Godswill Akpabio Denies Involvement In Election Rigging Conviction Case #nigeria #akpabio #tinubu
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[{'start': '0.240', 'end': '5.760', 'text': 'in response to recent discussions surrounding the\xa0\nconviction of professor Peter Oban for electoral'}, {'start': '5.760', 'end': '13.120', 'text': 'fraud during the 2019 Aqua Northwest senatorial\xa0\nelection Senator Gautilabio has publicly refuted'}, {'start': '13.120', 'end': '19.360', 'text': 'the claims that acted on his behalf Now through\xa0\na statement issued by his chief press secretary'}, {'start': '19.360', 'end': '25.920', 'text': 'Anet Kong Aquabu asserted that he was in fact a\xa0\nvictim of the electoral malpractice emphasizing'}, {'start': '25.920', 'end': '36.000', 'text': 'that actions led to the cancellation of 61,329\xa0\nvotes from his stronghold in Isino government area'}, {'start': '36.000', 'end': '41.680', 'text': 'adversely affecting his electoral outcome Akpabio\xa0\nhighlighted that the National Assembly election'}, {'start': '41.680', 'end': '46.320', 'text': 'tribunal and the court of appeal recognized these\xa0\nirregularities resulting in the annulment of the'}, {'start': '46.320', 'end': '52.560', 'text': 'election and ordering a rerun in a synonym He\xa0\ncontended that the conviction of when served'}, {'start': '52.560', 'end': '59.120', 'text': 'to vindicate his stance that the election\xa0\nwas manipulated against him not in his favor'}, {'start': '59.120', 'end': '63.520', 'text': 'Now on Wednesday the Court of Appeal upheld\xa0\nthe conviction of Professor Peter Auban a'}, {'start': '63.520', 'end': '67.600', 'text': 'former lecturer at the University of Calabar\xa0\nwho was sentenced to three years in prison'}, {'start': '67.600', 'end': '74.240', 'text': 'for manipulating election results during the 2019\xa0\nAqua Northwest senatorial election Professor Oban'}, {'start': '74.240', 'end': '79.520', 'text': 'serve uh serving as the returning officer for\xa0\nthe election was found guilty of altering votes'}, {'start': '79.520', 'end': '84.640', 'text': "uh vote counts in favor of the APC candidate\xa0\nGod's will Akpabio uh specifically I think"}, {'start': '84.640', 'end': '90.720', 'text': "something around he inflated APC votes by 5,000\xa0\nin Oruruk Anam local government's area and made"}, {'start': '90.720', 'end': '97.600', 'text': 'similar adjusting adjustments in Etim Aqua LGA now\xa0\ndespite these manipulations a Fabio lost election'}, {'start': '97.600', 'end': '103.440', 'text': "to the people's democratic party candidate Chris\xa0\nEkong now the case marks a rare instance where an"}, {'start': '103.440', 'end': '108.800', 'text': 'academic has been held accountable for electoral\xa0\nmalpractice highlighting the critical role of'}, {'start': '108.800', 'end': '114.400', 'text': 'integrity among officials overseeing elections\xa0\nUh it also brings to the forefront the ongoing'}, {'start': '114.400', 'end': '121.200', 'text': 'issues of electoral fraud and the importance of\xa0\nupholding democratic processes in Nigeria Fabio'}, {'start': '121.200', 'end': '127.920', 'text': 'uh former uh governor of Akwa Ibom state won\xa0\nthe 2015 senatorial election in the district as'}, {'start': '127.920', 'end': '137.120', 'text': 'a candidate of the PDP but later in August 2018\xa0\ndefected to the APC He contested again for the'}, {'start': '137.120', 'end': '145.200', 'text': 'senatorial election in 2019 as the APC candidate\xa0\nbut lost to Christopher a former deputy governor'}, {'start': '145.200', 'end': '152.000', 'text': 'of Akwa Ibom state who was the PDP candidate in\xa0\nthe election His victory reportedly came as a'}, {'start': '152.000', 'end': '159.680', 'text': 'shock because of how the PDP has been entrenched\xa0\nin aquarium politics and how his kin and party'}, {'start': '159.680', 'end': '166.560', 'text': "chieftainings rejected his candidacy days before\xa0\nthe poll Uh let's take a look at the reactions"}, {'start': '166.560', 'end': '173.600', 'text': 'uh to this particular uh situation This is Mr\xa0\nMacaroni He says for emphasis the person that'}, {'start': '173.600', 'end': '178.560', 'text': 'the convicted professor rigged an election for\xa0\nis the incumbent uh Senate President of Nigeria'}, {'start': '178.560', 'end': '183.520', 'text': 'Godzilla Fabio For clarification the Senate\xa0\nPresident presides over the deliberations'}, {'start': '183.520', 'end': '189.360', 'text': 'of bills that become law in Nigeria Omar\xa0\nAdon So a lot of people talk about having'}, {'start': '189.360', 'end': '193.520', 'text': 'these professors be the returning officers and\xa0\nthings And these are people who are supposed'}, {'start': '193.520', 'end': '198.960', 'text': "to be above anything They're supposed to uphold\xa0\nintegrity They're university dons And they're not"}, {'start': '198.960', 'end': '205.280', 'text': 'just any university So not just any academics you\xa0\nunderstand And so we just finished a conversation'}, {'start': '205.280', 'end': '209.200', 'text': 'about somebody residing in Delta State because of\xa0\npersonal convictions Now you look at this story'}, {'start': '209.200', 'end': '217.200', 'text': "and you're thinking if it's professors who are my\xa0\nso who was he who was he doing it for the question"}, {'start': '217.200', 'end': '222.080', 'text': "I said can anything come out can anything good\xa0\ncome out of so I I've been having mixed feelings"}, {'start': '222.080', 'end': '227.360', 'text': "about this story but I'm also as tul said okay\xa0\nnow we're seeing that there has been a conviction"}, {'start': '227.360', 'end': '231.120', 'text': "uh there has been a hearing and there has been a\xa0\nsentencing and there's been a conviction and I'm"}, {'start': '231.120', 'end': '238.480', 'text': 'thinking okay you know h when you watch uh crime\xa0\ndramas you know that okay Someone has to take the'}, {'start': '238.480', 'end': '242.960', 'text': "fall for something So you're looking at that kind\xa0\nof situation play out here Someone's taking the"}, {'start': '242.960', 'end': '247.200', 'text': "fall for something You it's convenience for you\xa0\nto distance yourself from it and then you sort"}, {'start': '247.200', 'end': '252.880', 'text': 'him out because that guy is a professor at Unical\xa0\nSo when he comes out of there his professorship is'}, {'start': '252.880', 'end': '259.760', 'text': "tainted Whether he'll get another another job in a\xa0\nuniversity not may not be cal but he may get a job"}, {'start': '259.760', 'end': '266.160', 'text': "as a professor lecturing in a university I don't\xa0\nhow do you do that with a criminal record very"}, {'start': '266.160', 'end': '272.640', 'text': 'excited We know and the thing we know that we are\xa0\nnot seeing whether we like it or not whether we'}, {'start': '272.640', 'end': '278.800', 'text': "like it or not the there's the the picture behind\xa0\nthe picture the picture that and I will tell you"}, {'start': '278.800', 'end': '285.440', 'text': "for a fact that I'm seeing this picture prof will\xa0\ngo and serve time in prison he will come out and"}, {'start': '285.440', 'end': '290.640', 'text': "he'll be sorted okay go first and stay like 6\xa0\nmonths and let's see how they can see how you can"}, {'start': '290.640', 'end': '296.880', 'text': 'serve the remaining part of your term at home or\xa0\nsomething but prison he will go sorted by Akpabio'}, {'start': '296.880', 'end': '301.520', 'text': "and people he will be sorted It's as simple\xa0\nas that We don't want to face that ultimately"}, {'start': '301.520', 'end': '306.400', 'text': 'Someone say "Okay you\'re just speculating." But\xa0\nyeah I\'m speculating I\'m Nigerian Let me speculate'}, {'start': '306.400', 'end': '310.400', 'text': "But I'm saying that this was is going to play out\xa0\non whether we like it or not We'll still come back"}, {'start': '310.400', 'end': '317.520', 'text': 'to this I just I had to sigh first to before I say\xa0\nwhat I want to say But she said this which I want'}, {'start': '317.520', 'end': '326.720', 'text': 'to ask you to as well Can anything good come out\xa0\nof Akpabio Can anything good come out of Akpabio'}, {'start': '327.600', 'end': '335.680', 'text': "There's never been a Senate president that is\xa0\nas mad in corruption and scandals like Akpabio"}, {'start': '335.680', 'end': '344.320', 'text': 'This man is the face and a typification\xa0\nof corruption in leadership I mean we'}, {'start': '344.320', 'end': '352.560', 'text': 'have a a Nigerian president who has a lot\xa0\nof baggage We have the vice president and'}, {'start': '352.560', 'end': '358.960', 'text': 'then we have the senate president All of\xa0\nthem president mad in one corruption after'}, {'start': '358.960', 'end': '365.440', 'text': "another I'm glad these people are talking about\xa0\nthis case because I've been talking about it"}, {'start': '365.440', 'end': '369.680', 'text': "for a while So if you check my previous\xa0\nvideos you'll see it But this is a case"}, {'start': '369.680', 'end': '378.240', 'text': 'where when you look at the Senate\xa0\nPresident when something like this'}, {'start': '378.240', 'end': '383.200', 'text': "comes out is that the Senate President\xa0\nshould have resigned But again there's no"}, {'start': '383.200', 'end': '392.640', 'text': 'shame and obviously the the court should have\xa0\nnullified anything that Akpabio does anyway'}, {'start': '392.640', 'end': '399.760', 'text': 'even though it happened in 2020 2019 um 2019 Yeah\xa0\nLike Akpabio is trying to distance himself from'}, {'start': '399.760', 'end': '404.720', 'text': 'it They rigged the election in your favour You\xa0\nwent for a rerun and withdrew yourself out of it'}, {'start': '404.720', 'end': '412.080', 'text': 'and you said they was rigged against you I mean\xa0\nour politicians wants to play us for full anyway'}, {'start': '412.080', 'end': '418.480', 'text': "Don't you think so So when I asked earlier can\xa0\nanything good come out of Akpabio because every"}, {'start': '418.480', 'end': '426.000', 'text': 'news that Akpabio is part of is scand But before\xa0\nwe go into the details of what this entire case'}, {'start': '426.000', 'end': '429.680', 'text': "is all about I'd like for you to watch this to\xa0\nthe end And if you're meeting this content for"}, {'start': '429.680', 'end': '433.360', 'text': "the first time like share and subscribe And\xa0\nif you've been following us and you've not"}, {'start': '433.360', 'end': '438.080', 'text': 'subscribed do so as well Like share subscribe\xa0\nand also recommend this channel to others'}, {'start': '441.520', 'end': '447.200', 'text': "I've often said this and this is to all\xa0\neveryone who shouting for electoral reform"}, {'start': '447.200', 'end': '454.240', 'text': "is not going to happen Not under this 10th\xa0\nsenate or this 10th assembly Anyone who's"}, {'start': '454.240', 'end': '461.200', 'text': 'shouting for legislative reform is not going to\xa0\nhappen And our judiciary is not going to happen'}, {'start': '461.200', 'end': '468.320', 'text': 'The people that have enabled and abetted\xa0\nthis corrupt politicians are judiciary I'}, {'start': '468.320', 'end': '473.520', 'text': 'mean the neck is there the electoral body\xa0\nis there but the judiciary is the biggest'}, {'start': '473.520', 'end': '478.320', 'text': 'enabler of political corruption\xa0\nin Nigeria Our judiciary is so'}, {'start': '478.320', 'end': '487.920', 'text': 'corrupt The corruption has blinded them completely\xa0\nAll they see is the wave of money flying their'}, {'start': '487.920', 'end': '497.120', 'text': "faces So if we're saying we're waiting for\xa0\npolitical correctness from reform from our"}, {'start': '497.120', 'end': '502.400', 'text': 'from our from our politicians not these are these\xa0\nones who are the beneficiaries of the corruption'}, {'start': '502.400', 'end': '510.080', 'text': 'I like the way the guy Mr Macaroni encapsulated\xa0\nit The same person who is meant to preside over'}, {'start': '510.080', 'end': '517.040', 'text': 'the bills that becomes law laws in Nigeria the\xa0\nsame one mad in corruption We can say the same'}, {'start': '517.040', 'end': '523.280', 'text': "thing as well the same person that's meant to be\xa0\nour president mad in corruption You see that So"}, {'start': '523.280', 'end': '528.160', 'text': 'how is he how is he going to market Nigeria\xa0\nIf we want to say go to the world and go and'}, {'start': '528.160', 'end': '534.960', 'text': "bring investors into Nigeria they will look at the\xa0\npresident say is that the president who's been you"}, {'start': '534.960', 'end': '543.920', 'text': "know caught in different cases of corruption We\xa0\ndon't know is what his real age is He understand"}, {'start': '543.920', 'end': '549.520', 'text': 'So when we have politicians who are demarketing\xa0\nNigeria all across the entire world what do you'}, {'start': '549.520', 'end': '554.880', 'text': "think is going to happen Investors will run\xa0\naway and that's exactly what you see Their"}, {'start': '554.880', 'end': '560.000', 'text': "policies will ruin Nigeria That's exactly\xa0\nwhat you're seeing Anyway let's go back to"}, {'start': '560.000', 'end': '571.760', 'text': 'Akpabio Everything Akpabio says and does in\xa0\ninternational assembly comes with scandals'}, {'start': '571.760', 'end': '580.320', 'text': 'But as Natasha Akpoti or the case of saying\xa0\npoverty is not a crime is not a sin as insensitive'}, {'start': '580.320', 'end': '586.560', 'text': 'or when he says that was sending prayers into your\xa0\nmailbox which we know was giving people money or'}, {'start': '586.560', 'end': '592.240', 'text': 'allegations that the national assembly was asking\xa0\nfor Brian from our from our educational sector so'}, {'start': '592.240', 'end': '598.640', 'text': 'that they can pass their budget just to name a few\xa0\nIs it laws or when the executive want something'}, {'start': '598.640', 'end': '605.760', 'text': "done they bribe them This 10th assembly is the one\xa0\nwe're counting on to make electoral reform happen"}, {'start': '605.760', 'end': '614.000', 'text': "in Nigeria Please we have to be smart and wise\xa0\nIt's not going to happen because when electoral"}, {'start': '614.000', 'end': '619.520', 'text': 'system is sorted out they will not benefit from it\xa0\nThey will be the ones to lose So because they know'}, {'start': '619.520', 'end': '624.880', 'text': 'the rules of the game that if corruption is sorted\xa0\nout they will not have where to be where they'}, {'start': '624.880', 'end': '629.840', 'text': "where they are right now And most of the monies\xa0\nthey made they'll return them back who they know"}, {'start': '629.840', 'end': '636.000', 'text': "that's why they will never let justice be what\xa0\njustice should be Let's go to our judiciary the"}, {'start': '636.000', 'end': '641.440', 'text': 'biggest enabler of corruption like this judiciary\xa0\nI mean you remember the case of the emo state'}, {'start': '641.440', 'end': '647.840', 'text': 'governor um this current governor oppos that same\xa0\nguy who was not number one two or three on the'}, {'start': '647.840', 'end': '653.120', 'text': 'electoral um result but he became the the governor\xa0\nof the state Look at what they turn email state'}, {'start': '653.120', 'end': '663.120', 'text': 'into Almost all the time all the people that the\xa0\njudiciary select to become leaders in Nigeria have'}, {'start': '663.120', 'end': '668.240', 'text': 'either ruined the state or completely ruined\xa0\nthe state you know to the ground Whereas the'}, {'start': '668.240', 'end': '675.360', 'text': "state or the federal they've done the same thing\xa0\nto the same thing exactly the same thing again"}, {'start': '675.360', 'end': '681.520', 'text': 'Can anything good come out of our AkpabioThe\xa0\nSenate President where the Senate is mad in'}, {'start': '681.520', 'end': '688.240', 'text': "corruption Person that said Nigeria is a\xa0\ncrime scene Again that person wasn't far"}, {'start': '688.240', 'end': '694.880', 'text': 'from the truth Nigeria is a serious crime scene\xa0\nOur politicians have turned Nigeria into a crime'}, {'start': '694.880', 'end': '705.360', 'text': "scene It's in point Now this man has taken\xa0\nthe fall for the bribe A good name is always"}, {'start': '705.360', 'end': '711.200', 'text': "better than gold and silver Again you can\xa0\nargue that's not true in Nigeria Maybe so"}, {'start': '711.200', 'end': '715.920', 'text': "I guess when the man looks at himself tomorrow\xa0\nthey've given him some money Like the lady said"}, {'start': '715.920', 'end': '724.000', 'text': "he's been sorted No but your name is mired\xa0\nin corruption Look at the case of Dani Look"}, {'start': '724.000', 'end': '729.920', 'text': 'at Yahaya The one that people had so much hope\xa0\nfor the people of Instead drained their state'}, {'start': '729.920', 'end': '734.400', 'text': 'This is the same Akpabio that was accused of\xa0\nstealing a lot of money from Akai state or'}, {'start': '734.400', 'end': '740.320', 'text': 'when he was in charge of the NDDDC Our\xa0\npoliticians have turned Nigeria into a'}, {'start': '740.320', 'end': '746.240', 'text': 'full crime zone Our judiciary is the enabler of\xa0\nthe politicians who are you know destroying our'}, {'start': '746.240', 'end': '752.720', 'text': 'country and our professors who are meant to be\xa0\nbetter at a level higher than our politicians'}, {'start': '752.720', 'end': '761.120', 'text': 'and become their servants errand boys in rigging\xa0\nelections When will this tople I told you several'}, {'start': '761.120', 'end': '770.000', 'text': 'times when you sell your vote split that into\xa0\nfour parts and then say each part is for each'}, {'start': '770.000', 'end': '775.680', 'text': "year If somebody pays you 20,000 it means that\xa0\nyou've been giving 5,000 for a year That's your"}, {'start': '775.680', 'end': '785.120', 'text': "value Bear in mind multiply that by a million\xa0\nThat's how much they will take from each person"}, {'start': '785.120', 'end': '791.280', 'text': "that they brand So I'm telling you right now\xa0\n2027 is approaching Let's continue with this"}, {'start': '791.280', 'end': '796.400', 'text': "sensitization we're doing It works That's why you\xa0\ncan see them They're ramping up all the things"}, {'start': '796.400', 'end': '802.880', 'text': "they're doing so far Wanting to make sure that\xa0\nNigeria don't catch them offside off offside I"}, {'start': '802.880', 'end': '809.600', 'text': "will use that for boiling term Okay We are better\xa0\noff than all these politicians that we've now come"}, {'start': '809.600', 'end': '815.280', 'text': "to run behind For them politics is where they can\xa0\nsteal money It's not where they can make Nigeria"}, {'start': '815.280', 'end': '823.040', 'text': "better Don't be a tool in their hands to steal\xa0\nmoney because when you do that you're never going"}, {'start': '823.040', 'end': '829.280', 'text': "to be better off I'm telling you all of this\xa0\nfor free You're never going to be better off"}, {'start': '829.280', 'end': '835.920', 'text': 'when they when you steal elections for them like\xa0\nInk did the last time The the money they would'}, {'start': '835.920', 'end': '841.440', 'text': "have used to fix your road fighting security\xa0\nis what they've used already Can Mahmud Yakubu"}, {'start': '841.440', 'end': '847.120', 'text': 'go to his own village now How many Nigerians\xa0\ncan travel on the road safely without worrying'}, {'start': '847.120', 'end': '853.680', 'text': 'corrupt politicians Our politicians have turned\xa0\nNigeria into a crime scene The Senate President'}, {'start': '853.680', 'end': '861.200', 'text': "accused of you know electoral crime and he tries\xa0\nto distance himself from it but yet he's the one"}, {'start': '861.200', 'end': '868.400', 'text': "that's meant to oversee the laws of Nigeria\xa0\nMake that make sense So I'm telling all of"}, {'start': '868.400', 'end': '873.280', 'text': 'you professors as well many of you that watch\xa0\nme around the world stop rigging election for'}, {'start': '873.280', 'end': '881.280', 'text': "politicians It's not right And when they get\xa0\ninto power they never going to do anything"}, {'start': '881.280', 'end': '888.640', 'text': 'that will benefit you They will defect See you\xa0\ndefected from PDP to APC Uh Aurora and the likes'}, {'start': '888.640', 'end': '893.360', 'text': "around Delta State they've all defected from\xa0\nPDP to APC Is their common interest And now"}, {'start': '893.360', 'end': '899.600', 'text': "we're hearing Fubara going to meet we get to\xa0\nsettle common interest That's what they say"}, {'start': '899.600', 'end': '905.840', 'text': 'of them in politics is common interest not common\xa0\nenemy or permanent enemy just permanent interest'}, {'start': '905.840', 'end': '910.160', 'text': "That's what it is So let's stop playing\xa0\nthe fool for our politicians because if"}, {'start': '910.160', 'end': '916.400', 'text': 'not they will continue to use us to mop the\xa0\nfloor get themselves wealthier As always if'}, {'start': '916.400', 'end': '919.440', 'text': "you're meeting this content for the first time\xa0\nlike share and subscribe And if you following"}, {'start': '919.440', 'end': '923.440', 'text': "us and you've not subscribed please please do so I\xa0\nwill catch you up in the next 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