{"id":104059,"date":"2015-03-31T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=104059"},"modified":"2015-03-31T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:04:18","slug":"how-nigeria-reacted-to-tuesdays-drama-at-collation-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=104059","title":{"rendered":"How Nigeria reacted to Tuesday&#8217;s drama at collation centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collation of results at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday\u00a0morning turned dramatic when a former Minister of State of the governing People&#8217;s Development Party \u00a0(PDP) accused the INEC Chairman of colluding with the opposition to rig the elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, Godsday Orubebe accused Attahiru Jega of being partial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are tribalistic! We will not allow it! You are partial! We will not take it.\u00a0Until something is done to our problems the way you did to APC, we will not continue with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then refused to leave the podium at the\u00a0Collation Centre until Jega \u00a0investigated results from Kano.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was resolved after the Commission denied his accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria took to social media to react to the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>PDP are having a moment. What they need at this time is love and not condemnation<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 F (@DoubleEph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoubleEph\/status\/582855020422553602\">March 31, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0\u00a0Lol! Jega wasn&#8217;t tribalistic in 2011 when GEJ won though.. \u2014 Miss Atim (@Mishdoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mishdoo\/status\/582858457688199168\">March 31, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jega?src=hash\">#Jega<\/a>: &#8220;Sir you are a former Minister, you are a statesman in your own right, you should be wary of your conduct&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NigeriaDecides?src=hash\">#NigeriaDecides<\/a> \u2014 Imad Mesdoua (@ImadMesdoua) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImadMesdoua\/status\/582855943668559873\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nAttahiru Jega is the calmest person in Nigeria. No hyperbole. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nigeriadecides?src=hash\">#Nigeriadecides<\/a> \u2014 AYO SOGUNRO (@ayosogunro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ayosogunro\/status\/582852893474205696\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nOkay, now this is getting out of hand. Godsday Orubebe has committed treason on global television. HE MUST GO TO PRISON. \u2014 Chxta of Greece (@Chxta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chxta\/status\/582852811140030464\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nJega seems like the kind of guy to open his door for Armed Robbers! Sit them down! Talk to them Calmly and tell them to go and sin no more.. \u2014 TuNdE (@TuNaLdO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuNaLdO\/status\/582860368948695040\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nWhat not who. Lol. RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amasonic\">@amasonic<\/a>: A Jega in his 30s stood up to a military dictator called IBB. Please, who is an Orubebe? \u2014 Oladipo Fasoro (@dfasoro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfasoro\/status\/582861384905568257\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nlol. this is so hilarious. lose with grace. stand on the legacy of free and fair elections. return strong in 2019. or be&#8230; PDP i guess \u2014 Naz Onuzo (@IamSnazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamSnazz\/status\/582855473348608000\">March 31, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>if Jega can manage this entire election process from start to finish with calm and credibility, he should be considered for the Nobel prize<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Smith (@mikejsmith504) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikejsmith504\/status\/582854731040722944\">March 31, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Ama Agyemang Asante\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collation of results at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday\u00a0morning turned dramatic when a former Minister of State of the governing People&#8217;s Development Party \u00a0(PDP) accused the INEC Chairman of colluding with the opposition to rig the elections. The Minister, Godsday Orubebe accused Attahiru Jega of being partial. &#8220;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":103953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-104059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}