BluntCrazeMan: THE BEST WAYS THE VARIOUS PARTY-AGENTS SHOULD BE RAISING THEIR DISPUTES DURING THE ELECTION COLLATION EXERCISE..
.. .. This topic became necessary after observing the past series of elections,, and taking serious notes of how wantonly the collation-officers (and even the returning-officers) were disregarding and/or paying less attention to the disputes which were raised by the various aggrieved party-agents during the collation exercises at the various collation centers.
Meanwhile, most of the observed party-agents were merely wailing and ranting at the collation-centers - and almost getting themselves on the verge of staging fights at the collation-centers in an Orubebe-Styled manner, without actually stating the exact figures that are being disputed, and thus, they were left unattended to; since they actually have no facts-and-figures to be looked into.
Thus, going forward, the party-agents should endeavour to do the following while raising their disputes at the Collation-Centers... They should be very calm, soft-voiced (but loud enough to be heard), and then, TAKE THE WHOLE TIME TO GENTLY READ OUT “EVERY DISPUTED FIGURES” ACCORDING TO ALL THE AFFECTED POLLING-UNITS, and most-importantly have the party-agent recorded on video-camera while presenting the disputes as well as capture the collation-officers’ response on video-camera too.
There are two main reasons why the above-listed steps are very necessary during disputes:
1. These steps would help the Party’s Situation-Room to properly trace the originating points of all the mistakes and errors in the tallying and calculation of results,, as well as to trace all the originating points of all possible fraudulent manipulations of results, and communicate them to the party-agents on the field, for them to use the data in further butressing their disputes.
2. These steps would also help the Party to EASILY GATHER ALL THEIR EVIDENCE ahead of time, including all the necessary video-evidence, for them to be used during their election petition tribunal, Where all such erring collation-officers would also be joined as respondents in the election-petition -- (as stipulated in the Electoral-Act-2022)
... ... WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE PARTY-AGENTS SUPPOSED TO BE SAYING WHILE RAISING THEIR DISPUTES.??
Like I pointed out earlier,, the party agents are actually supposed to calmly and gently read out “all the disputed figures” according to all the affected polling-units. The polling-unit-number and NAME must be mentioned for all the affected polling-units. (The figures must be read out according to the various polling-units, in addition to being lumped or summed together according to the wards, or LGAs, or States)
The reason why the figures must be read out according to the polling-units is because, ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES FOR ALL THOSE AFFECTED POLLING-UNITS THAT WERE CALLED-OUT (AND DISPUTED) ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BROUGHT THERE AT THE COLLATION-CENTER, and be used to settle all those raised disputes.. That is what the Electoral-Act-2022 says in Section-64-(sub-section-6).
Assuming the party-agents lumped the figures according to the Wards collated-figures, or LGAs collated-figures, or States collated-figures, without naming all the affected polling-units, it would be very hard for the collation-officer to settle the disputes in accordance with the Electoral-Act-2022, because there were no BVAS-Machines used at these Wards, LGAs, or States levels.
... .. From all the above descriptions, it simply means that the party-agents MUST be physically present at the WARDS Collation-Centers., and start there to raise their disputes wherever and whenever they detected errors and discrepancies between the figures which the collation-officers are announcing and the figures that were contained inside the BVAS-machines.
These party-agents at the Wards would now communicate those disputes that were raised to the party-agents at the LGAs collation-officers (according to the exact polling-units and each of the exact figures as they were disputed and the correct summations for all the parties and votes cast -- including the wrongly summed figures which were announced by the INEC’s collation-officers). It is the duty of the party-agents at the upper level of collation to cross-check the summed figures which the collation-officers at that particular upper level of collation would announce. If the figures happen to be the wrong summations,, then the party-agents would raise the disputes by first pointing out the wrong summations,, and then break the whole wrong results down into the various polling-units -- AND DEMAND FOR ALL THE AFFECTED BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THOSE MENTIONED POLLING-UNITS TO BE BROUGHT “UNTAMPERED” TO THE COLLATION-CENTER FOR VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION.
... ... .. WHAT WOULD THE POLITICAL PARTY DO IF THE PARTY-AGENTS AT THE WARDS AND LGAS (LOWER-LEVEL COLLATION-CENTERS) WERE FORCEFULLY NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER THE VENUE OF THE COLLATION.??
If the authentic party-agents who were supposed to be at the Wards and/or LGAs Collation-Centers were forcefully blocked off from entering the venue of the collation,, such affected party-agents should make a video of the incident, calling his/her name and showing his/her face as the authentic party-agent for such a center, and also showing good evidence of forceful barricade, and then declare inside the video that whatever that happens inside that particular Collation-Center (as also named inside the video), that the party is not aware of it, and that the process is flawed and no more transparent and credible..
The reasons for making such videos 📷 are very simple.
According to the Electoral-Act-2022, all the party-agents must have submitted their names and photos to the INEC, and must have even submitted samples of their signatures too before the election..
Thus, such videos would help the party’s situation room to know the Collation-Centers where their Authentic Party-agents were prevented from entering, and start early enough to call the attention of the State’s Securities to attend to such centers. It would also help the party in establishing the case of “fraudulent and non-transparent collation” at the election tribunal should in case the matter gets to the tribunal, because the case of forceful exclusion could easily be established from the videos.
The various political parties should be very much aware that without such videos, they cannot establish that there was forceful exclusion or forceful barricade from the venue of the collation,, and thus, the opponent may quickly assume that the Party-agents WILLFULLY ABSCONDED, since there were no evidence to prove that there was forceful barricade,, and thus, such opponent would use the Section-43-(subsection-3) of the Electoral-Act-2022 to assume that the party-agent willfully absconded from the venue of the collation, and use such provisions of the law against him/her. Therefore, the party-agents must be very very cautious, and very careful for them not to play into the cunning hands of their opponents..
This video would also help the party-agents at the upper-level Collation-Centers to already be aware (ahead of time) that the Lower-Level party-agents were not able to raise disputes at the Collation-Centers due to undue forceful blockage from entering the venue of the Collation-Centers,, and thus the party-agents should raise the matter up at the upper-level Collation-Center, and call for a full review of all the previously collated results so-far by invoking the Section-64-(subsections-6-&-7) of the Electoral-Act-2022. (YESSS..!! The Electoral-Act-2022 allowed for the whole Results to be re-collated ALL-OVER AGAIN FROM SCRATCH, USING THE WHOLE OF ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THE WHOLE POLLING-UNITS,, IF THERE WERE ESTABLISHED INCONSISTENCIES DURING THE VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION OF THE ALREADY-COLLATED RESULTS..)
BluntCrazeMan: THE BEST WAYS THE PARTY-AGENTS OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD BE RAISING THEIR DISPUTES DURING THE ELECTION COLLATION EXERCISE..
.. .. This topic became necessary after observing the past series of elections,, and taking serious notes of how wantonly the collation-officers (and even the returning-officers) were disregarding and/or paying less attention to the disputes which were raised by the various aggrieved party-agents during the collation exercises at the various collation centers.
Meanwhile, most of the observed party-agents were merely wailing and ranting at the collation-centers - and almost getting themselves on the verge of staging fights at the collation-centers in an Orubebe-Styled manner, without actually stating the exact figures that are being disputed, and thus, they were left unattended to; since they actually have no facts-and-figures to be looked into.
Thus, going forward, the party-agents should endeavour to do the following while raising their disputes at the Collation-Centers... They should be very calm, soft-voiced (but loud enough to be heard), and then, TAKE THE WHOLE TIME TO GENTLY READ OUT “EVERY DISPUTED FIGURES” ACCORDING TO ALL THE AFFECTED POLLING-UNITS, and most-importantly have the party-agent recorded on video-camera while presenting the disputes as well as capture the collation-officers’ response on video-camera too.
There are two main reasons why the above-listed steps are very necessary during disputes:
1. These steps would help the Party’s Situation-Room to properly trace the originating points of all the mistakes and errors in the tallying and calculation of results,, as well as to trace all the originating points of all possible fraudulent manipulations of results, and communicate them to the party-agents on the field, for them to use the data in further butressing their disputes.
2. These steps would also help the Party to EASILY GATHER ALL THEIR EVIDENCE ahead of time, including all the necessary video-evidence, for them to be used during their election petition tribunal, Where all such erring collation-officers would also be joined as respondents in the election-petition -- (as stipulated in the Electoral-Act-2022)
... ... WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE PARTY-AGENTS SUPPOSED TO BE SAYING WHILE RAISING THEIR DISPUTES.??
Like I pointed out earlier,, the party agents are actually supposed to calmly and gently read out “all the disputed figures” according to all the affected polling-units. The polling-unit-number and NAME must be mentioned for all the affected polling-units. (The figures must be read out according to the various polling-units, in addition to being lumped or summed together according to the wards, or LGAs, or States)
The reason why the figures must be read out according to the polling-units is because, ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES FOR ALL THOSE AFFECTED POLLING-UNITS THAT WERE CALLED-OUT (AND DISPUTED) ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BROUGHT THERE AT THE COLLATION-CENTER, and be used to settle all those raised disputes.. That is what the Electoral-Act-2022 says in Section-64-(sub-section-6).
Assuming the party-agents lumped the figures according to the Wards collated-figures, or LGAs collated-figures, or States collated-figures, without naming all the affected polling-units, it would be very hard for the collation-officer to settle the disputes in accordance with the Electoral-Act-2022, because there were no BVAS-Machines used at these Wards, LGAs, or States levels.
... .. From all the above descriptions, it simply means that the party-agents MUST be physically present at the WARDS Collation-Centers., and start there to raise their disputes wherever and whenever they detected errors and discrepancies between the figures which the collation-officers are announcing and the figures that were contained inside the BVAS-machines.
These party-agents at the Wards would now communicate those disputes that were raised to the party-agents at the LGAs collation-officers (according to the exact polling-units and each of the exact figures as they were disputed and the correct summations for all the parties and votes cast -- including the wrongly summed figures which were announced by the INEC’s collation-officers). It is the duty of the party-agents at the upper level of collation to cross-check the summed figures which the collation-officers at that particular upper level of collation would announce. If the figures happen to be the wrong summations,, then the party-agents would raise the disputes by first pointing out the wrong summations,, and then break the whole wrong results down into the various polling-units -- AND DEMAND FOR ALL THE AFFECTED BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THOSE MENTIONED POLLING-UNITS TO BE BROUGHT “UNTAMPERED” TO THE COLLATION-CENTER FOR VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION.
... ... .. WHAT WOULD THE POLITICAL PARTY DO IF THE PARTY-AGENTS AT THE WARDS AND LGAS (LOWER-LEVEL COLLATION-CENTERS) WERE FORCEFULLY NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER THE VENUE OF THE COLLATION.??
If the authentic party-agents who were supposed to be at the Wards and/or LGAs Collation-Centers were forcefully blocked off from entering the venue of the collation,, such affected party-agents should make a video of the incident, calling his/her name and showing his/her face as the authentic party-agent for such a center, and also showing good evidence of forceful barricade, and then declare inside the video that whatever that happens inside that particular Collation-Center (as also named inside the video), that the party is not aware of it, and that the process is flawed and no more transparent and credible..
The reasons for making such videos 📷 are very simple.
According to the Electoral-Act-2022, all the party-agents must have submitted their names and photos to the INEC, and must have even submitted samples of their signatures too before the election..
Thus, such videos would help the party’s situation room to know the Collation-Centers where their Authentic Party-agents were prevented from entering, and start early enough to call the attention of the State’s Securities to attend to such centers. It would also help the party in establishing the case of “fraudulent and non-transparent collation” at the election tribunal should in case the matter gets to the tribunal, because the case of forceful exclusion could easily be established from the videos.
The various political parties should be very much aware that without such videos, they cannot establish that there was forceful exclusion or forceful barricade from the venue of the collation,, and thus, the opponent may quickly assume that the Party-agents WILLFULLY ABSCONDED, since there were no evidence to prove that there was forceful barricade,, and thus, such opponent would use the Section-43-(subsection-3) of the Electoral-Act-2022 to assume that the party-agent willfully absconded from the venue of the collation, and use such provisions of the law against him/her. Therefore, the party-agents must be very very cautious, and very careful for them not to play into the cunning hands of their opponents..
This video would also help the party-agents at the upper-level Collation-Centers to already be aware (ahead of time) that the Lower-Level party-agents were not able to raise disputes at the Collation-Centers due to undue forceful blockage from entering the venue of the Collation-Centers,, and thus the party-agents should raise the matter up at the upper-level Collation-Center, and call for a full review of all the previously collated results so-far by invoking the Section-64-(subsections-6-&-7) of the Electoral-Act-2022. (YESSS..!! The Electoral-Act-2022 allowed for the whole Results to be re-collated ALL-OVER AGAIN FROM SCRATCH, USING THE WHOLE OF ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THE WHOLE POLLING-UNITS,, IF THERE WERE ESTABLISHED INCONSISTENCIES DURING THE VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION OF THE ALREADY-COLLATED RESULTS..)
guobe: I bought some cold drinks that were distributed to Bendel insurance fc supporters club today before the match against Doma United as my little contribution to my darling club Bendel insurance. These men always support my team in the rain and in the shine and they deserve all the accolades. Adaa Bendel.
Keep it up.
Your Club Will Go Places.
Your Boys will become good exports, yielding hard currencies to you.
GOFRONT: Yesterday, It was reported on one other thread on frontpage how a guy cried out for help cos he kept seeing himself going back to knack his neighbour's pregnant wife......
Now, between R Kelly and the fvcker of pregnant neighbour, who is Worst??
#Free R Kelly #Free R Kelly #Free R Kelly #Free R Kelly #Free R Kelly
Our guy was not taken to court and framed by the woman involved.
Glimpsetv: A video circulating online shows the bride's brother presenting her with a car gift on her wedding day, which has sparked mixed reactions.
The brother of the bride stepped forward onto the stage where the bride and groom were seated, holding a microphone. He publicly announced, "On behalf of the bride's family and the boys," then handed her a car key. He further announced that the bride's mother had promised to fuel the car with N1.5 million, eliciting cheers and screams of joy from the crowd.
Well-wishers in attendance subsequently escorted the bride and groom outside to where the car was parked.
However, this kind gesture has sparked mixed reactions on social media platforms as many opined that the public presentation of the gift was unnecessary, expressing that it should have been kept low-key rather than publicized.
What are your thoughts on this? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.
ElSudani: Yes, he is afraid of them. This is the only reason he is not able to chastise them whenever they go out of line like they often do. Either that or he is a complete weakling.
If you're on your own,, and some people decided on their own and came to support you, even when you were not aware that they were even existing in the first place. And you gave them nothing, and you did nothing to them in return.. All they needed was just your consent to allow them to go ahead and support your journey with anything and everything they have.
But on the condition that you don't tell them what to do and how to do their things,, but you can only advice, suggest, and dialogue things with them.
What would you do??
The worst Peter can do is to say that he doesn't want the support of the Obidients any longer. And that definitely would tell bad of him.
YOU GUYS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE OBIDIENTS. SO, STOP DESCRIBING WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
ElSudani: Obi is totally afraid of them. But if he can't control a measly band of miscreants, how is he going to control a complex country of 200 million people from different backgrounds?
WHO EXACTLY ARE THE OBIDIENTS.??
You cannot describe something which you cannot definitely DEFINE.
fergie001: Earlier, the Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani who was called out replied via X, that the NIMC was no longer under his Ministry.
However, Tijani hoped that the NIMC will work with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission to investigate the matter.
It can be recalled that the Bola Tinubu-led administration in September 2023 moved the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Ministry of Interior.
THE MOU BETWEEN THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND MPH RAIL DEVELOPMENT (UK) LIMITED: SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT
The attention of the Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMT) has been drawn to emerging comments and commentaries by certain persons (especially on social media) concerning the status and implications of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 12th February, 2024 by the Honourable Minister of Transportation (HMT), Senator Said Ahmed Alkali on behalf of the Ministry with Messrs. MPH Rail Development (UK) Limited, a United Kingdom-registered company with Nigerian and foreign shareholding.
2. For clarity, a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, is a non-binding agreement that states each party’s intentions to take action, conduct a business transaction, or form a new partnership. It is not a legally binding agreement. It provides only a platform for further engagement, discussion, scrutiny, and the provision of required guarantees by the parties to reach an agreement if the parties are satisfied.
3. The MoU in question arose from an unsolicited proposal presented by the British African Business Alliance (BABA), an Association based in the United Kingdom with interest in business in Africa. Its proposal was initially submitted to the Ministry on 27th August, 2019. As required, the proposal (Outline Business Case) was submitted to the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) on 8th December, 2023. The major attraction of the proposal is BABA/MPH’s initiative to achieve 100% private sector funding for the project ‘with no loans or debt to the Nigerian Government or any of its agencies’, as captured in Article 3.3 of the MoU. The Regulatory Commission on 27th December, 2023 granted approval and issued a conditional OBC Certification. It is pertinent to note at this juncture, that COVID-19 was a major contributor to the time lag between initial proposal and the ICRC OBC Certification.
4. Messrs. MPH Rail Development (UK), is the company incorporated by BABA, as the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to ‘deliver’ the project. It must be emphasized that a Company to be used for such a purpose is usually new with nominal shareholding to allow for stake holding by parties to the project at theinvestment stage.
5. For the avoidance of doubt the following are the major terms of the MoU:
[b]• The primary purpose of the MOU, is to provide a platform for further discussion between parties to ascertain the possibility of executing the project or otherwise. It does not create a legal or contractual agreement neither did it commit the Federal government in any way;
• Article 3.3 of the MoU affirmed that BABA/MPH’s initiative is to achieve 100% private sector funding for the project ‘with no loans or debt to the Nigerian Government or any of its agencies’;
• A fundamental deliverable under the MoU is for MPH to design a funding and implementation model and submit same to the Ministry within 90 days of the MoU for further consideration and scrutiny;
• MPH, within the above-stated 90 days period will equally submit its Programme of Action to demonstrate its achievement of all the preconditions highlighted by ICRC, before further engagement with Government; and
• The MoU also sets up a bilateral Technical Committee to monitor the Company’s commitment towards achieving the above milestones and ensuring that the project objectives are well within sight.[/b]
6. The Ministry therefore considers it expedient to put out this Statement to reaffirm as follows:
(i) This initiative is still at its preliminary stage. As the proponent, MPH is expected to submit within 90 days of the signing of the MoU evidences of commitment by potential financiers, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report, Financial Model and Programme of Action, Full Business Case Study Report, and a Comprehensive Feasibility Study Report;
(ii) It is the submission of the above listed documents and the outcome of their evaluation that will determine the desirability or otherwise of the proposal;
(iii) ICRC as the Regulator of PPP is fully and duly in charge of the oversight of this process;
(iv) The MoU therefore constitutes only the beginning of a long process that will lead to the project after due diligence and scrutiny by the Ministry and other appropriate authorities; and
(v) The nascent and nominal share value of the SPV company (Messrs. MPH Rail Development) does not diminish the plausibility of the business proposal at this early stage.
7. For the avoidance of doubt, the Ministry wishes to reassure Nigerians and the general public that it is committed to discharging its statutory mandate towards the realization of the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of Mr. President to deliver efficient, affordable and sustainable transport infrastructure for the country with utmost diligence and fidelity. It therefore urges the pubic to discountenance the insinuations, cynicism and aspersions cast on the said MoU which is neither a legal agreement nor a binding commitment on the Federal Government.
Olujimi Oyetomi Director, Press and Public Relations
Politics › Re: Killers Of 16 Soldiers May Be Mercenaries, Not Nigerians – Akpabio by BluntCrazeMan: 7:19pm On Mar 19, 2024
