Osita Chidoka was a guest on Prime-Time on Arise-TV, where he gave more details about the research he carried out about the off-cycle elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa States.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjVsUMHNTZU


He said that the research was not aimed at criticizing the off-cycle elections, but for them to identify any possible gaps and to make suggestions on how to improve on them..



HIS METHODOLOGY:
They downloaded all the results from the INEC’s IREV.
And then wrote a Freedom of Information Request to INEC and got their BVAS-Report of the Accreditation Data on the election day, as well as the Ward Collation Results, LG Collation Results, State Collation Results, as well as Report of Polling-units where elections were not held or were cancelled.
They digitized all the information and used them for their research.

They obtained all those VERY FEW Polling-Units that were not Compliant with the provisions of the Electoral-Act for the collation of results, and cancelled the results of all those such non-compliant Polling-units.
They then recomputed the results again with only the compliant Polling-units.

He said that when a non-compliant Polling-unit is cancelled, all the parties will loose votes that were cast in that cancelled Polling-unit.
It is not only one party that looses votes, but all the parties.



HIS FINDINGS FROM THE RESEARCH HE DID:
1. The research revealed that the INEC’s election technologies have impacted positively to the Conduct of Election in Nigeria.

2. The research revealed that our votes count. He said that the research showed that results were not already pre-rigged by the INEC.. The INEC did not present pre-written results in vast majority of the Polling-units, and that in the few manipulations which happened, they only did them at the Polling-units after the elections had been concluded at the Polling-units. Therefore, people should have to come out on the election day and vote, and also make sure that they prevent the manipulations which usually happen after the elections.

3. The research also revealed that the adhoc staff who served as presiding officers and collation officers are not CORE INEC STAFF, and that most of them are people from the immediate localities of the candidates, and therefore, most of them were even willingly manipulating the results in favour of their favourite politicians.



HIS RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. The INEC should immediately upload all the BVAS Accreditation Data to the IREV during election.

2. The BVAS should have an E-Collation Module where the Presiding Officers enters the Election Results into the BVAS with their hands, and then the Party Agents would sign the entered results there on the BVAS, and the same results electronically sent to an E-Collation system. This would be done before the results are entered manually into the Polling-units results sheets. The manually filled Polling-units Results-Sheets can also be snapped and uploaded to the IREV too.

3. INEC should also use the BVAS-like collation technology to collate the various Polling-unit results at the Ward Collation Level, and then transmit it through the E-Collation System, then manually copy out the collated result from the BVAS-like collation technology into the appropriate results-sheet, and then snap and upload the written Collated Results onto the IREV.

There is something I want to bring to all Our attention -- AS IT CONCERNS THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA,
((AND ALL POSSIBLE FUTURE ELECTIONS)).

A lot of Legal Practitioners are overlooking this very concern which I discovered...
((I actually wonder why they don't see it as something very important..))

The concerns I am raising has to do with the INEC’s total negligence of the provisions of “Electoral-Act-2022”, which have ended up making the Electoral-Act to seem like as if it is now a very useless document, whereas it was the INEC who had been neglecting and balkanizing the Electoral-Act all these while in their conduct of the various elections, and the people also aided them by not forcing them to do the right things..

First of all, the INEC started the whole balkanizing of the “Electoral-Act-2022” by producing their INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2022”,, where some clauses inside it totally went against the provisions of the Electoral-Act-2022,, and these faulty clauses were even used against the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 by the judges when they were passing their judgement for the PEPT-2023.

Let me break everything down for you to understand better .

Clause-48(c) and Clause-93 of the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines 2022” totally violated the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 in Section:64; sub-sections: 4(a-&-b).;; 5.;; 6(a,b,c,d).;; 7.;; and then 8.

Remember that all these sub-sections clearly detailed how the COLLATION of the election-results are supposed to be carried-out after the voting had been concluded.

AT NO POINT DID THE “ELECTORAL-ACT-2022” SUGGEST THAT ANY OF THE MISSING RESULTS WOULD BE PROVIDED USING THE POLICE-COPIES OF SUCH RESULTS OR THE PARTY-AGENTS COPIES..

This means that the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines 2022” in Clause-48(c) and Clause-93 created their own procedures which were not dependent on the Electoral-Act-2022,, and thus these clauses needed to be expunged from their “Regulations and Guidelines” for going against the “Electoral-Act-2022”.

INEC is supposed to expunge those clauses by themselves,, But Since They Are Wasting Time To Do It,, they might have to be compelled by a COURT ORDER for them to do so.

And then again...
The INEC might have to also be compelled again with another COURT ORDER for them to strictly comply with the provisions of Section:64(4a-&-4b); Section:64(5); Section:64(6a,6b,6c,6d); Section:64(7); and Section:64(8.) of the Electoral-Act-2022; where it clearly stipulated that “no collation can start anywhere until the Accreditation-Values on the results-sheets are confirmed and verified with the accreditation-values that are contained inside the Machines which were compulsorily used for the Accreditation of voters, and transmitted directly from the Polling-Units” -- (which happens to be the BVAS-Machines at the moment)..

The most-important part of the Electoral-Act-2022 when it comes to the procedures for settling disputes and issues that arise during collation is the Section:64(6a,6b,6c,6d); most-especially Section:64(6b) and then Section:64(7); where the Electoral-Act-2022 clearly stipulated that whenever there are disputes with results gotten from the lower levels,, the smart-card-readers or any technological devices used in the Polling-unit (or the Polling-units that are under such lower-level collation centers) should be brought to the collation-center where the disputes were raised, for them to be used in settling the disputes and for possible re-collation if necessary. Thus, if the inconsistencies that were established are beyond what is pardonable, the Collation Officer would have to re-start the whole collations afresh using the various results that were captured inside the technological devices (BVAS-Machines) and transmitted directly from the Polling-Units.

THE “TRANSMISSION” IN THIS CASE COULD BE “MANUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE BVAS-MACHINES THEMSELVES”..
NO PROBLEM.
WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ARGUING THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE AGAIN WITH THEM.

From what I had pointed out so far,, it is very clear that the current INEC had totally ignored all the IMPORTANT Sections of the Electoral-Act-2022,, and it really pains me that they are planning to do the same thing again in the upcoming 2024 elections (Edo and Ondo).

Concerned Civil Society Organizations really need to compel the INEC (Most probably by using Court-Orders) to make sure that the INEC’s Collation Officers at all levels clearly Verify and Confirm that the figures on the Results-Sheets are in agreement with the Accreditation figures that are contained inside the BVAS-Machines, and that the BVAS-Machines (and nothing-else but only the BVAS-Machines) should be used to settle disputes,, and that no Collation officer should transmit or announce their collated results without settling all the disputes that were raised at such collation-center else they would be found guilty of violating the Electoral-Act-2022, and be punished accordingly as stipulated in Section:64(9) of the Electoral-Act-2022.

Concerned Civil Society Organizations should obtain court orders that must mandate that nobody should tamper with the BVAS-Machines that were USED in any election until all the Petitions and LEGAL-BATTLES on the Elections are done and completed.

In my own little way of suggestions, I am believing that the solution to all these problems (using the current Electoral-Act-2022 as it is, pending its amendment) is to force the INEC through COURT ORDERS, and mandate them to FORCE their Collation-Officers at all levels of Collation to settle disputes by calling-up for the various BVAS-Machines of all the affected Polling-units as stated in Section:64(6b),, or else that Collation Officer had violated the rules of the Electoral-Act-2022, and should be sanctioned, and at the same time, the violation renders the results he announced INVALID for not following the rules of collation of results properly as stipulated.


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HERE IS THE SUMMARY OF ALL THE SUGGESTIONS I GAVE SO FAR.
1. INEC should expunge clauses 48(c) and 93 in their 2022 guidelines that contravene sections 64(4) a & b; 64(5); 64(6) a, b, c & d; 64(7) and 64(8.).

(Please Note: the Clause 48 (b) & (b) of the INEC’s Regulations and Guidelines 2022 are still consistent with the Electoral-Act-2022.. Only Clause 48(c) highly contradicted the Electoral-Act-2022)

2. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to compel INEC to comply with Sections 64(4a), 64(4b), 64(5), 64(6a-d), 64(7), and 64(8.) of the Electoral Act 2022. These sections clearly stipulate that collation cannot begin at any level until the accreditation values on the results sheets are confirmed and verified against the accreditation values stored in the machines, which were mandatorily used for voter accreditation, and the result that are transmitted directly from the polling units -- (which -- at the moment, based on the current legal precedents -- happens to be the results that are captured inside the BVAS machines).

3. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to compel INEC to ensure that NOBODY should tamper with the BVAS machines that were used in any election until all the petitions and legal battles for the elections are done and completed.

4. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order to Mandate INEC to ensure that their collation-officers at all levels of collation shall settle disputes by calling up the various BVAS machines of all affected polling units, as stated in Section 64(6)(b). If they fail to do so, they should be sanctioned according to Section 64(9) of the Electoral-Act-2022.

5. Concerned Civil Society Organizations should seek a court order in order to mandate that the application of Section 64(6b) of the Electoral-Act-2022 must be made mandatory and compulsory in matters of election-disputes. This means that, whenever there is a dispute between the number of transmitted accredited voters and the number of transmitted recorded voters, the collation officer should use the smart card reader or other technology device used for the accreditation of voters in each polling unit where the election is disputed for the purpose of obtaining accreditation data directly from the smart card reader or technology device. This should apply whether the transmission was done manually or electronically.



Thank you so much for the time you took to read and understand this piece.

We have learnt through experience that the INEC would always choose to do the wrong things, and then, employ all their legal intelligence to the fullest just in order for them to find any possible legal loopholes (in the electoral legal framework of-course) so as to use them and back themselves up in their wrong-doings.

For Instance:

The Current Electoral-Act-2022,, there are no mentions of “E-Collation System”,, and even though the INEC might constantly and frequently be promising to use it, they would just turn around at the last-hour and not use it again, and start quoting the Electoral-Act-2022 to back themselves up (the ugly experience of 11th November 2023 comes to mind)..

It is very clear to everybody that the Electoral-Act-2022 did not “Specifically MENTION” that the E-Collation or E-Verification should be employed,, and therefore, for us to be on the safe side of dealing with the INEC (as they had seemingly become fraudulent in their dealings),, we better not agree that they have the zeal and the willingness to do the right things,, and thus, we shouldn't be expecting them to do the right things after-all -- since those things that were supposed to be the Right Things are not CLEARLY WRITTEN inside the Electoral-Act-2022..
They would even come on tv and social-media and be teaching people how to be complaint with those sophisticated technological procedures, only for them to turn around and renegade at the last minute and betray everybody in the end.

The INEC would definitely be the first persons to remind all of us at the Law-Court that “UPLAODING RESULTS TO THE IREV” is not written inside the Electoral-Act, in-fact, that there is no MENTION of IREV or anything similar to it inside the Electoral-Act -- (not to even talk about the uploading of the “Ward-Collated” Results to the same non-existent IREV -- according to the Electoral-Act),, and if they defend themselves with such a line, they are very correct - because the Electoral-Act-2022 Did Not at any point give strong legal powers to the INEC’s “Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2022” which mentioned the IREV.

So, I am suggesting that you help us to push the National Assembly members to CLEARLY and Specifically INCLUDE THE MANDATORY USE OF THE “E-TRANSMISSION” AND “E-COLLATION” INSIDE THE ELECTORAL-ACT.

It will definitely go a long way..


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So therefore, for the moment,, it is left for concerned citizens (or political parties, or Civil Society Organisations) to use court orders to force the INEC to be fully carrying out the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022; especially the following Sections:

1. Section:64(4a)
2. Section:64(6b)
3. Section:64(9)....

That-is;

For Section:64(4a); No Collation (at any level of collation -- even at the final level of collation) can start unless the accreditation-values from the Lower Levels were confirmed and verified to be correct and consistent with those accreditation-values that were CAPTURED IN THE BVAS MACHINES and transmitted either electronically or MANUALLY.

This means that, the verification of the Accreditation-values should not happen only at the WRAD-LEVEL Collation, but all the way to the Final Collation Level.

Therefore,, since INEC had chosen to opt for the MANUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE ACCREDITATION-VALUES INSIDE THE BVAS, that is a very valid choice, but then, they have to ADHERE STRICTLY to what the Electoral-Act-2022 says that must be done before the Collation at any level must begin.

Therefore, A court order is very necessary at this point in time...

This definitely means that Collation Exercises would take weeks or even months for them to be complete (that is, if the INEC continues to insist that they must continue to go by the MANUAL TRANSMISSION method -- else, with Electronic Transmission and Collation, the whole collation would just be concluded within hours -- the choice is ours to make).



And for Section:64(6b) ; it means that Once there is Dispute at any level of collation, the Collation Officer must COMPLETELY SOLVE IT before sending the results to the upper-level collation officers... The collation officer shouldn't tell the people and stakeholders that the dispute would be solved at the final end of Collation.. The Electoral-Act mandated the Collation Officers to solve all the disputes by PHYSICALLY CALLING FOR THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL SUCH DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS, amongst other materials that are necessary for settling such disputes..

Then, the Section:64(9) made it very clear that any Collation Officer who didn't do their collations according to these PROCEDURES (whether the INEC Opted for Electronic Transmission or Manual Transmission),, they should be found LIABLE,, and be punished for violating the Electoral-Act.

This also means that the RESULTS THAT COMES OUT FROM SUCH A COLLATION CENTER had been rendered Null-and-void, since the Collation Officer didn't do the right things, and thus, there would be need for a total re-collation using the BVAS-MACHINES and the original EC8As.

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Since the INEC had chosen to out-rule the use Electronic Transmission,, and had based their Rascality on the Electoral-Act-2022, we should really stop hurting ourselves by expecting them to still come back and use any form of the Electronic Transmission again. BECAUSE, THEY WILL STILL NOT USE IT AT THOSE AREAS WHERE THEY HOPE TO RIG MASSIVELY, AND THEY WILL STILL COME BACK AT THE COURTS AND USE THE LOOPHOLES IN THE ELECTORAL-ACT-2022 TO ESCAPE JUDGEMENT.


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What we have to do now is to accept the Fact that we are FULLY in the ERA OF USING MANUAL TRANSMISSION,, and then, use court orders to Force them to Also Physically and MANUALLY Transmit the BVAS-MACHINES..

And should anything happen to the BVAS-MACHINES in the course of transmitting it manually, the results whose Accreditation-values are supposed to be VERIFIED and CONFIRMED with those tampered BVAS-MACHINES are to be considered NULL-AND-VOID..

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Maybe with these new procedures,,, by the time the INEC suffers the burden of Manually Transmitting the Accreditation-values (that-is; transferring the whole BVAS-MACHINES) from the Polling-units to the Wards, and up to the Final Collation Points,, either once or twice in any of the OFF-CYCLE ELECTIONS,, they themselves (and all the other stakeholders involved) will massively push for the National Assembly members to quickly and hastily include the “Electronic-Transmission” and “Electronic-Collation” in Clear Terms inside the Electoral-Act.


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It's time to tell the INEC that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”..

Since they they are deliberately creating LEGAL LOOPHOLES, then, let us all play the game their way..

We will also enter inside that Legal Loophole with them and make it LEGALLY WIDER and more comfortable for all of us.

Okay

Una go tire. No hope.

Inec keep improving their system

Mahmood Yakoob seems to be a creative person

Our Electoral system will be enviable by 2031

Kudos to them

immortalcrown:
Una go tire.

Okay

Ennyjude:
Okay

Okay

BluntCrazeMan:
Okay

Una go tire because no hope.

immortalcrown:
Una go tire because no hope.

Okay

BluntCrazeMan:
Okay

Yes.

Making sense, that's what we needed...!!

This kind of concept and technological innovation that will depend our electoral and democratic journey is what the corrupt fellas holding this nation to ransome will never approve

immortalcrown:
Yes.

No wahalla.

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Racoon:
This kind of concept and technological innovation that will deepen our electoral and democratic journey is what the corrupt fellas holding this nation to ransome will never approve

They might soon have no other options left than to approve it.

BluntCrazeMan:
No wahalla.

Alright.

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You are 100% right here

This muguh called chidoka is still talking about PVC. What a dunce. Still hoping to repeat another PVC ediocy.

press9jatv:
You are 100% right here

One thing is clear.
The Politicians and their thugs are no more the main problems with Elections these days.

CHIDOKA CLEARLY ESTABLISHED WITHOUT MINCING WORDS THAT “THE SO-CALLED INEC OFFICIALS ARE THE MAIN CULPRITS HERE..”


Our Electoral System is just suffering Institutional Problems, where the supposed staff of the institution are the main problems.

BiafraAburi:
This muguh called chidoka is still talking about PVC. What a dunce. Still hoping to repeat another PVC ediocy.

PVC.??

You didn't watch the video..
You didn't even read the original post.

Lalasticlala, Nlfpmod, Fergie001

Mynd44

BluntCrazeMan:


One thing is clear.
The Politicians and their thugs are no more the main problems with Elections these days.

CHIDOKA CLEARLY ESTABLISHED WITHOUT MINCING WORDS THAT “THE SO-CALLED INEC OFFICIALS ARE THE MAIN CULPRITS HERE..”


Our Electoral System is just suffering Institutional Problems, where the supposed staff of the institution are the main problems.

ok

Nlfpmod fergie001 Fp

BluntCrazeMan:
Osita Chidoka was a guest on Prime-Time on Arise-TV, where he gave more details about the research he carried out about the off-cycle elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa States.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjVsUMHNTZU


He said that the research was not aimed at criticizing the off-cycle elections, but for them to identify any possible gaps and to make suggestions on how to improve on them..



HIS METHODOLOGY:
They downloaded all the results from the INEC’s IREV.
And then wrote a Freedom of Information Request to INEC and got their BVAS-Report of the Accreditation Data on the election day, as well as the Ward Collation Results, LG Collation Results, State Collation Results, as well as Report of Polling-units where elections were not held or were cancelled.
They digitized all the information and used them for their research.

They obtained all those VERY FEW Polling-Units that were not Compliant with the provisions of the Electoral-Act for the collation of results, and cancelled the results of all those such non-compliant Polling-units.
They then recomputed the results again with only the compliant Polling-units.

He said that when a non-compliant Polling-unit is cancelled, all the parties will loose votes that were cast in that cancelled Polling-unit.
It is not only one party that looses votes, but all the parties.



HIS FINDINGS FROM THE RESEARCH HE DID:
1. The research revealed that the INEC’s election technologies have impacted positively to the Conduct of Election in Nigeria.

2. The research revealed that our votes count. He said that the research showed that results were not already pre-rigged by the INEC.. The INEC did not present pre-written results in vast majority of the Polling-units, and that in the few manipulations which happened, they only did them at the Polling-units after the elections had been concluded at the Polling-units. Therefore, people should have to come out on the election day and vote, and also make sure that they prevent the manipulations which usually happen after the elections.

3. The research also revealed that the adhoc staff who served as presiding officers and collation officers are not CORE INEC STAFF, and that most of them are people from the immediate localities of the candidates, and therefore, most of them were even willingly manipulating the results in favour of their favourite politicians.



HIS RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. The INEC should immediately upload all the BVAS Accreditation Data to the IREV during election.

2. The BVAS should have an E-Collation Module where the Presiding Officers enters the Election Results into the BVAS with their hands, and then the Party Agents would sign the entered results there on the BVAS, and the same results electronically sent to an E-Collation system. This would be done before the results are entered manually into the Polling-units results sheets. The manually filled Polling-units Results-Sheets can also be snapped and uploaded to the IREV too.

3. INEC should also use the BVAS-like collation technology to collate the various Polling-unit results at the Ward Collation Level, and then transmit it through the E-Collation System, then manually copy out the collated result from the BVAS-like collation technology into the appropriate results-sheet, and then snap and upload the written Collated Results onto the IREV.

Not again
BVAS failed us the last time, and it's bound to fail again

Before election, blame Buhari.
After election, blame Inec.
After Tribunal, blame judiciary.

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The BVAS and the Chicago magic

What Chidoka is saying is corroborating the United States election monitoring team that, although there are some handful of violence during election, the election reflects the will of the people, bitter grievingory Obi and his embittered people should go and sit inside gutter.