{"id":30987,"date":"2014-09-08T04:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30987"},"modified":"2014-09-08T04:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T03:59:36","slug":"adamawa-guber-elections-atiku-calls-meeting-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/adamawa-guber-elections-atiku-calls-meeting-stakeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa Guber Elections: Atiku calls for meeting of stakeholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3587\" class=\"message content\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3686\" class=\"base-card \">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3720\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3687\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yiv3698331442\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3744\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3802\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3807\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\">Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has called for an urgent meeting of critical stakeholders in Adamawa State to ensure a free and fair governorship election in the state on October 11.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3812\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3811\" style=\"color: black;\">The former Vice President made the call against the backdrop of the need to maintain security in the state and fears being expressed about the probable suffocation of the sovereignty of the people by the prevailing emergency rule in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3803\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3813\" style=\"color: black;\">Atiku Abubakar noted that that his call for an urgent parley of Adamawa critical stakeholders comprised of the major political parties, security agencies, Adamawa State Government, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), civil society and election observers and religious and traditional rulers followed the results of NOI Polls which revealed that 55% of adult Nigerians want the emergency rule imposed on three states in the North-east region lifted during the 2015 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">According to the former Vice President, 72% of those surveyed from the region, however, advocated for the lifting of the emergency rule for the purposes of the 2015 election in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Atiku said that the envisaged meeting will come up with modalities for ensuring a free and fair election in an emergency rule in Adamawa State. He said that the Adamawa situation could be used as a fore runner of the 2015 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">The Turaki Adamawa while expressing the imperative of providing adequate security in the state, especially with the peculiar situation presented by the emergency rule, however, observed that the prevailing emergency rule may pose difficulties, if not impossible for voters in the state to perform their civic rights of franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">He said that apart from hindering the people of the state the freedom to cast their ballots, the rights of free movement and association, which ordinarily afford people opportunity to attend political rallies and gatherings would be compromised under an emergency rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">He observed further that the emergency rule in Adamawa State also calls to question, the expected level playing ground, which the government is supposed to provide for all political parties participating in the election since the Federal Government is also an interested party in the election through the participation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3824\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3823\" style=\"color: black;\">He stressed the need to balance all the conditions precedent in Adamawa ahead of the October 11 governorship election in the interest of democracy, justice and fair-play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3822\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Signed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3821\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Atiku Media Office<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3820\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">61 Ebitu Ukiwe Street<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Jabi<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3819\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Abuja<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3818\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3817\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atiku.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.atiku.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3816\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/atiku.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/atiku.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3815\" class=\"yiv3698331442MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/atiku\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.twitter.com\/atiku<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1410145673723_3814\" class=\"base-card-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has called for an urgent meeting of critical stakeholders in Adamawa State to ensure a free and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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