helinues:


Apart from the electoral act, INEC as a body is allowed to make decisions on their own.

About the collation of election results, INEC are given the choice to pick which method will be suitable for them.

And that’s the decision they made and communicated that I just showed you in black and white.

At what time did they change that decision and why was that change not communicated to parties and candidates?

I wonder o! Why are they interested in their families, is it so that when the verdict does not go their way they can go and kidnap their families? Bunch of terrorists masking as advocates of democracy. Let them cancel the election and rerun it twenty times, with or without Tinubu, Pandora has no chance of leading this nation, at least not this time

stuffs2002:



IPOB/OBIDIENTS aim is to blackmail the judges and threaten them with the safety of their families

fergie001:



A PROFILE ON THE JUDGES SITTING AT THE 2023 PEPT

1. Hon. Justice Haruna Simon TSAMMANI
Born on 23rd November 1959, he hails from Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State.

Tsammani obtained his LL.B degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1982. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos for his BL in 1983.

He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bauchi State on 17th September 1998 and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2010.

He served as the Chairman of the three-man panel that granted Obi and Atiku’s motions to serve Tinubu their petitions by substituted means.

He also presided on the VAT case between the Rivers State Govt and the FG.

He prepared the judgement in Ajimobi v Balogun, affirming the election of Kola Balogun as Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District in 2019.

He is ranked 12th on the Seniority list of the Court of Appeal.

He will serve as Chairman of the Panel.

This man man is from my place, I hope he Rights the wrong of Yakubu who's also from Bauchi state.

Baatunde:
I wonder o! Why are they interested in their families, is it so that when the verdict does not go their way they can go and kidnap their families? Bunch of terrorists masking as advocates of democracy. Let them cancel the election and rerun it twenty times, with or without Tinubu, Pandora has no chance of leading this nation, at least not this time

The ucultic Pandora criminal will never amount to anything in Nigeria

OkayDaddy:


Typical Ipob reasoning.

typical braying mob .

garfield1:


You lie.the supreme court hs severally stated that inec guidelines cannot be used to nullify elections see atiku vs buhari supra.use of bvas is mandatorily stipulated in the electoral act

I challenge you to quote where it was stated or mentioned in our electoral Act that INEC will use BVAS. The electoral Act only made mentioned of electronic device and no more but it was INEC guideline that prospective voters must pass through the device before being entitle to vote and anyone that doesn't do that will not be entitle to vote by their guideline.

I will enjoin you to read the article from Premium times news below:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/589746-inec-electronic-transmission-of-results-electoral-act-and-matters-arising-by-wahab-shittu.html

See the extract from it.
"The INEC Regulation further asserts its discretion on the manner in which elections will be conducted, birthing Clause 38 in the Regulation, which introduced the electronic transmission of election results. The regulation holds the status of a subsidiary legislation, as it was born from the primary lawmaking responsibility of the legislature, which had delegated its power to the body. Any action in defiance of the regulation by those bound by it is therefore unlawful, as the regulation carries the same weight and force as the law empowering it. The court in the case of Best Njoku v. Chief Mike Iheanatu held that a subsidiary legislation is one that is subsequently made pursuant to the powers conferred by the principal legislation to which it is complimentary; it has the force of law. Therefore, it raises no question as to the validity of the power of INEC to make rules to regulate its own procedures, save for where the regulations are in conflict with the constitution or the Electoral Act empowering it; where the latter occurs, it is null and void. The electronic transmission of election results by virtue of being in the INEC regulation, receives the force of the law.


Nigeria’s journey to the inclusion of the electronic means of transmitting results in the election process began with the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, which resulted in the Electoral Act of 2022. Clause 52 of the Bill sought to introduce electronic voting into the election process. Such was meant to be carried out by INEC where practicable, which consequently meant that the manual process was employed where the electronic voting was impracticable. However, such clause failed to reach the last stage of the legislative process, as it was amended with only the electronic transmission retained at the exercise of INEC’s discretion, in its regulation.

The electronic transmission of result in Clause 38 of the INEC Regulation is in exercise of the discretion given under Section 60(5) of the Electoral Act, which enumerates that the presiding officer at the polling unit, after counting votes and declaring the number, is to transmit the result in accordance with the directives of the Commission. With the directives of INEC as to the manner of the transmission, the presiding officer’s disobedience to such attracts sanctions. While the Section 60(6) of the Electoral Act fails to expressly include that the sanction also pertains to the disobedience of the presiding officer to observe the provisions of Clause 38 of the INEC regulation, it indirectly brings that INEC directive under the ambit of Section 60 through the Section 60(5)".

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I challenge you to quote where it was stated or mentioned in our electoral Act that INEC will use BVAS. The electoral Act only made mentioned of electronic device and no more but it was INEC guideline that prospective voters must pass through the device before being entitle to vote and anyone that doesn't do that will not be entitle to vote by their guideline.

I will enjoin you to read the article from Premium times news below:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/589746-inec-electronic-transmission-of-results-electoral-act-and-matters-arising-by-wahab-shittu.html

See the extract from it.
"The INEC Regulation further asserts its discretion on the manner in which elections will be conducted, birthing Clause 38 in the Regulation, which introduced the electronic transmission of election results. The regulation holds the status of a subsidiary legislation, as it was born from the primary lawmaking responsibility of the legislature, which had delegated its power to the body. Any action in defiance of the regulation by those bound by it is therefore unlawful, as the regulation carries the same weight and force as the law empowering it. The court in the case of Best Njoku v. Chief Mike Iheanatu held that a subsidiary legislation is one that is subsequently made pursuant to the powers conferred by the principal legislation to which it is complimentary; it has the force of law. Therefore, it raises no question as to the validity of the power of INEC to make rules to regulate its own procedures, save for where the regulations are in conflict with the constitution or the Electoral Act empowering it; where the latter occurs, it is null and void. The electronic transmission of election results by virtue of being in the INEC regulation, receives the force of the law.


Nigeria’s journey to the inclusion of the electronic means of transmitting results in the election process began with the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, which resulted in the Electoral Act of 2022. Clause 52 of the Bill sought to introduce electronic voting into the election process. Such was meant to be carried out by INEC where practicable, which consequently meant that the manual process was employed where the electronic voting was impracticable. However, such clause failed to reach the last stage of the legislative process, as it was amended with only the electronic transmission retained at the exercise of INEC’s discretion, in its regulation.

The electronic transmission of result in Clause 38 of the INEC Regulation is in exercise of the discretion given under Section 60(5) of the Electoral Act, which enumerates that the presiding officer at the polling unit, after counting votes and declaring the number, is to transmit the result in accordance with the directives of the Commission. With the directives of INEC as to the manner of the transmission, the presiding officer’s disobedience to such attracts sanctions. While the Section 60(6) of the Electoral Act fails to expressly include that the sanction also pertains to the disobedience of the presiding officer to observe the provisions of Clause 38 of the INEC regulation, it indirectly brings that INEC directive under the ambit of Section 60 through the Section 60(5)".

The electoral act clearly stated electronic device must be used for accreditation and inec was using card readers and now bvas.it satisfies that requirement so far as accreditation is electronic.
The electoral act is silent on collation and transmission which means inec can use anyone it likes.even that guideline stated that transmission will be as inec prescribes which could be through guidelines or verbally.
Inec guideline in 2015 prescribed use of card reader yet supreme court clearly stated that since it is not in the electoral act,it cannot be used to invalidate elections.

QualityShare:
As the Presidential Election Tribunal begins hearing today, may God grant the court and the judges the will to deliver true judgement according to the true mandate of majority of Nigerians. Amen.

If Tinubu truly won, let his mandate remain with him. (Amen).
If Atiku won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).
If Obi won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).

Let somebody say a louder AMEN!

Amen!

out of 5, A.B.U produced 3. Naturally ahead...

garfield1:


The electoral act clearly stated electronic device must be used for accreditation and inec was using card readers and now bvas.it satisfies that requirement so far as accreditation is electronic.
The electoral act is silent on collation and transmission which means inec can use anyone it likes.even that guideline stated that transmission will be as inec prescribes which could be through guidelines or verbally.
Inec guideline in 2015 prescribed use of card reader yet supreme court clearly stated that since it is not in the electoral act,it cannot be used to invalidate elections.

Because as at that time the use of electronic device wasn't in our electoral Act but now the 2022 electoral Act is more explicit and empowers the commission to formulate guidelines for the overall free, fair and credible elections.
I do hoped you read the extract from premium times news I posted where it was stated clearly thus:
"The regulation holds the status of a subsidiary legislation, as it was born from the primary lawmaking responsibility of the legislature, which had delegated its power to the body. Any action in defiance of the regulation by those bound by it is therefore unlawful, as the regulation carries the same weight and force as the law empowering it. The court in the case of Best Njoku v. Chief Mike Iheanatu held that a subsidiary legislation is one that is subsequently made pursuant to the powers conferred by the principal legislation to which it is complimentary; it has the force of law. Therefore, it raises no question as to the validity of the power of INEC to make rules to regulate its own procedures, save for where the regulations are in conflict with the constitution or the Electoral Act empowering it; where the latter occurs, it is null and void. The electronic transmission of election results by virtue of being in the INEC regulation, receives the force of the law". The 2022 electoral Act is clear and not ambiguous at all. It gives more power and authority to INEC to give guidelines, as some portion of each law always end as thus "as may be prescribed for by the commission". Take for example section 60(5) of the 2022 electoral Act which says "5) The presiding officer shall transfer the results including total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot in a manner as prescribed by the Commission". If the commission have told all parties involved, international communities and other stakeholders the manner by which votes will be transmitted but surprisingly at the middle of the election, the commission chose another method, in your clear conscience mind, what do you think the commission has done? If we are in a country where the rule of law is paramount, by now many heads should have been rolling in jail. There's need to always be guided by the rules of the game and not trying to circumvent the process.
Let us even reason objectively. Why would a commission like INEC even say one thing and do another thing at the middle of an election, if its doesn't have what they want to hide as a 'supposed' impartial umpire? It makes no sense at all.

QualityShare:
As the Presidential Election Tribunal begins hearing today, may God grant the court and the judges the will to deliver true judgement according to the true mandate of majority of Nigerians. Amen.

If Tinubu truly won, let his mandate remain with him. (Amen).
If Atiku won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).
If Obi won instead, let him reclaim his mandate. (Amen).

Let somebody say a louder AMEN!

Why is EVERYBODY not saying AMEN to this prayer? Some people know that their candidate did not win.