SPF-USA congratulates Buhari, tasks him on rebuilding Nigeria

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A United States of America (USA)-based non-governmental organization, the Socio Political Forum (SPF), USA has congratulated Nigeria's President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) on his victory at the just concluded presidential polls, reports ITRealms.

Speaking recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America (USA), the forum chairman, Chief. Richard Nwabuzor said that Buhari's victory shows that a new dawn had just began for Nigeria.

A press statement made available to ITRealms, Chief Nwabuzor admonished the president-elect to be of good courage, and that All Progressive Congress (APC) must fulfill it's campaign manifesto and agenda by tackling the issue of insecurity, corruption and pursuing extensive socio-economic reforms that will strengthen Nigeria's economic viability.

"I and my forum are looking forward to a more prosperous Nigeria, and the return of Nigeria to the global stage as the giant of Africa," Chief Nwabuzor said

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Pix: L-R: Chief. Richard Nwabuzor, president Socio Political Forum, USA, and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's former president, during the later's visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin recently.

2015 presidential polls: GOCOP applauds Buhari, salutes Jonathan, Jega

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The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has described as successful the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria, repots ITRealms.

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GOCOP, in a statement endorsed by its President, Mr. Malachy Agbo, said apart from field reports by its members and staff who covered the elections, the commendations locally and by the international community attests to the fact that this is, perhaps, the freest and fairest elections ever conducted in the country.

The statement, which congratulated the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), for teaching Nigerians a lesson in perseverance with his victory having sought the same position thrice in the past without success, also charged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress to be magnanimous in victory.

Part of the statement read: "The time to jettison partisanship by the General is now as electioneering is over and the serious business of governance is at hand.

"There is no idea or persons that should be discarded in the process of moving the country forward."

GOCOP also saluted President Goodluck Jonathan for his glaring show of sportsmanship with his decision to congratulate Buhari even before the official declaration of the result.

It said: "This, no doubt, doused the tension that had been building up before the announcement of the final result and pulled the bullets out of the already cocked guns of those prepared for war in the event that their candidate loses."

The association also praised Jonathan for overseeing two successive elections that had proven that the country was also capable of holding its head high in the comity of nations when it comes to the conduct of free and fair elections.

Malachy in the statement also paid glowing tribute to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and his aides and staff for ensuring that the elections were in the main free and fair.

He said the place of Jega in Nigeria's history can never be forgotten.

GOCOP equally praised the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation and the media team of the APC, headed by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for playing by the rules of the game through the avoidance of hate speeches and focusing on issues rather than frivolities throughout the campaign that heralded the elections.

GOCOP said the APCPCO, led by a former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mallam Garba Shehu, showed immense professionalism in the handling of the presidential campaign of the APC.

The association also commended Nigerians who participated fully in the voting process, in some cases under the rain.

Further, the statement noted: "Elections are about the people. And Nigerians showed great zeal and commitment to the process by turning out enmass to cast their votes, with some staying under the rain, as witnessed in most part of Lagos State, to cast their votes.

"For over 28 million Nigerians to have cast their votes out of the registered 68 million voters is a testimony to the zeal of Nigerians to participate in the process to elect their leaders.

"It is indeed victory for all."

The Guild urged Nigerians to show the same enthusiasm for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections coming up on April 11, 2015.

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Buhari’s victory a regional conspiracy – Asari Dokubo

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Leader of the suspended Niger Delta Volunteers Force, Asari Dokubo has described the victory of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) as victory of regional conspiracy and supremacy, reports ITRealms.

Asari Dokubo in a press statement made available to ITRealms through an aide, Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro dated April , 2015, said that the voting pattern clearly showed that the Gambari North and the Yorubas are united in the conquest of the Niger Deltans and the Igbos of defunct Biafra with the middle belt now used as pawns.

He said on behalf of the Southern Minorities Self Determination Groups popularly called Niger Delta Militants, that the election of Muhammadu Buhari as president is a clear indication that the country is not united. 

He alleged that the “Yoruba and Hausa collaborated to frustrate Jonathan, who hails from the Niger Delta region.”

He insisted that Nigerian union clearly reinforces the fact of self-determination and that Nigeria remains a very divided and separated entity whose claim to unity remains a fraud of gargantuan proportion.  

“The victory of Muhammadu Buhari is a historical reminder that we are a conquered people who are mere appendages existing at the pleasure of the supremacist and the regional overlords. We remain a people separated by our ideologies and interests; we are neither integrated nor reconciled,” he lamented.

Asari pointed out that the conditions that advanced the need to embrace the creeks have been sadly re-energized; it is clear that a vicious government who may maim and murder the voice of the so called minorities may have just been birthed.

“Indeed integration is nonexistent as regional gang ups and supremacy is symbolic with this victory,” he said.

Dokubo also said that while President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan enjoys his moments and bask in the euphoria of a now world renowned statesman having congratulated Muhammadu Buhari his conqueror, we must quickly remind that our struggle was never about Jonathan or about presidency.

“President Goodluck Jonathan was an establishment beneficiary of our struggle, our sweat and blood that many bled and died for, he was never in the struggle and he can never wish away our collective march forward for statesmanship,” he said.

Decrying the fact that Jonathan was to an extent a mitigating factor in self-determination pursuit as they (militant) went on sabbatical, this mitigation he seem to have willingly repudiated.

“The days coming will be critical, we shall study all the conditions and consult widely before determining the way going forward for our collective existence and survival as a people. The days coming shall either drive the quest of integration or further separate us,” Dokubo warned.

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2015 Presidential election: Over 100 youths die in jubilation-related accidents

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Pix by Reuters' Photographer, Goran Tomasevic in Kano.

An unconfirmed reports making a round Wednesday evening claimed that in excess of 100 party supporters of  the All Progressive Congress (APC) met their untimely death during vehicular related accidents in jubilation of newly president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), across the country, reports ITRealms.

According to report by The Agenda “No fewer than one hundred people have been reported dead across Nigeria in celebration of the victory of General Muhammad Buhari as Nigeria’s next president.

The Agenda reports that some of the worst hit states are: Adamawa, Jos, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kano and Edo.

In Rivers, Jubilant youths of the All Progressives Congress were seen along Omerelu/Elele/Port Harcourt road, displaying different kinds of guns and other dangerous weapons, shooting into the air and chanting heroic songs.

The Agenda investigations revealed that some of the victims involved in accidents, as a result of the celebration in Kano are presently receiving medical attention in Murtala Mohammed general hospital, Kano.

Eye witnesses say many of the victims were either hit by a moving vehicles making stunt displays or lost their footing while watching the activities.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari has urged his supporters across the country to remain calm and celebrate responsibly.”

 

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