From what I have gathered so far(online), protests by some youths in condemnation of unhealthy practices which brought about suspicion of perceived rigging by the election officials during the course of collating election results in Jos North LGA formed the genesis of the whole fracas. In as much as the reports didn't state that the protests were carried out in a violent manner, the security agents in an attempt to disperse the crowd gathered to ensure that their votes were protected at the collating center in Gada biyu provoked the crowd into reacting which resulted in the shooting of an individual by the police. All accounts clearly state that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission moved the collation of the results to three different locations for reasons best known to them at times when the collation were almost nearing conclusion and after the ANPP candidate was said to have surpassed the votes of the PDP candidate by about 30,000 votes. This formed the basis for suspicion of a conceived motive to rig the election. Moreover, majority of the Victims who lost their lives were adjudged to have sustained bullet wounds following the shoot at sight order as directed by the state governor after the whole thing assumed a serious dimension for reasons best known to him.
From what I have gathered so far(online), protests by some youths in condemnation of unhealthy practices which brought about suspicion of perceived rigging by the election officials during the course of collating election results in Jos North LGA formed the genesis of the whole fracas. In as much as the reports didn't state that the protests were carried out in a violent manner, the security agents in an attempt to disperse the crowd gathered to ensure that their votes were protected at the collating center in Gada biyu provoked the crowd into reacting which resulted in the shooting of an individual by the police. All accounts clearly state that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission moved the collation of the results to three different locations for reasons best known to them at times when the collation were almost nearing conclusion and after the ANPP candidate was said to have surpassed the votes of the PDP candidate by about 30,000 votes. This formed the basis for suspicion of a conceived motive to rig the election. Moreover, majority of the Victims who lost their lives were adjudged to have sustained bullet wounds following the shoot at sight order as directed by the state governor after the whole thing assumed a serious dimension for reasons best known to him.
It's sad. This has been happened for a long time in nigeria. Do we have a police in the country at all?
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you have a thieving electorial process such as that run by INEC.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way that Jos North should be won by Buba Gyang. Jos North Local Government is majority Muslim!
Jonah Jang is a more fanatical Christian than was Dariye. We are cooked in Plateau, if we can not have fair elections at the LG level
I used to think this was a religious/ethnic crisis, but I am starting to see the battle of resource undertone.
"This is what happens when you have a thieving electorial process such as that run by INEC.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way that Jos North should be won by Buba Gyang. Jos North Local Government is majority Muslim!
Jonah Jang is a more fanatical Christian than was Dariye. We are cooked in Plateau, if we can not have fair elections at the LG level
I used to think this was a religious/ethnic crisis, but I am starting to see the battle of resource undertone."
Evil begets evil. No matter how you look at it, the evils northern Nigerians committed against the easterner in 1966 come back every now and then to visit them.
My suggestion is for the immediate removal of the governor and replacement with a disciplined general.furthermore the elections should be annuled without delay.the governor was unwise to have allowed the announcement of the result admist rioting.its an unbelievable mistake!shame on us all.
ReplyDelete"My suggestion is for the immediate removal of the governor and replacement with a disciplined general.furthermore the elections should be annuled without delay.the governor was unwise to have allowed the announcement of the result admist rioting.its an unbelievable mistake!shame on us all"(Lagos boy)
ReplyDeleteWhy blame the governor? Why not blame the president, IG of police, and the army chief? Think about the 40-year old learned culture of Nigerians looting/killing/raping each others in the name of religious or ethnic provocation.
It is interesting to note that while several-fold more blacks are dead in Jos as there were Indian and Western casualties in the recent Mumbai 3-day long terror attacks, the worlds media has shown scant interest in reporting the 3-week old Rwanda/ Burundi-style bloodbath STILL raging in Jos, Nigeria, one of the country's prime destinations for western tourists, choosing instead to report ad-nauseoum on the crushed Indian siege, tragic though that may be.
ReplyDeleteAfrica. You on yo' own man. Phuck y'self up good, and see if we care.
You know, I was going to comment on this to try to bring the attention of all those who blame the WESTERN media for the bad image africa gets in the world today. Mumbai is still headline news but Jos is no where in the news here. Even on the day the riots broke out, Reuters, for a while, remained the only news outlet, carrying details of the happenings. Shame!
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