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Osun Tribunal: Not All Data Was Transmitted When APC Obtained BVAS Server Report – INEC

In the aftermath of judgement by the Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has provided clarifications on the discrepancy related to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).

The tribunal ruling on Friday nullified the election of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Ademola Adeleke amid over-voting and additional votes for Adegboyega Oyetola (All Progressives Congress) putting him ahead of Adeleke.

A former Director, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, who made a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, said there should not have been a discrepancy in the 2022 Osun State governorship election.

Osaze-Uzzi explained that the APC obtained a certified copy of the initial server report before some of the data had been transmitted by the BVAS hardware.

He, however, pointed out that the verdict was not a unanimous judgement.

“The second [tribunal] member – the honourable justice who dissented from his two colleagues – said, ‘I would rather use the primary source of this information, and the primary source of this data is actually the machine itself,'” the INEC official said.

“It is basically a computer. So, rather than go to the server where it transmitted data, I would use the printout from the machine itself.

“The machines were tendered, so were the reports from the server, and there ought not to have been a discrepancy, but somewhere along the line, not all the data had been transmitted at the time the APC obtained the certified copy of the initial server report.”

Osaze-Uzzi, however, described the judgement as a validation of the role BVAS has played in enhancing the electoral process.

Rather than view the discrepancy from a negative perspective, he encouraged stakeholders to take a more optimistic outlook, arguing that BVAS exposed the over-voting in the election.

“It was BVAS that exposed that as it were, and the fact that the BVAS report was relied on. But we have to be careful; which of the BVAS reports was relied on? Was it what was transmitted to the server – to the back-end – or was it the BVAS itself?” he posed.

According to him, there is a need to break the verdict of the tribunal. He added that the majority of the tribunal – “the chairman and the second member” – relied on the initial report and the initial report of the back-end, duly certified by INEC.

“It was downloaded from the server [after it was] transmitted. But a couple of days later – INEC used the word ‘synchronised’, I’m not too sure I like that word, but – you synchronise it and say, ‘Have all the results been transmitted – has all data been transmitted from the machine, BVAS itself, to the server?’

“The machine is a physical one and then it transmits to a physical one. It now went, checked and said, ‘There’s a problem here.’ The BVAS report now downloaded itself, [we] now brought it out and examined each BVAS machine and now found out that no, some data was not transmitted to the server,” Osaze-Uzzi said.

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Is that not rubbish

Inec will filed their case in the Appeal court of justice too saying the 30 days synchronisation Bvas machines reports is the genuine ones they relied upon and the accreditation tallied with the form EC8A tendered in the tribunal. Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke will win his case in the Appeal court of justice

Corrupt country!
Trust INEC at your own peril!
Trust APC at your own peril!

Once you lie in court, you lose.

Johnnyessence:
Inec will filed their case in the Appeal court of justice too saying the 30 days synchronisation Bvas machines reports is the genuine ones they relied upon and the accreditation tallied with the form EC8A tendered in the tribunal. Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke will win his case in the Appeal court of justice

The Bvas report used in declaring the winner was what was used in the majority judgment. Adeleke lost and he will still lose at the appeal.

dat9jaguy:
The Bvas report used in declaring the winner was what was used in the majority judgment. Adeleke lost and he will still lose at the appeal.

nope it was the first wrong Bvas synchronisation reports APC rushed to get after 5 days of the poll. Unlike the 30 days synchronisation reports Inec did and Inec affirmed that the second synchronisation reports is genuine. Infact Inec counsel defend themselves on that. The first synchronisation reports APC tendered will be dismissed in the Appeal court cos’ Inec reject it and not tendering it in the tribunal. Inec appeal will be based on the second synchronisation reports stating only 6 polling units was affected of over voting and the second Bvas synchronisation reports was generated by thorough examination of Bvas machines used in the July 16th governorship election. Ademola Adeleke will win in the Appeal court based on Inec defence of the second Bvas machines synchronisation reports.

Light78:
Once you lie in court, you lose.

Apc and Oyetola ma lule piii Lekan siii niii. Inec will defend themselves in the Appeal court of justice. Infact Inec have filed their appeal in the Appeal court of justice too.

Johnnyessence:
nope it was the first wrong Bvas synchronisation reports APC rushed to get after 5 days of the poll. Unlike the 30 days synchronisation reports Inec did and Inec affirmed that the second synchronisation reports is genuine. Infact Inec counsel defend themselves on that. The first synchronisation reports APC tendered will be dismissed in the Appeal court cos’ Inec reject it and not tendering it in the tribunal. Inec appeal will be based on the second synchronisation reports stating only 6 polling units was affected of over voting and the second Bvas synchronisation reports was generated by thorough examination of Bvas machines used in the July 16th governorship election. Ademola Adeleke will win in the Appeal court based on Inec defence of the second Bvas machines synchronisation reports.

The judges even said INEC never retracted the the first Bvas report given to APC and that was the report used in declaring the winner. You cannot now use another report to defend that same win.
Let's leave it to the experts at the appeal court.


PS INEC are not appealing the decision.

Johnnyessence:
nope it was the first wrong Bvas synchronisation reports APC rushed to get after 5 days of the poll. Unlike the 30 days synchronisation reports Inec did and Inec affirmed that the second synchronisation reports is genuine. Infact Inec counsel defend themselves on that. The first synchronisation reports APC tendered will be dismissed in the Appeal court cos’ Inec reject it and not tendering it in the tribunal. Inec appeal will be based on the second synchronisation reports stating only 6 polling units was affected of over voting and the second Bvas synchronisation reports was generated by thorough examination of Bvas machines used in the July 16th governorship election. Ademola Adeleke will win in the Appeal court based on Inec defence of the second Bvas machines synchronisation reports.

30 days for server to synchronise in the election of only one state? What you are saying is ridiculous and shameful. For election of 36 states it will take three years.