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Sep 20 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
When we say @inecnigeria seems committed to rigging #NigeriaDecides2023 to order, some party political ppl raise hackles. So, let me try & show what is happening in Imo State, using #SupremeCourtGovernor, @HopeUzodinma's Oru East LGA. Pls stay with me

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Oru East LGA has 10 wards. @inecnigeria created 59 PUs in Oru East. 27 are in 9 wards. 32 new PUs are in the Omuma Ward alone. Guess where @Govhopeuzodinma comes from? Omuma Ward of course
Awo Omama is the biggest community in Oru East. It has 4 wards. @inecnigeria created only 13 new PUs in all of Awo Omamma's 4 wards
Next to Awo Omamma in size comes Amiri. It has 2 wards. So, INEC gave them 7 new PUs, just about half of the number in Awo Omamma. You follow....?
Akatta, which is next in size, got 5 new PUs
Akuma & Amagu wards got nothing. Not even 1 new PU.
By way of a summary: in Oru East LGA, @inecnigeria spread 27 new PUs across the three biggest communities in 7 wards; it gave no new PU to 2 wards, including Akuma which is quite densely populated. Then it went to @Govhopeuzodinma's Omuma Ward & lavished 32 new PUs!
I challenge @inecnigeria to provide the criteria that justify this kind of barefaced pump-priming of election rigging to order. So, I ask again: Can you trust this #INEC of Prof Mahmud & @festokoye2003 to organise credible national elections?

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By the way, for those reading this thinking, "well, that means Omuma's population must have grown a lot", perish the thought. Actually deadly violence of different sorts in the past 3 yrs has pretty much emptied Omuma. It's not gained population. Rather it has lost a lot. Yet...!
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In Imo State, #SupremeCourtGovernor, @Govhopeuzodinma, has turned so-called #Ebubeagu, into a private terror militia. This week, they Hope's Ebubeagu militia have killed at least 4 ppl in Ihitenansa, Orsu LGA.

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Apr 17, 2021
OK, so, the latest #yarn from @DrIsaPantami boils down to this: In 2019, when he was glorifying the #Taliban & #AlQuaeda & wishing them victory & glorifying #Jihad he was young. Mind you, in 2019, Pantami was DG of @NITDANigeria

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It is impressive how we have travelled from the empty bluster of "I will rake you over the coals of crooked courts" to "I was a terrorist preacher before I was 13 yes old."

That is security under @MBuhari. What wld have happened if Pantami were to be #IPOB?

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Feb 4, 2021
On 1 Feb, Inspector General of @PoliceNG, Moh'd Adamu, attained 35 yrs in service & retired. By operation of law, he became ineligible to be a police officer in #Nigeria. Today, @MBuhari claims to have recalled & then extended his tenure by 3 months.

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To be clear, the president, as appointing authority, has the power to appoint someone in acting capacity to fill a vacancy. But that power is not at large. You can't appoint in acting capacity, someone who is ineligible to hold the substantive position or exercise those powers.
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A few ppl are asking for a steer on the news that @MBuhari has nominated #Nigeria's immediate past #ServiceChiefs to be non-career ambassadors. Some are worried that a diplomatic passport may grant them roving impunity. So, let me explain briefly [THREAD]

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