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Supplementary Election: What INEC Plans To Do In Bauchi by abkyero(m): 9:42pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
On Tuesday, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) announced
that supplementary elections in the five
states where the gubernatorial elections
were declared inconclusive would be
held on March 23.
In a statement signed by Festus Okoye,
INEC’s Commissioner in charge of Media
and Publicity, the commission said
having considered a report sent by the
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)
for Bauchi State, it has decided to
further investigate the cancellation of
the result from Tafawa Balewa Local
Government of the state.
“The Commission found that there are
issues that need further investigation
and has set up a team led by a National
Commissioner to resolve them,” INEC
said.
The results of the governorship election
from Tafawa Balewa was rejected by the
state’s Returning Officer, Mohammed
Kyari, after collation at the local
government collation centre was
disrupted by thugs. According to
Dominion Anosike, the collation officer
for the local government, the thugs
snatched the original result sheet ( Form
EC 8C 1) meant for the exercise.
According to Mrs Anosike, she had
collated the results for six of the 11
wards of the local government before the
thugs attacked the collation centre and
made away with the result sheet. She
said she subsequently, with the approval
of party agents at the collation centre,
used her computer to complete the
collation and wrote the election result in
another form.
Mr Kyari, however refused to accept the
result because, according to him, she did
not first seek his approval and that of
the state’s REC, as stipulated in INEC’s
guideline for the election before
collating the results in another form.
PREMIUM TIMES has learnt that INEC set
up an investigative committee led by Mr
Okoye and the committee met with
stakeholders in the election to
communicate the findings and decision
of INEC on the cancelled elections in
Tafawa Balewa.
This newspaper learnt that after
reviewing the case, the team resolved
that since all other processes in the
election and collation were followed
except the failure of Ms Anosike to write
to the REC and the Returning Officer, the
result for Tafawa Balewa would be
regenerated .and reinstated.
To do this, INEC will rely on duplicate
result sheet at every level of collation
preceding the local government collation
i.e the collation at the polling units,
wards, and constituent levels.
This is not the first time INEC will resort
to this approach in regenerating results
in areas where collation was disrupted.
In Kano State, after the collation of
results in Nasarawa local government
was disrupted, an official, Riskuwa
Shehu, announced that the collation
would be completed using primary and
secondary results from polling units and
wards.
The fact-finding team sent to Bauchi will
basically be communicating this decision
to stakeholders in the election.
Mathematical Impossibility
Once INEC reinstates the result for
Tafawa Balewa PREMIUM TIMES, then it
will be mathematically impossible for
the All Progressives Congress (APC) and
its candidate, Muhammed Abubakar,
who is the incumbent governor to win
the election.
After the collation of 19 local
governments out of the 20, the APC trails
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and its candidate, Bala
Muhammed, with 4,059 votes. The APC
scored a total of 465,453 votes against
the PDP’s 469,512 votes.
According to the results announced at
the Tafawa Balewa collation centre,
which was rejected by the returning
officer, the PDP also has a healthy lead
there. It scored 40,010 votes against the
APC’s 29,862 votes. If the result is
accepted as PREMIUM TIMES has learnt,
it will extend the PDP’s lead in the
election to 14,207 votes.
Though this still falls short of the 45, 312
votes cancelled in the election but with a
turnout rate of 45.4 percent, and the
margin of voters scored in the March 9
election by both parties, it is
mathematically impossible for the APC
to score enough votes in the
supplementary election in the state to
upstage the PDP.
When reached for comment, Rotimi
Oyekanmi, the chief press secretary to
INEC chairman, asked to know who our
sources are.
After we told him that we cannot reveal
our sources because we had promised to
protect their identities, Mr Oyekanmi
replied with a terse SMS that read: “It is
not true”.
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Re: Supplementary Election: What INEC Plans To Do In Bauchi by abkyero(m): 9:45pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
Re: Supplementary Election: What INEC Plans To Do In Bauchi by Emvico34: 9:49pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
Total rubish. All the states where A.P.C won through rigging, no body council votes. But where the opposition won, they said is inconclusive. Those of you supporting this evil government will never go unpunished. 2023 the power will still remain in the north, and you all will be put to shame |
Re: Supplementary Election: What INEC Plans To Do In Bauchi by Win12345: 10:01pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
Is North truly regrouping in PDP? Let's watch as events unfold |
Re: Supplementary Election: What INEC Plans To Do In Bauchi by Kanixt(m): 10:05pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
chai! And Tafawa Balewa is under Dogara constituent and the governor once said "Dogara came from tiny minority and I don't need votes there to win the election, where they only have 80000 votes only, and the last time I won with a margin of over 300000. Believe we will retire Dogara from politics. " it seems from Premium time now reverse is the case. this Dogara is a real politician; He won his ticket and now want to install pdp governor for Bauchi |
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