Jiang:


And who told you they ain't here in the Northeast, those guys you dey see, we see twice dat almost every freaking day, now when they say show of force in the Northeast, multiply that convoy by 5, then include 3- 4 of those huge ass MRAPs & annoying MI-35 helicopters that fly above once in awhile.

Now that's a show of force!

I don't know why they fell everyone is after them.

Evercurious:



Did you say more than 30 trucks and call that just awareness?

Plz help yourself

That's was a day before the presidential election, and nobody was harassed during the awareness patrol or on the day of the election (didn't even see them on that day, only saw mopo).

What do you think the reason is for then?

You are already seeing everything as a nail, I suggest you drop that hammer before you reply.

musicwriter:
The easiest way to rig the election is via the PVC, so please allow people free movement.

Do you mind explaining?

Josegun:
U guys should stop this crazy lies. Those set of Soldiers are always on patrol within Port-Harcourt city before now. Occasionally, u see them on highway too. Eg east west rd ( ph - Bayelsa). Which mask kwa!

That's just a normal patrol to create an awareness that they are around, should in case you political thugs have other plans.

I don't know why the op is just lying outrightly and the mod decides to push this to the front page.

This thread should be a remove from the front page, everybody is reading and you might end up causing unnecessary panic.

JasonScoolari:
Gun-wielding soldiers (armed to the teeth), have been patrolling the metropolis for some days now in a show of force ahead of the governorship election on Saturday, March 9th.




You won't see these armed monkeys in the war ravaged states of Borno, Yobe, and Kaduna, but they're in the SS region strolling with their weapons like prostitutes just to intimidate voter's.

Are they not supposed to be in their barracks or engage the BH boys who are having a swell time killing their colleagues and furcking the hell out of their wives?

Here they are in the capital of the SS following orders from the APC.

Shame!

They are just creating awareness, nothing serious.

Pass with more than 30 trucks in ma area.

edicied:
I don't think there's anything that can be done. Most people na school pass through them.

But there are some people that you could consider to be above average intelligent wise, but they also believe that rubbish.

What's your take on such folks?

edicied:
This is really sad! What i hate about this ritualist stuff is that you killing people for noting! Killing humans cannot get you Rich why are my people ignorant? Why is Africa backward like this?

Thats what I hate about the ritualist of a thing, they only succeed in wasting human life and the government are not doing anything about it to educate the populace.

What do you think could be done to rid us of this mentality?

enemybulldozer:
Am not surprised at the way you reason, a typical black man will always reason with his anus instead of his brain, just listen to your dumb self. since you have admitted that there was a kind of rigging, what's the essence of rigging the election if your god buhari and his political goons were sure they will win??

The word is Massive. Are you now saying that PDP did not rigged at all?

That's part of the reason why I suggested non partisanship from this thread to encourage open mindedness.

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After going through comments from most social Medias and forum (nairaland). I have to conclude that most people don't know how their vote gets to Abuja, if you do prove me otherwise and tell me the point you believe you believe the election was successfully rigged.

senatordave1:

Oga i ask again,how many videos do you have? So a few videos captured what happened in the nation,are you this dumb? So the security agencies were present at all polling units abi ? If you cancel elections in the polling units your videos captured,would it make atiku the winner ? So you expect an election to be 100%.my friend,stop crying more than atiku.there was rigging quite alright but it wasn't enough to alter the final results.the amount of votes buhari got in the south should tell you that he defeated your master.

You can't be more right, I only wish people could drop their party affiliation and see the election process for what it really was.

Some them that are angry with the international observers have no idea what happens to their vote immediately it leaves their polling unit. I believe voters education should be introduced to educate people on how vote are actually counted, that would surely give hope to our democracy.

Hofbrauhaus:


It's not a secret hearing na..You can always make yourself available in court.

Lol, I would be busy by then.

On a serious note, after casting your vote at the polling unit do you know how it get to Abuja? I mean the steps.

Charmingrascal:
They have nothing to show

They will wail for the next four years and we are use to them

I really wish they have, because it would take a Mastermind to massively rigged the just concluded election.

Most people that keep shouting rigging have no Idea what happen once they cast their vote. They don't ask questions or do a follow-up and know how their vote gets to Abuja.

If they had done the above, they would know that to rigging this election massively won't be easy at all.

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Nice, but is from a PDP tweet.

I suggest you use a source that won't be partial maybe any reputable paper.

Can't wait for your final outcome, I know the chances of the comparison to be accurate is very low, I am very much interested in knowing the margin.

9jabull:
Most of the rigging was done in the collation centers, the once they can't rig they will scatter all the materials so that the votes won't count.
Even a foreigner was caught in a video helping them to add up figures.
Political tugs intimate, threatened, burn INEC materials in opposition strong hold is part of rigging so that their votes will be canceled.
Thumb printing of ballot papers was the order of the day especially in the north, Card reader was not used in some northern states, but in the east they ensure use of card reader which disenfranchised many people.
Rigging comes in many ways.

I agree with the fact that rigging comes in many ways, but I am more interested in your first claim because that's where a massive form of rigging could be achieve.

You said most of the rigging was done in the collation center. At what level was that achieve; ward, LG or state level?

senatordave1:

I also agree.this election was better than that of 2015,votes counted more.rigging was limited mostly at the rural areas pus because of obvious reasons.the best thing for us right now is to go full blown electronic or sign the electoral law which will make the card reader usage a must.

You are right, electronic voting should be next step towards finally ending rigging in Nigeria.

They opposition can the opportunity to push the bill since most of their colleagues are claiming rigging.

Eden007:

I have not followed any thread like i have followed this one.

I am gathering data for Akwa Ibom state.

Good, if a possible a picture evidence (or any means you could use to assure us beyond reasonable doubt on the authenticity of the data) before your final analysis would be much appreciated to clear all doubt.

Nice job.

tk4rd:
They are not the ones to gather the data and do the analysis.
The analysis is supposed to be a tool which we (Nigerians) are supposed to use in checking their fairness and credibility.
Their main work is to count the votes, collate the votes, and announce the winners.
I am currently gathering the information.
I will publish figures soon

I did not say it was their job to do that and I don't believe they even bother to bother check and make comparison since everything is manual.


I like your resilient though and I look forward to seeing your publication.

Mention me when you done, thanks.

enemybulldozer:
People like you is just the reason why this country will remain in backwardness forever. You people are very much easy to deceive honestly. First, the CJN was removed and up till now nobody has said or do anything about it, don't you know that the reason why they removed the CJN is because they know they're going to rig the Election??

Secondly, you saw APC thugs and soldiers in most of the polling units working in favour of APC and you still have the audacity to tell I should forget the videos??

Please let's not make this a party thing, if video were sufficient the international observers and the international community wouldn't have said otherwise.

Please answer this, after casting your vote at your polling unit did you wait for it to be counted and possibly follow the result to the Ward?
If not do to you know the procedure/steps that are taken once the vote you cast left your polling unit?

Hofbrauhaus:
You would hear from Atiku in court. The evidences will be presented to a court of competent jurisdiction and the mandate stolen by a thief would be returned to the owner. Thank you.

Lol, I really hope the hearing would be aired. Would have really like to watch it.

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blackmantis:
Both party rigged but APC had an upper hand.

Some methods used were
1) Late opening of polls in opositon controlled areas. Is it not curious that in the far north polls opened very early that enabled the president to vote as early as 8:00am but in the southern part of the country including the FCT most polls opened very late. Some as late as 12noon. And voting went on in some cases into the night and most of these were later cancelled
Strategy :tire them out

2) Thugs and security agents:
Thugs were used to intimidate and scare voters in areas were opositon was dominant and when this does not succeed to start a fight and cause such confusion to lead to the cancellation of votes in such polling units. security agents were also used to intimidate uncompromising electoral officials.
Strategy: scare them and cause confusion

3) Vote buying.
Yes vote buying played a part esp by the opposition. A community would be promised cash if they delivered thier votes. The cash was shared after the results were announced .
Strategy: buy them

3) Card Reader.
Still researching on this ...... But the opposition found out late that the owner of the company who owns this company is not just a card carrying member of the ruling party but also a contestant. It's not unlikely that manipulations would not have occured.

You made some solid point I most commend you for that, but let's take them one at a time.

1) late opening of polls was not only subjected to opposition areas please, Atiku, Saraki and other big politicians voted very early. It is the Nigeria way.
I was at my as early as 7 to witness the distribution of materials, they started sharing it around 8:30am but the materials get to my polling unit around 10am and from the Ward to my my polling unit is just 10 minutes walk. The reason for the delay is because the materials are been distributed base on polling unit, they start with 001 and my polling unit is 010. When I get to my area people were already angry(you won't blame them) but if only they know the procedure. Yes they should have started the distribution early.

2) The issue of security agents and thugs, well I have to agree with you on that. But we all know it wasn't ramparts, we didn't experience such here though and I believe neither did you; it was just few places.

3) vote buying: you have to acknowledge that this is the only election in Nigeria history where we are yet to see any video proof or people coming online to claim that either PDP or APC agent where at a polling unit distributing cash. We all know that's synonymous with PDP but I don't want to partisans in my write up. But the issue of vote is at it's minimal in this election.

4) On the issue of card reader, well if you are done with your research I would definitely want to read about it, because I believe that would be effective for Mass rigging

Thanks for your contribution, if there is any misconception from my write up that you would like to clear I am open to hear them.

senatordave1:

Forget the videos,those are isolated cases and very few.there 120k polling units,do you have videos from 1000 polling units?
From my own experience in my ward,buhari had 21 to 57 for atiku in my polling unit.out of 14 units in my ward in calabar buhari won 3 and lost 11.i followed them to the ward collation point,nothing changed in the presidential tabulation but might have changed in the legislative angle.i also followed them to the lga collation,same thing happened.the only places where rigging happened was in the rural areas where top party chieftains came from.both parties were involved.

I believe when someone follow the steps: polling unit, Ward and down to the local government you would appreciate how there was some credibility to the election.

Remember all the party agents(PDP, APC and others) have to sign at each level mentioned above.

I have to agree with you on the rural area aspect, hence why I said it was minimal and also there is a limit to that; because the rigging would be limited to the accredited voters in the rural areas. Thats one of main reason that minimize bloated figures.

That's why I don't support one of Atiku demands that suggested accreditation of voters a day before the election, I think that would lead to massive rigging.

What do you think?

Lansin:
We all have to wait for Atiku's cctv (body cam) to give a better explanation. Observers have submitted their inference.

But don't you think if he had them, he would have uploaded at least one of such video on YouTube to ignite support from his supporters.

What do you think?

PFRB:


So the figure you get depends on the collation officer. Where have you gone?

Exactly, once it get to Local government level everything is sorted out for the national assembly and that of presidency.

There are different collation officers for that, hence getting the data won't be impossible but definitely not going to be easy.

As someone that serves as a party agent and had the opportunity of pursuing the result to Local government level, I believe the chances of rigging is minimal.

I am not saying that the election was on a 100; but only only trying to point out that the election was not rigged 'Massively'.

Change My Mind.

Edit 1: Please this has nothing to do with affiliation to any party, as such let's drop that sentiment outside. Just a thorough analysis of how the election might be rigged is what I am after.

Edit 2: From the reply so far I have to say that most people are not aware of the process to which their vote gets to Abuja. As such voters education should be brought to everybody.

tk4rd:
My brother, you said that it is extremely dumb and unlikely for the figures to be different??
Very Good..
Read below..
An INEC staff is trying to tell you that the figures can never be the same.. He even gave his own flawed reasons..

That's not what he said, he only pointed out the fact that it won't be easily to get data for that Senate and house rep for comparison; simply because there are different collation officer for the three vacant seats.

zuma4k:
I understand the OP's point, however, a few examples should have been tendered. I.e situations whereby Total accredited voters in the Presidential election failed to correspond with those for the National Assembly.

That's what I expected to see, anybody with half a brain that went out to vote is aware that the number for accredited voters should be the same across all positions been contested for. It is not rocket science.

An example of a state with discrepancy would have easily clear the air, not all this too much talk.