Gov Jang Declares LG Polls Peaceful
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Gov Jang Declares LG Polls Peaceful
Gov Jang Declares LG Polls Peaceful
— February 25, 2014
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau on Tuesday in Du, Jos South Local Government Area
declared the ongoing Local council polls in the state peaceful.
Jang said this shortly after casting his vote at the LGEA, primary school, Du, his home town.
He told newsmen that security reports reaching him,indicated that the elections were going on peacefully in all parts of state.
Jang attributed this to adequate security arrangements put in place to ensure that the people of the state voted without hitches.
“We made sure that Plateau people had no hindrance in coming out to vote their chairmen and councillors in a peaceful atmosphere.”
He said that even people living in troubled areas were able to exercise their franchise.
Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Plateau, Chief Christopher Giwa, also attested to the peaceful nature of the elections.
Giwa voting at Dakwak, Kuru unit in Jos South told newsmen that the election was peaceful.
Giwa was optimistic that APGA was going to win in all of the local governments where it fielded candidates for the polls.
The News Agency of Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor and his wife cast their votes in Du at 1:20 pm. (NAN)
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the party’s National Chairman, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu, was represented at the election by the party’s South-West Vice-Chairman, Mr Ganiyu Dawodu.
In his speech, Nwanyanwu called for unity among party members, saying “this is important for us to secure victory in all elections’’.
He said he was confident that the LP would win the next governorship election in Osun going by the turnout and orderliness witnessed at the congress.
The LP National Chairman said the party’s State Congress was in accordance with the rules of the party and falls within the guidelines of INEC.
Nwanyanwu described the LP as a party for all and a party which should be embraced by all Nigerians.
He urged party faithful to shun all forms of vices which could tarnish the image of the LP during all the election processes.
NAN reports that the congress produced Mr Timothy Olatunji as chairman, while Mr Gbede Solomon emerged the new secretary.
In his acceptance speech, Olatunji pledged to work for the progress and victory of LP at all times, imploring members to remain “one big family”.
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After auctioning the licence on Tuesday, the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Mr Eugene Juwah, said the 2.3 ghz spectrum band was designated for commercial use on a national basis.
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The ongoing local government election in Plateau State was nearly marred in Jos South when youths of rival Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Grand Alliance party engaged in a free-for-all.
Five of them were injured and were rushed to nearby Vom Christian Hospital.
Our correspondent who was at the scene gathered that the APGA youths were protesting late arrival of polling materials in some of the areas they considered their strongest. The youths also complained that electoral materials brought to some other polling units were not equivalent to the number of registered voters.
Five political parties however contested in yen election that was generally peaceful with impressive voter turn-out.
Governor Jonah Jang cast his vote at about 1.30 p.m at his La-Duradu A Ward where he commended the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission for a job well done.
Jang attributed the peaceful election to the security arrangements put in place by government.
“The materials brought here are not enough, because the number of registered voters and the accredited voters today are more than the materials brought here,” one of the aggrieved youths told our correspondent at Darangi 1 ward, Vwang district of Jos south where the PDP candidate, Mr. Peter Dung, also cast his vote.
Dung told journalists that he was optimistic of victory and lauded PLASIEC for the orderly conduct of the election.
But the APGA leader, Chief Chris Giwa also expressed optimism that his party’s candidates will win the elections.
Special Adviser on Media to the governor, Mr. Ayuba Pam, said the PDP will win the polls.
He described the elections as peaceful, free and fair.
The state government had declared Tuesday as public holiday to enable the citizens participate in the election, which was conducted in 15 out of the 17 local government areas, leaving the contentious Jos North and Wase. Men of the Special Task Force and the police were placed in strategic positions to avert any breakdown of law and order while the STF commander, Maj. Gen. David Enetie and Police Commissioner Chris Olakpe, monitored the election through out the state
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Maku, who spoke at the National Assembly after defending the 2014 budget of his ministry, noted that no governor of any country’s apex bank could act as a whistle blower.
He said that if Sanusi had moved from being CBN Governor to a whistle blower, it becomes a problem for the country.
The minister said that President Goodluck Jonathan did not query Sanusi because he raised issues about the alleged missing $20 billion in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
He said, “Sanusi is not a whistle blower by governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. That perception is fed by negative reports from the media.
“I have not heard in any nation where the central bank governor is a whistle blower. He is the manager of the nation’s monetary policies as an adviser to the President of Nigeria on those issues. So the fact that he has moved from being the CBN governor to whistle blowing is a problem in itself.
”But the reality of what has happened is that there are issues with the account of CBN of 2012 as the President explained.
“The Financial Reporting Council has said that there are issues that should be addressed so the President returned it back to the council and the council again returned it with some of the items with questions.
”CBN is the nerve centre of the nation’s financial system, if there are problems with it, it means that it can generate a lot of problems in the banking system and the economy and so the President has been trying to sort this out and between him and the CBN governor there have been communications since April 2013. So it has nothing to do with what my brother Sanusi had said relating to the NNPC. There had been ongoing conversation between them.
”Unfortunately the CBN governor is also the chairman of the board and he can’t sit in a matter he is being investigated for.
“So what the President has done by appointing officer of the CBN was to ask the governor to step aside pending the outcome of the investigation.
”Are we saying that the queries that were raised relating to the CBN account were false?
“In the end if he is fund not guilty he still has his tenure to run.”
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