I am not giving up yet on the Electoral-Act-2022..
I believe that the court judgements just gave the National-Assembly-Members the clear directions towards which they should go in amending the current Electoral-Act.
The court judgements didn't render the Electoral-Act useless after-all.
There is another election coming up on Saturday (3rd February, 2024)..
In reality,, most of the Nigerian Voters have totally lost trust and hope in the whole election and voting processes..
The political parties are now busy gathering money with which to rig the election,, since it now seems to be that the smartest rigger wins, and that nothing can be done again about whoever that wins by any means at-all..
BUT HERE I AM, STILL SCREAMING THAT THERE IS STILL HOPE LEFT,, IF ONLY WE DO THE RIGHT THINGS BY OURSELVES,, AND THEN FORCE THE INEC TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS TOO, EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO..
It only involves some more extra efforts by the voters (THE PEOPLE) and the opposition political parties who think that they are at the disadvantaged position in the election.
THE TRUE BEAUTY OF DEMOCRACY IS THE EXTRA UNRELENTING EFFORTS OF THE PEOPLE AND THOSE OF THE OPPOSITION PARTIES.
BUT THE WHEN THE PEOPLE AND THE OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE WEAK, THAT IS THE DEFEAT AND DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY.
HOW THE POLITICAL PARTIES CAN PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS TO AVOID BEING CHEATED, OR BEING RIGGED-OUT
BluntCrazeMan: Let me just try and suggest to the political parties what they should be doing in all these upcoming elections; pending the time we have functional implementable and enforceable Electoral-Laws in Nigeria.
1. Elections must Not start in any polling-unit where the sensitive materials are not complete, or tampered with, or not well documented by the polling-officers and party-agents.
The nonsense that happened in Kogi State, where elections started in some Polling-units without the presence of the Result-Sheets. The results were later written on PLAIN SHEETS OF PAPERS, and then, an entirely different result (written on the Supposed Actual EC8A Results Sheets) were later uploaded to the IREV-Portal. That was so baadd.
2. If the INEC Officials said that the essential sensitive-materials would be brought to the Polling-units later, then the election MUST NOT START, until the sensitive-materials arrive.
Everybody at the polling-unit must wait for the sensitive materials to arrive in full, and properly documented before the election can start off..
3. The materials and booklets that were sighted before the election must be properly documented by the party agents too.
(These materials and booklets that were recorded before the election must be collated independently by the political parties -- WHILE THE MAIN VOTING CONTINUED)
4. These untampered sensitive-materials and booklets (including their serial-numbers too) which were documented and collated before the elections started, would later serve as a serious tool for Checks-and-balances after the whole Collation must have been completed. [Section-73(2)-EA-2022]
5. After the whole election had been completed and concluded at each of the polling-units, all the remaining materials and booklets must be counted and properly documented, and their serial-numbers noted too.. (These remaining materials and booklets must also be collated independently again by the political party - for all the polling-units).
6. By applying the methods of checks-and-balances; Whenever a results-sheet with a wrong Serial-Number is presented by any official at any collation-center, it would be noticed immediately and rejected outrightly.
(It means that the original sheet which was generated at the polling-unit had been swapped with another sheet which has another serial-number)
7. Still on the methods of Checks-and-balances; The difference between the collated untampered full-booklets of ballot papes and that of those remaining booklets of ballot papers, would equal the number of used ballot papers, which is supposed to be equal to the “total votes cast + the destroyed ballots”.
8. The INEC - if left on their own - would not perform all these checks because they are in a haste to do what they want to do and end the whole process as quickly as possible.
But since the party-agents are also there as the electoral watchdogs, they must fully and aggressively apply these checks-and-balances, and use them to seriously question the credibility and the transparency of the elections.
9. On a very normal election day when massive rigging occurred, the values of the total number of ballot-papers used which INEC would be announcing would be so high. (And these would be far higher than the actual number used as calculated from the checks-and-balances)..
10. The political parties must have their own fully independently collated parallel results of the election itself -- which is supposed to be totally independent of the INEC’s official collation.
The political parties Should Not solely depend on the collated results of the INEC for any reason. It's too dangerous...
11. If there were transparent elections, the INEC’s-collated results should be in agreement with those parallel results that were independently collated by the political parties.
Then, under prefect conditions, all the results are supposed to all be exactly the same -- even though they were all done independently.
12. For the official collation of results by the INEC, the party-agents must make sure that they are fully present while the collation exercise progresses, no matter what happens there.
The party-agents Must Not boycott any part of the official collation exercise, be it at the lower level or at higher level.
13. For any collation-center where the party-agents were forcefully prevented from entering inside,, such party-agents must endeavour to capture such moments on videos as concrete evidence against the INEC and against such persons who prevented them from entering, so that it would be documented that the collation which happened inside such a center was fraudulent.
14. For any Ward-Level collation center where the “Accreditation Data” & “The Polling-Units Results” were not first cross-checked and re-confirmed using the BVAS-Machines; then, the collation officer at that collation center must be recorded on video and kept as evidence for violating the election procedures as clearly stated inside the Electoral-Act-2022.
These are my suggestions for now.. The political parties -- through their party-agents should be doing the tedious and rigorous works of the checks-and-balances for now,, until the time the electoral-act fully allows the new technological innovations to be doing the required checks-and-balances.
it's really very tedious, but they do not have much options for now.
It had been clearly established by the various election petition court judgements that: “The Online IREV-Portal is not an official part of the results collation system -- and that it is just meant for the public consumption.
And again, since the definition and functions of the Online IREV-Portal are not established in the Electoral-Act-2022, then, its deployment and usage cannot be foisted upon INEC as a necessary or mandatory part of any election, and that whatever data which the INEC uploads to the IREV-Portal (or refuses to upload to the IREV-Portal) cannot be used against them for whatsoever reason.”
The simplest implication of this judgement is that the INEC should immediately stop the deployment of the Online IREV-Portal in ALL the upcoming and subsequent elections, pending the time the IREV-Portal is clearly established in the Electoral-Act as a necessary part of the Nigerian Electoral Process; so as to also stop the wastage of funds on an online portal/system which is not yet authorized by the electoral laws.
Another direct implication of the series of judgements is that: THE ONLY OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED MANNER OF TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS AND ACCREDITATION DATA IS THE “MANUAL TRANSMISSION”.
Yes. And there is nothing anybody else can do about it.
But then, there are laws inside the Electoral-Act-2022 that guided all forms of transmission of results -- whether electronic or manual -- which the INEC are not strictly adhering to, which I want to point out in this write-up.
Here below are the laws: (All these laws here are excerpts from the Electoral-Act-2022)
1. All Accreditations whatsoever must be electronically done with the Card-reader or any technological device provided by the INEC. (See Section-47(2))
2. There are no alternatives to the electronic accreditation prescribed in Section-47(2). (See Section-47(3))
3. The Presiding Officer at the polling-units shall transfer the total number of accredited voters including the recorded results, in the manner prescribed by the INEC. (See Section-60(5)) (In this case, the manner of transfer to be used by the INEC is “Manual Transmission”, as judged by the courts)
And finally to the most-important law which applies of all manner of transmissions which INEC might choose to go with,, (which even the courts chose not to see and pass any of their judgements upon),, and which NONE of the Collation Officers nor Returning Officers had not been observing in any of the elections so far...
4. A collation officer (at any level) or a returning officer (which is supposed to be the final collation officer) shall collate and announce the results of an election SUBJECT to the VERIFICATION and CONFIRMATION that the number of accredited voters stated on the collated results ARE CORRECT AND CONSISTENT with the number of accredited voters recorded (inside the Card-reader or any device provided by the INEC) and transmitted directly from polling-units under Section-47(2) of this Act. (See Section-64(4(a)))
Therefore, with all these straightforward electoral-laws and the judgements of the courts, we are no more supposed to be dwelling on “whether the manner of transmission is electronic transmission or manual transmission”.
We are now only supposed to be fully concerned with, “whether there were VERIFICATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS of the ‘Number of Accredited Voters’ which were written on the transmitted results for consistency with the ‘Number of Accredited Voters’ that were captured and recorded inside the transmitted BVAS-machines”. This is because, the Electronic Accreditation of voters is Mandatory, and also, the Verification and Confirmation of the Accredited Voters before any Collation is also mandatory. (As clearly stated in Section-47(2); and Section-64(4(a)))
The Section-64(4(a)) which clearly referred back to the Section-47(2) is a clear indication that the verification and confirmation of the accredited voters during the time of collation must be carried out using the values of the number of accredited voters that were captured inside the BVAS-machines during the time of the electronic accreditation process.
.. I think my explanations up to this point is very clear.
It is left for the accredited party-agents and the accredited observers to ensure that the Verification and Confirmation of the number of accredited voters are mandatorily carried out at all the First-Level Collation-Centers,, that is, at all the Ward Collation-Centers.
.. ANOTHER ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED WAY-FORWARD; IS THE INDEPENDENT COLLATION OF USED SENSITIVE MATERIALS.
The electoral laws made it very clear in Section-73(2) of the Electoral-Act-2022 that: “Any election conducted at any polling unit without the PRIOR recording in the forms prescribed by the Commission of the quantity, serial numbers, and other particulars of the results sheets, ballot papers and other sensitive electoral materials made available by the Commission for the conduct of the election shall be invalid”.
This means that, the elections which took place in most of the polling units in Imo State and Kogi State in November 2023 went contrary to this particular electoral law,, where some the Presiding Officers in some Polling-units started the election without the arrival of the BVAS-Machines, in some other polling-units they started the election without the arrival of the authentic Results-sheets; whereas the laws made it clear that the materials must be complete before the start of the election, and that THEY MUST BE COMPLETELY RECORDED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICERS ACCORDING TO THEIR SERIAL-NUMBERS, BEFORE THE START OF THE ELECTION. (And that also includes the BVAS-Machines and all the available materials too, both the sensitive and non-sensitive materials).
It is also the duty of the party-agents at every polling-unit to also write down these information in their own note-books too, and to also write down the exact serial-number of the particular Result-Sheet on which the Polling-unit Results were written upon,, (just in case that particular Result-Sheet got swapped along the way to the collation center, and replaced with another sheet similar to it).
At the end of the voting exercise at the polling-units, since the Presiding Officers counted the materials and wrote their numbers down before the start of voting,, they are also required to count the remaining materials and also write their numbers down in a separate document meant for that purpose.
The party-agents are also required to write down the numbers of these remaining materials, and their serial-numbers too.
The Collation of the number of materials that were supplied to each polling-unit, and the collation of the number of materials that were remaining after the election had been concluded -- is a very good method of checks-and-balances for any election, which the Electoral-Act envisaged in Section-73(2) of the Act.
This is also supposed to be the major work which the So-called Election Observers are supposed to be doing, since they are the supposed to be looking out for the checks-and-balances.
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I am of the personal opinion that all hope is not lost yet when it comes to the monitoring of the integrity and the transparency of the Nigerian Elections..
The “Manual Transmission” option is a very time-consuming option, but since the court-judgements has left us with it as the only viable option for the transmission of results, then we actually have no other option than TO DO IT THE VERY BEST WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE, and that is:
NO COLLATION FOR ANY POLLING-UNIT CAN COMMENCE AT ANY FIRST-LEVEL COLLATION CENTER (THAT-IS, THE WARD COLLATION CENTER) UNTIL THE NUMBER OF ACCREDITED VOTERS THAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE RESULTS-SHEETS GETS VERIFIED AND CONFIRMED WITH THE NUMBER OF ACCREDITED VOTERS THAT WAS CAPTURED IN THE BVAS-MACHINES THAT WERE USE AT THE POLLING-UNIT IN QUESTION..
AND ALSO, ANY COLLATION EXERCISE FOR ANY POLLING-UNIT THAT STARTS OFF AT ANY COLLATION CENTER WITHOUT THE PRIOR VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION OF THE ACCREDITATION-DATA FOR THAT POLLING-UNIT IS NULL-AND-VOID.
I just hope this write-up wouldn't be misunderstood by the readers.
jesusjnr2020: 666: A Day Is Coming When Money Alone Won't Be Able To Buy You Food
Yes, a day is coming when you would need to have a mark on your forehead or right hands to be able to buy and sell anything, including food.
Revelation 13:16-18 (KJV)
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
It is called the mark or number of the beast, 666.
God bless.
You already have the mark.
AND THAT IS THE BIOMETRICS CAPTURING... WHICH IS MAINLY DONE IN ORDER TO HAVE YOUR IDENTITY DIGITIZED...
A time will come when all transactions would be totally wireless.
Only individuals whose identities are captured in the digitized database can buy and sell anything, or get any services rendered.
THE 666 HAS ALREADY STARTED.. STOP WAITING FOR ANOTHER MARK ON THE BODY.
fergie001: Chukwuemeka Woke, ex-Chief of Staff to former Governor Nyesom Wike and re-nominated Commissioner for Special Projects spoke on behalf of his colleagues at a GDI rally, on the same day, they were sworn-in.
GDI is a grassroots movement that railroaded Nyesom Wike to Office in 2015
This whole up-and-down in Rivers State will not help anyone.
It won't help them, it won't help the people. It won't just help anybody.
Splashme: You can't blame the judges. The case was thrown out because truly Electronic transmission of results is not in the Constitution.
Prof Yakubu was just deceiving everybody .
I have a question abbegg.
It is true that “electronic transmission” wasn't in the Electoral-Act, no wahalla. But “Transmission” is there. And they claimed that the “transmission” could also mean “physical transmission”.
No wahalla.
But then... The Electoral-Act also said that the Presiding-Officers should transmit the ACCREDITATION DETAILS IN THE VOTING DEVICE directly from the Polling Unit.. AND FOR ANY COLLATION TO HAPPEN ANYWHERE AT ANY LEVEL OF COLLATION, THE COLLATION-OFFICER OR THE RETURNING-OFFICER MUST USE THE TRANSMITTED ACCREDITATION DETAILS TO VERIFY THE RESULTS.
Therefore.. IF they said that the Transmission could be physical transmission, no wahalla. Why didn't they use the physically transmitted BVAS Machines to verify the number of Accredited Voters before Collation at all the Collation Centers??
YOU NOW SEE WHERE THEY STILL FAILED THE WHOLE THING?? (INCLUDING THE SO-CALLED JUDGES)
The past is now in the past. We are now faced with what comes ahead. ..
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Upper Saturday Is Election. (3rd February, 2024)
And it's the same INEC that will conduct the Elections, with the same BVAS and IREV-Portal. ***And we were able to establish from the Bayelsa-Imo-Kogi Elections -- that the INEC-Staff were able to manually manipulate the figures inside the IREV-Portal to go Up-And-Down anyhow in order to become whatever they wanted it to be,, and that they can even shut it down entirely if they liked.
Thus, those values as seen on the IREV can also be manipulated to anything they like..
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AND NOW,, I AM ASKING... ...(ESPECIALLY TO THE OBIDIENT VOTERS IN THESE CONSTITUENCIES -- COME 3RD FEBRUARY, 2024.)
What are you going to do differently this time around in order to keep your keen critical eyes seriously on the INEC, so that they don't go against ANY Of the Electoral Laws??
Or are you just going to go to the polling units again as usual, sit around and gist, then cast your votes and go home, and allow the INEC to continue to do whatever they liked as usual.??
And we the Online Observers will still continue to see lots of their infractions, and manipulations, and discrepancies as usual.?? And be asking lots of questions which would never be answered in this current lifetime or the next.??
WHEN WILL ALL THESE CYCLE OF NONSENSE END.?? WHEN WILL WE START TO BEGIN TO TAKE OVER THE PROCESSES OF THE ELECTION PROPERLY AND SQUARELY.??
*****MODIFIED.. IN THE MEANTIME.. I SUGGEST TO ALL THE VOTERS TO NOT ALLOW THE VOTING TO START, UNTIL THE INEC-OFFICIALS SHOWED THEM ALL THE COMPLETE UNUSED SENSITIVE MATERIALS, THE UNUSED BALLOT-PAPERS AND THE UNUSED RESULTS-SHEETS, AND PROPERLY RECORD THEM BEFORE THE START OF ELECTION.. AND THEY THEMSELVES (THE VOTERS) SHOULD ALSO HAVE THESE RECORDS TOO..
ELSE NO ELECTION MUST START..
AND AFTER THE CASTING OF VOTES,, THE STRONG ONES AMONGST THE VOTERS SHOULD FOLLOW THE INEC-OFFICIALS TO THE COLLATION CENTERS, AND ENSURE THAT THE COLLATION OFFICERS COMPLY TO THE ELECTORAL LAWS AT THE COLLATION CENTERS.
IREV FAILURE: INEC OWES NIGERIANS AN EXPLANATION -- SAYS JEGA
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, says the electoral umpire owes Nigerians an explanation regarding the failure of the commission’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV) and the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) during the 2023 general elections.
The political scientist spoke on Inside Sources with Laolu Akande aired on Channels Television on Friday.
The former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, blamed desperate politicians for allegedly infiltrating the two technological systems introduced by INEC for the accreditation and electronic transmission of votes in the last elections.
At the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly polls, opposition parties complained bitterly that INEC officials at the polling units were unable to upload election results electronically to the IReV, as stipulated by Section-60 of the Electoral Act 2022. The parties kicked against the manual collation of results and the announcement of winners in the polls.
The electoral body acknowledged that certain glitches made real-time transmission of results impossible and promised to fix the situation but opposition parties approached the courts and challenged the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was declared winner of the presidential election. Tinubu later won at the tribunal and the Supreme Court. Jega said though INEC meant well, some politicians circumvented the whole IReV and BVAS systems.
He said, “In 2023, INEC did its best under very difficult circumstances and a lot of these difficult circumstances were caused by the mindset of our selfish politicians who wanted to win by hook or by crook.
“INEC has overtime introduced technology to make the process of election results very transparent with integrity but from my own experience when I was in INEC from 2011 to 2015, and I suspect that a lot of that has continued to be so up to 2023, our reckless politicians try to be a step ahead of INEC; if you introduce something today and you try it, they try to be a step ahead of you and beat it by the next election. And of course, they can also use ways and means to not only truncate but also bypass something that has actually been put legitimately in order to add to the integrity of the process.
“If you ask my opinion, I feel very strongly that INEC needs to tell us more about what happened with the IReV. In fact, at one point, I was even calling for a thorough public inquiry about what happened with regards to IReV. I feel that something has happened, that in spite of the confidence and the very articulate manner the INEC chairman (Mahmood Yakubu) had spoken about the IReV and it then failed.
“I believe that some of our reckless politicians may have infiltrated it and truncated it but INEC will take the blame for that.”
According to him, once the court cases are resolved, “we need to go back to the bottom of what happened with the IReV”.
A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has alleged that “reckless politicians” infiltrated the election result viewing portal known as IReV during the 2023 general election.
Jega, who called for a probe, made this known while featuring on Channels Television’s Inside Sources Programme on Friday.
During the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, the commission could not immediately upload the results of the election on the IReV portal, which led to a public outcry.
Reacting to the development, Jega said despite the commission’s efforts to get it right, some desperate politicians frustrated its efforts by infiltrating the portal.
Jega said, “In 2023, INEC did its best under very difficult circumstances, and a lot of these difficult circumstances were caused by the mindset of our selfish politicians who wanted to win by hook or by crook.
“INEC has over time introduced technology to make the process of election results very transparent with integrity, but from my own experience when I was in INEC from 2011 to 2015, I suspect that a lot of that has continued to be so up to 2023, our reckless politicians try to be a step ahead of INEC.
“If you introduce something today and you try it, they try to be a step ahead of you and beat it by the next election.
“And of course, they can also use ways and means to not only truncate but also bypass something that has actually been put legitimately in order to add to the integrity of the process.
“If you ask for my opinion, I feel very strongly that INEC needs to tell us more about what happened with the IReV.
“In fact, at one point, I was even calling for a thorough public inquiry about what happened with regards to IReV.
“I feel that something has happened, that in spite of the confidence and the very articulate manner the INEC chairman (Mahmood Yakubu) had spoken about the IReV, it then failed.
“I believe that some of our reckless politicians may have infiltrated it and truncated it but INEC will take the blame for that.”
He further urged that INEC should get to the root of what happened to the IReV portal after all court cases are resolved.
Benwallt: Going by the way that dwarfed 419 rule Anambra. If he'd won, we won't have a country. He would have crippled everything. Nigeria dodged a bullet
Kog45: Escalator broke down and a major news😁 Nigeria youths need to wake up and stop all these naivety....I remember going through Dubai metro and saw them repairing escalator and I was told it happens but here is a news
In Dubai, someone had to tweet it first before they repair it??
sinero: Keep quiet if u r so clueless. Machine's are prone to breakdown. Escalators also break down in london heathrow, atleast I work there so I know. Instead of d buffon to criticise d epileptic economy and proffer solution (that's if he has any clue), he is busy scoring cheap mumu points and his worshippers are leaking is anus. Shame.
You work where??
Let me even pretend to believe you.
So,, if an escalator stops working in London Heathrow,, for how long will it stay non-functional before it is fixed.??
Makinaki: You dey mind dem? Dem go dey comment on wetin dem nor sabi? That Abuja airport domestic wing Escalator & lift wey nor dey ever work. Everything Obi Obi Obi!
Oohhh..
It was never operational?? And Obi was even lenient enough to say THREE-MONTHS.
The maintenance works was actually a first-time something?? Eye-service indeed.??
Forumobserver12: There's no autonomy in Rivers state house of assembly.... It's very clear even to the blind that these charlatans are being remote from Abuja by Wike for his selfish interest, is that what you called autonomy? C'mon on let's get real here...
Getting Real?
The using of their Vetto-power is what I'm talking about.
Whatever they still have with Wike is their wahalla..
Crime › Re: Bandits Kill 2 Ekiti Monarchs, Elesun Of Esun & Olumojo Of Imojo by BluntCrazeMan: 4:58am On Jan 30, 2024
As soon as it is noticed, it is repaired. Peter Obi na scammer🤣🤣🤣