adanny01:
I stopped reading at the bolded assuming what follows will be as u reasonable as the bolded.
When you are a party to an election, what you concern yourself is your votes. What concerns you is that your party's votes are entered correctly and transmitted intact to the Ward, LG and state collation centres.
Number of accredited voters is a data that belongs to INEC which is used to checkmate electoral fraud.
When the court asked INEC and Ihedioha's lawyers to prove that the result brought by Uzodinma was fake, they should have raised that point with facts. Bring card readers for such PU's to proof all you are trying to say. But the lawyers didn't provide anything. They didn't provide one single evidence.
You are bring this fact to Nairaland, are those lawyers fools that they didn't bring those facts to the court?
The truth is, what is most important is that fraud was committed with evidence, the defense had no proof that fraud was not committed.
Lastly, the court in judgement adopted the entire results Uzodinma brought since there was no evidence against it. Any inconsistencies with the result is INEC's responsibility. It was proven that a large part of votes were unaccounted for, that is ehat you should focus on.
All your issues are petty and misleading.
If that’s the case then judgments like this should abound: Mention another instance in Nigerian judicial history where the SC ruled against all lower courts AND INEC itself in order to immediately replace a sitting governor with a 4th-place finisher - all based on clearly questionable, uncollaborated, and unauthenticated documents supplied solely by the 4th-place finisher himself!!Don’t even limit it to only Nigeria. Mention any authentic democracy where that has ever happened! Look, there are always errors in elections, that’s why the bar for removing an incumbent needs to be placed very high otherwise most, including a Buhari, would lose their seats (because anyone can come up with electoral errors or forge some - as in this case!). It should be nearly impossible to replace a sitting gov with a 4th-place finisher. If at all attempted, the evidence should be CLEAR, ABOVE BOARD, BEYOND REPROACH, FULLY AUTHENTICATED AND WELL COLLABORATED! Not some childish documents with 200% turnouts! YOU DON’T BASE SUCH MOMENTOUS, SEISMIC DECISIONS ON QUESTIONABLE DOCUMENTS!! Capisce? |
CanadaOrBust:
This judgment is even worse than thought. Guardian obtained a copy of Uzodinma’s appeal. Read it below. This is the SOLE basis for prompt replacement of a sitting governor with a 4th-place finisher! This is the judgment some people are spending sleepless nights defending as great.
YOU PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!
“The Guardian obtained a certified-true-copy of the record of the appeal filed at the Supreme Court by Uzodinma and APC... which shows that there were mathematical and factual inconsistencies which the apex court ignored.
In the records tendered at the tribunal, Uzodinma, from pages 9 to 27 of his petition, drew a table of votes allocation which he claimed were the figures obtained from the duplicate copies of Forms EC8A handed over to his party agents at the 388 polling units, the results of which were excluded in the overall result of the election.
From the table he compiled from the 388 polling units, there were 252,452 registered voters, out of which 213,695 voted for APC, and 1,903 voted for Ihedioha.
But the table does not indicate either the total number of accredited voters or the number of invalid votes, if any, and the votes allocated to the remaining 68 candidates that contested the election, aside from Uzodinma and Ihedioha.
Also, the duplicate Forms EC8A tendered by the PW54, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Rabiu Hussein, showed that there were no fewer than six polling units where more votes were recorded above the registered number of voters.
For instance, on figure number 69 which shows votes cast at Eziama/Okpala (Umualum Village Square, Eziama), the total number of registered voters was 492, whereas the table shows that the APC scored 819 votes and PDP scored 7 votes, meaning that 334 more votes than the registered voters were recorded, apart from the votes polled by the other candidates at the election that were not shown on the table.
Similarly, on page 22 of the petition referencing polling unit 282, the number of registered voters was put at 591, whereas the tabulation shows that APC polled 586 votes and PDP nine votes, indicating a total of four votes higher than the registered number of voters. This, again, excluded the votes scored by the other candidates.
On the same page 22 of the record, at the polling unit 285 (Obudi/Aro, Central Assembly Square, Unusable 11) with 449 registered voters, APC was credited with 780 votes and PDP with four votes, leaving a total of 335 votes higher than the actual number of registered voters.
Figures obtained from page 79 of the record of appeal under item 384 show that APC scored 526 votes, while PDP was credited with two votes, and the total votes cast was put at 526, indicating two votes higher than the total number registered voters in the area.” |
