INJUSTICE! GIVE CERTIFICATE OF RETURN TO WINNERS - PROF. NNAH JOHNSON

INJUSTICE! GIVE CERTIFICATE OF RETURN TO WINNERS - PROF. NNAH JOHNSON CAUTIONS INEC?

A Professor of Political Science in the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Johnson Nnah has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue the Certificates of Return to those who have already been declared winner of the march 19th 2016 Rivers State rerun elections.

He said further delay by INEC to issue the winners their certificates of return will increase doubts about the impartiality of the commission and could also lead to violence.

He also said the delay is hampering development in the state and denying Rivers people of their representation both at the state and the federal levels.

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DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS OF RWANDA GENOCIDE: APRIL 7, 2016. From Her Excellency, Hon. Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike

The United Nations Organization has named April 7 of every year as the day of remembrance of the victims of the Rwandan Genocide. Today's observance is in commemoration of the death of about 800,000 people who were murdered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Central Africa and to further enlighten us on the dangers of genocide with the compelling need of avoiding its reoccurrence in future.

In 1994, within a space of 3 months, there was a great massacre of people from two tribes, totalling about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda civil war which is known as the Rwandan Genocide.

This heinous act has been labelled as an unparalleled modern genocide, a systematic attempt to exterminate the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates in the name of a supremacist ideology propounded by Hutu extremists called Hutu power. It was in its execution, one of the most unequivocal cases of genocide the world has ever witnessed. The 100 days decimated Rwanda in 1994, as one of the defining barbaric acts of human kind.

At no time in our history have so many persons been murdered so fast or personally slaughtered by hand with home made weapons and household tools, knives, hammers and machetes against one's neighbours. Some of the survivors narrated how children were clubbed to death and pregnant women were cut open with local knives before they give up the ghost.

The incident of the Rwandan Genocide brings to our minds, the dangers of tribal/ethnic hatred, political and cultural wars, prejudice, bigotry, xenophobia and the need for us to continually raise awareness against the rise of these ill concerted beliefs that may result in acts of genocide.

It is on record that the Rwandan survivors, many years after the genocide, still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder of the bloody massacre and continue to tell gory stories of their experiences thereby bringing to our minds, the devastation of genocide. This is what we should not allow to take place in our Nation both at the Federal and State levels.

To this extent, I would like to state here that the United Nations Organization could be more proactive by taking steps to arrest situations or activities tending towards genocide, especially amongst member countries. Apart from prevailing on the governments of countries to prevent and adequately take care of such situations where they occur, they could also send monitors to investigate and assess these instances and take further actions against defaulting governments in order to secure lives.

They should also seriously consider the reports and protests of citizens and punish persons found to aid and abet these activities under different guises. The essence simply, is to prevent, rather than cure the occurrence of genocide that is yet to be quelled in some parts of the world. I'm sure that there are many other means that do not occur to me at this time, which can be employed in quelling these dastardly and barbaric tendencies.

I continue to appeal to us all on this day of solemn remembrance of the victims of the Rwandan Genocide to live for peace, promote and encourage peace for a harmonious coexistence so as to curb the obvious threat of recent rising acts of violence and terrorism in our country, Nigeria.

God bless and keep you and your families.

From Her Excellency,
Hon. Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike,
The Wife of His Excellency,
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike CON,
The Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria.

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PDP inauguration of Standing Committees ongoing now!

Happening now at the National Secretariat of PDP is the official inauguration of the Special Committees, namely, National Convention Planning Committee, National zoning Committee, National Finance Committee and National Reconciliation Committee.

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Amina Bala Zakari of INEC Evil Visit to Port Harcourt uncovered!

The Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) that is if you are still independent. In case you have forgotten so soon, that there are some Local Government Areas the commission suspended ongoing elections during the Rivers State rerun election of 19th March, 2016.

This we know was done when INEC observed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is winning in almost all the results coming in and declared so far. And the order from above came for the election to be suspended to see how APC and INEC will re-strategize and take over the remaining seats.

Newest Rivers Reporters will want to do you a favour free of charge. We shall be helping you to list out the Local Government Areas that was suspended by the commission as contained in your Press Release of 20th March, 2019.

They are as follows:
1    Khana
2    Bonny
3    Gokana
4    Andoni
5    TAI
6    Eleme
7    Etche
8    Asari-Toru

INEC, above are the Local Government areas suspended, in case you have lost all your files in the office and have forgotten the LGAs that was suspended.

This reminder became necessary, as Newest Rivers Reporters has reliably been informed that Amina Zakari a relative of President Buhari and a Staff of INEC, who was appointed the acting Chairman of INEC when Jega left office, has been sent by the presidency to Port Harcourt to carry out the bidding of the APC.

Amina first assignment in Port Harcourt is to work out modalities on how TAI Local Government Area will be removed from the list of suspended LGAs, and declare the APC winners in TAI with an already prepared result by INEC. Which is why we had to list out the LGAs were elections were suspended.

What they wish to achieve on this first move that Amina has come for, is to give Magnus Abe a good chance of winning the election. This is why INEC has not fixed a date for a new election for the suspended LGAs, as they are waiting to achieve their first plan. 

The second reason for Amina Bala Zakari’s visit, is to see how Amaechi will be compensated by mapping out ways to change the Ikwerre Local Government Area result and declare it in favour of APC.  This second plan is very hard, because results in the Local Government have already been collated. But Amaechi is doing everything possible to win his LGA by any means, even if it will cost him his position as a minister.

Amina Bala Zakari, you came in Nicodemusly to carry out these evil plans, but you have been exposed.
Please, this cabal in the presidency that wants Rivers State by all means should please allow Rivers State and its resources. You must not have it all the time.
 
Amina Zakari the executioner, Rivers people will resist your evil plans here in Port Harcourt.
Also tell the President that Rivers State is Peaceful, as you can see for yourself. So they should allow us continue in Peace and stop causing confusion and crisis in the state.

AMINA BALA ZAKARI!     AMINA BALA ZAKARI!!     AMINA BALA ZAKARI!!

KEEP OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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AMAECHI: THE DUBIOUS CREDENTIAL OF A SELF-PROCLAIMED DEMOCRAT By Oraye St. Frankly

The poem ‘The Dance of Akamaguda’, which became the title of my second anthology of poetry, was in commemoration of the Great Judgment of October 25, 2007. The particular judgment that vested governmental mandate on Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as Governor of Rivers State without even casting a vote for himself. The judgment was attributed as being great for many reasons. It was the first time a Governor would emerge without being on the ballot sensu stricto and it was the most audacious move by the judiciary, at the time, to check executive excesses. By and large, the judgment could be credited for further entrenching the ethos of democracy by strategically weeding out dictatorial influences in the politics and polity.

The last stanza of The Dance of Akamaguda succinctly encapsulates the point:
The Dance of Akamaguda!
The Dance of Akamaguda!
Whether right is might
Or might is right
A lesson for the 'strong'.

Unfortunately, it was a lesson the chief beneficiary of the judicial dexterity himself, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, did not only treat with levity but with scorn and disdain as well, as it has turned out to be.

Initially, he took on the pious regalia of a forthright leader and lover of the poor. He spoke freely of his days in scum and courted the fancy of the people. He gradually warmed himself into their hearts, maximising the benefits of his epochal Supreme Court judgment and deliberately driving shimmering but unsustainable populist agendas. He built schools for the ‘poor’. He tarred roads for the ‘poor’. He fought battles for the ‘poor’, embarked on a fancy monorail to El Dorado for the ‘poor’ and rewarded himself, the apostle of poverty, with a lavish 4 billion naira lavish edifice in Abuja with the commonwealth of the very poorest of the poor. Such was the humongous degree of his vain hypocrisy. But this is not about the hypocrisy of his vanities but a forensic analysis of his dubious credential as a self-proclaimed democrat and apostle of democracy.

Anyone who knows Rotimi Amaechi knows that he is anything but a democrat. His history and the legacy of his service buttresses the point. Consider the fact that the albatross of his disastrous legacy, the multibillion naira Rivers monorail was a product of his unilateral decision against the sound judgement of his team and experts.
For the fancy of his wishful thinking, over N50billion of the commonwealth of Rivers people went down the drain in pursuit of an archaic and redundant technology in blaze of a trail that has since lost its track. For their opposition to his decision to build the phony monorail, he dissolved the State Executive Council to force their hands to endorse what has turned out to be the single most monumental waste of scarce resources by any government in the history of governance in Nigeria.

The story of his personal confession of how he wilfully forced the Police to wrongfully charge civil agitators as cultists is already is a sing-song of his draconian reputation. It was not the first or last time he would do so. He also wilfully charged his political opponents as cultists for attempting to fictionalised Rivers PDP, while he held sway as Governor during his first term in office.

His intolerance for opposition/ dissenting views is so strong that he orchestrated the shutting down of the courts and the legislative arm of government while serving as sole authority and Dictator-in-Chief of the Government of Rivers State, not minding that democracy was being undermined by his brand of politics.

The people of Rumuolumeni, in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of the State can attest to his aversion for opposition politics. For expressing their preference for his cousin, Sir Celestine Omehia, as Governor, he completely shut them out of governance and allowed their social infrastructure crumble to depressing disrepair. The same story is told of residents of Diobu, Borikiri and other locations.

It is therefore baffling that a man with such legendary disdain for opposition views and politics would today proclaim himself as an apostle of democracy and good governance. Has he forgotten in a hurry how he led deviants to sack the police headquarters in Abuja, threatening that should the All Progressives Congress (APC) fail in the General Election, he would declare a parallel government? Has he forgotten that when he came into Rivers State, to lead the charge against Rivers people in the build up to the just concluded Court ordered rerun elections of March 19, 2016, he said he would deploy the military to be involved in the elections in contravention of court orders and judgments? Did the entire world not capture Amaechi defending a compromised electoral officer at Mile One Police Station?

Where then are his self-proclaimed democratic credentials?

On what basis, is Amaechi, the very instigator of the crisis in Rivers State, referring to a validly elected and popular Governor as a threat to democracy and free and fair elections? In the entire rerun elections of March 19, 2016, the APC was the one and only Party determined to derail the electoral process across the State. At least one Corper died in credit to the bid by the APC to doctor the election results. The other casualties were also in credit to the APC's desperation to conquer Rivers State. But for the defiance of Rivers people, democracy would have been compromised in the State. And only one man was the arrowhead of the charge against democracy: Rotimi Amaechi.

Amaechi's position that the election of Ikwerre Local Government Area is inconclusive is another self-adducing evidence of his dictatorial character. The election in Ikwerre LGA held and all unit results were collated at the wards. The LGA Collation Officer, Dr. Egeonu, appointed by Amaechi and one of those whose nomination and inclusion as electoral officers was objected to by the State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, abdicated his duty as the LGA collation officer upon discovering that the APC had lost the LGA from the units.

That abdication of duty cannot now amount to proclaiming the process as inconclusive. But, then, Amaechi with his stranglehold on INEC will not allow the mandate of the people prevail and he is the very same person accusing another of being a threat to Nigeria's democracy. All these are happening under the watch of a Federal Government that prides itself as fighting corruption.

Amaechi needs healing and prayers to enable him manage his poor political fortune as no matter what he does, the curtains have closed on him and Rivers State will make progress no matter how hard he tries to destabilise the State.

INEC must also know that Nigerians are taking note of their partisan roles. That they have taken no action yet does not mean they do not appreciate the dangers being foisted on the polity. A stitch in time...as they say.

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Michael Homann first Holy Communion Service - Congratulations Boy!

We wish to congratulate Michael Homann on his first Holy Communion Service which took place on Sunday 3rd April 2016.

We pray that God will continue to direct and bless him as he grows up.

Michael Homann is the Son of Stef and Nkiru Homann(The Blogger).

Congratulations to the Homann's Family.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SENATOR GEORGE THOMPSOM SEKIBO

The Management and Staff of Newest Rivers Reporters wish to join millions of Nigerians to wish the very distinguished Senator George Thompson Sekibo

a Happy Birthday

Sir, today is a perfect day to tell you that you are a wonderful leader and representative.

May God continue to keep and direct you.

Congratulations Sir.

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