Former militants urge Buhari to rein in supporters

 Former commanders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday during a news conference in Abuja, said, "The outbreak of violence in the northern states and the Federal Capital Territory following President Jonathan's victory in the presidential election is an invitation to chaos." It specifically warned that incitement of youths to violence by some northern leaders was an attempt to provoke them to return to hostilities.The group, which spoke through its national cordinator, Sobomabo Jackrich, aka General Egbere Papa, wondered why the North "which had always received the support of the South-South and indeed southern Nigeria in previous elections should be wasting innocent lives and property because President Jonathan of South-South extraction has won an election."The North thinks it will remain in power perpetually. From the inception of this country, the South-South region had given the North all the necessary support in previous elections in spite of the fact that we produce the wealth of the nation.Why will the North not reciprocate even in the face of what is now known as the freest and fairest election? We all queued up to vote and we know the election was free and fair. INEC is still announcing election results and people are on rampage killing and maiming," the group noted.

The group, therefore, warned: "We will not fold our hands and watch. We know how to defend ourselves and our resources. By this violence, the North is clearly pushing us and we have a way with violence. Even when we were in the struggle, we never wasted innocent lives. President Jonathan's victory at the polls must remain sacrosanct. General Buhari should call his supporters off the streets before it is too late."

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                            but laid down his life 
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Buhari lodges formal complaint over election results

 
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Muhammadu Buhari, has lodged a complaint with the Independent National Electoral Commission over the results of the presidential election which held in various parts of Nigeria last Saturday.

Speaking on Aljazeera, Monday, in reaction to questions on the rising protest and violence in the North where he has a large number of supporters, Mr Buhari said the announced results were false and that he had laid his complaints before the electoral body. He said the body has agreed to check the score sheets manually and compare with the results they inputed to their electronic system.

The former head of state said he based his allegations of electoral fraud on reports he got from party representatives from various polling booths in the North.

Foreign observers praise conduct of presidential polls

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 International observers have applauded the conduct of Saturday's presidential election but have cited several areas that need to be improved upon ahead of the governorship polls next week.
The Commonwealth, National Democratic Institute (NDI), European Union (EU) and the International Republican Institute issued separate post-election assessments yesterday amid reports of violent protest against the outcome of the election in Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi states.

The Commonwealth mission said the April 2011 elections marked a "genuine celebration of democracy" in Nigeria saying that previous notions that the nation can only hold flawed elections be discarded.

Mr Mogae admitted that the parliamentary polls had procedural problems although there were improvements. Asked whether he would advise Nigerians to accept the outcome of the polls, he said: "I say yes," adding that the imperfections noticed do not point to deliberate "mischief." The NDI said its observation unveiled the inadequacies of the "complicated and multi-tiered" collation process which the mission said was vulnerable to human error and manipulation as tabulation proceeds from the polling unit to the electoral office.

As the statements were read on Monday in Abuja, fears mounted about the breakdown of law and order in the Federal Capital Territory as clashes erupted in Dutse, Mararaba areas of the Federal Capital Territory with no certain number of casualties.

Already, the NDI led by the former Canadian Prime Minister, Joe Clark, said its coverage of the pre-election and the election days, showed there have been 135 politically-motivated deaths.

The election monitoring teams condemned the renewed unrest yesterday urging aggrieved candidates in the polls to seek judicial redress.

"Any post election violence will be regrettable," said Festus Mogae, the chief observer of the Commonwealth team and former president of Botswana. "If it is happening, it is regrettable."

Assessment

The monitors praised the poll on the one hand and on the other, criticised series of processes from the accreditation to counting of results although they agree the setbacks were minimal to affect the wider result for the entire nation.

The teams complained about overcrowded polling stations despite claims by the Independent National Electoral Commission that sub voting units will be established for centres beyond 300 voters.

The EU team observed that for 633 random polling units it monitored across the 36 states, only 14% were split as INEC directed with the rest having an average 860 voters.

Attempts to induce voters were noticed in 17 percent, while party agents interfered in 26%. In spite of these, counting was overall evaluated positively in 91%, it said.

Nigeria's main opposition parties fail in efforts to forge alliance aimed at unseating president Goodluck Jonathan.

Nigerian opposition fails to agree vote pact

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Nigeria's two main opposition parties have failed to reach an alliance to unseat Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president, leaving them divided ahead of elections in three days time. Officials from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) held hours of talks late into Tuesday night and again on Wednesday on the possibility of fielding a single candidate against Jonathan. "While it is true that representatives of both parties have been engaged in talks aimed at forging an alliance, we regret to announce that such talks have not led to any alliance," said Bisi Akande, the ACN chairman, at a news conference in Abuja. "We have decided, it is better for each of the parties to go into the presidential election on his own platform. If at the end of the election on Saturday there is no clear winner, we will make a decision on which way to go," Akande added. Options under discussion had included former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu, the ACN presidential candidate, stepping down and supporting the candidacy of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC, opposition sources said. Too late There were significant hurdles to any deal, not least selling it to the respective party followers just days before the election. It is already too late to re-print ballot papers and any agreement could have backfired by creating confusion. "There may be time to complete a deal but not to sell a deal," said one opposition source who declined to be named. The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) has won every presidential race since the end of military rule in 1999 and Goodluck Jonathan is considered the favourite, but opposition parties are hoping their regional strengths could force a run-off. Buhari has strong support in parts of the mostly Muslim north while the ACN has its stronghold in the southwest. More than a dozen candidates are vying for the presidency, but Jonathan, Buhari and Ribadu are the main contenders. Last Saturday's parliamentary polls, in which the ACN gained seats but the CPC perform less strongly than expected in some areas, further complicated the chances of an opposition pact.

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