”The apex court ordered that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfils the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.

Here is the analysis:

Total votes cast: 810,782

APC: 534,541 votes

PDP: 189,452 votes

So PDP must get 202,696 to clinch the governor seat of Zamfara state.

Let's all Digest this please?

Credit: Omowumi Olalekan

kahal29:
”The apex court ordered that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfils the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.

Here is the analysis:

Total votes cast: 810,782

APC: 534,541 votes

PDP: 189,452 votes

So PDP must get 202,696 to clinch the governor seat of Zamfara state.

Let's all Digest this please?

Credit: Omowumi Olalekan

Loser PDP ti take over.

The court first declared all votes allotted to the APC as wasted, rubbish and void. So subtract those then come back with the actual, judicially recognised votes and your question again.

All votes cast for APC automatically become invalid votes so u have to subtract them from the number of valid votes

dizon:
All votes cast for APC automatically become invalid votes so u have to subtract them from the number of valid votes

Thanks sir.You reason intelligently.

mushystuff:
The court first declared all votes allotted to the APC as wasted, rubbish and void. So subtract those and come back with the actual, judicially recognised votes and your question again.

You are making sense

dizon:
All votes cast for APC automatically become invalid votes so u have to subtract them from the number of valid votes

Your comment makes sense

Invalid or wasted votes?
Supreme Court holds that all votes casted for APC are wasted votes and not invalid votes. So, let us how INEC will interpret the wasted votes and "the requisite spread" for the second highest political party with valid votes.

kahal29:
”The apex court ordered that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfils the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.

Here is the analysis:

Total votes cast: 810,782

APC: 534,541 votes

PDP: 189,452 votes

So PDP must get 202,696 to clinch the governor seat of Zamfara state.

Let's all Digest this please?

Credit: Omowumi Olalekan

Na Ayekooto Akindele from twitter dey tweet this rubbish and you that doesn't think deep, you are sharing it over nairaland. Hmmm. Apc nairaland propagandists has gone haywire. well that's your job. you are been paid for it. pdp governor has come to stay in Zamfara State. you just have to adjust your self and your party to it. in the next 4 years Zamfara State will be marked as pdp state. congratulations to the governor elect.

by Monday inec will be presenting certificate of return to the pdp governor elect. congratulations to the pdp family.

why can't Oshokomole sack Yari instead or ameachi instead. senator marafa said no to godfatherism. the same way senator Magnus Abe said no to godfatherism too.

mushystuff:
The court first declared all votes allotted to the APC as wasted, rubbish and void. So subtract those and come back with the actual, judicially recognised votes and your question again.

Very wrong conclusion. Void votes are valid when determining total vote cast in an election. The votes scored by Zamfara APC (though now voided) are still very valid when determining the total vote cast for the election.

The above notwithstanding, the OP is also wrong in claiming that the PDP candidate need 202,696 votes to be returned elected. All that is required to win a governorship election is for a candidate to score a simple majority of the vote cast and get 25% of total vote cast in at least 2/3 of all the local government in the state.

seunmsg:



Very wrong conclusion. Void votes are valid when determining total vote cast in an election. The votes scored by Zamfara APC (though now voided) are still very valid when determining the total vote cast for the election.

The above notwithstanding, the OP is also wrong in claiming that the PDP candidate need 202,696 votes to be returned elected. All that is required to win a governorship election is for a candidate to score majority of the vote cast and get 25% of total vote cast in at least 2/3 of all the local government in the state.

Guy,you are bringing a new dimension into this.apc has intelligent personalities.the question we should look at is whether the constitution is referring to total valid votes cast or total votes cast.let me look at the constitution again

Modified:i just checked,the constitution talks about total votes cast not valid votes.the constitution recpgnises only casted votes.valid and invalid votes are creation of inec.therefore,the former apc votes will be part of total votes cast but not valid votes

Does the constitution recognize wasted vote.the supreme is actually compounding a serious debate. Wasted votes automatically disenfranchised the voter who had nothing to do with internal issue of a party. The best the supreme court should have done is other a new election with APC excluded. People votes must count not court vote. Supreme court erred in error.

The APC is still leading.. but it seems the opposition is happier..

Did the supreme court declare a re-run?? So y this thread?? Or is comprehension skills now a problem for u??

Hm.
There are two dimensions to this. He doesn't need the 202k votes to win. He just need to get 25% of the votes in 2/3 of the local govts. So we need the local govts votes breakdown to confirm.
Alternatively, if the APC votes are "wasted" and of "no consequence", the total vote cast drops significantly. That will essentially ensure that he meets the required 25% in 2/3 of the LGAs

APC is out of the race already. The Supreme Court rules in clarity on this case and going by the voided votes of APC by the highest ruling body in Nigeria it is very clear that a rerun can never be and the issue of requirements clause of 25% is not needed in PDP's case as they are the legitimate runners up in that election. Simple as ABC.

PDP has carried this one

Case already closed.
All the best to the good people of Zamfara State.

It seems you have missed the fact that it is one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government. You have analysed the total votes rather than two-thirds of the local government.

kahal29:
”The apex court ordered that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfils the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.

Here is the analysis:

Total votes cast: 810,782

APC: 534,541 votes

PDP: 189,452 votes

So PDP must get 202,696 to clinch the governor seat of Zamfara state.

Let's all Digest this please?

Credit: Omowumi Olalekan

Oga Go and Form your "Supremest" Court that is higher than that of the Supreme Court



Sé Oya Werey Ni?

ok

kahal29:
”The apex court ordered that the runner-up candidate be sworn in if he fulfils the constitutional requirement of getting one quarter of the total votes cast in at least two-third of the local government areas of the state.

Here is the analysis:

Total votes cast: 810,782

APC: 534,541 votes

PDP: 189,452 votes

So PDP must get 202,696 to clinch the governor seat of Zamfara state.

Let's all Digest this please?

Credit: Omowumi Olalekan

Go tell that your story to the god. No one will digest this with you just digest it alone yourself ok.

Zamfara is gone and gone all analysis as per that make no sense the supreme court is the apex decision making ok bro.

The court order states that apc didn't produced any candidates for the election(via primaries,). So, how then will you say that the votes for a party that wasn't supposed to field candidates for the election, Is now termed valid? It's as good as saying apc wasn't recognised as a political party at the poll, so the total vote counts will be the total number of votes, excluding Apc's vote.

APC members trying so hard to console themselves

Story

Our governor elect is matawalle.

Wasted votes are dead votes

Zamfara at a glance. Crunching the figures: PRE-SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT:
1) total votes cast: 810, 782
2) total cancelled votes: 17,844
3) total valid votes: 792,938
4) APC votes: 534,541
5) PDP votes: 189, 452
6) NRM votes: 15, 177

POST-SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT:

1) Total valid votes 792, 938
- APC wasted votes 534, 541
= 258, 541

2) total valid votes at play
= 258, 541
3) cancelled votes 17, 844

RESULTS AS THEY STAND POST-SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT:

1) PDP 189, 452
2) NRM 15, 177

a) Difference between PDP & NRM votes: 174, 272

b) Cancelled votes 17,844

i) Total votes cast: 258, 397
ii) PDP votes 189, 452
Difference = 68, 945

Pdp has won it

Lol.... Mathematician APC are here again!


If your party did not influence the judgment to put APC on the ballot, will they be there in the first instance?


You are thinking of a way in which INEC will order a supplementary rerun, then your devilish party will sponsor another small party to defeat PDP maybe.... Then he will later defect to APC