Breaking News: Presidential Broadcast: Political Parties Knocks Buhari's Stratagems to Stem Coronavirus

President Buhari Broadcast to Nation on his plans to stem Coronavirus: Political Party Chairmen differ in strategy

Breaking News: Presidential Broadcast: Political Parties Knocks Buhari's Stratagems to Stem Coronavirus

by Toyin Akinkugbe /Reporter National Peoples News:ISSN-1595-0549

The Presidential Broadcast to the Nation on Coronavirus by President Buhari is viewed by many political party leaders that spoke to National Peoples News as rather belated and that though the President took some measures that could have been useful in nibbling the spread of the Coronavirus in its bud from spreading to many parts of the Nation if it has come earlier.
They knocked the strategies of the President as not proactive enough in tackling the growing epidemic from hitting the pandemic stage as in the context of not engaging in mass testing of the population; as the testing centers are few and far between, they chided the APC government that only about 200 Nigerians have so far been tested and out of this 111 tested positive which is in the range of 60% if the figures where to be used as random sampling in statistics it means a large chunk of Nigerians are positive already but do not know their status while the virus is in the incubation stage before it explodes like wildfire as it did in Italy, Spain, USA, and China.
They are of the opinion that mass testing strategy would be an ideal option to rapidly identify those with the virus and isolate them for treatment before it is too late and they start dying. They urged the government to open up testing centers in the 774 lga and in all towns and villages of Nigeria so that people can know their status and begin early treatment.
Many Nigerians were disappointed by the stingy palliative measures of the APC government as they were earnestly looking forward to some grants or stipends being paid to their accounts as other Nations are supportive to their citizens or anticipated the Kigali Model [Rwanda] where foodstuff and essential needs are being distributed from house to house by the government.
The selective lockdown of Lagos, Ogun, and FCT is seen by many as not proactive enough to stem the spread of the virus while some legal luminaries see the action may cause a constitutional crisis.
The position of IPAC -Inter-Party Advisory Council is for a total lockdown of the country for a marshal approach to curtailing and containing the spread of the virus.

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World News: Coronavirus: IPAC President High Chief Peter Ameh calls for Lockdown

IPAC President in Council High Chief Peter Ameh calls for a total lockdown of the Nigerian Federation to stem the spread of Coronavirus

World News: Coronavirus: IPAC President High Chief Peter Ameh calls for Lockdown

By Adigun Ayandiran / Reporter National Peoples News: 1595-0549

The President in Council of IPAC-Inter-Party Advisory Council High Chief Peter Ameh has advised the citizens of Nigeria to stay at home and stays safe to stem the spread of the dreaded disease of Coronavirus which he indicated as real and kills.

In a press release to media men yesterday the amiable IPAC President in Council High Chief Peter Ameh said Nigerians should learn from what is happening in Italy, Spain, China, Germany, USA, and Australia and so on…

He noticed that the lackluster attitude in which the corona virus pandemic is being handled is scary and that coronavirus spreads like wildfire and deadly which leads to excruciating horrible death with high morbidity even amongst survivors.

He admonished the government to proceed for a total lockdown of the country including the FCT to curtail the spread of the dreaded disease and to track suspected contacts moving everywhere.

Furthermore, the amiable IPAC President in Council admonished all Nigerians to self isolate and stay at home to stay safe and to follow the stipulated hygiene of washing of Hands regularly and Social Distancing to stem the spread of the dreaded disease.

                

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Coronavirus Lockdown: Political Parties tells Buhari, N/A: Provide Relief to Nigerians:

Coronavirus Lockdown: Provide Relief to Nigerians; Political Parties tells Buhari, N/A.HE Prince Frank Ukonga the National Director of Policy and Planning IPAC Explodes

Coronavirus Lockdown: Political Parties tells Buhari, N/A: Provide Relief to Nigerians:

by Tajudeen Enilolobo / Reporter: National Peoples News: ISSN: 1595-0549

National Leaders of  Political Parties of the Nigerian Federation has called on the APC led Federal Government of President Mohammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to provide palliative measures to Nigerians in the event of the lockdown of the Country to stem the spread of the dreaded Corona Virus.
This is coming on the heels of the proposed lockdown of the Nigerian Federation starting from the 26th of March 2020 for two weeks till the 7th of April.
The IPAC -[Inter Party Advisory Council] -National Director for Policy and Planning HE Prince Frank Ukonga made the position of Political Parties Leaders known to the media men in Abuja calling on the Federal government to provide relief for the masses of Nigeria during the lockdown period as he said the government and the organized provide sectors employ less than 3% of the 250 million population estimate of Nigeria, leaving over 240 million peoples who depend on the daily income to feed and take care of their families. Locking them down at home for 2 weeks without palliative measures portend grave dangers as to send death wish to them to die at home of hunger and other ailments. Whence the food markets have to be opened to the public and accessible, the pharmacies have to be opened and the banking sectors has to provide essential services he said.
He admonished the government to pay a sizable sum of stipend to Nigerian Citizens to cushion the effect of job loss while staying at home.
While he called on the private sector and other Humanitarian organizations to donate generously to cushion the lockdown effects saying this is the time to give back to the community in the pursuit of shared prosperity.

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Breaking News: Deregistration: Prof.Mahmood Yakubu, INEC in Hot Soup as ANRP Slam N2.Billion Suit for damages. Other Parties may join the Suit to claim N150 billion Naira.

illegal Deregistration of Political Parties in Nigeria; ANRP Slam Professor Mahmood Yakubu and INEC with N2 Billion Naira suit for damages

Breaking News: Deregistration: Prof.Mahmood Yakubu, INEC in Hot Soup as ANRP Slam N2.Billion Suit for damages. Other Parties may join the Suit to claim N150 billion Naira.

by Dr. Jinadu Alebiosu: Senior Political Editor: National Peoples News:ISSN: 1595-0549

The dirty cans of worms of Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC over the illegal, unconstitutional  conspiracy with the cabals to deregister 74 political parties in a hideous, nocturnal, diabolical plan of turning Nigeria into a one-party APC state to rule forever under the hegemony of the Oligarchy has been trounced by the able leadership of the ANRP  whose National Chairman HE  Chief Tope Fasua a respectable, reputable, Professional Chartered Accountant has floored Professor Mahmood Yakubu and INEC shenanigans’ by slamming an N2Billion Naira suit in the Federal High Court, Abuja over the case of illegal, unconstitutional conspiracy to deregister Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party{ ANRP]- A party registered just a few months to 2019 elections.

The entire world has condemned and discredited the 2019 general election as the worst election in Nigerian History and most of the International and local observers have indicted INEC and Professor Mahmood Yakubu of complicity with the Ruling failed government of APC to rig the APC to power forever despite it is not the will or wish of the peoples as express in the elections. 

The people’s votes never counted as the 2019 election was characterized by violence, vote-buying and selling, election result falsifications, underage voting, inconclusive elections, election postponements, violence, arson, voter’s intimidation, shame, ruins and grieves. Most of the observers called for a total cancellation of the result of the 2019 elections as a sham and not tenable to intelligence to be used as a yardstick to adjudge who won or lost in the Election. Professor Mahmood Yakubu and INEC failed the entire Nation woefully,

Furthermore most peoples of the world, cognizance that no Nation in the entire universe has deregistered political parties for the past 100 years  and that Nigeria’s conspiracy to deregister other Political Parties {shadow governments in the waiting} is a kangaroo, illegal and unconstitutional conspiracy by the ruling APC cabals to dominate and rule the polity forever, but nevertheless expects that such new and fresh parties as ANRP be given some time to mature before any axe can be applied but due to the mediocrity and vulnerability of INEC, they have landed themselves in hot soup of an N2 Billion naira suit. They may have to sell all their assets to pay ANRP for damages.

National Peoples News gathered that other 74 illegally Deregistered political parties are planning to join the ANRP in the suit and raise the benchmark of the suit compensation to N150 Billion Naira.

The suit was filed at the Federal High Court Abuja on the following grounds:

1. That section 225A of the constitution which gave INEC power to deregister, not providing a procedure for a party sought to be registered to make representation to INEC, before the decision is made, is invalid being in conflict with S.36 (1) and (2) of the constitution which provides for a fair hearing in the determination of rights and obligations of any person as an inalienable right.
2. The powers granted under section 225A has not arisen given that the section envisages that all events of deregistration must have occurred before the power is exercised. In this case, INEC itself admitted.
3. There are already extant orders of and proceedings of the court preventing INEC from exercising the power which it went ahead to do. For instance, the order of perpetual injunction confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Jezie Ekejiuba V Inec & Anor, as well as Advance Congress of Democrats & 32 Ors v AG Fed & INEC.
4. The powers granted under S225A ought not to operate retroactively in imposing the penalty of deregistration on parties existing before its enactment when deregistration was not a term of registration at the time and winning elections are not part of the exhaustive constitutional provisions on the objectives of a political party.

The matter is yet to be assigned to a particular court as well a date for the legal fireworks to commence.

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Global News: INEC, IPAC @ Dagger's Drawn, Trade Words on 2019 Elections Observer's Reports: Says"INEC Words that Observers of 2019 polls were Partisan, is Ingratuitous and Uncharitable"

INEC .IPAC@ Dagger's Drawn over the 2019 election Observer's Reports

Global News: INEC, IPAC @ Dagger's Drawn, Trade Words on 2019 Elections Observer's Reports: Says"INEC Words that Observers of 2019 polls were Partisan, is Ingratuitous and Uncharitable"

By Dr. Clement Ivan/ Senior Political Analyst; National Peoples News: ISSN 1595-0549

INEC through the Chairperson of the INEC  Elections Observation and Party Monitoring Committee Professor Antonia Simbine Okosi made a statement recently that some election observers of the 2019 polls were partisan. She made these statements in the PLAC public presentation of the new PLAC Compendium of the needed Alteration to the electoral Act held in Abuja a few days ago.

Many Members of IPAC -Inter-Party Advisory Council which is the prestigious association of National Chairmen of the registered 91 Political Parties that participated and fielded candidates in the election differ from this position of INEC which they view as unfortunate and a blatant show of arrogance, ingratitude and whence uncharitable.

This Position of IPAC- Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria that is made up the creme de la cream of Nigerian intelligentsia, among whom includes, Professors, Doctorate degree holders, Lawyers, Chartered Accountant, Engineers and the most exclusive circle of intellectuals of the Nigerian Federation are perturbed by the lack of humility, decorum and diplomacy of INEC in relating with the Observers of the 2019 general elections which many of the observers have condemned as a sham of an election and their reports indicated that the 2019 election was the worst election in Nigeria History where Professor Mahmood Yakubu the Chairman of INEC and his team failed the Nation woefully.  The 2019 elections according to the Reports of the Observers, were characterized by rigging, vote-buying and selling, violence, ballot boxes snatching and stuffing, election postponement and inconclusive elections, falsifications of results, underage voting, arson, death, ruins,  shame, and grieves were the norms.

Reason would prevail that INEC takes the judgment of History and Providence in good faith and call for the total cancellation of the 2019 general elections but they are arrogantly being ungrateful to genuine observers that were man enough to tell them the bitter truth.

You will recall that a total of 159 election observers were accredited for the 2019 general election by INEC with 120 domestic observers; which boasted prestigious credible election observers as PLAC, YIAGA, etc all consolidated together in the Election Situation Room; and 39 foreign observers among whom include the prestigious election observation teams of the EU, IRI, USA, NDI, Russia, Canada, UK, etc and INEC is not funding any of these observers that deployed men and women of collectively 73,562 personnel to all the nooks and cranny of Nigeria during the 2019 election of which 2,306 were foreign observers who came to Nigeria to assist us to have a free, fair, credible election which Professor Mahmood Yakubu and his INEC team failed woefully.

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Breaking News: Coronavirus: Political Parties Slam the Failed APC govt for their shoddy Synergy to Stem the Spread of Coronavirus.

Coronavirus: Political Parties slam the failed APC govt for ineptitude to stem the spread of the Virus. HE Prince Frank Ukonga the National Director of Planning and Policy IPAC Explodes

Breaking News: Coronavirus: Political Parties Slam the Failed APC govt for their shoddy Synergy to Stem the Spread of Coronavirus.

By Ayodele Ogunlana /Reporter- National Peoples News: ISSN: 1595-0549

Most leaders of the 91 registered political parties of the Nigerian federation are  ill at ease over what they described as the lackluster attitude of the failed APC government in containing and curtailing the entry of the dreaded Coronavirus disease into the country,
Many Party leaders are of the opinion that the government should have locked down the country earlier, by closing flights with infested countries to prevent the virus from entering Nigeria. But then they were moping and now that the virus is in Nigeria they lack proactive synergy, materials, types of equipment to test, treat and cure the virus.
Many states do not have Corona Virus testing center nor the testing equipment kits, nor the isolation centers nor the medications to treat the dreaded disease in case a patient tests positive.
This lackadaisical attitude of the failed APC government could lead to a pandemic and the unwarranted death of millions of peoples in Nigeria and Sub Saharan Africa, and a total collapse of the Economy, social activities and the sovereignty.
The Political Parties Leaders speaking through the National Director of Policy and Planning of the Inter-Party Advisory Council -IPAC HE Prince Frank Ukonga urged the government to be more proactive, and they blasted the state governors that are still wearing their birthday suits to wake up to the challenge and live up to their campaign promises to the electorates. While they urged the citizens not to panic but adhere to the ethics of hygiene of cleanliness, washing of hands regularly with soap, maintain at least 2 meters of social distancing, stop shaking hands and avoid crowds.

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Finally Exposed: US Report on 2019 Elections: How Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC Conducted the Worst Elections in Nigerian History: Focus on the US, EU, UN, Yiaga, IRI, NDI, and Civil Societies Situation Room Reports and Other Matters Arising.

US Report on the 2019 Elections discredits the conduct of the 2019 General Election conducted by Professor Mahmood Yakubu's INEC

Finally Exposed: US Report on 2019 Elections: How Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC Conducted the Worst Elections in Nigerian History: Focus on the US, EU, UN, Yiaga, IRI, NDI, and Civil Societies Situation Room Reports and Other Matters Arising.

By Professor Clifford Ukonu: Senior Political Editor: National Peoples News:ISSN:1595-0549

Professor Mahmood Yakubu has allegedly messed up INEC, the Nigerian Independent Electoral Commission and has failed woefully in all the elections he had conducted since he became the Chairman of INEC in 2016. 

All the elections he conducted were allegedly characterized with widespread rigging, violence, vote-buying, and selling, ballot boxes snatching and stuffing, blatant falsification of results, compromised and corrupt election officers, underage voting, intimidation of voters by security agencies, killing, death, ruins, arson, grieves, and shame. Anything that can go wrong with any election had gone wrong with Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC Conducted elections that had made the electorates of Nigeria and the international community to condemn the conducts and results of all these elections and in particular the 2019 general elections as not credible, nor fair nor free nor tenable to be used to adjudge those who must rule and govern the polity.

To corroborate these abysmal failures of Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC was the Report of The United State Department of State on the conduct of the 2019 elections released on Wednesday the 12^th of March 2020, which indicted and condemn with strong words the conducts of the 2019 general elections with a conclusion that the failed APC government in power had coerced INEC and the electorate using the security Agencies to muscle the elections and the results of the elections in favor of the ruling APC party. 

The US Report also indicted the APC government to have compromised the Judiciary to favor the ruling failed APC party in the numerous controversial court cases that the failed elections generated. This implies that the results are not the true reflection of the vote cast and whence the election is not free, fair nor credible and cannot be used to adjudge who won or lost in the election. At best, a sham that should be consigned to the dustbins of history as another wasted opportunity in the affairs of men of subsequent Creation.

The most diabolical aspects of the sophistry of Professor Mahmood Yakubu's INEC is the affront of using the results of these condemned, shameful elections as the yardstick to measure the strength and weaknesses of political parties for de-registration; and illegally, unconstitutionally INEC and Professor Mahmood Yakubu on the 6th of February 2020 went ahead to violate the constitutional rights of 74 political parties in Nigeria using this discredited results on the 2019 elections to de-register these parties despite the fact that a pending case on the said matter is in the Federal Hgh court since May 2019.

The incorruptible Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja in her rulings of the 17th February 2020 stopped INEC in a permanent interlocutory injunction from deregistering any political parties of the Nigerian Federation forever. A remarkable Godly guided Justice of the Living God. But till today INEC and Professor Mahmood Yakubu have disobeyed the Court Orders asking him to reinstate back the delisted parties.

Earlier on the EU-European Union, UN, Yiaga, IRI, NDI and the Nigerian Civil Society situation room  which is a coalition of many prestigious influential civil right and elections monitoring team from across Nigeria and the entire globe had condemned the results of the 2019 general election as a travesty and untenable to intelligence.

Reason would prevail that the entire election be canceled, INEC to be overhauled and replaced with more competent hands addressed to conduct fresh credible elections that would reflect the true wishes of the peoples of Nigeria.

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