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Labour Party Slams INEC for Conducting Sham Election, Vows to Challenge Results

By
Samuel Nwite
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The Labour Party has rejected the results being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2023 presidential, House of Representatives and Senatorial elections.

A statement issued on Sunday by the party chairman, Julius Abure, said the electoral exercise has been marred by irregularities, voter intimidation, violence and result manipulations.

Abure, who had on Saturday raised alarm that INEC’s delayed transmission of results into INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) portal in real time will create room for manipulation of results, said that Labour Party has concrete evidence that results have been doctored in Lagos State, Rivers State, Imo State, parts of Edo State, Delta State, and some Northern states.

He said that INEC’s failure to follow established processes has allowed both state and non-state actors to influence the outcome of the elections, causing millions of Nigerians, particularly the teeming youth, disappointment and disillusion.

On Saturday, reports that electoral officials were refusing to upload the presidential results to INEC’s IReV from different polling units across the country, in clear violation of the Electoral Act, littered social media as voting was ongoing.

Abure also noted that INEC officials had blamed their actions on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, which they claimed was faulty, and also said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload the results.

INEC had in a statement on Sunday, assured Nigerians that the BVAS was not compromised and that their votes are safe.

“The Commission regrets this setback, especially because of the importance of IReV in our results management process. Consequently, the Commission wishes to assure Nigerians that the challenges are not due to any intrusion or sabotage of our systems, and that the IReV remains well-secured. Our technical team is working assiduously to solve all the outstanding problems, and users of the IReV would have noticed improvements since last night,” it said.

However, original copies of results being shared online by both Labour Party agents and supporters show differences in result figures INEC has on its portal, which shows Labour polling lower votes than it did in polling units. Abure said that and other evidence confirms that the result of the election is being doctored across the country.

He said that it took 24 hours for the presidential results, which were supposed to be uploaded in real time, to be sent to the INEC portal, creating enough time for the results to be manipulated.

The chairman said the decision of INEC to announce these doctored results based on manufactured voting, which were carried out under the watchful eyes and connivance of police officers at the various polling units and INEC offices, has defeated the efforts made by Nigerians to see that the Electoral Act was amended to allow for electronic transmission of results.

Read his full statement below:

As we are all aware, Nigeria held its general elections yesterday, an exercise that is ongoing as I speak. Yesterday, February 25, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission carried out elections nationwide for Presidential and National Assembly position.

The exercise has left millions of Nigerians disappointed and disillusioned because of the unprofessional conduct of state and non-state actors who participated in the process.

This press conference is to address the serious matters arising from the 2023 election, an extremely important election for Nigeria’s peace and development.

THE FAILURE OF INEC TO ABIDE BY THE PUBLISHED AND AGREED PROCESS

INEC by its conduct, has caused millions of Nigerians, particularly the teeming youth, who took part in this election with high hopes of a free and fair transparent process to hold strong feelings of disappointment and disillusionment.

The Electoral Act was amended in 2022 for the electronic transmission of results after they are declared at the polling units.

Nigerians participated in this process with the belief that the use of technology and adherence to the agreed electronic transmission of results to INEC servers at polling units would ensure free, fair, and transparent election.

Traditionally, Nigerians know that previous elections witnessed manipulations of results by desperate politicians at collation centres and polling units.

But, yesterday, Saturday, February 25, 2023, the very process which INEC assured Nigerians would be followed was truncated for whatever reasons. No matter what those reasons are, they are totally unacceptable to Nigerians and members of our party.

INEC servers shut down, and ONLY PRESIDENTIAL elections could not be uploaded onto the INEC server. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System did not work as planned.

This failure has undoubtedly given room for manipulating the presidential results being announced by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu at the Collation Centre in Abuja.

We have sufficient documentary evidence that confirms that manipulations of the presidential election results have occurred in Lagos State, Rivers State, Imo State, parts of Edo State, Delta State, and some Northern states.

These manipulations were carried out under the watchful eyes and connivance of police officers at the various polling units and INEC offices.

The decision of INEC to go ahead to announce these doctored results based on manufactured voting has defeated the efforts made by Nigerians to see that the Electoral Act was amended to allow for electronic transmission of results.

It is disheartening that 24 hours after the elections held across the country that INEC is still yet to upload the authentic results of the Presidential poll on its server. The excuse that the server is down is not tenable.

Because we had meetings with INEC before the election, and they assured all political parties, and indeed Nigerians, that they had a DATA RECOVERY SERVER and in the event of a technical hitch, the emergency server would be used until the main server was brought back online.

We find it difficult to accept the flimsy excuse that the INEC servers were down.

INEC OFFICIALS REFUSING TO UPLOAD PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS IN LAGOS AND DELTA STATES

We note the impunity which occurred in the entire Lagos State during the conduct of yesterday’s election.

There were widespread incidences of violence, ethnic profiling, and threats meted out on Nigerians, particularly those who supported the Labour Party and our Presidential Candidate, His Excellency Mr Peter Obi

LP agents report that in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, Ibeju Lekki, and others where results show that Labour won convincingly, INEC officials claimed that the BVAS suddenly developed faults when uploading results of the presidential election.

The same INEC officials uploaded the results of the National Assembly elections to the server without hitches.

INEC officials used the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the collation centre. And they said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload.

There were widespread incidences of violence, ethnic profiling, and threats meted out on Nigerians, particularly those who supported the Labour Party and our Presidential Candidate, His Excellency Mr Peter Obi.

LP agents report that in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, Ibeju Lekki, and others where results show that Labour won convincingly, INEC officials claimed that the BVAS suddenly developed faults when uploading results of the presidential election.

The same INEC officials uploaded the results of the National Assembly elections to the server without hitches.

INEC officials used the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the collation centre. And they said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload.

In Kosofe, they put the collation centre in a Local Government Area Headquarters. The place is surrounded by APC members, and people fear for their lives. INEC officials were not uploading the results. They said they had been instructed to insist that BVAS are faulty.

Xiaomi Launches Flagship Smartphone, Aims to Battle Apple And Samsung

By
Ojukwu Emmanuel
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Chinese tech company Xiaomi has recently launched its flagship smartphone globally as it seeks to battle giant smartphone brands Apple and Samsung.

The company recently rolled out its latest Xiaomi 13 and 13 pro, which will be available on March, starting from the 14th. The Pro model which comes with 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage is pegged at a price of £1,099, while the lower-end Xiaomi 13 (8GB+256GB) is priced at £849. Meanwhile, the Xiaomi 13 Lite (8GB+128GB) is priced at £449 and is currently available.

The new flagships from the Chinese manufacturer, features the latest Snapdragon chip, with up to 12GB RAM and 512GB internal memory, alongside a reworked camera system in collaboration with Leica.

The Xiaomi 13 Pro device sports a 6.73-inch display and the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset from U.S. firm Qualcomm. It has a triple-lens camera and other premium features like ultra-fast charging. Also, the Xiaomi 13 comes with a 6.36-inch OLED display while the Xiaomi 13 Pro flaunts a 6.73-inch curved 2K OLED display.

Xiaomi is currently facing multiple headwinds due to a difficult macroeconomic environment with a slowing economy in China due to strong competition it is facing with giant smartphone brand apple.

According to tech analyst Neil Mawston, he disclosed that Xiaomi is faced with strong competition from Apple iPhone, due to fickle Chinese consumers who often switch between Android hardware brands in a flash.

The Chinese smartphone giant reported a decline of 9.7% YoY in its Q3 2022 revenue at RMB 70.5 billion (or $9.8 billion). The revenue decline was attributed to a slowdown in the company’s three major segments – smartphones, AIoT and internet services. The smartphone segment suffered the biggest decline among the three, with revenue down 11.1% YoY.

Coupled with fierce competition from local players Oppo, Vivo and Honor, as well as Apple’s latest series, Xiaomi’s market position dropped one rank to reach fifth during the quarter.

Last year, the company’s chief founder and chief executive Lei Jun disclosed the intention to challenge Apple, noting that the company will specifically focus on the high-end segment of the global smartphone market.

He said, “We aim to fully benchmark against Apple in terms of product and experience, and become China’s biggest high-end brand in the next three years”. He went on to describe competition with Apple in the high-end smartphone segment as “a war of life and death” that Xiaomi must overcome.

The Chinese phone maker seeks to attract more customers by distinguishing itself from other major Chinese Android smartphone brands that are also targeting Apple’s lucrative high-end segment by focusing on user experience.

Founded in 2010, Xiaomi has turned into one of the biggest smartphone makers over the years via a strategy of bringing out high-spec devices at very competitive price points.

INEC Nigeria Cites Technical Glitches as Reason For Delay in The Upload of Election Results

By
Ojukwu Emmanuel
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recently cited technical glitches as a reason for the delay in the uploading of election results.

INEC’s commissioner of information and voter education Festus Okoye in a statement released on Sunday stated that, unlike the off-season elections, the portal has been relatively slow and unsteady.

He however expressed regrets for any setbacks it has caused, due to how important the IRev is in the election results management process.

In his words,

“The problem is totally due to technical glitches related to scaling up of the IReV from a platform for managing off-season, state elections to one for managing of nationwide general elections. It is indeed not unusual for glitches to occur and be corrected in such situations.”

He further gave the assurance that the delays are not due to any sabotage of the INEC systems, noting that the IRev remains well-secured.

“We also wish to assure Nigerians that results from the Polling unit copies of which were issued to political parties are safe on both the BVAS and the IReV portal.

“These results cannot be tampered with, and any discrepancy between them and the physical results used in collation will be thoroughly investigated and remediated, in line with Section 65 of the Electoral Act 2022,” he added.

He concluded that the commission’s technical team is working effortlessly to solve all the outstanding problems, as users of the IReV would have noticed improvements since.

The delay in uploading the election results has caused so much frustration among Nigerians, which has seen most of them take to social media to express their anger.

While many have urged INEC to upload the results on the IRev as quickly as possible, reports reveal that most results of several polling units across the country were not uploaded almost 24 hours later.

Despite the claims of INEC that the results will not be sabotaged, many have speculated that the delay could be a means to tamper with the results.

A user @iheonucharles said, “Inec may be under pressure to compromise this election! Let’s lend our voices to avoid manipulation of the results !”

Another user @elshado66 said, “I was forced to share hotspots to ensure that these enemies of democracy upload the results of some polling units to the Inec server after they wanted to leave without uploading the results on the ground of a poor network in a satellite town.”

@ChukwunonsouUJ said, “INEC has been bought off….the results they will announce have been doctored. In my unit and other units in my ward, votes were not counted, rather Gov. Wike’s boys carried them here and asked everybody to leave including party agents.”

IReV, which stands for INEC Results Viewing Portal, is a platform that enables people to view election results in real time from various polling units across the country.

The IReV was put to use in the recent off-season elections, including the Ekiti and Osun governorship polls which gave credibility to the exercise. The portal is also backed by the 2022 Electoral Act which gives INEC the power to deploy appropriate technologies for the conduct of elections in the country.

Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election Should be Discountenanced

By
Stanley Alieke
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No matter whoever wins the 2023 presidential election, it should be known that Saturday’s presidential election was never credible nor was it free and fair; it was marred with a lot of electoral malpractices and electoral crimes. People were beaten, harassed and intimidated at their polling stations, thugs snatched and carted away the ballot boxes, a woman got her head broken with a bottle by thugs in Lagos, phones of participants were snatched away; election results were not appropriately uploaded at the central systems as the law demanded, there was open vote buying and other despicable electoral malpractices which have rendered that election null and void.

I do not want to join the laymen in screaming that the election has been rigged because I do not have the facts or evidence to make such wild accusations yet as a lawyer but from every indication, “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it is definitely a duck”.

I do not know the surprise INEC have in store for Nigerians; they have admitted that the election of yesterday encountered a lot of hitches but it will be honourable for them to own up to the fact that what has been going on since yesterday from the failure of the BVAS to failure to accreditate some of the voters to failure to failure upload results online etc is more than just a hitch, it is a disastrous failure on the part of INEC which grounds the opinion that the presidential election of yesterday was not credible and should be discountenanced. 

For those aggrieved party members who are planning on staging a protest, let them all shield their swords, protest will lead to chaos which will further lead to the destruction of lives and properties. Many people have lost their lives already and many properties have been lost since the beginning of this year, Nigeria cannot take any further push.

Let us all hope that INEC will do the right thing but if they fail to do the right thing, the judiciary which we all believe to be the last hope of the common man will always be there right the wrongs because everyone witnessed that yesterday’s presidential election was never credible and can be awarded as the worst election that has been conducted in the history of Nigeria politics and that election should therefore be declared null and void.

 

Labour Party Chairman, Governorship Aspirant, Raise Alarm Over INEC’s Delayed Transmission of Results

By
Samuel Nwite
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The Labour Party has raised alarm over the delay of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upload the result of the presidential election collated in different polling units in Lagos to the central server.

The National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, in a statement on Saturday night, said many results have not been remitted to INEC’s central server in many places where the Labour Party has won.

He said that INEC officials, in connivance with the security agencies, are claiming that the BVAS have suddenly developed a fault and, therefore cannot function.

The National Chairman said this amid reports of widespread voter intimidation and violence reportedly meted against Labour Party by thugs sponsored by the ruling All Progressive Congress in some states.

Abure said that according to information from the Labour Party’s field men, in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, and Ibeju Lekki, amongst others where results shows that Labour Party won convincingly, the INEC officials claim that the BVAS suddenly developed fault.

He added that the BVAS works fine for House of Reps and senatorial results, but becomes faulty only when it concerns uploading results of the presidential election.

“Information reaching me has it that in Lagos, they have refused to upload the results for the presidential election, they have uploaded that of the Senate and House of Representatives but for the presidential, they have refused. And they are using the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the place. And they said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload,” he said.

“For example, in Kosofe, they put the collation centre in a Local Government Area Headquarters. The place is surrounded by the APC and people are afraid of their life. They are not uploading, they said that they have been giving instruction to insist that the BVAS is faulty,” he said.

“And most of the places we won, but they have refused to upload,” he added.

Abure further alleged that security agents are colluding with the APC officials to manipulate the results of the election.

“As I speak, APC officials are in Yaba office of INEC negotiating with the officials. What I have said now is happening in Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, we have this situation all over.

“In Ibeju Lekki, our local government chairman who attempted to stop them was arrested by the police,” he said.

There are reports that Labour Party voters in Rivers State are also facing the same situation, with both state and non-state actors forcing INEC officials to change the results of votes in favor of the APC.

Abure said that a similar situation is playing out across the collation centers in Delta State, calling on INEC to ensure that only genuine and verifiable results generated from the various polling units should be uploaded.

He also called on the police to help this democracy to work and should resist the lure by the politicians to mar the gains of democracy by refusing to be used to deny Nigerians their choice of leaders.

Also, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Lagos state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, “the massive violence” unleashed on the party’s supporters in many parts of Lagos State.

Pointing at Ikate, Surulere, Sangotedo, Aguda, Oshodi and other places where the party supporters were attacked and voting was disrupted, Gbadebo alleged that the ruling party has resorted to violence because the Labour Party is winning, especially in its strongholds.

“We are disturbed by the reporting we are getting about the attacks on our supporters in Ikate, Sangotedo, Aguda, Oshodi, Osolo among others. This is sad for democracy. Ballot boxes were snatched, voters threatened and beaten. We saw the video where a thug was asking those not voting for APC in Surulere to leave the queue if they don’t want to be beaten,” he said, urging INEC to upload results on its portal to eliminate chances of rigging.

INEC has begun transmitting results to its portal.

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