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2023: INEC may have technically tampered with the choice of ordinary Nigerians - Chima Christian
I took a detailed look at the voter registration data released by
@inecnigeria
covering its June 2021 — July 2022 Continuous Voter Registration Exercise.
Did you know that the Office of the Governor AN,
@CCSoludo
, budgeted N27.7 million for local trainings (see Pg. 174) but plans to spend N720 million (Pg. 172) travelling/transporting themselves to such local trainings?
This is really a budget of acceleration!
#AnambraBudget2023
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Appeal Court, will, tomorrow Wednesday, March 8, rule on the application filed by INEC to be allowed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it used for the 2023 presidential election.
The NPC, on its website, claims that “the 2023 Census will be Nigeria's first Digital Census and will change how the Census is being conducted in Nigeria.” This claim is repeated in their other public relations outings.
Having critically reviewed NPC's claims, and situated them
Dear President
@MBuhari
, welcome to
#Anambra
- your state of campaign rallies
If everything happens as planned Mr. President, you will set your feet in Anambra - your state of campaign rallies - today.
#Thread
#PMBInAnambra
Atiku's campaign strategy up North is rather shameful. You can't go about mouthing empty rhetorics about being the “unifier” and then have your people peddling the most hateful and divisive lies all in the name of political campaign.
From Peter Odili who made a play for Vice Presidency to Rotimi Amaechi who led an insurrection, to Nyesom Wike who pursued a pipe dream, every two-term governor of River State since 1999 has squandered River State money sponsoring wasteful presidential bids.
The laws governing this exercise are not exactly known to the public. The guidelines and strategic playbook are not known. The devices the census will be conducted with have not been subjected to audits and intergrity tests.
A few short weeks after a disappointing general
A good number of Bola Ahmed Tinubu's supporters have stopped their aged parents in the village from going to farm, market or doing some menial jobs by themselves. Some even relocated them to the city to effectively stop them from “over-stressing” themselves.
“Nigerians will know more about the BVAS in the coming days and months.” — Chima Christian
Details are beginning to trickle in. Thank you
@BusinessDayNg
&
@ARISEtv
.
Video credit goes to the person who originally recorded this video.
While Nigerians are still mourning the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, efforts are in top gear to hurriedly conduct a census. This exercise will potentially redraw the map of Nigeria and set the template for the rigging of future elections.
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
Terrorists and marauding invaders will flee the Middle Belt with tail between their legs. Oh, no they won't. Because neither tail nor legs will be left by the time we are done.
Africa's morning is at hand.
Chima Christian
YOU NEED A FRIEND LIKE OSELOKA H. OBAZE
There is this picture of
@OselokaHObaze
(OHO) that was taken during
@PeterObi
's consultation with Chief Bode George and Lagos PDP family yesterday. It reminded me of Proverbs 18:24.
Nigerians should do all that is required to stop INEC from reconfiguring the devices used for the February 25 electoral heist. Yes, even if it means delaying the governorship elections.
These people have messed with the wrong generation.
Hello world! Joseph Ikyegh is his name. We'll get the names of the other two. Young Nigerians, abeg do your thing!
#EndSARS3
.0
Chima Christian
DISTURBING UPDATES FROM SOUTHERN KADUNA 📍📍
In a wave of renewed terrorist attacks, no fewer than 40 people in several villages in Southern Kaduna have been killed over the past 24 hours.
According to
@SKefason
, 17 were killed in 3 villages in Dawaki Ward, Kauru LGA, and at
CENSUS POSTPONEMENT: IT'S NOT A WIN YET, WE'LL CARRY ON UNTIL ALL IDENTIFIED GRAY AREAS ARE ADDRESSED — CHIMA CHRISTIAN
I receive, with a momentary respite, the news of the postponement of the proposed Population and Housing Census.
Attention!
For voters, agents and
#citizenagents
in Lagos and River States, there is every reason to suspect that there is a proliferation of BVAS machines in these two states.
PETER OBI, ANAMBRA STATE, RWANDA'S PAUL KAGAME, AND A DEMOCRACY UNSURE OF ITSELF
By Chima Christian
For some reasons I was thinking of my home state of Anambra this morning. My focus was on what the state has become just nine years after
@PeterObi
left it.
LEAVE ATIKU ALONE, GO AND BEG NIGERIANS
All these people, including several high-powered delegations, "begging" Atiku Abubakar to accept this brazen subversion of the wishes of Nigerians seem not to understand that the issue has gone beyond
@atiku
.
#Thread
When we say that Nigerians, and the International Community must band together to stop the incessant terrorist attacks in the Nigeria's MiddleBelt region, it's because the manifest injustice is there for all to see.
For context, the following villages are in just Mangu Local
It's my 31st birthday 🎉
The contention to capture and bring Africa's political systems into the service of our Maker will be fierce and long-drawn.
My prayer every day, but even more so today is that you'd be reminded, and perhaps prompted, to put in your bit of the work
Nigeria's Census Systems Must be Audited Before Deployment, Says Public Policy Analyst
A public policy analyst, Chima Christian, has called for multi-stakeholder audits and integrity tests on the systems and processes of Nigeria's National Population Commission (NPC) ahead of
Thirdly, nearly 10 days after the elections, INEC has not issued the audit report of the BVAS, yet they are in a haste to technically compromise the principal evidence of their fraudulent practices.
JUST BEFORE WE PROTEST THE OUTCOME OF
#NIGERIADECIDES2023
By Chima Christian
As initially warned, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delivered what many Nigerians have come to describe as a “sham.” All careful analysis pointed us to this endpoint.
INEC’s main argument is that they want to conduct another round of elections this Saturday. So because they want to follow their timetable, they want to steal the collective destiny of millions of young Nigerians who came out in their numbers to choose their preferred leader.
INEC has postponed elections before. I don't see why it cannot postpone the governorship elections by two or three weeks, and grant Peter Obi's forensic team the access and time needed to conclude their inspection of the BVAS!
I became even more curious when I noticed that INEC did not provide sufficiently clear invalidation guidelines nor explanations for what I thought were too organised to be mere coincidences.
As you hurry to get back to your comfort zone before the sun sets on you in the land of the rising sun, we regret that we will never get to see you in Anambra again till the next campaign rally, if God permits. Fare thee well
@MBuhari
.
Warm regards,
@ChimaCChristian
#PMBInAnambra
I'm deeply appreciative of your prayers, kind words and solidarity since I made known my intention to run for the office of the Publicity Secretary of Anambra State Chapter of the
@OfficialPDPNig
.
Labour Party's Peter Obi, has argued, through his lawyers, that allowing INEC to wipe out the data on the BVAS will affect the substance of his case against INEC's criminal manipulation of Nigeria's electoral systems and processes.
ELECTORAL REFORM: WE'VE FIRED THE OPENING SHOT — CHIMA CHRISTIAN
I'm pleased to report, on behalf of Africa's Morning Centre For Public Policy And Good Governance, that God helped us with the tenacity and grit needed to fire the opening shot of the electoral reform efforts as
In the light of the continued atrocities in Nigeria's MiddleBelt region, let me repeat a warning made in December 2022. I hope Nigeria will course-correct before things get out of hand.
INEC is arguing that it will transfer all the data on the BVAS to its backend server. Problem is that INEC has not given Peter Obi's forensic team these devices to inspect before the planned transfer of data.
I just got off another interview with
@AfiaTVOfficial
where I made the case for the 2023 National Census exercise to be postponed by at least 9 months. My argument was centered around four areas;
1) Conducting a major national exercise with unaudited systems and processes.
2)
#PlateauMassacre
: What is happening in the
#Middlebelt
is a full-blown terrorist syndicate. The Federal Government, affected State Governments, and other partners must begin the process of officially pronouncing them as a terror group. The media should also help by calling a
Since 🇳🇬's Police, EFCC, ICPC, NFIU, etc, have refused to investigate how & who compromised INEC's systems & processes, young people whose future is about to be stolen will assume those responsibilities, investigate those crimes, & bring the criminals to justice.
💪
#EndSARS3
.0
I endorse Nigeria's migration to tech-based solutions. That is why I welcome NPC's decision to “digitize” this census. The problem is that the systems NPC will be relying on to conduct the exercise have not been audited or subjected to integrity tests.
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu died and was buried. Leaders from all over the world poured in to Nnewi, Anambra State, to pay their last respect. You were nowhere to be found.
We lost our very own erudite Prof. Chinua Achebe, you couldn't care less, Your Excellency.
#PMBInAnambra
Secondly, the data transfer protocol is not clearly spelt out. To the degree of the fuzziness of that transfer process, much confidence is not to be retained in it.
Well, the three-man panel of Appeal Court judges that will determine the case is headed by Justice Joseph Ikyegh. (I have restrained myself from attaching his photograph.)
We can confirm that Peter Obi has arrived the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja where Justice Joseph Ikyegh and his colleagues are expected to give a ruling shortly.
May God grant our judges the wisdom, courage and grace to judge justly.
#EndSARS3
.0
Mr. President, just in case you are already at the crowded campaign ground when this message gets to you, please be informed that you are just a stone throw away from DIG Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah's father's house.
#PMBInAnambra
Focusing solely on voter invalidation data, I thought I saw a pattern that was too difficult to ignore. So I compressed some of my findings in the attached infograph.
VIDEO: CJN's planned secret meeting with Tinubu (as alleged) more reason we need to support our civil litigation efforts with criminal inquest - Chima Christian
Reports of ethnic profiling in Lagos are becoming increasingly difficult to wish away. What started as mere political rhetoric has now mutated, as expected, to include premeditated violence & suspected arson. Unless concerted efforts are made, things are shaping up to get worse.
Here are more reasons
@OUKtweets
should leave the southeast out of his personal ambition to become the Senate President. Please retweet till it gets to him and other aspiring identity manufacturers.
Africa's morning will come.
Chima Christian
We lost great Zik of Africa in '94, you couldn't bring yourself to pay your respect. Few weeks to election, you suddenly found out what great a man Zik was. Today, you are dancing around his grave. This is the worst display of political expedience in recent history.
#PMBInAnambra
B4 you entered the campaign arena, your convoy drove past the very place many lost their lives during that dance you sanctioned. Today you are asking their widows & the families they left behind to vote for you even while that provocative dance is still ongoing.
#PMBInAnambra
Jesus has already given Plateau youths, and indeed anyone who cares to listen the only template to ENGAGE, when you have leaders that neither fear God nor man, as you undoubtedly have in Nigeria today. Hear him:
Luke 18: 2 - 5 saying: "There was in a certain city a judge who did
The complete collapse of state institutions is happening before our eyes. My happiness is that this is well-documented, televised and twitterised.
I'm confident that Nigeria's young people will respond in due time.
Don't despair.
Africa's morning will come.
Chima Christian
Nigerians are about to, yet again, sleepwalk into an avoidable bobby trap called the 2023 Census Exercise.
Compared to the just-concluded general elections, that census if allowed to happen with the current systems and processes, will have an even more devastating outcome.
It's a pity that you couldn't trust her with a sensitive appointment but you are now close to her father's house asking her siblings to trust you with their votes.
#PMBInAnambra
Another round of killings. Another round of mass graves. Another round of “no arrests” by the security outfits. Another round of half-hearted press release by elected political actors. Another round of outrage by SM that will only last till the next trending issue come up.
Good
“If the systems can be tampered with by the individuals operating them, then they cannot be relied upon to produce accurate and acceptable demographic data,” he noted.
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
NPC does not have the capacity to conduct census on May 3. They have not taken delivery of all the needed equipment. They have not concluded recruitment of Adhoc staff, let alone training them. They have not installed needed software on all the acquired hardware. For an exercise
David Hundeyin is doing an important work. Seek for ways to send donations to his organisation. There are others like him also. When you find such people reach out to them and see how you can support them. That's how to democratise activism. We can't leave activism to just a few.
I have spent the past few months engaging a broad stakeholder audience on four key issues;
1) How to minimise the technical compromise of the 2023 general elections.
2) Strategies to recover the stolen mandate.
458 Billion Projected Debt Profile: Is
@CCSoludo
Planning to Borrow Away Anambra's Future? — Chima Christian
No truthful person who has had the time to study Soludo's audacious plans for Anambra will fault more than a tiny part of the plan.
We have gone beyond complaining. We have rolled out a series of steps to prevail on the Federal Government to
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
. If you can, whether acting individually or as a group, please get in touch and see how you could be of help.
After the Anambra elections, Your Excellency, an elder statesman, Pa Alex Ekwueme died and was buried in Oko, Anambra State. You couldn't bring yourself to pay your respect, not even during the service of songs in
#Abuja
.
#PMBInAnambra
You will remember her Sir. As has been your character, you skipped her just a few weeks ago to appoint someone from the part of Nigeria “you trust” as Nigeria's IGP.
#PMBInAnambra
Group of Benue Women in Various IDP Camps are well in their rights to besiege the Benue State Office of the NPC in protest. Their calls to
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
for fears that armed terrorists who have occupied their villages will be officially gazetted as land owners while
The journey of a thousand miles, they say, begins with the very first step. Earlier this evening, I had the singular privilege of formally declaring my interest to run for the office of the Publicity Secretary of Anambra State chapter of the PDP at my ward, Otolo Ward 2, Nnewi.
Don't be deceived dear President
@MBuhari
, the five percenters have decided to take your 5% and give it to the people who already have 97%.
#PMBInAnambra
As
@NGRPresident
you never bothered with a state visit or found any excuse whatsoever to come, but when it came to
#Anambra2017
governorship election, you suddenly found time to come market your broom in Anambra, although you later swapped that broom with a fowl.
#PMBInAnambra
Perhaps with only one or two exceptions, Imo state, since 1999, has continued to produce governors with a similar background of 41, and one other digit. Unfortunately, the major frontrunners for the Imo 2023 governorship election reportedly come from that lineage.
We have been told that besides the planned campaign rally, you are coming to “commission” a repainted grave Sir. No thanks to your 97:5 policy, there are no visible projects initiated or completed by your administration in Anambra after four years!
#PMBInAnambra
A mortal wound has been inflicted on the petition. Issues around the BVAS, especially its synchronisation is a fuzzy process. And to the degree of its fuzziness, much confidence is not to be retained in it.
Again I call on young Nigerians to begin criminal inquest. Civil
Let me explain briefly why the issue of INEC servers is key.
After the Osun election, APC wrote INEC & obtained a BVAS report with which they filed their claim that overvoting occurred in Adeleke's strongholds.
PDP also got a server report from INEC; showed diff BVAS numbers.
Your associates may not not tell you this, Your Excellency. Our people are very circumspect. Even if you reverse your previous decision and make Zik's birthday Nigeria's new democracy day, no political gain will accrue to you on great Zik's account...
#PMBInAnambra
Several hundreds of youths laid off from factories that either shut down or scaled down operations due to your poorly articulated forex and economic policies...
#PMBInAnambra
Your Excellency, before you came back to become an elected president of the Federal Republic, there were dozens of events that offered you compelling reasons to pay visit to the Light of the Nation, but you found excuses to stay away.
#PMBInAnambra
Mr. President, during your very first year in office,
#Anambra
witnessed a very tragic fuel tanker explosion in
#Onitsha
that claimed a lot of lives. You cocooned yourself in
@AsoRock
.
#PMBInAnambra
Mr.
@NGRPresident
, make whatever you can of this information: All your visits to Anambra State in the last twenty years (a pitiful number of them anyway), save for one, are only for campaign rallies.
#PMBInAnambra
Group of Benue Women in Various IDP Camps have expressed fears that armed terrorists who have occupied their villages will be officially gazetted as land owners while original owners of the land remain in IDP camps.
More reasons to
#PostponeNigeriaCensus2023
.
Atiku doesn't mind setting Nigeria on fire just to become its president. He's not a unifier. He's nothing short of a shameless opportunist.
Chima Christian
Two key issues have emerged from APC's muslim/muslim considerations. One, that southern muslims are not muslim enough. Two, that northern christians are not northern enough.
Nigeria's identity politics is as entertaining as it is depressing.
Chima Christian
Even if we accept repainting of grave to be a federal project Sir, it is very ironical that you, dear President Buhari, the very exact opposite of the man the great Zik of Africa - a firm believer in one Nigeria - was, is coming to his resting place today...
#PMBInAnambra
...are part of the “mammoth crowd” waiting to receive the two thousand Naira your mobilizers promised to share and entertain themselves with the superstar singer they also promised to bring.
#PMBInAnambra
To get the Mac Address;
1) Turn on BVAS
2) Go To Settings
3) Go to About tablet
4) Record Build No & Mac Address:
6) Send captured data to your respective uplines & situation rooms.
7) Be sure to include the PU code of the polling unit you are sending its details across.
Since population distribution is a major consideration in sharing of Nigeria's resources and other important delimitations, there is the motivation by key actors to deliberately manipulate population numbers, especially at the state and local government levels.
We made excuses for you Sir. We told ourselves that because of your role as an opposition candidate that you structured your movements in order not to clash or interfere with that of the then governing PDP.
#PMBInAnambra