Vice Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday explained the party rejected declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan as winner of April 16 presidential election because it was  marred by ‘’massive irregularities and blatant fraud’’.

Bakare said votes declared for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from the South South and South East were not only inflated but also fabricated.

He argued that though the election appeared free on the surface, there was abounding evidence to prove it was manipulated behind the scene in favour of Jonathan.

Bakare broke his silence yesterday to reporters in Lagos since the results were announced.

He said: ‘’In polling units where election were held, they were seemingly free, fair and credible But behind the scene, there were loads of massive fraudulent thump-printing and blatant manipulation of figures at the ward and local government centres.

‘’The façade at the polling units must be unmasked for this election to be seen as the sham that it truly was’’.

He tasked INEC to subject ballot papers in supports of votes from the South South and South East to forensic scrutiny and investigation by ‘’independent third party accountants’’.

Bakare also questioned the integrity of INEC’s chair, Professor Attahiru Jega, saying his conduct of the election leaves much to desire. 

Jega, he said, lied to the nation that ballot papers were printed outside the country whereas the commission gave the contract to local firms.   

Bakare said: ‘’He (Jega) is a clean man wearing white apparel that is thrown into deep dirt by the system. The whole rigging structure that worked for Iwu is still in INEC.

‘’Until it is overhauled, Jega cannot be credible. If he is a man of honour, time will tell.

‘’I would have wanted him to tell the nation that the pre-programming of the commission’s system reduced CPC votes by 40% but he said they detected the error whereas our agent did. That is a lie’’.

‘’I would have wanted him to tell the nation that the pre- programming of the commission’s system reduced CPC votes by 40 % but he said they detected the error whereas our agent did. That is a lie’’.

Bakare who addressed a press conference in Ikeja, said there are three stages in an election and that the first and second stages which are the voting and counting stages were visibly free, but that the last critical stage, which is the collation was coloured and therefore fraudulent.
He identified the 11 states that produced the controversial results as those solely making up the south-east and south-south geo-political zones of the country.
They are Abia, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu and Anambra in the South-east while Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Bayelsa are in the South-south.


He said the press conference was a follow up to CPC’s letter of objection dated April 16 wherein it rejected the election results on the basis that “it was unfair and unjust as it was a subversion of the popular will of the electorate.”
He said compiled complaints from agents of CPC in Abuja, Rivers, Cross River, Enugu, Bayelsa, Nasarawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Jigawa, Taraba, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom and Delta States, were a pointer to CPC’s submission that the presidential election was massively flawed.
While giving an assessment of the figures produced by the Independent National Electoral Comm-ission, Bakare explained that “the national average turnout was about 52 percent and about 46 percent respectively when the substantially above average turnout rate in the south-south and south-east zones are excluded.
According to him, “the average turnout rate in the south-south and south-east zones (without Ebonyi and Edo States) at 78 percent is 50 percent above the national average of about 52 percent.”


He queried how Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP got over 85 percent share of the valid votes cast in all the 11 states in the south-south and south-east zones with 10 of the said states at 95 percent and above, including  four of the states at 99 percent and one at a near perfect 99.6 percent in his home state.
“Thus, all the 11 states in the two zones showed a red flag for being above the national average turnout rate and/or were above the 85 percent threshold,” he said, wondering if figures of 95 percent and above for one party suggested that they were fabricated, more so that 10 states are affected.
The CPC vice presidential candidate said neither Buhari nor any other candidate of the opposition party had a state with an average turnout rate above the national average and share of valid votes in excess of 85 percent.
He therefore wondered how the president recorded such high scores in not just one or three states but nine.


“The inevitable reasonable conclusion from the incontrovertible facts is that no credible elections took place in the south-south and south-east zones and that those returns were basically concocted through fraudulent thumb printing  and stuffing of ballot papers and/or that the results were deliberately falsified in favour of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP,” Bakare said.
Taking Rivers State as one example, Bakare said, “The average turnout in the declared result for the state metamorphosed into well over 76 percent of registered voters,” adding that the total number of registered voters in a particular ward at 6,031 later transformed into 377,517 total valid votes.
“This could well have been an error; but yet again, the ultimate beneficiary is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP as he was awarded about 710,000 (98percent) votes of the total valid votes of 725,884.
“Does this make for a credible election?” he queried.


Bakare who was not oblivious of the need for the CPC to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, noted that after the party’s sensitive analysis and fabricated figures taken out of the total result, General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the CPC had the majority of votes, a situation he said precludes Jonathan from being declared winner of the election.
However, in CPC’s final breakdown of the figures, Bakare said that the spurious votes cast in south-east and south-south for the PDP were 11,103,854 and 70,313 for the CPC.
Thus, when these are deducted from the 22,495,187 of the PDP and 12,214,853 of the CPC respectively, the figures would come down to 11,391,333 for the PDP and 12,144,540 for the CPC, the interpretation of which he said is that Buhari won the election.


He implored INEC to, as a matter of urgency, take custody of the election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the two zones available for a representative sample of the thumb prints to be matched with the biometrics-based voter register by forensic experts.
While suggesting that similar steps can be taken in the north-west and north-east for balancing, he said a sample of the result sheets at the ward and local government collation centres should be examined by independent third party accountants.
“If the ballot papers and/or figures are found to have been substantially manipulated, the commission should be bold enough to reverse its position on the declared result if only in the interest of peace and greater public good,” he stated.

baduks:

Bakare will probably be the Presidential candidate for CPC in 2015. Very funny how Bakare who says he's not a General Overseer (GO)and choose to maintain a single assembly where he pastors(Latter rain) thinks he can lead a whole nation!!!

karl max:

BAKARE= pre-election this man was screaming “wild wild North”

BAKARE=post election “FORENSIC”

Bakare you and your lynch mob should do forensic and go to court we are waiting and stop shouting becos of U and your masters despiration innocent souls were lost you have the blood of aik ukeoma and other innocent people who died from CPC conspiracy theory.from buhari claiming that aeroplane was dropping finger printed ballot pappers in some south east area! To a software(EXCEL) that deduted 40% their vote! We are awaiting the next theory
BAD LOSERS u will continue losing till you will go and meet your maker to jurdge U,  

He implored INEC to, as a matter of urgency, take custody of the election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the two zones available for a representative sample of the thumb prints to be matched with the biometrics-based voter register by forensic experts

ode remo:

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that be the case, i wonder y the loss of innocent lives.FOREN , SIC my back side.
how many votes did bakare himslef as the v.p got for cpc in his home town ogun state talkless of the s.s where buhari hardly gave any serious campaign effort. if we add 40 % to cpc votes itwill still not be  enuff to win the election for them.

muami:

You know a sore loser when you see one. If CPC believe they won the election as they claimed, they should take thier case to the tribunal which has the constitutional mandate to scrunitize the elections. Addressing a million and one press conferences, issuing a billion press releases and encouraging their supporters to continue the mayhem in the North would NEVER change the result of the elections.

The reason why most people are against a minister of God joining active politics is that they will start behaving like politicians. There is no difference between any of the Nigerian political parties including CPC ,who are apart from DO OR DIE like others also confused, fundermentalist and violent in their nature.

If the computer reduces CPC vote in SOUTH by 40%, add that to it, it will still not be enough but the reality is that Pastor bakare is daydreaming, they will never get 100,000 votes in the SE and SS and even SW votes have prove it, the highest they got was OYO state at 92,000

Bakare is also throwing mud at Prof. Jega, thank God, he is not an Igbo or Yoruba man. Bakare want to be VP at all costs maybe then pray for Bhuari to die in office so that he can become President. Unfortunately he (bakare) don't know the 'BORN TO RULE' mindset. They are just trying to use him and dump him.

I don't belong to any political party but CPC did not and cannot win the Presidential election because they are not a mainstream party to people in the South and even in Middle Belt and some non sharia northern states. They can't even compromise with a bigger party ACN to get an alliance that will have given PDP a credible opposition, not that it will be enough for them to win.but it will be a better try

SOUR LOSERS suffering from delusion, maybe Pastor Bakare has been 'told by God' that he will be VP at all costs.