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Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? - Politics - Nairaland

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Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by BluntCrazeMan(op):
INEC had found it so comfortable to continue to deliberately refuse to fully abide by the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022.
The INEC selects only some few portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 to abide with, while they discard the rest.. And therefore, it becomes necessary for the INEC to be forced to obey those portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 which they continued to discard and disrespect.


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I am of the opinion that any of the Opposition Political Parties should just wake-up, and step-up, and brave-up and approach any of Federal High Courts in the country in order to obtain ’A Court-Order that mandates the INEC officials at every Collation Center at all levels of Collation to “COMPLETELY TREAT ALL THE DISPUTES THAT WERE RAISED BEFORE THEM -- AND THEY MUST DO THIS BY CALLING-UP FOR ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THE AFFECTED/DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS” -- in accordance with the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022‘.

The Court-Order should also state it clearly that “any results which emanated from a Collation Center where the INEC’s Collation Officer did not COMPLETELY treat all the disputes according to the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 shall be Null-and-Void”

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Here below is the context for the above opinion of mine.

Any of the Opposition Parties should approach court (with the Attorney-General and INEC as the defendants ad usual) and then, urge the Court to read the whole of Section:47 and Section:64 of the Electoral-Act-2022 and determine whether there is a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022 if any of the following occurrences happen:

a. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to treat the disputes that were raised at that Collation Center -- according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022.

b. The Collation Officer at any intermediate Collation Center, instead of treating the disputes raised at that Collation Center (according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022), goes ahead to announce that “all the raised disputes would be fully treated at the final collation center”.

c. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to call for the BVAS-Machines (or any electronic Accreditation Device used for the Accreditation in the election) of the affected polling-units that were raised in the disputes.

d. The Collation Officer at any Collation Center could not completely treat and conclude ALL those disputes that were raised at that Collation Center before transmitting or transferring or conveying the collated results to the next-level collation officer.


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If the court determines that the above acts constitute a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022, then the court should also go ahead to determine whether such breaches could be enough reasons to render the collated results emanating from the Collation Exercise at that Collation Center as Null-and-Void.

Furthermore, If after the Final Results of the election had already been announced and declared, and such breaches at some Collation Centers were established during the Election Petition Tribunal, the court should also determine whether such established breaches (at the Election Petition Tribunal) are enough to render the collated results emanating from those Collation Exercises at such Collation Centers as Null-and-Void.

And consequently, the court should determine whether those “supposedly faulty collated results” which emanated from those Collation Centers where breaches were established be Expunged from all the Subsequent Collated Results that emanated from the upper-level Collation Centers? -- (That is, assuming that there were no such similar breaches that were established at the upper-level Collation Centers in question)

After the whole interpretations, the court can now issue an order to the INEC in order for them to strictly abide during Collation of Results.
Re: Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by BluntCrazeMan(op): 3:00pm On May 08, 2025
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The topic/title of the thread may look so funny though,, but with the elections that had been happening since 2022 till now,, it is clearly evident that the INEC had not been obeying Section-47 and Section-64 of the Electoral-Act-2022.



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Re: Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by BluntCrazeMan(op): 5:55pm On May 08, 2025
BluntCrazeMan:
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The topic/title of the thread may look so funny though,, but with the elections that had been happening since 2022 till now,, it is clearly evident that the INEC had not been obeying Section-47 and Section-64 of the Electoral-Act-2022.


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Lalasticlala, Seun, Nlfpmod
Re: Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by BluntCrazeMan(op): 5:59pm On May 08, 2025
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Re: Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by Racoon(m): 11:02am On May 09, 2025
There should be any need for that if INEC is truly an independent state institution. The reason why all these nonsense continue is simply because the state doesn't wants genuine electoral and democratic reforms.
Re: Must There Be An Added Court-Order Before INEC Abides With The Electoral Act? by BluntCrazeMan(op): 12:57pm On May 09, 2025
Racoon:
There should **[NOT]* be any need for that if INEC is truly an independent state institution.

The reason why all these nonsense continue is simply because the state doesn't wants genuine electoral and democratic reforms.
And they continued to pretend that everything is okay.
That's where my whole annoyance is.
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