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  • NECO withholds Niger students’ results over N470m debt

    Students in public secondary schools in Niger State are currently unable to access their NECO May/June SSCE results as the examination body has withheld the results of the students due to debts owed by the government.

    The NECO May/June SSCE results were released on the 27th of August 2019.

    Students bemoaned their inability to access their results in order to attend Post-UTME screenings of the universities of their choice.

    The Niger State Government has admitted that they are owning the examination body N470 million adding that they have paid N150 million.

    The Permanent Secretary of the Niger State Ministry of Education, Abubakar Aliyu admitted that they are owning the examination body but appealed for consideration to enable the students to access their results especially those due for post UTME screenings.

    “The state government has been paying NECO and WAEC for its students from the previous government and the arrangement has always been that when the government has funds, we pay installmentally.

    “NECO is owned N400 million this year and the government has commenced the payment. Last week Friday, we remitted N150 million to them and we are still negotiating with them to release the result but they have not. Hopefully, they may release it today (Monday).”

    Aliyu declared that the government does not have enough money to give to NECO at once assuring that they will pay whenever there are available funds.

    “For us, as a government, we do not have money to release at once but as a responsive government, we have a clear picture of what we want to do. Once we get money, we will make release them. Within the availability of resources, we have given what we have and we will continue to give them what we have until we clear the accumulated debts.”

    The Permanent Secretary, however, stated that if the result is not released before the end of Monday, they will look for ways of sourcing for money to pay the debts adding that one of the Directors in the Ministry is still in a meeting with NECO as at the time of interviewing him.

    The Information Officer, Mallam Azeez Sani could not be reached to state the stand of NECO as to why the examination body has not released the results of the students in the state.

  • JUST IN: WAEC confirms authenticity of Gov AbdulRazaq’s result

    JUST IN: WAEC confirms authenticity of Gov AbdulRazaq’s result

    West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday officially confirmed that Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq sat for its secondary school leaving examination in 1976 at the Government College Kaduna.
    The council also confirmed he sat for the exams using Razaq A.R. as contained in the credentials the governor repeatedly submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when contesting for elections.
    The confirmations were contained in the certified true copy of the results of the governor and other candidates of the same set that the examination body forwarded to the Kwara state Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Ilorin.
    The tribunal is chaired by Justice Bassey Efiong.
    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its March 9th, 2019 governorship candidate in the state Razaq Atunwa are challenging the election of AbdulRazaq on the allegation that he did not have WAEC results as required under the law.
    The WAEC document, which is the statement of result and numbered exhibit P3B, was presented by Olorunsola Victor O., a senior examination officer with the Ilorin office of the regional body.
    The witness, during cross examination, also confirmed to the tribunal that at least 31 other candidates had their names abbreviated, putting to rest claims by the PDP that the WAEC did not allow abbreviations during that time.
    Asked if it would be a horrible lie for anyone to claim that AbdulRazaq did not write the exam, the witness said “yes”.
    The CTC of the result was signed by Oshindehinde HSA, WAEC deputy registrar, School Examinations Department on behalf of Head of national Office of the body, Olu I. Adenipekun.
    The result was presented following a subpeona of the tribunal at the behest of the PDP.
    The cross examination was preceded by a mild drama at the tribunal when Paul Erokoro (SAN), counsel to the PDP Governorship Candidate Razak Atunwa, disowned the representative of the WAEC just minutes after he vehemently fought to have him testify at the tribunal.
    Erokoro turned 360 degrees after the witness presented the two subpeonas the tribunal had earlier addressed to WAEC along with a CTC of the Secondary School Certificate Examination result of the Governor.
    Rather than proceed to have the witness testify to the tribunal, Erokoro said he no longer agreed that the witness had truly come to represent the examination body because the subpeonas did not contain any minute suggesting he had been asked to represent the WAEC.
    “We don’t accept this witness as coming from WAEC because there’s no minute on the subpeona that he’s from WAEC. We can’t take his ID as evidence that he’s from WAEC. WAEC should send a witness with instructions to testify on its behalf. We shall therefore be applying for a bench warrant for the head of WAEC to appear before this tribunal,” Erokoro said.
    Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission Rowland Otaru (SAN); Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kunle Kalejaiye SAN and APC, Akin Olujimi SAN, all objected to the application.
    They insisted the witness had been sworn on oath and had given his evidence and so must be cross-examined accordingly.
    The tribunal, in its ruling, rejected the PDP’s application on the grounds that there was no sufficient evidence to say that the witness did not come from WAEC.
    “We recall that the (witness) was presented by petitioners as WAEC representative. He’s been sworn on oath that he’s WAEC representative. He has presented his ID. He said he’s here to present the document based on the subpeona. All of these constituted evidence and there was no accusation of any sort against (this witness),” according to Justice Effiong.
    “The only disagreement of the petitioners is that there is no minutes on the subpeona introducing him. We hold that this is not sufficient to order warrant against WAEC, especially that sufficient time had been given for this document to come.
    “This witness has given evidence on oath and he must be cross-examined. All of his testimonies on oath are on our record.
    “If the petitioners’ only argument is about minutes and not necessarily the genuineness of the subpeona or document attached thereto then we refuse this application of the petitioners for bench warrant (on WAEC)
    “We hold that the witness’s evidence be continued or if it is concluded, then he must be cross-examined.”
    The case has been adjourned to July 23 for the respondents to open their defense.

  • JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of four candidates.

    The candidates include: Adah Eche with Registration Number 97512230IB, Taiwo Abisola Omowumi with Registration Number 97049254GG, Vincent Onyinyechi Prisca with Registration Number 96531098BC and Sofodun Afolasade Zainab with Registration Number 96634599GA.

    JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

    He said the four candidates were found by the board to have been involved in an attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “The Board therefore withdraws and invalidates the results of the four candidates found to have been involved in the illicit attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “No effort would be spared in identifying and sanctioning any candidate who attempts to falsify results of JAMB-organised examinations (UTME and others) and whoever collaborates or patronizes such candidates would also face similar consequence,” the statement said.

    Eche was apprehended on Monday by the board for being in possession of a fake UTME result.

    He had attempted to upgrade his original UTME score of 153 to 290 with the help of a professional examination fraudster.

    According to JAMB, apart from being in possession of a fake UTME result, he was also working with the above name candidates to have their scores inflated as well.

    Meanwhile, the board said it has released the results of 3, 736 who have been cleared of any infraction.

    According to Benjamin, the candidates whose results have been released are those who were invited and appeared at eight centres listed by the board.

    He said that after an interaction with the board’s Intelligence Committee to ascertain their culpability or otherwise in some discovered examination infraction, their results were released.

    “Consequently, 3,736 candidates who were found to be either free of any blame or entitled to the benefit of the doubt, have their results processed for release. The 3, 736 results are now released,” the statement added.

  • Malami reacts to PDP’s allegations of working with Amaechi to void Rivers poll results

    Malami reacts to PDP’s allegations of working with Amaechi to void Rivers poll results

    The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar-Malami (SAN), has distanced himself from claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he was working with Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, to void the result of the Rivers State governorship election.

    Malami’s spokesman, Salihu Isah, described the claim as ridiculous, and warned that the AGF should not be linked with the local politics in Rivers State.

    He said: “I am not aware of any such ridiculous plan. There is nothing like that, to my knowledge. We are in a democracy, and there are institutions with powers to void elections if the need arises. That is not part of the responsibilities of the Attorney-General of the Federation.

    “So, they should not link him with such ridiculous claims. They should leave the AGF out of the local politics in Rivers State. There are better and more important issues to attract the attention of the minister.”

  • Bauchi gov denies conceding defeat as INEC resumes collation of Tafawa Balewa results

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the collation of the contentious results of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State which were earlier cancelled.

    The collation, which is taking place at the INEC Headquarters, Bauchi instead of Zwall, the Tafawa Balewa LGA Collation Centre, will lead to the declaration of the winner of the 2019 governorship election in the state.

    Recall that the Federal High Court, Abuja had ordered that the results of the Local Government Area which were earlier cancelled by the state Returning Officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed, be collated and announced.

    Speaking in an interview with newsmen, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Bauchi State, Ibrahim Abdullahi, confirmed the development.

    He said: “Right now in that room, they are submitting the regenerated or reconstructed results which were carted away, from the wards to the Local Government Collation Officer.

    “After that, the Local Government Collation Officer will come to the state Collation Officer, submit his report and after that, the State Collation Officer will round up, declare and return the winner.”

    According to him, the development is in conformity with Section 6 & 7 of the INEC guidelines for the 2019 general elections empowers a REC, in the case of any mutilation of results, to order the LG Collation Officer to the results using form EC8B pointing out that “I have already given them that permission.”

  • Presidential poll: Atiku gives breakdown of ‘original’ results he obtained in 31 states [Full details]

    Presidential poll: Atiku gives breakdown of ‘original’ results he obtained in 31 states [Full details]

    The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has provided a breakdown of how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) allegedly reduced his votes in 31 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    Atiku made the claim in a petition he and his party filed before the presidential election tribunal.

    According to him, data from INEC server showed that he actually polled a total of 18,356,732 votes, to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, who had 16,741,430 votes.

    However, the official result declared by INEC from the 36 states and the FCT, states showed that Buhari polled 15,191,847, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes.

    A breakdown of the 174-page document showed the electronic collation of results state by state as of February 25.

    In Abia State, the petition claimed Atiku recorded 664,659 votes in the electronic results from the server, against the 219,698 votes announced by the commission.

    In Adamawa, Atiku said he got 646,080 votes, instead of 410,266; Akwa Ibom 587,431 votes, instead of 395,832; Anambra 823, 668 votes, instead of 524,738; Bayelsa 332, 618 votes, instead of 197, 933; Benue 529,970 votes, instead of 356, 817; Borno 281,897 votes, instead of 71, 788; Cross River 572, 220 votes, instead of 295, 737 recorded by the commission.

    In other states, the document said Atiku had 778,369 votes in Delta, instead of 594, 068; in Ebonyi 565, 762 instead of 258, 573; Edo 677,937, instead of 275,691; Enugu 698,119 instead of 355,553; FCT 419,724 against 259,997; Gombe 684,077 against 138,484; Imo 485,627 against 334,923; Jigawa 539,522 against 289,895; Kaduna 961,143 against 649,612; Kano 522,889 against 391,593; Katsina 160,203.

    Kebbi 493,341 against 154,282; Kogi 504,308 against 218,207; Kwara 353,173 against 138,184; Lagos 1,103,297 against 448,015; Nasarawa 344,421 against 283,847; Niger 576,308 against 218,052; Ogun 438,099 against 194,655; Ondo 451,779 against 275,901; Oyo 527,873 against 366,690; Sokoto 552,172 against 361,604; Taraba 442,380 against 374,743; Yobe 306,841 against 50,763 and Zamfara 379,022 against 125,123.

    Also, the petition claimed INEC manipulated the numbers of the party in Osun and Plateau States.

    In Osun, the document said the party recorded 337,359 votes in the data available in the server, but the commission credited the party with 337,377 votes; likewise in Plateau, the party garnered 273,031 votes, against the 548,665 recorded by INEC in its final collation.

  • Results on INEC server shows Buhari lost 2019 presidential election by 1.6m votes – Atiku, PDP

    Results on INEC server shows Buhari lost 2019 presidential election by 1.6m votes – Atiku, PDP

    Nigeria’s main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said official results of the just concluded presidential election on the website of the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) computer server shows that its candidate, Atiku Abubakar won the February 23 election with about 1.6 million votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari.

    This is contained in the petition filed on Monday by the PDP and Atiku, to challenge the victory of Buhari and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The petition, which sought to rely on 50 sets of documents, was filed before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja against INEC, Buhari and the APC respectively.

    On February 27, INEC declared that Buhari won the election with 15,191,847 votes to defeat Mr Atiku, whom it said polled 11,262,978 votes.

    But the petitioners stated in their 139-page petition that “from the data in the 1st respondent’s (INEC’s) server…the true, actual and correct results” from “state to state computation” showed that Atiku polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom they said scored 16,741,430 votes.

    According to it, the results were the total votes scored by the candidates in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, as there was “no report on server” about the results from Rivers State as of February 25.

    By this, Atiku claims to have defeated Buhari with 1,615,302 votes.

    One of the five grounds of the petition also tends to resuscitate the allegation that Buhari was not qualified to run for the office of the president on the grounds that he did not possess the constitutional minimum qualification of a school certificate.

    The five grounds of the petition read, “The 2nd respondent (Buhari) was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election.

    “The election of the 2nd respondent is invalid by reason of corrupt practices.

    “The election of the 2nd Respondent is invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).

    “The 2nd respondent was at the time of the election not qualified to contest the said election.

    “The 2nd respondent submitted to the 1st Respondent an affidavit containing false information of a fundamental nature in aid of his qualification for the said election.”

    Arguing that Buhari was not qualified to run for the office of the president, the petitioners argued in part, “The petitioners state that the 2nd respondent (Buhari) does not possess the educational qualification to contest the election to the office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    “The petitioners state that by Section 31 (1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), every political party shall not later than 60 days before the date appointed for a general election submit to the Commission in the prescribed form the list of the candidates the party proposes to sponsor at the elections.

    “Further, by Section 31(2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), the list or information submitted by each candidate shall be accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by the candidate at the Federal High Court, High Court of a State or Federal Capital Territory indicating that he has fulfilled all the constitutional requirements for election into that office.

    “The 2nd respondent filled and submitted Form CF001 to the 1st Respondent, which was declared before the Commissioner for Oaths at the Registry of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on the 8th day of October 2018. The said Form CF001 is accompanied by an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT indicating that the 1st Respondent received same.

    “The petitioners aver that the said Form CF001 filled by the 2nd Respondent and submitted to the 1st Respondent for the Office of President was also accompanied by the Curriculum Vitae of the 2nd Respondent as well as GENERAL FORM OF AFFIDAVIT duly sworn to by the 2nd respondent at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, along with copies of his Membership Card of the 3rd Respondent and Voter Card.

    “The information submitted to the 1st respondent (INEC) by the 2nd respondent (Buhari) is false and of a fundamental nature in aid of his education qualification, notwithstanding that he had declared in the said sworn affidavit as follows: ‘I hereby declare that all the answers, facts and particulars I have given in this Form, are true and correct and I have to the best of my knowledge, fulfilled all the requirements for qualifications for the office I am seeking to be elected’.”

    They stated that the educational institutions Buhari “claimed to have attended and the certificates presented by him namely, Elementary School Daura and Mai Aduaa between 1948 and 1952, Middle School Katsina between 1953 and 1956 and Katsina Provincial College (now Government College, Katsina) between 1956 to 1961 and mentioned by the 2nd respondent in his curriculum vitae attached to Form CF 001, were not in existence as of those mentioned dates.”

    They added, “The 2nd respondent in Form CF 001 filled and submitted by him to the 1st Respondent at Paragraph C, Column 2, Page 3, under SECONDARY, wrote “WASC,” thereby falsely claiming that qualification whereas there was no qualification known as WASC as of 1961.

    “The petitioners contend that the 2nd Respondent was, at the material time, not qualified to contest election for the exalted office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    “The petitioners further aver that all votes purportedly cast for the 2nd and 3rd Respondents on 23rd February 2019 during the Presidential Election and as subsequently declared by the 1st Respondent on February 27, are wasted votes in that the 2nd Respondent was not qualified to contest the said election in the first place or at all.”

    The petitioners named 21 Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 18 other lawyers to appear for them during the petition.

    The legal team is led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Livy Uzoukwu.

    They sought among their five main prayers, that the tribunal should determine that Buhari “was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast in the said election” and therefore his declaration and return by INEC “as the President of Nigeria is unlawful, undue, null, void and of no effect.”

    They also prayed that Abubakar having been “duly and validly elected” ought to be “returned as President of Nigeria, having polled the highest number of lawful votes cast at the election to the office of the President of Nigeria held on February 23 and having satisfied the constitutional requirements for the said election.

    They sought “an order directing the 1st respondent (INEC) to issue a Certificate of Return to the 1st petitioner (Atiku) as the duly elected President of Nigeria”.

    They also asked the tribunal to rule that Buhari “was at the time of the election not qualified to contest the said election”, and that he “submitted to the Commission affidavit containing false information of a fundamental nature in aid of his qualification for the said election”.

    However, they sought as their alternative prayer, “that the election to the office of the president of Nigeria held on February 23, be nullified and a fresh election ordered.”

    The petitioners are relying on 50 sets of documents which they, in the petition, gave INEC the notice to produce the original copies of those in its custody.

    Some of the documents are, “INEC Nomination Form CF001 of the 2nd respondent (Buhari); all INEC result sheets;(Form EC8 Series), EC8A, EC8B, EC8C, EC8D and EC8E – Certificate of Return; PDP Party Membership Cards; INEC Voter Cards; all witnesses’ party membership cards; and all Witnesses’ Voter Cards.”

    The PDP and Atiku in the petition also sought to rely on, “the circulars/corrigenda/manuals issued by INEC for the conduct of the Presidential Election held on 23/2/2019; Polling Unit materials checklist; summary of total registered voters on units’ basis; summary of PVCs collected on units’ basis; Voter Registers and letters of complaints about irregularities and malpractices during the election addressed to the INEC/Police/other relevant agencies/institutions.”

    They also sought to rely on “security reports relating to the election video/audio recordings/DVD/CD relating to the Election; Election Observers’ or Observers’ Reports; Newspaper/Television/ Radio reports and news; appointment letters and tags of PDP agents; expert reports and analysis; and photographs and GSM and other phone outputs”.

     

  • Inconclusive poll: INEC heeds court’s order, suspends collation of results in Bauchi

    Inconclusive poll: INEC heeds court’s order, suspends collation of results in Bauchi

    The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ), says it has complied with a court order restraining it from resuming with the collation and announcement of result for Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area, LGA.

    A Federal High Court in Abuja had barred the Commission (INEC) from collation of result of the governorship election of March 9 in Bauchi State, in an order given by Justice Inyang Ekwo on Tuesday following an ex parte application filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the incumbent governor of the state, Mohammed Abubakar.

    While briefing newsmen on the latest development at the headquarters of INEC office, the State Commissioner, Ibrahim Abdullahi said “The INEC has received receipt of a court order restraining it from proceeding with the collation and announcement of result in respect of Tafawa Balewa Governorship constituency”

    He however added that the order which was granted by the court does not include the Tafawa Balewa State constituency hence arrangement will be made to continue with the State constituency collation and subsequently announce the result.

  • BREAKING: Court stops INEC from collating, announcing Bauchi guber poll results

    A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) from going ahead to collate and announce the results of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

    Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order while ruling on an exparte application filed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Governor of Bauchi state, Mr Mohammed Abubakar.

    INEC had earlier announced that, she would no longer conduct supplementary election in Bauchi state and had made a final decision to continue with the collation of results in the remaining local government area.

    Justice Ekwo however, ruled that the exercise should be stopped pending the determination of the substantive suit.

    The APC and Abubakar are asking the court for a declaration that INEC cannot review what a collation officer has cancelled.

    They are also insisting that INEC, having made a pronouncement for a supplementary election, cannot go back on it.

    They further maintained that the powers of the electoral officer, having declared the election inconclusive, could only be upturned by a court.

    The court asked the parties to maintain the status quo until the substantive suit was heard and decided on.

    The matter was adjourned until March 20 for definite hearing.

     

  • Buhari won’t change election results to favour APC

    The Presidency yesterday warned the All Progressives Congress candidates in states where supplementary elections would hold on Saturday that President Muhammadu Buhari would not manipulate the Independent National Electoral Commission in their favour.

    It also warned political leaders making inflammatory statements capable of inciting the citizenry to violence ahead of Saturday’s supplementary elections to desist from such acts immediately.

    A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, also noted that some past Presidents of Nigeria were known to interfere in inconclusive elections.

    This, he said, was the reason why party members appeared to be upset that the same thing is not happening now.

    He added “But President Buhari is a different kind of leader. He swore to defend the constitution and will not veer off from that.

    “The constitution of Nigeria gives the President no such powers. It is unfair and ridiculous to criticise President Buhari for not going against the constitution.

    “Party members in states where there will be supplementary elections then need to be reminded that they need to work hard to earn their people’s votes, rather than expect President Buhari to manipulate INEC in their favour.

    “Interestingly, while members of the ruling APC party were criticising the President for not interfering on their behalf, members of the opposition were condemning the President based on their assumptions that he would definitely interfere, as many in the opposition did while in power.

    “Under President Buhari, INEC had been and will be completely independent throughout the elections, free from any interference.

    “President Buhari is a man of conviction, and the manipulation of election results goes against everything he stands for. INEC is completely in charge.” he stated