INEC’S math problem in Enugu ~ by Vitus Ozoke

Let me state right out of the gate, and for the records, that Barrister Chijioke Edeoga is the duly elected governor of Enugu state. Anybody parading themselves otherwise is just dancing in a stolen costume. Such a person can go ahead and enjoy their 15 minutes of infamy while it lasts.

Now here are the facts. These are not just anybody’s facts; these are INEC-corroborated facts. At some point during the collation of Enugu state gubernatorial election results on Sunday, March 19, INEC’s attention was drawn to a serious math problem for Nkanu East results. It was such a serious problem that even INEC, as notoriously compromised as it is, admitted that there was serious result padding in Nkanu East. Here is the breakdown of the numbers for Nkanu East:

1. Number of Registered voters: 36,976
2. Number of Collected PVCs: 27,594
3. Accredited voters on 3/18/23: 7,453

What number 3 means is the total number of people who actually showed up on election day, and who were cleared to vote. So, no more than 7,453 votes from Nkanu East could have been shared by all the candidates for governor.

So, INEC suspended further collation to go review and figure out its math problem in Nkanu East. But, prior to the suspension and review of Nkanu East results, here is what INEC had recorded for the two leading candidates:

1. Peter Mbah (PDP): 30,560
2. Chijioke Edeoga (LP): 1,855

So, just between the two leading candidates, there is an overvote of 24,962. If you factor in votes for the smaller candidates and invalid votes, that number is even higher. Obviously, those numbers were not adding up, and even INEC knew that, so it suspended further collation of results for Enugu state to enable it do a review.

Well, at that point, any human being with any active brain cells should have expected that any review would have been for INEC to ask itself the following embarrassing, but important, questions:

1. Boy, how did we bungle the math so badly?
2. Seeing as we have determined to be a corrupt agency, should we make a minimum C grade in math a requirement for employment with INEC?
3. How do we cough out what we have already collected in bribe?
4. Who talked us into adopting BVAS and IRev technologies?

So, a review should never have been for the purpose of determining the winner of Enugu state governorship election, because at the point INEC decided to do a review, it was clear that Barrister Chijioke Edeoga of the Labor Party was going to be next governor of Enugu state. How could he not?

At the point of the review, Chijioke Edeoga was leading Peter Mbah by 11,759 votes, having polled a total of 155,697 votes against Mbah’s 143,938. So that even if INEC decided, after its cosmetic review, to give all 7,453 accredited votes for Nkanu East to Mbah, Edeoga would still have won by 4,306 votes.

But, surprise, surprise, after its review of Nkanu East, INEC awarded Peter Mbah of the PDP 16,956 votes, and Chijioke Edeoga of the Labor Party 1,855. Makes you wonder how in the world do you have 18,811 votes, from just the two leading candidates, in a local government area with a total of 7,453 accredited voters? If you add 215 for APC, 117 for APGA, 37 for YPP, 14 for NNPP, 10 for NRM, 8 for AA, 7 for ADP, 5 for ADC, 4 for PRP, 3 for APM, 3 for BP, 2 for APP, and 1 for ZLP, that number is 19,237.

So, in the decisive Nkanu East, where INEC chose as the ground zero of its rigging abracadabra in Enugu gubernatorial election, INEC manufactured 19,237 fictitious human beings to join the accredited 7,453 real human beings. Surely, INEC is God, because what INEC cannot do does not exist!

Now, you can understand the lack of excitement in Enugu even from the camp of Peter Mbah, the INEC-declared winner. They know it’s just a matter of time before the fraud is fixed.

You know, friends have called to ask me how INEC, knowing how clear and obvious its fraud was, would still go ahead with it. They speculated that a heavy load of money and other inducements must have been exchanged to blind INEC to this embarrassing scandal. Such speculation of monetary inducement tells only half the story. I believe there’s another factor, the Waawa factor. So, even as Chijioke Edeoga reclaims his stolen mandate, watch out for my next title, SIMILAR FACTS, DIFFERENT RESULTS: ABIA, ENUGU, AND THE WAAWA FACTOR.

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