₦airaland Forum

Shantyken:
if at all he wave it is because anambra no get money that is y he is contesting for president to get from there which he WILL NOT WIN.

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.

muykem:
Which people? You mean IPOB members and their sympathisers.

MeineMutter:
May be I should reframe it. When they say OVER VOTING, they don’t mean the ballot paper thumbprints were more than accredited register alone. What they mean is that: the figures recorded for a party is higher, when compared, to/with the numbers of ballot papers found in a ballot box for a particular party.

Let me use some hypothetic figures as example:

In Ede
1. Accredited voters in Ward A = 500. This will include both PDP and APC.

2. Thumbprints of ballot (the paper), when recounted at the tribunal showed that:
PDP = 300
APC = 210
Total = 510

3. The INEC Result Sheet signed by all party representatives and INEC staff showed that
PDP = 310
APD = 210
Total = 520

Here, over voting has been established because it is the final Result Sheet that shows the voting. Ballot (the papers thumbprint) and lists of aa credited voters are only referred to in cases of when election results are being contested.

In the case above, the way they were able to know the party that over voted was that the tribunal compared the numbers polled on the Result Sheets recorded for both PDP and APC against the recounted ballots and, at the same time comparing it to the recorded total of accredited voters before the election proper started.

Abc2Z:
By law: Tribunal is 3 month, Appeal judgement must be given within 1 month and supreme judgement must be given within 1 month

seunmsg:
You can join the legal team of PDP to the appeal court so that you can ask the court this your question 🤣🤣

omonnakoda:
That is YOUR OPINION

Overvoting means more votes were recorded than those accredited period
There is no way of deducing that one party profited from overvoting more

MeineMutter:
You just repeated what I said but to know who over voted, they will check result sheet and see the party’s name and numbers recorded for the party against the number of ballot papers.

Let us now assume both parties over voted and their results cancelled at that polling unit, it affected PDP more than APC because figures recorded for PDP was higher.

If they don’t check the result sheets, I will INEC know what figure to deduct from the total vote cast for each party?

omonnakoda:
Can one practicse Islam in English without knowing a single word of Arabic?

Sulele04:
No it's required to perform salat in Arabic.

Rajiolaade:
outright CANCELLATION of affected units results is the position of the law.

omonnakoda:
I do not intend to argue but where is this written in the Qur'an?
Or is this just your opinion?

Sulele04:
It is not clear and obviously written in the Quran.
But it is a general consensus among Muslims so it has been normalised.

kay1one:
This will just increase the hate people have for APC the more

I'm here for Obi by the way... 😃

Shantyken:
The only thing that will happen is INEC will say the machine cannot go round all the polling units in nigeria as such we can't use it then we fall back to our normal voting system

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.

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.

I really appreciate & admire your submissions. I'm not a lawyer myself, but would just add a little submissions, based on my little knowledge of the new electoral act 2022 as amended.
1). It's stated in the EA that in any polling unit were a case of over voting is established, it's outright cancellation. Meaning, it's assumed voting didn't take place.
Therefore, it'll be quiet challenging for Gov. Adeleke to ask for over voting deductions or re-run, the EA is clear enough on the issue of over voting. That was why the Tribunal gave a majority judgement, meaning all the Judges agreed with the prayers of Gov. Oyetola.

2). 4pm voting deadline.
Vote timing can sometimes be debatable. If the total numbers of BVAS accredited voters are still voting, such that they last till past 4pm, I think the results could still be accepted. Just me saying....

Whichever way, I appreciate the fact that Osun Election has shown that BVAS is excellent, but Nigerians ain't ready for a transparent election. The PO, PO1 & others were compromised. They should be sourced for & brought to book.

kay1one:
This will just increase the hate people have for APC the more

I'm here for Obi by the way... 😃

Workch:
It's a question, it's okay if you are not smart enough to answer it.

merits:
Ok I hope so.

shegz24:
Its a dumb question because it doesnt matter who those overvoters went for..

The overvotes are void irrespective of the party they voted for.
Therefore, its only the accredited voters that counts as it should.

As it stands now, PDP can only sue INEC; because this has nothing to do with APC on paper.

Johnnyessence:
Press Release
27/1/23

Adeleke: Timi Frank urges NJC, EFCC to probe Osun Tribunal Judges

…Says judgement compromised

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, described the majority judgement of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that purportedly sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke as highly compromised.

Frank in a statement in reaction to the judgement in Abuja, said the verdict fell short of expectations and does not reflect the will of the majority of the people of Osun who freely elected Senator Adeleke as Governor.

He called on the National Judicial Council to urgently cause a probe of the verdict with a view to restoring Adeleke’s mandate as well as penalizing any of the tribunal members found to have compromised on integrity.

He also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to urgently investigate the judges who wrote the majority judgement and prosecute those found to have based their decision on other considerations rather than the true facts canvassed during the hearing of the case.

He also called on the United States of America to place a visa ban on the Osun tribunal judges found to have used their highly exalted position as arbiters to derail and frustrate the growth of democracy in the country.

He commended the judge who wrote the minority judgement for sticking to the truth and siding with the wishes and aspirations of Osun people that elected Adeleke during the last governorship election.

He however urged the people of Osun to remain calm and law abiding with the certainty that the mandate they freely gave to Adeleke would be retrieved at the appellate court.

He vowed that Nigerians will not fold their arms and watch any attempt to use the judiciary to again steal Adeleke’s mandate through the backdoor.

END

Signed

Comrade Timi Frank
ULMWP Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East.

Workch:
it's not dumb, you are the dumb person who cannot think.

Go through the thread where I educated your likes

shegz24:
The overvoting is not perculiar to any single party, you fvcking Idi0t.

All parties lost votes due to the cancellation of those polls.

What is so difficult for this dunce to understand here?

Workch:
again, loud people talk without reasoning. Go through the thread. I have educated your likes here.

The more you read, the more you cured ignorance

Misterone:
yes, I agree with you but after cancellation, what next? The law says there should be rerun since the votes cancelled will affect the outcome of the election.