enohj2ee:

Dora I will prefer u resign so still have your good name, a Good name is better than Riches and joining PDP

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@mikeansy thanks a lot for you informative and enlightening second post. You and @blacksta have kept a lot of people online informed about different incidents that occured during the Ekiti elections. I agree with the idea that all Nigerians at this point should consider themselves from Ekiti state, because fighting against the behemoth that has become PDP and successfully winning a battle for the people and the majority will indeed set a very good precedence. The implications of successfully proving that past elections under thesame lady (who seems to have had a crisis of conscience this time around) were questionable are huge. If only the ammount of reported incidences during the past elections were well documented they way they were for Ekiti. The actions of the people even in the face of violent thugs and the peoples demand for justice and respect of their votes is quite encouraging, I must say I am more confident than I was that days of abracadabra elections in Nigeria are numbered. For people who shout change change without wanting to back such up with actions, the people (no matter how isolated such inceidences might have been) who fought to defend their votes in the face of violent thugs are indeed encouraging are commendable. This is backing up rhetoric with actions.

ikeyman00:

and where were people like u when obj with oba were terrorising anambra state, even now the stupid Uba still on it.

just like the way some people respond to some shit whenever the pendulum swing the othe way!!

hmmm nothing change, maybe it in their genes

For now all Nigerians are Ekiti-ites

Moves:

I dont like the fact that she took her present post but There is absolutely nothing wrong in what she said, She Risked her life in fighting fake drug dealers whilst @ Nafdac, so for a fellow woman, I mean even Older woman of 74yrs to come out and say that she is unable to perform a function she was empowered to do, becos she is afraid, and wants to be crowned a heroine is totally wrong,

Sky Blue:

Dora Akunyili's achievements in NAFDAC will always be there for all to see no matter what other ventures she goes into and y[b]es threats were made on her life and she still did the job[/b], etc, however I think comparing Dora Akunyili and the REC official who handed in a resignation later does not make sense.
Thats is the basis of my argument that Dora has earned the right to disagree that a fellow woman of older age can use the above as an excuse.


First of all, what is the job of the REC official? Does it include protecting ballot boxes from being snatched and fighting off violent, armed, hired political thugs? I really doubt if such is in the job description of an electoral commissioner, however as you postulated one of the duties of and REC is to announce electoral results, if this is what this woman is being castigated and called cowardly for not doing then I really don't get it. Do we just want hired zombies as public officials or don't we value the ability to analyse a situation and take required action anymore? Would it be better if she announced results which came from an obviously fraudlent election? You have reports of uprisings, people being arrested for massive thumb printing of ballots in residences, people dressed in police uniforms also partaking in electoral malpractices, and you feel the results should be announced? This is not necessarily about making this woman a hero but I think what she did was in order especially since it was done before announcing results, don't we want more public officials with a "concience"?
I had initially commended her stance- But her duty is to annouce the correct results for those place where the election took place without malpractices--cancel the results for those places where the result she has reason to be fake and state the reasons with evidence which according to you are widely available---This action will send the right message to the do -or die riggers and she then should go the whole hog by stating those who were compelling her to announce fake result and tell us which fake result she is being compelled to announce, How can you claim she is cowardly? Because you haven't heard from her in probably less than 24hours after her resignation even with all the reported threats on her person? Please let us try to be objective before jumping on the bandwagon.

It is 4days since the election took place, thats more than enough time, she and the political elite are not loosing nothing, spare a thought for the common ekiti citizen who cant go about their daily business cos of the uncertainty in the air.

DRANOEL:

a few things about Dora most nigerians dont know,the staff at nafdac use to regard her as just someone who holds press confrences after they have done the job (more like she taking credit for a job done by them),to them she was just their mouth piece who take all the glory,she is a full member of the p.d.p and is well known to have taken bribes!