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For those who are planning and hoping to repeat the 2023 “snatch and run” election tactics.

NDC’s New Election Strategy Sparks Debate as Pat Utomi Announces Independent Result Transmission Plan:

Prof. Pat Utomi says the NDC is preparing its own independent election result transmission system ahead of the 2027 elections.

According to him, election results from polling units across Nigeria will be transmitted live and monitored globally through major international media platforms, including CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News, and credible Nigerian news outlets.

Utomi also revealed that the party plans to deploy a strong network of polling unit agents nationwide to ensure votes are protected and election officials are not subjected to intimidation.

Source

Hope it won't eventually turn to the 2023 election which up till today, Labour party are yet to post the results which they collated at their tallying center

Also in the 2023 election, LP didn't have party agents in over 40% of the polling units.

We want the opposition to put their acts together so that there won't be any story of rigging as the beating will be thorough in 2027

While that may work, what is stopping INEK from still doing what they did in 2023 in 2027?

2027 will be a death sentence for election riggers. I don't mean your favourite politicians. I mean you who they use.

I expected this from them. Upload your results live on your own page and track the numbers. That will keep INEC on its toes.

SixSeven:
I wrote in my comment that there will be a surprise in 2027 that the parties have not planned for. INEC will be the referee but the people will be the VAR. The Morocco vs Senegal referee already saw a sample of where Refs can be checked. The situation room of everyone will make it difficult for anyone to tamper with results. What APC did in 2023 was the Expo they gave the people.

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There has been so much confusion over the reportage of this issue and I am so disappointed in the media. It is not electronic voting, it is ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION of results. They have tried to use this confusion to mislead people with e-voting. Is it this NASS that did not allow diaspora to vote that wants to give electronic voting They should start with electronic voting at the Senate first instead of relying on voice vote but these guys we have there now can't. They can never because you can't give what you don't have. Honor is not sold in the market neither is you calling yourself distinguished distinguish you from any cowardly behaviour.

The media is doing a bad work in not reporting the issues properly. I have seen people like Reno mislead the public about the issue. The SP too has said some things when he talks down Nigerians the usual way. Nigerians do not vote electronically, the people are saying cut the amount of manual intervention you have in collation.

The election process is like this:
1. You register to vote.
2. You get your PVC
3. Before election day, you see your name Ong the list of registered voters
4. On election day, you register to vote (this is called accreditation) where the PO confirms that you are on the list of registered voters and it is not someone else
5. You cast your ballot secretly.
6. The PO counts the votes, that IS, ALL the paper you voted for, then writes the results.
This is where Nigerians want the results to be electronically transmitted.
7. This result is announced and a copy normally should be posted for you at your PU
8. The PO takes the counted result that was signed by the party agents and herself to the collation centre

This is where Nigerians saw the magomago. This is why you see the APC guys boast of polling agents. We should be ashamed of ourselves that we need too many people to count votes in 2026. Let me not distract from my essay. Check the quoted post I have below.

There are two collation centres. There's ward collation centre and state collation centre. It is at these places counting magic happens. You see all those things the Professors do on TV? They are only counting LG results for each state. They are also checking if there were any other electoral issues that can lead to some results not counted or cancelled.

What INEC promised at the last election is that with Irev you can see your PU result live. You can even audit the election result for each ward and do your own counting for the LG. But the APC and their abracadabra manipulated your result. So while you were counting after step 5, they saw the live results, did their own counting and gave you the figures they wanted. That's why INEC announced results of the election at night. That's where you saw numbers changed at Irev portal. If party A had 12, they put 6 in front of it and made it 612. That is why the Irev portal had glitch. The glitch was the fraudulent excuse to tamper with the result, change it and have their own numbers. They had to delay the loading to iRev portal so you won't be able to dispute the results. Only a thief at night steals it, snatches it and runs away with it to announce that the white they stole at nibjt is now Ariel clean in the morning.

With electronic transmission, Nigeria will reduce massively how much money we spend on elections. Our elections are only expensive because people simply want to cheat, QED! It's a bloody waste of time recruiting so many people just to count numbers, shey we no de shame? Chai


For those of them that bring that useless video of Elon Musk not trusting electronic voting, please read below. They intentionally omitted the part where US does not conduct its election like ours. They work on trust because from birth you already have an ID and government knows when you turn 18.

SixSeven:
They should even pity the fasting Muslims and Christians and allow them vote from their phones. After all, the same people can vote Big Brother and there is no transmission error. When it is bad things, they will be giving us examples of bad things in USA, showing us Elon Musk videos. When it's good things we can copy from USA, they hide. USA that does not have voter registration or PVC card for every voter, the system sends it to your address because of government data, they skip the process and want to put a wool over our eyes.

The US election has been compromised because there is no registration or accreditation.Nigeria has voter ID, America does not have. We used those because of fraud after seeing Mike Tyson voting in previous elections. We should be leading and the world should be copying us but they want us to remain in level Zero for long 🤡

Nigeria will close its borders, close work just to count numbers. Something that should not be so in 21st century if not for fraud and manipulation magomago dem wan do. It's a big shame that adults cannot count numbers Na professor go de count numbers. Agbaya people. Simple thing, dem turn am to billions. Big disgrace.

Efforts in futility. Obi himself knows that he won't win more than 3 states of Anambra, Enugu and Abia. Even those states will be keenly contested by Tinubu. Days EluuP 77 are gone.

That is exactly how it is meant to be done and that's what other parties do, but the real question is whether the NDC will be able to do it.

Serious political parties have situation rooms and polling agents in every polling unit, but the Labour Party did not have polling agents in many polling units in 2023.

Will the NDC have polling agents in every polling unit? That is the real question.

Na you know that one, no b OBI, Sarkin Salama.

Willy2025:
Efforts in futility. Obi himself knows that he won't win more than 3 states of Anambra, Enugu and Abia. Even those states will be keenly contested by Tinubu. Days EluuP 77 are gone.

Way to go! In a FREE and FAIR election, the election will be over, before 11am . THIEFNIBU is rejected home and away.

The law states that political parties are entitled to have polling agents at all polling units. The polling agents are entitled to original copies of the results. The agents are also entitled to sign the result sheets.

Political parties set up situation rooms to receive results in real time from their agents in the field. A political party can use the results that it receives from its agents to know how it is performing in the polls.

Polling agents also inform the party if there is any irregularity in the polls. They can gather evidence of such irregularities in order to help the party in any legal challenge.

But what happens if the party does not have agents and situation rooms?

naptu2:
That is exactly how it is meant to be done and that's what other parties do, but the real question is whether the NDC will be able to do it.

Serious political parties have situation rooms and polling agents in every polling unit, but the Labour Party did not have polling agents in many polling units in 2023.

Will the NDC have polling agents in every polling unit? That is the real question.

If they can take it as priority, they should be able to have their standard collating centre and also spread party agents across the polling units.

What I am afraid of is funding, NDC will really struggle to raise money for the election

helinues:
If they can take it as priority, they should be able to have their standard collating centre and also spread party agents across the polling units.

What I am afraid of is funding, NDC will really struggle to raise money for the election

That's the source of one of the current controversies. The NDC asked aspirants to pay millions as development fees. Those that could pay became candidates and those that couldn't remained aspirants.

Some people are complaining, but it's not easy to fund and run a political party.

This is my election money post.

I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2020

(Naptu2's note. I actually started writing this in the middle of the night on September 18th/early morning September 19th).



Money elections

I started writing this on Friday night/Saturday morning, but I had to leave for my adventure before I could finish it and I didn't save what I had written, so I'm giving it another go.

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I heard about this issue in 1983, 1987 and 1989, but it wasn't until 1991 that I got the opportunity to see it firsthand.

Dear diary, do you remember that I told you about a man that lived at a place called Ekiti Lodge? I told you that he was a politician and businessman in the 1950s and '60s, a judge in the 1970s and '80s and he became a politician again in the early 1990s.


He wasn't very successful in his second stint as a politician. You see, he had a reputation of being an honest and no-nonsense judge. He was the kind of person that some Nigerians would describe as being troublesome (because he didn't take any nonsense and he didn't allow people to dish any nonsense) and Nigerian politics doesn't like honest people who that are very principled. But that's not the theme of this piece.


The man contested in an election in 1991 and that gave me an opportunity to study this issue from the inside.


There are three sets of people that usually sign the result sheet after an election and these three set of people are usually given original duplicate copies of the result. The three set of people are (1) the returning officer, (2) the party agents (3) representative of the police.


Police

Usually the duplicate copy is given to a representative of the divisional police officer (DPO) if the election/collation is at the ward level, a representative of the area commander if the election/collation is at the local government level, a representative of the commissioner of police if the election is at the state level and a representative of the inspector general of police if it is a presidential election result.

(Now I'm going to deviate from what I planned to post on Saturday because I've realised that this is an opportunity to post something that I've wanted to post since January. So here is one of my abandoned posts).

It was this fact that gave governor Hope Uzodinma victory at the Supreme Court.


INEC had conducted the Imo State governorship elections in 2019. The results that INEC declared (at the end of the process) showed that Emeka Ihedioha had won the election, Uche Nwosu came second, Ifeanyi Ararume came third and Hope Uzodinma came fourth. Many of the contestants were not happy with the results and they headed for the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge it.


Hope Uzodinma of the APC alleged that INEC did not include results from 388 polling units in areas where he had a strong support base and he claimed that he would have won the election if those results were added.

INEC claimed that elections in those polling units were marred by violence, ballot snatching and other irregularities. It claimed that it cancelled the votes in those polling units because of the irregularities.

However, the APC stated that INEC had no authority to cancel votes from those polling units because it is only the courts that can annull the votes. It stated that cancelling the votes amounted to disenfranchising voters that voted at those polling units.

INEC stated that it had no results from those polling units.

The APC then got its polling agents to testify and they tendered their copies of the results, but the PDP poked holes in their stories during cross examination. For example, the PDP showed that some of the results sheets did not have the signatures of all of the party agents that were present during the election.

Then the APC subpoened the Imo State deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations (DCompolOps), Rabiu Hassaini, to bring the police's copy of the results and testify at the tribunal. DCompolOps are usually in charge of election security at the state level, while DIGPol Ops is usually in charge of election security at the federal (presidential and National Assembly elections) level.

Rabiu Hassaini arrived at the tribunal with large bags filled with the police's copy of the results from the 388 polling units and he testified in support of those results.


However the PDP objected to Hassaini's testimony on two grounds.

1) The PDP stated that Hassaini did not provide evidence to show that he had the Inspector General's permission to testify.

2) The PDP also alleged that the results that were presented by Hassaini were forged.

The tribunal accepted the PDP's objection and excluded the results that were presented by Hassaini. Therefore, it declared that Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP was the winner of the election. The APC appealed the decision of the tribunal.


The Appeal Court upheld the decision of the tribunal. However, one of the judges gave a dissenting opinion. He wrote that the subpoena to Hassaini was routed through the office of the Inspector General of Police and that meant that the IGP was aware and gave his approval for Hassaini to testify, otherwise he won't have appeared at the tribunal. He further wrote that the PDP did not provide any evidence to show that the results that were tendered by Hassaini were forged.


The APC appealed the decision of the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court unanimously alligned itself with the dissenting judgement from the Appeal Court. The Supreme Court ruled that Hassaini had the permission of the IGP to testify and that the PDP did not prove that the results that were tendered by Hassaini were forged. Remember that by law, Hassaini, who was the representative of the Imo State commissioner of police, was entitled to an original duplicate copy of the result.

The Supreme Court therefore ruled that INEC unlawfully excluded the results from 388 polling units and when those results were added the total enabled Hope Uzodinma to leapfrog from the fourth position to the first position. And that's how Hope Uzodinma became governor of Imo State.

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But that's not the main theme of this post. The main theme of this post is the party agents and the huge amount of money that is required to mobilise them on election day.

Political party agents sign the result sheet after the announcement or the result of the 2016 Ondo State governorship election.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNU8ki6lRXA

As you've seen in the previous section, it's very important that you have agents at all the polling units and collation centers. The polling agent serves the following purposes:

1) He enables the candidate to know the actual result of the election.


2) He enables the candidate to know if there has been any electoral  malpractice at the polling unit or collation center and he also enables the candidate to gather evidence of such malpractice. This evidence will be very useful at the tribunal.


3) He enables the party and candidate to know if the electoral umpire has made a genuine mistake and he also ensures that the mistake is corrected. This evidence will be


4) Basically, the party agent protects the interest of the party and the candidate at the polling units and collation centers.

Interview with the agents of the APC and PDP at the 2015 Presidential Election National Collation Center.

The agent of the APC, Dr Olorunimbe Mamora, said that he noticed an error in some of the figures announced by INEC and he called the APC agent in Enugu who confirmed that INEC made a mistake and then he called the attention of Professor Jega to the error and it was corrected.

The agent of the PDP, Elder Godsday Orubebe, said that he was satisfied with the results that had been released so far because they tallied with the results relayed to them by their agents in the field. He said that his only other observation was that there were a lot of results flying around on social media and so he drew Professor Jega's attention to that and Professor Jega said that it's only the result that was released at the center that was authentic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQr2CO4btU

So, as you can see, the party agent is very important. The candidate/party must have an agent at every polling unit and every collation center so that there'll be someone to protect his interest at all these places. Now imagine if it is a presidential election!

There are 119,973 polling units in Nigeria and 57,000 other polling centers. This makes a total of 176,973 places where voting is conducted. That's not including the collation centers!

These are the possible collation centers.


1. Registration Area (RA)/Ward Level

2. Local Government Area (LGA) Level

3. State Assembly Constituency Level

4. Federal (House of Representatives) Constituency Level

5. Senatorial District Level

6. State Level

7. Collation and Declaration of Presidential Election Result at the National Level.

According to INEC. . .

The Presiding Officers/Collation Officers at the various levels complete the result sheet and request the party agents available to countersign. Duplicate copy of the result is made available to each one while the original is taken to the next level of collation.

The Presiding Officers/Collation Officers at each level completes the notice of results of poll and paste at the Polling Unit or Collation Centre.

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


Elections usually begin early in the morning and continue till around 10 or 12 o'clock when counting begins. Sometimes the elections are extended due to late arrival of materials and the party agent might be at the polling unit till 3pm. These polling agents must eat breakfast and lunch while they are performing their duties.

Collation of the results might start in the afternoon of election day and continue all night and into the next day. The party agents at the collation centers must eat lunch, dinner and breakfast while performing their duties.

Furthermore, nowadays, these agents need mobile phone airtime in order to relay reports to their situation rooms and they also need to be able to transport themselves to their duty posts and to be able to monitor the movement of results from the polling units to the collation centers.

All of these cost money.




That takes me back to the stories from 1987, 1989 and 1991 (and even from the early 2000s). There were stories of political parties and candidates bringing food to polling units and feeding everybody there, including their opponent's agents. There were also stories of parties and candidates inducing their opponent's agents to switch allegiances. Can you imagine a situation in which an agent appears at the tribunal to testify against his own candidate?

Party agents usually refuse to sign the result sheet if they believe that the election was compromised, but can you imagine a situation in which a party agent not only signs the result sheet, but he also testifies that the election was free and fair, despite the fact that it was rigged against his candidate?

The agent of the PDP, Osita Chidoka, explains why he refused to sign the result sheet after the announcement of the result of the 2019 presidential election.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNicT-jUHq4


The agent of the APC explains why he refused to sign the election result sheet after the announcement of the result of the 2020 Edo State governorship election.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSA1-qKxyHA

This is why political parties and candidates do all they can to select their most loyal followers to act as polling agents and they also spend a lot of money to ensure that the agents are happy and fully mobilised on election day.

This will be a game changer
If it happens

Nigeria 🇳🇬 as a whole need this

To serve Nigeria we are dying 😢

naptu2:
That's the source of one of the current controversies. The NDC asked aspirants to pay millions as development fees. Those that could pay became candidates and those that couldn't remained aspirants.

Some people are complaining, but it's not easy to fund and run a political party.

Where would the loyalty of those who couldn't pay will lie after the primary? They could have asked the aspirants to pay fees that can be affordable to all before primary.

The fee could be a deliberate barrier

They're planning to cook fake results like they cook fake products all over the world

Adc should the same thing. The time to tame riggers is now

SixSeven:
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There has been so much confusion over the reportage of this issue and I am so disappointed in the media. It is not electronic voting, it is ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION of results. They have tried to use this confusion to mislead people with e-voting. Is it this NASS that did not allow diaspora to vote that wants to give electronic voting They should start with electronic voting at the Senate first instead of relying on voice vote but these guys we have there now can't. They can never because you can't give what you don't have. Honor is not sold in the market neither is you calling yourself distinguished distinguish you from any cowardly behaviour.

The media is doing a bad work in not reporting the issues properly. I have seen people like Reno mislead the public about the issue. The SP too has said some things when he talks down Nigerians the usual way. Nigerians do not vote electronically, the people are saying cut the amount of manual intervention you have in collation.

The election process is like this:
1. You register to vote.
2. You get your PVC
3. Before election day, you see your name Ong the list of registered voters
4. On election day, you register to vote (this is called accreditation) where the PO confirms that you are on the list of registered voters and it is not someone else
5. You cast your ballot secretly.
6. The PO counts the votes, that IS, ALL the paper you voted for, then writes the results.
This is where Nigerians want the results to be electronically transmitted.
7. This result is announced and a copy normally should be posted for you at your PU
8. The PO takes the counted result that was signed by the party agents and herself to the collation centre

This is where Nigerians saw the magomago. This is why you see the APC guys boast of polling agents. We should be ashamed of ourselves that we need too many people to count votes in 2026. Let me not distract from my essay. Check the quoted post I have below.

There are two collation centres. There's ward collation centre and state collation centre. It is at these places counting magic happens. You see all those things the Professors do on TV? They are only counting LG results for each state. They are also checking if there were any other electoral issues that can lead to some results not counted or cancelled.

What INEC promised at the last election is that with Irev you can see your PU result live. You can even audit the election result for each ward and do your own counting for the LG. But the APC and their abracadabra manipulated your result. So while you were counting after step 5, they saw the live results, did their own counting and gave you the figures they wanted. That's why INEC announced results of the election at night. That's where you saw numbers changed at Irev portal. If party A had 12, they put 6 in front of it and made it 612. That is why the Irev portal had glitch. The glitch was the fraudulent excuse to tamper with the result, change it and have their own numbers. They had to delay the loading to iRev portal so you won't be able to dispute the results. Only a thief at night steals it, snatches it and runs away with it to announce that the white they stole at nibjt is now Ariel clean in the morning.

With electronic transmission, Nigeria will reduce massively how much money we spend on elections. Our elections are only expensive because people simply want to cheat, QED! It's a bloody waste of time recruiting so many people just to count numbers, shey we no de shame? Chai


For those of them that bring that useless video of Elon Musk not trusting electronic voting, please read below. They intentionally omitted the part where US does not conduct its election like ours. They work on trust because from birth you already have an ID and government knows when you turn 18.

ward collation centre 😭

naptu2:
That's the source of one of the current controversies. The NDC asked aspirants to pay millions as development fees. Those that could pay became candidates and those that couldn't remained aspirants.

Some people are complaining, but it's not easy to fund and run a political party.

This is mere marketplace gossip.

No aspirant has come out to admit the party charged them any such fee.

Why do you people still carry own with the tale?

Nlfpmod
Mynd44
Fergie001

chatinent:
While that may work, what is stopping INEK from still doing what they did in 2023 in 2027?

2027 will be a death sentence for election riggers. I don't mean your favourite politicians. I mean you who they use.

yes I see this happening.i even see lynching of tinubu supporters before the election proper.E get where u go Dey if u talk tinubu 2027 u fit lose ur life.

Fox News? The fvck

I only engage with serious and sensible people.

When I posted that Amanda Pam would be the NDC FCT senatorial candidate and that Aisha Yesufu had been removed, what did these people say? Did any of them (including Aisha Yesufu) admit it? What eventually happened?

https://www.nairaland.com/8679082/morris-monye-blessing-chimezie-ezeokoli

helinues:
Where would the loyalty of those who couldn't pay will lie after the primary? They could have asked the aspirants to pay fees that can be affordable to all before primary.

The fee could be a deliberate barrier

Jesus Christ

This guy go find work do na

Compare what Aisha Yesufu said happened with the official statements from NDC.

CrackedScreen:
Jesus Christ

This guy go find work do na

Why did you choose to be deliberately wasting your life away for over a decade on this forum

Tell NL's how many monikers you have created in this year alone to be trolling, no exaggerating they are over 100 yet I am the one who is jobless

Hope they will have polling unit Agent across the country this time around, no point in voting for a candidate without surveillance and preparation for post election spending and pre election campaign funds.

Penguin2:
This is mere marketplace gossip.

No aspirant has come out to admit the party charged them any such fee.

Why do you people still carry own with the tale?

Nlfpmod
Mynd44
Fergie001

You have never been sincere for once on this forum. The aspirants crying foul about the fee they asked them to pay before they can participate in the primary is what?

How did Aisha lose the FCT senatorial seat, did she even participate in the primary

Continue deceiving yourself. Something you did all through the 2023 election

helinues:
You have never been sincere for once on this forum. The aspirants crying foul about the fee they asked they to pay before they can participate in the primary is what?

How did Aisha lose the FCT senatorial seat, did she even participate in the primary

Continue deceiving yourself. Something you did all through the 2023 election

Helinues to be a complete man , you have to work

..go out and get a job so you can feed and know how life works

Begging data and using Opera mini is not the end of the world

Nice one from NDC.

APC will be jittery at this news.

SWriceBEGGER:
Helinues to be a complete man , you have to work

..go out and get a job so you can feed and know how life works

Begging data and using Opera mini is not the end of the world

Are the mods on this forum seen this guy switching monikers to be derailing threads deliberately.

I blocked the previous moniker, now he has switched to another one on this same thread.

Yet I am the one who is jobless..When we said lots are wrong with some of you Obidients, we are not exaggerating

helinues:
Are the mods on this forum seen this guy switching monikers to be derailing threads deliberately.

I blocked the previous moniker, now he has switched to another one on this same thread.

Yet I am the one who is jobless..When we said lots are wrong with some of you Obidients, we are not exaggerating

Stop foaming in the mouth and sweating profusely

Where is your proof?

GO FIND WORK !

Pat utomi in NDC this is very commendable if you know you know