1. ACCREDITED VOTERS IN KANO AND JIGAWA ALONE IS MORE THAN SOUTH EAST. 2. VOTE IN NORTH WEST BEATS THOSE OF SOUTH SOUTH AND SOUTH WEST COMBINED-
Since the outcome of the Nigerian presidential election, many notable personalities have been commenting on the unprecedented and never seen before voting in the northern part of Nigeria. In this interview, Senator Okurounmu added to the voice who believed that the election was rigged for Buhari by the INEC chairman Jega. Read the extract below;
''They don't want you to say or hear this; just speak the truth even if they hit their head, they hate truth.". If you look at the number of accredited voters in Kano and Jigawa alone, it is more than number of accredited voters in the whole of the South East (five states). They didn’t even come near those of kano and Jigawa alone,
No single vote was voided in Kano State or Jigawa. When you look at the vote of the North West zone, take the votes of APC and PDP together, it beats those of the South South and South West combined. That is two geo-political zones; that of the North West alone beat them completely and this were all pre-arranged from the moment of issuing PVCs, to the additional registration of voters, to the setting up of polling units even though the National Assembly said they must not be set up, still they were set up, they called them polling point. From all that, we could see that the whole thing was manipulated in a certain direction
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One cannot pretend to say that we had a free and fair election but if your party has won, of course you will commend Jega for conducting a free and fair but everybody knows that Jega was part and parcel of the rigging. Jega colluded with a certain section of the country to rig election for Buhari and people have been making noise and shouting about this but because the media is substantially controlled by the APC – and that is one of the unfortunate things about this country, I don’t know how the opposition took over all the media, over and above the government – so all we got from media was propaganda which is pro-APC. Even when Jega was not ready for anything we were told Jega was ready.
If elections were conducted February 14, less than 40% of Southerners would have voted whereas about 90% of Northerners would have voted and we would have concluded that we had free and fair elections. Even our Western friends said that we were ready. There was even some western complicity in this whole rigging that took place and that is why we said we have created a potential boiling point. But Jonathan defused the tension, disarmed everybody by saying that he conceded defeat. That is a rare act of statesmanship''.
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