INEC Document Exposes Massive Fraud By PDP, INEC, In Rivers State Guber Poll
the credibility of the April 11 governorship election in
Rivers withdraw their cases from the election petition
tribunal or fail to present material evidence like the
one exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES,
Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, who
was returned winner of the election is as good as
gone.
Mr. Wike may need a miracle to come out of the
election petition tribunal victorious.
The evidence against the legitimacy of the election
that returned him winner is too damning and
overwhelming, this newspaper can authoritatively
report today.
The Independent National Electoral Commission in
Rivers awarded Mr. Wike votes almost five times
higher than the actual, authentic total number of
voters accredited with card readers and Permanent
Voter Cards which was 292, 878, PREMIUM TIMES
investigation has revealed.
According to the result declared by the Returning
Officer for Rivers State, Osasere Orumwense on April
13, Mr. Wike was awarded 1,029,102 votes,
representing 87.77 per cent of 1,228,614, being the
conjured number of total accredited voters.
However, according to a bulky 94-page INEC
endorsed document exclusively obtained by
PREMIUM TIMES, the total number of accredited
voters for the April 11 guber election in Rivers was
292, 878.
The document was signed by Ibrahim Bawa, the
acting director in charge of INEC Legal Unit and
Abimbola Oladunjoye, head of unit, Data
Management, of the Commission's Information
Communication Territory Department.
Checks by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that it is
practically impossible for Mr. Wike or any other
candidate in the election to garner votes exceeding
the total number of accredited voters, not to talk of
amassing such hyper-inflated figure of 1,029,102
awarded Mr. Wike.
In Nigeria's current electoral system, INEC's central
server automatically generates figures of voters
accredited with the electronic Smart Card Readers
and Permanent Voters' Cards across the polling units.
INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega, said before the
election that the arrangement was to prevent
electoral fraud, especially falsification of number of
accredited voters, to inflate number of votes cast, as
in the case of PDP and Mr. Wike, and of course INEC
in Rivers State.
Insiders in INEC told PREMIUM TIMES that the
number of accredited voters generated by the
commission's central server is the valid, actual and
authentic one for the Rivers State April 11 elections
and that it would impossible for anyone to justify the
excess votes allocated to Mr. Wike.
In the document, detailing polling unit by polling unit
analysis of actual voters' accreditation for the
election, none of the 23 Local Government Areas
(LGAs) had up to 51, 000 accredited voters.
Rivers State is currently delineated into 319
Registration Areas (Wards) and 4,442 polling units.
Port Harcourt LGA had the highest number of
accredited voters with 50, 962, while Khana LGA had
just 145 registered voters turning up for
accreditation.
Our LGA by LGA analysis of the accredited votes
shows that Obio/Akpor had 40,481 accredited voters
and it was the only LGA with more than 40,000 but
lower than 50,000.
Ogba/Egbema/Ndonu LGA had 24,816 accredited
voters, while Ikwere LGA had 22,274.
Seven LGAs had between 10,000 and 20,000
accredited voters, according to the INEC endorsed
document. They are Ahoada East (16,116 accredited
voters); Ahoada West (16,369); Bonny (15,503);
Degema (16,993); Akuku-Toru (12,439); Andoni
(13,530); and Gokana (12,127).
Others were Asari-Toru (7,328); Emohua (5,014);
Okrika (8,790); Opobo Nekoro (7,313); and Oyingbo
(9,503); Abual-Odual (2,054); Omuma (1,998); Etche
(1,268); Eleme (3,530); Khana (145); Ogu/Bolo (903);
and Tai (3,362).
INEC insiders said the only ground that could explain
the number of accredited voters in the election
exceeding 292,887 is if manual accreditation were
used in addition to the use of card readers.
But INEC did not approve the use of manual
accreditation for governorship election in any of the
states of the Federation.
"The Independent National Electoral Commission
wishes to inform all Nigerians that Card Readers will
be used for the April 11, 2015 Elections," Augusta
Ogakwu, Secretary to the Commission, said in a
statement on April 6.
On Friday, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC
Chairman, Kayode Idowu, confirmed to PREMIUM
TIMES that manual accreditation was not employed
in any state for the April 11 elections.
The petitioners challenging Mr. Wike's purported
victory at the election petition tribunal are Kemka
Elenwo, KOWA party; Dakuku Peterside, All
Progressives Congress; Charles Harry, All
Progressives Grand Alliance; and Minaibim Harry,
Social Democratic Party.
Election observers, including the European Union
Election Observation Mission to Nigeria's 2015
elections, had condemned the elections in Rivers
State, alleging violence and irregularities.
Source: Premium Times
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