₦airaland Forum

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We at Vanguard for Democracy and Good Governance (VDGG), a non-governmental organisation, are amazed at the sham and shambolic process leading to the declaration of Governor Dapo Abiodun as governor-elect in Ogun State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

To say we are stupefied is an understatement, going by the obvious disregard for the section of the Electoral Act 2022, which succinctly outlines how an election may be declared inconclusive.
We recall that in the Ogun governorship election, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) polled 276,395 while the candidate of the People’s Democratic party (PDP) polled 262,383.

The total number of cancelled votes stands at 33,750, and the difference between the top two candidates is 13,912.

The Electoral Act has it that a re-run election can be so declared if the margin of victory in an election is lower than cancelled votes.

We daresay that that election was meant to be declared inconclusive in compliance with the ‘Margin of Lead Principle’ derived from Sections 26 and 53 of the Electoral Act (as amended) and Paragraph 41(e) and 43(b) of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines.

We want to state it unequivocally that section 51, sub-sections 3 of the Electoral Act 2022 states that “Where the result of an election is cancelled, there shall be no return for the election until another poll has taken place in the affected polling unit.


A similar scenario is the case of Adamawa and Kebbi states. In Adamawa, INEC declared the governorship election inconclusive due to the margin of Governor Fintiri’s win. The margin of his win is less than the total cancelled votes. Election was cancelled in some areas with 41,796 registered voters which is higher than the margin of 31,249 between the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, who polled 421,524 and the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) Aisha Dahiry Binani who polled 390,275.

Similarly, in Kebbi State too, INEC declared the poll inconclusive since the number of registered voters in those polling units cancelled amounted to 91,829; whereas, the two leading political parties in the contest, APC and PDP, polled 388,258 and 342,980 votes, respectively. The difference stands at 45,278.

We express dismay that in the case of Ogun, INEC completely disregarded the Electoral Act but went hastily to declare the APC candidate as the governor-elect.
This is, at best, an electoral anathema; hence, INEC must give an account of that mess to the electorate of Ogun State.

You cannot obey the Electoral Act in Adamawa and Kebbi, while you completely disregarded it in the Ogun scenario.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.



Vanguard for Democracy and Good Governance (VDGG) is a non-governmental organisation headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria.

INEC did not goof anything. The election was Free and fair and Dapo won convincingly.

lereinter:
Rccg yoruba church

Adoration chapel is Igbo church

Abi

Yes it's purely a Yoruba church. It's not a universal church of Christ. After all they transmit there broadcast in Yoruba
Was the bible written in Yoruba? Many Igbos who refused to listen to MNK before are already having a rethink. FYI there is nothing like adoration church as you olodo istically posted here. What we have is the Holy Roman Catholic Church and adoration is a parish in it.

QuotaSystem:
Sore emotional losers.

Recognizing the supremacy of God in appointing leaders is a hallmark of Christianity.

I respect the RCCG now even more, among many other ministries that refused to be dragged into blindly supporting a weak and inferior candidate like Obi based on religious sentiments.

You are bereft of any sense of history. The RCCG led by Adeboye were among the hipocritical and myopic class of the so called Christian 'leaders' who together with other tribal pastors like him organized a rally (Occupy Nigeria) for a Christian president GEJ to be replaced by a blood thirsty and incompetent ruler who has damaged Nigeria beyond repair. The man has every right to take the decision he just made. Most Igbos were born either as Catholics, Anglican, Methodist etc. RCCG is a Yoruba church and as such is not reckoned with in the east. The consequences of this archaic act of tribalism will have far reaching consequences in the future.

Obaaderemi2:
Which yorubas are on the defensive? Don't go and sit down somewhere and learn your lesson. It's even now Yorubas will start watching you closely as your evil agenda has been exposed.

30 years ago, Tokyo Japan was the Largest city in the world with a population of about 30 million inhabitants, she was the economic capital of the east with many corporation headquartered there. Today the city's population has dropped to about 13 million because of a lot of factors. This is to tell you that Lagos can be depopulated also by some primitive and anachronistic behavior been peddled by your likes. You lots do not know the consequences of these archaic actions you are romancing with. Time will tell.

COWBOYFAN:
Shut up! Everyone is welcome in Yoruba land. The loudmouth Ibos who were insulting and shredding our tradition were the ones we decided to deal with. You were running your mouths for the past few weeks and we had to show you that our accommodating nature shouldn't be taken as cowardice.

Lagos is Yoruba land after all. Don't you ever say "Lagos is no man's land" again.

It's time to now buy nomination form for Chinedu Vivour to contest against Soludo in 2026. Let Chinedu implement his vision for Anambra. His Anambra mother would be proud of him.

30 years ago, Tokyo Japan was the Largest city in the world with a population of about 30 million inhabitants, she was the economic capital of the east with many corporation headquartered there. Today the city's population has dropped to about 13 million because of a lot of factors. This is to tell you that Lagos can be depopulated also by some primitive and anachronistic behavior been peddled by your likes. You lots do not know the consequences of these archaic actions you are romancing with. Time will tell

Cry of a drowning duck. Evil and wicked party of cultmen.

oyin44:
Ibos, living with the people you don't like is not by force..

At least , you are not the only tribe living among the Yoruba people in lagos. .

And , if any of you felt that he or she is being cheated...

instead of constituting nuisance to the society. .abeg leave

Pauper.

Rikkely:
You are a complete fool

She is an idiot.

Foreigner12:
Awon oloriburuku.

30 years ago, Tokyo Japan was the Largest city in the world with a population of about 30 million inhabitants, she was the economic capital of the east with many corporation headquartered there. Today the city's population has dropped to about 13 million because of a lot of factors. This is to tell you that Lagos can be depopulated also by some primitive and anachronistic behavior been peddled by your likes. You lots do not know the consequences of these archaic actions you are romancing with. Time will tell.

Barrywilly:
Demented goat[color=#006600][/color] . This guy has a sharp tongue. It struck deep into Aisha

What's deep in his accusation? Do goats suffer from dementia? Obviously there's no insult here because the narrative doesn't fit.

Igbos are not and can never be refugees. Brainless oaf like you do not know that the Lebanese, Chinese and Indians that you see here are no different from the Igbos you see in Lagos. Igbos are all over the country to hustle and not refugees as you postulated. Go back to school to learn who a refugee is.
Illiterate.

Kyase:
Plateau APC
Kaduna APC
Adamawa APC

Zamafara PDP
Bauchi PDP

Mumu.

IyaebeTheGreat:
I respect Atiku and won’t say anything bad about him, but you see that Obi ehn hmmm I will always call him out.

Oaf.

sarrki:
Atiku Abubakar shown dozing off onboard an airplane

You are a complete slowpoke. Someone who's on a private trip has a right to privacy for heaven sake! What's wrong with you? Is he on an official assignment? If his lawyers decides otherwise you would be running from plillar to post. Just have it at the back of your mind that some people have very sensitive pictures of your principal, but are not foolish to post them online. Today Atiku tomorrow Obi.

Don't be discouraged, don't focus on these earthly Hussle rather maintain your relationship with God. I once read an awake magazine "Why does God permit suffering" and my understanding of earthly issues were never the same again. 😄

That would be economically devastating. It hasn't gotten to this na. You all know that if you guys attempts it, Lagos would be economically castrated. The behavior of a few rascals like Helinues, Ihordspy etc. who are low lives on nairaland cannot be used as a yardstick to assess a people.

lhordspy:
Some people still dont get this. Maybe because they are very new to Nigeria politics or first time voters.

During the Presidential campaign. The candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi exploit and explore our diversity, he capitalise on our religious differences in particular to instigate hate among the the two major religion we have in Nigeria. CAN, PFN turned themselves into a political group. Especially General overseers, they turned the altar into a political stage to preach politics and propagate hate against Muslim candidate.

Peter Obi's victory in Lagos during the presidential election wasn't just from the igbos but from the brain clouded, emotional religious sentimental yoruba christians who were sold with the Jihad bullcraps. After the victory, instead of building more bridges with the people that voted against Obi. The southe@sterners, feeling pompous and inflated came with the campaign of 'taking over lagos' . .. They ran twitter spaces, host interviews aided by their propaganda media house, AriseTV, scribbles and tweets were churned out about how they will sack all the obas and takeover the whole place.

How can you expect the yorubas who sided with you against their tribesman, Tinubu in the presidential election to feel about it? Happy that you want to takeover their ancestral land and mock them with it in return, just like you use the word; 'Afonja ' consistently to make mockery of our loss in Ilorin.

Sanwo Olu victory is not coming as a result of tribalism. The yorubas fought together as one again, and they won. Different yorubas from different religion, political parties, and across all board left our differences asides at the corner, came together to 'rescue ourselves'

At first it was cruise, then it became aggressive, now it is uncontrollable.. Cant even be tamed nor can they reason well. It is all noise, zero thinking and strategy. The Obidient movement is turning out to be a curse to Peter Obi and the hardworking innocent igbos who committed no crime but paying for the sins of the headless mob.

Bullcrap!
Bala blu bulaba.

HenryThegreat1:
Absolutely nothing

Absolutely nothing. But reading the Greeks discourse on Idiots, Tribesmen and Citizens in contemporary Nigeria Politics, I am sorry to say that most uneducated Yorubas fit into their definition of political "IDIOTS and TRIBESMEN" It's not an insult but a definition of thier political psychology.

BeardedmeatR:
Stop wailing all over NL.

The guy is a disgusting fellow who pretends to be enlightened here on nairaland. Go through his posts and see that he is nothing but a tribal oaf. Check his signature to see that he's a hipocrite.

rolams:
WARD M1, UNIT 022
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

Accredited voters 81
Register Voters 220

ACCORD 1

SDP. 2

LP. 4

PDP. 5

APC. 69

GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

ACCORD. 1

PDP. 3

LP. 3

APC. 74

ACCREDITED VOTERS 81

REGISTER VOTERS. 220

Upload the form for all to see.

Reality3080:
u igbos will b put in your place

How? By changing the constitution? Olodo.

helinues:
All na Grooves

Your eyes go soon clear by tomorrow.

muykem:
USA has already lost their tremendous influence in Africa to China.

Olodo

blackpanda:
Madam go back to your state if lagos is too hot for u. Cry me a river

I was expecting oafs like you here, and guess what, you didn't disappoint. Shame on you.

benuejosh:
Peter Obi is leading his blind followers to the slaughter house. I am happy we never had that man as a president elect. Some of us would have lost our freedom of speech.

Olodo.

Volksfuhrer:
False equivalence.

Buhari did nothing in the private sector. Buhari was always hiding behind political power to do anything. Sanwo Olu worked in the private sector where you need boy have your way by coercing others to do your bidding.

Leadership is all about vision. It has nothing to do with private sector experience. Most world renowned and successful leaders were never technocrats.

donbrowser:
Let's put the record straight, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the best candidate on the ballot and until you bring a better candidate with an outstanding record, we won't have a valid argument.

".....The youngest person on the ballot for the gubernatorial elections is 40. I am 57 today, let me discount my age. What have I done at 40? At 40, I have done things – I led several investment banks, 3 of them. I have worked in prospecting for Oil as part of my private sector experience.

"In the public sector, at 40, I have served as SA to the governor of Lagos, I have presented the budget of the state to the assembly. At 40, I have had 5 years of public sector experience. Two of the important parastatals in Lagos were reporting to me. So, it is not just about going to school, what have you done in the different sectors of the economy? ..."

Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Buhari was a former military commander, a state governor, petroleum minister, PTF chairman and head of state. All these credentials did not impact on his leadership style where he failed woefully despite having all this listed experience. Sanwo Olu's "thought "provoking questions are indeed unnecessary

alanto:
Peope wey vote Okorocha twice, Vote Obi, Ihedioha, Ugwuanyi, Ikpeazu and 5,000 want to tell Lagosians whom to vote the irony is Lagosians never got it wrong since 1999 but this other people never got it right. Never..

Na hate no make life balance. Na update I just share so

Are you from Lagos state?
Why are all Yorubas claiming to be Lagos indigenes? Na wao!

kcnwaigbo:
He is right.Tinubu is an ethnic bigot

Nothing new, was he not also silent when his kinsmen were attacked? That's been his trademark; cold and insensitive. But if a market is burnt down in Kaura Namoda, he would take a flight to commiserate with the Governor and the victims.

Ballmer:
Awesome but if you have any Igbo blood in you may your life be filler with misery regret pain n excruciating agony.

Why? What is wrong in what he wrote? Can't you counter his post with yours? What a miserable human being you are.