The YIAGA Africa on Thursday said that the
Supreme Court inflated the number of votes in
its judgement on the March 9, 2019
governorship in Imo State by 92,597 votes.
The nation’s apex court had on Tuesday
declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of
the election in the state after sacking Chief
Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
The court also ordered INEC to withdraw the
CoR issued to Mr. Ihedioha, a former Deputy
Speaker of the House of Representatives and
issued same to Uzodimma, a former Chairman
Senate committee on Aviation.
Uzodimma had been sworn-in as the state
governor.
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However, reacting to the judgement, the
Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Mr.
Samson Itodo, said that while the full
judgement of the Supreme court on Imo is
being awaited, the Returning Officer of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) should not have made a declaration
because the PDP candidate did not fulfill the
constitutional requirements.
According to him, that election was meant to
be declared inconclusive but he went ahead to
make a declaration.
“The Supreme Court relied on results from
over 300 polling units where @inecnigeria
declined to certify results due to irregularities,
non use of the smart card readers and
violence. How come only two parties were on
the results sheets from the over 366 polling
units in an election with 70 candidates?
“This is official results for the Imo
governorship before the Supreme court
judgement total no of polling units= 3,523;
total no of accredited voters= 823,743; total no
of valid votes= 714,355; total no of rejected
votes= 25,130; and total votes cast= 739,485.
“The difference between the total no of
accredited voters and total votes cast is
84,258. This includes cancelled votes and
those areas where smartcard readers were not
used. Based on INEC’s results, the gap btw the
PDP and APC candidate is 176,946 votes.
From the Supreme Court’s judgment, its
appears the APC candidate secured more than
176,969 votes from the 388 polling units to
win the election.
“Let us work with 176,969 pending the release
of the Supreme Court results. 176,969 votes +
739, 485 (total votes cast) = 916,431
exceeding the total number of accredited
voters in the election which stood at 823,834.
Why the difference of 92,597 votes?” Itodo
said in a chat with Daily Trust.
He said that in Zamfara State the Supreme
Court declared APC’s votes as wasted and
ordered INEC to collate the valid votes and
determine the winners where the thresholds
were met and wonder why did the Supreme
Court proceed to collate and declare a winner
in Imo?
He said, “Can the Supreme Court tell us the
number of accredited voters, rejected and
cancelled votes. Can the Supreme Court tell us
the locations of the 388 PUs where results
were not reflected so a comparison can be
made with the original results declared by
INEC?”
He lamented that the judiciary is setting a bad
precedent for the nation’s elections.






https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-supreme-court-inflates-uzodimmas-votes-by-92597-yiaga-explains.html

Our Supreme Court justices seriously need mathematicians and electronic calculators.

Samson Itodo and Cynthia Mbamalu of YIAGA Africa are PDP members masquerading as activists

It's magical Naija

Sirjamo:
Samson Itodo and Cynthia Mbamalu of YIAGA Africa are PDP members masquerading as activists

that is not the issue, your question should be weather their analysis is correct or not.

At least, YIAGA admitted that Ihedioha didn’t win the election in the first place. He was unlawfully returned elected by the compromised returning officer. If the right thing had been done at the right time, we won’t be here today trying to make sense out of the judgement of the Supreme Court.

The desperation of some politicians to ensure Okorochas candidate is defeated led to the unlawful return of Ihedioha when a runoff should have been ordered. Uzodimma is now the beneficiary of the entire mess. Hopefully, lessons have been learnt and they will do things the right way next time.

The zoo living up to its reputation even with an anti corruption tzar at the helm.

I knew it

seunmsg:
At least, YIAGA admitted that Ihedioha didn’t win the election in the first place. He was unlawfully returned elected by the compromised returning officer. If the right thing had been done at the right time, we won’t be here today trying to make sense out of the judgement of the Supreme Court.

The desperation of some politicians to ensure Okorochas candidate is defeated led to the unlawful return of Ihedioha when a runoff should have been ordered. Uzodimma is now the beneficiary of the entire mess. Hopefully, lessons have been learnt and they will do things the right way next time.

No difference between you and Tanko

Accreditation is done at polling unit levels. Once election is cancelled in a polling unit, nothing is recorded from that polling unit during collation. Thus, when election results are cancelled, they usually don't form part of the accredited voters.

Though some people have often argued against this practice because they believe that it is intentionally done to prevent a rerun.

So looking at the Imo state case, the number of accredited voters will increase with the judgement. If these numbers now credited to Uzodinma was captured as invalid or cancelled votes, there would have been rerun because it's much more than the margin of victory between Ihedioha & Nwosu

However assuming without conceding that those votes were actually inflated, Ihedioha unfortunately did not seek for the cancelation of those results due to over voting. Mind you the court is not a father Christmas. It only gives u what u ask for?

Hope was given what he sought for in d mist of the evidences surrounding his prayers! The court is not a calculator of votes it only grants prayers based on EVIDENCES before it.

We await details of Supreme Court ruling.

Ihedioha himself bleeped up.. Why creating more enemies to the one on ground upon resuming office?

He underrated those who might have struck a deal on his behalf regarding the supreme court judgements..

Mbaka over heard the plans and turned it to prophesy. We all sabi the miracle behind the disappearance of meat in the mouths

WATCHOVER:

No difference between you and Tanko

What can I say,even the holy book says the last shall become first but in Nigeria the 4th has become first

kahal29:
Accreditation is done at polling unit levels. Once election is cancelled in a polling unit, nothing is recorded from that polling unit during collation. Thus, when election results are cancelled, they usually don't form part of the accredited voters.

Though some people have often argued against this practice because they believe that it is intentionally done to prevent a rerun.

So looking at the Imo state case, the number of accredited voters will increase with the judgement. If these numbers now credited to Uzodinma was captured as invalid or cancelled votes, there would have been rerun because it's much more than the margin of victory between Ihedioha & Nwosu

However assuming without conceding that those votes were actually inflated, Ihedioha unfortunately did not seek for the cancelation of those results due to over voting. Mind you the court is not a father Christmas. It only gives u what u ask for?

Hope was given what he sought for in d mist of the evidences surrounding his prayers! The court is not a calculator of votes it only grants prayers based on EVIDENCES before it.

You ended up saying nothing.
The court can be a doctor, a criminologist, a statistician, and a researcher whenever necessary.
We don't expect the judges to understand basic arithmetics but in cases where they are
deficient in knowledge, they require experts guidance and testimony.

Unfortunately, the mathematically money-challenged judges manufactured votes from thin air.

When you have a certificate less Sharia head judge, what do you expect

medicine after death!

The abracadabra of the Supreme Court will continue to hunt all the members that deliver this judgement.

kahal29:
Accreditation is done at polling unit levels. Once election is cancelled in a polling unit, nothing is recorded from that polling unit during collation. Thus, when election results are cancelled, they usually don't form part of the accredited voters.

Though some people have often argued against this practice because they believe that it is intentionally done to prevent a rerun.

So looking at the Imo state case, the number of accredited voters will increase with the judgement. If these numbers now credited to Uzodinma was captured as invalid or cancelled votes, there would have been rerun because it's much more than the margin of victory between Ihedioha & Nwosu

However assuming without conceding that those votes were actually inflated, Ihedioha unfortunately did not seek for the cancelation of those results due to over voting. Mind you the court is not a father Christmas. It only gives u what u ask for?

Hope was given what he sought for in d mist of the evidences surrounding his prayers! The court is not a calculator of votes it only grants prayers based on EVIDENCES before it.

Thanks for this explanation. You have answered the question raised by YIAGA.

See me see "Supreme Confusion".

Tanko means Tinubu

See me see "Supreme Confusion".

Tanko means Tinubu.

This is what i refer to as advance wailing.
YIAGA that wanted to discredit the 2019 election before we burst their bubble. They should have as well taken the job of the Supreme Court.

Medicine after death though.

Nothing about the judgement makes sense.

By the so called supreme justices' dubious arithmetics, Hope had an average of 540 votes in each of the polling units where the additional votes were gotten from.

An average polling unit ranges from 500 to 750...

Imo has about 3,400+ polling units.

So the supreme court is in essence saying that victory in a little over 9% of the total polling units was enough for hope to garner over 200,000+ votes to beat Iheadioha...

Fine... But what about the number of votes iheadioha had in those 300+ polling units won by Hope?

By the supreme court's decision, the margin of victory was less than 30,000 votes.

Given that the total number of void votes according to INEC was about 26,000, it means Iheadioha needed only 4000 votes to force a rerun since the margin of victory would be less than total void votes...

So, the supreme court is inferring that Iheadioha could not get an average of 15 votes across the 300+ polling units which Hope won?

Or are they ignoring that on the premise of not having 2/3 spread? If that is the case, how would they know that Iheadioha does not have the 2/3 spread of his own votes in the disputed polling units awarded to Hope if ihedioha's own votes were not counted or taken into consideration?

More questions than answers...

ivandragon:
Nothing about the judgement makes sense.

By the so called supreme justices' dubious arithmetics, Hope had an average of 540 votes in each of the polling units where the additional votes were gotten from.

An average polling unit ranges from 500 to 750...

Imo has about 3,400+ polling units.

So the supreme court is in essence saying that victory in a little over 9% of the total polling units was enough for hope to garner over 200,000+ votes to beat Iheadioha...

Fine... But what about the number of votes iheadioha had in those 300+ polling units won by Hope?

By the supreme court's decision, the margin of victory was less than 30,000 votes.

Given that the total number of void votes according to INEC was about 26,000, it means Iheadioha needed only 4000 votes to force a rerun since the margin of victory would be less than total void votes...

So, the supreme court is inferring that Iheadioha could not get an average of 15 votes across the 300+ polling units which Hope won?

Or are they ignoring that on the premise of not having 2/3 spread? If that is the case, how would they know that Iheadioha does not have the 2/3 spread of his own votes in the disputed polling units awarded to Hope if ihedioha's own votes were not counted or taken into consideration?

More questions than answers...

you are very right oooo.