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Nigeria democracy truly needs radical electoral reforms especially electronic voting.

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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 had 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 wise-up, and approach any of the 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”.

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The Court-Order should also state it very clearly that “any results which emanated from a Collation Center where the INEC’s Collation Officer did not COMPLETELY treat all the disputes that were raised -- 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.

When any of the Opposition Parties approaches the Federal High Court (with the Attorney-General and INEC as the defendants as usual), they should urge the Court to fully read the whole of Section:47 and Section:64 of the Electoral-Act-2022, and to determine whether there is a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022 if any of the following occurrences happen:

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

d. If 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 ANY of 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 also determine whether those “supposedly faulty collated results” which emanated from those Collation Centers where the breaches were established, shall 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 the “Rules” during the Collation of Results.

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The Fact that the INEC had not been properly and appropriately implementing the already-existing Electoral-Act-2022, it is a VERY BIG POINTER that even if we push for the New Electoral Reforms and have them in place,, THE INEC WILL STILL NOT IMPLEMENT THEM PROPERLY AND APPROPRIATELY AGAIN -- AS USUAL.

AND THERE IS NOTHING ANY OF US CAN DO ABOUT IT -- EVEN IF THEY ABANDONED THE NEW REFORMS IN WAYS THAT ARE WORSE THAN WHAT THEY DID TO THE ELECTORAL-ACT-2022, NOBODY IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

Just the way we are doing nothing now that they are Not implementing the existing Electoral-Act-2022 properly and appropriately,, we will still not do anything in the future if they still throw the new reforms aside and do things anyhow they liked.

LET US FIRST-OF-ALL FORCE THEM TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THE CURRENTLY EXISTING ELECTORAL-ACT-2022 PROPERLY AND APPROPRIATELY.
THEN WE CAN START TALKING ABOUT HAVING NEW REFORMS AND HOW TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THEM.

Even if they reform and inform Ibrahim Traore to count the vote obidients will still wail come 2027.

Senator Ireti Kingibe in an X-Space on Sunday Night said that Electronic Transmission is top of the deal in the proposed reforms.

Although,, I don't know whether these lazy senators understand that Electronic Transmission is one step,, and Electronic Collation is another step.
And we are requesting to have two of them made mandatory and compulsory..

They cannot pick just one and discard the other one.

With the level of corruption going on in this country the only option is true fedralism.
What we are practising now cant work there is too much power at the center. Inec chairman na appointment office still

The Hen said I'm not shouting for what is holding me to leave me I'm only shouting so that the world will hear my voice and attest that I did raise a voice. Today the voice of reasoning no matter the pitch has gone dampened. At a point nobody will even talk about the corruption again. Total and over all state CAPTURE by known thieves!

Electoral reform under Tinubu. Dey play
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Same shady electoral law that brought him there through the back door? And u think he will change it? Tinubu will rather burn the whole of this country instead of reform election law.
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Una dey rate Tinubu and Akpabio o..... Useless people

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Ipob terrorist in disguise

Obi should forget about being president.

where he wan see am?

Very important

This is what I expect from all well meaning Nigerians that truly love Nigeria and want the best for Nigeria. Let the reform be made so that whoever that emerges winner of any election from LGA to Presidential be the real choice of Nigerians so that our politicians will know that only the people's vote can elect or return them to power, and from there they will start working to make the people happy, which will mark the beginning of Nigeria's march to communal progress for all.


All the opposition figures should start now to pressure national assembly for a complete electoral reforms policies.


1.) Uploading of every polling unit result on irev must be made compulsory in all our elections, and any result not uploaded at most 1 hour after the election has been concluded in that polling unit must be canceled; the original signed INEC result record sheet as signed by all party agents must be snapped clearly and uploaded immediately election is concluded at the polling unit, any alterations should lead to cancellation of that polling unit



2.) INEC must make irev a compulsory part of our election result collation. Before any candidate can be declared winner, the irev result must be thoroughly checked and aggrieved parties can present irev results in court as legally acceptable evidence.



3.) Nigerians in Diaspora should start voting via an electronic voting or designate voting centers in all countries using our consular offices in the countries where Nigerians can walk in to vote and the results uploaded on irev too.


4.) Presidential election petition tribunal panel must be made up of:

The Chief Judge of all 36 states plus CJN and 2 other Judges from The Supreme Court.

5.) Presidential, Governorship and LGA Chairman election should be held same day.


Senate, Reps, State House of Assembly and LGA Councilors should be held same day too.


6.) INEC and all stakeholders involved should start studying how Nigeria can start full electronic voting using either our:

NIN or BVN so that only Nigerians with NIN number or BVN number can register to vote electronically, and the voting machine can only accept the fingerprint registered on each NIN or BVN and if the machine reads the BVN or NIN and the voter is below 18 years, it will reject the voter automatically.


There should be designated voting centers; INEC can install the voting machines at designated places in each ward just like ATM machines. Anybody who cannot use the simple voting machine can come along with a guide to assist him or her. As the voter cast his or her vote, the result is sent straight to the central server with big screens mounted at the state capitals of the 36 states and FCT while media houses broadcast it for the whole world to watch the results trickle in live

Nigerians are deceiving themselves with democracy when in actual sense they're practicing democrazy.

The Chicago boy in aso rock will never allow any transparent reform that might lead to the Nigerian people genuinely voting him out come 2027, rather will he allow anyone remove his grip control of Nigeria's resources till he d!es without a life and death fight with such person.
You guys don't know the sh!t you're in yet.

Racoon:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/11/obidient-movement-calls-for-electoral-reforms-in-nigeria-unbundling-inec-into-three/

Bundling of INEC into 3? Yet Obi promised cut in the cost of governance!

Electoral reforms? No mention of going to meet daddy G.O or Bishops for directions yes daddy!

Hmm
Any electoral reforms that doesn't first tackle the influence of the president on the appointment and selection of INEC officials including the national chairman is an exercise in futility!

If there must be free,fair and credible election,the power bestowed on the president to select and appoint an INEC chairman and other officials must be REMOVED!

See some calling electoral reform where every vote will count an “IPOB agenda”

God forbid you black souls

Just yesterday in Epe, Nigerian army was used to protect a ballot snatcher.

https://www.nairaland.com/8422516/epe-ballot-snatching-rigger-protected

No one should ever say black people are superior to any other race, not even some species of animals.

Using your official army to protect election riggers in broad day light

Is any as shameless

As the Black man?

Are we practicing communism that every registered voters must vote?

Also the burden of prove should be on the person that made allegations.

Ok

Racoon:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/11/obidient-movement-calls-for-electoral-reforms-in-nigeria-unbundling-inec-into-three/

Of course you won't see yarimo, helinues,freestuffng, pressmybutton, and other agents of darkness in this kind of thread.

planetbluz:
Of course you won't see yarimo, helinues,freestuffng, pressmybutton, and other agents of darkness in this kind of thread.

Today is Monday morning, do something meaningful with your life and stop trolling us

Now Obi is quite
Sending emissaries

OK

There is a well orchestrated memo and affront on Peter Obi and his Obidients group.

Partly headed by Reno Omokri and senior ruling party members.

To surmount them is very easy let there be a level playing ground in 2027.

Electoral reforms will give us the real choice of the people.

FitCorper:
Even if they reform and inform Ibrahim Traore to count the vote obidients will still wail come 2027.

I've said this before is only INEC that can safe Tinubu com in 2027 even your ancestors knows that

By electoral reforms, they mean their well-orchestrated plans to put their candidate ahead of others