₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
There's no special interpretation of that law.

The law says that there should be a rerun.

The two judges in the 3-man jury that ruled that case yesterday need to made to go on compulsory retirement.

Brendaniel:
The answer I can give are:

1. This is where INEC needs to work much more, the question is why would INEC allow a voter who was not accredited to vote? INEC just need to up in place a disciplinary action for any polling unit officer that allows overvoting, also, INEC should henceforth verify votes cast from polling units with accredited voters before announcing the results, if the numbers do not tally, they should just cancel that polling unit and then deal with the INEC officials there because that wouldn't have happened without there knowing.

2. What then is the use for BVAS in over voting if after the BVAS is able to identify the number of over votes only to end up cancelling all votes(valid) and over votes(invalid) ? That is like throwing away a baby with the bath water.

3. If there is an election tribunal like this and a rerun takes place, what if the same over voting keeps occurring over and over, would they keep repeating the election tribunal process and back to rerun again?

2. In this case, I think the BVAS has only proven to us that it can do what it was meant to do. I mean, can you imagine a situation where there's no BVAS, Adeleke would have scraped through just like that since the number of accredited votes would have still be increased even after accreditation has ended. But in this case, since, BVAS was able to upload the accreditation numbers even before voting, they were unable to tamper with it. It's just that everyone now hates APC to the extent that we don't mind if PDP should win them through the back door.


Solution:

This solution won't be valid because there's no way INEC can know the votes of those who were accredited different from those who overvoted, imagine if INEC decides to remove certain number of overvotes, how will they know it's the vote that belongs to APC or PDP that should be removed, if they decide to remove the votes of both party equally, then they are being unfair to the one who didn't perpetrate overvoting, thus, the best thing is to cancel the polling unit.

However, I think the solution to this would be to ask for a rerun election instead of just canceling but then I don't think the law allows that, because if it does, INEC would have also appealed the judgment.

lhordspy:
The national secretariat of the Labour Party queried the Kogi State chapter of the party over the poor outing that greeted the Presidential campaign rally in Kogi state.

* It was gathered that most of the attendees, mobilized from neighbouring Enugu State to Lokoja for the rally, invaded the Ganaja Road secretariat of the party and held party officials captive for several hours asking for their mobilisation payment.


https://dailypost.ng/2022/12/15/labour-party-queries-kogi-state-chairman-excos-over-poor-reception-at-obis-rally/

Joshmuch:
And how did he from APC openly support a PDP man? When and how? Mr Know-it-all