firearcher:
In a way, I am thankful for the fact that this went to the tribunal. It gave those who claim they won the chance to prove they did before the whole world and they failed at it and in thoroughly convincing manner.

The point when they started spending time arguing for the winner's disqualification rather than proving they won settled it for me.

Aptly said! Gbam

The truth is inec never wanted to release all documents requested by LP lawyers to pursue their case that if you actually followed the case but LP too had no agents at most polling units but we're relying a photo shoot of polling results from electorate which they could not present to court.Lamidi papa said it and he was the mole APC use to finish them off.

firearcher:
In a way, I am thankful for the fact that this went to the tribunal. It gave those who claim they won the chance to prove they did before the whole world and they failed at it and in thoroughly convincing manner.

The point when they started spending time arguing for the winner's disqualification rather than proving they won settled it for me.

DMerciful:
We don't need the collation, we need the transmission so everybody sees the results in real-time immediately after voting is counted.

You are happy that electronic transmission and IREV has been relegated. Do you really know what this means?

You need two things for that

1. A new voting device
2. Amendment of the electoral act especially where it related to the EC series documention and their processes.

Until then you have automatic accrediting, manual voting, manual recording and manual collation and finally e -display on irev.

It's very simple to understand.

duro4chang:
Keep quiet. Obi is not god. He is even not fit to be a councillor.

We know say Tinubu is your god and personal savior. What do i know?
I do not waste time to relate with dunces.

Run along. Them don give you 500 naira rice and 3 onions, na to come public disgrace yourself be next thing.
Ozuor.

You do realize VAR is just a referee in a room that can rewind to see what happened slowly then communicate with the referee right?

VAR is video assisted referee....its a human being, not entirely aachine like IREV

Jsucre:
sometimes VAR dey malfunctioning during march

Global2000:
Nigeria with it's judicial system should be spit on. Even Afghanistan with its extremism can be more trusted than bunch of corrupt judges ( future killers/ day bandit). I spit. Scheiss Nigeria!!.

Don't waste your spit o...go to Afghanistan please

This is the best election ever conducted in this country

Yes but IREV must happen immediately after counting at the polling units. Is this too much to ask?

BreconHills:


You need two things for that

1. A new voting device
2. Amendment of the electoral act especially where it related to the EC series documention and their processes.

Until then you have automatic accrediting, manual voting, manual recording and manual collation and finally e -display on irev.

It's very simple to understand.

slowice:
The judiciary made a mockery of the judicial system yesterday.

They delivered the verdict not as judges of the pept but as tinubu's lawyers. They were just defending him instead of doing their job.

And what was their job if not to rule based on the submissions before them? Keep your emotions in check and prove your case with empirically verifiable evidence or do the needful.

valentineuwakwe:
My only fear was the INEC judgement ....so INEC is not mandated to transmit result electronically so why the brohala about the electoral acts of 2022? Why was transmission of results electronically inserted in the act?why did the houses of assembly pass your bill? Why did yakubu promise what he couldnt do? Why was over N300bn invested on inec? Why did INEC change the goalpost in the middle of the game?
People forget that it was the electronic transfer of result that made the electoral acts thick and even made people come out whole heartedly to cast their votes and now PEPT is telling us this......

Seems the only thing now is to fight n rig your way into the system, then tell INEC to declare which way!
I wonder what they will say or tell Nigerians again in the forth coming elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo state.
But for me and my household never will I come out to queue and vote in any Nigerian elections again.it does not worth the stress!

Stop misleading the public, electronic transmission is not in the electoral act. Please show us the pages.

INEC said they will transmit electronically, if they can't meet up , there's no crime in that. So far there's no law that mandate them.

. Very true. It was l.p against the court

Abidele:


Tell that to the druggie who turned judges to defence lawyers.

a man that came third wants to be president by force

It will vanish because you lost election and at the tribunal. Are the first to loose? Pls go on appeal if you like and shut up

These lawyers never finish with Obi...
Even the Obi himself is blind to see that the lawyers are just milking him...

Eyah!

By the time the lawyers are done with him, Obi will have to check his account balance

Isokotolopia:
If you like attack him without seeing the wisdom in what he posited

he should go and sleep they should go pay their fines for wasting court time on frivolities

Loser. Go and collect your balance from Obi

waveman2:
The truth is inec never wanted to release all documents requested by LP lawyers to pursue their case that if you actually followed the case but LP too had no agents at most polling units but we're relying a photo shoot of polling results from electorate which they could not present to court.Lamidi papa said it and he was the mole APC use to finish them off.

Well, that means they just went out and gambled that they won and never really had the figures to back it up in the first place. Or on what basis will you claim you won if you don't have an estimated figure compiled by your situation room with your polling agents to compare with the ones iNEC eventually released.

Whytelyon:


We know say Tinubu is your god and personal savior. What do i know?
I do not waste time to relate with dunces.

Run along. Them don give you 500 naira rice and 3 onions, na to come public disgrace yourself be next thing.
Ozuor.

He is not my god. Obi may be your lord and saviour. He obi is not fit to be our president. We say no to pandora

All this judges who claims to be learned are just fouling themself not Nigerians.
Bc court do not know that inec is independent when they turned many elections that inec declare A to B. Basing it that inec do not do the right thing
Now when it comes to this current judgement all they is that inec is independent to do any thing they want, who is fooling who.
About 25per. Of ftc, certificate saga, drug saga, all of them is also independent. No comment

That was why I said LP and peter obi where never serious with this election.Most notable politicians still call peter obi a baby politician although sound but inexperienced.

firearcher:


Well, that means they just went out and gambled that they won and never really had the figures to back it up in the first place. Or on what basis will you claim you won if you don't have an estimated figure compiled by your situation room with your polling agents to compare with the ones iNEC eventually released.

DMerciful:
Yes but IREV must happen immediately after counting at the polling units. Is this too much to ask?

It is too much to ask because of the intermediate processes. The DC series copies of the EC forms must be given to the police for safekeeping. It takes time.

Also the question to ask is why did the final EC forms were not subpoenaed by obi and atiku? That is one of the mysteries my over 40 years at the bar cannot answer.

DMerciful:
We must appeal!

We actually want to waste our time and resources.

We also want the judgement to be set as precedence and there's no better place for precedence to be set good or bad.

We want the Supreme Court to say INEC can change the mode of transmission during election.

We want them to say Thuvb drug case was targeting his accounts and not him

We want them to say Guinean citizenship was not included initially

We want them to say IREV and electronic transmission is optional

We want them to say you can forge your certificate

We want them to say a political party cannot sue another whether pre or post election

We want them to say even if you supply INEC certify true copies, you still need polling unit witness and EC8s tendered

We want them to say you must prove polling unit by polling unit upto 100 thousand even if you have 2 months.

Once the Supreme Court upholds these dangerous precedence, then we can rest but we will not rest before then!

You are so intelligent. I told my friends yesterday that; in a bid to uphold that sham election in favour of Apc, the court is setting a negative precedent that will affect majority of these APC members clapping. Going to the Supreme Court will stamp the precedent entirely, if not set-aside..

tolue42:


Stop misleading the public, electronic transmission is not in the electoral act. Please show us the pages.

INEC said they will transmit electronically, if they can't meet up , there's no crime in that. So far there's no law that mandate them.

I am perturbed that the judges at the tribunal sold dummy to you. Here below is what the EA says concerning electronic transmission of results even with penalty if not done. Please check specifically section 60 (5) and also INEC guideline 93.


This is the electoral Act quoted verbatim.

Section 60 Nigeria Electoral Act 2022
Counting of votes and forms

(1) The Presiding officer shall, after counting the votes at the polling unit, enter the votes scored by each candidate in a form to be prescribed by the Commission as the case may be.

'footnote'
Note the words "to be prescribed by the commission"

(2) The form shall be signed and stamped by the presiding officer and counter signed by the candidates or their polling agents where available at the polling unit.


(3) The presiding officer shall give to the polling agents and the police officer where available a copy each of the completed forms after it has been duly signed as provided under subsection (2).

(4) The presiding officer shall count and announce the result at the polling unit.

(5) The presiding officer shall transfer the results including total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot in a manner as prescribed by the Commission.
'footnote'
Pls what are they transferring?
Did the commission prescribed any method to transfer the said accredited voters and results of the ballot?

(6) A presiding officer who wilfully contravenes any provision of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not more than N5 00,000 or imprisonment for a term of at least six months.

'Footnote'
This is the penalty accrued for not following the law and guideline provided by the commission.

Section 64 Nigeria Electoral Act 2022

(4) A collation officer or returning officer at an election shall collate and announce the result of an election, subject to his or her verification and confirmation that the –
(a) number of accredited voters stated on the collated result are correct and consistent with the number of accredited voters recorded and transmitted directly from polling units under section 47 (2) of this Act;

'footnote'
Note the word recorded and transmitted. The word is not submitted but transmitted. These are two different words, meaning different thing.

(b) the votes stated on the collated result are correct and consistent with the votes or results recorded and transmitted directly from polling units under section 60 (4) of this Act.

'footnote'
Transmitted directly from the polling units.

(5) Subject to subsection (1), a collation officer or returning officer shall use the number of accredited voters recorded and transmitted directly from polling units under section 47 (2) of this Act and the votes or results recorded and transmitted directly from polling units under section 60 (4) of this Act to collate and announce the result of an election if a collated result at his or a lower level of collation is not correct.

'footnote'
It is even mandatory for a collation officer or returning officer to compare the recorded results with transmitted results from the above section.

(6) Where during collation of results, there is a dispute regarding a collated result or the result of an election from any polling unit, the collation officer or returning officer shall use the following to determine the correctness of the disputed result –
(a) the original of the disputed collated result for each polling unit where the
election is disputed;
(b) the smart card reader or other technology device used for accreditation of voters in each polling unit where the election is disputed for the purpose of
obtaining accreditation data directly from the smart card reader or technology device;
(c) data of accreditation recorded and transmitted directly from each polling unit where the election is disputed as prescribed under section 47 (2) of this Act; and
'footnote'
In this section, it was made explicit that in case there is a dispute in the collation of results, it is expected for the collation officer or returning officer to rely on data of accreditation recorded and transmitted directly from each polling unit so disputed.

(d) the votes and result of the election recorded and transmitted directly from
each polling unit where the election is disputed, as prescribed under section 60 (4) of this Act.

(7) If the disputed result under subsection (6) were otherwise found not to be correct, the collation officer or returning officer shall re-collate and announce a new result
using the information in subsection (6) (a)-(d).


Section 65 Nigeria Electoral Act 2022
Decision of returning officer on ballot paper


(1) The decision of the returning officer shall be final on any question arising from or relating to –
(a) unmarked ballot paper;
(b) rejected ballot paper; and
(c) declaration of scores of candidates and the return of a candidate:

Provided that the Commission shall have the power within seven days to review the declaration and return where the Commission determines that the said declaration and return was not made voluntarily or was made contrary to the provisions of the law, regulations and guidelines, and manual for the election.

The last paragraph is even the cruise of everything. The commission even reserve the right to void an announced results within seven days wherein its detected that the declaration was done against the provisions of the law and guidelines and manual for the election.
'footnote'
Breached of:
1. Provisions of the law (both constitution and Electoral Act)
2. INEC guidelines
3. INEC manual so provided
The breached of any of these three can render the election null and void according to Electoral Act quoted above.

By the last paragraph of section 65, INEC not following its own guidelines make every election null and void as stated above.

INEC guidelines for you to read
92. At every level of collation, where the INEC copy of collated results from the
immediate lower level of collation exists, it shall be adopted for collation.

93. Where the INEC hardcopy of collated results from the immediate lower level of collation does not exist, the Collation Officer shall use electronically transmitted results or results from the IReV portal to continue collation. Where none of these exist, the Collation Officer shall ask for duplicate hardcopies issued by the Commission to the following bodies in the order below:
(i) The Nigeria Police Force; and
(ii) Agents of Political Parties

94. Where no hardcopy of collated results is available, the results, where possible, shall be regenerated from the preceding level (Collation or Polling Unit) in accordance with Clause 93 of these Regulations and Guidelines.

Now, INEC collated results, they were asked to make them available but went giving blurred results, knowing fully well that a CTC is also tenable in court.

I would advise that those aggrieved should go back to court, that is supreme court to test the veracity of the law, if INEC chairman would be greater than what the law and guidelines say.

The lawyer has just said nothing relevant. In all his statement, he didn't pick against one of the matters that were dismissed but he dedicated about 80% of his talks on live streaming.

The sleeping lawyers 🤣

JoshTim:


Did you bother to study the electoral act. Half knowledge is no knowledge at all. You are not different from an illiterate. You should have studied the electoral act to know the caveats to the 'transmit result electronically" before coming out to argue blindly.

Stop calling someone who is much more educated than your entire life illiterate. The fact you know the electoral acts more doesn't give you the guts to insults me...watch your words Mr.

A mad man once said .......

Johncarlo07:


Mumu man! Same reasoning from Agbadorians across board.
Soo a Doyin Okupe dat was formerly a spokesman to a former president, couldn't afford Range Rover, until d obedient movement?

U shld donate ur brain willingly to a lab. Medical students will need it.
Instead of wasting it away here!

Are you aware that Doyin Okupe was selling eggs and begging people on twitter to buy during the covid lockdown?

When I say you Obidients are stupid, it is not a curse, na fact. In your own case, you are a 5th generation fool from a lineage of idiots.

Unfortunately, what Nigerians could deduce from this miscarriage of justice by some corrupt judges are, inter alia, as follows:

1. Thrash any guidelines anywhere you go: according to this tribunal: they don't matter even with video evidence
2. 'And' is no longer what it is
3. Don't depend on Nigerian Judiciary
4. Take the law into your hands!
5. ..
6. ..

muykem:
I will recommend you read the case of Oyetola vs Adeleke in Osun. Oyetola proved his case and succeeded at election tribunal but lost to technicalities at appeal and supreme Court for relying on INEC accreditation print out and not refer to BVAS.

They all hailed the judgement because ot was against Tinubu’s cousin, now they are crying over a similar judgement.

valentineuwakwe:


Stop calling someone who is much more educated than your entire life illiterate. The fact you know the electoral acts more doesn't give you the guts to insults me...watch your words Mr.

More educated?...can you be more educated than a PhD holder?....lol.

But, try to study the electoral act, it will guide you. No harm meant.

IfnobeGod20:

Check your age and relate it very well. At the age of 28 Peter Obi had become a millionaire with a known enterprise. Now look back and check your age and see that you have a wasted journey of yours, just because you refused to do legitimate thing that Peter Obi did to become millionaire at age 28. Just to tell you that Peter Obi is a made man and doesn't need to go on catfish farming again because he had broken the even of poverty and God had made him a billionaire with known enterprise, that his generations to come will benefit from his hardwood and sincerity to live a transparent life.
My sincere advise for you, stop attaching yourself to the apron string of politicians because it would never do you good. Start thinking of generation to come and what legacy you will leave behind for them as Peter Obi has done for his next generation and how our greatest ace Pa Awolowo did, that his children are reaping from. A word is enough for the wise.

u guys have poor intelligence... Any small thing obi na billionaire is Atiku and tinubu poor... Is obi feeding the world u think the world revolves around u deluded Igbos or obidients them... Comot road abeg