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Presidential Election: Obasanjo alleged compromise, manipulation .

By
bvichannel1
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As Nigerians await the final results of Saturday’s Presidential election, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday raised the alarm that Nigeria is in danger and may be consumed if President Muhammadu Buhari did not act fast.

Obasanjo advised that Buhari must stop the process of the election and ordered the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu to halt the process of the election.

The former president, who said this in a letter he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, said the process has been compromised by politicians.

He appealed to Buhari to prevail on Yakubu to stop the process and rectify the allegations raised against the electoral process.

The letter titled, “2023 Nigeria Presidential Election: An Appeal for Caution and Rectification”, “Nigerian Brothers and Sisters, greetings to you all. I am constrained to speak at this point”.

“I crave the indulgence of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency General Muhammadu Buhari, to make this statement because I have had the opportunity to keep him aware of what I know is happening and the danger looming ahead”.

“On many occasions in the past, I have not hesitated to point out the lacuna in the action of the President and his government. But as far as the election issues are concerned, the President has proved beyond reasonable doubt that he will want to leave a legacy of free, fair, transparent and credible elections”.

“Until last Saturday night, February 25, 2023, the good and noble plan and preparation for the elections seemed to be going well. For the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a lot of money was spent to introduce Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), and the Server for immediate transmission of results from polling units. It is no secret that INEC officials, at the operational level, have been allegedly compromised to make what should have worked not work and to revert to the manual transmission of results which is manipulated and the results doctored”.

“The Chairman of INEC may claim ignorance, but he cannot fold his hands and do nothing when he knows that the election process has been corrupted and most of the results that are brought outside BVAS and Server are not true reflections of the will of Nigerians who have made their individual choice”.

“At this stage, we do not need wittingly or unwittingly to set this country on fire with the greed, irresponsibility and unpatriotic act of those who allegedly gave money to INEC officials for perversion and those who collected the blood money”.

“Let me appeal to the Chairman of INEC, if his hands are clean, to save Nigeria from the looming danger and disaster which is just waiting to happen. If the Chairman can postpone elections four days to the election, he can do everything to rectify the errors of the last two days – no BVAS, no result to be acceptable; and no uploading through Server, no result to be acceptable”.

“Whereas BVAS and Servers have been manipulated or rendered inactive, such results must be declared void and inadmissible for election declaration”.

“Chairman INEC, I have thought that you would use this wonderful opportunity to mend your reputation and character for posterity”.

“Your Excellency, President Buhari Muhammadu, tension is building up and please let all elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test be cancelled and be brought back with areas where elections were disrupted for next Saturday, March 4, 2023, and BVAS and Server officials be changed”.

“To know which stations or polling units were manipulated, let a Committee of INEC staff and representatives of the four major political parties with the Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association look into what must be done to have hitch-free elections next Saturday”.

“Mr. President, may your plan and hope for leaving a legacy of free, fair, transparent and credible election be realized. Mr President, please don’t let anybody say to you that it does not matter or it is the problem of INEC”.

“On no account, should you be seen as part of the collusion or compromise? When the die is cast, it will be your problem as the Chief Executive of the nation. The Chairman of INEC may sneak out of the country or go back to his ivory tower. Your Excellency, thank you for hearing me out”.

“Compatriot Nigerians, please exercise patience until the wrong is righted. I strongly believe that nobody will toy with the future and fortune of Nigeria at this juncture”.

“Long live Nigeria in peace, security, stability and in the hope for a greater future”.

 

 

Labour Party (LP) Calls For Cancellation Of Presidential Election

By
bvichannel1
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We wish to place the following on the record;

The President promised Nigerians free and fair elections with the passage of the new Electoral Act and indeed has repeated this promise multiple times.

The INEC Chairman also came before Nigerians and the Global community to promise free and fair elections and severally reiterated its readiness to conduct the elections.

What has become glaring is that none of these promises have been kept. All the promises made about deploying a fail-safe system anchored on BVAS were broken.

The internet and social media is awash with videos and photographic evidences of the pervasive violence and attacks that were visited on Nigerians with some attacks still on-going across the country as we speak.

The evidence of collusion between INEC and the security forces to subvert the will of the people are too numerous to be detailed here.

The INEC guidelines on the conduct of the elections were extensively breached and INEC has evidently been very reluctant to make the necessary adjustment to remedy the situation.

Contrary to the publicly advertised guidelines for the conduct of the elections, we are convinced that the processes leading to the results have been severely compromised. Consequently, we regret to state that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and being announced.

Nigerians have inundated us with calls and protests over INEC’s non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines and the obvious manipulations of the election results.

We hereby call on INEC to suspend further
announcement of the results, and follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election and make plans for another election with strict compliance with the stipulated laws and guidelines.

We ask the international community to walk their talk in Nigeria, and cease to condone the multiple evils being perpetrated in our country by the rulers of Nigeria. There cannot be one standard for Nigeria, and another for the rest of the world.

We thank Nigerians for their support for our candidates, and we assure you all that your mandate shall not be surrendered to a desperate gaggle of failed rulers, who have brought nothing but ruination on our
dear country. We urge that Nigerians remain peaceful and law abiding, whilst assured that we are doing everything within the law to protect your sacred mandate.

Thank you, and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

Barr Julius Aburi

Obi’s Labour Leads In Delta State, Wins 7 Of 10 LGAs

By
bvichannel1
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has opened up a massive lead in the presidential election results so far declared from Delta State.

According to the results of 10 local government areas so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Labour Party is leading in seven.

The remaining three were won by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while the All Progressives Congress occupies a distant third position.

The LGAs declared in favour of Labour Party are: Ika South, Aniocha North, Ethiope West, Oshimili North, Ndokwa West, Aniocha South and Ethiope East.

The PDP has Ika North East, Bomadi and Warri North.

The PDP Vice Presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa is from Delta and is the incumbent Governor, Naija News reports.

See the details of the results.

Ika North-East

APC – 1902

LP – 8980

PDP – 16696

Ika South

APC – 3290

LP – 17868

PDP – 7485

Aniocha North

APC – 1146

LP – 11678

PDP – 3783

Ethiope West

APC – 3850

LP – 10199

PDP – 5463

Oshimili North

APC – 1688

LP – 14929

PDP – 4796

Bomadi

APC – 2,421

LP – 3,134

PDP – 4,429

PDP- 8,599

Warri North

APC – 1,379

LP – 2,417

PDP – 3,411

Aniocha South

APC – 1,686

LP – 14,208

PDP – 4,672

Ethiope East

APC – 6,314

LP – 10,808

PDP – 7,854

Peter Obi Defeats Tinubu And Atiku In Lagos

By
bvichannel1
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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state.

According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850.

Although, the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of the votes cast in the state.

All the results of the 20 local governments have been declared. Tinubu won in 11 while Obi won in nine local governments.

See the results below.

Lagos State
Presidential Election
1) Agege LGA Lagos
APC 29,568
LP 13,270
NNPP 1513
PDP 4498

2) Badagry LGA Lagos
APC 31,903
LP 10,956
NNPP 153
PDP 6,024
Meanwhile the LP agent collation agent alleged that the LG agent was asked to sign the result at gunpoint

3) Ikeja LGA
APC 21,276
LP 30,004
NNPP 337
PDP 2280

4) Ibeju Lekki Lagos
APC 14, 685
LP 10,410
NNPP 104
PDP 2,329

5) IKORODU LGA
Registered voters – 364,072
Accredited voters – 89, 414
APC – 50, 353
LP – 28, 951
NNPP – 400
PDP – 4508
Valid votes – 84,096
Rejected votes – 3, 892
Labour Party Chairman, Lagos Dayo Ekon claimed it was 29,22 LP against the 28,951 recorded votes.

6) Epe LGA
APC: 19,867
PDP: 5,221
LP:3,497
NNPP: 76
7) Lagos Mainland
APC: 20,030
LP: 18,698
PDP: 3002

8) Amuwo Odofin
Registered Voters – 325,230
Accredited Voters – 75,489
Total Valid Votes – 73,007
APC – 13,318
LP – 55,547
PDP – 2,383

9) Kosofe
Registered Voters – 474,772
Accredited Voters – 94,838
Total Valid Votes –
APC – 36,883
LP – 46,554
PDP – 4,058

10) Oshodi Isolo LGA
APC: 27, 181
LP: 51,020
NNPP: 413
PDP: 3,139

11) Ajeromi Ifelodun LGA
APC: 25, 938
LP: 35,863
NNPP: 436
PDP: 4,680

12) Ijaiye
APC: 30,756
LP: 25,437
NNPP: 232
PDP: 2,997

13) Surulere LGA
APC:39,002
LP:36,923
NNPP: 442
PDP: 2651

14) ALIMOSHO LG

APC – 62, 909

LP – 71,327

NNPP 701

PDP – 8,201

15) OJO LGA

APC – 20603

LP – 38859

PDP – 3701

SOURCE : INEC

Vanguard

Peter Obi Leads Tinubu In Lagos

By
bvichannel1
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The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi is leading by votes in the results of the Presidential election held in Lagos on Saturday.

17 local governments had been declared by INEC as at 3:30 am before the collation was adjourned to 10: 00 am.

However, APC’s Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is leading in the local governments with 10 LGs already in his kitty while LP has won seven.

The local governments won by Tinubu include Agege, Apapa, Badagry, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland and Surulere.

Obi on the other hand has in his bag Eti-Osa, Amuwo Odofin, Ikeja, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo and Somolu

In total, Obi has polled 449,088 votes while Tinubu has so far garnered 416,431 votes, leaving .

Only the results of Alimosho, Ojo and Mushin are being expected.

Mushin LG’s result was initially announced by the Collation Officer but it was rejected to some dispute in the figure.

Tinubu, a former Governor of the State, is still projected to win the majority votes in the state with Alimosho, Ojo and Mushin results being expected.

Alimosho which is the largest local government in the state may likely give the APC Presidential Candidate an edge over his arch-rival while he has also won Mushin.

But Obi is projected to win Ojo, an area dominated by non-indigenes especially the Igbos.

INEC Igniting War In Nigeria- NLC

By
bvichannel1
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We have had recourse to alert Nigerians earlier yesterday of our observations and reports that reached us from across the nation on the shoddy handling by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of their early Election Day activities. We talked of the dangers it posed to the entire process and its outcomes if nothing was done timely and wondered why that should be so given the huge resources invested in the Commission towards this Election. We called for urgent action by the Commission and key national Stakeholders to ensure that we have free, fair and credible elections.

Unfortunately, the situation rather than getting better got worse as the day went on with heart wrenching reports from across the nation of vile activities of individuals associated with some Parties and utter collusion of INEC officials and Security agencies to compromise the Election and subvert the will of the people.

Using of thugs in Rivers state and in Lagos to mete out violence and intimidate voters in these states run counter to the tenets and practice of Democracy. The case of the now dishonourable member of the federal house of representatives from Rivers state captured on tape calling for the killing of certain people is not only abhorrent but is a recipe for further violence in our Polity. The threats as captured of Mc Oluomo of the Parks and Gardens in Lagos state warning certain voters to stay away from the Polling centres across the state violates decency and negates the principle of democratic engagement.

The bloodlettings, harassment, Ballot box snatching and wilful destruction of election materials especially in these two states even in the presence of members of the Security agencies and INEC officials cannot be interpreted any other way except that of collusion. It calls for urgent investigation and action to reassure the people of their safety as the election runs its course.

The inability of INEC to prevent the recurrence in this election of the ills of past elections speaks volume of its ill-preparedness for this election as can be demonstrated in the late arrivals of critical election materials to the Polling Units and the almost deliberate tampering of the BVAS in many Polling Units including the outright refusal of its operatives to upload results from the BVAS to the INEC Servers in total violation of the Rule of the election and INEC’s own election guidelines.

We are also alarmed of the activities of the Lagos state Resident Election Commissioner (REC) who may never have hidden his inclinations and dispositions to compromise this election in Lagos state before now and who from information received may currently presiding over the cooking of election results contrary to the choice of voters at the various Polling units across the state. If this is true, that may explain why Polling Unit officers were reluctant to transmit the BVAS reports for the Presidential elections to the official INEC Servers.

This is completely unacceptable and we want INEC to ensure that any cooked result from any REC is not only rejected but the offenders be made to face the full weight of the Law.

INEC must understand that not uploading the results to its Server expeditiously as expected creates avoidable crisis of confidence and imperils the entire process. We continue to express our deep concerns over the apparent manipulation of results in Lagos and Rivers states and demand that the real results as captured by the BVAS be uploaded without fail.

We feel embarrassed on the explanation of INEC that materials arrived late in some areas because of the distance between the localities and the storage centres. We know that Polling Units located very close to such centres were also heavily affected by INEC’s tardiness and apparent refusal to make them available as required.
We demand that INEC investigates the activities of one of its officials in the ICT department who may have been responsible for technically jamming the airwaves making it difficult for BVAS results to be transmitted to the Servers. He was a former Commissioner in Lagos State and his name is Femi Odubuyi.

It is important to restate that the beauty of democracy is in its participatory transparency which builds a belief amongst the people thus deepens the trust and confidence of the citizenry in its outcomes. When actions that negate these principles are allowed to fester then, this bond that keeps the people cohering is broken and may lead to social anomie.

A country like ours must deliberately build and cultivate these fine tenets so that all the tears and wears may be repaired encouraging national healing. What we therefore see may be a conscious attempt to undermine our nation and unleash further social crisis on a nation that is already tottering and at the verge of implosion.

The NLC feels compelled to warn INEC and the Security agencies of the dangers of subverting the sovereign will. They are the umpire in this election and must be seen as above board and acting within the ambits of the Law and its Guidelines. The deliberate frustration of the BVAS remains unacceptable and any result outside of what is transmitted or contained in it is not acceptable to Nigerians.

NLC calls on all Nigerian workers and citizens to be at alert to protect our nation from the hands of those who have foisted the current suffering on us and now clearly wants to subvert our collective will as expressed in this election cycle. It is our civic responsibility to protect democracy and indeed our nation.

We call on the Military and the Police to ensure the sanctity of the Ballot and protect the lives of the citizenry who they swore to protect with their arms. This is not only their constitutional duties bot also their moral obligations. We call on them to live up to this challenge and protect the process as enshrined in our statutes.

It is on this note that we call on the President of the Federal Republic, His Excellency Muhammed Buhari to rise to the occasion and call the electoral umpire (INEC) to order. The President ought to seize the redemptive power in this situation and demand that INEC returns to the Rule book for election conduct. It is only by doing this that he will reassure Nigerians of his innocence in this unfolding drama.

A nation at the precipice like ours cannot be stoking fires in its house filled with dry straws. INEC should not be the one that will strike the match. Our worry is that when a peoples will are subverted, they may be forced to take laws into their hands and the stage seem to have been set for such conflagration and all hands should be on deck to avert it. INEC may be doing more harm than SARS to our people if it continues on this present trajectory.

Once again, we warn that only an outcome that is adjudged by the people to be a full expression of their sovereign will can guarantee acceptance and peace. We must therefore in pursuit of these ensure that INEC stops this collusion and subversion across the country to deliver fair, credible and acceptable outcomes for this election.

We warn INEC and others not to allow this election to degenerate into a national security crisis. This is avoidable and it is only by allowing the sovereign will prevail that we can guarantee national peace. The belief that it is going to be business as usual should be discountenanced as the tension since after the casting of votes should be enough signal to anybody planning a heist of the vote. It is crucial that INEC samples the pulse of the people out there before embarking on any action. We will surely not keep quiet!

Nigerian citizens have spoken through their votes yesterday. INEC is a repository of their voices and conscience. It must give it free reign and expression! Suppressing it will amount to subversion! Subverting it poses a serious danger not only to our democracy but to our nation! The next call belongs to INEC and we await its action. It is either it sabotages our people and betrays the nation or it stands with the people! Anything short of announcing the result that reflects the true will of the people subverts the nation and will be resisted by the people.

Comrade Joe Ajaero
President

NIGERIA SHALL DISINTEGRATE AND GO INTO EXTINCTION IF PETER OBI IS DENIED HIS VICTORY- Emeka Emekesiri

By
Queen Madu
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I have just seen a statement on social media credited to Pa Ayo Adebanjo where he said as follows:

“Nigeria has shown that they want Peter Obi to be their president by voting for him. If INEC dares to rig the election, Nigerians should protest seriously for international communities to intervene. If you don’t want Igbo man to rule Nigeria, then allow them to go and have their Biafra”.

Whether the statement was made by Pa Ayo Adebanjo or not, the truth is that the statement remains the truth. We are not begging INEC to do the right thing. Peter Obi is not desperate to become the President of Nigeria. He is on a mission to salvage Nigeria.

The Igbo man can survive anywhere in the world. We have passed through fire, and it did not burn us, and through rivers and oceans and were not drowned. We leave our homeland to invest in and develop other Regions of Nigeria showing that we believe in Nigeria but we are rejected.

If Nigeria proves unsalvageable and irredeemable, we are not to blame. Onye a juru aju anaghi aju onwe ya (He that is rejected does not reject himself).

If they don’t want Peter Obi to rule Nigeria, they have rejected us finally and have no reason to stop us from ruling ourselves as an independent nation by whatever name we choose to call ourselves. We may revive our old Republic of Biafra or answer a new name, REPUBLIC OF LOWER NIGER, to include our brothers from the Middle Belt and South-South regions who believe in fairness, equity and justice.

Breaking: Labor Party Rejects Election Results, Demands Cancellation

By
Queen Madu
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The leadership of the Labour Party is shocked by the revelations emanating from Rivers state after the presidential and national assembly elections which held on Saturday; where thugs believed to be agents of the state government invaded various polling units and collation centres, took away election materials including the results sheets, manipulated the BVAS machines and uploaded fake results in to the Central portal.

We took particular note of incidences in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, Rumukoro and several other areas where Labour Party was clearly leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins. Governor Nyesom Wike, faced with stark reality of defeat even in the polling units in his compound in Worji, where LP scored 323 votes against APC and PDP’s 5 and 2 votes respectively, he used the soldiers and police to intimidate, harassed and snatched ballot papers.

Nigerians went into this election based on the assurances by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that the deployment of BVAS was a perfect antidote to electoral malpractices in Nigeria, but what transpired across Nigeria, if allowed to stand is purely a betrayal of trust by millions of Nigerians on INEC.

INEC’s staff were intimidated by these thugs in connivance with the military personnels and police officers who were deployed to protect them, into doing their bidding and were forced to manipulate the BVAS, being afraid of the consequences of their refusal. Some of these manipulations happened way into late in the night. We demand that INEC investigate these atrocities against Nigerian voters by the political class.

We are therefore asking that INEC should rise to the occasion and cancel all the unverified and manipulated results arising from the presidential and national assembly elections in parts of Rivers state particularly in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo and Rumukoro amongst others.

(Akelicious)

Why IReV Failed In Uploading Results After Election- INEC

By
Queen Madu
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The Commission is aware of challenges with the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV). Unlike in off-season elections where the portal was used, it has been relatively slow and unsteady. The Commission regrets this setback, especially because of the importance of IReV in our results management process.

The problem is totally due to technical hitches related to scaling up the IReV from a platform for managing off-season, State elections, to one for managing nationwide general elections. It is indeed not unusual for glitches to occur and be corrected in such situations.

Consequently, the Commission wishes to assure Nigerians that the challenges are not due to any intrusion or sabotage of our systems, and that the IReV remains well-secured.

Our technical team is working assiduously to solve all the outstanding problems, and users of the IReV would have noticed improvements since last night.

We also wish to assure Nigerians that results from the Polling Units, copies of which were issued to political parties, are safe on both the BVAS and the IReV portal. These results cannot be tampered with and any discrepancy between them and the physical results used in collation will be thoroughly investigated and remediated, in line with Section 65 of the Electoral Act 2022.

While we fully appreciate the concerns of the public on this situation and welcome various suggestions that we have received from concerned Nigerians, it is important to avoid statements and actions that can heat up the polity at this time or promote disaffection towards the Commission.

We take full responsibility for the problems and regret the distress that they have caused the candidates, political parties and the electorate.

Festus Okoye Esq
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee
Sunday 26th February 2023

(Journalist101)

INEC Refusal To Upload Result Dangerous – Obi Media Team

By
bvichannel1
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The Obi-Datti Media Office has raised the alarm over the underhand moves to manipulate the Presidential Election results across the country with the non-uploading of much of the presidential election results to the INEC server at the polling stations.

It is curious, unacceptable, and smacks of fraud that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) device could nobly transmit the Senate and House of Representatives results, but cannot do that of the Presidential election.

The Obi-Datti Media Office finds it curious that the BVAS would choose which results to upload and which not to upload. Certainly, this smacks of a serious fraud aimed to torpedo the wishes of the Nigerian electorate who have already decided that things can no longer continue to go wrong in Nigeria, using the ballot box to do so.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), should be held responsible for this flagrant anomaly that defies logic, as the Obi-Datti Media Office finds what is developing as a recipe to manipulate the process and truncate the electoral wishes of the Nigerian masses.

We also find unbecoming, the reported interference of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. We call on all relevant bodies to do the needful and prevent the Governor from meddling in the electoral process.

We wish to state categorically that the Obi-Datti Media Office will not accept any presidential election result that is not in tandem with the results issued at the polling units, copies of which we already have.

We are calling the attention of local and international observers and other stakeholders, to this unfortunate and orchestrated anomaly. Please call INEC to order.

Diran Onifade
Head, Obi-Datti Media Team

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