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The
Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Democracy
Organizations (SBCHROs), a
coalition of 22 rights and democracy organisations in Southeast Nigeria, on
Friday released the outcome of its “in-depth investigation behind massive or
widespread rigging of the last Saturday’s Presidential Poll and mindless
subversion of the sacred electoral wishes of the Nigerian People.”
Groups
in the coalition are: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
(Onitsha), 2. CLO, Southeast Zone (Enugu), 3. CLO, Anambra State Branch
(Onitsha), 4. Forum for Promotion of National Ethos & Values (Enugu), 5.
Igbo Ekunie Initiative (United Kingdom), 6. Int’l Solidarity for Peace &
Human Rights Initiative (Enugu), 7. Foundation for Environmental Rights, 8.
Advocacy & Dev (Aba), 9. Society for Economic Rights & Social Justice
(Aba), 10.
Human
Rights Organization of Nigeria (Onitsha), 11. Center for Human Rights &
Peace Advocacy (Onitsha), 12. Southeast Good Governance Forum (Awka), 13.
Society Watch & Advocacy Project (of Intersociety) (Onitsha), 14.
Initiative for Ideal Dev & Emancipatory Leadership in Nigeria (Aba), 15.
Igbo National Council (Owerri), 16. Anambra Human Rights Forum (Awka), 17.
Voice of the Voiceless Int’l (Awka), 18. Easy Life Initiative for Rural Youths
(Aba), 19. Igbo Bu Igbo Organization (Enugu), 20. Community Empowerment Network
(Aba), 21. Southeast Movement against Transactional Politics & Profligacy
(Awka), 22. Prof Justice Chidi (Southeast Academia) and 23. Neighborhood
Environmental Watch Foundation (Abakiliki).
“Nigerians,”
the coalition said in a statement announcing its findings, “must be told in
plain and arithmetic language and signs how their sacred electoral wishes were
subverted in industrial scale and with impunity by the integrity challenged
INEC and the country’s riotous political leadership and its brigade of goons.
“Not
only that in the end, the real winner of that important poll was undeclared and
closer rival declared “winner” by the integrity challenged INEC but also the
declared “winner” and his violent loyalists are going about attacking or
sponsoring group violence against independent voters particularly citizens of
Igbo Nation; for voting against them in the said poll. Violent attacks or
harassments have intensified in Igbo dominated areas of Lagos, Ibadan, FCT and
other parts of northern Nigeria. In Jos, Plateau State, Igbo traders now go to
their shops late and close early to avoid being attacked by hired northern
hooligans.”
Continuing,
SBCHROs said in the statement signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Aloysius Attah,
Jerry Chukwuokoro, PhD, and Prof Justice Chidi-Chidi:
“By
law and other conventions associated with electoral process, the electoral
umpire of every country must be allowed to announce results of a given election
and announce a winner, rightly or wrongly; after which the electorates, in part
or in whole, including groups or individuals can legally exercise their right
of reply, disputing or concurring graphically with the declaration by the named
electoral umpire. Such exercise of right of reply includes going to electoral
tribunal, rejecting or accepting the verdict of the electoral umpire; all
within the confines of the law. The declaration done by the electoral umpire
such as Nigeria’s INEC stands until invalidated by the electoral court of last
resort.
“It
is recalled that a key member of this Coalition,
Intersociety had on 26th Feb issued a
statement, calling on PDP not to preemptively announce its collated results of
the said Presidential Poll but allow INEC to finish its own announcement and
declare a winner, after which the Party could reply the Commission and tell
Nigerians how it was massively rigged; with State-by-State breakdown. Intersociety’s advisory statement had
arisen on account of the PDP’s earlier statement rejecting the results as being
announced by INEC; saying they were brutally at variance with the collated
results in the possession of the Party and accredited poll observers
particularly the international observers.
“Legitimate Access To Election Results In Nigeria
“Polling
unit originated results of election in Nigeria are derived from three main
sources: (a) eyewitnesses/polling unit pasted results; (b) INEC retained copies
of FormEC8A results
and (c) Party agents’ copies
of FormEC8A results. Among
all the INEC result sheets, the FormEC8A
derived results are the primus inter pares of all INEC
results. While others can easily be padded or suppressed or manipulated, those
in FormEC8As are
difficult to be manipulated.
“FormEC8A results are derived from
polling units and must be signed and co-signed at the end of the election by
the unit’s polling officer, who must also stamped same with the date of the
poll and name of the polling unit before being counter-signed by participating
party agents; after which each of the participating party agents must be given
a copy for onward transmission to his or her party. FormEC8As are key to winning
election tribunal cases including being declared winner or getting the
fraudulently conducted nullified.
“We
therefore woke up this morning to see and study on Nigerian social and online
media two tabulated and tabled results breakdown of the 2019 Presidential Poll
from the 36 States and the FCT. The two tables showed the results declared by
INEC side by side with those reportedly originated from accredited foreign
observers and the camp of the PDP; clearly indicating the glaring disparities
between what INEC declared and those obtained by the duo.
“The
tables further indicated States where unlawful and inflated vote figures were
added to APC as well as where PDP vote figures were suppressed or mangled.
Contacts were extensively made to authenticate the source(s) and genuineness of
the analytical results breakdown; all done strictly in accordance with
corporate and individual citizens’ right of reply. The findings made by
the Coalition paid
off with reception of a privileged copy of the int’l observers’ obtained
results.
“We
were further made to understand that the foreign observers have resolved to
tread with caution so as not to cause diplomatic row or tension by directly and
publicly releasing their obtained results. Instance was cited in the Angolan
national poll of 1992; where the foreign observers obtained all the results few
hours after the results but withheld same for two weeks so as to avoid
preemptive publication of same.
“Calls
were also made by the Coalition to
PDP’s camp to ascertain the conformity of its collected FormEC8A results with those of the
foreign observers; and the answer was in positive. For easy reading, the plain and disputed or grey areas of the INEC
declared results; compared with the undeclared winner’s results are
analytically re-presented or broken down by the Coalitionbelow on State-by-State
category.
(1) Abia: INEC declared results: APC-85,058, PDP-219,698:
Int’l Observers/PDP obtained results(same with INEC declared figures)
(2) Anambra: INEC declared: APC-33,298, PDP-524,738-same with
int’l observers/PDP obtained results
(3) Imo: INEC declared: APC-140,961, PDP-334,923-same with
int’l observers/PDP obtained results
(4) Ebonyi: INEC declared: APC-90,726, PDP-258,573: int’l
observers/PDP(2 votes reduced from PDP votes)
(5) Enugu: INEC declared: APC-54,423, PDP-355,553: int’l
observers/PDP remarks (200 votes added to PDP)
(6) Cross River: INEC Declared: APC-117,302, PDP-295,737:
int’l observers/PDP results: APC-17,303, PDP-395, 737 (remarks-100,001 added to
APC and 100,000 votes deducted from PDP)
(7) Rivers: INEC declared: APC-150,710, PDP-473,971: int’l
observers/PDP results: APC-102,195, PDP-7019,044 (remarks-48,515 votes added to
APC and 245, 073 deducted from PDP)
(8) Delta: INEC declared: APC-221,392, PDP-594,068: int’l
observers/PDP results: APC-171,556, PDP-611,228 (remarks: 49,726 votes added to
APC and 17, 160 deducted from PDP)
(9) Edo: INEC declared: APC-267,842, PDP-275,691: int’l
observers/PDP(remarks: 42 votes added to APC and 10 added to PDP)
(10) Bay
(11) Akw
(12) FCT
(13) Kog
(14) Ben
(15) Nig
Others
are:
16. Plateau: INEC declared: APC-468,555, PDP-548,665: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
17. Nasarawa: INEC declared:
APC-289,903, PDP-283,847: int’l observers/PDP remarks (same)
18. Kwara: INEC declared: APC-308,984, PDP-138,484: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
19. Ogun: INEC declared: APC-281, 762, PDP-194,655: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
20. Ekiti: INEC declared: APC-219, 231, PDP-154,032: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
21. Ondo: INEC declared: APC-241,769, PDP-275, 901: int’l
observers/PDP remarks (same)
22. Osun: INEC declared: APC-347,632, PDP-337,377: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (20,000 votes deducted from PDP votes)
23. Oyo: INEC declared: APC-365,229, PDP-366,690: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-265,229, PDP-466,690(remarks: 100,000 votes added to APC and
100,000 votes deducted from PDP)
24. Lagos: INEC declared: APC-580,825, PDP-448,015: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-480,814, PDP-548,061(remarks-100,011 votes added to APC and 100,
046 deducted from PDP)
25. Adamawa: INEC declared: APC-378,078, PDP-410,266: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
26. Bauchi: INEC declared: APC-798,428, PDP-209,313: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-598,428, PDP-409,313 (remarks-200,000 votes added to APC and
200,000 deducted from PDP)
27. Gombe: INEC declared: APC-402,961, PDP-138, 848: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
28. Yobe: INEC declared: APC-497,914, PDP-50,763: int’l observers/PDP results:
APC-297,914, PDP-250,763(remarks-200,000 added to APC and 200,000 deducted from
PDP votes)
29. Borno: INEC declared: APC-838,496, PDP-71,788: int’l
observers/PDP results: APC-536,496, PDP-371,788 (remarks-302,000 votes added to
APC and 300,000 deducted from PDP)
30. Jigawa: INEC declared: APC-734,738, PDP-289,895: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-489,895, PDP-594,338(remarks-305 votes added to APC and 305
deducted from PDP)
31. Taraba: INEC declared: APC-324, 906, PDP-274,743: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-224,096, PDP-474,743(remarks-100,000 votes added to APC and
200,000 deducted from PDP)
32. Kaduna: INEC declared: APC-993,445, PDP-649,612: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-893,445, PDP-749,612(remarks-100,000 votes added to APC and
100,000 deducted from PDP)
33. Sokoto: INEC declared: APC-490,333, PDP-361,604: int’l observers/PDP
remarks (same)
34. Zamfara: INEC declared: APC-438,682, PDP-125, 423: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-389,001, PDP-256,490(remarks-49,681 votes added to APC and 131,067
deducted from PDP)
35. Katsina: INEC declared: APC-1,232, 133, PDP-308,056: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC- 1,032, 133, PDP-508,056(remarks-200,000 votes added to APC and
200,000 deducted from PDP)
36. Kebbi: INEC declared: APC-581, 552, PDP-154,282: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-399, 729, PDP-198,755 (remarks-181,823 votes added to APC and 44,
473 deducted from PDP)
37. Kano: INEC declared: APC-1,464, 768, PDP-391,593: int’l observers/PDP
results: APC-1,064, 768, PDP-791,593 (remarks-400,000 votes added to APC and
400,000 deducted from PDP).
“From
the above analytical breakdown, it has clearly shown that the results declared
by INEC from Abia, Anambra, Imo, FCT, Kogi, Plateau, Nasawara, Kwara, Ogun,
Ekiti, Ondo, Adamawa, Gombe and Sokoto were in accordance with those possessed
or legally obtained by the PDP and accredited int’l observers whereas those
results declared by the Commission from the States of Kano, Kebbi, Katsina,
Zamfara, Kaduna, Taraba, Jigawa, Borno, Yobe, Ebonyi, Enugu, Cross River,
Rivers, Delta, Edo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Niger, Osun, Bauchi and Lagos
were brutally corrupted, padded or mangled; meaning that PDP had its sacred
results from such States brutally suppressed or mangled while those of APC got
alarmingly inflated.
In
States like Lagos and Osun, Taraba, Jigawa, among others PDP won clearly but
was brutally rigged out, with APC unlawfully returned.”
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