 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We had straight to our second conversation We're going to a number of state to talk about the Supplementary elections for Ihala local government with 148,000 voters and we do have Dr. Mephore law Mephore on standby this morning. Thank you for joining us Dr. Law Mephore Thank you for hosting me Morning all right, so let's just head straight to the Conversation for the want of time. What is going on right now in a number of state? What does it look like? The people willing to come out to vote for these supplementary election. We're talking about Ihala at this point A man power. I was not able to effectively mobilise to Ihala. So they felt it was best to defy it and I agree with them and The election Has been concluded in Virtually 20 local government areas. There's enough confidence and building for Ihala people and They have received assurances from the Anabras state government from the security Chiefs that are there will be maximum security They are for them to cast their votes without any form of intimidation harassment And they're all that so I believe Ihala will come out to vote and vote a massive I expect even a higher turnout in Ihala than happened in other people's mental areas Where people were sure of the situation of fate their own case is quite different because they have some Memory to fall back on what has happened in other local government areas should they bolster their Confidence and we are sure them that they can vote and that their votes will count Okay, let's you know talk also about the You know possibilities of Obtaining what the you know the figures are looking like right now. I've got has a very you know, you know large You know gap between itself and the PDP which is currently second Is there any hope that Ihala might be you know a miracle for either the PDP or the APC? For that to happen, you expect that 40 to 50 percent of Ihala registered but that's you have to vote that means we are looking at 17 to 100,000 voters turning out out of the 148 you know in the history of Elections in a number of states since the return of the country to the present democratic dispensation Never recorded even even a 35% And then if you also Go by what has happened in this particular election in the other 20 local government areas We are the election has a Completed Is not more than more than 10% you know so and You want to double it for a heala You are still talking about 30% Less than 30 minutes less than 30,000 voters and I've got already has 52,000 votes, you know in lead The implication of that is that for you to really upturn you need to score more than that Number and of course stopping out that gap from a gaining additional votes in a here, which is practically impossible It is going to be tough. You know, it's an uphill task. It's not impossible though because if you actually understand why They have a lot of food is necessary is because according to the constitution and all the extant and regulations Where the margin of a win is a Smaller than the register the number of voters in areas where a voting couldn't take place then you need to do a supplementary Election or a runoff to enable you bring them into the picture because it is assumed by the constitution that if the 148,000 would all food and all food against the winner The winner or the winning party and in favor of the runner-up Hypothetically going to upturn the result, but it's only hypothesis You know for me, I would because of the comfortable margin if it's same Something like the number of votes is less than 20,000 You know, maybe one will be thinking of the possibility But the budget is huge and they turn out in this election has not been quite impressive Even though the circumstances leading up to the election comparatively, you know, and make everybody to give Even a pass mark if not an excellent mark, but if it was that statistically PM To which to be upturned at this stage is only one local government. Okay Let's let's also share your thoughts on this. Do you think there are other factors that could impede the 1,000? I mean 148,000 voters. Are there other factors that could impede them from casting your vote? You know, you see the factors that would impede them you know They don't seem to exist now. For example, you should be secured The security officials in this election, you know, they have been rather very professional Good, you know, really good. And I don't see them changing their professionalism in here You know, it will mess up the record. They have already created then the threat of a sit at home and All that, you know, have they not quite played out in this election, you know Not in the last two, three, four days We don't expect that to happen. And if it would because the election should be getting set for now You know, the evidence should be on ground that they are resolved the breakdown of the law and order in Agaba and People are not being threatened, but it's not happening. So I think the conditions are quite right for very peaceful election to make it the icing on the cake over this commendable election in Anabra state Like I said, I commend Anabrarians, I commend the security operatives, I commend Even IPOB, I commend them also who are agreeing to remove the seat But that's also a case. I mean we also have reports that Beavers didn't function properly and a lot of persons were unable to cast their votes You know during the last elections that were conducted each of the network. So don't you see that as a problem? The Beavers that worked in last Saturday election Will be moved to here. I don't see Beavers being a problem here now I believe that the functioning ones now will be decoded and used for the election How about the network? Yeah, the network, you see let me tell you what happened with the Beavers in Anabra state You know, you see the network of providers are not equally strong in all parts of Anabra state It's on places, it's empty and that is pretty strong. It's on places It is, it is air-tailed or grown and so on and so forth So the prevalent network in Ehiala, if it is empty and I expect Ainec to Configure to empty and to get excellent result. That's what I expect. In fact, if the Beavers poses a problem today in Ehiala It means that Ainec needs to really go back to the drawing board Because I believe that the reason they had problems with the Beavers Would have to do with network. That's what I believe and you see I read somewhere I don't know how authentic that is, that Beavers would function optimally with a 4G network In Anabra, it's 3G that is prevalent and in many places less than 3G You know, so I believe that if they should move the network that Would suit Ehiala best and deploy the network Configure to the network to be able to get an excellent result. In other words, what I'm trying to say is that Beavers Can pose only very minimal, very minimal challenge because Ainec had to do this to really correct that in Ehiala All right Hopefully that is sorted, but I want you to you know, find out if you can do this in a minute, please Respond to some of the claims by the PDP candidate Valentinos Igbo who was on social media late yesterday Making very very strong complaints, you know, mostly about the electoral process He spoke about Ainec and it's ad hoc staff that were poorly trained. He spoke also about their their logistical Logistic challenges heavily marring the process He also went on to say the election was not held in many polling units election materials arrived late in some Collision and returning officers were forced to sign result sheets and in some cases the result sheets were totally fabricated He also went on to say that The impunity did not begin on Saturday It takes root from the process in which leaders emerge the voices of the greater majority of the people were not heard and Consequences are that they did not get the opportunity to choose who would lead them for the next four years It says agents of two ruling parties at the center and at state level and backed on brazen voter Intermediation and vote buying and some of the things that he mentioned These are his concerns. I read I read that also You see the three things here one a poor training Poor mobilization And all that did it affect only PDP, you know Voted buying but I also saw pockets of fame where Voted buying was actually They refuse to take money I saw that also I can also watch some of the videos to you. I think I saw that Yes, you know, so the song so we offer money and they said no And let me also tell you the issue of food buying was a curse It's not just the women party PDP was involved. That's the truth. You know, the vote buying in another state is the same regular price That's a fact and it's not right is criminal or this there. That's the truth you know and the Poor performance of beavers. This is a franchise That's a fact But again, it did not single out PDP supporters You know, he affected everybody across the board Now, you know, they also prove how this affected him as a candidate It's only the proof and then, you know, it's a it's a tough one because how do you not prove that the poor network affected only Only areas where PDP members are voting. You know, it is difficult All these observations actually show, you know, that the exercise was not perfect I agree, but you see the circumstances did not allow the better outcome There was so much strength security threat before the election So even INEC may not have had the opportunity to do a test run because what INEC ought to have done was to deploy You know, do what you call a work in Annabelle to identify in which network should be stronger and not INEC, I'm not sure how the opportunity to do that. I'm not making any excuses for them But you are not gonna know that at a point, we will not even show the election control So, we have to keep at my place for some of these things I understand the problem, the anger of the values, you know, it was full of optimism But they cannot also claim that what happened affected only him or that he is more popular than those who are ahead of him in this election We'd have to wrap up here in the interest of time. We're completely out of time for this conversation But of course, we will be following up with the, you know, how today turns out We have from now to 4 p.m. for the supplementary elections, and we very likely will love to speak with you again Thank you very much and wish you a very beautiful Tuesday ahead And this is where we say goodbye on the program this morning If you missed out, remember where to catch up. It's simply a plus to be Africa on Facebook and Instagram Same with our YouTube channel plus to be Africa. I am Osaugi Obama And I am Mesia Bopu. Do have a great day Anambra, a governorship election is not yet over as Professor Charles Soludo, Valentino Zibo, and Senator Andrew Banhovers Get ready for supplementary elections in Ihala local government area of the state Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.