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Mar 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🧵re-threaded! 1. Understandably, a lot of media attention was focused on two main aspects of @YIAGA’s report on #NigeriaDecides2023 (that can - and should - be read here: yiaga.org/yiaga-africa-p……)
2. There was the deep disappointment at @inecnigeria’s logistical shortcomings & failure to live up to its #IReV promises; there was also YIAGA Africa’s finding that the results declared for Imo and Rivers were inconsistent with its parallel vote tabulation (PVT) projections.
Mar 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. The great thing about an Election Petition is than one has to condescend upon the particular.
So @PeterObi will produce the evidence to back his claim.
But if he’s saying he WON, it’s no longer a matter of cancelling or re-running. It’s about the maths.
We are where we are and can only go forward now that #CurrencyChange is ‘on ground’, but we can’t ignore the reality of the election-linked timing.
Is the policy’s aim to stop #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling? Or is it to mop up excess liquidity, correct course or achieve some …/2
… other monetary or fiscal goal?
Yes, #VoteBuying & #VoteSelling are wrong and criminal, but must the nation’s whole policy be altered to suppress what law enforcement should be able to deal with, just because ordinary people (rather than delegates & legislators) are getting…/3
Jun 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Inside the hall where MKO Abiola, tired of waiting for Sani Abacha to actualise his #June12th mandate, made his famous Ẹpẹtẹdo Declaration that he was the elected President of Nigeria.
Tbh, I think that @followlasg can do better for this historic site.
It’s now a Sports Centre, but again, to be frank it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, even as a sports centre.
Oct 19, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A couple of corrections:
I did not say “Ṣe you are still screaming”, I said “You can continue screaming but …”
‘Gaslighting’ is trying to convince a person of a non-existent ‘reality’ - it doesn’t mean mere mocking - even if you confuse that with advice.
I was even ok with #EndSARS pivoting to demand good governance.
But to do that without any serious effort to engage in politics?
Even sympathetic supporters like @BankyW or @YeleSowore were derided as ‘politicians’, as if a democracy can work without people seeking votes!
Dec 13, 2018 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Things I learnt while at The Electoral Institute yesterday: 1. That report about @MBuhari getting 75% of his votes in 2015 from areas where card readers were not used did not come from @inecnigeria or its data. 2. INEC will use #PVC#CardReaders in all the 2019 elections.
3. INEC does NOT need the #ElectoralBill to be enacted to be able to use #PVC#CardReaders. It has been using #CardReaders consistently since 2015 and intends to use them in 2019. If it hadn't already planned to, two months to the election would be far too late to start planning!
