Abuja Nigeria: Court of Appeals Nullifies Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election, Orders Fresh Election Within 90 Days.

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By Tom Okure, PhD
Date: December 19, 2015
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According to media sources in Nigeria, a five man panel of the Court of Appeals sitting in Abuja, Nigeria has ordered a fresh governorship election in Akwa Ibom state. The lead judge of the panel, Justice Adedotun Adefope Okojie who delivered the court decision on Friday November 18, 2015 in Abuja indicated that the court’s decision was based on what the court termed “substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act.”

The appellate court also set aside the decision of the October 21, Election Petition Tribunal for the governorship election by nullifying the entire prior election in the state and ordering fresh elections in the state within 90 days.

The appellate court noted that the governorship elections in the state was not properly conducted as required by the law.  It indicated that the onus was on the respondents, Governor Emmanuel (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prove that there was substantial compliance. It also stated among other things, that the election tribunal was wrong by laying the whole burden of proof on the petitioners, saying “whichever way one looks at it, facts show that votes recorded at the end of the election were far in excess of the total number of accredited voters.” Consequently, according to the reasoning of the Appeals Court, the tribunal was wrong in holding that non-compliance was not substantial to warrant the nullification of the entire election.….Watch Video and Read more:

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Clash between Nigerian Army and Islamic Movement for Nigeria (IMN) result in more than a 100 people dead and United States request the Nigerian government to investigate the Incident.

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By Tom Okure, PhD
Date: December 16, 2015

The United States through its Embassy in Abuja has requested the Nigerian government to investigate the recent clashes between the Nigerian army and a Shi'ite Muslim sect in the northern part of Nigeria that resulted in over a hundred people killed.

Initial confrontation with the sect is alleged to have begun on Saturday with Islamic Movement for Nigeria (IMN) in the northern town of Zaria. The Nigerian Army claims it was provoked by members of the Islamic sect. The army also confirms it lost some soldiers during raids it conducted on the sect.

Major General Adeniyi Oyebade of the Nigerian Army indicated in a briefing to Newspaper reporters on Monday that the sect leader Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife have been arrested are safe in the army custody after the army raided three locations of the sect. the sect leader Zakzaky, was taken into custody in the northern city of Zaria, in Kaduna State. The sect is protesting the arrest and demanding the release of its leader. Read more...

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John Magufuli who is Tanzania's newly elected President, led his people today in cleaning the streets of Dar es Salaam to mark his country's independence day. Stating that it would be a 'shameful' waste of public funds while people are dying of cholera, he cancelled the usually lavish Independence Day celebrations and instead ordered Tanzanians to clean-up their neighborhoods.

Dressed casually and wearing a hat and gloves, the president accompanied hundreds of people in sweeping the streets of Dar es Salaam and picking up rubbish in the city.  The scene was replicated across the country, with schools and shops remaining shut as people swept streets, pruned trees, and tidied up their areas from the crack of dawn.

Mr Magufuli said last month that it would be shameful to spend huge sums of money on the independence celebrations when cholera was kiling Tanzanians. He stated that Cholera has killed about 60 people in Tanzania over the last three months in poor areas which lack proper toilets. Since he was elected in October this year, Mr Magafuli has been nicknamed "The Bulldozer" Watch the Video:

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