Receive sense Alfa Sule Suberu. You are living today because of Christianity. Imagine if every country is like Northern Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, etc. How would your life have been?
Pastor Lawrence Bayode is an Agbado pastor. He is like one of the Shetima's bishops of 2022. This guy prefers to be addressed as Doctor instead of Pastor. When Obi's lawyer called him Pastor, INEC's lawyer said Obi's lawyer was intimidating him. How is it an intimidation if someone address me by my title?
... was admitted as an exhibit notwithstanding vehement objections by President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
If INEC should continue like this, they may soon deny Tinubu and the abracadabra results. Shameless criminal entity.
Tribunal admits European Union’s final report faulting Tinubu’s victory, 2023 elections
Fadehan Oyeyemi
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Monday admitted to exhibit the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission, which faulted the conduct and outcome of the 2023 presidential election that produced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others.
The report tendered by the former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, was admitted as an exhibit notwithstanding vehement objections by President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In its report, the European Union Election Observer Mission claimed that the presidential election did not show credibility, fairness and transparency in the ways and manners in which it was conducted by INEC.
The report tendered through INEC’s sole witness and Director of Information Technology (IT), Lawrence Bayode, said only 31 percent of the presidential election result was uploaded into INEC’s result viewing portal.
In his evidence-in-chief, Bayode admitted that the electoral body has no electronic collation system for election results, hence, the presidential election result was not electronically collated.
Specifically, the INEC witness admitted that the collation of the presidential election results was done manually by the presiding officers of the electoral body.
Under cross-examination by Atiku Abubakar’s lead counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), the witness admitted that not all the presidential election results were uploaded into INEC’s results viewing centre as of March 1, 2023, when Tinubu was declared and returned as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
While the witness told the court that there was a technical glitch that affected the uploading of the presidential election results, the witness, however, under cross-examination admitted that such a glitch was not reported to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by the INEC.
Under cross-examination by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), lead Counsel to President Tinubu, the witness told the court that Form EC8A formed the basis of the election results and that data and network service were required for the upload of the images of the results captured by the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machine.
He further testified that images captured on BVAS, whether transmitted electronically or manually, will not affect the integrity of the election, especially when results entered into Form EC8As are announced to the hearing and knowledge of party agents.
The INEC Director, while answering another question from Olanipekun, said, the February 25 presidential election results announced in favour of Tinubu were free, fair, transparent and in substantial compliance with the provisions of the law.
Also under cross-examination by Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), lead counsel to the APC, the witness admitted that glitches were experienced on the election day but,however,r said, that the glitches did not affect the final results and scores of candidates at the election
With one witness and four documents tendered, INEC closed its defense in the petition filed by the former Vice President against the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
Meanwhile, President Tinubu has been ordered to open the defense of his victory in the presidential election on Tuesday, June 4, 2023, by the Presiding Justice of the Presidential Election Petition Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani.
Can't somebody say the truth that his brain perceived any longer??
Most times helinues runs like a criminal when no one pursues him. He feels attacked even with the most armless action. Though his conscience is totally dead, his spirit is not at rest. I wonder how his life is offline.
The problem of Nigeria is not the president or any other politician but INEC. If a politician knows that if he fumbles, people will vote him out, he will be serious with the people whom he represents.
•Says recruitment of RECs, Commissioners makes it susceptible to govt interference •Claims electoral body deployment of technology not transparent
The European Union has expressed concern over the autonomy of the national electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).
Sunday Tribune checks revealed that the lack of “independence of INEC formed part of the observations of the European Union Electoral Observation Mission (EU-EOM) for 2023 general election in Nigeria.
The EU-EOM, which monitored the pre-election and post-election processes in Nigeria from January 11 to April 11, 2023 at the invitation of the electoral umpire, formally unveiled its findings and recommendations last Tuesday, at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
In the document released to newsmen by leader of the team, Barry Andrews and his team, tagged “Nigeria 2023 Final Report,” sighted by Sunday Tribune, the observer team noted that the recruitment process of senior personnel, particularly the commissioners and Resident Electoral Commissioners, constitute a serious encumbrance on the diligent operation of INEC.
Further checks revealed that the INEC chairman, his commissioners and the RECs are appointed by the sitting president, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
The EU-EOM which acknowledged that the recruitment process has an expressed provision that such personnel must not be seen to be partisan, it, however, maintained that “the selection process leaves the electoral institution vulnerable to being viewed as aligned with the government.”
The report recalled that erring RECs could not be reprimanded by the INEC Commissioners as they are “presidentially-appointed officers. This exposes further systemic weakness in the electoral institutional design that obstructs fostering of professionalism and trust.”
The report reads in part:” The constitution provides that all members of INEC are strictly non-partisan. At the same time, there is no legal requirement that their selection be undertaken according to merit and qualification to ensure the independence and efficiency of the institution.
“CSO examination of the selection process signalled that the selection processes of both INEC commissioners and RECs were neither transparent nor in line with the non-partisan requirement.
“The selection of some commissioners also raised concerns about their professional skills and background. The selection process leaves the electoral institution vulnerable to being viewed as aligned with the government.
“Following the federal-level elections, RECs were mandated by INEC to bar all staff found to be negligent from conducting the elections. However, only a few key electoral officials were held accountable, despite the scale of election day failings across the country, as observed by the EU EOM in particular in the South-East, South-South, Kano and Lagos.
“The RECs in Abia and Sokoto were suspended without clear public explanations and their role filled by administrative secretaries. INEC has the power to withdraw powers from the RECs, but cannot legally dismiss them as they too are presidentially-appointed officers.
“This exposes further systemic weakness in the electoral institutional design that obstructs fostering of professionalism and trust,” the report said.
To wean the electoral umpire from the influence of the governing party, the Barry Andrews team further recommended the establishment of “a robust operational framework for the independence, integrity, and efficiency of electoral administration through an inclusive and publicly accountable mechanism for selecting candidates to the posts of INEC commissioners and RECs based on clear criteria of evaluation of merits, qualifications, and verified non-partisanship.”
Amidst the criticisms and subsisting litigation trailing the performance of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV), the EU-EOM restated its stance that the INEC deployment of technology fell short of public expectations.
While it recalled that the leadership of the electoral umpire conducted mock exercise of the technology prior to the conduct of the general election, the EU-EOM also expressed strong reservations about the modalities. “The election technology used was implemented under serious deficiencies in the transparency of the whole process. Hardware and software specifications of BVAS, test results, audits, basic procurement details, protocols and guidelines for specific operations and functionality were not made public.
“Functionality and specifics of the transmission of the results forms were also unclear, without details publicly available, apart from information found in late published manuals, lessening transparency, trust, and certainty. Interviewed Nigerian IT professionals (outside INEC) were not informed about the basic specifics of the election technology used.
“INEC missed the opportunity to substantively test operational issues connected with its technology before the 25 February election day. On February 4, it conducted an inadequate mock exercise in 436 polling stations testing the functionality of the BVAS.
“EU EOM observers and civil society stakeholders noted that the timing of the mock, the small size of the sample, low voter participation, and unclear written guidelines diminished the practical value of the exercise, while exposing some technical problems with biometric recognition and transmission of results.
“Furthermore, the mock was run only by INEC professional staff and not by election day poll workers. There was delayed recruitment and training of RATECHs, key technical support staff, as well as of polling staff handling BVAS. At the time of the mock exercise only one fifth of RATECHs were trained.” Going forward, the team recommended that in future elections, the Commission must “ensure transparency and allow for public scrutiny of election technology by mandating in law timely disclosure of test and audit results, together with protocols, guidelines, methodology of implementation, procurement, and functionality details.”
It is because you are not from Nigeria. The criminals at the hell of affairs here have done worse before. So changing already declared results is a very simple thing to them.
specialmati: they went and followed touts and agberos that knows nothing about going to school to vote their tasks master. if i hear pin again na thunder go fire that person.no one should complain oooh
Do you really believe they voted Thiefnubuu or INEC rigged him in?
Why are Tinubu's surpporters still profusely attacking Peter Obi on issues that has absolutely nothing to do with him, even four months after election. Why do they focus only on Obi but neglect Atiku? BATists make it seems as if former vice president Atiku was never part of the election.
My fear is that, with the look of things if Tinubu fails like Buhari did, APC supporters will not blame the sixteen years of PDP this time around but H.E Peter Obi. And the cycle of blame games will continue... How can the country becomes good if wrong people are hold responsible for anything that goes wrong?
adecz: Where has atiku's "standing ground" led him & PDP to❓
In politics, you must give, take and negotiate with different interest groups within the party to achieve balance. Wike remained a strong PDP chieftain and financial contributor to the party even when Atiku was changing party up and down.
The Wike camp should have been treated with more respect and Rivers state would have been won byrigged for PDP.
stillbigharbaz: 😆😆😆😂😂 Obi did not wait for the primaries before he move to another party,Do u expect him to choose his vice from another party? Most of the youth Voted for Tinubu ignorantly without knowing. This is called a Divide and rule tactics. No region Nigeria can win Election in Nigeria without the support of others....we will all learn it in a hard way. Emotions nor Sentiment does not win Election but negotiations, agreement and commitment of all members
Obi had seen the handwriting on the wall. If he was sure that he was Atiku's choice, he wouldn't have decamped.
And if he didn't decamped, he would become stranded and redundant for four years. Now, he is currently the most popular politician in the country.
fergie001: Excerpts from Seun Okin's interview with Festus Okoye, INEC's National Commissioner on Voter Education/Publicity on #PoliticsToday
Seun Okin: Millions of naira, Nigeria's tax payers money, was set aside for this election and INEC said there was a technical glitch. Tell Nigerians, was this technical glitch a human or machine error?
Festus Okoye: It is not true that the machine failed. The machine has three components, for voters registration, voters accreditation and results upload. All worked successfully except results upload of the Presidential Election so there was no failure.
You can buy a vehicle today and it develops a fault same day.
richmond500: All of them can't be presidential convoy, 123 convoys breakdown.
Presidential convoy____about 15 cars Sanwo-Olu convoy_____about 7 cars Commissioners________20 cars Political associates_____20 cars Business associates____8cars Press and media houses____8cars Those looking for appointment__17 Family members________8cars Security_________________10cars
That's more than 115 cars already. When Tinubu celebrated his birthday 2yrs ago, people came with private jets to Lagos too, forget presidency, Tinubu has too much connections and I will be shocked if his convoy didn't reach 100 now that people are looking for appointment and will even walk with him to the bathroom if they had the chance. If you want to check Tinubu convoy, go and count it after all appointments has been given out
It is either you are deliberately lying for sentimental reasons or you are ignorant of what you are saying. Only Oyetola moves in a convoy of about 120 cars when he governor here in Osun State. I expect Tinubu to move in a convoy of about 300 cars.
You might wondering if some people like heliues, lhordspy, seunmsg, ipobarecriminals, PandoraObi, Moh247, duro4chang, AntiChristian, FreeStuffsNG, yarimo, etc. have work they do offline to earn a living, because they are always on Nairaland and other social media looking for threads where they can defend APC and Tinubu.
Investigation has revealed that these guys with several alternate monikers are not really jobless as many people think. They are gainfully employed by government of a particular state in the south-west where xenophobia is being sponsored with tax payer's money. They are directly working from state secretariat.
Apart from defending APC's policies at federal and state level, most especially Lagos State, they are also mandated to always promote propaganda against the person and character of Peter Obi. Their employers see Obi as the only Challenger in the country who has the capacity to stop their strong grip on Nigerians.
When you see about hundred accounts invading a thread making almost the same comment, do not be surprised but just know that that's what's given to them in their WhatsApp group. Some of them can spam every thread with the same comment throughout the day. That's their term of reference.
Op, you have not left Nigeria and you are speaking for the whole of Africa. Your analysis is not fair, it is a well known fact that majority of African countries are not yet up to speed with the online world.
Take Nigeria for instance, how many Companies/Employers or Employees know about LinkedIn? Very few. Africa is still backwards when it comes to internet.
You are free to complain about Nigeria because you are a Nigerian, but the whole of Africa? Haba, you are wrong. Some african countries are doing fine.
Are you insinuating that there are jobs in Nigeria more than what the OP thinks?
Johnjustice: As an IPOB bigot you can't hear of other buildings brought down, have you asked Soludo about buildings he brought down in Onitsha?
Are you referring to me as an IPOB bigot? Why do you think I am a member of IPOB and also a bigot? The way you people make conclusion online use to amaze me. As for Soludo, is he not worse than Sanwo-Olu? Every sensible person knows that South-East governors hate hates their own people. The reason why IPOB are more popular among the locals.
Politics › Re: PEPT: Bayode Is A Pastor In RCCG Who Refused To Swear Under Oath With The Bible by iSense247: 10:10am On Jul 05, 2023
Wicked and selfish things.
