₦airaland Forum

thecommunist:
That's good na. Shebi that's what we all have been calling for

No that is not what we have been calling for.

The Electoral act meaning the by which the conduct of election operates on states empathically THAT INEC MUST UPLOAD RESULTS REAL TIME FROM THE POLLING UNITS

Nothing short of this.

Deltafirstson:
If Supreme Court do not give a reasonable judgment on this presidential election, Nigeria is in trouble.

Serious trouble.

This is to tell you dumb Inec can be.

What is the use uploading when you can't upload real time from the polling unit?

He is very right... It is at the discretion of INEC..

But has anybody asked if INEC has already made their discretion known...? The answer is a big Fat YES and Inec's discretion is contained in the Electoral act which was the basis for the new act.

Read this...

Section 60 (5) of the Act states that the presiding officer shall transfer the results including total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot in a manner as prescribed by the commission” (This is exactly what Alake meant by discretion) .

Now read on

The prescribed manner here is the BVAS, which INEC introduced to ensure that the electoral process is credible.

The BVAS was introduced by INEC in line with Section 148 of the Electoral Act, which gives INEC power to make guidelines and regulations to ensure the full effect of the law.

In view of the above facts.
“the electronic transmission of votes provided by the Electoral Act and in the guidelines issued by INEC has not been complied with”.

Hence the Presidential election results as announced by INEC is non and void.

Has anyone ever wondered why Dino Melaye was insisting that the state Inec reps announcing each result should say that what they were announcing is in tandem with what was uploaded on the server?

Here is the reason...

Section 64 (4) of the Electoral Act states that “a collation officer or returning officer at an election shall collate and announce the result of an election, subject to his or her verification and confirmation that the number of accredited voters stated on the collated result are correct and consistent with the number of accredited voters recorded and transmitted directly from polling units and that the votes stated on the collated result are correct and consistent with the votes or results recorded and transmitted directly from polling units”.

There were no statements by the returning officers that the results being called out were verified and confirmed that they were those directly transmitted from the polling unit.(This last paragraph alone has made the entire results void)

Infact, INEC chairman on many occasions has reiterated that capturing of election results and uploading them from the polling units REAL TIME IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT TO VALIDATE ANY ELECTIONS meaning without it, any election is invalid.

Alake has just shot APC in the foot.

My fear is just that the Supreme Court might be complicit and may not give the right Judgement cos Nigeria is a country where elephants can fly.

Toluwanise247:
God bless the president elect
God bless Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
God bless our dear nation Nigeria
God bless Nigerians
God bless APC supporters
God bless everyone that voted APC
God bless me
God bless you
God bless nairaland users

Stockholm syndrome dey worry this one.

Wow

Even praising his Dad for a job well executed.

TimiMore:
Go to court or hit the streets... Just choose one and wailing here, it's getting boring


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Nah Stockholm syndrome dey worry una.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it has plans should the Bimodal Voter Registration System fails during the forthcoming 2023 elections.

The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, 'Sunday Politics', noted that the Commission had trained technicians who would be on standby at polling units.

There had been speculations about the possibility of server failures in the course of the transmission of election results through BVAS, especially by some politicians.

Okoye on Sunday noted that the electoral body had already made provision for the use of the BVAS in the over 176,000 polling units in the country. He, however, noted that INEC also made provision for spare BVAS machines in the case of any failure.

"For each electoral ward, we are going to have some spare BVAS to be deployed speedily if there is any issue or any challenge in any of our polling units. We have also trained technical support staff that can also intervene if there is any challenge with the BVAS.

"But if there is sustained malfunction of the BVAS up to the time of the closing of the poll, the Electoral Act demands that we should undermine voting in that particular polling unit and repeat voting within 24 hours," Okoye stated.

He earlier described as "an impossibility", the plan by any politician who was already allegedly harvesting PVCs to rig the elections.

https://punchng.com/what-inec-will-do-if-bvas-fails-commissioner/

Looking at the embolden, it is clear that INEC did not follow the laid down law hence any result announced is non and void.

Nychillax:
Election are not won by emotions but on numerical strength. I told my friend from Emboyi that you av hand over the presidency to BAT the day Obi defect to LP. He choose not to talk to me again and started insulting me, I hope his eyes is cleared by Now. If PDP and LP fails to unite ahead of 2027, They will still wait till 2031. Congrats to BAT and his rigging machine, PDP rigged, APC rigged and LP rigged. The strategic rigger won. Don’t quote me to say rubbish, We all see the results from Anambra nd other Easter states. If you believe that only APC rigged then u must be high on expired drugs.

Is this about APC, PDP OR LP RIGGING?

Why do you reason like this?

We are taking about INEC the umpire stealing the sovereignty of the people.

The Electoral act made a provision for capturing of election result and then uploading it on their server...was that done?

So what are you talking about? If INEC did what was required by law, we won't be having this conversation.

Funflipper:
To all the obidient dimwits who were taking the piss out of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and his supporters; WHO IS LAUGHING NOW? Not you; because that same man you mocked is now your president-elect!!!

He won't be sworn in. Mark my word.

Firstorderwizard:
I personally consulted my uncle (a retired judge in his 80's) on the interpretation of the constitution.
Mind you He is a member of the 1997/98 constitutional conference that drafted the 1999 constitution.
He said that the FCT 25% clause was added because the President is like the FCT "governor" who now appoints a Minister to run the territory for him.
Therefore, for the President to be the Legitimate head of the FCT, He must have 25% approval of the people in FCT.

You are right.

Agbakoba has thrown more light.

25% is a must have.

God just used this to save Nigerians from evil occultic BAT

FCT is not a state but a federal capital territory.

That is why it does not have a Governor but a minister.

The constitution made it clear that a winner of presidential election must have 25% IN 2/3 of the 36 states and 25% in Abuja (FCT)

This is to demonstrate a wide spread acceptability of the candidate.

So in essence, the winner must have 25% in 24 states(this is twothird of 36 states) and should also have 25% in Abuja being the Federal Capital Territory.

Meaning even if a candidate makes 25% in 30 states, he must still make 25% in Abuja being a federal capital and not a state.

ImmaculateJOE:
If we should follow by the number of States won.. Its Atiku because he has more votes than Obi.. Although they both have same number of States (12 each)


But if we should define majority as 50%+1, then its Obi cause he scored 50% or more in about 8states..

Exactly my point.

It's over for Tinubu and crook inec chairman.

I'm singing onise iyanu right now.

This even gives opposition an excellent reason to file for total cancelation of collated results.

Cos according to this clips, it is even easier for INEC to just snap pictures rather than entering numeric data and this must be done first at the polling units before anything.

So Other parties now have valid reasons to have the entire results announced by INEC null and void.

Sannisege:
It says "and the FCT" not "and in the FCT". SO Tinubu has met the requirement. Keyword is "in"

No Sir.

ImmaculateJOE:
No Sir, the first condition says the candidates with the majority of votes in the highest number of states..

The second condition says, if there are two candidates that met the first condition, then the the candidate with the highest votes amongst them will join..

And who will the second person be?

blakid:
Hello, sir. People staying in Abuja doesn't have any special abilities to give so much importance that a presidential candidate must attain 25% there.
So long the candidate attain 25% in at least 24 states (Abuja is categorised as "State" in this context), he is good to go. So far, only Tinubu has met this requirements and he also has the highest number of votes. What else do you need.

You are missing it... Yes you can say Abuja is one of the 24 states but the constitution makes it clear that 25% must be made in FCT.

So unfortunately for the riggers, they failed to rig Abuja well.

ImmaculateJOE:
Now that we know that, Tinibu cannot be declared the winner, despite the massive rigging, voters suppression and suppression of votes because he didn't made 25% in FCT..

A rerun is inevitable... Look at the subsection 3b, who among Atiku and Obi will meet the criteria...?

I think Mr. Obi did..

He got Majority of votes in 5 SE states, plus Delta, Edo, and FCT... That's 8 states..
From my records, Atiku only manage that in Adamawa and Gombe..

N:B.. "Highest Votes" & Majority Votes" are two different things..

Highest votes simply means you scored more votes, even if it is by one vote..

But Majority votes mean 50%+1 votes..

#ObiIsComing

The run-off (not rerun) will be between Tinubu and Atiku cos Atiku got the second largest number of votes.

ManirBK:
https://dailytrust.com/i-wont-step-down-inec-chairman-replies-opposition-parties/?fbclid=IwAR362JwpdiibCWyyouztb19L3RvmnfmtgTGIDjgSjJK0YWTMU6-jg8uPdbU

Person wey dem suppose go tie to drum pump bullet into his head.

Criminal.

pipnator00:
Question: What does the law say about not winning up to 25% of the vote in FCT in Nigeria presidential election

Interpretation: According to the Nigerian Constitution, a presidential candidate must win both a majority of the total votes cast in the election and at least 25% of the votes in at least two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to be elected as President of Nigeria.

If a presidential candidate does not win up to 25% of the vote in the FCT, but meets the other requirements, they will not be eligible to become the President of Nigeria. The same applies if they do not meet the requirement of winning at least 25% of the vote in at least two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states.

Very true.

The word "AND" Is a coordinating conjunction.

If Abuja is treated like a state, there won't be any need to single it out.

Let's take a closer look.

Section 134 (2) says: “A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election: (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and

(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.


If winning Abuja is not necessary, the text would have stopped at...

(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation.

lhordspy:
Hmm. How many times will i school you guys today?

You dont need to get 25% in FCT to be president. FCT is considered a state in the constitution. You just need to have 25% in 24 states, including FCT or not. Then get majority vote across the nation, then you are good to go.

Even going by the screenshot you posted, it shows you dont even know what is 25% of total vote cast. If LP is having 111k votes as the leader, then the second 61k with one LGA to go. it means the total vote cast is not much.


Children just full this forum, reason why i spend more of my time on twitter these days

Modified: Go and read section 299 of the Nigeria constitution which already recognise FCT as a state.

And section 134 of the constitution states that; a candidate will be declared winner of a presidential election if he has:

“(a) he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.


So it means FCT is part of that 24 state required by the constitution to get your 25%, it is not a seperate entity, it is considered a state as stated by section 299.
Simple.

Simple English is the problem here... Abuja is a stand alone

N3TRAL:
There will be no rerun. Tinubu has met the requirement of the law.

The FCT is a stand alone. So 25% in Abuja is sacrosanc.

Obi actually won this election.

Globad:
Painment + hatred+ anger

Guy if you must know, I don't live in Naija for now so I careless who becomes the president but I have family in Naija and I want safety for them.

What INEC has done can make the country boil and if it does, It will affect the poeple in Nigeria. End Sars will be a child's play.

loosecanon50:
Honestly it’s very disheartening. Following the outcome of this election, I doubt if majority of citizens will ever come out to vote again because there’s no point.

Never

Globad:
Where are those who arrogantly declared that Tinubu was never going to win?

Lesson: When you're talking about the chances or the future of other people, never use "never" unless you're God.

FRAULENT VICTORY IS NO VICTORY.

Argue with your keyboard

Yamiriflathead:

This fool should Thank his Stars that Jagaban is not Vindictive like Buhari, he for go on Exile to malawi or Somalia after Jagaban assumes office.

I know Jagaban is very forgiving and a father to all, but I want him to just withdraw the security details of all these Nigerian yeyebrities first once he assumes office, atleast it will create room for private security companies to thrive thereby creating jobs for Obedient youths like Eriokanmi and PrinceOfLagos even if they're only allowed to combat crimes with teazers, oversized bullet proof vests and catapults
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So in your mind you think Tinubu will be president... Dey play

Emdy010:
That's how you continue to deceive yourselves. Let the remaining results
the n start pouring and you will see that Peter Obi is not going anywhere. He can only lead in southern Kaduna where his christian brothers dominate, since you people have decided to introduce religion into the voting process. At the end of the day, the reality will dawn on you and you see that christians in Kaduna are not even up to 30%.

In Kaduna state, the fight is between Atiku and Tinubu. Obi is not in the equation at all.

How is this different from what I wrote?

OneBulletOnly:
This election is not over until the original results from the polling unit are announce unaltered

Else, everywhere will burn.

Is a promise

We can NEVER continue like this every election circle.

Who be this one

Structure keee una.

Wawu!

It is finished.

Jesu