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Saturday, 19 July 2014

Election Rigging Goes Scientific

Election Rigging Goes Scientific


Below are excerpts from an interesting article by Mr Femi Orebe which appeared on page 16 of The Nation on Sunday newspaper of June 29, 2014.
If Olatunji Dare, up there in a class of his own, could get it wrong, who the hell am I to dare proffer another reason for the APC “shellacking” in the Ekiti election?
Personally, I concede the bragging rights of ignoramuses. But how I wish they were right! Those who planned the Ekiti capture were deliberate and painstaking. They made sure the process was seemingly ‘credible’ as far as INEC was concerned, but rogue elements within it, the government and the PDP, fooled all and succeeded in foisting the ‘Zimbabwe model’ on Ekiti, if not on Nigeria.
Come the 2015 elections – Osun governorship election has already been signed, sealed and delivered same way to the PDP but it will extend to all – presidential, legislative as well as the remaining 34 governorship elections. That way, rogue scientists have clinically gifted President Goodluck Jonathan a life presidency well in advance if he so wished.
For little minds, clearly incapable of deep thinking and unable, therefore, to decipher a PDP that has morphed into a curse on Nigeria, I serve them and my dedicated readers, this Sunday morning, the ZIMBABWE MODEL.
ELECTION RIGGING SCANDAL DEEPENS IN ZIMBABWE: www.theindependent.co.zw/2013/08/election rigging deepens.
‘ELECTION rigging allegations involving Nikuv International Projects (NIP), a shadowy Israeli security company, deepened this week amid revelations the former Mossad spooks used several methods to fix elections in favour of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF.
The row over Zanu PF’s ‘Made-in-Israel’ landslide has delayed Mugabe’s inauguration as his opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, intends to challenge the disputed election results. This comes amid revelations Nikuv hastily shut down its Avondale offices in Harare three days after elections and relocated to an unknown Ballantyne Park address as part of on an ongoing cover-up mission. The sudden closure also suggested the company’s executives were running scared as the rigging racket escalates. Sources said Nikuv officials also worked out of army headquarters at KGVI where there is a “Situation Room” in which they converge with Joint Operation Command (JOC) chiefs to map out election scenarios and the way forward. “Last week’s results would have been worked out in the ‘Situation Room’ at KGVI or some such command centre.”
Sources said Asher and his colleagues were in charge of the voters’ roll which is riddled with ‘duplicating of names, names of people outside the country, names of dead people and other irregularities which could have been manipulated to engineer results’. Apart from Zimbabwe, the company has made a fortune through its activities in Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Lesotho and Zambia where it was taken to court in 1996 on allegations of election rigging. It was also a bidder in Ghana’s US$60 million national identification card project in 2004 which got entangled in a web of corruption in neighbouring Nigeria where former strongman, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, had to sack some ministers. Nikuv reportedly also issued fake voter registration slips which were used by Zanu PF supporters to vote at multiple polling stations. This was prevalent in Harare where police arrested individuals in Hatfield found in possession of multiple copies of voter registration slips, as well as in Mount Pleasant where busloads of bald-headed youths masquerading as police recruits were unearthed. Nikuv’s rigging allegations were worsened by reports by a private South African-based intelligence, Nasini Projects, which said the Israeli firm supplied a special water marked ballot used to give Mugabe a resounding victory. “From our findings so far we are 99.9% convinced the election was rigged via a ballot paper; a special watermarked ballot paper was used to give President Mugabe a resounding victory,” Nasini CEO Lucia Mordi said. “The ballot paper had a water x against Mugabe’s name such that if any ink is placed on the paper the substance on the paper will react and remove the ink and activate the water marked x into print.”
Please note that I am not saying here that NIKUV INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS is involved in any way in the Ekiti election of 21 June, 2014. I have only reproduced what happened somewhere else in Africa, quoting a story that has not been successfully controverted.
Without the slightest doubt, I believe that the above scenario is what has just played out in the Ekiti election. The PDP’s umbrella must have been specially watermarked and the special ink, which voters observed barely made a clear imprint on the ballot even after as many as three times try, must have reacted with the substance pre-impregnated on the ballot paper, removed the ink and activated the water marked PDP space into a bold print of the same brightness, size and colour during vote counting as voters have since testified. Voters confirmed that ballot papers were placed face down on the table and were rolled up before handing over to them just so it will not be exposed to sun’s rays in which case it might activate with a print against a party even before a voter had voted. The ink promptly dried from their fingers.
This is the only way the complete crush of the APC and Labour becomes intelligible at all. Therefore, every lover of this country must insist on this Armageddon being exhaustively investigated and whichever persons or government funded this manner of electoral conquest, and complete destruction of our electoral system must be run out of town. Whoever has a hand in this electoral heist does not deserve to live among human beings.
Since the result, all manner of analysis have been bandied about. Some who publicly endorsed Fayemi’s performance have since come out to insult us about the desideratum of Ekiti never being in opposition to a federal government whose head, the president, early this month confessed he never did a single thing for. Even the US embassy in Nigeria got misled, for once. We were told, for instance, that Fayemi lost because he did not locate the state’s treasury at the Erekesan Market in the state capital for all Ekiti to take their pick. Whoever believes Fayose’s votes almost doubled Fayemi’s or that Engr Segun Oni, the APC deputy national chairman, who went to his polling unit with 10 members of his family, is so hated in his home that his party, the APC, got only one vote and that a sitting governor Fayemi did not win a single local government because he does not eat boli and epa (roasted plantain and groundnut) on the streets of Ado-Ekiti – hogwash – will believe anything, and must, in fact, be a moron.
This time round, PDP has stolen more than the owner and it must not go scot-free, lest Nigeria be destroyed. APC must either get to the bottom of this imminent national political enslavement or simply withdraw from the Nigerian political space as it would otherwise be clinically evaporated. It must insist on a forensic/scientific examination of that ballot paper or it would suffer real annihilation in the Osun election.
A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.

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