INEC'S SHOCKING POSTPONEMENT OF 2019 ELECTIONS IS A DIVINE INTERVENTION!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 8. NO 288. 17th February, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

INEC'S SHOCKING POSTPONEMENT OF 2019 ELECTIONS IS A DIVINE INTERVENTION!

With all the assurances and convictions from INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, to conduct a flawless 2019 General Elections, no Nigerian politician in his/her wildest imagination would expect a postponement at dawn -  few hours to commencement of the Presidential and National Assembly polls - slated for Saturday 16th February, 2019, from 08.00 hrs!

Who could have faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC'S), preparations enumerated with 14 itemized agenda by the umpire since 9th January 2018, and which were meticulously and painstakingly executed, one after the other until the wee hours of the D - DAY, when the shocking but "inevitable" decision of postponement due to logistics/weather challenges, by one week each of the two sets of elections, was announced at exactly 02.44am!

Except for concerned citizens and professional politicians who held vigil on internet/electronic media all night, the masses of the Electorate were sound asleep and oblivious to the sudden/dramatic U - TURN, OR VOLTE FACE of Mr. Umpire who announced two fresh dates of Saturday 23rd February, and Saturday 9th March, 2019, for the Presidential/National Assembly (NASS), and Gubernatorial/State Houses of Assembly/FCT Area Council Elections, respectively, only to wake up as if from a bad dream to the realization that they the election had been postponed and that they had been temporarily robbed of their voting franchise including their daily incomes for Saturday, 16th, February, 2019!
WHO WILL COMPENSATE THEIR LOSES - ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO TRAVELLED TO THEIR HOME STATES WHERE THEY WERE REGISTERED?

SABOTAGE AGAINST INEC?
Sabotage by desperate politicians cannot be ruled out in view of the following bizarre occurrences before the postponement! INEC facilities in PLATEAU, where the entire office was torched and thousands of PVCS, Ballot Boxes, and election papers were destroyed; ABIA, where PVCS/Election materials were also burnt and in ANAMBRA, where the most devastating sabotage, was the destruction of over 4,600 Smart Card Readers which would normally take six months to procure, including other election materials store in a well- secured STEEL CONTAINER - all within TWO WEEKS! Faced with these challenges INEC was constrained to adjust the election dates to avoid STAGGERED ELECTIONS!

Apart from these direct affront against the INEC, there were insecurity issues in Kaduna and Bornu States which recorded human and material casualties on Friday 15th and Saturday, 16th February, 2019, respectively due to gunmen and suicide bomb attacks by insurgents/terrorists!

However, in a national broadcast later on the postponed D - DAY, Prof. Mahmood said that his Commission quickly recovered from all the challenges with a view to ensuring that the held as scheduled, but to no avail. He regretted all the inconveniencies suffered by all and sundry and accepted full responsibility for the failure!
HE UNEQUIVOCALLY STATED THAT THE POSTPONMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SECURITY, POLITICAL INFLUENCE OR AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES!

DID INEC CHAIRMAN POSSESS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO UNILATERALLY POSTPONE ELECTIONS?
According to the 2010 Electoral Act, as amended, Section 26 (1); INEC as the independent umpire over all Nigerian elections, has exclusive constitutional rights/authority to exercise all legal powers in the conduct of elections, including the right to postpone such elections in cases of the possibility of serious breach of peace, natural disaster or other emergencies provided that such reason was cogent and verifiable! The 02.44am postponement by INEC's Chairman, was done after diligent consultations and review with his twelve federal commissioners according to his account of stewardship.
During an interactive session with political stakeholders at the International Conference Centre, the elections final collation venue, on the afternoon of Saturday, 16th February, 2019, the Chairman re-emphasized that the logistic constraint had to do with the air-lifting of highly sensitive materials to far-flung local government areas so that elections could commence simultaneously at 08.00am across the country, but that ill weather prevailed against the plan!
He categorically stated that the new 23rd February, 2019 date, was sacrosanct and that no one should exercise any further fear of another postponement, adding that sensitive materials that were already in circulation would be recovered and re-certified! He assured all Nigerians of the unflinching integrity/loyalty of his management team, with an emphasis that the Commission would not play anyone's SCRIPT!

THERE WAS A POSTPONMENT OF ELECTIONS IN 2011 & 2015 - YES!
In the preparations toward the 2011 & 2015 General Elections, various logistic challenges also cropped up but that of 2015, emanated from the ruling government of Ebele Jonathan over the issue of INSECURITY which topped the list and he wasted no time to announce a rather long postponement through the then National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, presently being prosecuted for fraud and embezzlement of USD $2.1 billion dollars earmarked for the purchase of arms to prosecute the Boko Haram insurgency!

THE SEVEN-DAY WINDOW OF DIVINE PERFECTION!
Before the postponement, allegations of possible disruption of polls by the main opposition party and its allies rent the air through various publications by members of the PRESS on print, internet and electronic media, that Foreign Mercenaries/Boko Haram Terrorist were being contracted and funded to unleash mayhem before, during and after Saturday, 16th February, 2019. It was also alleged that billions of US dollars had exchanged hands to ensure that the rigging plan by the opposition was "fait accompli" because they completely FORGOT THE DIVINE FACTOR IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN!

The freshly-released HARMATTAN HAZE, the FOGGY HIGHWAYS and the unusually CLOUDY AIR SPACE that grounded THE AIRCRAFTS AND THE LONG-HAULAGE ARTICULATED VEHICLES, DESIGNATED TO TRANSPORT ALL ELECTORAL MATERIALS for about a WEEK, were all of the DIVINE PLAN to frustrate the EVIL MACHINATIONS of the carnal/desperate, power-monger Nigerian politicians and disgrace them out of the RACE! That was why the sudden, shocking announcement of postponement by INEC, just few hours to commencement of the national polls, at 08.00 hours was beyond HUMAN COMPREHENSION!

There is no doubt that the ALMIGHTY GOD Has again intervened in the affairs of Nigeria, Has destroyed principalities and powers in high places, destabilized their chariots and horses, Has completely ruined their illicit financial resource base AND they are now counting their losses! THE LORD HAS BROKEN THEIR GATES OF BRASS, CUT THEIR BARS OF IRON ASUNDER AND HAS GIVEN VICTORY TO HIS ANOINTED MUHAMMADU BUHARI IN SPITE OF THE POSTPONMENT ACCORDING TO THE 2014 PROPHECY OF TWO TERMS - 2015 - 2023, BY THE SERVANT OF GOD IN ZION!
In spite of the long postponement of about six weeks in 2015, by the PDP ruling administration, BUHARI won the contest convincingly, he will do it again!
The following is INEC'S NEW TIME TABLE:
Mon. (18-02-19), Completion and deployment of electoral materials;
Complete configuration of Smart Card Readers (Sun.17-Thurs. 21-02-19);
Receipt and deployment of Sensitive Election Materials to Local Government Areas (Wed. 20-Thurs. 21-02-2019);
Refresher Training for Ad Hoc Staff, (Thurs.21-02-19);
Deployment of all Sensitive Materials to their designated registration areas of assignment, (Friday, 22-02-19; and
NEW ELECTION DAY, SATURDAY (23-0219)! "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Rom.8:31).

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