 Mae'r flos o'r politicau yn ysgolwch, ac rydyn ni'n deud yw ymwneud yma ymwneud y dychydig fel ymwneud yma ym Mhwneud AAPC yw'r prymys yn Lega Stat. Ffwrdd yw'n ddylai'r cyddiannod o'r cyd-diwyd yn cael ei ddweud â'r cyfrannu. A oedd yma yma rydyn ni'n cyfrannu o'r cyfrannu o'r cyfrannu o'r ymwneud, roedden nhw yng Nghymru Eltrwyr Cymysio yng Nghymru i'r Argymacydd yng Nghymprifysgarol i'r handshwyth. Yn yw sgwpeth ar gyfer gyntaf o Politik, 10,269 Elucrôl yng Nghymprifysgarol yn cy들wyr yn gyfer yegwyr 18 gyfnashydd fel Argymysgrun yn Ynghyrgyn Meddwl, mae'n gwaith yr Ynghyr Maciano Cymysg ynghyrch Lleidr i Lleidrwn Newydd yr Adreychul Cymysiant yng Nghymprifysgarol y cyfathod am y teintydd a be'n gael athlaedd yn y schim inflammatory cymdeilig, plant oes cyfathod y cyfridwyd Cymru cofennig, unig, ilni a dweud, a yn rhan o hollol rhan o'r cyfathod a'r cyfridwyd o'r hyn yw, mae ymaín bynthol i'r gweithio ar y link yw'r ffordd cyffordd a'u cyfriddwyr a'r gweithio a'u gweithio ar y link. Yn y bwysig rydyn nhw, mae'n rhan oes o'r bwysig o'r gweithio ar y link a ddweud, and other security agencies to ensure a hitch-free election. Joining us now to discuss this is Dr Adenior Teller. Thank you very much Mr Adenior for joining us. Thank you for having me. Great. Let's start by talking about the improved INEC of course. Many people have talked about the beavers and a number of states being a litmus test for the upcoming elections in Akiti State and Oshun State. Now, there are obviously concerns because we saw some hiccups. I was also in Anambra during that election and we saw that some beavers were not working. Some of the core members were unable to use those beavers. But let's generally look at the readiness of INEC for Akiti. Okay, thank you very much. The commission is point and we are fully determined to conduct akiti election in an improved electoral process. And this will be seen in many diverse way in respect of the steps we have taken so far. For instance, in the aspect of electoral personnel, the security issues, the materials and etc. All right, let's talk about the issues that we have seen. Political parties have continuously been dragging each other to court saying that this is not the rightful candidate. But of course INEC's duty is to take whoever the leadership of the party says is the candidate or the flag bearer for the party. Has INEC been able to make sure that all the areas where these polling centres, including the new ones, the polling units that have been added to the ones that were there, will be fully secured. Now, we already know that normally we have police officers who are not armed at these polling units. But generally, can you say that Akiti State will be safe, secure and we will not have any electoral hiccups come that day? Looking at the state of affairs right now within the state. Thank you very much. From the commission aspect, in a recent time, the commission has succeeded in bringing up and hiding a program that is specifically meant for the election violence and mitigation advocacy tools. And the whole idea is to identify early signal and relate this to the relevant stakeholders and the security personnel in an attempt to devise and appropriate mitigations to curb electoral violence. Secondly, about two weeks ago, the commission embarked on a program which is being anchored by the Electoral Institute. And this is being taken by the security operatives, cascaded in the Electoral Security Training. And the workshops was basically on how to mitigate, to articulate, mitigate against violence as well. What's the biggest challenge that INEC is facing right now, or would you think would be the biggest challenge for you in the Akiti elections come next month? Do you have any other challenges aside from the hiccups that technology might pose? Again, the transmission of results is a thing that Nigerians are really holding onto for dear life, being that this would be one of the guarantees for free for incredible elections. How certain are you that these beavers will work even in some areas where might not be necessarily adored Akiti? You could recall it that we had an election in FCT February 2022, and in 2021 we had elections in November respectively, and I was fortunate to participate in the two elections. I can only tell you that from what we learned so far, we are engaging and we have done that even here in Akiti. Engaging the core members, we have invested them and engaging them in a root training, which is we call it root training, and it's an intensive training that's planned for a period of five weeks instead of three days before the election. So they could even undo the beavers in an appropriate manner. There are certain entrances that we pose with the use of beavers, but as I speak to you, we are able to summon the courage and have the challenge over. So we never have said any problem as it is now. Let's look at the issue of INEC officials, whether it be the adhoc staff or the main staff. Many have also queried the steadfastness of INEC officials. We've also seen INEC officials being charged to court on election practices. Is there also some form of training on electoral malpractices by standing and watching? I know that there's a big issue with vote buying at polling units, even though INEC has said that this is out of their hands, but is there any form of upgrade that INEC has come up with to help with the issue of vote buying and electoral malpractices? On the issue of the electoral officials, you will discover that the newly introduced devices being put in place by the commission will not give a room for short parties to take place. Then besides, we have given enough training to our staffs, and we are not even giving them to the whole world that they will be satisfied with working as seriously because achieving set goals by giving the credible election to the electorate. On this issue of vote buying, we have embarked on series of training and enlightenment to the electorate to know that they cannot even say them safe. They have to choose freely who will determine who will occupy the seat for the next four years. How well do you think that that training, I mean I saw that you did a road show to try to educate the populace on what should happen during the elections, but I also covered the enamber elections and I saw a lot of vote buying happening across the different political parties. Some came in form of food, some came in form of snacks, some actually gave food and money inducing people who were on that line to vote for the different political parties. Again, how do we dissuade that? I am asking because the road shows are great, the sensitisation campaigns are good, but how effective are they in changing the mindset of the average Nigerian? We are in 2022 and 2023 just around the corner where we are going to have the general elections. How effective do you think all that you have done is? The road show is of two ways. The first intends about the disease for the electorates to pick up the permanent vote tax card that we have succeeded in distributing to the 16 local governments. The second aspect is for them to come at a mass and vote so that they vote who can't and they choose their candidate rightfully. So you are saying that this is very effective or not? You are just saying, you just told me what you do, but do you think that what you've done so far is going to be effective? It would reflect in the attitude of the voters when they come out on that day to vote. That was my question. Definitely because actually every day the people that have voted for the card would normally give the details of the number of those who have collected the PBC. That is an assurance in the way that they are doing it. So sorry, has there been an improvement? And what is going to be can't. I am sorry, Mr Taylor. Has there been an improvement? The training given to the core members, the training given to the electoral officials, the core officials and others who normally rule the numbers out on constant basis so that there won't be any error or any error of doubting as regards the exercise that we are looking at. So can you say that there has been an improvement? I am so sorry to speak over you, Mr Taylor, but I am going to ask this question again. Can you tell me if there has been an improvement in the number of people who are picking up their voters card compared to the previous election that you've had? Definitely. The reason why we have an improvement on the number of people who are picking up their voters card is that it is not of the step being taken by the commission. For instance, we engage the civil society organisation, the faith-based organisation, the market domain outreach, and the elderly ones in our respective villages who are really involved to know the importance and they should know that the panel voters card is so central to this exercise. Without being collecting it, they cannot even pick their candidates rightfully. Well, I want to say thank you, Dr Adelian Ron Taylor, is the resident electoral commissioner for Ekiti State and he's speaking to us live from Adelian. Thank you so much for speaking with us, Dr Taylor. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Well, thank you all for staying with us and we have come to the end of the show tonight. Plus politics returns next week on Monday as we continue to talk for development. But even as we are in the campaign season, don't forget to know your rights, know that you need to get your PVC. It's two more days before INAG wraps up. Make sure you get your PVC and get ready for the elections. I am Mary Annacol. Have a great evening. That winning the political system has been a disappointment and a failure to the country. And if youth rise up, if people rise up against us, they will be completely justified because we don't play according to the rules. We don't have rules that are followed. And we do things. For instance, let me go back and talk about the issue of political education. Why would somebody who wants to benefit from the illiteracy of the people, of the lack of capacity of the people, give political education to the people? The political parties are not interested in people who ask questions. They are not interested in people who are independent. They are not interested in people who know what is right. That is why I said we in the National Assembly should open up the political space so that people that seek to contest elections and I deny for whatsoever reason and contest elections as independent candidates. A system that allows people to pay their delegates or have delegates the time it will become the flag bearer who, if a person spends all that money to get to that particular office, does not think that it is accountable to the people. It thinks it is accountable first to himself and his pocket. And then to his cronies who got in there. So you have a crisis in terms of accountability because not really. The question says, when you get there, you're supposed to go there and make laws. But the first thing you need to do is to recoup how much you'll spend, first and foremost. Then try and get some more money to bolster your finances for the next election. Most Nigerians who are savvy recognize that both the PDP and APC are one and the same party. And that in 20, 20 years, both parties have inflicted so much damage to the possibilities of the Nigerian dream that there was need to think alternative. But you see people are very slow to adapt into a new way. People sometimes fear the unknown. But in the case of Nigerian politics, they are particularly wary of the fact that what is called structure tends to determine election outcomes. We were supported in where the people who made the mistake, rather than the person. He didn't change. It turned out that President Bahai had always just wanted to be president. And the governance was not his priority. There were difficult choices to make. There was no time to make those decisions. He took all his time to make the wrong decisions. And he allowed the country to drift when he should have exercised a firm grip on the nation, governed with sensitivity, inclusiveness, some level of privacy, and lead, literally lead, rather than just be delegated as possible. So it turned out that many of us who supported him were wrong. He wasn't. And it turned out that he just wanted to be president. And as far as he was concerned, that was all to me. Nothing will happen to Okorocha. It's all about the administration of impunity. Okorocha will play the script by the time it comes out of EFCC confinement. He'll probably withdraw a candidacy like a good boy. And he would, of course, like every other one once in a country, we've heard it from Adam O'Shiomole. Join us and you are immune. He's one of the foundation members of APC. So can anyone expect that anything will happen to him? All the years saying is that in the moment, he is required to act in a manner that is inconsistent with his own choice. And when he finally understands that he has to play according to the script, he'll put him on the back, he'll go back to the chambers of the Senate. That was the Senate of the February Republic.