A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election may have been manipulated.

The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this.

The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change the overall national outcome of the election, which took place in February.

There are also questions over the identity of an election official who read out some of the unexplained results.

Oyigbo election official, Dr Dickson Ariaga, announced his name and that he worked for the Federal College of Education in Omoku.

On the recording, the word "Omoku" is indistinct, but there is only one Federal College of Education in Rivers state.

Dr Ariaga then read out the results for each party in alphabetical order, including for all the smaller parties.

They all matched those on the collation sheet the BBC had obtained. But when he reached Mr Tinubu's APC, instead of saying 2,731 as written on our photograph of the sheet, he read out "16,630".

Then for Mr Obi's party (LP) the figure changed again - instead of the 22,289 seen on the sheet, he announced "10,784", more than halving his vote.

The mystery surrounding Dickson Ariaga

We asked the electoral commission if we could speak to Dr Ariaga, but they would not give us his details or reach out to him for us.

We spoke to the election official seated next to Dr Ariaga, but she told us she wasn't authorised to talk to the press.

So we sent a reporter to the Federal College of Education in Omoku, about two hours drive north of Port Harcourt, where he'd said he worked when introducing himself.

The Deputy Provost Moses Ekpa told the BBC: "From our records, both from our payroll and from our human resources, there is no such a name in our system and we don't know such a person."

Moses Ekpa says the Federal College of Education in Omoku has never heard of Dr Ariaga

We tried tracking him down on social media and eventually came across another Facebook account for someone in Port Harcourt, whose profile details had the name Dickson Ariaga.

When we compared an image from this account to the television pictures of Dr Ariaga using Amazon Rekognition software, we achieved a match of 97.2%, indicating a very high probability they're the same man.

Dr Ariaga did not respond to messages sent by us to this account.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/65163713

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They should add APC votes to Labour Party in Rivers State.

Slippy:
A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election may have been manipulated.

The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this.

The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change the overall national outcome of the election, which took place in February.

There are also questions over the identity of an election official who read out some of the unexplained results.


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/65163713

COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE THE BBC LINK THAT PRODUCED THE RESULT AND GRAPH YOU POSTED FOR INDEPENDENT VERIFICATIONS BY PEOPLE WHO WISH?

I and maybe some others with sane heads would rather want to do a self-assertion for your spurious submission.

We wish you are able to man up for this challenge.

Mahmud the criminal must serve jail term. Wicked Wike your time don pass

Mamoud Yakubu and his cohorts will all go to jail. Tinubu will never rule Nigeria

muykem:
They should add APC votes to Labour Party in Rivers State.

An urrchin sported

I wonder how a sane person living in Nigeria thinks that tinubu will get up to 10k votes in the entire rivers state

My the life of all APC supporters, their children, generation unborn be as fair as Rivers presidential elections
Amen

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iREV is not the best means of collating results. That's what the judgement says in Oyetola vs Adeleke.

LP should go to court with their copies of form EC8A & ask inec to come with BVAS in the disputed states. It's as simple as that. All this media emotions will not swing anything

With wike anything is possible.

Wike is wicked.

Zionmdde:
I wonder how a sane person living in Nigeria thinks that tinubu will get up to 10k votes in the entire rivers state

My the life of all APC supporters, their children, generation unborn be as fair as Rivers presidential elections
Amen

Even in this recalculated report, Tinubu still got above 100k votes in rivers, even if he didn't win the state..

I am pretty sure that is above the 10k bar you set

Moferere:
iREV is not the best means of collating results. That's what the judgement says in Oyetola vs Adeleke.

LP should go to court with their copies of form EC8A & ask inec to come with BVAS in the disputed states. It's as simple as that. All this media emotions will not swing anything

M**u person

loffyloffy:


Even in this recalculated report, Tinubu still got above 100k votes in rivers, even if he didn't win the state..

I am pretty sure that is above the 10k bar you set

If a recalculation is done, Atiku of the pdp would be the next president of Nigeria

loffyloffy:


Even in this recalculated report, Tinubu still got above 100k votes in rivers, even if he didn't win the state..

I am pretty sure that is above the 10k bar you set

Free and fair election, no intimidation, no ballot snatching, no rewriting of results, tinubu will not see 10k votes in rivers state

Zionmdde:

Free and fair election, no intimidation, no ballot snatching, no rewriting of results, tinubu will not see 10k votes in rivers state

Am telling you

Either Atiku or Obi might be declared at the end of the day, Tinubu never won any elections, it was just manipulations, this is the reasons Obi of the labour party is always saying he won the February 25th elections, and the international community are not sleeping either.

i wonder what wike was thinking when he was turning labour party votes to apc in a presidential election.
he didn't think a day of reckoning will come just because of hatred and personal greed.

Mickykarim:



COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE THE BBC LINK THAT PRODUCED THE RESULT AND GRAPH YOU POSTED FOR INDEPENDENT VERIFICATIONS BY PEOPLE WHO WISH?

I and maybe some others with sane heads would rather want to do a self-assertion for your spurious submission.

We wish you are able to man up for this challenge.

What is this one saying
Contact BBC if truly you on about any thing .

Slippy:
A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election may have been manipulated.

The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this.

The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change the overall national outcome of the election, which took place in February.





Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/65163713

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They should also investigate the SE Elections

Investigation cannot be one sided but Comprehensive so the full picture is grasped

See how they want to be president
Old school way in 2023

limeta:





What is this one saying
Contact BBC if truly you on about any thing .

CLEARLY, YOU ARE A LIAR WHO DISSEMINATES FALSEHOOD.

Meaning there was never a BBC report for the lies you put out about the Rivers state presidential election results.

IT IS VERY EASY TO PROVE YOU INTERNET FRAUDSTARS ARE SCUMBAGS AND I JUST DID.

Mickykarim:


CLEARLY, YOU ARE A LIAR WHO DISSEMINATES FALSEHOOD.

Meaning there was never a BBC report for the lies you put out about the Rivers state presidential election results.

IT IS VERY EASY TO PROVE YOU INTERNET FRAUDSTARS ARE SCUMBAGS AND I JUST DID.

What a sad soul
Lively up

Go to court.

Moferere:
iREV is not the best means of collating results. That's what the judgement says in Oyetola vs Adeleke.

LP should go to court with their copies of form EC8A & ask inec to come with BVAS in the disputed states. It's as simple as that. All this media emotions will not swing anything

You are the one being emotional hear...

Mickykarim:



COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE THE BBC LINK THAT PRODUCED THE RESULT AND GRAPH YOU POSTED FOR INDEPENDENT VERIFICATIONS BY PEOPLE WHO WISH?

I and maybe some others with sane heads would rather want to do a self-assertion for your spurious submission.

We wish you are able to man up for this challenge.

So you are more knowledgeable than BBC?

Why don't you have your own satellite TV station?

Only APC useless magas doesn't know that Peter Obi won 2023 election. Only them.

Front page please. The criminals know its all over for them. PO is coming