WHY INEC DID NOT NEED TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS 3-DAYS TO ELECTION DAY: TO RE-CONFIGURE & RE-CALIBRATE ELECTION DEVICES
By Orefo Nnamdi Onochie
To answer the primary question, did INEC need to postpone the election of March 11, 2023? The answer and response is No! Immediately after the debacle of the halted and re-started Presidential election collation of Saturday, February 25, 2023, I called on Government to suspend Mahmoud Yakubu, and Festus Okoye, because Nigerians will not trust them, going forward, to conclude the elections. It was February 28, 2023, and the revelations of the rigging, irregularities, bribery, violence and indulgent compromises of INEC senior officials, especially the complexities of the instant political situation, the Federal Government needed URGENTLY to replace the Chairman, and a few others in INEC, in order to retain the confidence of the populace. The early declaration of victory, while the collation was still ongoing and inconclusive rattled the electorate and populace. The tension in NIGERIA since, has been pervading and suffocating, and as though an electoral revolution was being awaited, that event, long scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 2023, kept on approaching like a huge ball of fire that no one could stop. The inevitable surely had to happen, the gubernatorial election defeat of the bad governments and leaders in Nigeria, all gone a-begging. The Federal Government rejected suspending the INEC Chairman Mahmoud Yakubu, even as it became clear that he was no longer trust-worthy, because he was doing its bidding: the electoral Commission carries out the ill objectives set out by Government, and so was comfortable retaining their services. New plans and plots to gain time and to deceive the gullible populace, were soon devised, including the judicial stoppage of any access to the records contained in the BVAS machines used early to accredit voters nationwide. Why not delete and wipe out those records, including the auto-collation of the early records of counted votes? These could not be stopped from being uploaded, network or no network, even if they switch off the blockchain at their Headquarters; anytime they are switched back on, those data will be uploaded. If not destroyed, these are still the only sources of proving the massive fraud involved in the Presidential election of Saturday, February 25, 2023. Thus, the request to the Court to re-configure both the BVAS and IREV were now the most concrete avenue to destroy these unwitting massive haul of evidence to invalidate the declaration of results of the Presidential election on February 28, 2023.
DID INEC EVER SCHEDULE TO RE-CONFIGURE BVAS-IREV DEVICES PRIOR THE ELECTIONS?
It is pertinent to revert to the actions of INEC in the last quarter of 2022, to uncover the fraud perpetrated on NIGERIA on March 8-9, 2023, regarding the BVAS-IREV re-configuration application to the Election Tribunal. Four media sessions were held by the Voter Education Committee of INEC chaired by Festus Okoye, also a National Commissioner. During those earlier briefings, INEC informed Nigerians and the world that all arrangements were duly concluded and that all the elections would be successfully concluded. With respect to the electronic ACCREDITATION AND COLLATION devices (BVAS-IREV boxes), these were all completely packaged and certified ready for the entire General Election process. At no time during those televised and videoed Media outreaches did Festus Okoye who held them, or INEC as a Commission, state that a re-configuration of all those devices would be necessary or desirable. Even the IRECs at the 36-State offices of INEC who gave their unit preparatory reports, not one outlined or included re-configuration of the devices anywhere or time in the periods of the election: they provided details of the expected works, during the period, and re-configuration was never mentioned. Why now?
ALGORITHMS AND BLOCKCHAIN DEVICES TECHNOLOGY
The BVAS and IREV devices are manufactured and produced to carry out non-interference in electronic functions. By their nature and applications, they are built to serve over long periods, imbedded with huge memory, and with blockchain hardware that eliminates RE-CONFIGURATIONS. In addition, these devices are impenetrable, cannot be interfered with, and even when flashed or reconfigured, have their main blockchains totally intact and retrievable. Does INEC have the capacity to locally flash off or delete records in the blockchain as has been pleaded with the Court/Election Tribunal? Indeed, the Commission may pretend and deceive our populace and Judiciary, but in truth, it is a void and fruitless effort. The Contract of Purchase and Installation, it signed with the Provider, contains a standard Exclusion Clause, prohibiting it to request for blockchain deletion or reconfigurations that the Court has granted it. Thus, even now, all the auto-accreditation data, and any collation loaded to the INEC Blockchain is still available, and in the course of public litigation processes, parties with stakes and interests in any litigation with proof of capacity can obtain a foreign leave of grant of Court, to release the blockchain data on the specific contract pertaining to the instant litigation. INEC waived its right to oppose or deter the granting of such relief, once appropriately requested. Will these materials be needed, necessary and cogent in the Election Nigerian Tribunals/Courts? This is to be pursued or be determined by the ObiDatti legal team / et al, charged with the suit(s). As they get to the bridges, they will certainly cross it.
NOW SATURDAY MARCH 18, 2023, NEW ELECTION DATE
By seeking to be granted judicial leave to re-configure the BVAS-IREV devices, despite the full knowledge that such an effort is unnecessary and fruitless, INEC senior officials aim merely to distract Nigerians and institute another way to prevent the massive defeat of the believers of a corruptible NIGERIA, by those preach ZERO CORRUPTION in Nigeria. They are afraid of the repercussions that will be meted to them by the electorate that has HATED all the rigging, irregularities, breaking of the Electoral Law 2022, and malfeasance that greeted the Presidential election of Saturday February 25, 2023: but the more they divert, the more grave the electoral repercussions, defeat and shame will be. Why? The entity called NIGERIA has suffered so gravely from the hardships, injustices and deprivations of this regime and genre of politicians in the country. You can fool the people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people, all the time. This epoch is one of retribution, and no effort geared at stopping it will succeed: for a Political Scientist, like myself, it is the beginners Course 101 in Dialectical Change, and it will happen, as light is to day, and darkness is to night. Corruption and injustices die a natural death, when those who are incorruptible appear on the political and social horizon.
THREATS OF VIOLENCE BEFORE OR ON SATURDAY MARCH 18, 2023 AGAINST VOTERS
The Federal Government has been flirting with social anarchy, beginning with its omissions in not suspending Mahmoud Yakubu, since February 28, 2023, when I wrote counseling his full suspension from the 2023 election duties: it is ditto, since the violence, arson, looting and murder of innocent voters being threatened against voting out the PDP and APC, in several States, from high political offices, this March 2023. The Rule of Law respects no persons, governments or ethnic or religious groups. Those who despise it, invite anarchy, the rule of mobs of the oppressed, against themselves. No responsible government should permit that, so it is important to begin by public proclamations by statutorily permitted officials to call all sides to order, especially those who claim a right to rule forever, or ethnic ownership of any NIGERIAN morsel of land or adjoining waters….Nigeria is a sovereign corporate entity and only those who follow its laws can be protected by it. Others who do the contrary must be PROSECUTED under the law, based on irrefutable evidences. We have no other country, and those of us privileged to have worked and retired for her in foreign lands, as diplomats, even as protected persons, can attest to the eminent power of our SOVEREIGN Fatherland. We must celebrate NIGERIA, and if we follow the leadership of the corrupt, inept, greedy and power-drunk, NIGERIA, already sinking will be SUNK in finality. The Security agencies must mobilize, into the national public domain, be seen, be heard, fully prepared to defend all lawful citizens, to vote on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
PRESERVING NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY FROM 2023 ONWARDS
The fact that we have many despots as political leaders, in our major parties, the PDP and APC, should not make us to leave our democracy undefended, unprotected and exposed to eventual constitutional decapitation. There is no better political framework superior to DEMOCRACY. We have suffered from military dictatorships, and learned better, except for the greedy kleptocrats, who have stolen so much from our economy and Treasury, and used same to perpetuate themselves and their “boys” in power. We will not permit them to destroy our heritage and inheritance…. and let us not forget the very young ones who cannot join in the honest works needed today. It is even greater that we remember that only our successors will prove our own successes. So their future is more important than our present obligations. We must eschew fear, intimidation, threats to our lives, properties and businesses, and go to vote out the PDP, who jettisoned Zoning and Rotation that started the current madness in our polity: including also voting out the APC that followed the footpath of the PDP, by enthroning ethnic INJUSTICES, INEQUITIES AND DENIAL OF FAIRNESS…. in our polity….all the other corruption, rigging and abandonment of collation of votes, by IREV electronic devices, to permit them to rig the Presidential election and retain power they know all too well were purchased through bribery to INEC officials. The aberration will not stand, and it will legally be pulled down, stage by stage, day by day…. in the full glare of all Nigerians and the world at large. When the time comes, the dialectical will take place. They could not stop it on Saturday February 25, 2023, and they will not be able to stop the awaiting retributions of Saturday, March 18, 2023. None should fear those who cannot traject our spirit, and think that they only can determine our future and destiny as a people. They will FAIL, as the date approaches, and they will accept the impending electoral defeats….several Governors lodges, and State Assembly seats. no one can mock God, and the people and get away with it.
LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!
Signed:
Dr. Orefo Nnamdi Onochie.
Convener/Chairman
NACOPPIN NIGERIA.
