₦airaland Forum

Brendaniel:
After finding out the method used for the judgement on the election tribunal that gave victory to Oyetola over Adeleke, I would say it is a recipe for disaster, the method applied was cancelling all the votes of a polling unit because of over voting in that particular polling unit.


The questions I ask are:

1. As it happened that there were over voting in various polling units in the Osun election, what if each opposition connives to perpetrate over voting in polling units in each opposition strong holds?

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?

In my opinion, the law is just an error or a purposeful scheme to rig an election using what I call reverse voting
Just simply tamper with your opposition strong holds and invalidate their votes, So we might be having a case where a carefully selected and protected minority will determine winners of an election instead of the majority carrying the votes.


Implications:

1. It will make elections become very dirty because politicians will be all about scheming to invalidate votes in opposition strong holds.

2. It will make the voters lose confidence in the electoral process, because a voter will not be sure if his vote will be invalidated or not by someone else scheming with a politician in his/her polling unit.

3. It will make voters wear out easily and may cause voter apathy when you have reruns after stressful elections, thereby reducing voters turn-up in reruns.

4. It may not reflect the true will of the people and also reduce the total number of voter participation, just like the Osun election tribunal, the total number of votes cast for both PDP and APC after the cancellation doesn't reflect the true will of the people to declare Oyetola the winner.

5. Elections will cost more because of Tribunal, reruns and time wasting.

6. It could lead to anarchy and total chaos, like in some volatile states in the north where they riot over political results, just imagine after election and INEC says they have cancelled over 20,000 polling units across the north which were all stronghold of a particular candidate, because of over voting of less than 2000 voters, imagine what will happen in the aftermath of such news.

Solution:

In situations of over voting, Why not just deduct the invalid votes(over votes) and count the rest, the BVAS already identifies the number of over votes(invalid votes), doing so, INEC will avoid a lot of election tribunals, scheming by politicians, reduce cost of doing reruns, make more accurate results, increase voters confidence, reduce time wasting, reflect the true will of the people and avoid anarchy.

What a silly solution wetin you wan deduct? How will you know who was doing the overvoting? Is it PDP or APC or LP?.....Anyways the electoral act 2022 is clear ..."the presiding officer shall cancel the result of the polling unit" that's your solution

Unfounded in your bedroom abi


Baba you don loose...no way back inec, pdp and apc all agreed there was overvoting. The law is clear it's cancellation not rerun......you nor rig with sense na why

Workch:
Since the names of voters are not captured on ballot papers to be able to cross check with the BVAS register on whom they voted for. How did they know which party overvoted.

For example:
APC can still overvote without winning. It's common sense

Total accredited voters 3000
APC 150
PDP 200

Toral vote cast 350.

On what ground the tribunal you say that the overvoting must have came from PDP and APC wasn't involved?

Is this not why we should start printing allowing people to write the names on their voters card on their ballot paper before voting?

How did they know how many figures PDP added and APC did?


Adeleke legal team should be smart abeg

typical nairaland illiterate analysis.....700+ PUs....the law doesn't care whether it's apc or pdp or labour....if it is overvoting the law says cancel it.....in 2018 the law says conduct rerun.....but no more rerun

seunmsg:
The implication is that BVAS is not as reliable as INEC made us to believe and election riggers will not be allowed to enjoy the result of their criminal adventures.

educated illiterate....na bvas data exposed the overvoting......how una dey think reason like this

AAA593:
Over voting for pdp only?
You can prove that?

Ovevoting affected both parties in Ife, Ilesha, Ede amongst others....but PDP were too greedy with their own overvoting.....Adelele will not win even if Atiku becomes president. The electoral act 2022 is what sacked him not Tinubu

Faiththatworks:
Although I feel very sad about the outcome of the Tribunal,but there are certain facts that must be established.
Gov Oyetola's argument has always been hinged on overvoting in some local government especially in All the Ede Local government councils.
According to a report I read from an election observer group,voting continued until around 7 to 8pm in some local governments in Osun State.
The inec law is irrefutable about all voting stopping by exactly 4pm,any vote cast after 4pm is deemed illegal,infact it says only accredited voters are allowed to vote,and accreditation of voters stops way before the voting ends.
My humble submission to Gov Adeleke is to go back and find a way to tally the figures he had by 4pm on election day in all the local government in Osun. The Bvas should have the figures if what inec tells us is true.
I'm not a lawyer but I daresay no court in Nigeria will allow the final figures put forward by Gov Adeleke to stand.
He should preferably argue that the over voting should be deducted and not the whole cancellation of polling booths as these would amount to disenfranchisement of a lot of voters,or push for a rerun in those cancelled polling booths.
Either way this case looks really hopeless for Gov Adeleke,this is a clear message to politicans who want to rig in next month Elections,bvas will stop you if you dare try to inflate your figures.
God bless Nigeria.

The electoral act 2022 states that the presiding officer shall cancel the polling unit.....That is what the Tribunal has done and APC wins.....Overvoting also happened in PUs APC won bit not as significant as those PDP won...
Thank God for BVAS.....no more overvoting

nedu666:
Adeleke scored 403k and oyetola 375k. How did the tribunal arrive at the results they announced.

You are late to the discussion. It is the new electoral law in place. If it was the old electoral law inec would be told to rerun elections in the over 700 PUs. However the new law says those PUs will be cancelled which is what the Tribunal followed.

Inec admitted overvoting i.e. bvas data is less than total votes counted for those PUs....Na inec dey do dancing governor o......APC go show Lasun shege...cos na Lasun leave APC go LP go PDP

babyfaceafrica:
It's not that simple.

Wait till it reaches supreme Court

Supreme Court ke? If APC still loose with the tribunal using APC's own document to calculate the winner then it's over .....I know lawyers will encourage APC to keep going till they get to Supreme Court sha....everybody wan to chop

Indispensable85:
Since the BVAS data submitted by Apc has been admitted by the tribunal,what does that imply? What about the one issued to pdp by same INEC?

If PDP loose at tribunal they will appeal it.....if APC still loose with their own document admitted then it is over for Oyetola

No need to fight just tell us who be the governor full stop

Abeg just tell me the final judgment qualified or not qualified to contest nor be the koko

Dancing Governor or Dancing senator? Which is which?

According to Obi supporters online he's got every state in the bag......but PDP and APC are about to steal the bag ....na the fight we still dey settle here

Nothing will destroy the Nigerian society more than fakenews.....a situation where even newspapers are publishing propaganda based on the highest bidder, TV houses are hosting blackmailer of different political parties based on highest bidder and allegations can be levelled against anyone without proof but considered truth by unsuspecting public.....the nation will go down faster than with the power of tanks and bullets

Why shut down learning cos of vote....vote na one day now...if you want to vote go and vote there are many faiths that don't vote......the most important thing is to collect your pvc

Emmanuella00:
But at least Obi will recover alot.

Like Anambra abi dey play

This pinshure nor too clear o....nor ne another canopy meeting be dat

Ekejoestar:
Thiefnibu is riding on the glory of other people, most of the benue people in the rally gathered there because of the Rev Father governorship candidate and not the drug baron.

Pele...Go father is now ....wait father until the rerun in 11 LGAs....Meanwhile the mode of this year's election if it ever holds considering the fuel scarcity and the certain doom of no money looming due to CBN policy, favours presidential candidates whose parties have strong local structure and strong national assembly candidates

When is the Osun tribunal judgement

It's normal.....there are some jobs abroad that would ask you to renounce one of your citizenships if you are dual national.....there are some countries that would only allow you to hold one nationality....if you live and work there and you want to naturalize then you let your naija citizenship go.....na so

julaion:
Everyone knows obi is getting 98% in Edo state

expect maybe the real voters with pvc

This 2023 election is made in Britain 🇬🇧

stop this please

Chiboy419:
Where is labour party abi na my eyes dey pain me

He gave the whole SE to Labour Party o - 5 states for Obi

eyin aye

What a question

Na ATM abi bf

APC let it rest....I see dancing senator turning to dancing Governor

if dem remove Adeleke this Friday.....Atiku don loose SW be that cos Makinde nor dey support Atiku.....Atiku don loose SW and SE be that and Tinubu is giving Atiku a run for his money in NE......NW will decide who will winthe presidency between Atiku and Tinubu.....

where did he mention Yaradua If you understand English he may have been referring to Jonathan....the letter was written to Jonathan....and Keyamo was saying Obasanjo imposed the half liver half brain government we have

Make dem nor do ojoro o.....I hope dancing senator retains his seat