ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.

 

[ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ]   { VOL. 3. NO 84.  22-03-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

WHY IS THE RULING PARTY AFRAID OF THE SMART CARD READER MACHINES?

The resolve of Nigeria’s electoral body to introduce the Smart Card Reader Machines to authenticate Voters eligibility to participate in the 2015 General Elections is generating an unusual controversy, when 28^th March is only few days away!

*However it is gratifying that Professor Attahiru Jega and his team at the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], are backed, not only by the Electoral Laws, but by all well-meaning and patriotic Nigerians at home and in Diaspora, Nigerian political parties, Developing African Union States, Britain, the United States of America and the United Nations, to employ and ensure all legitimate measures needed to actualize very CREDIBLE elections, this time around!

*In 2007, when so much political tension was generated by the ruling party which vowed to “destroy Nigeria” through a “do-or-die” declaration by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who supervised and perfected the rigging of that election in favour of his party, it was very easy to manipulate figures and to declare results in Abuja while elections were inconclusive in the States!

*It was also easy for the electoral umpire of that time to boast that if he had another opportunity, he would conduct similar elections that would favour his employers again! But late President Umaru Musa Ya’Ardua of blessed memory, during his inaugural speech was truthful to admit that the elections that brought him and Goodluck Jonathan to office was full of FLAWS!

*We thank God that Professor Jega, a God-fearing and diligent man of integrity, and a university Vice Chancellor in 2007 was alive to witness all electoral malpractices of 2007 and when providentially appointed at short notice to head INEC, he wasted no time in correcting several anomalies and noticeable flaws before conducting the 2011 Elections, which was adjudged to be better than 2007 and within his tenure has also conducted States’ Elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun!

*Jega’s introduction of the Smart Card Reader Machines is a right step in the right direction, considering the fact that in 16 years of this democratic experience, the election riggers have perfected their strategies to remain in power for 60 years beginning from 1999!

*We need to remind our readers that the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC’s) with which eligible voters would cast votes on the election dates, were printed by INEC, which has now introduced Smart Card Reader Machines to authenticate them as their own products and not CLONES which the ruling party claimed were in the hands of the major opposition party members to perpetrate electoral fraud during the 2015 elections!

*The PVC and Card Reader are programmed in a symbiotic interface to ensure that votes cast at each election are the actual votes cast by Live, Real Nigerians and not fakes or ghosts. The Card Readers will authenticate the validity of PVCs, Voters photographs and fingerprints on election days and confirm ownership before voting proper!

*THE SMART CARD READER MACHINE IS AN ANTI-RIGGING DEVICE which was successfully deployed during the last Ghanaian General Elections and elections in some other African Union (AU) countries, but which is being resisted in Nigeria by those who have the hidden agenda of perpetrating fraud at all cost!

*In a recent interactive session between the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, (with support from the British Department for International Development, DFID), and INEC, following insinuations that there were, “plans to jam or hack INEC Servers and the Smart Card Readers on election days,” INEC assured all stakeholders that every security precaution had been taken to pre-empt any such move!

*INEC says, when the PVC is swiped in a Card Reader, and the fingerprint is imputed to decide if it rightly belonged to the bearer, to someone else or cloned, the Card Reader would instantly reject FAKE PVCs which did not belong to the Commission and fraud is thus eliminated through that application!

*In addition, INEC says that multiple voting would be completely eradicated while the acceptable norm of “one man, one vote”, would be permanently established to curb election fraud in any form.”

*Professor Jega has also expressed INEC’s confidence in the 182.000 adequate, functional and needed, Card Readers, already procured for the coming elections adding that the Commission had taken adequate measures to ensure that they would not fail! He stated that in all the MOCK TESTS conducted, “NO CARD READER FAILED”!

*Please read below, Jega’s exact statement:

“We have about 150.000 Voting Points, because we broke some of the large Polling Units into Voting Points.

“We have produced 182.000 Card Readers – of all these, we have only about 400 that were dead on arrival due to factory faults.

“We are comfortable with the integrity of the Card Readers – in all the public demonstrations and tests we have done – no card reader failed!

“In addition we already have EXTRA BATTERIES in case of battery default and we will also continue our sensitization programme on the need for those authenticated to place their cast votes in the appropriate boxes!”

*From time immemorial, electoral malpractices through multiple voting, voter impersonation, ballot stuffing, fraudulent false recording of votes, buying of votes, ballot box snatching, etc. were synonymous with Nigeria’s electoral processes and in 1993 during the tenure of the self-style military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the only election that could have been acceptable to all and sundry as free, fair and credible, was annulled by him without any plausible reason!

*Babangida, on August 27, 1985, staged a bloodless coup but promised to restore civilian administration within a short time, but never did until JUNE 12, 1993, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS which should have brought to an end, the long military rule which began with the overthrow of civilian President Shehu Shagari in December 1983!

*In that historic election, a Southern business man Alhaji Moshood Abiola, of the Social Democratic Party, was adjudged as the winner because Nigerians set aside their ethnic and religious identities to vote massively for Abiola and his running mate Babagana Kingibe, a Northern minority politician, also a Muslim!

* Abiola defeated the opposition Presidential candidate, Bashir Tofa, a Kano business man, of the National Republican Convention, (NRC), in his electoral ward to prove the level of his acceptability across Nigeria, but Babangida annulled that land mark election on June 26, 1993, by citing electoral malpractices such as rigging and vote buying as reasons for his action!  Street protests and organised civil disobedience which followed the annulment subsequently forced the “evil genius” to “step aside” on 26^th August, 1993. The rest is now history!

*On June 12, 2015, it will be exactly 22 years when the popular wish of the good people of this nation at the elections was truncated; but this time around, such wicked move to oppose  and deny the COLLECTIVE  WISH OF FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, MUST BE ELIMINATED THROUGH THE USE OF THE ANTI-RIGGING DEVICE – THE SMART CARD READER MACHINES!

*The Word of God says:

“He hath shewed thee, O man what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.”[Micah.6:8].

*Our Creator, the Sovereign God is intrigued with wicked and unrepentant Nigerians who, in spite of His divine grace are still beclouded by the carnal, ephemeral, transient and mundane!

*The LORD wishes to remind those who still do not believe in His sovereign power over the Nigerian nation to repent before it is too late as He would not hesitate to apply His ROD OF CORRECTION on the stubborn, disobedient and recalcitrant!

*Political analysts were not surprised that members of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party [PDP], are leading the campaign against the use of the Card Readers in spite of the fact that it has been introduced by the government’s INEC and not the Opposition’s, and having recognized the glaring fact that all avenue to  professional rigging had been blocked, they became terribly agitated!

*After several unsuccessful attempts by desperate individual members to stop the introduction of the Card Reader Machines, the issue graduated into the National Assembly debate and was even referred to the Board of Trustees, [BOT] for intervention without respite and the last thrust is now being handled by veteran “political guru” Professor Jerry Gana, who remained adamantly pessimistic in his outbursts at a recent interactive forum in Abuja:

“Using the Smart Card Reader might frustrate the electorate and occasion chaos across the federation. It would be cumbersome and time-sapping for agents of INEC to effectively verify/authenticate all PVCs before commencement of election. Efficiency of the Smart Card Readers should have been tested at lesser elections……”, he asserted!

*Professor Gana who is Chairman of PDP’s Contact and Mobilization, expressed his disaffection for the modern digital equipment at the formal presentation of a Book titled, “Guide to Understanding Electoral Offences”, written by a staff of INEC, Matthew Ugwuocha.

*However, Gana, who had been in politics since the early military coups was tutored by INEC’s Director in charge Voter Education, who reminded him of the introduction into Nigeria -12 years ago – of the GSM Technology of Mobile Phones, which has now become an Information Communication Technology[ICT], asset and assured the nation that no amount of political pressure would make the Commission to jettison either the use of the PVCs or the Smart Card Reader Machines for the 2015 General Elections!

*He added that the introduction of technology into Nigeria’s electoral      process was inevitable!

**Did you know that in their blinded desperation, some PDP members even suggested that the old Temporary Voters Cards [TVCs], which have been swapped for new PVCs should be used for the 28^th March and 11^th April 2015 elections, while the opposition All Progressives Party [APC], and well-meaning and patriotic majority citizens of Nigeria have embraced the digital innovation which has been tested and perfected to ensure a most credible election that would eliminate rigging and improve the authenticity and integrity of the electoral process!

*INEC has also assured all Nigerians that all permanent and Ad –hoc staff including the National Youths Service Corps,[NYSC] members, have been adequately trained in the use of the Smart Card Readers, and that all opposition to this innovation were myopic and retrogressive!

***We support INEC’s position and prophesy that all diabolical plans by Satan agents to frustrate the smooth conduct of both elections will fail woefully in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***The Smart Card Reader Machines will perform perfectly with precision and will be resistant to any form of malfunctioning, hacking, or jamming in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***INEC Servers which are being divinely protected will remain immune to any form of hacking plan from internal or external evil forces, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen.

***We prophesy that all INEC’ s, permanent and ad hoc staff, including the NYSC members, will remain faithful to the Almighty God and to their oath of allegiance, before, during and after the general elections in Jesus Christ’s name! Amen.

***All black legs, fifth columnists or saboteurs within INEC or among their security personnel will be exposed, isolated, thoroughly investigated, incapacitated, prosecuted and incarcerated in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***All INEC logistic equipments, ICT machines, automobiles, generating sets etc., will all perform to optimum capacity, before, during and after the elections, in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***There would be no further occurrences of electricity surge or any form of combustion that could result into conflagration, within INEC BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES, before, during and after the elections, in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***God would deploy His ANGELS to give divine protection to all INEC staff that would be assigned all over the country for elections duties, especially those that would work in the North East States of Nigeria, in Jesus Christ name! Amen.

***All issues and events pertaining to the 2015 General Elections, from the beginning to the end and onto the day of the investiture of a new President in Nigeria and thereafter, will be divinely arranged, organized, very peaceful, tranquil and serene, in Jesus Christ’s name! Amen.

*** No violence will be perpetrated in any form, in any part of Nigeria, and neither would there be any form of bloodshed or bloodletting, in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

***All Nigerian security agents, policemen, soldiers, the secret service operatives, the civil defence corps, air force and naval personnel, immigration and customs staff at the borders, will be divinely co-ordinated and work together as a faithful united team and would not give room for MOLES, in Jesus name! Amen.

***Children of GOD, we adjure you by His mercies to go peacefully to designated polling units on the appointed dates with your PVCs, get accredited and vote for the candidates of your choices under His watchful eyes and it shall be well with you in Jesus name! Amen. 

***NIGERIA HAS HOPE! It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not! They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness O LORD.

*The LORD is good onto them that wait  for Him, to the soul and nation that seek Him! Thank you LORD, we will wait  patiently for your TRANSFORMATION! Amen.

   

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer:      

Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen.

If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.  Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord.

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