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• We accredited 293.072 voters in Rivers, INEC tells Tribunal

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja

An Assistant Director in the ICT department of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoyi, yesterday told the Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal that only 293, 072 voters were accredited for the state’s April 11, 2015 governorship polls.

In a report submitted to the tribunal and admitted as exhibit A9, the INEC director, who was in charge of INEC data base, including voter registration data base and the smart card reader data accreditation, said the information on the card reader was uploaded from the Commission’s server at the close of accreditation.
Oladunyoji testified sequel to a subpoena issued on the acting Chairman of the electoral body.

It was her evidence that the assistant presiding officer 1 [APO1] at a click of a button on the card reader, uploads the information to INEC data base.
“Data comes in polling unit which can be accredited to wards, Local Government Area, State and Federal levels as the case may be. So, the total number of 293.072 accredited voters was arrived at by adding successful accreditation and failed accreditation.”

She also told the tribunal that the INEC server was shut down six weeks after the conduct of the election, adding that the document represented all data relating to accreditation of voters in Rivers State and which contained in card reader.

Meanwhile, three police officers yesterday, told the tribunal how the April 11 election in Rivers State was marred by violence and thumb-printing by agents of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Tai Local Government Area of the State.

In his evidence, Mr Garba Michael, a Superintendent of Police, who was on election duty on April 11 in Tai Local Government Area, told the tribunal that his men caught agents of the PDP thumb-printing in a house opposite the party’s secretariat at Seme in Tai Local Government Area.

The police officer told the Justice Suleman Ambrosa-led tribunal that more than 70 persons, including PDP agents, staff of INEC, the commission’s ad hoc staff and other individuals were arrested by his men shortly after noon on election day and taken to their office.
Michael stated also that materials, including card readers, ballot papers, vests and ink pad were among items recovered from the group, who were eventually handed over to the force Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after preliminary investigations.
“At about 12.45 pm, I was sitting at INEC office, when I got a distress call that people were thumb-printing at Seme area. I found my way to the place after asking questions from people on the road. I was eventually directed to the place after sometime…I stopped very close to PDP secretariat and asked again where I was informed that the house opposite the PDP secretariat had a lot of people with electoral materials.

“I came down with my men, cordoned the compound and in the process of doing that, I sighted the patrol vehicle of anti-terrorism squad…They joined forces with my men and we entered the compound, where we met people thumb-printing on electoral materials and we arrested them. At that point, I called my superior commander and told him the situation. He came down with a lorry with which we evacuated the people and materials to our base in Tai. I took some photographs before leaving the place.”

However, the court refused to admit the photographs in evidence, agreeing with counsel to the respondents that it offends the provisions of the Evidence Act.

Another police officer, DSP Yusuf Buba of Police Mobile Squadron, Ogoni in Rivers State, revealed how an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenneth Akabue, allegedly aided and supervised the rigging of the April 11 governorship election in favour of the PDP in Khana Local Government Area of the state.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/rivers-tribunal-how-area-commander-supervised-ballot-thumb-printing-police/

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

ddippset:
but this is Nigeria. APC and amaechi will now use the police, army and inec to manipulate votes especially in the riverine areas. So that your theory that apc will win 30 times wil not work again. This time no gesilia Kan, no Jonathan, no army, no police for pdp. I know you would say but but buhari promised change. Yes he did, but let the chance start after the rivers election.

jaybee3:
Manual accreditation not allowed according to Jega

http://progressivechange.com.ng/index.php/2015/06/20/jegainecdisowns-rivers-election-manual-acreditation-of-voters-in-rivers-state-gubernatorial-election-not-allowed/


I still don't understand why they inflated votes of an election they would have probably won but then again it may have been inflated so as to provide some sort of assurance that the similar figures they churned out during the presidential election was no gimmick

LastSurvivor:
Conduct the election 30times in rivers and APC will still loose, am not a fan of WIke but APC is not a party of SS.
Meanwhile, why is it only the Police and Soldiers testifying against Wike, even when they failed in their duty to protect the people and their votes, something is fishy..

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

FastShipping:
Just as you promised Buhari election success was dead in Southwest.

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

TonyeBarcanista:
I have been following proceedings. My position remains unchanged

criminalmindz:
Everytime tai local govt where apc has strong hold. And who the hell told inec that only about 200k are accredited. When just one small riverine community has over 300k registered voters. Apc should trade cautiously if not what happenend in kano and katsina will be reopened and brought to day light. Apc don't have up to 300,000 supporters in rivers state.they should admit it. All this uselless coward tribe that feel they are the only educated people in nigeria yet live in rusted zinc houses going to testify @ the tribunal. Be warned, soon we will start chasing youu out of niger delta. Coward tribe.

bolabolabo:
What has tribe got to do with dis u've really missed d point bruh..

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

funkybully:
Don't mind apc masturbators.


In Kano, card reader recorded only 300k voters, yet buhari got over a million votes there.

shiinihost:
I do not usually comment on political threads But what you just wrote is trash.

I was an APO during the last election and here is the instruction from Inec.

Even If incidence forms are to be filled, the voters PVC must be captured FIRST. it is when the Biometrics fails that you issue incidence form.
All incidence forms have had their PVC captured and all the records including those that couldn't be biometrically verified are also logged.

So my brother, you should say what you know.

MrMcJay:
In Lagos, you predicted that Obanikoro would win, he lost.
In 2011, You predicted that Dosunmu would win Lagos, he lost.

Immediately after this, you switched loyalty and praised ACN for about 2 years before they denied you financial protection.

In 2015, you predicted that Agbaje would win Lagos, he was beaten.
You also predicted that Jonathan would win, yet he lost.

Over time, I have come to realise that whatever you say, the opposite is always the result as you have no scruples, no fundamental understanding of politics, and no knowledge of the law.

Keep on infecting PDP with your electoral bad luck as Wike is already a goner. The best is for PDP to begin preparing for a rerun.

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

MrMcJay:
In Lagos, you predicted that Obanikoro would win, he lost.
In 2011, You predicted that Dosunmu would win Lagos, he lost.

Immediately after this, you switched loyalty and praised ACN for about 2 years before they denied you financial protection.

In 2015, you predicted that Agbaje would win Lagos, he was beaten.
You also predicted that Jonathan would win, yet he lost.

Over time, I have come to realise that whatever you say, the opposite is always the result as you have no scruples, no fundamental understanding of politics, and no knowledge of the law.

Keep on infecting PDP with your electoral bad luck as Wike is already a goner. The best is for PDP to begin preparing for a rerun.

funkybully:
Don't mind apc masturbators.


In Kano, card reader recorded only 300k voters, yet buhari got over a million votes there.

Beremx:
good! Make sure you make yourself available as witness when the tribunal opens in Kano to testify since you worked as an electoral officer in Kano during the election.

criminalmindz:
Tribe has do withe every problem in this smelling country

TonyeBarcanista:
That the card reader captured 290k voters doesn't translate to ONLY '290k' voters were accredited. I'm well aware that majority of electorates voted without card reader due to mal-function of the reader. There is NO section within the Electoral act that nullifies voting without the reader. The petitioners are yet to prove their allegation of electoral malpractice. It will boil down to forensic analysis and checks whether the votes were inflated or not. IF inflated, the tribunal will CANCEL the identified inflated votes and examine whether a re-run in the affected areas will be able to affect the result. I make BOLD to state that the APC petition is DEAD on arrival and an exercise in futility

“Data comes in polling unit which can be accredited to wards, Local Government Area, State and Federal levels as the case may be. So, the total number of 293.072 accredited voters was arrived at by adding successful accreditation and failed accreditation.”