Nlanalyst:
...
By the way, no woman, no girlfriend, no wife has ever returned any money found in this scenario.

Any male returned money found in this scenario.??

Even if it's a dry-cleaner.!!

Lalasticlala, Nlfpmod, Fergie001

Ttipsy:
It’s not collation

We have a fraudulent System
The solution is electronic voting

If Electronic Voting would still happen physically at the Polling-units,, then it is still the same as Manual Voting..

We Need An Electronic Voting where we vote with our Personal Mobile Gadgets/Devices.

Dcc

There are still ways which we can FORCE the INEC to do clean and Transparent Collations -- which are very much in line with the Electoral-Act-2022.

AND THIS METHOD WHICH I AM CURRENTLY SUGGESTING HERE-UNDER (BELOW) INSIDE THIS VERY COMMENT IS VERY SIMPLE.


I am suggesting that concerned citizens (most especially political parties, or Civil Society Organisations) to get court orders to force the INEC to do their results-collations according to the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022; especially the following Sections listed below:

1. Section:64(4a)
2. Section:64(6b)
3. Section:64(9)....

That-is;

For Section:64(4a); A Court Order is needed in order to Mandate INEC to ensure that No Collation at any level of collation (Even at the final level of collation) can start-off unless the Accreditation-values which were CAPTURED INSIDE THE BVAS MACHINES were called-up and used to verify and confirm the Accreditation-Values that were recorded inside the result sheets.

This means that, the verification of the Accreditation-values should not happen only at the WRAD-LEVEL Collation-Centers, but all the way to the Final Collation Level.

Therefore,, since INEC had chosen to opt for the MANUAL TRANSMISSION (which also includes the Manual Transmission of the BVAS MACHINES),, they have to ADHERE STRICTLY to what the Electoral-Act-2022 says that must be done before the Collation at any level must begin.

This definitely means that Collation Exercises would now take weeks or even months for them to be complete (this is because, the INEC would have to MANUALLY AND PHYSICALLY TRANSMIT both the results sheets and the BVAS-MACHINES to all the collation centers).



And for Section:64(6b); A Court Order is needed in order to Mandate INEC to ensure that Once there is Dispute at any level of collation, the Collation-Officer must COMPLETELY SOLVE ALL THE DISPUTES before sending the results to the upper-level collation officers...

The collation officers shouldn't be telling the people and the stakeholders that the dispute they raised would be solved at the final end of Collation..

The Electoral-Act mandated the Collation Officers to solve all the disputes by PHYSICALLY CALLING FOR THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL SUCH DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS..

If any Collation Officer fails to settle the disputes raised at his Collation Center,, or even goes ahead to settle the disputes without calling for the BVAS-Machines, they have violated the Electoral-Act-2022; and he should be flagged, and his case should be escalated.


....
Then, for the Section:64(9); A Court Order is needed in order to Mandate INEC to ensure that any Collation Officer who didn't do their collations or settle the raised disputes according to the Electoral-Act-2022, they should be found LIABLE,, and they should be prosecuted and punished accordingly for violating the Electoral-Act.

This also means that the RESULTS THAT COMES OUT FROM SUCH A COLLATION CENTER had been rendered Null-and-void, since the Collation Officer didn't do the right things according to the Electoral-Act-2022, and thus, there would be need for a total re-collation using the BVAS-MACHINES and the original EC8As for such Flawed Collation Centers.

..

Since the INEC had chosen to out-rule the use Electronic Transmission,, and had based their Rascality on the Electoral-Act-2022, we (the voters) should really stop hurting ourselves by expecting the INEC to still come back again and use any form of the Electronic Transmission again...,, BECAUSE, THEY WILL STILL NOT USE IT AT THOSE AREAS WHERE THEY HOPE TO RIG MASSIVELY, AND THEY WILL STILL COME BACK AT THE COURTS AND USE THE LOOPHOLES IN THE ELECTORAL-ACT-2022 TO ESCAPE JUDGEMENT.


...


What we have to do now is to accept the Fact that we are FULLY in the ERA OF USING MANUAL TRANSMISSION,, and then, use court orders to Force the INEC to Also Physically and MANUALLY Transmit the BVAS-MACHINES..

And if anything happens to the BVAS-MACHINES in the course of transmitting it manually, the results whose Accreditation-values are supposed to be VERIFIED and CONFIRMED with those tampered BVAS-MACHINES are to be considered NULL-AND-VOID..

..

Maybe with these new procedures,,, by the time the INEC suffers the burden of Manually Transmitting the Accreditation-values (that-is; transferring the whole BVAS-MACHINES) from the Polling-units to the Wards, and up to the Final Collation Points,, either once or twice in any of the OFF-CYCLE ELECTIONS,, they themselves (and all the other stakeholders involved) will massively push for the National Assembly members to quickly and hastily include the “Electronic-Transmission” and “Electronic-Collation” in Clear Terms inside the Electoral-Act.


..

It's time to tell the INEC that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”..

Since they they are deliberately creating LEGAL LOOPHOLES, then, let us all play the game their way..

We will also enter inside that Legal Loophole with them and make it LEGALLY WIDER and more comfortable for all of us.

YIAGA AFRICA IDENTIFIES WEAKEST LINK IN ELECTIONS

A citizen-led movement under the Watching The Vote (WTV) Working Group better known as Yiaga Africa has identified collation of election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the weakest link ahead of Edo State gubernatorial election billed for September 21.




Mr Paul James, Programme Manager of elections Monitoring Group disclosed this at a training programme for journalists/CSOs on Tuesday (20th August, 2024) in Benin City, Edo State where he corrected some misconceptions about the Organization.

According to him, “In Nigeria, one of the weakest links in election is COLLATION. That is why results from polling units are the purest.”

Mr James stated that Yiaga Africa has worked with over 40,000 Nigerians over the years in promoting democratic governance in Nigeria.

The Programme Manager, Yiaga Africa also stated that Yiaga team would collate data from 300 polling Units from the 4,419 polling Units in Edo State.

He further revealed that 25 Yiaga election Observers would be deployed across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State.

He harped on the deployment of use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and statistics, as well as build citizens confidence in the forthcoming poll through the Process Verification Results for Transparency Technology (PRVT).

In her presentation, Safiya Bichi, head of knowledge, Management, Learning Yiaga Africa took participants through memory lane on 10 indicators of violence during elections.

She stated that the factors include communal clashes, destruction of campaign posters by political thugs and other issues of concern.

The resource person of the Non-Governmental Organization said it’s committed to credible election, noting that they have “projected that there is likelihood of low turn out of voters.

“The election is going to be competitive because there are other factors within the contest that will likely affect the outcome of the election,” according to her.

A Board member of Yiaga Africa, Prof. Nnamdi Aduba, who sued for knowledge sharing and intelligence sharing, lamented the convoluted nature of Nigeria politics and avoidable irregularities during polls in Nigeria.

The University of Jos lecturer argued that it is easy to get the buy-in of voters in an election if the electoral process is transparent and credible.

He said, “I am so happy about what I am seeing around; democracy is for everyone. If you empower the natives, you will know that they are not stupid,” Prof. Aduba said.

The Edo State chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Festus Alenkhe, commended Yiaga Africa and urged media practitioners to remain apolitical and prioritize safety over personal gains, ahead of the forthcoming poll.

Earlier, the President, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGOS), Comrade Bartholomew Okudo, expressed optimism that the training would help INEC achieve set objectives.

Source:
https://thenewspad.com/yiaga-africa-identifies-weakest-link-in-elections/

Paentera:


Your effort is commendable in highlighting the parts of the Electoral Act - however to make it digestable for majority of the public, you should have mentioned the section without quoting the entire thing. Lol.

I did this thing you said is another thread 🧵,, and another person told me to quote what the section says because it's not everybody that has the Electoral-Act for them to go and find the section and check.

femi4:
We are saying the same thing. INEC will not allow technology to work

Well...
You're right.

But that was somehow in the past now..


There is something we are teaching the Edo people at this moment.

We are teaching them how to insist on the right things being done.
And thus, the technology will work to its fullest capacity.
Whether they did Manual Collation or Electronic Collation..
The Technology will still work very very well.
(It is only a little bit time that it would waste)

femi4:
Not again
BVAS failed us the last time, and it's bound to fail again

There is something that you do not understand here.

After the Accreditation,, the work of the BVAS Had not ended.
It just started.

So, it was you and me who believed INEC’s lies that the BVAS works only at the Polling-units..
The BVAS Machines was supposed to also travel all the way with the Results as the results are being tallied and collated...

HOLD THE INEC RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT DOING THE RIGHT THING.

fergie001:


CTCs come out days after....some more than a week after.

Ok..
Thanks.

We Wait

Can anyone give me the link where I can get the CTC of this Kogi SC Judgement.??

Fergie001..
Pls help.

Supersdotng:


https://supers.ng/supreme-court-affirms-diris-election-as-bayelsa-governor/

Can anyone give me the link where I can get the CTC of this Bayelsa SC Judgement.??

Fergie001..
Pls help.

Mynd44

Lalasticlala, Nlfpmod, Fergie001

BiafraAburi:
This muguh called chidoka is still talking about PVC. What a dunce. Still hoping to repeat another PVC ediocy.

PVC.??

You didn't watch the video..
You didn't even read the original post.

press9jatv:
You are 100% right here

One thing is clear.
The Politicians and their thugs are no more the main problems with Elections these days.

CHIDOKA CLEARLY ESTABLISHED WITHOUT MINCING WORDS THAT “THE SO-CALLED INEC OFFICIALS ARE THE MAIN CULPRITS HERE..”


Our Electoral System is just suffering Institutional Problems, where the supposed staff of the institution are the main problems.

..

ExAngel007:
Despite all police officers do, including risking our lives, we still face criticism from the public - FCT Police spokesperson laments

The spokesperson of the Delta state police command, SP Josephine Adeh, has decried the rate at which police officers in Nigeria are unappreciated.

In a post shared on social media this morning, Adeh wrote;



Despite all police officers do, including risking our lives, we still face criticism from the public - FCT Police spokesperson laments

They are good when they are normal people and being their normal persons.
But when they do their work as police, they show off extreme betrayal and corruption.

Racoon:
This kind of concept and technological innovation that will deepen our electoral and democratic journey is what the corrupt fellas holding this nation to ransome will never approve

They might soon have no other options left than to approve it.

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immortalcrown:
Yes.

No wahalla.

immortalcrown:
Una go tire because no hope.

Okay

Ennyjude:
Okay

Okay

immortalcrown:
Una go tire.

Okay

We have learnt through experience that the INEC would always choose to do the wrong things, and then, employ all their legal intelligence to the fullest just in order for them to find any possible legal loopholes (in the electoral legal framework of-course) so as to use them and back themselves up in their wrong-doings.

For Instance:

The Current Electoral-Act-2022,, there are no mentions of “E-Collation System”,, and even though the INEC might constantly and frequently be promising to use it, they would just turn around at the last-hour and not use it again, and start quoting the Electoral-Act-2022 to back themselves up (the ugly experience of 11th November 2023 comes to mind)..

It is very clear to everybody that the Electoral-Act-2022 did not “Specifically MENTION” that the E-Collation or E-Verification should be employed,, and therefore, for us to be on the safe side of dealing with the INEC (as they had seemingly become fraudulent in their dealings),, we better not agree that they have the zeal and the willingness to do the right things,, and thus, we shouldn't be expecting them to do the right things after-all -- since those things that were supposed to be the Right Things are not CLEARLY WRITTEN inside the Electoral-Act-2022..
They would even come on tv and social-media and be teaching people how to be complaint with those sophisticated technological procedures, only for them to turn around and renegade at the last minute and betray everybody in the end.

The INEC would definitely be the first persons to remind all of us at the Law-Court that “UPLAODING RESULTS TO THE IREV” is not written inside the Electoral-Act, in-fact, that there is no MENTION of IREV or anything similar to it inside the Electoral-Act -- (not to even talk about the uploading of the “Ward-Collated” Results to the same non-existent IREV -- according to the Electoral-Act),, and if they defend themselves with such a line, they are very correct - because the Electoral-Act-2022 Did Not at any point give strong legal powers to the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2022” which mentioned the IREV.

So, I am suggesting that you help us to push the National Assembly members to CLEARLY and Specifically INCLUDE THE MANDATORY USE OF THE “E-TRANSMISSION” AND “E-COLLATION” INSIDE THE ELECTORAL-ACT.

It will definitely go a long way..


..

So therefore, for the moment,, it is left for concerned citizens (or political parties, or Civil Society Organisations) to use court orders to force the INEC to be fully carrying out the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022; especially the following Sections:

1. Section:64(4a)
2. Section:64(6b)
3. Section:64(9)....

That-is;

For Section:64(4a); No Collation (at any level of collation -- even at the final level of collation) can start unless the accreditation-values from the Lower Levels were confirmed and verified to be correct and consistent with those accreditation-values that were CAPTURED IN THE BVAS MACHINES and transmitted either electronically or MANUALLY.

This means that, the verification of the Accreditation-values should not happen only at the WRAD-LEVEL Collation, but all the way to the Final Collation Level.

Therefore,, since INEC had chosen to opt for the MANUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE ACCREDITATION-VALUES INSIDE THE BVAS, that is a very valid choice, but then, they have to ADHERE STRICTLY to what the Electoral-Act-2022 says that must be done before the Collation at any level must begin.

Therefore, A court order is very necessary at this point in time...

This definitely means that Collation Exercises would take weeks or even months for them to be complete (that is, if the INEC continues to insist that they must continue to go by the MANUAL TRANSMISSION method -- else, with Electronic Transmission and Collation, the whole collation would just be concluded within hours -- the choice is ours to make).



And for Section:64(6b) ; it means that Once there is Dispute at any level of collation, the Collation Officer must COMPLETELY SOLVE IT before sending the results to the upper-level collation officers... The collation officer shouldn't tell the people and stakeholders that the dispute would be solved at the final end of Collation.. The Electoral-Act mandated the Collation Officers to solve all the disputes by PHYSICALLY CALLING FOR THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL SUCH DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS, amongst other materials that are necessary for settling such disputes..

Then, the Section:64(9) made it very clear that any Collation Officer who didn't do their collations according to these PROCEDURES (whether the INEC Opted for Electronic Transmission or Manual Transmission),, they should be found LIABLE,, and be punished for violating the Electoral-Act.

This also means that the RESULTS THAT COMES OUT FROM SUCH A COLLATION CENTER had been rendered Null-and-void, since the Collation Officer didn't do the right things, and thus, there would be need for a total re-collation using the BVAS-MACHINES and the original EC8As.

..

Since the INEC had chosen to out-rule the use Electronic Transmission,, and had based their Rascality on the Electoral-Act-2022, we should really stop hurting ourselves by expecting them to still come back and use any form of the Electronic Transmission again. BECAUSE, THEY WILL STILL NOT USE IT AT THOSE AREAS WHERE THEY HOPE TO RIG MASSIVELY, AND THEY WILL STILL COME BACK AT THE COURTS AND USE THE LOOPHOLES IN THE ELECTORAL-ACT-2022 TO ESCAPE JUDGEMENT.


...


What we have to do now is to accept the Fact that we are FULLY in the ERA OF USING MANUAL TRANSMISSION,, and then, use court orders to Force them to Also Physically and MANUALLY Transmit the BVAS-MACHINES..

And should anything happen to the BVAS-MACHINES in the course of transmitting it manually, the results whose Accreditation-values are supposed to be VERIFIED and CONFIRMED with those tampered BVAS-MACHINES are to be considered NULL-AND-VOID..

..

Maybe with these new procedures,,, by the time the INEC suffers the burden of Manually Transmitting the Accreditation-values (that-is; transferring the whole BVAS-MACHINES) from the Polling-units to the Wards, and up to the Final Collation Points,, either once or twice in any of the OFF-CYCLE ELECTIONS,, they themselves (and all the other stakeholders involved) will massively push for the National Assembly members to quickly and hastily include the “Electronic-Transmission” and “Electronic-Collation” in Clear Terms inside the Electoral-Act.


..

It's time to tell the INEC that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”..

Since they they are deliberately creating LEGAL LOOPHOLES, then, let us all play the game their way..

We will also enter inside that Legal Loophole with them and make it LEGALLY WIDER and more comfortable for all of us.

There is something I want to bring to all Our attention -- AS IT CONCERNS THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA,
((AND ALL POSSIBLE FUTURE ELECTIONS)).

A lot of Legal Practitioners are overlooking this very concern which I discovered...
((I actually wonder why they don't see it as something very important..))

The concerns I am raising has to do with the INEC’s total negligence of the provisions of “Electoral-Act-2022”, which have ended up making the Electoral-Act to seem like as if it is now a very useless document, whereas it was the INEC who had been neglecting and balkanizing the Electoral-Act all these while in their conduct of the various elections, and the people also aided them by not forcing them to do the right things..

First of all, the INEC started the whole balkanizing of the “Electoral-Act-2022” by producing their INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2022”,, where some clauses inside it totally went against the provisions of the Electoral-Act-2022,, and these faulty clauses were even used against the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 by the judges when they were passing their judgement for the PEPT-2023.

Let me break everything down for you to understand better .

Clause-48(c) and Clause-93 of the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines 2022” totally violated the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 in Section:64; sub-sections: 4(a-&-b).;; 5.;; 6(a,b,c,d).;; 7.;; and then 8.

Remember that all these sub-sections clearly detailed how the COLLATION of the election-results are supposed to be carried-out after the voting had been concluded.

AT NO POINT DID THE “ELECTORAL-ACT-2022” SUGGEST THAT ANY OF THE MISSING RESULTS WOULD BE PROVIDED USING THE POLICE-COPIES OF SUCH RESULTS OR THE PARTY-AGENTS COPIES..

This means that the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines 2022” in Clause-48(c) and Clause-93 created their own procedures which were not dependent on the Electoral-Act-2022,, and thus these clauses needed to be expunged from their “Regulations and Guidelines” for going against the “Electoral-Act-2022”.

INEC is supposed to expunge those clauses by themselves,, But Since They Are Wasting Time To Do It,, they might have to be compelled by a COURT ORDER for them to do so.

And then again...
The INEC might have to also be compelled again with another COURT ORDER for them to strictly comply with the provisions of Section:64(4a-&-4b); Section:64(5); Section:64(6a,6b,6c,6d); Section:64(7); and Section:64(8.) of the Electoral-Act-2022; where it clearly stipulated that “no collation can start anywhere until the Accreditation-Values on the results-sheets are confirmed and verified with the accreditation-values that are contained inside the Machines which were compulsorily used for the Accreditation of voters, and transmitted directly from the Polling-Units” -- (which happens to be the BVAS-Machines at the moment)..

The most-important part of the Electoral-Act-2022 when it comes to the procedures for settling disputes and issues that arise during collation is the Section:64(6a,6b,6c,6d); most-especially Section:64(6b) and then Section:64(7); where the Electoral-Act-2022 clearly stipulated that whenever there are disputes with results gotten from the lower levels,, the smart-card-readers or any technological devices used in the Polling-unit (or the Polling-units that are under such lower-level collation centers) should be brought to the collation-center where the disputes were raised, for them to be used in settling the disputes and for possible re-collation if necessary. Thus, if the inconsistencies that were established are beyond what is pardonable, the Collation Officer would have to re-start the whole collations afresh using the various results that were captured inside the technological devices (BVAS-Machines) and transmitted directly from the Polling-Units.

THE “TRANSMISSION” IN THIS CASE COULD BE “MANUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE BVAS-MACHINES THEMSELVES”..
NO PROBLEM.
WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ARGUING THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE AGAIN WITH THEM.

From what I had pointed out so far,, it is very clear that the current INEC had totally ignored all the IMPORTANT Sections of the Electoral-Act-2022,, and it really pains me that they are planning to do the same thing again in the upcoming 2024 elections (Edo and Ondo).

Concerned Civil Society Organizations really need to compel the INEC (Most probably by using Court-Orders) to make sure that the INEC’s Collation Officers at all levels clearly Verify and Confirm that the figures on the Results-Sheets are in agreement with the Accreditation figures that are contained inside the BVAS-Machines, and that the BVAS-Machines (and nothing-else but only the BVAS-Machines) should be used to settle disputes,, and that no Collation officer should transmit or announce their collated results without settling all the disputes that were raised at such collation-center else they would be found guilty of violating the Electoral-Act-2022, and be punished accordingly as stipulated in Section:64(9) of the Electoral-Act-2022.

Concerned Civil Society Organizations should obtain court orders that must mandate that nobody should tamper with the BVAS-Machines that were USED in any election until all the Petitions and LEGAL-BATTLES on the Elections are done and completed.

In my own little way of suggestions, I am believing that the solution to all these problems (using the current Electoral-Act-2022 as it is, pending its amendment) is to force the INEC through COURT ORDERS, and mandate them to FORCE their Collation-Officers at all levels of Collation to settle disputes by calling-up for the various BVAS-Machines of all the affected Polling-units as stated in Section:64(6b),, or else that Collation Officer had violated the rules of the Electoral-Act-2022, and should be sanctioned, and at the same time, the violation renders the results he announced INVALID for not following the rules of collation of results properly as stipulated.


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HERE IS THE SUMMARY OF ALL THE SUGGESTIONS I GAVE SO FAR.
1. INEC should expunge clauses 48(c) and 93 in their 2022 guidelines that contravene sections 64(4) a & b; 64(5); 64(6) a, b, c & d; 64(7) and 64(8.).

(Please Note: the Clause 48 (b) & (b) of the INEC’s Regulations and Guidelines 2022 are still consistent with the Electoral-Act-2022.. Only Clause 48(c) highly contradicted the Electoral-Act-2022)

2. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to compel INEC to comply with Sections 64(4a), 64(4b), 64(5), 64(6a-d), 64(7), and 64(8.) of the Electoral Act 2022. These sections clearly stipulate that collation cannot begin at any level until the accreditation values on the results sheets are confirmed and verified against the accreditation values stored in the machines, which were mandatorily used for voter accreditation, and the result that are transmitted directly from the polling units -- (which -- at the moment, based on the current legal precedents -- happens to be the results that are captured inside the BVAS machines).

3. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to compel INEC to ensure that NOBODY should tamper with the BVAS machines that were used in any election until all the petitions and legal battles for the elections are done and completed.

4. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to Mandate INEC to ensure that their collation-officers at all levels of collation shall settle disputes by calling up the various BVAS machines of all affected polling units, as stated in Section 64(6)(b). If they fail to do so, they should be sanctioned according to Section 64(9) of the Electoral-Act-2022.

5. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order in order to mandate that the application of Section 64(6b) of the Electoral-Act-2022 must be made mandatory and compulsory in matters of election-disputes. This means that, whenever there is a dispute between the number of transmitted accredited voters and the number of transmitted recorded voters, the collation officer should use the smart card reader or other technology device used for the accreditation of voters in each polling unit where the election is disputed for the purpose of obtaining accreditation data directly from the smart card reader or technology device. This should apply whether the transmission was done manually or electronically.



Thank you so much for the time you took to read and understand this piece.

Osita Chidoka was a guest on Prime-Time on Arise-TV, where he gave more details about the research he carried out about the off-cycle elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa States.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjVsUMHNTZU


He said that the research was not aimed at criticizing the off-cycle elections, but for them to identify any possible gaps and to make suggestions on how to improve on them..



HIS METHODOLOGY:
They downloaded all the results from the INEC’s IREV.
And then wrote a Freedom of Information Request to INEC and got their BVAS-Report of the Accreditation Data on the election day, as well as the Ward Collation Results, LG Collation Results, State Collation Results, as well as Report of Polling-units where elections were not held or were cancelled.
They digitized all the information and used them for their research.

They obtained all those VERY FEW Polling-Units that were not Compliant with the provisions of the Electoral-Act for the collation of results, and cancelled the results of all those such non-compliant Polling-units.
They then recomputed the results again with only the compliant Polling-units.

He said that when a non-compliant Polling-unit is cancelled, all the parties will loose votes that were cast in that cancelled Polling-unit.
It is not only one party that looses votes, but all the parties.



HIS FINDINGS FROM THE RESEARCH HE DID:
1. The research revealed that the INEC’s election technologies have impacted positively to the Conduct of Election in Nigeria.

2. The research revealed that our votes count. He said that the research showed that results were not already pre-rigged by the INEC.. The INEC did not present pre-written results in vast majority of the Polling-units, and that in the few manipulations which happened, they only did them at the Polling-units after the elections had been concluded at the Polling-units. Therefore, people should have to come out on the election day and vote, and also make sure that they prevent the manipulations which usually happen after the elections.

3. The research also revealed that the adhoc staff who served as presiding officers and collation officers are not CORE INEC STAFF, and that most of them are people from the immediate localities of the candidates, and therefore, most of them were even willingly manipulating the results in favour of their favourite politicians.



HIS RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. The INEC should immediately upload all the BVAS Accreditation Data to the IREV during election.

2. The BVAS should have an E-Collation Module where the Presiding Officers enters the Election Results into the BVAS with their hands, and then the Party Agents would sign the entered results there on the BVAS, and the same results electronically sent to an E-Collation system. This would be done before the results are entered manually into the Polling-units results sheets. The manually filled Polling-units Results-Sheets can also be snapped and uploaded to the IREV too.

3. INEC should also use the BVAS-like collation technology to collate the various Polling-unit results at the Ward Collation Level, and then transmit it through the E-Collation System, then manually copy out the collated result from the BVAS-like collation technology into the appropriate results-sheet, and then snap and upload the written Collated Results onto the IREV.

KingintheNorth:
Let me tell you a a true life story.


It actually happend about 10 years ago but the memories will live with me forever . Although I have not talked about it on social media but I feel like telling the story so that people will learn. It's a long story but I'll make it brief.

I was cohabiting with my girl back in the Uni, we have been like that for a few years , but then one day I came back to my lodge late in the night because I watched a football game on my way back from school. I opened my door and met my girl on the floor. She was motionless and her eyes were wide open, I checked her pulse but I couldn't feel anything. Her teeth and her palms were clenched tight. I panicked and just froze at the spot not knowing what to do. I then called a few people in the lodge and alerted them about what was happening but before I knew it , the whole lodge people have gathered in my room and outside the door.

Nobody could tell what must have happend to her. We thought about rushing her to hospital but the school clinic is closed and there are no good hospitals in the area because the school is in a remote location, and it was almost midnight at the time. Some people did different type of first aid on her , trying to see if they can revive her but after few hours there still wasn't any sign of life.
People started suspecting that she might be dead and started taking somethings from their rooms and leaving the lodge immediately. Out of the 30 occupants of the lodge only one person (student pastor) remained with me. The rest ran away from the lodge ,even my best friend .🙁

The student pastor prayed and prayed to see if she will come back to life but nothing happend , at about 4am the Pastor told me that he has done everything he can and that it's in the hands of God now. He then went to his room. It was just the two of us left in the building.

I sat down in my room, I didn't know what to do, I couldn't cry , I thought about how I was going to be arrested and charged for murder when in truth I'm innocent, which nobody will believe because of nigeria justice system. I thought about my parents , how they sacrificed to send me to school not knowing I was cohabiting with a girl . At some point I thought about running away, but that will mean I'm guilty and perhaps how far and how long would I be on the run before I would be caught.

I didn't know who to call , I was just bereft of ideas. I decided I'll submit myself to the police in the morning and explain what happend and possibly face the consequences. As I sat there waiting for day to break, I started scrolling through my phone contacts.
Mind you, I believe in God but I'm not a very religious person. I came across one pastor that gave me his phone number a long time ago. I then decided to just try my luck and call him. I called him and he picked up the call immediately as if he was waiting for the call.
I wanted to tell him what's happening, but he cut me short and told me he already knows. That he was disturbed in the spirit and God revealed it to him so he started praying but he didn't know it was for my situation he was praying for at that time.

He told me I should not be afraid , that everything will be fine. He asked me if I have any sachet water around , I looked around and got a sachet water . He then asked me to put the phone ontop of the water so her can pray in it. I did as he asked. After praying , he then asked me to try and force open her mouth anyway I can pour some water inside ,then sprinkled the rest all over her body.

I did everything he instructed. He then told me that everything will be alright and ended the call. By then it was almost 6am in the morning. I just sat there starring at her , then I saw her hand move a little bit, I cleaned my eyes and got closer to her so as to be sure my eyes were not deceiving me. Her hand moved again , then her legs . Before I knew it she opened her eyes and sat up. I couldn't believe my eyes, I was in shock and was wondering if I'm imagining the whole thing.

Then she spoke and asked me what's happening, and why is her body wet with water . I rushed out and called the student pastor who came running in to witness the first miracle of my life. He was singing praises to God. I knelt down and prayed to God and thanked him for the first time in a very long time . I made her a cup of tea after which she has a shower.

At about 7am in the morning, none of my lodgemates have returned . I looked outside the gate from my room and saw some of them with other people gathered in small groups whispering, waiting to get the full gist of how my girl died in my room .

I called my bike guy to come to the lodge because I want to take her to the hospital for checkup, I then came down to the gate with my girlfriend. As they saw her , they opened their mouth with shock and we're too surprised to talk.

To cut the whole story short . I learnt some valuable lessons . Cohabiting with anybody you are not married is very risky, you wouldn't know the risk until something happens to him or her.
The second lesson I learnt was that, when you get in trouble that's when you will know that you are alone, people will run away from you.

Anyways , we continued dating, but I rented an apartment for her so stay separately. I also stopped her from sleeping in my place. Untill we eventually parted ways after I graduated.

If this really happened in Nigeria,, then she must be the only one in This Nigeria.

If she is still alive and she gets to read this story,, she will know that you're the one telling this story,, and she would want to see you again.

princepee:
What exactly is it with Nigerian and south Africa.
We are not even neighbors, so what is this rivalry about?

People have a lot of time to waste.

Miss Universe South Africa..

Chidimma Adetshina.

They disgraced her, Nigeria gave her a heroic ground to stand upon.
They felt it was a shade on them and started off an internet xenophobia.

Bendeco2020:
Nigeria has met their match in madness

South-Africa Actually Started It.

Glimpsetv:
Well, it's important to know that for anything called fake, there must have been an original.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuG9e4N4xsQ?si=Xa0ZgkcEN3MK1Gwk

So, just because the same arrangee miracle was done by an Indian, it becomes original.??