Kwara election, travesty of justice - Minister

Date: 2015-03-29

The Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, on Sunday faulted Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in Kwara State.

He alleged  that there were many  electoral irregularities, describing the elections in the state as a rape of democracy.

Speaking during a press conference  media briefing in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Suleiman, who is the state PDP leader,  said the  accreditation process was faulty,  adding that the card readers in most cases were not working hence the recourse to manual method of accreditation.

According to him, using manual method for accreditation attested to the position of the PDP that the introduction of the card reader at this time is a misplaced priority.

He said it was obvious to Nigerians that the card reader usage in the election was not a success, adding that this created room for a lot of irregularities in accreditation process.

The minister also accused security agencies of dereliction of duties, alleging that there were many security lapses, which he claimed, aided electoral malpractices allegedly by members of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

He noted that security agents were inadequate in some places while in many other places, they were not there at all.

Suleiman alleged that the total number of votes in the three wards at Opobiyi, Ajikobi Ward in Agbaji, where he voted, which is the place a former Governor of Kwara State, who is the state APC leader, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and her sister, Gbemisola, was greater than the total number of collected Permanent Voter Cards in the area.

He said, “If actually we had gotten it right in 2011, what happened in my own community, my state, was more of an electoral tragedy, which is not acceptable, which to a large extent has significant negative implications in our electoral future if not addressed.

“I saw a connivance of the security agencies in Kwara State, to be specific, with the opposition party. It does not tally with sense, for instance, where you have about  1,800 potential voters to one policeman without any arms. How will he contain the crowd?”

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yakub Lai Gobir     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Arik     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Umar Saro     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Taiwo Joseph     Sanusi Abubakar     GANZY     Kunle Okeowo     Sobi FM     KWTV     Bankole Omishore     Share-Tsaragi     Omoniyi     Fola Consultant     Isiaka Gold     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Amina El-Imam     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Photo News     Tunji Olawuyi     Ile Arugbo     Ekiti     Sheikh Ariyibi     Umar Gunu     Zara Umar     REO CAKES     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Ilorin Like-Minds     20 Billion Bond     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Ahmad Ali     Deji Ajani     Oloye     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Saka Isau     Oyawoye     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Jide Ashonibare     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Abdulazeez Uthman     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Government High School Adeta     Afeyin-Olukuta     Opobiyi     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Apaola     March 28     Arandun     April 11     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Shuaibu Yaman     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Law School Scholarship     Okiki     Bayer AG     Owu Fall     Senate     Dan Masanin     NAWOJ     Sebastine Obasi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Harafat E. Mukadam     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Ramat Oganija     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Salami Adekunle     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     BIR     Akeem Lawal     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tunde Saad     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Oluwole Dupe     Pategi     Fatimat Saliu     Makama     NaAllah     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Wasiu Onidugbe     Sam Okaula     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Jimba Babatunde     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Egbewole     Saka Aleshinloye     Oke Sunna     MalHub     Suleiman Ajadi     Ayodele Shittu     Asa LGEA School     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Aminu Ado Bayero     Obayomi Azeez     Ojuekun     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Saadu Alanamu     Kaiama     Alabi Lawal     Orisun Igbomina     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Valsolar     Ethical College     Olatunde Jare     Abegunde Goke     Trade Lenda SME Fair     KWSIEC     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Kazeem Oladepo     KWATMA     Mohammed Lawal     Ike Ekweremadu     Muhammadu Buhari     Ibrahim Oniye     Yakubu Shaaba     Hussein Oloyede     Iyeru Grammar School     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Tanke     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Jani Ibrahim     David Adesina     Rachael Obisesan     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Olatunji Ibrahim     Ishaq Oloyede     Ahmad Ali     Henry Olaosebikan     Ilorin     Toyin Sanusi     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     National Broadcasting Commission     Isiaka Gold     Kunbi Titiloye     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Hamza Usman     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Olaoye B. Felix     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Moses Afolayan     Michael Ologundea     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade