There was fresh revelation Tuesday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) disclosed that only 293,072 voters were accredited for the April 11 governorship poll in Rivers State.

INEC Deputy Director on Information Communication Technology‎ (ICT), Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoye disclosed this during the ongoing Rivers State governorship election tribunal in Abuja.

‎This was contrary to initial disclosure by the electoral commission which put the total number of accredited voters to about 1,029, 102.

Oladunjoye revealed the data after persistent questioning by the Counsel to the petitioner, Mr Akinlolu Olujimi, (SAN).

The respondent lawyers which include; Onyechi Ikpeazu (INEC), Emmanue Okala (for Wike) and Chris Uche (for PDP) made effort to discourage the witness from disclosing the information which according to them was already in the document presented to the Tribunal Chairman, Justice Mohammed Ambrosa.

According to Oladunjoye, who is also INEC ‎Head of Data Management Unit explained that the information gathered from card readers were periodically uploaded to the central server of the commission automatically.

She said though, it may be delayed due to network interruption.

“I am aware that the commission took a decision that the smart card reader should be used for accreditation on governorship election.

“On election day every voters are supposed to come to the polling unit with his or her voters’ card. The Incident Form is issued to a voter when the card reader cannot successfully accredit him or her and this.

“The server was available for the card reader data uploading throughout the period of the election and was shut down six weeks after the election,’’ Oladunjoye added.

When cross-examined by INEC counsel, ‎Ikpeazu, ‎(SAN), Oladunjoye said that the card reader machine used for the presidential election was the same used for governorship.

According to her, the only issue in the card reader machine is that the machines were only reconfigured before the governorship election.

She also said that if a voter card was damaged, the card reader machine may not be able to recognise it, adding that, if it was dirty, the card reader will still recognise it.

“If a card is damage, the card reader may not be able to recognise it, the card reader are RF ID card which has antennal; the card reader communicate to the antennal to enable it read.

“So if the card is dirty, I don’t think there is a problem,’’ She added.

When further questioned by the Counsel to Wike, Ukala, (SAN) during cross examination, Oladunjoye disclosed that the card reader recognises information which includes the registration area, polling unit and serial number of voters.

Other information recognised by the card reader machine are Local Government Area, delimitation constituency, a signal of a fail or successful accreditation and total number of accredition made by the machine.

Earlier, Senior Police Officer, Mr. Tafa Michael from Mopol 48, AHODA, Rivers state told the tribunal that he was able to make arrest of over 70 people in Seme, a satellite town in the state as a result of the distress call he got from his superior officers on the day of election.

According to Michael, the call came in at about 12: 45 p.m. and that he quickly moves into action alongside his team to the town where he was directed to go.

“On arrival at Seme, there was a compound opposite the PDP secretariat which I was informed by people living in that area that, inside the house there are a lot of people with electoral materials.

“I came down with my men from our vehicle and we met the people including some security men jubilating with electoral material inside the compound.

“They came there with a lorry and we evacuated them to our place after taking some shot of them with our phones,’’ the witness said.

Michael listed Corp members, INEC ad-hoc staffs, PDP party agent with electoral materials like card reader machine, thumb printed ballot papers, electoral boxes, inkpad, T-Shirts and other security personnel as those ‎recovered from the said compound.

According to the witness, after leaving that venue, they took the people to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Nigerian Police.

http://thenationonlineng.net/only-293072-voters-accredited-for-rivers-guber-polls-inec-official/

hmm

Wike/PDP cannot escape what is about to befall them.

Where are those who said Amaechi lost both battle & war and that Mama Piss will be laughing because Amaechi failed DSS screening. You guys will soon realize there is a Grand Chess Game going on.

Wike, shebi you sabi probe? Just wait till when you are sacked and stripped of immunity, then you shall explain what you did with over N120B in only 4 months.

Amaechi's laughter loading....

Wike's case is settled already. He might as well start packing.

gobe!

News like dis just has dis effect on me I cannot explain. Anyways, I'm watching things unfold.

Even my dog knows that the election was rigged marred and end up in violence of which I know before the election, the truth is that Wike empowered many tout in Rivers state to Rig the election in his favour.

See gobe

And some people will make us believe that Osinbanjo was sent to beg Wike on his recent visit to Rivers State.

I believe he was ther to negotiate Wikes Terms and Conditions for surrender and possibly amnesty for the sleeping buffet.

Front page pls.....

Why do we think wike sleeps during the day? Because he doesn't sleep at night ; tribunal things on his mind!

This powerful revelation should make front page nah.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-inec-says-only-293-072-voters-were-accredited-during-april-11-guber-polls/220304/

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Rivers State governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja that only 293,072 persons were accredited to vote during the April 11 gubernatorial polls in the state.

This was the revelation given by the INEC witness, Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoye, who came to the Justice Suleiman Ambrosa-led tribunal on subpoena.

‎Testifying at the resumed hearing on Tuesday, Oladunjoye who is also the Deputy Director in charge of INEC ICT and Database,noted that the available data, "the total number of accredited voters for the governorship election in River State were 293,072".

The INEC witness in her analysis, admitted the documents were presented to tribunal were all brought from the Rivers election, but noted that it was "possible all the results were not uploaded having followed the order from INEC that servers were to be shut down after six weeks".

Mods abeg do the needful nah to this mind buggling revelation.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-inec-says-only-293-072-voters-were-accredited-during-april-11-guber-polls/220304/

with the look of things wike is an interim gov .

This news remind of Liberia Presidential election in 1927 " Charles D. B. King "
lalasticlala

Wike!!

The end justifies the means WIKE.......... we know........awaiting re-run of election

Wike is going down

OtunbaJega:
Wike is going down

Big time

Wike is a goner !!!

Wike knows something we may not know. This explains why he has not moved into the official residence.

Na wa o, Wike days r numbered.

Bevista:
Wike/PDP cannot escape what is about to befall them.

Where are those who said Amaechi lost both battle & war and that Mama Piss will be laughing because Amaechi failed DSS screening. You guys will soon realize there is a Grand Chess Game going on.

Wike, shebi you sabi probe? Just wait till when you loose your immunity and they start asking you what you did with over N120B in 4 months.

Amaechi's laughter loading....

Even if the election is held 100 times again, Wike will still win hands down.

Worse case scenario, court cancels the election and Wike wins again and begins a fresh 4 year tenure. Remember the case can be appealed up to Supreme Court.

sunnyb0b0:
Even if the election is held 100 times again, Wike will still win hands down.

Noted! We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

[s]Worse case scenario, court cancels the election and Wike wins again and begins a fresh 4 year tenure.[/s]
Even if he were to win, he can't begin a fresh 4 year tenure.

[s]Remember the case can be appealed up to Supreme Court.[/s]
Gubernatorial election cases should stop at Appeal Court. However, sooner or later, he'll be sacked.

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sunnyb0b0:


Even if the election is held 100 times again, Wike will still win hands down.

Worse case scenario, court cancels the election and Wike wins again and begins a fresh 4 year tenure. Remember the case can be appealed up to Supreme Court.

stop the chest beating and giving Wike hope. The sleeping interim governor is a goner!

Beremx:
stop the chest beating and giving Wike hope. The sleeping interim governor is a goner!

and if at last he prevails

you'll hear from me

Whosoever says there was election in Rivers State must be related to Lai Mohammed, I was part and parcel of both the presidential and governorship elections as an Ad hoc staff. The elections materials were snatched by PDP thugs, we (Corps Members) were forced to write the election results on the results sheets or face being beaten by the thugs. The situation was so bad where I worked in Tai LGA

GenbIoodykiller:

and if at last he prevails
you'll hear from me

lalasticlala front page!

Bevista:
Noted! We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

[s]Worse case scenario, court cancels the election and Wike wins again and begins a fresh 4 year tenure.[/s]
Even if he were to win, he can't begin a fresh 4 year tenure.

[s]Remember the case can be appealed up to Supreme Court.[/s]
Gubernatorial election cases should stop at Appeal Court. However, sooner or later, he'll be sacked.

Good thing you've cured your ignorance and edited your comment.

There was no election in Rivers. Let everyone go and prepare for a fresh election.

wike the stupid minister of education who went to watch world cup while we were on strike for seven month. stupid pot belly cow

That the card reader captured 280k voters doesn't translate to '280k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival.