{"id":65359,"date":"2019-03-09T22:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=65359"},"modified":"2019-03-09T22:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:56:43","slug":"u-s-congressman-says-elections-stolen-in-nigeria-presidential-election-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/u-s-congressman-says-elections-stolen-in-nigeria-presidential-election-a-sham\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0 U.S Congressman Says Elections Stolen In Nigeria, Presidential Election A Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m5302342379354599708\" class=\"mail-message \">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m5883438854501052443\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">United States Congressman, Gerald Connolly, has said elections are being<br \/>\nstolen in Nigeria, describing the last Presidential election as a sham and<br \/>\nnot credible.At an interactive session with constituents from Virginia who paid him a<br \/>\nvisit on Capitol Hill, the Democratic congressman and member of the<br \/>\nForeign Affairs Committee had been asked questions about Nigeria and<br \/>\nVenezuela.The United States lawmaker made the remarks about Nigeria\u2019s elections when<br \/>\nhe was responding to a question from international human rights lawyer,<br \/>\nEmmanuel Ogebe who asked what the US was doing about ISIS relocation to<br \/>\nNigeria where they abducted Leah Sharibu and the recent presidential<br \/>\nelections.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Connolly said that many observers agree that the Nigerian<br \/>\nelections were not credible.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the US must do more and wasn\u2019t doing enough as a beacon of<br \/>\ndemocracy and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a lot of observers who would agree with you that the recent<br \/>\npresidential\/National Assembly elections were a sham and were not honest<br \/>\nand did not produce legitimate results. Are there enough people who care<br \/>\nabout that to speak out? \u2026We have to do a better job of paying much more<br \/>\nattention to Africa\u2026 Africa is going to be the continent of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lamented the activities of Boko Haram, Al Qaeda and other terrorist<br \/>\ngroups on the African continent and said the US was not paying adequate<br \/>\nattention to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also raised concerns on growing Chinese influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to another question, he said: \u201cElections are being stolen in<br \/>\nNigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\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>United States Congressman, Gerald Connolly, has said elections are being stolen in Nigeria, describing the last Presidential election as a sham and not credible.At an interactive session with constituents from&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":65362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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