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A Complete expose on how elections are rigged within the nation has been unveiled
by one of many insiders within the political course of and former Cross River State Governor, Mr.
Donald Duke. Final Wednesday on the Transcorp Hilton Resort, Duke
gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of professional-democracy
advocates, together with the Save Nigeria
Group (SNG), of the modus operandi of State Chief Executives
and Resident Electoral Commissioners to thwart the mandate of the
electorate, not simply in states managed by
the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP), however all of the others.
In his opinion, it's not only a query of changing the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC)
Chairman, however getting a essential mass to come back out to vote and making
certain that votes rely.
The Guardian immediately delivers excerpts of his extempore speech:
"LET me begin this manner.
Professor Maurice Iwu is really an enigma; he loved the limelight.
He loved all of the assaults, thrown and meted
at him, he remained undaunted. I believe, he belongs to the college of thought that believes that dangerous publicity is healthier than no publicity.
So, despite the fact that he was being attacked and scolded
and all types of issues had been stated about him, he didn’t draw back from even going to the United States and speaking to Nigerians within the Diaspora about his work, he didn’t shrink back
from it. I used to be advised he organized a rally to make sure that he will come again to
do the work he was appointed to.
Why do I name him an enigma? The reality is, the chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee has little or no bearing on the success of elections, that’s the reality.
To me, it’s truly immaterial as a result of he's head of the administration he
takes the brunt. The very best he can do is probably, draw up a blueprint
however the implementation of that blueprint is exterior his
management. So, if elections are rigged in say -Taraba State-
we don’t do this stuff in Cross Rivers State (laughter),
Each one appears to be like at Iwu and he proudly says we did this
or that. Hogwash!
Let me now take you thru the strategy of an election. We now have 100 and twenty thousand booths in Nigeria.
On the hierarchy, you've got the Chairman of INEC, then you will have the zonal Commissioners,
then you will have the Resident Electoral Commissioners and they're the heads
in each state the zone because the identify implies; we've got six
zones in Nigeria, so you might have six of
them. Then you've got the Resident Electoral
Commissioners and there are 36 of them after all, and Abuja.
Then for every native authorities, you've an electoral officer.
Past that you've 100 and twenty thousand polling booths,
headed by presiding officers. The folks suppose that at the top of the
elections, the PDP would simply resolve who wins and who doesn’t and
declares the outcomes. I believe the method is a little more subtle than that.
This is what occurs; the Resident Electoral Commissioner is often from one other state.
The electoral officers, they transfer round.
They're often from that state, however for the conduct of elections itself, you'll in all probability transfer from Cross River to Akwa Ibom or to Abia, however these musical chairs don’t imply nothing.
When the Resident Electoral Commissioner comes earlier than the elections are
carried out- after all when he involves
the state, often, he has no accommodation; monies haven't been launched for the
operating or conduct of the elections and all that as a result of we all the time begin late.
He pays a courtesy name on the governor. It’s
often a televised occasion you understand, and naturally he says all the proper issues.
‘Your Excellency, I'm right here to make sure that we have now
free and honest elections and that i would require your help.’
Now, at that courtesy name, most governors, at the least I did, will invite the Commissioner of Police as a result
of he's a part of the motion and he sits there.
After the courtesy name, the Resident Electoral Commissioner now strikes in for
a one-on-one with the governor the says, "Your Excellency, since I got here, I’ve been staying on this lodge, there isn't a accommodation for me and even my car is damaged down and the final Commissioner didn’t depart the automobile, so if you might assist me settle down rapidly;’ and the governor says, ‘Chief of Workers, the place is the Chief of Workers right here?’ And the Chief of Workers seems. Governor says: ‘Please be certain that the REC is accommodated–put him within the Presidential lodge, allot two vehicles to him, I offer you seven days to get this performed. Then the connection has began; I'm going to share a few of these items with you in order that we don’t go away right here with any illusions. Quite a lot of us, of us who've gone by way of an election or have been elected for one factor or one other, see teams like Save Nigeria Group (SNG), the CLP as woolly-eye dreamers, you might have to return all the way down to the backsides, since I'm now a hybrid between each. I wish to deliver you each right down to backsides. Let me take you all the way down to what occurs so as to change it as a result of in case you don’t change it, we right here won’t undergo however I consider our kids will.
We the elite, I'm certainly one of them, we ship our children to the perfect colleges all over the world, when they arrive again they're misfits, they can't slot in and so in the end we're designing a system that will destroy us ultimately.
Let me take our minds again to Somalia. Somalia is mono-religious, mono-ethnic; they solely have clans (however) they've one tribe. What has occurred there? It’s a failed state as a result of the elite in Somalia had been so disconnected from the individuals that when that they had some cash, they purchase homes in England, Washington and all these locations; they weren't investing, placing their greatest foot ahead and I believe that was what Pastor Bakare was speaking about. If you wish to be in a contest, you place your greatest foot ahead; at the top of the day, there was such a disconnect that even until at this time, they can't bridge it. Let me let you know, the final acknowledged President of Somalia is buried in Lagos- Siad Barre.
We are multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-problematic. The explanation why most individuals fear about us is that if we explode, who will comprise us? Let me additionally say this, I do know what I'm saying now could be an apart, I'll return to the elections. Once we carried out the census in 2006 or so, the uncooked figures stated we had been over 200 million; once they went and processed the figures it got here right down to 140million.
When you have a look at these figures and examine to these we had in 1991 at a progress charge of two.1 or one thing like that, it is actually simply an extrapolation, as a result of we have been too embarrassed to admit our true numbers. If we get it unsuitable, we'll fail like Somalia; in Somalia, half of them are in Kenya, Ethiopia, and some are in Europe right here and there; who will comprise us in all of West Africa and Central Africa and for that it's crucial not only for ourselves however for the remainder of the continent that we get it proper.
Now, again to the elections, as soon as that relationship has been established between the governor and the REC, if you're a governor who's ‘A Governor’, possibly two nights after you simply pop by on the governors lodge and see the REC and say ah, ‘ah REC how are you doing? Are you Okay?’ He says, ‘ah! Your Chief of Employees has been fantastic. He has been very good to me; he provided me the autos and all the things is Ok’.
A few weeks to the elections, the REC sees the governor; you most likely have on the common about three thousand 5 hundred, 4 thousand relying on the polling booths in each state. So, REC goes to the governor and says, ‘Your Excellency, may you please give us the names of about 4, 5 thousand folks in order that we will hurriedly practice them, we'd like them as Presiding Officers.’ You want expertise. A superb coach is one who has performed and has misplaced matches prior to now?
The REC now goes down and says, ‘we have to conduct a coaching programme for the presiding officers and em, headquarters hasn’t despatched us any cash but, you understand.’
And the governor is like: ‘How a lot would that value?’
REC replies: ‘N25million for the primary batch, we could have about three batches.’ Governor: ‘Ok, the Chief of Workers will see you.’
Now, the Chief of Employees, you name him: ‘Make positive, that we arrange N25 million this week and in two weeks time one other N25 million and Seventy-5 million in all.’
Chief of Workers: ‘Your Excellency, how can we do it?’
Governor: ‘Put it beneath Safety Vote.’
In different phrases, its money, okay, now, money in large Ghana Should Go baggage – a few of my colleagues will shoot me- (turns to the viewers) is any former governor right here? (Crowd replies no!)
Good. Money is lodged in enormous Ghana Should Go Baggage for the REC and naturally, to be honest to them, they name their electoral officers and say the governor has been very benevolent; he has given us this and that. I say three batches as a result of they've them in Senatorial districts. So, you will have one in Calabar, you may have One in Ikom and Ogoja, these are the headquarters of the Senatorial districts. Each prices twenty-5 million. In fact, the sums should not correctly retired. I don’t know the way a lot of this twenty-5 million labored. However, there's a rapport this is happening.
The governor now turns spherical and says: ‘call me the celebration chairman.’ The occasion chairman seems and the governor says: ‘INEC requires 50 thousand individuals for conducting the elections. See to it that we meet their wants.’ The chairman goes and also you hear within the night on radio and tv: There will likely be an pressing assembly of all chairmen and secretaries of XYZ get together on the headquarters. They need to report promptly at 10am (as a result of) issues of pressing curiosity can be mentioned. Finish of announcement. Now we now have texts messages, so its simpler, very quickly everyone seems to be right here.
It’s a really quick assembly, please return and inside forty eight hours submit from every native authorities 2 hundred and fifty names of trusted get together members. So in per week the deed is completed. The names, generally even passport pictures if required are despatched to INEC.
And the coaching programme is carried out. Let me pause a bit, that is at celebration degree. They're normally civil servants. They could also be teachers, no matter, however they're celebration members. The remuneration, for every of them for the elections from Abuja is 10,000 Naira for the day’s work. However the state in its benevolence provides 50 to a hundred,000 Naira to every of those of us proper earlier than this election.
This is even the place it will get much more fascinating. So, you've got every of the three or 4 thousand polling booths; they're manned by occasion stalwarts. They're normally occasion stalwarts. You don’t ship any peripheral member. The remuneration from Abuja has not arrived however that of the state was acquired forty eight hours prior.
On the day of elections, every polling sales space has not more than 5 hundred ballot papers, that's customary.
Tright here isn't a polling sales space that's greater than 5 hundred. So solely 200 folks seem right here, three hundred there, one hundred there, fifty there, 4 hundred there, at the tip of election what occurs. The Presiding Officer sits down and calls just a few guys and says, ‘hey, there are just a few hundred papers right here, let’s thumbprint. That is the actual election. Nicely, this isn't a PDP factor. I'm not right here to castigate the PDP; it’s a Nigerian factor. This course of might sound comical and jovial, it occurs all through the nation, whether or not its Motion Congress or APGA it’s the identical factor. We're all the identical. They begin thumb-printing, some are overzealous. So at the tip of the day you discover some voting greater than the variety of people who have been registered to vote.
Other smart they do it, you might have ninety five p.c turnout. You begin questioning the place had been the voters, I didn’t see so many individuals. And the election outcomes are introduced; XYZ get together wins and it takes per week for this paltry ten thousand Naira for every presiding officer to arrive.
Listen to this earlier than you ask your query: Who's a very powerful individual in an election? – The presiding officer. And if there are 100 and twenty thousand of them (booths) there are 100 and twenty thousand presiding officers, they're a very powerful individuals within the elections, not the Chairman.
So, so long as we keep making use of that very same methodology, you're going to get the identical outcomes. Its loopy to suppose that since you substitute Iwu for Jega all will change. In different phrases, Iwu is a crook, Jega is a saint. Jega is nice, he has an impeccable repute. Iwu was nice, now he appears not so nice. Okay, they're each professors, they've reached the peak of no matter self-discipline that they profess. The purpose is that it's the system and the personnel and the chairman has little or no management over that.
Wlisted here are we now, we don’t even know when the elections might be. The Structure modification appears to be stalling someplace. So it’s both in January or in April. Generally, we behave as if we invented democracy. We all the time need to attract new guidelines. We must always know the day of elections. It must be mounted. We must always know that on so and so date I feel, America is the 4th of November or so and if it falls on a Sunday it doesn’t make a distinction. The purpose I'm making right here is that date is mounted, you already know; as a result of in a democracy, election must be a norm, not an occasion. In our democracy, election is an occasion. Its like, we're going to spring on to you with fireplace works, hey, we're going to have an election, we're all working round- I do know most politicians are broke proper now, so we're all working round the sphere.
Secondly, you probably have your ears to the bottom there, are whispers that could be, we have to postpone this factor. The whispers are there. In a democracy, you postpone an election? You postpone stuff you didn’t plan for, not issues which can be there within the Structure, that says you have to do that, that and that, you can’t however –you know two methods of transferring ahead. That is the place I like what SNG and CNP are doing.
We want a vital mass of Nigerians to get out and vote. It is vital as a result of the extra ballot papers which might be legitimately used on election day, the fewer out there for use to rig the vote, that’s the reality. Don’t keep to your self and assume that they are going to announce outcomes. They're extra refined than that. And that’s why the aspirants who felt cheated and had the sources to make use of forensic personnel, like these elections had the elections upturned in Edo and Ondo, as a result of they may set up a number of voting by thumbprint.
So, if it’s an AC state the process is similar. I remember a state, that state will stay nameless. I hear the story that the then President was so decided that he should change the management of this state and he referred to as the IG and stated, ‘look, that Governor is a safety breach. Let's have elections and flush the governor out, and the governor is aware of he's beneath siege. Per week earlier than the elections, a brand new police Commissioner arrives. And you recognize if you're a governor and a brand new Police Commissioner arrives earlier than elections, you realize one thing is flawed someplace and he spends two, three days with out going to see the governor, which is once more a breach of protocol. The day he decides to see the governor, the governor says, I won’t be on the workplace. Nonetheless, if he provides him a specific deal with they could talk about. Then the chap goes there and neatly salutes and it’s in a highbrow neighborhood of the town. (Shouts of Ikoyi rent the air.) ‘No! It’s Yobe!’ (The corridor explodes in loud laughter).
The Commissioner of Police walks as much as the governor and well salutes and says: ‘Your Excellency, I simply got here to introduce myself. My title is Mr. So, so and so. And the governor goes: ‘Ah, you're welcome. I heard you had been right here two or three days in the past and I used to be questioning whether or not I won’t see you. Anyway, you might be welcome. Have you ever settled down?’ ‘Yes I’ve been given accommodation and all that. And the governor asks, ‘where was your final posting?’ He tells him, he says tremendous.
Governor: ‘That automotive over there, that is the important thing and that is your home.
The Commissioner of Police now says: ‘Your Excellency, this Obasanjo is a really unhealthy man. He's a really, very unhealthy man. Should you see all of the issues he has deliberate for you eh Olorun maje.’
How will we transfer on? How will we get out of right here? What I've accomplished is I’ve tried graphically to paint an image of a course of. How do we alter this course of?
One, I feel, since we can not change attitudes as shortly, we should guarantee mass participation. In an election the place there may be a really excessive turnout, the outcomes are often real. Essentially the most celebrated election in Nigeria, June 12, 1993 what occurred? Folks got here out. The extra individuals who come out to vote the fewer–there could also be mago, mago right here and there however there wouldn’t be a lot in such a vital method to upset the desire of the individuals. Past that, should you don’t vote in an election, you haven't any purpose to criticize the federal government and that i inform of us in every single place that guys, I'd say, I've lived my life. You guys haven't and you might be all criticizing Nigeria however did you vote within the final election? Most of them say no then I say, you’ve misplaced the ethical proper to criticize what the federal government does since you weren't a part of the method.
Is there a means out? I feel there may be. I believe we have to make use of expertise. It is only a suggestion and that i wish to share with you. I've stated this in a single or two fora and I’ve heard individuals say it has not been executed in America or the West why ought to we do it right here? I say they don’t have the angle we've got right here. Necessity is the mom of invention. It isn't vital for us to do what I’m about to recommend.
For the needs of this, 3455, this quantity is for a telephone and that quantity is exclusive to you and legitimate for that election or the set of elections. And every occasion has a numerical equal. AC could possibly be 1, the PDP could possibly be 5, the Labour Get together might be three, no matter. And on the date of elections you resolve that your quantity even for those who don’t have a cellphone, you may go to a centre the place they've a financial institution of telephones and as soon as you set in your quantity 3455 it acknowledges you, it can't be duplicated. Its solely you that has that quantity and for that election on that date, as soon as its used it can't be utilized by anybody else. Then you may do that one from your home or anyplace, and any time between the hours of 9-12. When it says which celebration, you say three or four regardless of the quantity, they ask you, ‘are you certain you say Yes’. You press it then you’ve voted. With that, I believe we will conduct election however individuals say ah, it’s to technological and that i say, why do you all the time underestimate the folks within the rural areas? When you ship them cash this fashion, won’t they be capable to money it? Why is it that when it's to conduct their civic duties it turns into excessive tech? I do know this nation, I ran a state for eight years, I do know the nooks and crannies of my state. We're not probably the most enlightened of states within the nation, however you see, I had a deal with MTN and Glo to make sure that each group in Cross River State has a base station; for that I gave them websites freed from cost; so, nearly each nook and cranny of Cross River has a base station. Even essentially the most rural of locations; even in Bakassi after we nonetheless had management of it. And all of them use it. They nonetheless use it to name their of us within the city centres to say ship us cash. Why is that in terms of civic duty it's excessive tech? As a result of the politicians don’t need to make use of it, that’s the reality.
I'm not saying this is an ideal system, it may be fantastic-tuned, that may be certain that inside an hour or two each one has voted and the outcomes are close to excellent.
Of course, when you design a system, there are these whose work is to un-design the system. There are folks like that and so they work backwards. Upon getting that we additionally assume the identical approach. How can we work backwards, the place can this be faulted? It may be faulted in many ways. The service corporations if you're ready to interrupt-by way of the integrity of the system, you understand, right here and there; however I believe we're going to suppose outdoors the norm.
The level I’m making an attempt to make is we must suppose exterior the field. I wish to commend the federal authorities, every time the federal government talks about elections, it retains on speaking about credible elections with good sound chunk. But it surely should transcend the sound chunk and lets not child ourselves, by pondering that by placing a Jega there that each one is nicely. With Jega there, all will likely be effectively if he is ready to design alongside together with his workforce a system that's nearly idiot proof. In different phrases, he himself should perceive the system of elections, he must understand how it really works and the way its been holding.
As I converse to you, we’ve not began voters’ registration. That train will take any the place from three to 4 months. It should take at the least, ninety days to run via its course, one other six weeks to tidy up earlier than it's revealed; lets not child ourselves. You'll be able to have elections anytime, however you can’t have credible elections in January. So, for these considering we will have elections in January, I believe we should rethink the method; we can't have credible elections in January. We could have elections however it might not be credible. The place are we? We have to get out of those holes; we have to traverse the size and breath of this nation. We have to recruit an military of individuals could also be 5, 000 in every state, 200 younger women and men who will attain our (folks), give every of them a activity to make sure that he registers at the least 100 individual. That alone, will carry twenty million folks into the fold. That is what they did within the Obama election.
Fortunately, I used to be monitoring the Obama election, whether or not you attain voting age or not, you'll be able to ship textual content and transfer round and get folks to vote. It is one factor to register, some people inform me, ‘how can I'm going to line up for hours to vote for this person’. That is once more what pastor Bakare was speaking about, if individuals usually are not excited concerning the candidates they won't come out. ‘Look on the 4 individuals operating, they're all clowns. I’ m going to look at tv; I’m not going to vote as a result of both method a clown goes to win’.
So, we must get entangled in the method. We can’t all run for places of work, all of us can’t.
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