We compared polling-unit results uploaded to INEC's IReV portal with the declared returns in two 2023 Rivers State National Assembly races.
In the Obio/Akpor House of Representatives race, the IReV count puts Onunwor Ndamati (LP) ahead by 30,778 votes. INEC declared Chinda Kingsley Ogundu (PDP) the winner.
In the Rivers East Senate race, the IReV count puts Okwuwolu Wolu Ekelechi Benjamin (LP) ahead by 13,043. INEC's declaration gave Onyesoh Allwell Heacho (PDP) a 59,558-vote lead.
The polling units tell one story. INEC's declarations tell another.
Full analysis on our website.
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In Imo State (Ikeduru/Mbaitoli Federal Constituency), we found 24 polling-unit result sheets photographed between 5:04 and 5:34 a.m. on election day, according to the camera data embedded in the images INEC published on IReV.
Voting was scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m.
Before a single vote was cast, the result sheets had been written and photographed.
The published sheets show no presiding officer's name, signature, stamp, or agent names or signatures.
Every photo carries the same profile: iPhone 13, iOS 16.4.1, with the same-looking wooden floor across six wards.
These 24 sheets hold 8,081 valid votes. The final margin between the winner and the runner-up was 3,076.
Full analysis and all 24 sheets are on our website.
Six Battles a Man Must Win in Private:
1. His Eyes: What he looks at when nobody sees. Job 31:1
2. His Thoughts: What he allows to live in his mind. 2 Corinthians 10:5
3. His Appetites: What he refuses to deny. 1 Corinthians 9:27
4. His Pride: What he will not confess. Proverbs 28:13
5. His Anger: What he keeps rehearsing. Ephesians 4:26
6. His Prayer: Whether he seeks God before he acts. Luke 18:1
The man you are in secret is the man you really are.
“FG approves upgrade of Calabar, Delta, Onne, Rivers ports” sounds catchy, but it's an empty story. I have gone online & read other sources like the Punch, the Sun, Peoples Gazzette, the Leadership, the Cable, & the Independent Newspapers, & everything came up short.
All I saw was a mere “statement of intent” from the Minister of Blue Economy & Marine Spirits, Gboyega Oyetola. Where is the proper budget?
Who is funding what?
Is it a PPP, a concession?
Who are the contractors?
We need completion dates.
Let’s see the schedule & payment plan.
There is nothing of substance to read online; it’s just empty stories planted in the tabloids with a clickbait as headline— designed to wow or excite my people, perhaps to curry our favor.
We need to see a $20 billion funding plan at the minimum for these strategic ports. As far as I am concerned, this remains 'audio'—complete hogwash. Election is very close, & they will do anything to appease & appeal to my region, even if it means relying on an empty promise.
But we are no fools. Make a proper scheduled announcement like you did for Ogun State.
Show us the plan & its viability, including the mode of funding & all the parties involved.
How desperate can you really be? Gosh!!!
We don’t need empty promises at this point. Anything short of the aforementioned is just 'audio' to us! The Niger Delta deserves better!
If they explain Nigeria to you and you understand it, it means they did not explain it well.
Who can tell me what Umahi is doing? What is going on here?
You are building a "Hormuz" in Nigeria
1. About 90–95% of Nigeria’s export trade by value passes through Lagos and the South-West,
2. About 75–85% of Nigeria’s import trade by value passes through Lagos and the South-West.
3. About 95–99% of Nigeria’s merchandise (goods) trade by value moves by sea. Exports: 98.99% by maritime transport. Imports: 94.74% by maritime transport
If anything happens to Lagos, and the roads and rails in Apapa, Nigeria will starve, and almost all industries will close down; it's not hyperbole. Look at the numbers above
Thus, the FGN should open up the nation's trade routes and build redundancies. This is not tribal; it's trade
In May 2023, the Federal Government signed an agreement with Imo State and the Nigerian Navy to dredge the Oguta/Orashi River, which will open up the South East to the Atlantic via Degema
Dredging this river, and any river, to open up the Eastern waterways would, and I quote President Tinubu, "help decongest the Lagos port corridor, reduce pressure on the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, and lower costs and delays for importers, exporters, and consumers."
Today, the FGN has moved on from this project in Imo State and the Abia State Azumini project; the South East Governors developed the projects, but the FGN has moved on
I have a simple ask: is President Bola Tinubu facilitating road, rail and power connectivity, strengthening investment security and our maritime domain, and removing unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles for any port outside the South West of Nigeria
I ask so I can be educated.
Regards
The law is very clear: where the total votes cast in a polling unit exceed the number of accredited voters, the result from that polling unit should be cancelled.
We have substantial evidence suggesting that, in some elections conducted under Mahmood Yakubu, collation officers refused to cancel results even when the number of valid votes cast exceeded the BVAS accreditation record. They saw the discrepancy and still collated the results.
INEC under Mahmood Yakubu was a criminal enterprise, and I say this with every sense of responsibility.
How do you explain the Kogi State governorship election, in which an LGA that recorded turnout below 20% in the presidential, National Assembly, and State House of Assembly elections suddenly jumped to over 94% turnout?
In that same election, one party received 98% of the votes, and that single LGA contributed almost one-third of all the votes cast in the entire contest.
How do you also explain that roughly half of the results from that LGA were uploaded using non-BVAS devices?
Yet INEC accepted all the results and declared a winner.
One red flag may have an explanation. But when multiple independent red flags begin to corroborate one another, you have to dig deeper. Something is going on.
Politicians will try to cheat and manipulate elections. But INEC has the power to make such manipulation extremely difficult.
We cannot build an electoral system that depends on trusting individual INEC officials to always do the right thing.
That is where technology comes in.
Let us use technology to make election manipulation harder and easier to detect.
This is why we are advocating for INEC to publish the electronic BVAS accreditation record on the IReV portal, alongside the polling-unit result and Form EC8B from ward collation.
Let Nigerians see what BVAS recorded, what was declared at the polling unit, and what eventually made it into ward collation.
Prof. Amupitan, please do the right thing. Write your name in gold. Make the electoral process genuinely transparent and credible, and Nigerians will remember you for it.
When we speak about the possibility of a new Nigeria, we must look beyond political slogans and examine the records of those seeking to lead.
Peter Obi demonstrated in Anambra state that the government can be deliberate about education, healthcare and the management of public resources.
Under Peter Obi's administration classroom blocks were constructed across the state’s 177 communities, mission schools were returned to their churches, and Anambra rose to a high position in NECO results between 2011 and 2013. It was also in Peter Obi's administration that a state-owned teaching hospital which is the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital located at Awka was also established.
Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s record in Kano tells another important story. His administration invested heavily in education too, including thousands of classrooms, free feeding and uniforms for primary pupils, technical and vocational institutions, laboratories and scholarship programmes that supported a lot of young people in Kano state.
Both men have experience translating public policy into programmes that affect the lives of Nigerians in positive ways.
Peter Obi and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso have chosen to work together because they found substantial common ground in their vision and mission for the good of Nigeria.
I believe Nigeria needs leadership that understands production, human capital, fiscal responsibility, education and opportunity.
If we are serious about moving Nigeria from poverty to prosperity, we should pay close attention to the possibilities created when experience, competence and a shared national vision come together.
The task before us is to build a Nigeria where the government works for the people and where every young Nigerian has a genuine opportunity to achieve greatness.
Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso are the ones best suited to lead the way forward.
On the day I left office, I left more than US$150 million as the dollar component of my investment in Anambra State as governor. I hereby provide documents that can be verified with the various banks. Had it remained untouched, this investment was expected to provide Anambra State with approximately US$10 million in annual income.
Even if their assertion were accurate—which it is not—that Anambra owed US$123 million, the government could have used the US$10 million generated annually from my savings to reduce the debt. It has now been 13 years since I left office, which would amount to US$130 million. The debt should have been fully settled by now.
Had they retained the funds I left in the bank, including the compound interest on the principal and the additional income, the total would be approximately US$335 million today. If they had chosen to repay the US$92.35 million funding, the entire amount would have been covered, leaving approximately US$242 million to be reinvested. That sum would have generated about US$20 million annually for Anambra State.
Let me reiterate that, when I left office, I left Anambra State in a strong financial position—the strongest of any state in Nigeria—and I stand by that position.
Through this clarification, I wish to state categorically that I will neither engage nor trade words with anyone regarding my tenure in Anambra State. My focus will now be on issues affecting the suffering Nigerian masses, which is the reason for my presidential ambition.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
I really care about power. That’s why I’m always involved in politics and advocacy.
All the money in the world does nothing for me. I’ve lived it all. I’ve done it all. Money does nothing for me again. There’s a limit to how you can cause a change with all the money you have. No area has gotten more money than say Makoko (they’ve gotten at least $10 million cumulatively) but it’s the same thing ghetto.
It’s now power for me really. I will do what it takes to get it to cause that change our people need. That’s why I presented myself forward for elections in the first place.
You cannot effect a change to improve the lives of those around you if you do not have the power to do so. You will just be a noisemaker, online activist or at most the only “big man” in your zone living in a bubble.
Criminals and wicked people have held power for so long. We need good, empathetic people to get power too.
NDC will get power.
Advice to Upcoming Aides
When you work for principals, maintain respect, responsibility and trust when you leave them for whatever reasons.
I can advise because I have worked with many principals I have course to disagree on many issues, from Gani Fawehinmi, Olisa Agbakoba, Ken Nnamani, Ojo Maduekwe, President Jonathan, etc.
Never once did I say anything wrong about them when I left. They continue to love and respect me till date.
Gani wrote me a reference to Harvard and described me as the smartest and most honest person he has met, despite that I left his office in some controversy. Until his death, Gani continued to give me complimentary copies of his Nigerian weekly law report.
Ojo Maduekwe continued to consult me for official work (even taking me along for President Yaradua’s state visit to the US as official adviser despite that I resigned as SA on ground of disagreement. I never speak ill of him. When I left him, I went back with 5 pastors to apologise for leaving him and assure him I would continue to look out for his best interest.
Till date, I am Ken Nnamani’s PA even as I disagreeded with his membership of APC. As NERC chairman, I was still writing speeches for my oga. Oga is Oga, whether I leave his service or not. Loyalty and trust should count for something.
I cannot talk about GEJ. He is oga for life. He continues to like and respect me. And I never speak ill of him, even as I can hold critical views of his governance.
If you quarrel with your principals and you cannot restrain from abusing them, do not praise yourself, rather mourn for yourself and pray for healing.
You are not smart or courageous. You are plain foolish. And you can change. Take this as a friendly advice.