 We're glad to know that you're still there, still plus politics and my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. The appeal court turned down the request made by OB, that Beva's machines should not be reconfigured ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections this weekend, or while the election has been postponed to the next weekend. A three-member panel of the appellate court led by Justice Josef Iqaq granted leave to the applicant for the purpose of configuring the Beva's for the election on Saturday. The panel, however, asked Inaq to upload data to back-end server and make two certified copies to the respondents. The court granted a dual permission following two separate expatriate applications filed by Attiku and OB of the PDP and the Labour Party respectively, who came second and third in the presidential election, won by Asiwaju Borla-Tinobu of the All Progressive Congress APC. At least he's the one who has been declared president-elect. The commission is asking the court to vary the order to allow it to reconfigure its bimodal voter accreditation system, Beva's, for the March 11 governorship election that has been moved one week ahead or further. And state houses of assembly elections also are going to be held on that day. According to Inaq, Tanimu Inua said the application became necessary following an order restraining it from tampering with the information embedded in the Beva's machine until due inspection was conducted and certified. He added that the commission would require sufficient time to reconfigure the Beva's needed to conduct the election that would take place on Saturday 18th. He told the court that Inaq would upload from back-end. Joining us to discuss tonight is Benga Olurungwemi, a public relations consultant and APC member. We also have Honorable Funke Awolowo, Deputy Chairperson, Legacy Excos, Labour Party, and Adetunji Omoltola, PDP Chieftain. Thank you, gentlemen and lady, for staying with us. Thank you very much for having us. OK. Thanks for having me. Good. Where do we start? Ladies first, as they say. And now it is your party, the Labour Party, that went and demanded that they be allowed to inspect these things, the Beva's machines, and make sure all the evidences are taken out before the reconfiguration of these machines because maybe the information might be lost. But now that the courts have said that the Inaq can reconfigure these machines and elections have been moved to one week after, one week from 11th of March, what is your reaction to the development? First of all, good evening, thank you for this opportunity. I'm just wondering what took them four years to establish, and they made so much mistakes. Will they be able to correct it in a week? That's a puzzling situation. And I'm wondering why they will decline one, and then they will ask, they will then ask the whole Inaq, because really, when you look at it, Inaq is the corporate here. They have actually treated what they are supposed to make priority, and everyone that has gone through terrorism, that has gone through so many things, and then some, you know, we have great expectations for a new formal government, and this is what we are faced with. And I just feel that Inaq is basically playing with lives. If you ask me, they're playing with old lives, the lives of Nigerians, they're playing with a systemic works, which they're part of, and we can see that. And I don't know what magic they'll be able to do in a week. That's the truth. I really don't know. Okay, let me come to you, Omar Tallah. What is your response also to the development? You are of the PDP. What are you, what will be your reaction to what is happening right now? Maybe you speak your mind or the mind of your party. Thank you very much. First of all, we are very concerned about the situation we find ourselves. I mean, we have seen the presidential elections and the National Assembly elections, February 25th, the international observers, many people across board have said that the elections were not transparent, that they were not largely free and fair. Inaq failed to upload the results from the polling units to the Arab machine or the Arab portal. And as a result of that, we have seen that post the results being announced and a winner being declared on the 1st of March, that there's been a lot of calamity, in fact, results coming up and all sorts of figures that don't make any sense have been brought forward on the INAQ portal. So now we now find ourselves in a scenario where elections have been postponed for a week. The court says INAQ can configure, INAQ says, well, even though the court says we can configure, we don't have enough time for the configuration to happen, and as a result we must delay the elections. Well, from where we're sitting as PDP, we don't really have confidence in the INAQ chairman, and that is why you'll find that PDP, as actually said, I mean, our flag bearer, Alajati Kuwabubak, has said that he's going to go to court. So all of this that INAQ is doing is really medicine after death. These elections have been really below the standard, whether international or even African standard. But of course, we've had some bodies like ECOWAS and the African Union and the common world saying that they were largely peaceful, I mean, former President Aboumbeki said that and also President Baikoroma, former President Baikoroma of Sierra Leone. But as a party, we believe that these elections, the presidential elections have not been conducted in the manner and way that INAQ, particularly the chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, told us that the results would be uploaded from the polling units to the IRA. That has not happened. So any efforts to gloss over it or make it go away is really not good enough. And we're very disappointed once more that the elections have been postponed. In fact, we believe that this is also consistent with the tardiness of INAQ as a body. Whatever the contention is, is other parties saying that your party did not win legitimately and they want to inspect materials and whatever is happening. What is your own reaction? Do you as a person or as your party to the complaints of the opposition parties and what is going on right now? Thank you very much. So to light, I think the appointment is called to defend INAQ and I don't think it's fair. So what I'll do, try and do is to speak to the issues as I lead them and I'll be as empirical as I can. So what was on the front of the judges today was that INAQ was pleading with the courts that they need to reconfigure these beavers machines which were used on the presidential elections to reconfigure themselves and be ready for the gubernatorial to be used for the gubernatorial elections. That was what INAQ went to court to do, to ask that, look, these are the same We have always, it's always been in the plan that we need 40, 40 days between the day that the patches will be reused and when the process of reconfiguration starts, for us to reconfigure this machine. Now, and it is funny that the two big opposition parties were crying and asking the courts to allow them inspect these machines. I want to ask the PDP and the LP, if ever machines to be used for elections were handed over to the APC to inspect, for what ever reason, would you ever agree to use the same machine for any election in the future? If you give me, I remember the APC, the machines that will be used for elections, in future elections, to inspect because I have a problem with the last election. Would you be happy, would you allow me to use those same machines in the next election? Because you won't because you are afraid that I would have tampered with it and skewed it to my advantage. So in the wisdom of the courts, what they are saying is that if you don't need the machines, what you need is the information on the machines which INAQ has already said and backed up on the standards and could be, would be available for inspection by all parties. Who in the game? It is funny that these two main opposition parties are here crying about that the election was unfair. But these same people are celebrating their members of National Assembly who won elections. This election left to me as a person is probably the serious election in the history of the country. I will give you a few reasons why. This is the first time that seven sitting governors, seven sitting governors have failed in their bid to go and retire in the Senate. Seven of these seven governors have not seen one of them to come out to say I was unfairly beaten because they knew they were beating Fair and Square. The former governor of National Assembly lost his election to an SDP member. SDP in National Assembly, as I speak to you, two of their Senate elect members are members of the SDP. So why would you say that elections were unfair? Now there is a lot of noise about elections, about the elections that are held in Lagos. But the first thing is this. Who is the PRO of the police tweeted that yes, the police were invited to 100 polling units but only 28 out of 13,000 polling units in Lagos had issues. Only 28 had issues because they had to be cancelled. So exactly what is the issue that these parties have with an election that was done, that was fair, and everybody saw the results. You said, oh, the elections, the things were uploaded. As I speak to you, all these information has been uploaded. Yes, and I said in the guidelines that they would like to, that they want to upload the information from the polling units. Of course things happened and that doesn't negate or reduce the credibility of the election. So what I am saying here in essence is the judges have saved this country by saying you don't inspect, you don't need to see the mushrooms. The data on the mushrooms is what you do. And that is what we are going ahead with. And the reason why the elections were postponed was because there was not enough time to reconfigure the elections. I'm sure that I can do the conversion done by next election. That means you're comfortable with this election and you're calling it free and fair no matter what happens. Okay, well. Fair because the Labour Party and the PDP Party agree with me. Yes, we've heard that. We've heard that. Let's move to the next thing. We don't have much time. We don't have much time. Thank you very much. Let me come to Honourable Awolowo. You've heard what the PDP person said. When I just said you seem to be the same on the same page with the PDP man who is a motola and elections are coming in the next like 10 days or so. Next week, next week, Saturday, we are going to have that election that was supposed to hold or was supposed to be held this Saturday. Now, what spirit are you going into that election? Are you going into that election as people who are prepared and want to go and win or you have lost confidence and you may not go into that election? What spirit are you taking into the next election that is coming, which is the gubernatorial election? Thank you. With high spirits. You heard him when he said only 28 or something. He came from what he said, there were will and in spite against a reasonable winning number and that speaks volumes and so with that, you know, our presidential candidate Peter will be as told us to be unrelenting, to go for it, yes, and we know that this time around we're not going to go in, we're not going to be fleeing camps, we're going to be a lot more prepared for all the contrariness that might occur during this election. So, you know, we're not, we're not feeling down in any way, we need it that when there's a will, there's a way to shake our state that certain things, even corruption, will bar. So really, we're not dispirited in any way. You know, a great Nigeria, a good Nigeria, which we've been fighting for, which we are expecting is really possible. And thank God we have the judiciary, we have the courts and I believe that something will give for the good of all Nigerians. Thank you. Thank you very much. Tunji, what about you? We're going to have that election. The contention is in the presidential election. Is it really to cancel the election or you're just looking at areas that you did not win? You did not win and you want to look into the issues that went on in those areas. So, what is your frame of mind regarding this presidential election? Would you be more comfortable if everything was cancelled and it was redone? Well, look, as a party, we are not seeking cancellation at this stage. But obviously, what is important is that INEC follows the electoral law. If the results are meant to be uploaded from the polling units to the airport, that must be done. And what we have seen is that even now the results have been uploaded. It looks quite bizarre. Some of the results, I mean, we've seen Jigawa pop up in Oshoom and all sorts of figures have been bandied around. That doesn't make any sense. In fact, in terms of the coalition, when you look at it, they say 400,000 and then you look at it, you see that it doesn't add up to 400,000. So we just want the exact thing that transpired on the 25th of February. We want INEC to share that with Nigerians. We don't want something that looks like an abracadabra. But in terms of the elections that have been postponed, we believe that our candidates who is running for the governorship of Lagos, Dr. Abdulaziz Olajide, are dead, you know. He is the man for the season. We believe that he has the pedigree and he has a very good manifesto to be able to reverse some of the injustices that have happened under the watch of the APC for the last 24 years. We don't want a situation like Zimbabwe where one party governs for 40 years and there's no room for opposition to come to power. Lagos has been held under the stranglehold of largely one politician who has now been declared as the president-elect in very controversial circumstances. So our party, we believe that we have enough firepower in Dr. Olajide Adediro to be able to reverse a lot of the injustices infrastructure in Lagos is very poor. The hospitals are largely nonexistent and we need a Lagos that works. We need a Lagos that connects with the ordinary. People love Lagos, not only for the elites as it is currently. Okay, let me go to Benga as well. This election that the other parties are complaining of, you are applauding INAG now that done a very good job. What if now that there are litigations, it turns out that the courts give to another party. What will be your reaction? Will you still trust the courts as you are trusting INAG now? So I belong to a very low abiding party, the party that is guided by the rules and regulations of this country. And of course, we don't even see each pass of that. And I'll tell you what. My candidate was born in 12 states and had a spread, the second percent which is spread, he had 25% intact states across the country. My candidate worked the hardest, he campaigned very hard and he came out with the highest number of votes. I don't see a situation in any way possible that the neighbor or the Philippine will tell me. What if it happens? Just speculation, what if it happens? No, no, no, I have said that we are a low abiding party but the system that that is not going to happen. Why? We have the numbers, we have the spread. Neither of the two parties have what we have. No doubt. And I would like to ask, really, if it's okay to come here and speak to and the very baboos are not speaking. You say you have the highest. What exactly, what are the issues they have with these numbers? They don't know. So what we have, we are very confident that we will win in any parts that we are taking. Thank you very much. Okay, well, we have, in Lagos state here, we have Abdulaziz Adediron, who is the governorship candidate. We know him as Jando. We also have Babaji Desomolu, who is the sitting governor. That is for APC and LP. We have Badebo Rodsvaivo, who is also contesting. All we can say is, may the best man win. Whoever is contesting, good luck to all of them. Well, I'd like to thank you, gentlemen and lady, for coming on the show. Benga Olorungwemi for APC. Honorable Funke Wollower for LP and Adetunji Omotola for PDP. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you. Well, that's how much we can take for today. We do hope that we'll return tomorrow with yet another issue to discuss. Until then, my name is Nyam Gul Aggaji, saying bye for now.