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The report by The Nation that the call logs of Justice Salami submitted by Governors Oni & Oyinlola are "fake" shows that the ACN have blindfolded the SW with false propaganda. The panel had found that while those call logs matched those submitted by the NSA exactly, they had been obtained improperly & were rejected, but the NSA's accepted, meaning the court now has evidence of clandestine calls between Salami & ACN

Contrary to the popular saying in Nigeria that politics is a dirty game

According to Abdulrazaq Oyebanji Hamzat the founder of the WakeUp Nigeria initiative

Politics is not a dirty game,though may be dirty when played by dirty people,the dirty part of it should be blamed on the good people for watching.

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The 2011 presidential election as been widely broadcasted as free and fair,not just by the local observers alone, but also by international observers. These I believe will make most of the people accept the outcome of the presidential election including me. For this reason, I say Congratulation to the President elect (Good luck Jonathan) for winning the election based on the widely published and accepted result released by the independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).

This piece is not aimed at condemning or discrediting the outcome of the election, but to critically look at the election and making a firm stand on the following:

1.weather the election was actually free and fair as it was widely broadcasted
2.weather the claim by CPC/Buhari is genuine or not
3. For us as individuals to make a firm stand on the outcome of the election based on fact presented by CPC and others we may get and
4. To note any suspected foul play and learn to prevent future re-occurrence.

The 2011 presidential election and CPC has provided an avenue for Nigeria to be a truthful country.

Cpc said in their release:

The fact that there are no two people with the same fingerprint, every fingerprint can therefore be scientifically verified basically through the
following preliminary basics of the technical Biometrics/Forensics methods which details will be made available by the experts:-

65 days to be able to get all voters register authenticated, all disputed ballot papers examined, any other electoral document assessed, all findings compiled and submitted to the court, and return of all source data and documents to INEC. Our firm has participated in 300 electoral processes in 19 countries with more than 500 million voters tallied for government, private and multilateral organizations.

To the CPC, this use of Forensic/Biometric system based on INEC’s capturing of all the 10 fingers of every voter is a novel idea that can help solve forever the challenges of multiple voting and outright concoction of results; two critical issues in our electoral malpractices.

This is a good one coming from CPC in my opinion,I think it’s high time we forget our interest in Party/Candidate but genuinely look at the case of the claim presented by CPC/Buhari and establish the authenticity of the claims.

I believe we all have the eyes to see the truth and the hearts to judge genuinely.

point of note (Its clear that its almost impossible for Buhari to win in court, but its not impossible for us to know the truth of the election),this will help our understanding in establishing the truth on what really transpired in the presidential election.

Some years to come, our children may ask us about what happened during this period, it will be destructive and unjust to tell them lies, based on our insisting not to know the real truth, its better for us all to open our heart and critically consider the facts and take our stand genuinely.

Claim by CPC in its petition

1. The national average turnout rate is about 52% and about 46% when the substantially above average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones is excluded. Why?
2. The average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones (without Ebonyi and Edo states) at 78% is 50% above the national average of about 52%. How come?
3. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP got over 85% 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% and above including 4 of the states at 99% and 1 at near perfect share of 99.6% in his home state. Thus, all the 11 states in the 2 zones had a red flag for being above the national average turnout rate and/or were above 85% threshold. Do ‘these figures of 95% and above for one party suggest that these are fabricated figures’ as aptly stated in 1 above by the BBC World News reporter, more so that 10 states are affected rather than the 3 states he identified?
4. General Buhari of the CPC (and indeed all other opposition candidates) had no single state with a combination of average turnout rate above the national average and share of valid votes in excess of 85%. Why only Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in NOT one, two or three but nine states?
5. The inevitable reasonable conclusion from the incontrovertible facts in 1 to 4 above 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.

8. In spite of the case of res ipsa loquitur (a thing that speaks for itself) adduced in Table 1 above, additional and specific evidence of massive rigging is to be found in Table 2 below which is a summary of a sample of ward level collation results in Rivers State. The average turnout rate in the sample is 49%; which begs the question as to how the turnout in the declared result for the state metamorphosed into well over 76%?

This is definitely a test of how independent INEC is; I sincerely hope INEC will come out of it successfully. I personally believe that scanning the ballot papers for multiple voting will strengthen our democracy and will serve as deterrent against future occurrence since perpetrators know that there is a process that will exposed them. INEC please cooperate and save our democracy, let no ballot paper miss from you custody.
I doubt if PDP/INEC will allow this to go ahead. Unfortunately, the 'blind' followers will also say 'CPC would not have won anyways' forgetting that this is a means of strengthening our democracy.

As a first step though, I suggest CPC should tell INEC to PUBLICLY declare results in EVERY Polling Unit (120,000). They can put this on their website.

The issue is not whether CPC would have won or not but to reveal how the speculated free and fair election was. if this is carried out well it will show how much we have developed in our democracy since its inception.

Let’s genuinely consider the claims by CPC in their petition sent to the Tribunal for the betterment of Nigeria.
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I am disappointed by d decision of the F.G 2 shut down communicatn service in d Fct for 12hours yesterday without any prior notice, this is a sign of gross disrespect to citizens of Nigeria.Shutting down communication has cost businesses damage and medical emergencies denied.If Usni Mubarak can be fine for shutting down the internet during the crisis in Egypt,GEJ should actually be fined too.I should Sue my SP not FG

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By: Abdulrazaq Oyebanji Hamzat


why do people always say God bless Nigeria? hasn't he blessed us? we have oil,gold,cocoa,good land,man power,good weather and knowledge to mention few. what else do we want? or is it because we are always trying to imitate the USA? Don't u think we have enough blessing? what we need is guidance not blessing in my view. what do you think?

God guide Nigeria

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Sincerity in our Democracy
By: Abdulrazaq O Hamzat
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08076976917

Hello Nigerians,

The 2011 presidential election as been widely broadcasted as free and fair,not just by the local observers alone, but also by international observers. These I believe will make most of the people accept the outcome of the presidential election including me. For this reason, I say Congratulation to the President elect (Good luck Jonathan) for winning the election based on the widely published and accepted result released by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

This piece is not aimed at condemning or discrediting the outcome of the election, but to critically look at the election and making a firm stand on the following:

1.weather the election was actually free and fair as it was widely broadcasted
2.weather the claim by CPC/Buhari is genuine or not
3. For us as individuals to make a firm stand on the outcome of the election based on fact presented by CPC and others we may get and
4. To note any suspected foul play and learn to prevent future re-occurrence.

The 2011 presidential election and CPC has provided an avenue for Nigeria to be a truthful country.

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http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6577%3Ahow-pdp-and-inec-rigged-elections-for-jonathan-buhari&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=67
How PDP and INEC rigged elections for Jonathan - Buhari
Written by elombah.com
Monday, 09 May 2011 07:33

jega
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday began its battle to upturn President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory at the April 16 presidential election. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s party filed a petition before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, just ahead of today’s deadline for submission of petitions. The CPC is asking for the nullification of results in 20 states where it said the election was rigged.
The states where the CPC is alleging substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act and other irregularities are: Lagos, Bayelsa, Kaduna, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Kwara, Adamawa, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Enugu and Cross River.
Others are: Rivers, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo Anambra, Benue and Plateau states as well as the FCT.
In the petition anchored on two grounds and filed by Mr. Ebun Shofunde (SAN), Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Alasa Ismail, the CPC is asking the tribunal to set aside the presidential election and organise a fresh election between the CPC and the PDP.
The CPC also urges the tribunal to hold that Jonathan and his running mate, Namadi Sambo, were not duly elected by majority of lawful votes cast at the election.
The CPC accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating its efforts to file the petition. It claimed that all entreaties to get sensitive materials to use in arguing its case proved abortive.
In an exparte application filed last Friday, the CPC asked the tribunal to compel INEC to release certain sensitive materials used during the polls to it.
CPC National Chairman Prince Tony Momoh said yesterday in a statement that the party decided to go to the tribunal to point out that lapses observed before and during the elections "were not adequately addressed, if at all".

Meanwhile, elombah.com has obtained copy of the CPC petition to INEC rejecting the result of the presidential election as announced by Jega.

CPC PETITION ON 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

21ST April, 2011
The Chairman
Independent National Electoral Commission
Zambesi Crescent, Maitama District
P. M. B. 0184, Garki
Abuja, FCT.
Dear Sir,

REJECTION OF THE RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

We write further to our letter of objection dated the 18th of April to your good-selves to formally reject the declared result of the presidential election in its entirety because it is as unfair and unjust as it is a subversion of the popular will of the electorate.
In substantiation of the massive irregularities and blatant fraud that marred the credibility of the election, we provide below additional and better information that make it impossible for any legitimate government to be founded on the outcome of the exercise:
1. From BBC World News, 17th April 2011:
To win at the first round, a candidate needs at least 25% of the vote in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states. According to regional results, Mr Jonathan has passed that threshold in at least 24 states. He polled 20.3m votes to the 10.4m cast for his nearest rival, General Muhammadu Buhari. In Akwa Ibom state, he was credited with winning 95% percent and in Anambra it was 99%. In his home state, Bayelsa, he took 99.63%. "Figures of 95% and above for one party suggest that these are fabricated figures and, personally, they worry me because they pose serious questions on the credibility of the election," Jibrin Ibrahim of the Centre for Democracy and Development told AFP news agency.”
…………………, BBC World News
2. From Sahara Reporters, New York, 17th April 2011:
Several sources said Anambra had been turned into a free rigging field for the Jonathan ticket. “The police and army have cordoned off polling booths all over Anaocha local government area, and PDP members are thumb printing ballots which INEC officials then sign and drop in as votes,” said a source. He added that agents representing the other parties had been offered bribes that are several times higher than their payments – and most of them were collaborating in the rigging. “There’s no more hope for this country,” said the source.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jonathan, who authorized the widespread rigging, was hypocritically proclaiming that today’s voting was free and free, adding that he had not interfered with officials of INEC.

3. In the PM news edition of April 16th, 2011:

“Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state, South South Nigeria, has expressed disappointment at the low turnout of voters at his polling unit, which is Ward 8, Unit 14 at Utima, Ikwerre Local Government area, shortly after casting his vote, along with his wife, Judith. The governor who cast his vote at about 12.35pm also lauded the peaceful disposition of Rivers people and the diligence of the security personnel who had little job to do today” …This message came from the Chief Executive of a State where the percentage of voter turnout according to the final result was in excess of 76%!

4. Sample of complaints from accredited agents and members of the public to CPC Election Monitoring Center:
ABUJA
We received calls and text messages that many cars were seen driving out of the house of the FCT minister in 13 Gingiri Street, Garki Area 2 with stuffed ballot boxes…, Some of the text messages were forwarded to INEC’s hotline during the election on Saturday, the 16th of April 2011 – Evidence available on the handsets.
RIVERS
‘I was the first voter to arrive at polling unit and stayed until the ballots
were counted. Based on my observation there was a poor turn-out of voters and I
will estimate total number of voters at 250 - 300 maximum out of about 600 registered voters in the polling unit. I was accredited in 10
minutes (at 9:50am) and I voted in less than 5 minutes (at 2:00pm). This is to let you know how scanty the polling unit was’…This message came from the same state where the Governor had also lamented about low turnout in 3 above and where the percentage of voter turnout according to the final result was in excess of 76% as opposed to about 45% in this polling unit.
CROSS RIVER
‘Blue ink was provided for thumb print in our polling unit. However, when it came to counting, a majority of the PDP ballot papers had black ink as thumb-print.
The entire CPC ballot papers had thumb prints with blue ink as provided. The PO could not provide any explanation’.
ENUGU
‘Our conclusion on what transpired in Enugu State (and indeed the South East Zone) is allocation of votes to the PDP with 802,144 (98.5%) to Goodluck Jonathan and 3,753 (0.5%) to Muhammadu Buhari. Allocating 3,753 votes to CPC is not only ridiculous but goes to suggest that even we members of the party and our families did not vote in that election as we have over 50,000 members and supporters’.
BAYELSA
‘Due to poor turnout of voters in the South South and the connivance of the state and federal governments there was massive rigging to boost the number of votes for PDP, there is need for a thorough investigation of multiple votes to ascertain the actual votes casted in line with one man one vote promised by President Jonathan’.
NASARAWA
‘Shortage of ballot papers -
Duly accredited voters were deprived from voting because of insufficient ballot papers in a lot of polling units such as PU 25/08/07/037 in Lafia’.
GOMBE
‘Hon Magaji Doho in Kwami LGA had been apprehended with ballot papers.
Also in Bajoga, the DPO and INEC electoral officer were caught with ballot papers’.
BAUCHI
1. ‘In Missau and Azare LGA’s, thousands of accredited voters could not vote because of shortage of ballot papers’.
2. ‘There was stuffing of ballot boxes in the house of DR MUSA BABAYO’.
3. ‘In Bogoro LGA, ‘ballot stuffing is ongoing at DR JAMES LANDI’s house’.
JIGAWA
‘In Sule Tankarkar and Gumel Areas, Security Personnel stopped voters from getting to polling stations’.
TARABA
‘In Polling Unit no 007 in Lamurde Primary School, Sarking Dawaki Ward, Jaligo LGA, an INEC Staff was adopted by PDP thugs’.
KADUNA
‘In Sabon Tasha and Narayi both in Chukun LGA, agents of CPC were chased away from polling centers and the ballot boxes snatched by PDP thugs’.
AKWA IBOM
‘Elections were marred with all sorts of rigging imaginable and voter intimidation. Government officials arrived at polling units in company of police men and took ballot papers and ballot boxes away to undisclosed locations and stuff the ballot boxes with PDP votes. If nothing is done to curb this blatant abuse of the law, the guber elections will be an outright war in this State’.
DELTA
‘There were no result forms (Form EC 8a) in the polling unit PU: 10/22/08/002 and other polling units in the entire Uvwie LGA in Delta state. Corp members reported they were told to go back to the Secretariat to write the result.
Result in PU: 10/22/08/010 in Effurun-warri and Uwvie areas was written on a plain sheet. CPC agents protested at the Secretariat but they were ignored by INEC officials’.
5. On the 13th of April 2011, we were tipped off by good Samaritans about buses conveying millions of ballot papers for the Presidential elections from a private printing press - Tulip Press owned by a known PDP stalwart and a former gubernatorial candidate on PDP platform – Mallam Bello Gwandu for distribution to certain states. We promptly alerted the police and two suspects – Messrs Habila Stephen and Akinlolu Akinto were arrested and taken to Utako Police Station for questioning. The incident can be verified from the DPO of the station. Even though INEC subsequently disclosed that the printers were formally engaged by the Commission and the suspects were therefore released, we nonetheless remain concerned as the Chairman of INEC had publicly announced on the 2nd of April 2011 that the elections were being postponed on account of late arrival of election materials from overseas printers and there was clearly no indication then that local printers were engaged in the process. Could these ballot papers and or others printed locally have been the ones used to inflate the votes in favour of PDP?

6. On the 16th of April 2011, when voting for the presidential election was being conducted, we received yet again another tip off, this time from one of our monitoring agents, about a man that approached a polling unit in Wuse Zone 3 whilst carrying a bag suspected to contain election materials. The police officers on duty were alerted and the man was taken to the nearby police station. When questioned, he claimed to be a staff of INEC on duty and telephoned his supervisor for identification as he had no ID Card on him. The supervisor arrived and identified the suspect as an ad-hoc staff and himself as Richard Awolola – the Electoral Officer for AMAC with an INEC ID Card as a staff based in Nasarawa but on temporary assignment in Abuja. The suspect was then asked to empty the contents of his bag and it was found to contain a blank booklet of Form EC8B Presidential Election Collation at Ward level result sheets and another EC8B for the 9th of April National Assembly election; a copy of which is shown below as Exhibit 1.
EXIHIBIT 1:

Some of the pertinent questions from this incident are (1) How come under ‘Votes Received by Parties’ it is only in column 16 for PDP and in rows 11 to 19 that the figures were altered to inflate the number of votes? (2) How many other altered EC8B’s have been integrated into the final result? (3) Why was an ad-hoc staff without any ID card whatsoever in possession of a whole booklet of blank EC8B Presidential election result sheets; more so that Section 45(2) of the 2010 Electoral Act (as amended) stipulates that ‘the Polling Agents shall be present at the distribution of the election materials from the office to the polling booth’? (4) How many other blank result sheets were in circulation on that day and how many have been incorporated into the final result?
7. TABLE 1: A CASE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOTERS REGISTER AND RESULTS
S/N STATE Electoral Register, A Total Votes, B Percent Turnout, C PDP SHARE, D CPC SHARE, E OTHERS,

1 Ekiti 764,726 262,698 34.35% 135,009 2,689 125,000
2 Lagos 6,108,069 1,943,671 31.8% 1,281,688 189,983 472,000
3 Ogun 1,941,170
546,831 28.2% 309,177 17,654 220,000
4 Ondo 1,616,091
487,266 30.2% 387,376 11,890 88,000
5 Osun 1,293,967
512,406 39.6% 188,409 6,997 317,000
6 Oyo 2,572,140
863,154 33.6% 484,758 2,396 286,000
TOTAL SW 14,296,163 4,616,026 32.96% 2,786,417 321,609 1,508,000

SOUTH-EAST
7 Abia 1,524,484 1,188,727 78% 99%= 1,175,984 3,743 9,000
8 Anambra 2,011,746
1,157,392 57.5% @99@ 99%=1,145,169 4,223 8,000
9 Ebonyi 1,050,534
505,617 48.1% 96%=480,592 1,025 24,000
10 Enugu 1,303,155
813,897 62.5% 99%=802,144 3,753 8,000
11 Imo 1,687,293
1,409,948 83.6% 98%=1,381,357 7,591 21,000
TOTAL SE 7,577,212 5,075,581 65.9% 4,985,246 20,335 70,000

SOUTH-SOUTH
12 Akwa Ibom 1,616,873
1,231,977 76.2% 95%=1,165,629 5,348 61,000
13 Bayelsa 591,870
506,652 85.6% 99.6%=504,811 691 1,150
14 C/River 1,148,486
725,884 63.2% 98%=709,382 4,002 12,500
15 Delta 2,032,191
1,408,811 69.3% 99%=1,378,851 8,960 11,000
16 Edo 1,655,776
619,968 37.4% 87%=542,173 17,795 60,000
17 Rivers 2,429,231
1,854,944 76.4% 98%=1,817,762 13,182 24,000
TOTAL SS 9,474,427 6,348,236 68% 6,118,608 49,978 169,650

NORTH-WEST
18 Jigawa 2,013,974
1,138,246 56.5% 419,252 58.2%=663,994 55,000
19 Kaduna 3,905,387 2,569,423 65.8% 1,190,179 52%=1,334,244 45,000
20 Kano 5,027,297 2,642,209 52.6% 440,666 61%=1,624,543 577,000
21 Katsina 3,126,898
1,638,311 52.4% 428,392 71%=1,163,919 46,000
22 Kebbi 1,638,308
923,651 56.4 369,198 54%=501,453 53,000
23 Sokoto 2,267,509
909,826 40% 309,057 59%=540,769 60,000
24 Zamfara 1,824,316
942,495 51.7% 238,980 66%=624,515 79,000
TOTAL NW 19,803,689 10,764,161 53.6% 3,395,724 6,453,437 915,000

NORTH-EAST
25 Adamawa 1,816,094 909,840 50.01% 508,314 38%= 344,526 57,000
26 Bauchi 2,523,614
1,609,613 63.8% 258,404 82%= 1,315,209 36,000
27 Borno 2,380,957
1,177,828 49.5% 207,075 77%= 909,763 61,000
28 Gombe 1,318,377
755,245 57.3% 290,347 60%= 459,898 5,000
29 Taraba 1,336,221
731,340 54.7% 451,354 35%= 257,986 22,000
30 Yobe 1,373,796
621,665 45.3% 117,128 54%= 337,537 167,000
TOTAL NE 10,749,059 5,805,531 53.4% 1,808,805 3,648,736 348,000

NORTH-CENTRAL
31 Benue 2,390,884
1,048,000 43.9% 694,776 109,680 244,000
32 Kogi 1,316,849
561,017 42.6% 399,816 132,201 29,000
33 Kwara 1,152,361
415,800 36.1% 268,243 83,603 64,000
34 Nasarawa 1,389,308
694,400 49.98% 408,997 278,390 7,000
35 Niger 2,175,421
992,000 45.6% 321,429 625,574 45,000
36 Plateau 2,259,194
1,411,000 62.5% 1,029,865 356,551 25,000
TOTAL NC 10,684,017 5,122,217 46.78% 3,123,126 1,585,999 414,000

FCT-ABUJA
37 FCT 943,473
398,020 42.2% 253,444 131,576 13,000

TOTAL COUNTRY 73,528,040 38,129,772 51.8% 253,444 131,576 13,000

Incontrovertible facts from this Analysis:
1. The national average turnout rate is about 52% and about 46% when the substantially above average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones is excluded. Why?
2. The average turnout rate in the South South and South East zones (without Ebonyi and Edo states) at 78% is 50% above the national average of about 52%. How come?
3. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP got over 85% 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% and above including 4 of the states at 99% and 1 at near perfect share of 99.6% in his home state. Thus, all the 11 states in the 2 zones had a red flag for being above the national average turnout rate and/or were above 85% threshold. Do ‘these figures of 95% and above for one party suggest that these are fabricated figures’ as aptly stated in 1 above by the BBC World News reporter, more so that 10 states are affected rather than the 3 states he identified?
4. General Buhari of the CPC (and indeed all other opposition candidates) had no single state with a combination of average turnout rate above the national average and share of valid votes in excess of 85%. Why only Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in NOT one, two or three but nine states?
5. The inevitable reasonable conclusion from the incontrovertible facts in 1 to 4 above 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.

8. In spite of the case of res ipsa loquitur (a thing that speaks for itself) adduced in Table 1 above, additional and specific evidence of massive rigging is to be found in Table 2 below which is a summary of a sample of ward level collation results in Rivers State. The average turnout rate in the sample is 49%; which begs the question as to how the turnout in the declared result for the state metamorphosed into well over 76%?

TABLE 2: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – COLLATION AT WARD LEVEL IN RIVERS STATE
S/N NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS TOTAL VOTES CAST % TURNOUT
0969006284 43,843 18,008 41%
0969006284 14,002 6,170 43%
0969006284 16,068 7,001 44%
0969006267 30,440 15,583 51%
0969006267 11,757 5,829 50%
0969006267 12,301 6,619 54%
0969006220 36,969 21,800 59%
TOTAL 165,380 81,010 49%

Please see Exhibit 2 below for source of data.

EXHIBIT 2:

9. Further to the specific evidence in support of lower voter turnout rate in Rivers State as shown in 8 above, additional concrete evidence in support of manipulated figures in Form EC8B is to be found in Exhibit 3 below in respect of the result for Cross River State. The fuzzy arithmetic contained therein is mind boggling, as the total number of registered voters in the ward at 6,031 transformed into 377,517 total valid votes. This could well have been an innocent error; but yet again, the ultimate beneficiary is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP as he was awarded about 710,000 (98%) votes out of the total valid votes of 725,884. Does this make for a credible election?
EXHIBIT 3:

10. It is a trite principle that the law does not engage in trivial matters. Such that if the effect of the fabricated figures that had been proved beyond reasonable doubt in the South East and South South would not without more materially affect the final result, it would have been ignored and the declaration of Dr. Jonathan Goodluck as the winner would receive judicial affirmation. This is what makes it imperative to embark on a sensitivity analysis as contained in Table 3 below.

Thus, when the fabricated figures are deducted from the total result, General Muhammadu Buhari has the majority of votes; thereby precluding Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from being declared as the winner of the election. This fundamental principle was founded on the authority of the case of Omoboriowo v Ajasin (1984) SCNLR 1 at pages 108, 152-153 would drive home a nail struck clarification wherein Eso JSC said:- “Finally, once the figures are false, whether the falsification was done by the 2nd appellant or not, the fact remains that 1st appellant cannot and should not be elected on figures other than the majority of the votes cast at the election”; which ratio was applied by the Court of Appeal in the recent cases of Fayemi v Oni – CA/IL/EPT/GOV/1/10 and Aregbesola v Oyinlola – Appeal No: CA/1/EPT/GOV/02/2010.

TABLE 3: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS ON EFFECT OF RESULTS FROM SS AND SE

Dr. GOODLUCK JONATHAN GEN. MUHAMMADU BUHARI
(A) DECLARED RESULT 22,495,187 12,214,853
(B) LESS VOTES CAST IN SS AND SE ZONES 11,103,854 70,313
(C) TOTAL ADJUSTED RESULT
C = (A-B) 11,391,333 12,144,540

CONCLUSION AND PRAYERS:
In our letter of objection dated the 18th of April, we had appealed that ‘you demand the ballot papers and result sheets as collated from these zones (South East and South South) for scrutiny in the interest of peace, prosperity, free, fair and credible election’ and ‘order for the cancellation of the results handed down from the South South and South East in the event the investigation revealed the alleged breaches’. The appeal was regarded as being impractical and accordingly ignored. The Commission then swiftly proceeded to declare seriously flawed result which can now be seen in the light of this submission to be nothing but a charade. In polling units where elections were held, they were seemingly free, fair and credible. But behind the scene, there were loads of massive fraudulent thumb printing and blatant manipulation of figures at the ward and local government collation centers.
The façade at the polling units must be unmasked for this election to be seen as the sham that it truly was. The integrity of elections is crucial for the survival of our nascent democracy as no legitimate government can be founded on a stolen mandate. We consider the subversion of the popular will to be the worst form of corruption that can befall any nation. It is on the strength of the struggle to save the heart and soul of our fatherland that we submit the following prayers for your urgent attention:
1. Please as a matter of utmost urgency take custody of all the election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the South South and the South East zones available for a representative sample of the thumb prints to be matched with the biometric based voters register by forensic experts. The same examination can be conducted in the North West and North East zones if only for the sake of good order. A sample of the result sheets at the ward and local government collation centers should also be examined by independent third party accountants;
2. If the ballot papers and or figures were 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; and
3. Prosecute to the full extent of the law all those found to have played any significant role in once again bringing the credibility of the Commission into disrepute.

Respectfully submitted,
Yours sincerely,

National Chairman.

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Written by Abubakar Malami, SAN
Monday, 09 May 2011 20:41

"Please permit me to use the President’s own Polling Unit to illustrate the level of electoral fraud perpetrated in the election as we saw it. Osazi Playground Polling Unit has a total number of 908 registered voters. On the 16th of April election, only 424 voters turned out to cast their votes, with 413 voting for the President while 11 ballots were invalidated. This represents a total of 47% voter turnout in that unit. However, for the rest
of Bayelsa state, the total voters’ turnout as recorded by INEC was 87% with a total of 96% voting the President. One would have expected that if there was going to be a massive voter turnout, no other place would have surpassed the President’s own unit. Because this unit comprises his close and distant relatives – his parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, cousins, nephews, childhood friends, etc. But surprisingly, not half of these came out to vote their own, yet the rest of Bayelsa and the South-south turned out over 90% to vote “their son”.

The truth is that the President did not want anything to cause problem in his ballot box which would have embarrassed him politically. So that box was guarded against any malpractice and so what came out of the box was actually what transpired; but the rest of Bayelsa and others can do as they pleased. This is electoral fraud personified!"--- CPC Legal Adviser


Seeking To Establish The Truth Of The 2011 Presidential Election:
(Being a text of Press Conference Delivered by the National Legal Adviser of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Monday, 9th May, 2011 to Herald the Party’s Filing of its Petition before the Presidential Election Tribunal Sitting in Abuja)

Good Afternoon, Gentlemen of the Press,

As some of you may be aware, our great party, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), filed its petition before the Presidential Elections Tribunal sitting at the Federal Court of Appeal Abuja, challenging the results of the Presidential elections as announced by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega. The election petition was filed yesterday, being the 9th day of April, 2011 and this Press Conference is called to explain the import of CPC’s action.

But first, let us again on behalf of all members and sympathizers of our great party, extend our heart-felt sympathy and condolences to the families of those who lost their lives or property as a result of the violence that occasioned the elections. This includes all those affected before, during and after the polls. We would like to seize this opportunity to reiterate that our party is composed of responsible and discipline members who do not in any way subscribe to the perpetration of any evil much less of encouraging any.

Our national history has however taught us that the determination to win elections by incumbents by any means has always given birth to spontaneous reactions in the form of break down of law and order.

We recall the anger of the people of the Western Region in 1965 and the people of Ondo state in 1983 against the use of federal might to dislodge opposition governments in the South west in favour of the ruling parties at the federal level with concocted results. The people spontaneously rose against these barbaric actions of the government. Police stations and houses of prominent NNA and NPN supporters were burnt and many people killed. In the case of Ondo state, the judicial decision that ceded Ondo back to the UPN came within the context of citizens’ determined effort to protect their votes. We are all living witnesses that the nation’s democracy suffered irreparably as a result.
To us in the CPC, it is our belief that the break down of law and order that ensued after the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan as the
President-elect on the basis of concocted results was the bye product of the determination to win elections by incumbents by any means which has always characterized such actions by historical antecedence.

It is our contention that the declaration of false results assembled in places other than the Polling Unit in the instant Presidential Election is another
reminder that the political class ruling and ruining Nigeria is not ready to allow electoral reform work. Let us be reminded that already, this present PDP federal Government has rejected the recommendation from the Electoral Reform Committee it set up that the new Independent National Electoral Committee should be appointed through an independent process anchored in the National Judicial Council.

The Justice Uwais Committee had recommended that to transform INEC from a partisan, pro-president-of-the-day lackey to a professional and independent body, the President should lose the prerogative of appointing the Chairperson, National Commissioners and Resident State Electoral Commissioners of the Commission. The National Judicial Council was to take over that responsibility with citizens as nominations are to be made and considered by the public. But without any cogent justification at all, the government rejected it.
In fact, at the end of the day, the entire process of the electoral reform was jettisoned by the same government. What the nation ended up with is the unilateral appointment of an INEC Chairman whose integrity was eulogized more on his past views than actions. I am sure patriotic Nigerians will agree with us that the final processes and outcome of the 2011 general elections are nothing any near to what our campaigns for true Electoral Reforms expected in enthroning for Nigeria free, fair and credible elections.

We cannot therefore sit by and allow these electoral misdemeanours wreaking the very foundation of our country’s stability, prosperity and unity to continue unchecked forever. Since independence, the major political problem of our country has been that of elections. Transiting from one government to the other through the ballot box had always been the most difficult aspect of the nation’s democratic experiment. In fact, on the two occasions the military took over the reins of power from civilian regimes, in 1966 and 1983, election malpractices were sighted as justification. Yet, till date, we do not seem to have learned our lessons. With every election, including the last Presidential Election, the electorates continue to lose confidence in the ability of the ballot box to express their will. This is a dangerous trend that must not be allowed to continue, lest we find our country sleepwalking into a disaster that we may not come out of.

Please permit me to use the President’s own Polling Unit to illustrate the level of electoral fraud perpetrated in the election as we saw it. Osazi Playground Polling Unit has a total number of 908 registered voters. On the 16th of April election, only 424 voters turned out to cast their votes, with 413 voting for the President while 11 ballots were invalidated.
This represents a total of 47% voter turnout in that unit. However, for the rest of Bayelsa state, the total voters’ turnout as recorded by INEC was 87% with a total of 96% voting the President. One would have expected that if there was going to be a massive voter turnout, no other place would have surpassed the President’s own unit. Because this unit comprises his close and distant relatives – his parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, cousins, nephews, childhood friends, etc.
But surprisingly, not half of these came out to vote their own, yet the rest of Bayelsa and the South-south turned out over 90% to vote “their son”. The truth is that the President did not want anything to cause problem in his ballot box which would have embarrassed him politically. So that box was guarded against any malpractice and so what came out of the box was actually what transpired; but the rest of Bayelsa and others can do as they pleased. This is electoral fraud personified!

As lessons of history has taught us, in the life of a society or nation, there will come a time when a group of people must have to stand up and point out when the leadership is destroying the nation; explain why things are going wrongly; demonstrate how things can be done rightly; and work towards making a clear difference. The time is now and the people are you and us! It is for this reason that we in the CPC have decided to challenge these alleged concocted results of the Presidential Elections at the Tribunal.

Because of our experience in the processes of election cases in tribunals, we have learned that election petitions for the most part in the past failed to gain ground in our tribunals mainly because of paucity of evidence to proof cases. This, therefore, left us with no other option than to seek scientific ways, means and methods as the best and most effective platform to proof our case; hence our adoption and employment of Forensic/Biometric system of evidence.

The fact that there are no two people with the same fingerprint, every fingerprint can therefore be scientifically verified basically through the
following preliminary basics of the technical Biometrics/Forensics methods which details will be made available by the experts:-
1. Since during the Voter-registration exercise, all the ten fingerprints of all voters were captured and stored in INEC’s Standard Data Bank, it is certain that every voter must have used a finger to vote in the election. This then makes it possible to authenticate and verify every print on every ballot. This is the importance and central reason for this novel registration exercise. This case will therefore depend mainly on the authentication and verification of the fingerprints on the disputed ballot papers cast;

2. An electromechanical optical scan device with automatic tabulation called a “mark-sensing” system will be used; in this case the mark is the fingerprint;
3. We expect INEC to produce the Ballot Papers voted upon with the fingerprint organized on the basis of their Polling Units, Wards, Local Govt. Area and State and delivered for processing. These will be processed on Polling Unit basis, which means that the scanners willtake an image of each ballot paper, store the image in the appropriate location corresponding to its Polling Unit, Wards, LGA and State;
4. When all images of ballot papers for a Polling Unit are taken, a processing program containing the agreed upon sorting parameters will read the party name which has a fingerprint, then extract the fingerprint and store;
5. The following processes is then expected to take place within the records of each Polling Unit:-

a. Compare all fingerprints with each other to detect all repetitive fingerprints.
b. Count all repetitive fingerprints.
c. Deduct the repeated fingerprints from the count for that Polling Unit.
d. Present a table of results showing non-repeated and repeated votes.
e. Compare all fingerprints processed with the already registered and stored fingerprints of that Unit for any discrepancy, and
f. Count the total number of discrepancy, if any.

6. This process will be repeated for each Polling Unit.

Permit me to say that there are 2 key factors which will affect the time within which this work will be completed and they are:
a. The speed at which our legal team completes the process in the Tribunal leading to the order of the release of the source data and documents (Voter registration records, Stored fingerprints, Ballot Papers,etc.) by INEC.
b. The physical condition of the ballot papers. The condition in which the ballot papers are received will determine if they need preparation or they will go straight into the scanners. On this second score, we urge INEC and we will plead to the Tribunal to order the Commission to guarantee the safety and good condition of all the elections materials. In fact, we will prefer the materials to be safe-kept in the vaults of the Central Bank.

On the technical aspect of the process, we can confidently say that with the level of modern day technology, it won’t take long to conclude this procedure and establish the truth of the election. At the most, we can estimate between 50 – 65 days to be able to get all voters register authenticated, all disputed ballot papers examined, any other electoral document assessed, all findings compiled and submitted to the court, and return of all source data and documents to INEC.Our firm has participated in 300 electoral processes in 19 countries with more than 500 million voters tallied for government, private and multilateral organizations.

To the CPC, this use of Forensic/Biometric system based on INEC’s capturing of all the 10 fingers of every voter is a novel idea that can help solve forever the challenges of multiple voting and outright concoction of results; two critical issues in our electoral malpractices. Our present case in the tribunal is thus aimed at establishing the truth and preventing future elections malpractices in our country’s democratic experiment.

On this score, therefore, we call on each and every Nigerian to be supportive of our action; because this is NOT a case of trying to get for General Mohammadu Buhari the presidency of Nigeria, nor is it a case to deny same to President Goodluck Jonathan. Neither is it a case of fighting over the leadership of the country (as far as we are concerned whosoever is the leader does not matter so long as the processes creating the leadership is genuine). Rather this case, as we already said, is about establishing and ascertaining the truth for the country. It is on record that the nation expended at least N108 billion to conduct the elections. It is therefore worthwhile to establish the truth of the elections.

To this end, this is a case for the nation and should completely transcend party affiliation and regional considerations. The case should be taken by all Nigerians in the spirit of no victor no vanquished as propagated by the President and as a responsive search for the truth for our country. Nigerians from all walks of life must not only be united but also must be seen united in establishing for our country this basic truth on an issue that has plagued and wrecked incalculable damage to our unity and development since independence.
We, as Nigerians, must build a national consensus on this noble intention.
If at the end of this case, the truth is undeniably established and it is found out that the allegations of the said electoral frauds were true, then the blame of the post-elections violence should be squarely put on the perpetrators of the fraud – for they are the real cause of the violence, which will then be the natural principle of cause and effect. And if it is established that the PDP got its votes as announced authentically, then our Presidential Candidate will lead us to the Villa to formally congratulate the President and his deputy to the advancement of democracy, unity and stability of Nigeria.

Truth is, however, sacrosanct and it must be allowed to prevail.

Thank you for your kind attention.

ABUBAKAR MALAMI, SAN.
National Legal Adviser, CPC.

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