, the EO said it is the duty of the police
to go there to stop Adjogbe and his cohort of their criminality acts
not INEC but the police insisted that the INEC has the constitutional
right to cancel election and not police.
Ominimini said, neither the police non the EO in Ughelli north local
government area deemed it fit to go there to verified the situation
complained about if it true or not a situation that prompt him to
called on the Delta State Resident Electoral Commissioner who
immediately intervened immediately assured that the results from
Evwreni cannot be accepted it must be cancelled to serve as a
deterrent to other, said Delta Rec.
While calling for cancellation of Ovie Omo-Agege unit and three other
units in Orogun, he said there were 24 polling units in Orogun ward 2,
election took place in 21 units, one Mr. Omo-Agege Jimmy forcefully
hijacked the ballot papers to his house and ordered his boys to thumb
print the papers massively, also the Executive Director, Delta River
Basin Authority, Mr. Ben Okwonu allegedly forced himself into the
polling unit in Unit 14 Emonu and took away all the ballot papers and
other voting papers to Mr. Jimmy Omo-Agege’s house for massive thumb
printing.
Also corroborating Ominimini, the duo of Hon. Desmond Okpako from
Evwreni and Mrs. Philo Orhe from Agbarha – Otor said the elections in
their areas were marred with irregularities calling for a total
cancelation of election in Evwreni and part of Agbarha- otor ward and
Orogun ward 2.

OTO-EDO Community – Ughelli South agog as Barr. Peter Mrakpor, Delta State Attorney general and Commissioner for Justice extolled leadership virtues of Gov. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, that Mrakpor is a good man, following the road map of his Boss, prosperity for all Deltans, through the SMART Agenda of the state government, Mrakpor a great achiever and humble leader with a rare act of simplicity that endears him in promotion of education and providing basic amenity to his people.

The Attorney general who canvassed for votes during the donation of the school materials and and commissioning of the mono pumps to the community said education is the key to life and water is essential in life. The commissioner who gave the charge during the commissioning of the mono pumps, advised residents of Oto-Edo community to always make good use of the pumps. Urging the people of the community to re-elect Okowa come on Saturday 9 march 2019 and all pdp Assembly Candidates.

Mr. Peter Onosiobele, PG, of Otor-Edo Community thanked and appreciates the good work of the state government through our most respected Attorney general, Barr. Peter Mrakpor while receiving the items on behalf of the Community the PG expressed profound gratitude that he is short of words and filled with joy, that ” our kids will now sit comfortably and learn “.

The president general of the community gave the assurance that the entire community is for pdp, that the entire oto -edo community will come out en mass on March 9,2019 to vote for the Candidates of the party, pdp, saying that the election will end in praises.

ASABA- The break way faction of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Abraka , United Movement has resolved to work for the victory of Okowa, describing APC as a party of self centered members, who doesn’t want the progress of other party members, as they all resolved to work for the victory of the gubernatorial pdp Candidate, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa on Saturday 9 march, 2019.

The agreement was reached at a meeting of the movement held in Asaba on Monday.

Speaking at Monday’s meeting Dr. Theophilus Akperhe gave the charge that even other political parties like Zenith Labour Party, ZLP has also endorse Okowa in the forthcoming gubernatorial Election with a far reaching agreement by both parties , with a view to felicitate victory for Okowa on Saturday.

The movement, which is made up of many aggrieved Delta APC members, had broken away in the wake of crisis which engulfed the ruling APC party during it’s primaries.

In a related development, the pdp in Delta State recorded another alliance with another political party, Zenith labour party.

Zenith labour party in Delta State on Monday, formally delegates meeting and formed alliance with the People’s Democratic party, pdp in the state, ahead of the gubernatorial election.

Over 500members, ZLP leaders and representatives of the party from the 25 local government area of Delta state converged on Monday at unity hall, government house to finalize their terms of support for pdp on Saturday.

OVIRI- EXECUTIVE Assistant (E.A), to the Delta Governor, Chief Mrs Grace Aghoghovbia and her team “RE-ELECT OKOWA MOVEMENT” (ROM), in continuation of their Ear to Ear campaign stormed ten communities in Ughelli South ahead of March 9 gubernatorial and house of Assembly Elections.

The E.A who canvassed for votes, displaying the pdp logo (Umbrella), thanked the people of Ughelli South for their support and peaceful conduct during the presidential and National Assembly Elections.

Chief Aghoghovbia urged them to come out en mass on March 9 to vote massively for the Candidates of the party, proclaiming that the election will surely ends in praise.

Other speakers at the colour full event such as the former LGA chairman , Hon. Paul Etega, RT.hon Precious Ejenake, Ughelli South pdp Chairman, Mr. Oshetigho and host of many others , Ambassador Mercy Awana, also expressed gratitude to the people for their massive support for PDP during the last Elections and appealed to them to vote for Okowa and other candidates of the pdp in the coming exercise.

They extolled the leadership virtues of Gov.Okowa as a good man , great achiever and humble leader with a rare act of simplicity that endears him to the people , urging the electorates to RE-ELECT him come on the 9 march 2019.

Emmanuel Uduaghan, the immediate past Governor of Delta State, has filed a petition before the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) against the management of Channels Television, over a sponsored documentary by Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, which was aired by the station.

Uduaghan made it clear that having left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC), there should be no need for Delta State government to use his past visuals and comments for paid documentary to canvass and solicit support and votes for Okowa’s second term bid in the March governorship election in the state.

In a petition addressed to the Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission, Abuja, signed by P.U. Agbone-Efejdare (Mrs.) for Felix, Igelige & Associates, entitled ‘Re: Breach of Nigeria Broadcasting Code By Channels Television’, and obtained by SaharaReporters, Uduaghan demanded the sanction of the broadcast outfit in accordance with the extant laws and codes regulating broadcasting in Nigeria.

The petition read: “Our professional services as Solicitors have been engaged by His Excellency, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, former Governor of Delta State of Nigeria referred to in this letter as ‘our client’ and it is on his instructions that we write to lodge a complaint of breach of Nigeria Broadcasting Code against Channels Television.

“It is our clients’ instructions that on 27/2/2019 at about 7pm–9pm during its commercials, the Channels Television made a broadcast in the form of advertisement with the caption ‘Testimony of Gov. Okowa’s Grand Achievements’ with our client appearing in videos uttering the following words: ‘I want to congratulate Ekueme for his roads construction efforts. The projects are completed and I congratulate him for that. My happiness is that he did not come and abandon the projects. He has completed the projects for the benefit of the people. He has done quite well especially in the area of wealth creation. We no go follow you struggle for the office. We go just dey follow you dey support you. We dey behind you gidigba!’

“The advert ended with the words ‘Vote Okowa again for a stronger Delta. PDP POWER….’ Attached herewith is the video clip for ease of reference. Our client is currently a member of the All Progressives Congress and was senatorial candidate for the Delta South Senatorial District in the just conducted elections.

“The videos of our client used in the advert were videos recorded during the commissioning of some projects in Delta State while our client was still a member of the People’s Democratic Party. The videos were not made for the purpose of campaigning for Okowa who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the gubernatorial elections to be conducted on March 9, 2019 by the Independent National Electoral Commission. More so, the words ‘We go just dey follow you dey support you. We dey behind you gidigba!’ were edited into the video.

“The Channels Television has portrayed our client in the advertisement as if he is campaigning for Okowa, who is the PDP candidate, whereas our client is now a card-carrying member and a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State. Our client is campaigning for Great Ovedje Ogboru for the governorship position. The video which has now gone viral is now being used as a form of blackmail against our client and this has affected his goodwill within the party. He is on the verge of being sanctioned by the party as he is now seen as a betrayal in the party.

“Sir, the Channels Television has used the video recording of our client out of context and it is a misrepresentation. It is against the backdrop of the above that we humbly request you to use your good offices to investigate our clients’ complaints and bring the offender broadcaster to book in accordance with the extant laws and codes regulating broadcasting in Nigeria. We hope and trust that our clients’ complaint will be treated with the urgency it deserves.”

EFFURUN – Golden Tulip Hotel was recently filled to brim with top PDP Chieftains from different works of lives to strategize and harmonized their differences at the just concluded Presidential and NASS elections were some leaders could not win their units for the party where some party Chieftains were alleged in betraying witb a total sum of 15milion naira to work against his own party member because they could not secure the Delta Central PDP senatorial party ticket.

The former Delta Central PDP senatorial Candidate, Barr Evelyn Omavowan Oboro was seen with so much life in her, filled with happiness and expression of joy all over her beautiful face, while some of her betrayers could not even raise their faces to look at the crowd during the meeting. Their faces were seen buried in shame as Oboro dance in the hall.

Oboro, when she was asked, ma’am ! You look so excited, even with the results of the just concluded NASS election you are here so happy, hear what she said; that the sufficiency of God’s grace remains the source of her happiness, what a woman, even sitting amidst of her betrayers.

According to a source, that some of her betrayers almost slump down and they regretted their actions as she welcome everybody and shakes hands even with devil himself. Many felt she will not come for the meeting, but surprisingly enough she came early to welcome Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa and our former Gov. Chief Onanefe James Ibori to the meeting with host of others.

The traditional ruler of Egbema Kingdom in Delta and Edo states, HRM Sir, King Oro E. Tiemo, Bini Pere III, the Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom has returned to Ajakurama, his ancestral home after 30 years of conflicts.

The monarch who made this known while delivering an address during a reconciliation ceremony of Egbema communities, said he was delighted by the epoch-making gathering which marks the attainment of the long sought-after peace in Egbema kingdom.

He said, “It is almost thirty years ago that I left this ancient town of Ajakurama where I was installed and crowned as Bini Pere III, the Agadagba of the great Egbema Kingdom. I blame this long period of my absence on the judicial system in the country; which made the case I had with my late younger brother over the kingship lasted till about end of 2016, and there were still moves to take the case to the Supreme Court but thank God the matter has come to an end”.

According to the monarch, the creation of Delta state from the defunct Bendel state also necessitated that he had to temporarily move to Ogbudugbudu in Delta state for reasons best known to the people of the kingdom.

“It is historic that I have now returned to Ajakurama, my ancestral home and the entire people of Egbema kingdom are in jubilant mood that their king is back home. I and my chiefs and the entire people of Egbema Kingdom are happy. May the good name of our Lord our God be exalted”, he added.

Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta South District of Delta state, Ambassador Jude Ebitimi Ukori has commended electorates in Delta South Senatorial District, Burutu Federal Constituency and Warri Federal Constituency over the election of Senator James Manager, Rt. Hon. Julius Pondi and Chief Thomas Eriyetomi respectively.

Ukori who made this known yesterday in a statement, said the re-election of Senator James Manager and Rt. Hon. Julius Pondi will enable them consolidate on their achievements which spans beyond their constituencies.

Ukori who is also the Executive Chairman of Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF said their re-election was in appreciation of their contributions to the development of the long neglected region.

“Their sterling transparent leadership qualities had earned them several local and international awards as the most outstanding performed parliamentarians in the Niger Delta region. So, it wasn’t news when they were declared winners of their various elections”, he added.

On Chief Thomas Eriyetomi who won the House of Representatives, Warri Federal Constituency seat, Ukori said his election was a new down for the people of Warri South, Warri North and Warri South West Local Government Areas because of his generosity towards the people.

“The people of Warri Federal Constituency needed a change, proactive and positive change that will bring for them their aspirations, hence they voted for Chief Thomas Eriyetomi and I know he will not disappoint them”, he said.

KENYA – AFRICA opposition stronghold celebrates the decision of Kenya’s Supreme Court that has annulled the result of last month’s presidential election, citing irregularities, and ordered a new one within 60 days.

The election commission had declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta the winner by a margin of 1.4 million votes.

Raila Odinga, Mr Kenyatta’s opponent, said the commission was “rotten” and demanded resignations and prosecutions.

President Kenyatta said he would respect the court’s decision but also branded the judges “crooks”.

Other elections in Africa have been annulled or cancelled but this appears to be the first time on the continent that an opposition court challenge against a presidential poll result has been successful.

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Chief Justice David Maraga said the 8 August election had not been “conducted in accordance with the constitution” and declared it “invalid, null and void”.

He said the verdict was backed by four of the six Supreme Court judges.

The announcement drew cheers from opposition supporters both inside and outside the courtroom.

The court ruling did not attribute any blame to President Kenyatta’s party or campaign.

What did the judges say was wrong?
Justice Maraga said the election commission had failed “to conduct the presidential election in a manner consistent with the dictates of the constitution”.

Media captionJustice Maraga declares the election “invalid, null and void”
He said the commission had committed irregularities “in the transmission of results”, adding that the court would provide details in a full judgment within 21 days.

Dissenting judges said that the Nasa opposition alliance – which had petitioned the Supreme Court – failed to prove claims that the polls had been rigged.

The election sparked days of sporadic protests, in which at least 28 people were killed. The vote had raised fears of major political violence – as was the case after a disputed poll in 2007.

How have the two political sides reacted?
Mr Odinga, 72, said the ruling marked “a historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension for the people of the continent of Africa”.

He said: “It is now clear that the entire [electoral commission] is rotten.

“It is clear that the real election results were never shared with Kenyans. Someone must take responsibility.”

Odinga added: “We won the elections and we are going to win them again.”

President Kenyatta, in a televised address, said that it was “important to respect the rule of law even if you disagree with the Supreme Court ruling”.

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He called for calm, saying: “Your neighbour will still be your neighbour, regardless of what has happened… My primary message today to every single Kenyan is peace. Let us be people of peace.”

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Mr Kenyatta, 55, added: “We are ready to go back again to the people with the same agenda that we delivered to the people.”

The president was more combative later at a rally of supporters in a market in Nairobi.

He referred to Justice Maraga and his fellow judges as wakora (crooks in Swahili), saying they had “decided to cancel the election”. He warned the chief justice that as the poll had been annulled he was now the president again, not president-elect.

“Do you understand me? Maraga should know that he is now dealing with the serving president,” Mr Kenyatta said.

“We are keeping a close eye on them. But let us deal with the election first. We are not afraid.”

And the electoral commission?
Chairman Wafula Chebukati noted the ruling and said there would be “changes to personnel” ahead of the new election.

He invited the director of public prosecutions “to prosecute any of our staff that may have been involved in violations”.

But he ruled out resigning, saying he had not been accused of wrongdoing.

What have the international monitors said?
After the election, international monitors from the EU, the African Union and the US had said there was no major fraud on polling day and urged Mr Odinga to concede.

On Friday, Marietje Schaake, the head of the EU Observer Mission, said the court ruling represented “a historic day for Kenya and we have always said that people who feel aggrieved should seek the path of the courts”.

She said the monitors had at the time pointed to irregularities and encouraged the Kenyan authorities to deal with them.

Ms Schaake said the monitors were awaiting the full details of the ruling.