decub:

Well, the Electoral Act provides for the appointment of any other staff of the commission.

It went on to grant INEC powers to delegate authority to any staff (ad hoc or permanent) so RATECH might not be illegal.

If there is a RATECH (in the first place) appointed by the commission, trained by the commission and working for the commission under some specific instruction/guideline, then needless to call them illegal workers as the law already gave them such powers.

muykem:
Your use of words is very uncivilized and lack decorum required in public discussions such as on nairaland. I don't join issue with people acting on emotion rather than fact and law. Guide your utterance next time. Thanks.

dadexcel:
......in that case the entire electioneering process should be a sharrade since the umpire according to you operated in illegality right?

Daboomb:


He is certainly not an illegal "adhoc worker" of INEC.
(He is not a Staff though, staffing goes beyond "employment", even if not adhoc, it involves "probation and confirmation of that employment"

he will be mor eproperly defined as an "Adhoc Employee" of INEC.

But the crux of the matter here is that INEC, which reserves the right to stipulate the the duties, responsibilities and SCOPE of SUTIES" of anybody it hires, albeit temporarily or permanently, has said that this "RATECH" employee has gone beyond his "SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES", if he actually "transmit results electronically" to a supposed INEC Server!

This RATECH might also he opening himself to jail time, for contravening the Electoral Act, which forbids the transmission of election results, ELECTORNICALLY.
I just hope, in his zeal to support a "partisan policy" (he is Igbo and we know where the allegiance of most Igbos lie, between APC and PDP), he wont land himself in jail, after the election Petition has been decided, because he is making his testimony ON OATH!

If it is true testimony => he breaks the Electoral Act 2015 => JAIL TIME
If it is false testimony => he is guilty of lying to the Court under Oath (Perjury) => JAIL TIME

It takes a really stupid individual, to emesh yourself into this kind of "power play" by Politicians, no matter how much they promise you!

Daboomb:



Buhari's Lawyers reminded this INEC "adhoc staff" that INEC has "No Designation" in its record, for the designation he was claiming for himself => You are just acting above yourself, giving yourself title and actions you are not authorised to do! (Even if you transmitted results, it was at your personal behest) Chai!

Not only that., let us assume you actully "transmitted result"!
INEC reminded him that only a Presiding officer is empowered to "transmit result" so whatever result you transmitted was "unauthorised and invalid".

Finally, if the Electoral Act has not been amended nor signed into Law, and the current Electoral Act PROHIBITS the Electronic transmission of results, whatever result transmitted electorally, is still NULL and VOID because a Law Court would not "recognise or give authority| to an ILLEGALITY.

Honestly, the Supreme Court Judges should stop these carricature and shennanigans they are doing with tax-payers Money, they already know what the outcome of this Atiku's legal charade will be...........they should just go straight to the point.

We told "Twerking Senator" Adeleke back then that he should stop his "legal charade" but he wont listen, now that he had been beaten 5-2 at the Supreme Court, he is congratulating Oyetola!......after wasting the time of the Court, time that could have been used to decide other worthy cases that involve the lives of people.

chinedu234:
For the sake of legal arguments,which law empowers inec to make rules for conducts required for smooth elections.

garfield1:

Thank you.it was an illegal creation.the electoral act regognizes presiding officers and assistant presiding officers not ratech

OyiboOyibo:
One thing is sure, after the tribunals judgement, INEC chairman will be jailed for violations and for breaking INEC rules

Daboomb:


He is certainly not an illegal "adhoc worker" of INEC.
(He is not a Staff though, staffing goes beyond "employment", even if not adhoc, it involves "probation and confirmation of that employment"

he will be mor eproperly defined as an "Adhoc Employee" of INEC.

But the crux of the matter here is that INEC, which reserves the right to stipulate the the duties, responsibilities and SCOPE of SUTIES" of anybody it hires, albeit temporarily or permanently, has said that this "RATECH" employee has gone beyond his "SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES", if he actually "transmit results electronically" to a supposed INEC Server!

This RATECH might also he opening himself to jail time, for contravening the Electoral Act, which forbids the transmission of election results, ELECTORNICALLY.
I just hope, in his zeal to support a "partisan policy" (he is Igbo and we know where the allegiance of most Igbos lie, between APC and PDP), he wont land himself in jail, after the election Petition has been decided, because he is making his testimony ON OATH!

If it is true testimony => he breaks the Electoral Act 2015 => JAIL TIME
If it is false testimony => he is guilty of lying to the Court under Oath (Perjury) => JAIL TIME

It takes a really stupid individual, to emesh yourself into this kind of "power play" by Politicians, no matter how much they promise you!

Neoteny:
So INEC guidelines do not recognize something called a RATECH, this man was not assigned to a specific station, he did not use the card reader to electronically submit results, and he's not aware of INEC's guidelines regarding using electronic voting during the election...

....so how exactly is he a witness again?

tuniski:

Joke

OyiboOyibo:



Can you hear yourself idiot, you just wasted you time and MB writing gibberish just to get likes and shares from APC e-rats... Did the guy employed himself?

garfield1:

Nice submission.unfortunately,server results or manipulation of server results just like card reader accreditation is not a ground for nullifying elections according to that same electoral act and the supreme court clearly upheld it in 2016

olutop:

Because RACtech were the ones who thought us (Apo1 and PO), The use of that SCR, And they were the ones who help us out whenever we have issues with the SCR, In a sane Society the INEC will come out plain about the conduct of the election, the server issue and the stakeholders will resign, leaving the parties to be fighting each other... Because I personally transmitted the result of my PU Through the SCR to INEC server as instructed by the E O through the SPO...

garfield1:

The actual elections and transmission were done with legally recognized staffs

Peeps dont seem to understand that "there is a legal reason" why INEC Rules state that ONLY Presiding Officers (PO) can transmit results!

They are Full/PERMANENT INEC staff, accountable to INEC as an Institution of government!
Do you think a Permanent INEC staff would come to court to give evidence against his own organisation, for the benefit of those suing his organisation?

Buckubuck:


You don't seem to realize the point of bringing the RATECH in. He has superior knowledge of the workings of the card readers and servers. That's what he is there to establish; that part of their training included the electronic transmission of results and as RATECH he had codes and other accessories to the server

garfield1:

He worked for inec quite alright but since he's not recognized by law,he is illegal and his role wont be captured by the court.transmission of results is clearly the job of p.os legally.ratechs are unknown.

decub:

At a point, I stopped following the electoral law as amended because of the delay in signing it into law. But I know that this is what the amendment look like so the issue of the 2016 verdict might not also hold; that is, if it was later signed into law.
Insertion of a new subsection (1A)
and amendment to subsection (5)
The insertion of the new subsection
1A mandates the Commission to keep
a Register of Voters as the National
Register of Voters in its National
Headquarters and other locations as
it may determine. It also provides for
the keeping of the Voters Register in
an electronic format in INEC’s central
database, as well as in manual, printed
or hard copy format.

Now the issue of 'the exact role of these technicians' comes to mind.

If there's ever a RATECH, then there should be some kinda synergy. It's either they transmit a unanimous result as agreed by all other officers or they transmit exactly what the presiding officer announced (should announce).

decub:

At a point, I stopped following the electoral law as amended because of the delay in signing it into law. But I know that this is what the amendment look like so the issue of the 2016 verdict might not also hold; that is, if it was later signed into law.
Insertion of a new subsection (1A)
and amendment to subsection (5)
The insertion of the new subsection
1A mandates the Commission to keep
a Register of Voters as the National
Register of Voters in its National
Headquarters and other locations as
it may determine. It also provides for
the keeping of the Voters Register in
an electronic format in INEC’s central
database, as well as in manual, printed
or hard copy format.

Now the issue of 'the exact role of these technicians' comes to mind.

If there's ever a RATECH, then there should be some kinda synergy. It's either they transmit a unanimous result as agreed by all other officers or they transmit exactly what the presiding officer announced (should announce).

olutop:

Because RACtech were the ones who thought us (Apo1 and PO), The use of that SCR, And they were the ones who help us out whenever we have issues with the SCR, In a sane Society the INEC will come out plain about the conduct of the election, the server issue and the stakeholders will resign, leaving the parties to be fighting each other... Because I personally transmitted the result of my PU Through the SCR to INEC server as instructed by the E O through the SPO...

muykem:
Atiku lawyers are not doing well how will bring somebody that his role is not known to law as a prime witness.

blank:


Is that not what Atiku is trying to prove? That INEC acted outside the law by appointing RATECH and using them to illegally transmit data electronically?

olutop:

Because RACtech were the ones who thought us (Apo1 and PO), The use of that SCR, And they were the ones who help us out whenever we have issues with the SCR, In a sane Society the INEC will come out plain about the conduct of the election, the server issue and the stakeholders will resign, leaving the parties to be fighting each other... Because I personally transmitted the result of my PU Through the SCR to INEC server as instructed by the E O through the SPO...

blank:


Is that not what Atiku is trying to prove? That INEC acted outside the law by appointing RATECH and using them to illegally transmit data electronically?

Kenturkey048:
[b]me personally don't know what point inec is tryna prove ..our ward consisted 23 pooling units and we all transmitted result electronically when we got the the RAC,with the help of the RATECH guy posted with us ..we had to sleep over till the next morning which was Sunday just to get network by midnight ..

Kenturkey048:
me personally don't know what point inec is tryna prove ..our ward consisted 23 pooling units and we all transmitted result electronically when we got the the RAC,with the help of the RATECH guy posted with us ..we had to sleep over till the next morning which was Sunday just to get network by midnight ..