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vanguardnews @vanguardnews Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019—5 NEWS HOTLINES POCKET CARTOON 018773962, @vanguardnews 08052867058 <strong>Buhari</strong> receives Akande, Tinubu —President Muhammadu <strong>Buhari</strong> (R) welcoming APC Chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, while Chief Bisi Akande (M) watches, yesterday, in Abuja. <strong>My</strong> <strong>case</strong> <strong>against</strong> <strong>Buhari</strong>, <strong>by</strong> <strong>Atiku</strong> Continues from Page 1 the February 23 presidential election, unlawfully allocated votes to President Muhammadu <strong>Buhari</strong>. <strong>Atiku</strong> in the petition he lodged before the petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, said he would adduce oral and documentary evidence to show that results of the election as announced <strong>by</strong> INEC, especially the votes credited to President <strong>Buhari</strong>, did not represent the lawful valid votes cast. He alleged that in some states, INEC, deducted lawful votes that accrued to him, in its bid to ensure that <strong>Buhari</strong> was returned back to office. Both <strong>Atiku</strong> and the PDP said they would call evidence of statisticians, forensic examiners and fingerprint experts at the hearing of the petition to establish that the scores credited to <strong>Buhari</strong> were not the product of actual votes validly cast at the polling units. <strong>Atiku</strong> and PDP are the petitioners, while INEC, <strong>Buhari</strong> and All Progressives Congress, APC, are respondents in the petition. Nigeria’s elections, bad news for democracy — ex-US envoy Meanwile, a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has thumbed down the 2019 presidential election in the country, describing the election as bad news for democracy and feared that its outcome could affect other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, given Nigeria’s influence in the region. In a 701-word election post-mortem for the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, Campbell also said that the PDP candidate, <strong>Atiku</strong> Abubakar may not win at the tribunal because “<strong>Buhari</strong>’s margin of victory, some four million votes is so large that it is unlikely courts will overturn the result.” Presidency declines comment Contacted over Mr Campbell's remarks, President <strong>Buhari</strong>'s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina declined comments. "I can't comment now because I have not seen the article," he said. <strong>Atiku</strong>, PDP's petition “The petitioners plead and shall rely on electronic video recordings, newspaper reports, photographs and photographic images of several infractions of the electoral process <strong>by</strong> the respondents,” they added. Specifically, the petitioners serialised results recorded from each state of the federation in order to prove that the alleged fraudulent allocation of votes to <strong>Buhari</strong> and the All Progressives Congress, APC, took place at the polling units, the ward collating centres, local government collating centres and the state collating centres. <strong>Atiku</strong> contended that proper collation and summation of the presidential election results would show that contrary to what INEC declared, he garnered a total of 18,356,732 votes, ahead of <strong>Buhari</strong> who he said got a total of 16,741,430 votes. “The petitioners shall rely on the evidence of statisticians, forensic examiners and other experts, detailing the data analysis on the votes at all levels of collation, from the polling units to the final return. “The petitioners state that Smart Card Readers deployed <strong>by</strong> the 1st respondent, in addition to accreditation, equally t r a n s m i t t e d electronically the results of voting from polling units directly to the server of the 1st respondent. The Presiding Officers of the 1st respondent directly inputted the results from the polling units at the end of voting and transmitted directly to the server, in addition to manually taking the Form EC8As to the Continues on Page 41 By Bose Adelaja, Ebun Sessou, Yinka Latona, Chiamaka Uba & Dickson Omobola On frequent <strong>case</strong>s of Building collapse (1) There is usually unholy connivance between builders and some government agents on the one hand, and incompetence on part of builders. The government should be more interested in the quality of buildings. Also, many of the dilapidated buildings must be examined in the spirit and tenets of urban renewal. Where they need to be pulled down they should not hesitate to do so. Mr. Julius Adegunna Clergy Building engineers have a role to play as regards incessant building collapse in the sense that they oversee the work from the foundation till completion. However, some buildings did not pass through qualified hands while others were not well managed and this may have resulted in building collapse. All hands must be on neck. Mr.Oladapo Adewole Apprentice Where are structural engineers when most buildings were improperly planned? Some buildings lack adequate supervision while others are faulty from the foundation. Also, we should not forget to mention the use of substandard materials when talking about incessant building collapse. The authorities concerned should do the needful to avoid loss of lives. Mrs. Okonji Esther Self-employed T he first thing to be considered is the topography and the second is the mixture of building materials before the building commences. Next is to ensure professionals are at work because building quacks are doing more harm than good. Other factors are hasty job and haphazard foundation. Moreso, the use of developers should be discouraged. Mr. Monday Nwabueze Welder High quality and adequate materials should be used . Officials should go round construction sites on inspection and not to extort money from builders. Qualified persons should closely monitor and supervise the jobs which shouldn't be rushed. Periodic testing of the building should be carried out to ascertain the quality. Builders should avoid conversion of building from one storey to two or more. There should be periodic maintenance of all buildings . Mr Adebisi Samson Businessman Incessant building collapse across the country has become a thing of great concern because the builders are not obeying the rules of building and the government is not doing enough to checkmate this. It is high time the authority concerned stepped up actions on this and make the builders to obey the standard rules of building so as avoid continuous loss of lives. Mr. Adebayo Emmanuel Clergy
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