HOW ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED

...Hon Jeff Imoh, Political Consultant and Strategist.

A lot of Nigerians wonder why the APC presidential candidate decided to pick a Muslim running mate in the 2023 election amidst the ill-feeling and fear of Islamization christians have about the current government in place in Nigeria today.

Some schools of thought wonder how one can exhibit that level of insensibility and confidence at the same time in making such critical and determinant decision with an assumption of positive consequences coupled with early celebration of success in 2023 election victory as is currently going on in lagos state.

As the whole nation celebrate the passing of the electoral act hoping that election rigging in Nigeria has been controlled , the master of the game is busy celebrating, confident that the new electoral law has made rigging easy for them .

In the stake holders meeting conducted by Imo state government after the visit of the APC presidential candidate to Imo state, the governor reassured his loyalist that they should go to bed and sleep with their two eyes closed because
Tinubu will win the election because the electoral act rather than stopping rigging enhances it,

This statement can only be made by master riggers alone and people who do not take campaign seriously. They are the end game politicians and what matters to them are the results and not the process.

Having functioned as a coordinator of my senatorial Zone during the formation of APC, as a local government Chairman under the APC we were exposed to some unconventional govt rigging techniques .

What we learnt I will share with you so we can all work together and achieve a free, fair credible election come 2023 with the hope that INEC will be impartial enough not to allow rigging through their system otherwise APC will structure the system into the Florida style where any vote keyed in for Atiku or Obi will automatically go to Tinubu.

Other forms of rigging include single acts or a combination of acts depending on your environment or factors;

1.. The existing disenfranchising of people especially in Lagos state by not allowing non yorubas register insisting they should return to their states of origin to register and vote and not where they reside. This is typical of APC controlled states.

2.Collection of PVC in some of these states are usually a big problem because most of the INEC workers in these states were planted by BAT or by Governor's loyal to him ..Few years back a lot of non indigenes added yoruba names to their real names and in some cases it took the intervention of INEC commissioners in Abuja to collect their PVC in lagos state.

3. On the day of election apart from using thugs and money to buy votes they equally resort to disqualifying people using the card reader. Ones you are not part of them, you will be instructed to go to another polling booth. Voters are , turned around and at the end of the day they will not be able to exercise their franchise .

These are the simple ways of vote surpression and election rigging .



4. But if INEC compromises, then the election is over because INEC may create what is called extra units. These units constitute an overflow of the existing polling units. Most Governors use this for rigging because people don't know they exist.

5. The masterpiece. This system allows for the provision of both original and fake results transmitters..This involves the duplication of INEC system where the fake ones are sent to the field whereas the original INEC gadgets are kept with the party agents who are housed in a particular place to send their own written results to INEC with the actual INEC gadgets.
How does it work you may ask? . After accreditation agents at the field units call in the total accredited voters to the housed agents per polling unit for the housed agents to make a determination of the numbers to allocate without crossing total accredited in that unit.

6. The last is called '2019 ' system ,this system is implanting a middle man between the result from the states and the actual result to be announced. In this case the middle man vets results from states and make corrections to suit the party before submission for announcements. This can be done with the influence of the presidency .

People always wonder why most times the crowd or followship a political party commands during campaign doesn't reflect on the result of the election and the simple answer is because those parties don't have structures.
Structures, are absolutely important and necessary for parties to be able to checkmate being rigged out and Parties like Labour don't have it. I listened to prof Pat Utomi on channel TV talking about his laughable political structure, I felt sorry for labour's party. Structure is a bunch of political criminals used for purpose of rigging elections or blocking same. I wonder if Pat knows why Oluomo is very important to Tinubu.

For PDP and L P to see the light of the day their structures must be up and doing to checkmate these people in all APC states .

Pat Utomi stated how they will put 15 LP loyalist in each polling units of the federation, that is if a compromised police officers will allow them to be there to protect vote ,in cases like that Governors usually send their agents to polling units to identify the opposition, accuse them of electoral disturbance, arrest them and keep them in jail till the next day.

LP and PDP need political consultants to help them structure ways to prevent APC onslaught or this election is over because APC govt understands that they have lost it, and the entire country is against them and the only option available to achieve victory is by rigging.


APC as a party in power should not be taken for granted. With the amount of resources available to them they have the financial muscle to pay #100 ,000 (hundred thousand naira ) per vote at the polls and with this as mindset, there will be no need for them to campaign but only push their policies to impoverish, create hunger , make Nigerians beggars and buy their conscience to stay in power.

Nigerians will fall for it, thereby voting an 84yr old sick man president of Nigeria .God will help us written by. Hon Jeff Imoh political consultant and strategist

Good writup.

That means it is finished.

We know what APC is capable of doing

Even without rigging with the look of how election is going I don't think L. P have any stand here in South West, to me this presidential election is between PDP and APC, if them day deceive me I no go deceive myself.