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Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by osazeeblue01: 9:48am On Mar 18, 2019
After Saturday inec will declare him winner
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by senatordave1(m): 9:49am On Mar 18, 2019
All these are signs that tambuwal will lose heavily.majority of sokoto people are with ahmed aliyu

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Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by senatordave1(m): 9:49am On Mar 18, 2019
osazeeblue01:
After Saturday inec will declare him winner
They will declare him loser
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by NOHOLDSBAR: 9:50am On Mar 18, 2019
PDP always smoking Igbo.

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Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by stealmatic(m): 9:50am On Mar 18, 2019
hfdrfy:
fool
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by osazeeblue01: 9:56am On Mar 18, 2019
senatordave1:
They will declare him loser
Don't quote me again. agent of backwardness.
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by mikeweezy(m): 10:01am On Mar 18, 2019
ProudBoy:
That was how they asked INEC to declare Atiku winner even when collation was still going on. The pressure is unnecessary and I trust INEC not to succumb to the blackmail of the useless party.

Meanwhile, when would the court in New Zealand sentence that christian terrorist to death?
when they are through with sentences of buhari and hell-rufia the guy is just a minor terrorist compare to those two
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by senatordave1(m): 10:25am On Mar 18, 2019
osazeeblue01:


Don't quote me again. agent of backwardness.
Atiku is satanic
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by anuda(m): 10:28am On Mar 18, 2019
OK.
Repent! Jesus is coming back! Do not be taken unawares!
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by Augiiee(m): 10:43am On Mar 18, 2019
Bizznezz:
he will win
If you live in Sokoto, you wouldn't hav said that #TambuwalIsAGoner upon all d rigging he did he still couldn't win clearly

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Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by Augiiee(m): 10:47am On Mar 18, 2019
yuanexchanger:
Tambuwai will surely come out victirious
Abagi go siddon grin cuz u no nothing datz going on in Sokoto #Tambuwal is a gooonnneeerrr!
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by wealth2al(m): 11:42am On Mar 18, 2019
Re: PDP Asks INEC To Declare Tambuwal Sokoto Gov-elect by Deepthoughts: 5:40pm On Mar 18, 2019
OddsIsland:
As pressure mounts on electoral umpire Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to save its time and resources by declaring Aminu Tambuwal winner of the election held on March 9.

The party, which stated this while reacting to claim by the umpire that it was under pressure to declare the governor winner of the polls, said given the margin of victory recorded on the first ballot, there was no reason not to declare Tambuwal duly elected. Spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, said: “Our position has not changed and we insist that His Excellency, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should be declared winner of the governorship election in Sokoto State.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal “If we go by the figure of votes collated so far, the governor has satisfied the provisions of the law because he won clearly in almost all the local governments of the states. “What are they waiting for to declare him duly elected? We are a party that has respect for the laws of the land. So, we advise our members and supporters to remain calm because at the end of the day, victory is ours.”

Pressure on INEC Meanwhile, barely a week to the March 23 date for the supplementary governorship election in some states, pressure continues to mount on INEC to declare Governor Aminu Tambuwal the winner of the March 9 guber poll in Sokoto State.

There were indications over the weekend that the tension in the seat of the Caliphate may worsen if the incumbent governor who was enjoying a clear lead in the poll is denied victory.

A top politician from Sokoto who spoke on condition of anonymity, said tension was building up in the state over fears of plans to undemocratically stop Tambuwal for another term in office. Our source alleged that though the governor appears to be the popular choice of his people as shown in the collated result of the guber poll, the power brokers of All Progressives Congress, APC, were bent on taking the state which they consider strategic to the party’s future political plans. Our source said: “The powers that be should declare Tambuwal as the authentic winner of the March 9 governorship election in Sokoto State.

The collated result showed that he won the election by the simple majority, which is what the constitution provides. They should not set the seat of the Caliphate on fire. “Remember that even President Muhammadu Buhari won his election by the same simple majority. He was declared winner, even when elections were yet to be conducted in areas where the exercise could not hold because of one reason or the other. “A common man on the street of Sokoto knows that Tambuwal won the election. There were so many hurdles the APC which controls the centre put before him ahead of the election but he surmounted them all.

So, what they could not get democratically, they want by all means through the back door in collaboration with INEC.” Over the weekend, this newspaper gathered that there were fears in the PDP, of a plan by the ruling party and INEC to repeat what happened in the Osun governorship election where the PDP lost to the APC under controversial circumstances. A video recording between the INEC Admin Secretary in Sokoto and a collation officer which trended over the weekend further escalated fears of interference in the coming supplementary election.

The video which was in Hausa but translated to English, showed an exchange between the INEC Admin Secretary in Sokoto and the collation officer. The exchange between them ran thus: Admin Sec to Collation officer….This is the number of votes scored by one candidate, this is the total secured by the other candidate and this is the difference in votes between them… Collation officer: Collation officer: Yes Admin officer: You must refer to the total number of registered voters in the cancellation areas and compare that with the margin of votes between the leading candidate and the one next to him, do you understand? Collation officer: Yes I do Admin officer: Then you will just announce the votes secured by every candidate but you should not declare the winner, do you understand? Collation officer: Yes Admin officer: You will say the election is inconclusive, and you are leaving it to INEC to decide, do you get it? Collation officer: Yes, I do Admin officer: You will not declare a winner, do you understand Collation officer: …Yes Recall that the INEC declared the March 9 governorship election in Sokoto inconclusive and claimed that the decision was because 75, 403 votes were cancelled, which were higher than 3, 413 margin difference between the PDP candidate and his rival in APC.

The returning officer, Fatima Mukhtar, said the margin of win was lower than the number of rejected votes, hence, the election was declared inconclusive. In the results declared by INEC, Mr Tambuwal was leading his closest rival, Ahmed Aliyu of the APC, with a margin of 3,413 votes. Speaking on the development at a press conference, the governor had observed there was no cause for the election to be declared inconclusive. Though the governor said the INEC was yet to communicate to him the reasons for cancellation of votes in the 136 polling units, he said it was necessary to draw the attention of the electoral umpire to its guidelines for the exercise.

He stated that the issue of margin difference was technical and alien to the Nigerian constitution which stipulates a simple majority and 25 percent of votes cast in two-thirds majority of states of the federation, as basis for determining a winner. “This technical reason of margin differences has not been applied in Osun and Ekiti elections,” Tambuwal said, arguing that since he secured the higher number of votes at the concluded election, he ought to have been declared the winner. He said: “Going by Section 179(2) of the Constitution as amended, there was no clause

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/pdp-asks-inec-to-declare-tambuwal-sokoto-gov-elect/
I don't understand INEC anymore,the law talked about 'registered voters' meaning those registered but did not vote at all n not those who actually voted but the votes were cancelled I:e rejected votes, this are two different things please,but under Apc one can not be sure of even what you know again.

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