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Bukola Saraki @bukolasaraki
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I call on @NGRPresident @MBuhari to end the uncertainty by signing, without delay, the 2018 #ElectoralBill. This would allow @INECNigeria and all concerned parties to prepare on time for a credible process in the upcoming General Election.

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My position remains that the @NGRPresident, his aides, the entire country and the international community are aware that all the concerns raised by the @NGRPresident on the past three occasions he withheld assent to the #ElectoralBill have been addressed by the legislature.
We bent backwards on each occasion to accommodate the wishes of the President on the #ElectoralBill. We started work on this law since 2016 to prevent a situation where it would become part of the election controversies.
Every sincere commentator, observer and analyst knows that what we have done with the #ElectoralBill is to raise the level of transparency, credibility and acceptability of our electoral process.
We made sure that if the #ElectoralBill is assented to and honestly applied by @INECNigeria, we will have an election that would be more transparent than what we had in 2015.
Therefore, the @NGRPresident should know that the survival of democracy, its development and the future of Nigeria are far more important than the ambition of any individual or party.
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We should look at the Zamfara killings as a major threat to our democracy — particularly as we move towards the general elections in the next 50 days. We should not allow criminal elements to take over parts of our country.
The situation in Zamfara State is an example of why we need to overhaul our security architecture in order to bring it to a state where it can effectively tackle emerging threats and challenges.
There is need for proper profiling of the situation in Zamfara so that we can know whether it is cattle rustling; vicious armed robbery on a large scale; a religious/ethnic crisis; or, an invasion by foreign forces.
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We thank the people of Ekiti/Oke Ero/Isin/Irepodun who came out to vote today — defying the heavy intimidation and the siege laid by the security agents and thugs invited into the 4 LGAs by the APC. #KwaraByElection
The public should note that today’s #KwaraByElection was simply between PDP and security agents plus APC. This was due to the heavy deployment of police, soldiers and other security agents who gathered to support APC and harass PDP leaders and supoorters.
This is the first time that elections in Kwara State will be held under such charged, tensed and militarised conditions. We had INEC officials complaining about their own safety — and PDP supporters were brazenly intimidated, which resulted in low turn out of voters.
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It is a matter of record that yesterday, lawmakers and staff of the National Assembly were prevented from entering the National Assembly Complex by heavily armed security agents of the Department of State Services (DSS). #WorldPressConference
The ensuring standoff was a show of shame that played itself out over several hours in full view of the country. In no circumstances should this have happened.
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For your information, INEC through some unprecedented constraints have systemically rigged 2019 elections. Voter registration were frustrated in the southern part of the country by limiting it to LGAs while Polling units across Northern States enjoy unperturbed activities.
Check also the percentage of PVC collection in the north with a robust distribution process that carried along religious centers. Foreigners from neighboring countries as well as infants and under-aged have been registered and will be allowed to vote at gun point.
I asked how INEC plans to curb this but you could have heard a pin drop. Many willing citizens were systemically disenfranchised by the haphazard arrangement of the limitation of registration to LGAs in the south despite knowing the constraints even at polling units in 2014.
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There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties.
Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are.
This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
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Time for another pulp countdown, and today it's my top 10 public relations campaigns!
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On the #ElectoralBill and #NewPoliceAct as promised, there will be a Mega Protest should the Presidentfail to sign it into Law before the end of the year. It will be the biggest protest ever, beyond the control of @PoliceNG We are still asking nicely and bidding our time.
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#ElectoralBill: 2019 Will be a Contest of Rigging--A THREAD

The game is over for Buhari. He & his minders know it. Atiku will win at least 45% of the Muslim north & more than 45% of the southwest. These 2 blocs are supposed to be Buhari's strongholds, but he is losing them 1/7
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.@MBuhari says he wants to take #Nigeria to the #NextLevel but while as HoS in 85, he cancelled an Education Reform Policy of Prof Babatunde Fafunwa which could have turned our academic curricular into a modern tool to raise the next generation of IT gurus & other professionals!
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