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Former INEC Boss, Prof. Maurice Iwu Says Osun State Election Was “conclusive” by Nobody: 7:58am On Sep 25, 2018
https://www.godgobless.com/2018/09/former-inec-boss-prof-maurice-iwu-says.html?m=1

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, has faulted the declaration of the Osun governorship election that held on September 22 as inconclusive.


Iwu, who was in office from June 2005 to April 2010, spoke on Sunday following the declaration of the guber poll as inconclusive due to vote difference by the Chief Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph Afuwape.

According to the former INEC boss, “Actually, in 2010 during the review of INEC’s Elections’ Manual, my committee and I as the chair, invented the inconclusive elections outcomes, particularly where elections did not hold for one reason or the other.

“However, we the initiators of the inconclusive elections realised that our proposal was against the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as Amended), particularly the presidential and the governorship elections and returns.

“Our proposals could be applied only in senatorial, House of Representatives, and state assembly elections and returns, for which the Constitution did not specify how these returns should be made.

“In this, what is required by the Constitution is that the ‘first past the post’ and/or that the candidate must have the polled majority of the votes cast.

“Secondly, that the candidate in addition to it, must obtain 25 per cent of the total votes cast in two-third of the LGAs of the state in question or of the states in case of presidential election. The electoral act or INEC guidelines cannot supersede the constitutional provisions for that purpose.

“As the constitution has clearly spelt out the manner and how a return should be made in the cases of governorship or presidential election returns.

“Now that the abuse of this tool is becoming obvious, the beneficiaries of this anomaly have refused to listen or adjust accordingly.

“God will surely help us.”

https://www.godgobless.com/2018/09/former-inec-boss-prof-maurice-iwu-says.html?m=1

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Re: Former INEC Boss, Prof. Maurice Iwu Says Osun State Election Was “conclusive” by TechConsult: 8:00am On Sep 25, 2018
Amen
Re: Former INEC Boss, Prof. Maurice Iwu Says Osun State Election Was “conclusive” by RevenGeMission: 8:06am On Sep 25, 2018
What this guy is actually saying is they didn't go as far as conclude on how to decide inconclusive elections or how it would be held ??


My guy too is inconclusive abeg
Re: Former INEC Boss, Prof. Maurice Iwu Says Osun State Election Was “conclusive” by Nobody: 8:07am On Sep 25, 2018
Buhari and APC have made Saraki a major factor in Nigerian politics

like for Saraki, share for Buhari(this is a very important opinion poll we have to sample)
Re: Former INEC Boss, Prof. Maurice Iwu Says Osun State Election Was “conclusive” by Mynd44: 8:07am On Sep 25, 2018

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