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I'm Wike's Cousin, Nigerians Should've Asked If My Conscience Is Active - Edo REC ~ OsazuwaAkonedo
Sep 21, 2024
I'm Wike's Cousin, Nigerians Should've Asked If My Conscience Is Active - Edo REC ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Anugbum #APC #Asue #edo #election #Godwin #Ighodalo #INEC #Monday #news #Nyesom #Obaseki #Okpebolo #Onuoha #PDP #REC #Wike https://osazuwaakonedo.news/im-wikes-cousin-nigerians-shouldve-asked-if-my-conscience-is-active-edo-rec/20/09/2024/ #Politics Published: September 20th, 2024 Reshared: September 21, 2024 11:52 am Anugbum Onuoha, Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, ReC who apparently
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Anam Ona Ed resident electoral
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commissioner re who apparently have been
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the manager and strategic planner of
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this coming Saturday governorship
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election in Edo State said yes he's the
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cousin brother to the former Rivers
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State Governor who is currently the
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federal capital territory fct minister
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in who appeared to have a big interest
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in the governorship election following
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the minister seemed negative
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relationship with the incumbent outgoing
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governor of the state Godwin obaseki an
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Ona while speaking as a guest during
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Channel's television Sunrise daily
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program on Friday said he has been in
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Ado State since last year as the Ado
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State resident electoral commissioner
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executing in plans and strategies for
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the election as published by the
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national electoral Commission on
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September 26
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2023 anong said Nigerians should have
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asked if his conscience is active not
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minding the fact that that he's a cousin
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to Nome wi adding that he's not going to
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favor any political party in the
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governorship election he emphasized that
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he's not a politician that he joined in
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as he sted before Nigeria Senate only to
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add value to the electoral system
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stressing Ador election will be free and
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fair according to alub bom the election
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plans were drafted into 13 schedules and
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12 of the schedules have have been
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executed only Election Day schedule is
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remaining he said all sensitive
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materials have been deployed to various
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local government headquarters in Ado
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State and Transporters have agreed to
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arrive the various local government
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headquarters early morning on Saturday
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to take them to various polling units he
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said the bodal voters accreditation
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system bvas machines have been deployed
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alongside other sensitive materials for
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the election and the bvas will be used
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to upload information into the in portal
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with the situation room already created
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and everyone can follow up and monitor
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the progress of activities from various
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poing units in the state an Ona on
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Facebook page after the interview said
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earlier today I Dr anub Ona had the
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privilege of appearing on Channel's
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television where I reaffirm my
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unwavering commitment to the principles
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of fness and impartiality in the
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discharge of my Dy
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I would like to reassure all Nigerians
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and particularly the people of Ado state
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that I will continue to uphold these
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values without compromise as my position
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requires other details of the interview
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program as presented by channels
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television reads below those Ona while
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featuring as a guest on channels
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television Sunrise daily on Friday said
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he is competent enough to conduct a free
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and fair election in Edo state
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he also urged political parties to
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disregard allegations of likely
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favoritism ped against him to as in b Ed
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opdp chairman had asked the independent
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National electoral Commission in to
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redeploy onor her over ties with wik as
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yet BBY had expressed a lack of
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confidence in the Rick's ability to
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conduct a free and fair election in the
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state however in response the chief
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press secretary to the in rotim ooni
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said the commission would not redeploy
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the Ador he urged PDP to focus on the
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election process rather than on Ona
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assuring the public that the election
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would be conducted
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transparently Ona said his closeness to
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Wi does not count as he was competent to
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handle the election it is a fact that I
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am a cousin to the minister before my
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appointment I was invited by the Senate
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it screamed me and I was confirmed I was
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sworn in by Professor Mahmud yakubu and
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posted to ad do since last year nobody
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complained that I am a cousin to the
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minister of course I am a cousin to the
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minister what we should be talking about
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at this time is the capacity to conduct
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the election from my background I am an
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associate professor of law people should
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now ask if I have done done this job
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before yes I was an electoral
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commissioner in River State nobody has
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complained I am coming from the
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University I am not a politician the
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mere fact that I am a cousin to Wicked
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does not preclude me from being
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appointed am I not a Nigerian Nigerians
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should have gone beyond this level on
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and arched any of the political parties
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to come forward with evidence to had
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against him that could have warranted
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their attacks I challenge all the
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political parties in Ador St to tell me
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what I have done wrong so far since last
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year nobody complained that I am a
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cousin to the minister of course I am a
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cousin to the minister what we should be
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talking about at this time is the
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capacity to conduct the election the
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mere fact that I am a cousin to Wicked
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does not preclude me from being
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appointed I am ready for the Edo
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election and I will not f any political
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party at the end of the day the people
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of adedo will have an election that is
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free from pity on preparations for the
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Saturday gubernatorial elections on has
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said all is said and sensitive materials
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have been deployed to their respective
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local government areas the campaign for
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political parties ended yesterday at
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midnight we have only one activity left
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and that is the election for tomorrow
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the is prepared for this election
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yesterday we distributed sensitive
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materials and before we did that we
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invited all the stakeholders and 18
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political parties and their agents were
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on ground to inspect the sensitive
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materials before the deployment to their
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respective local governments we asked if
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they had any reservations and they said
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they were satisfied with everything they
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saw he told Channel's television on
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Friday it would be Rec that during an
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interview on Channel's television's
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politics today recently we K said he
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would not support Governor Godwin
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obaseki the fct minister also described
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the governor as an ingr he also pledged
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not to support the people's Democratic
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party PDP governorship candidate Ashu
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udalu who is being backed by the
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outgoing Edo State Governor I told them
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when they came to me that I am not going
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to support you you neither am I going to
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support anybody the one I supported it
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never helped anything rather I was
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insulted I supported him the last time
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what happened I became a stupid man wik
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said when asked if he would support the
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all progressives Congress APC and its
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governorship candidate M opu wi said he
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is not a member of the party responding
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to his talks in said the choice of who
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succeeds obaseki is not for wik or any
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other person to make but for the people
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of the state the political temperature
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in the state has been turbocharged in
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the last year of note 95 cases of
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violence including 35 incidents of
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electoral violence have been recorded
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since January this year in the state
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channels television reported the
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commission published
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time table
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and and schedule of activities for a
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election on the 26th day of September
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2003 speak and so far in that timetable
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we had committed in 13 activities to be
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executed why would you not charge and so
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far we have
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executed 12 out of the 13 in fact
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yesterday was
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the the campaign for the political
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parties ended yesterday midnight we have
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only one
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activity left and that is the election
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for tomorrow the high is prepared for
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this election as you aware yesterday we
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distributed sensitive materials and
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before we did that we invited all the
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stakeholders especially the political
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parties the 18 political parties
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participated in this election and the
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security agent to
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inspect the sensitive materials before
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the deployment to the local government
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and yesterday they were there they
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inspected us the the sensitive materials
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and we signed the sensitive material
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before them and we asked whether they
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have any reservation and they said no
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that we we are satisfied with the
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distribution of the sensitive material
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as I speak to you now the sensitive
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materials they are all in the 18 local
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government of the state by now they are
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now moving down to the various rack
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centers and super R Center which had
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been actively um activated the r Center
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has been activated the super have been
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activated in terms of logistic we are
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prepared for that we have hired buses to
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convey them we have hired boats for
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River areas and life jacket we have also
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made contingency plan for areas that
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cannot be assessed easily we will use
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motorcycle for those areas so we are
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prepared philosophy behind the rck
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centers the rck centers are closer to
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the pulling unit and the the the um uh
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listic providers they have assured us
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that they will recover on time we
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discuss with them on the amount to be
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collected the budget is an internal
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Affair of the commission well it's a
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fact that cin to the
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minister I was invited on my appointment
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I was invited by the Senate the Senate
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screened
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me and I was confirmed I was SW in by
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the uh my chairman Professor m y I was
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posted to AO last year nobody has
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complained that I'm a cousin to to the
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minister of course I'm a cousin to the
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minister what should we should be
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talking at this time is the
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capacity do you have the
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capacity do you have the capacity to to
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to conduct the election are you
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competent enough of course from my
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background I'm an associate professor of
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law people should not ask can he do this
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job has he done a similar thing before
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yes I was electoral officer in River
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State electoral commissioner in
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River res nobody has complained I am
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coming from the University I'm not a
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politician the M fact that I am causing
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to we does not preclude me from uh being
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appointed am I not a
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Nigerian am I not a Nigerian what
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Nigerian should be after is this person
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confident do you
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have what it takes to handle this job
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those are the issues they should
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ask do you have is your conscience
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active those are the nigeran should have
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gone beyond this level should have gone
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beyond this am I from camon am I not a
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Nigerian so what I'm telling you those
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people who are who are now saying that
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I'm causing to I have been here since
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last year I don't want to go further I
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don't want to go further when he refus
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to do their
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Bings then they will accuse you of many
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things reported this election is
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transparent and my duty as a Nigeria
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when I was interviewed at the Senate I
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said I will add values to to electoral
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system in Nigeria I will add value and
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that is why I'm here I will not favor
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any political party on for record
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purposes I will not favor any political
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party so those who are saying it's only
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when you they call you say I will not
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come they accuse you they should
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identify what I have done whether I'm
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I'm favoring them or I'm not favoring
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them I'm favoring one political party
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all we have done so far as being on the
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public anything I do I make sure that
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all the political parties are aware we
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have been having stakeholders meeting
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they've not raised this issue why are
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they raising the issue
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now why are they raising the issue now
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I'm not the commission they can post me
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anywhere but I think that delay the
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equity deployed Vivas the Vivas went
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together with the the the the result she
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the voting this they all went together
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they are VI is part of the sensitive
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material we have they have they deploy
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to the various local government this
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morning we are deploying them to the Raa
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centers we shall use
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Vivas we shall use VI as they accredit
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as you vote it will be uploaded to the
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irland we have Situation Room for that
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clearly what they saying it's going to
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be a very violent election and they
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going to use will Nigerians be able to
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see what is happening on the
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IR we have yes it's not a secret
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something we don't do Secret something
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here we to the
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people more digital we
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