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I doubt Kwankwaso go stay with OBI after this . * nah TINUBU handwork * Awon GBEWIRI ODAJU OLOSHA

MaziObinnaokija:
I doubt Kwankwaso go stay with OBI after this . * nah TINUBU handwork * Awon GBEWIRI ODAJU OLOSHA

You are disappointed
😂😂

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.

naptu2:
That's exactly why I want to quote you, because you are saying exactly what I said, it was clearly stated that they were to pay ₦10 Million, but that "market place gossip" person said that I was lying and spreading "marketplace gossip".

That marketplace/village square olofofo nor dey taya o.😂

Na court go straight the case go and defend yourself on court

Ladispeaks was a supporter of the PDP.

We can see how the so called Saint Obidients defending this evil. This is a sign of the calamity that will befall this country if Obi mistakenly becomes the president. No matter the demonic things Obi does as a president, Obidients will defend it and give excuses for it.
OBI WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA. NEVER

Meet us at d Agulu Forest, it's behind obi's house

MaziObinnaokija:
make I run go meet my fellow hunters yarimo, LottiOk, Flangelo12, CYRUSVI, ROBOTO11, helinues,..



Chai 😒 🤔 😒 🤔 😒 🤔 😒 See Saint Peteru ooo .

God bless baba Soyinka for his GBAJUE remarks.

The moderators have changed the title of the thread.

(It was previously: Kenneth Okonkwo Provides Evidence That NDC Aspirants Paid ₦10 Million).

Just shut it!

Kanwulia:
Was it not stated in NDC that 10 million was for “intention to declare” fee?

What is the issue?

Thank you for not mentioning “Obi”!
I know it was really HARRRRRRRRD!😆

Anything to distract from the criminality of the BOBO DON-PEDRO OF CHICAGO and his marauding HOA members.🙄

DoTheNeedful:
This Kenneth na mumu. Where is Obi's name written on the receipt? That last time I checked, Obi was not the founder nor the owner of NDC. I hope Obi presses on with the suit.

While Obi is not my top choice for 2027, I detest mouths-for-hire like Okonkwo. I can remember how he was passionately defending Obi in the wake of 2023 election, only for him to make a U-turn a year after. His U-turn is sharp, extreme, and disrespectful. If Atiku, whom he currently surrogates for, is wise, he would not trust him. I know politics is mostly about personal interest, but the players should at least show some class and decorum.

go back and check the what was in the Whatsapp chats presented by Kenneth okonkwo, una go soon learn the hard way.

naptu2:
The moderators have changed the title of the thread.

(It was previously: Kenneth Okonkwo Provides Evidence That NDC Aspirants Paid ₦10 Million).

he has even added a lot of uncontroversial evidence that pinned Peter obi to the fraudulent collection of the 10m naira.

DoTheNeedful:
This Kenneth na mumu. Where is Obi's name written on the receipt? That last time I checked, Obi was not the founder nor the owner of NDC. I hope Obi presses on with the suit.

While Obi is not my top choice for 2027, I detest mouths-for-hire like Okonkwo. I can remember how he was passionately defending Obi in the wake of 2023 election, only for him to make a U-turn a year after. His U-turn is sharp, extreme, and disrespectful. If Atiku, whom he currently surrogates for, is wise, he would not trust him. I know politics is mostly about personal interest, but the players should at least show some class and decorum.

The man seems to be trying very hard to be like Reno Omokri....

They choose their victims for vilification based on their personality and propensity – I dare him to try this with Tinubu, Atiku or Wike

If Kwankwaso is wise, he will return to NNPP

This man don finished Peter obi ooo

Hmm this matter/allegation is very serious oh!

It’s clear that many of Obi’s men that paid EOI fees were denied tickets unlike Kwankwaso’s men that got better “deals”.. Obi simply threw his men under the bus, as self centred person he is.

The ripple effect will be massive!

commoditiesnig:
Hmm this matter/allegation is very serious oh!

It’s clear that many of Obi’s men that paid EOI monies were denied tickets unlike Kwankwaso’s men that got better “deals”.. Obi simply threw his men under the bus, as self centred person he is.

The ripple effect will be massive!

There is another person that provided evidence that he was asked to pay a huge amount of money. This person has petitioned EFCC and demanded for a refund.

Kenneth Okonkwo needs to go to jail for this defamation of Peter Obi's character.


You said Peter Obi asked aspirants to pay him bribe and now that you have been asked to provide evidence, you went and brought stupid chit-chat you had with a senseless boy that lost out, no genuine proof where Peter Obi chatted with the aspirant and Peter Obi told the aspirants to pay him 10million so that he Peter Obi can secure NDC tickets for them and you were beating your chest that Peter Obi asked the aspirants to pay him bribe, and some ignorant Nigerians believed such a stupid lie even when they know that Peter Obi's daily income from his legitimate businesses will surpass every single money every aspirant in NDC will pay to NDC.


That Peter Obi decided not to spend lavishly to win election does not stop him from being a legitimate billionaire, he only took that wise decision not to spend lavishly to win election to avoid running into debt that he would be obligated to pay back if he wins like Bola Tinubu who has been borrowing loans in the name of white elephant projects just to recoup all the trillions he wasted chasing for Presidential power.



If not that Nigerian courts are hugely compromised and working for Tinubu and APC, this is a clear case that should land Kenneth Okonkwo in jail!


Even the money which NDC asked all aspirants to pay as expression of interest fee was paid to NDC's bank account but somehow this senseless and desperate Kenneth Okonkwo had to link it to Peter Obi just to defame Obi to the joy and excitement of Atiku and Tinubu.

manmade:
This man don finished Peter obi ooo

Finish Peter Obi ke? He just destroyed himself with his own hands not Peter Obi. Even Atiku is very cautious of Kenneth Okonkwo just as Tinubu is with Reno Omockery and Funny Femi Kayode because of their snitch lifestyle and lack of shame.


No wonder Atiku refused to allow Kenneth Okonkwo inside when he had a closed door meeting with Rotimi Amaechi some days ago.


Kenneth Okonkwo has destroyed the little respect he once enjoyed by himself.


Didn't you watch where the aspirant Kenneth Okonkwo claimed told him that Peter Obi asked them for bribe to secure NDC ticket denied that he never mentioned Peter Obi? Everybody with working head knows Peter Obi is too big for such rubbish.



Kenneth Okonkwo is finished. Even Atiku will never trust him

The money was paid to the party and not to Obi sef. So this is what kenneth was using to say Obi collected 10m bribe. He better apologise. Na wa for okonkwo

Are nomination forms free in APC or other parties.

If u will end up using my popularity to win election, which u may later decamp to another party, why can't u pay 10million into the party account.

I PITY ATIKU WEY DON GO CARRY THIS BOY KENNETH OKONKWO AS HIM ANY WORK OMOODOH

In everything, we go sha dey give thanks to God.

Kenneth that whatsapp message won't save you. Unless you and the person that sent it to you bring proper evidence otherwise otilo

This personal hatred for Obi would land u in trouble.

That ur guy can not come to defend what u are saying.

This Kenneth claims to be a lawyer...no wonder people like this don't succeed in anything. See him see Deji Adeyanju two foolish idiots who think that their hatred for Obi should be the inherited by others.

Now that Deji has been dealt with by Obi...done hear him shout Obi again.

With time,this one too would be quiet. May be he wants an appointment.

naptu2:
There is another person that provided evidence that he was asked to pay a huge amount of money. This person has petitioned EFCC and demanded for a refund.

Please can you share the link to this news?

This personal hatred for Obi would land u in trouble.

That ur guy can not come to defend what u are saying.

This Kenneth claims to be a lawyer...no wonder people like this don't succeed in anything. See him see Deji Adeyanju two foolish idiots who think that their hatred for Obi should be inherited by others.

Now that Deji has been dealt with by Obi... we no longer hear him shout Obi again.

With time,this one too would be quiet. May be he wants an appointment or through the legal means too.