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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THEY HAVE LEARNT!

I have made many posts (over many years) about situation rooms. A huge chunk of my Money Election post was about situation rooms, volunteers and polling agents.

I learnt about these things in 1970s and '80s Hollywood movies and I got the opportunity to see them in action in a 1991 election in Nigeria.

Yet, ahead of the 2023 elections, Obidients insulted and made fun of anybody that advised them to have these things. They said that, "The people are the polling agents" and "The people are the situation room". I could not believe that people could be so ignorant.

That's why Peter Obi did not claim that Bola Tinubu did not win the election. His election petition was on the basis that Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar should be disqualified from the election, he didn't say that Tinubu did not win.

If he had said that Tinubu did not win, then he would have had to prove it and how could he prove it when he did not have polling agents in many of the polling stations??

But they have learnt. They now have situation rooms.

Ladies and gentlemen, over the years I have posted photos and videos of the situation rooms of the APC, PDP and other parties and now I can show you the situation room of the Obidient Movement for the 2025 Anambra State governorship election.

Dr Yunusa Tanko is the National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement.

Dr. Yunusa Tanko @YunusaTanko

Hello OBIdients,

Our situation room for the Anambra 2025 Gubernatorial Election is live by 8am tomorrow 8th of November 2025 .

Please tune into our social media platforms to watch live. Share this information to all platforms.

Our target is to give you update report from the Obidient Movement structure.

The election is in the hands of Anambarians....... Ndi Anambra it is your choice on who govern you............ A New Nigeria is POssible.

Thank you.

Signed,
Dr Yunusa Tanko,
For Obidient Movement Worldwide.

https://x.com/YunusaTanko/status/1986934304371580993?

Dr. Yunusa Tanko @YunusaTanko

As we wrap up at the situation room with the final update coming up.

Blessing ezeokoli - @jack_NG01
Umanu Elijah - @mrumanu_elijah
Priscilia Amadi @PrisciliaAmadi
Gift - @fancyornot
Comr Chris Abams - @AlexisAbams @Cdazlyn
Obinna Madu - @obimadu274

With full determination we countiue the struggle for a better Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rPzKZSWV7c?si=MPCDUAug0rknPAd_

As we wrap up at the situation room with the final update coming up.

Blessing ezeokoli - @jack_NG01
Umanu Elijah - @mrumanu_elijah
Priscilia Amadi @PrisciliaAmadi
Gift - @fancyornot
Comr Chris Abams - @AlexisAbams @Cdazlyn
Obinna Madu - @obimadu274

With full determination we… pic.twitter.com/L3YBvA22uG

— Dr Yunusa Tanko (@YunusaTanko) November 9, 2025

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This is a small section of my Money Election post (it was about the things that you need to spend mony on when contesting an election).

So you need to have your party agents at these collation centers in addition to the polling centers. Nowadays, with the advent of information communication technology, particularly the Internet and mobile phones, political parties and candidates also set up situation rooms where they'll receive reports from their agents in the field in real time. They also have analysts in these situation rooms who can analyse the data that's gotten from the agents and advise the candidate accordingly.

President Buhari Visits APC Situation Room In Abuja. PICTURES. 
https://www.nairaland.com/5046733/president-buhari-visits-apc-situation

PDP Monitoring Edo Election From Situation Room (Photos)
https://www.nairaland.com/6130685/pdp-monitoring-edo-election-situation

The staff at the situation rooms during a governorship election are usually from out of state. This because they need to monitor the situation right from the release of sensitive materials in the early hours of election day until the final result is released and this means that they need to be at the situation room for two or three days straight. Meanwhile the candidate needs every vote that he can get, so he wouldn't want potential voters locked up in the situation room.

El-Rufai and the APC situation room for the 2013 Anambra governorship election.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/anambra-election-sss-detains-el-rufai-awka/

Wike and the PDP situation room for the 2020 Edo governorship election.
http://saharareporters.com/2020/09/18/policemen-lay-siege-rivers-governor-wike’s-hotel-benin-pdp-raises-alarm

All of these people must be mobilised and the equipment in the situation room must be procured

Morris Monye @Morris_Monye

At the Obidient Situation room in Anambra state for the Gubernatorial election.

If you see something, please make a call.

Check the flier on the thread.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC22rT4OiMk?si=9U-Bk06o5pzz2Pvx

At the Obidient Situation room in Anambra state for the Gubernatorial election.

If you see something, please make a call.

Check the flier on the thread. pic.twitter.com/oE8RX0MATk

— Morris Monye (@Morris_Monye) November 8, 2025

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Good that they've decided to learn and follow the process.
Social media noise doesn't win elections.
Hope Obidients and LP are still together for 2027?

The people that gave Tinubu and his supporters a bloody nose in his domain.

I'm always happy seeing this obedient people.


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How did obidents lose Anambara

More photos from the situation room.

Electronic voting and electronic transmission is the way forward 📌💯

See how the situation room looks untidy with cables flying all over the place. Can these people ever get anything right?

Useless movement .Remove Tribalism and Religious sentiments, No Anambra Man will vote for Peter Obi in any election.

YPP: 33,652 votes

4. LP: 10,482 votes

So YPP is more popular than Peter Obi

LP+ADC votes < APC votes


Good morning Ndi Gala and Malt Billionaire

Lol these ones wey no get structure. 3rd wey wan remove winner.

Tinubu lost Lagos to Obidients!

Kaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiii- the pains will endure till generations

How will someone build Lagos and still loose

😂😂😂😂

Always clean and civilised people....you can never see touts or area boys or agberoes among them.... unfortunately Nigerians prefer those ones threatening everybody

I do NOT understand this OP and how meaningful is this Thread.

What exactly Should we do with his Information

Should Obidients wear Sackcloth and rub Ashes on their heads
Bcus of a state Election where Naturally APGA is the Dominant party?

The OP should get Busy this Morning and Today plz

So APC is even more popular in Anambra than both ADC & LP combined.
Or is there something I am missing here?

Comedy skit. Didn't stop their Agulu messiah from losing his polling unit, Lol.

People wey dey inside dis room pass the number of votes dem Wan even count

Vinnie2000:
I do NOT understand this OP and how meaningful is this Thread.

What exactly Should we do with his Information

Should Obidients wear Sackcloth and rub Ashes on their heads
Bcus of a state Election where Naturally APGA is the Dominant party?

The OP should get Busy this Morning and Today plz

don’t worry,gala is enough to reach all of you…calm down

Didijiji:
Tinubu lost Lagos to Obidients!

Kaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiii- the pains will endure till generations

How will someone build Lagos and still loose

😂😂😂😂

Who is the president now ? is Labour now in Government in Lagos state?

So you think winning the battle is more important than winning the war ?

If not for Peter Obi moving from church to church would he even polled that ?

You will learn the same Lesson next election

Jokes 🤣

There have often been very funny comments by people who don't know about situation rooms.

There was a picture of Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola in the APC situation room and some funny people claimed that Fashola was the person that was uploading results for INEC.

naptu2:
February 28th (the first picture below was attached to this post).

[quote author=naptu2 post=121334965]If anybody ever asks you what ma dness is, all you need to do is show the person this tweet and he will have a clear idea of what ma dness is.


Dear diary, I have previously told you about the role of party agents and situation rooms. Serious political parties have agents at every polling unit in the country. The agent is given a copy of the result at that polling unit. These agents send their results to their party's situation room and the party uses these results to determine how well it has done. Anybody that knows anything about politics knows this.

It's not only political parties that have situation rooms. Media houses, NGOs, observer groups, etc have similar arrangements (just like this! This is what Fashola was looking at https://elections.civichive.org/ ).

In fact, INEC has its IREV!

Yet some m ad people are claiming that this picture shows that Babatunde Fashola was the one that uploaded results to INEC's servers. Isn't that the definition of ma dness?


I think this is the lu natic that Simon Ekpa was responding to last week.


https://twitter.com/Naija_Activist/status/1630303722600382465

March 1 (the second picture was attached to this post).

naptu2:


They've forced Civic Hive to release a statement. You won't believe the kind of conspiracy stories that ma d people have been circulating in the past 24 hours.

Civic Hive was created by BudgIT. You know who founded BudgIT, right and you know that he has been anti-APC for a long time, right?

Yet ma d people said that:

1) Babatunde Fashola got into the INEC servers through Civic Hive and he is uploading results to the servers.

2) Civic Hive hired Indians to hack INEC servers and they are manipulating the results.

3) APC hired Civic Hive to manipulate the results in conjunction with INEC.

Can you imagine how much ma dness there is in Nigeria??


https://twitter.com/CivicHive/status/1630621357925974039

August 6th. M ad people resurrected this lie when they claimed that Fashola was writing the judgement for the election petition tribunal. The last picture was attached to all the posts.

naptu2:
Mr Fashola at the APC situation room during the last elections. Mad people claim that he was personally uploading results to INEC portal.

[/quote]Former Governor Obaseki set up a situation room for the last Edo governorship election and someone claimed that he had set up a "high calibre device" to interfere with the election.

naptu2:
OK, let me share the joke.

I have often explained what situation rooms are, so there's no need to explain it here again.

Sometimes, during elections, I create threads with pictures of the situation rooms of the various parties. That's not possible now because of Nairaland's picture restrictions.

Situation rooms have often led to very funny posts in years past. There was the time that a picture of Mr Babatunde Fashola in the APC situation room went viral and PDP members claimed that he hacked INEC's servers and was viewing the results (they didn't know what a situation room was). The same picture went viral 4 years later and this time Labour Party members claimed that he hacked INEC's servers.

Anyway, today I have seen the APC situation room in Benin.

Some PDP members are lamenting that PDP does not have a situation room, but I know that that's not exactly true. A PDP member stated that Governor Obaseki personally set up a situation room 4 years ago and that also true for today. Governor Obaseki has personally set up a situation room for the PDP candidate and that's the source of our mirth.

An APC supporter tweeted this:

Harmless Damian4️⃣7️⃣ @Harmless47

Obaseki sets up High calibre device in government house Benin to interfer with the INEC BVAS machines in Oredo,Egor and Ikpoba-Okha LGAs

The device is been hidden under the cover of the Asue/Ogie situation room stationed in the new Festival Hall of Government House Benin.

Isn't that funny? He also attached a picture of the PDP situation room to his tweet.

APC and PDP members are mocking the Labour Party and claiming that it does not have a situation room and it never has a situation room, but is members always cry about rigging. I don't know if they are right. I have searched for photos of the Labour Party situation room, but all I have seen is a Twitter Spaces labelled "LP Situation Room".

🤣 "High calibre device"

Emmanuel900:
Who is the president now ? is Labour now in Government in Lagos state?

So you think winning the battle is more important than winning the war ?

If not for Peter Obi moving from church to church would he even polled that ?

You will learn the same Lesson next election

shut up

Look back!

See Trump o

I heard Anambra people are now supporting GALA -tasaray

Didijiji:
Tinubu lost Lagos to Obidients!

Kaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiii- the pains will endure till generations

How will someone build Lagos and still loose

😂😂😂😂

Good morning Ndi Gala and Malt Billionaire

PDP situation room for the Edo governorship election.

Despite the accusation of votes buying, counting cont.

All what we are begging for is credible election, it doesn't matter who wins but let our votes count.
Stop killing innocent souls in the name of election, stop threatening people because of election, stop fighting people because of election.
I hope we are not asking too much.

I don't think Obidents national leadership are sound or capable and I'm not yet sure of their democratic style, practice, work ethics or standards, They seem more interested in the fronting than in the substance.

But Fact is any leadership that cannot take criticism and work on it responsibly has a major problem ahead...

Didijiji:
Tinubu lost Lagos to Obidients!

Kaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiii- the pains will endure till generations

How will someone build Lagos and still loose

😂😂😂😂

You’re not a smart dude — just another victim of social media propaganda. APC still holds power at the federal level and in all those states you mentioned. While you keep beating your empty chest, you will learn the hard way as usual.

Judolisco:
People wey dey inside dis room pass the number of votes dem Wan even count

Ahhhhhhhh HHH badtguy