₦airaland Forum

Godwin4444:
I am not Igbo bro


Only igbos can do that n that’s y they want Biafra and death cos Yoruba won d election

iLoveYouToo:
Is Obi the embattled chairman of LP? Is his other name Julius Abure?

Godwin4444:
u no get sense

The party have been in existence when ur obi was running around like castrated kangaroo from apga to pdp n this man have been with Labour since but obi came n want to hijack everything

That is d reason many don’t trust igbos

WorldRichest:
Check under your bed nah, lazy youth

Afamed:
Obi really cashed out in the last Presidential election

oilyngbati:
Most of the people constituting nuisance on social media are Ipob terrorists and obi.diot.s

Adblg0610:
The mathematical interpretation of the provision of the constitution on this requirement is as stated below:

2/3 ( 36 states + FCT)

= 2/3 * 37 states
= 74/3 states
= 24 . 667 states
= 25 states ( approximately)

As illustrated above, the use of the word AND in the constitution, with regard to this requirement, means PLUS. It does not mean OR , or separate the FCT for any special requirement.
Therefore, it’s not compulsory to score 25% in the FCT

blacknp:
Did Ojukwu’s siblings or children join the Biafra Army?

Mbuhari2023:
The attitude of obidients before, during and after this 2023 general election has expose the poor level of education in the southern part of Nigeria, this has now change my perception about the south and not just me, many northerners too, especially the social media among us.
They level of education is not close to what I thought it.

Zooposki:
Fool. Did they tell you they were biafrans and in biafran land?

BRIMBRAM:
It's the reality and not your choice of fantastic fantasy. Haba use your common sense nah.

BRIMBRAM:
You have not made any sense and you still can't know. Go and read what you wrote and pick out anything reasonable from it.

Mycar lol, do you mean that with your high IQ you still don't know that the whole court case is a waste of time and money?!

It won't stop Tinubu from being sworn in and spend his term in peace and prosperity.

BRIMBRAM:
I swear you are clueless.

To be candid. Obi is a born loser and a failure who doesn't understand the game of politics.

President Jonathan is enjoying his peace simply because he accepted the out come of the 2015 election in good faith and has since been embraced locally and internationally.

Obi would have really positioned himself for glory if only he had managed the out come of this results well by congratulating the winner Tinubu and aftetwards, do all it takes to build a proper structure for the Labour Party. A structure that will eventually pivot him to becoming a Igbo president by the will of Nigerians, North, East, South, West in his life time.

It took Tinubu nothing less than 32 years working towards his life ambition, being calculative, focus and disciplined.

We all know that the petitions against Tinubu are all built on TRIVIALITIES and not substance. Very worthless.

Right from the word go. It's inevitable that Tinubu will be the winner. Obi did not win, he stood no chance of winning. Neither did Atiku win, he also stood no chance of winning because the dynamics during the last election was totally at odds with them.

Tinubu will be sworn in. Have no doubt that it's the beginning of positioning Nigeria for greatness.

Femmyfamous4u:
You may be foolish to know that the major bone of contention is having 2% in FCT.

Femmyfamous4u:
You may be foolish to know that the major bone of contention is having 2% in FCT.

Femmyfamous4u:
Declare Peter Obi how? He does not satisfy the conditions to be declared winner. The worst thing that will happen is to have a re-run in FCT. Trust me, even if it's vote buying, BAT will get the 25%.

Or Atiku also did not satisfy the conditions to be declared neither.

homosapien:
Justice will be served accordingly!!!!!! How you celebrate or accept defeat is on you

gidgiddy:
A Muslim/Muslim ticket won the Presidency in Nigeria, could a Christian/Christian ticket ever win the same?

suolboy:
The dispute as to who is the duly elected governor of Osun state has finally been settled by the Supreme Court of Nigeria but with far-reaching implications

Delivering judgment in the appeal filed by Gboyega Oyetola, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a five-member panel of the apex court affirmed the election of Ademola Adeleke as the governor.

Among several issues raised by Oyetola and the APC, the focal point of their case was over-voting.

They contended that the presiding officers who conducted the elections in 744 polling units across the state “did not comply with the Electoral Act, INEC regulations, guidelines and manuals in that they did not use the BVAS to accredit and verify voters in many of the polling units or did not properly accredit voters”.
The resultant effect according to the appellant was that there was over-voting in that the number of votes recorded in the polling unit result sheet (form EC8A) were more than the number of voters accredited, verified and recorded in the BVAS of the corresponding polling units.

However, the appellants failed to prove their case of over-voting.
Notably, the apex court emphasised that there is no law that requires presiding officers to transmit by BVAS the number of accredited voters or accreditation of the polls to the database or backend server of INEC as claimed by the appellants.

“Therefore, the case of the appellants that the presiding officers were bound to instantly or on-the-spot transmit the number of accredited voters in the BVAS to the backend server or database of INEC has no support,” Emmanuel Agim who read the lead judgment said.

A federal high court in Abuja — in a January 23 ruling — dismissed a suit filed by the Labour Party (LP) seeking to compel the INEC to adopt an electronic method for transmitting 2023 election results.

Emeka Nwite, presiding judge, held that the commission is at liberty to pick any method of transmitting election results.

INEC DATABASE CANNOT PROVE OVER-VOTING

The apex court in its judgment held that to prove the allegation of over-voting, a petitioner cannot rely on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) or information on INEC server or database.

The BVAS, INEC voter register or form EC8A showing the number of votes cast at each polling unit are the only admissible evidence that can be used to ascertain over-voting.

“Since the BVAS was the focal point and sole foundation of the appellant’s case, it was imperative that they produce the BVAS of the 744 polling units or a certified true copy (CTC) of the contents of the BVAS in evidence and show that the record therein established non-accreditation, improper accreditation and over-voting in the 744 polling unit,” the supreme court held.
It is glaring that the appellant did not provide in evidence, any BVAS in any of the 744 polling unit, but rather sought to prove their case of wrong and improper accreditation and over-voting by means of a report of the examination of the INEC database or backend server containing the number of accredited voters and number of votes for each polling unit transmitted from the BVAS.”

The court held that the information relied on by petitioners “is not a direct record of the number of accredited voters but is third-hand evidence derived from the database which is a second-hand evidence derived from transmissions from the BVAS.”

The court also noted that the information at the backend saver might not be accurate because the BVAS may fail to transmit records for several reasons including poor internet connection, loss of battery power, failure of INEC official to properly press the submit button etc.

Additionally, the court discountenanced the argument of the petitioners that the voters’ register is not relevant.

Relying on INEC regulations for the conduct of elections and the Electoral Act, the court pointed out that the voters register is still relevant in voter accreditation and is to be used as well with the BVAS machine.

“In the event of a conflict between the record of accredited voters in the BVAS and the ticked names of the registered voters due to human errors in the ticking of the names in the register of voters, the BVAS record shall be used,” it said.

FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

One of the many implications of the judgment is that any future petition brought on the grounds of INEC’s failure to transmit results cannot stand.

One of the issues raised by Peter Obi, Labour Party candidate, in his petition challenging the election of Bola Tinubu as president is that the failure of INEC to promptly upload the results from polling units through BVAS to IReV portal on the day of the election invalidated the poll.

Also, any petitioners alleging over-voting must be able to produce the BVAS, INEC voters register and or a certified true copy of an INEC certificate of that record for each polling unit

“In the light of the foregoing, I hold that it is the record in the BVAS machine of the accredited voters or a certified true copy of an INEC certificate of that record for each polling unit that can prove the number of accredited voters in a polling unit on the day of election and nothing else,” the supreme court said.

https://www.thecable.ng/icymi-inec-not-bound-to-electronically-transmit-results-says-supreme-court-in-osun-guber-case