January 24, 2008
Precisely on Friday April 20 2007, Saharareporters received the basic results of the Presidential Elections that was taking place on Saturday, we reported the "election results" which put Musa Yar'adua as the winner of the presidential elections that was taking place 24 hour later!
It was as a result of intensive investigations of a group led by President Obasanjo and twenty nine others who met and decided how many percentages of votes will be allocated to Yar'adua which was put at between 57-61% (even though this was left to be subject to changes based on other parameters according to an insider privy to the deal), and the number of voters to be put around 20 million so as to give a semblance of more voter participation than the June 12 elections of 1993 in which 14 million Nigerians voted in a free and fair elections that was later annulled by General Babangida in collaboration with the likes of Obasanjo (who then didn't think Chief M.K.O Abiola was the messiah Nigerians were waiting for).
Also, Saharareporters reported that certain states were chosen to lead the rigging project for which the Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili provided N500 million instantly. Rivers State led the rigging project, followed by Bayelsa, Ogun, Edo and Delta states.
True to our report, Rivers State results have been released and Yar'adua led with close to 2 million votes, in Edo, he was leading with close to 800,000 votes and in Ogun 583,000 votes. Interestingly, these rigging project states were the first to be released in Nigeria tonight, the results in Bayelsa and Delta states are still being awaited, but they will be certainly substantial as nothing was done to tamper with the original figures earlier put in before the elections for the two states.
Even though international and local observers are reporting low voter turn out- put at less than 25% of registered voters-INEC is coming out with huge figures in places like Imo state where voting materials did not arrive until 2 pm and real voting didn't take place till 4:00 PM in some places.
Saharareporters also revealed that INEC only printed 10 million ballot papers for 62 million voters, a charge that is yet to be denied. The last two elections in Nigeria will and should go into the "Hall of Fame" of elections as the most rigged election in human history.
It was as a result of intensive investigations of a group led by President Obasanjo and twenty nine others who met and decided how many percentages of votes will be allocated to Yar'adua which was put at between 57-61% (even though this was left to be subject to changes based on other parameters according to an insider privy to the deal), and the number of voters to be put around 20 million so as to give a semblance of more voter participation than the June 12 elections of 1993 in which 14 million Nigerians voted in a free and fair elections that was later annulled by General Babangida in collaboration with the likes of Obasanjo (who then didn't think Chief M.K.O Abiola was the messiah Nigerians were waiting for).
Also, Saharareporters reported that certain states were chosen to lead the rigging project for which the Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili provided N500 million instantly. Rivers State led the rigging project, followed by Bayelsa, Ogun, Edo and Delta states.
True to our report, Rivers State results have been released and Yar'adua led with close to 2 million votes, in Edo, he was leading with close to 800,000 votes and in Ogun 583,000 votes. Interestingly, these rigging project states were the first to be released in Nigeria tonight, the results in Bayelsa and Delta states are still being awaited, but they will be certainly substantial as nothing was done to tamper with the original figures earlier put in before the elections for the two states.
Even though international and local observers are reporting low voter turn out- put at less than 25% of registered voters-INEC is coming out with huge figures in places like Imo state where voting materials did not arrive until 2 pm and real voting didn't take place till 4:00 PM in some places.
Saharareporters also revealed that INEC only printed 10 million ballot papers for 62 million voters, a charge that is yet to be denied. The last two elections in Nigeria will and should go into the "Hall of Fame" of elections as the most rigged election in human history.
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