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I am suggesting that the Newly Proposed Electoral-Act Amendments/Reforms should include the following clauses:

“The INEC (also known as “The Commission”) must be mandated to make available all their results (both physical and electronic results) and all their devices and all the other documents which were used in the election, and supply all of them to any certified independent forensic auditor of their choice -- selected through proper Due Process -- for the purpose of forensic auditing.
This must be done within 4 days after the election results are announced.

“And that the fully-detailed report of the forensic audit must be released and made available to the public on or before 21 days after the election results are announced.”

Failure of the INEC to do the Mandatory Forensic Audit of any election as stipulated would render the election Null-and-Void.

The Electoral-Act must also indicate that:
“The CTC of the Forensic Audit of the election which was done by the INEC’s Forensic Auditor can be tendered and be itted as evidence in court or at the Election Petition Tribunal”.

And again, any political party or any third-party who demands for the CTCs of any of those original results from the INEC (both the physical and electronic results), or any of the INEC documents, and/or any of the CTCs of the extracts from any of the devices used during the election, shall apply for the CTCs of the relevant documents as would be necessary, and pay the istrative fees for reproducing the CTCs of the documents as may be required.
INEC is mandated to produce the requested CTCs within 14 days, failure of which would be regarded as a breach of the Electoral-Act., of which the penalty would be the cancellation of the affected polling-units or Collation Centers for which INEC failed to provide the needed CTCs of results or necessary documents.

Furthermore, the Electoral-Act Amendments/Reforms should make it very clear that:
“Any CTCs of any documents which were reproduced by any institution will be presumed to be provided at the court with the full permission and authorization of the particular institution which reproduced those CTCs.

“And that means, all that is required is for the institution which reproduced the CTCs to accept the responsibility of producing and owning such CTCs.
And with that, there won't be need for any party to start calling any more Witnesses in order to authenticate those CTCs again”.

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THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THESE NECESSARY CLAUSES INSIDE THE AMENDED/REFORMED ELECTORAL-ACT..!!

A lot still needs to be done.

Furthermore, Electoral-Act Amendments should make it very clear that:
“Any CTCs of any documents which are produced by any institution are assumed to be provided at the court with the full authorization of the particular institution which produced those CTCs.

“And that all that is required is for the institution to accept the responsibility of producing and owning such CTCs.
And with that, there won't be need for calling multiple Witnesses in order to authenticate those CTCs again”.

*** MEANWHILE...

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INEC had found it so comfortable to continue to deliberately refuse to fully abide by the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022.

The INEC selects only some few portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 to abide with, while they discard the rest.

And therefore, it becomes necessary for the INEC to be forced to obey those portions of the Electoral-Act-2022 which they had continued to discard and disrespect.

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I am of the opinion that any of the Opposition Political Parties should just wake-up, and step-up, and brave-up, and wise-up, and approach any of the Federal High Courts in the country in order to obtain “A Court-Order that mandates the INEC officials at every Collation Center at all levels of Collation to “COMPLETELY TREAT ALL THE DISPUTES THAT WERE RAISED BEFORE THEM -- AND THEY MUST DO THIS BY CALLING-UP FOR ALL THE BVAS-MACHINES OF ALL THE AFFECTED/DISPUTED POLLING-UNITS” -- in accordance with the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022”.

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The Court-Order should also state it very clearly that “any results which emanated from a Collation Center where the INEC’s Collation Officer did not COMPLETELY treat all the disputes that were raised -- according to the dictates of the Electoral-Act-2022 -- shall be Null-and-Void”

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Here below is the context for the above opinion of mine.

When any of the Opposition Parties approaches the Federal High Court (with the Attorney-General and INEC as the defendants as usual), they should urge the Court to fully read the whole of Section:47 and Section:64 of the Electoral-Act-2022, and to determine whether there is a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022 if any of the following occurrences happen:

a. If the Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to treat the disputes that were raised at that Collation Center -- according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022.

b. If the Collation Officer at any intermediate-level Collation Center, instead of treating the disputes raised at that Collation Center (according to the procedures outlined in the Electoral-Act-2022), goes ahead to announce that “all the raised disputes would be fully treated at the final collation center”.

c. If the Collation Officer at any Collation Center refuses to call for ALL the BVAS-Machines (or any electronic Accreditation Device used for the Accreditation in the election) of ALL the affected polling-units that were raised in the disputes.

d. If the Collation Officer at any Collation Center could not completely treat and conclude ALL those disputes that were raised at that Collation Center before transmitting or transferring or conveying the collated results to the next-level collation officer.

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If the court determines that ANY of the above acts constitute a breach of the Electoral-Act-2022, then the court should also go ahead to determine whether such breaches could be enough reasons to render the collated results emanating from the Collation Exercise at that Collation Center as Null-and-Void.

Furthermore, If after the Final Results of the election had already been announced and declared, and such breaches at some Collation Centers were established during the Election Petition Tribunal, the court should also determine whether such established breaches (at the Election Petition Tribunal) are enough to render the collated results emanating from those Collation Exercises at such Collation Centers as Null-and-Void.

And consequently, the court should also determine whether those “supposedly faulty collated results” which emanated from those Collation Centers where the breaches were established, shall be Expunged from all the Subsequent Collated Results that emanated from the upper-level Collation Centers -- (That is, assuming that there were no such similar breaches that were established at the upper-level Collation Centers in question)

After the whole interpretations, the court can now issue an order to the INEC in order for them to strictly abide the “Rules” during the Collation of Results.

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The Fact that the INEC had not been properly and appropriately implementing the already-existing Electoral-Act-2022, it is a VERY BIG POINTER that even if we push for the New Electoral Reforms and have them in place,, THE INEC WILL STILL NOT IMPLEMENT THEM PROPERLY AND APPROPRIATELY AGAIN -- AS USUAL.

AND THERE IS NOTHING ANY OF US CAN DO ABOUT IT -- EVEN IF THEY ABANDONED THE NEW REFORMS IN WAYS THAT ARE WORSE THAN WHAT THEY DID TO THE ELECTORAL-ACT-2022, NOBODY IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

Just the way we are doing nothing now that they are Not implementing the existing Electoral-Act-2022 properly and appropriately,, we will still not do anything in the future if they still throw the new reforms aside and do things anyhow they liked.

LET US FIRST-OF-ALL FORCE THEM TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THE CURRENTLY EXISTING ELECTORAL-ACT-2022 PROPERLY AND APPROPRIATELY.
THEN WE CAN START TALKING ABOUT HAVING NEW REFORMS AND HOW TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THEM.

Fergie001

Racoon, Penguin2, Helinues, Garfield1, Dalitigator, Bobloco

How will Cynthia Okeke be able to rig for LP and her kinsman if all these are implemented?

By the way, just to remind you, Peter Obí had no problems with figures released by INEC showing he came third.

He and his charge and bail yahoo lawyers were claiming because IREV had blurred images, the election should be rerun. This is even though the paper results were avaliable and showed President Tinubu ran an excellent campaign to defeat all comers in the most exciting and reveting Presidential election in Nigeria's history.

So oga, bikonu rest.

aswani:
How will Cynthia Okeke be able to rig for LP and her kinsman if all these are implemented?

By the way, just to remind you, Peter Obí had no problems with figures released by INEC showing he came third.

He and his charge and bail yahoo lawyers were claiming because IREV had blurred images, the election should be rerun. This is even though the paper results were avaliable and showed President Tinubu ran an excellent campaign to defeat all comers in the most exciting and reveting Presidential election in Nigeria's history.

So oga, bikonu rest.

Later this person will swear with his life and that of his unborn babies that he never ed or s tilumbu lol 😂😆

I say verily unto you this day, that before the next 6 months you will carry that your dusty APC cap and adorn it on your small head for everyone to see

Or you go continue to dey explain tayaa without a singishred of EVIDENCE

SeeWahala:


Later this person will swear with his life and that of his unborn babies that he never ed or s tilumbu lol 😂😆

I say verily unto you this day, that before the next 6 months you will carry that your dusty APC cap and adorn it on your small head for everyone to see

Or you go continue to dey explain tayaa without a singishred of EVIDENCE

Not a problem with you following me and my posts around, anyone mildly intellectual and I'll take it as a compliment. From you, nutin spoil.

That I can acknowledge President Tinubu ran a super campaign doesn't mean I voted for him or his party. As a matter of fact, I never have and out of principle, doubt I ever will despite the hard work he is putting in to turn the economy around.

So, once more for the hard of hearing. I am not APC and have never voted for President Tinubu since he put himself up for and won the Senate seat all those years ago.

aswani:


Not a problem with you following me and my posts around, anyone mildly intellectual and I'll take it as a compliment. From you, nutin spoil.

That I can acknowledge President Tinubu ran a super campaign doesn't mean I voted for him or his party. As a matter of fact, I never have and out of principle, doubt I ever will despite the hard work he is putting in to turn the economy around.

So, once more for the hard of hearing. I am not APC and have never voted for President Tinubu since he put himself up for and won the Senate seat all those years ago.

As I said earlier . . .

you go explain TAYAAA

hehehe 🤣😆

It is now obvious that all past elections were conducted like JAMB.
We are waiting for Mahmoud Yakubu to come open and apologize and weep like the DG of JAMB for the nonsense he conducted in 2023.
What you all saw in JAMB is a reflection of the current situation in Nigeria.
It happens in all the sector.

BluntCrazeMan:
Racoon, Penguin2, Helinues, Garfield1, Dalitigator, Bobloco

The only reason we were able to see the anomaly in JAMB was because they didn’t protect their head office with detachment of military troop like INEC.

But unlike JAMB, INEC locked its gates and asked us to go to court. They shut down every attempt to scrutinize and audit their conduct of the election.

Even when the courts ordered them to release the BVAS machine to litigants, it took them days to obey that simple order. But mind you that even the BVAS machine is only but an input device of the front end. Because the real koko of INEC’s abracadabra is in the backend of their server. But they never allowed access to their backend.

So yes, if it can be become legal for INEC’s server to be audited after every election, it would be a good one.

The question is, will they obey the provision?

Agreed! All these issues should be resolved before whosoever won should be sworn into power.

What is the need of an election if you have to do forensic audit every time you conduct an election?

The cost of forensic audit would be enough to build a modular nuclear plant.

We waste alot of time in Nigeria doing nothing. Vote go home wait for the result

SeeWahala:


As I said earlier . . .

hehehe 🤣😆

Ọ ma

aswani:


Ọ ma

Sè òoo

Yoluba man claiming minority to attack Igbos

Keep suggesting more ideas till 2031..

IgOga:


What is the need of an election if you have to do forensic audit every time you conduct an election?

The cost of forensic audit would be enough to build a modular nuclear plant.

We waste alot of time in Nigeria doing nothing. Vote go home wait for the result

Good morning Sir, please help me pls🙏

Empty comment .

aswani:
How will Cynthia Okeke be able to rig for LP and her kinsman if all these are implemented?

By the way, just to remind you, Peter Obí had no problems with figures released by INEC showing he came third.

He and his charge and bail yahoo lawyers were claiming because IREV had blurred images, the election should be rerun. This is even though the paper results were avaliable and showed President Tinubu ran an excellent campaign to defeat all comers in the most exciting and reveting Presidential election in Nigeria's history.

So oga, bikonu rest.

IgOga:


What is the need of an election if you have to do forensic audit every time you conduct an election?

The cost of forensic audit would be enough to build a modular nuclear plant.

We waste alot of time in Nigeria doing nothing. Vote go home wait for the result

Because you think the current rot favors your tribesman abi. Don't cry blood when the tide turns .

SeeWahala:


Sè òoo

Yoluba man claiming minority to attack Igbos

I don't attack Ndigbo, I put Obidients in their place because they need to calm down and recover from the pain of Peter Obi losing the elections.

I am very prod of what I am oga, also couldn't care what you label me as.

aswani:
How will CYNTHIA OKEKE be able to rig for LP and her kinsman if all these are implemented?

Who exactly is Cynthia Okeke please?

Meanwhile, what I suggested above is something that is targeted at Zero-Rigging for anybody and everybody.
So, I don't really understand your question.

By the way, just to remind you, Peter Obi had no problems with figures released by INEC showing he came third.

He and his charge-and-bail yahoo lawyers were claiming because IREV had blurred images, the election should be rerun. This is even though the paper results were avaliable and showed President Tinubu ran an excellent campaign to defeat all comers in the most exciting and reveting Presidential election in Nigeria's history.

This particular thread here is not for us to start discussing about the 2023 election.
Not at all..!!
Neither does the topic has anything to do about any known politician.
So, I don't know why you're talking about Peter-Obi and Tinubu here.

So oga, bikonu rest.

In case you might want to know,, this particular topic here is about the ongoing electoral reforms.

It has a lot to do with the future elections, and not anything that happened in the past.

Auditing of the whole results and process will make the election petition tribunal to be settled as quickly as possible.

SeeWahala:


Later this person will swear with his life and that of his unborn babies that he never ed or s tilumbu lol 😂😆

But he no dey hide who he is ing naa.
From his comment alone, you go know.

I say verily unto you this day, that before the next 6 months you will carry that your dusty APC cap and adorn it on your small head for everyone to see

Or you go continue to dey explain tayaa without a singishred of EVIDENCE

No mind the guy abbegg.

aswani:


Not a problem with you following me and my posts around, anyone mildly intellectual and I'll take it as a compliment. From you, nutin spoil.

That I can acknowledge President Tinubu ran a super campaign doesn't mean I voted for him or his party. As a matter of fact, I never have and out of principle, doubt I ever will despite the hard work he is putting in to turn the economy around.

So, once more for the hard of hearing. I am not APC and have never voted for President Tinubu since he put himself up for and won the Senate seat all those years ago.

So,, what exactly is your opinion about Auditing of both the whole process and the whole results of any election by an independent forensic auditor?

ogaemma:
It is now obvious that all past elections were conducted like JAMB.
We are waiting for Mahmoud Yakubu to come open and apologize and weep like the DG of JAMB for the nonsense he conducted in 2023.
What you all saw in JAMB is a reflection of the current situation in Nigeria.
It happens in all the sector.

People are now calling for a Forensic Audit of the whole of the JAMB CBT Examination Platform starting from 10-years ago till now.

BluntCrazeMan:


People are now calling for a Forensic Audit of the whole of the JAMB CBT Examination Platform starting from 10-years ago till now.

Lalasticlala, Nlfpmod

Penguin2:

The only reason we were able to see the anomaly in JAMB was because they didn’t protect their head office with detachment of military troop like INEC.

But unlike JAMB, INEC locked its gates and asked us to go to court. They shut down every attempt to scrutinize and audit their conduct of the election.

Even when the courts ordered them to release the BVAS machine to litigants, it took them days to obey that simple order. But mind you that even the BVAS machine is only but an input device of the front end. Because the real koko of INEC’s abracadabra is in the backend of their server. But they never allowed access to their backend.

So yes, if it can be become legal for INEC’s server to be audited after every election, it would be a good one.

The question is, will they obey the provision?

If there is provision for Forensic Audit in the Electoral-Act and they refused to Obey, they would dragged to court for it.

I would really prefer if the provision the Electoral-Act to state that the penalty for refusing the Audit is to nullify the election.

Racoon:
Agreed! All these issues should be resolved before whosoever won should be sworn into power.

For real..

Maximum of One Month, and everything had been fully settled.

IgOga:


What is the need of an election if you have to do forensic audit every time you conduct an election?

You're sort of asking “what is the need of an election if any of the parties would have to head to the Election Petition Tribunal and be demanding for the CTCs of the results from the INEC..”

The cost of forensic audit would be enough to build a modular nuclear plant.

The cost of conducting the election itself is enough to build 30 modular nuclear plants, yet we still conduct elections that has lots unanswered questions. So, you are saying that the additional cost of one modular nuclear plant which would make the elections clearer, and having more detailed answers to a lot of possible questions - is what would be the problem.??

We waste alot of time in Nigeria doing nothing. Vote go home wait for the result

So, what is wrong with:
“Vote, Go Home, Wait for the result, and also wait for the Audit Report”.??

GeneralPula:
Keep suggesting more ideas till 2031..

Let me tell you why I am suggesting.

Some of those ones I suggested all through 2020 and 2021 were added to the Electoral-Act-2022.


And when the Electoral-Act-2022 came out, I wasn't so happy then because they added some and refused to add the rest.

So you see,, I am not going to stop having lots of ideas.