 Alright thanks for staying with us now if you are just tuning in thank you for joining the conversation so as witnessed by many Nigerians and reported by credible news source INEC by model voter accreditation system as a beavers an electronic voting machine configured with fingerprints and facial recognition recognition features was at the center of the controversy that belighted the February 25th polls the voters are accredited with a beavers device which also transmit elections election results from polling unit stations to online servers but results were not transmitted on time in the last election sparking allegations of vote regain now several observers including the European Union said that the election fell short of expectations and lack transparency and the governorship polls originally scheduled for Saturday will now hold on March 18th and will run simultaneously with elections of the local parliament representatives now today we're discussing this postponement of the gubernatorial elections and we're asking how do you feel about this now please let's hear what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 081 80384663 you can also tweet at us at we show after one with a hashtag we show all right so I don't know how I feel about this postponement I really feel sad because honestly speaking I just wanted to be like let it be done and dusted because again every there is almost like the economy is on hold you want to do transactions I'm a business woman you want to do transactions I'll tell you that please just wait till after the election every little thing you want to do wait till after the election so postponing the elections for me was just I didn't I wasn't taking it well because I was already planned in my head okay give or take what's case scenario we just do what we have to do I didn't have to like so my kids don't come home for holiday because of a presidential election I couldn't go to see them now again this one so it's just it's just a bit of in a downer for me I don't know how good it is for you people that are inside the campaign if this is an addition or it's going to be like you know also a downer for you guys but I don't know so it's sad that you know it we've had four years to prepare for elections couple hundred billions invested in INEC an electoral act amendment that was well defined as sent to the law by the president and then we now find ourselves suffering from incompetency and inefficiencies and I'd say this you know with all sense of seriousness this is what you call the dividends or good governance that's missing if we had competent people round page in round holes square peg square square holes where there's accountability people don't leave up to the mandate of their office they get fired to get replaced people get reprimanded you will see INEC and all the past status of government agencies that are well funded do the bidding of the people so you know from top to bottom as they call it when your head is sick you don't expect the other parts of the body to function properly so for us you know election postponement is something we anticipated you'll find it very typical that in Nigeria elections do not hold an election day the presidential election by some act of you know what I call it was actually shocked that it happened yeah but then you could see you know some of the what we call WIO that was equally introduced last minute we're seeing that perhaps the incumbent government got a bit of an upper hand a lot of electoral materials they not get to you know voting votes you saw registration cards for political parties like the party not having their agents you see their cattle it's just all kinds of inefficiencies that's introduced to basically make you handicap and you know I think of the reasons why the elections have been postponed you're saying to yourself this is impossible yes you should have system that should be subject to audit in the event that there's a challenge but then at the point where that challenge is raised I'm actually going to be configured with enough devices to circuit the devices that participated in last 30 elections we can withhold it we can deploy other devices to fulfill the needs of our elections but then you're finding all of these cat and mouse as we call it simply trying to perhaps aid and a bet perhaps what we call some criminality that may have taken place with giving another party the upper hand so it's shameful to say the least how do you feel a layer of all this postponement hmm honestly I'm unhappy about it it's making me anxious it's it is actually scattering you know livelihood for a lot of people that I know I know that for instance the whole narrow thing is also affecting people couldn't do anything two weeks ago now I mean yeah two weeks ago last weekend we're looking forward to this weekend and now we have now it's been postponed to next weekend that's if it's going to even happen next weekend so so many people's lives have been put on hold but for everyone is the anxiety of what happened with the presidential election is that what's going to still happen with the gobernatorial election because now everybody just like uneasy because we're looking forward to something fantastic I mean like I can mention a lot of young people came out to experience this thing they want to make sure that they are able to be part of the people that are making the change in the country however it is discouraging that we were hopeful but now it's looking like we don't even have the courage to be hopeful anymore I mean everybody saying what's what everybody says and put it in God's hands that's not what everybody's going to know how long are we going to put it in God's hands God has given it to us to do but now the citizens are tired we're exhausted and we're hoping that hope like I said see I'm saying hope because that's the next thing what else will you do let me come to you do I did I'll come to you Jennifer do I what do you think how do you feel about this postponement hello do you there okay so yes I am here so for me I mean it's a lot of it's quite disappointing like the guest said I can I mean you had four years to prepare for this and it's just simple it's just common sense really and it goes to show that people do not understand project management in terms of I mean you should have option a option be your backup should have a backup plan for what you're going to do in the space of two weeks three weeks it shouldn't I mean ideally people should be fired for this really are the excuse they're giving is really not turnable if you're saying that's all you need to reconfigure so when you brought the technology was the did it take people or the people in charge of that didn't all look at it did not exploit it did not say oh if this happens or this is the next step or if this happens is it so when you look at this kind of excuse to put a whole country on wall I mean some people should have scheduled surgeries some people should have scheduled meetings where these parties yeah everything is just on hold you know so it's really really annoying because that's actually no guarantee that next week or couple week they won't come up with another excuse if I mean by virtue of this they are excuse they don't find a way around it so I mean so when they come next week and then they give the same excuse what do we do we just keep quiet and then you know absolutely okay so I like to come back to you again I came voter apathy I mean a little touched on it and I can tell you for free that a lot of people are really really like I beg the vote where votes last Saturday waiting waiting waiting they turn them to so I beg I beg because I actually spoke to a young man today I'm doing up a space so I was trying to get some materials and I said to him that I hope you're going to go and vote you know now you know so he was saying to me that oh his boss and I said no they postponed elections to next week so I really didn't even know I said well you know they vote again Joe I said why no no no no that because the votes were in vote last weekend Saturday waiting they use the vote to do I said no no no that does not that does so I started telling him that no you can't you cannot you see if you do that it means that you are also giving these people room to do whatever it is that they want to do so that's one I want to touch on voter apathy number two this reconfiguration of this beaver's machine how does it affect the previous data that they had been gathered for the presidential how does it affect it so an issue of voter apathy I would say that this establishment political establishment will be shocked that young Nigerians people in my generation your generation are ready to break it because then they do these things to reduce participation they do this to create frustration and they want us to walk away and not participate you see the turnout in Lagos you know during the presidential elections you know neighborhoods that you will not find people out on election day they had the streets packed you start asking yourself I didn't know this man will live in this neighborhood you're going to you know your only rule of your leg we are people fall back people fall back so the the tools of violence and you know the institutes the institutions I think that they have control over the outcomes we're shocked and I think that new attitude from Nigerians is what we need to build upon in future elections so the turnout will be high next Saturday we're very confident sure about that yes I'm very certain we've been we've been doing rallies we went to Moshe yesterday and people were excited because people want to still have the opportunity to pass a message pass a message you know with a very loud voice now back to the issue of the beavers we will have an opportunity to inspect the viewers extract or perhaps look at some of the logs as we call it yes they can go ahead and reconfigure that's why they claim they needed more time but I think something is happening you now have a generation on a political party the Labour Party you have a leadership that saying you know what we want the best of our democracy we're not just going to walk away then the guy that won we say less from a unity government you take minister you take on that billionaire refund everybody go on vacation to Paris or Johannesburg we're saying no if we truly truly got someone who's called your excellency was the process excellent and then you've not seen us call for protest or any of the negative things you hear oh the blood of a baboon and all this crazy you know rhetoric I hear we're simply saying we want to follow the letters of the law I mean even without coming here and leave us bad about roads before saying you know what I neck for the gubernatorial elections for the state elections we want to make sure the court mandates you to transmit the results electronically don't do offline mode don't change the login don't send this young Nigerians you coppers to face a public that is angry that was changed and then you've made them handicap because it's gonna be it's gonna be it's gonna be very very intense yes it's gonna be a lot of intense this time around because now it seems like oh we were fooled at the the presidential election so now nobody's gonna take chances they won't let them go until they upload those results young presiding officer you know who's probably your cousin my younger sister your next on able you're putting your life at risk thank you and that's irresponsible it's irresponsible so for every woman in Nigeria out there we ought to really wake up election day and say you know what we deserve better if I can put my ATM card in the machine it tells me I'm ten thousand nine and it gives my card back why can't it be vast device work something you've planned for years ahead of time it's so much resources let's take it you know sometimes when I hear this kind of bright minds we have in this country let's take a break won't open a phone line me I want to hear how you feel about this postponement if you're in Lagos they if you're not in Lagos it's every way actually just a few states that are not doing governorship elections so let's hear how you feel generally about the postponement of the elections stay with us with right back all right thanks for staying with us now if you just tuned in is our lady's night out and we have a gentleman amongst us we're discussing the election postponement we're asking how do you feel about this now please let's hear what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or WhatsApp to the read one eight zero three four six six three can also treat others at we show after one the hashtag we show now our phone line is now open please keep it short keep it straight to the point and turn off the device of whatever you're watching us from and the number to call it zero seven zero two five zero zero seven seven four nine the question is how do you feel about the postponement only a few states are not doing elections right those state which other state is not doing elections so how many states are doing the election go by the terrarium under is not doing ocean is not doing I think a kitty as well as not doing so I mean I don't I don't state is not doing yeah I mentioned it though before so I mean we need to know why how people are feeling across you know I think for me I think for me most of the conversations we've been having is that a lot of youths the reason why youths are now paying attention and participate in this because we've realized that we've been doing this thing by ourselves Nigerians have represented their country in different aspects of their careers and their work Nigerians have fought to make Nigeria a very reasonable country amongst you know other go ahead amongst other you know nations around the world and exhausted what if I'm Legos hi Wally hi Wally hello hi you're live good evening good evening yeah go with my I think the expression is good for you reason I do not know we are aware that the thought has given approval for the use of the temporary I saw that report but I don't know how true that is we surely come out thank you okay thank you yeah so I saw that report where they said that they were also writing to the court to allow for temporary voters cuts to be used for the voting how true is that so there are a couple prayers that were made in the joint in the suit and it was two individuals that felt they had been disenfranchised so they got the victory from the court but the third prayer was to allow every other defendant again almost like a mass action you know suits against I neck that was struck down so no if you were not one of those two individuals from what I read again someone correct me please you'll not be able to use your temporary voters card so perhaps there might be other defendants I run the court between our next week to get I neck to again open the door but from what I know just those two people okay Emmanuel from Lagos I believe your life yeah good evening everybody good evening yeah you guys are looking great and have the shit you guys so far thank you but the truth of the matter is the moral is very high to come out this time seriously the youths are really aggressive seriously it is this time around the day to be man for man and they should not expose those coppers just like the because these are people we have seen thank you thank you very much thank you I totally agree because people are going to the polling unit like with fist I don't have somebody was saying that they should come with the own security oh they are so if so some ladies had said they were going out with their pepper spray some said they are not even going with pepper so they go and blend the carodo and mix it with water in a jar then if you think you are mad come close to me I will pull it inside your eye you know people are actually in that mode where it's like you know we will take back what is whatever it is that we want to take you know but it's I mean like that's what I'm saying that I may be worried I hope I neck understands what they're trying what they've done what they've done is you know before there was a potential you just further you know cemented why Nigerians should not trust the system so it's shameful if you look back the last two three years or the last seven years have you found one person lose their job for being incompetent name one hold that thought Austin from Benin you're live good evening to you good evening Austin thank you for calling how do you feel about the postponement oh you're not both in shock well up for the postponement what I can say that this is not the first time where if I met is not ready this weekend and they are decided to postpone the nursery then so be it will see come and go but let me correct one impression here you know I noticed that the labor party supporters they are know they have this very high expectation from last presidential election look I told you the other day that look in this country for you to win a presidential election in this country you have to have the spread and the polling they were doing for labor party before the election those polling were not realistic because they didn't go to poll not eat and not waste where you have the book of the votes they didn't go to hold those areas and the truth of the matter is that if you check the results acting for labor party in those areas you will agree with me that I mean this election there was nothing wrong with it secondly elections are done at the polling unit and up to this moment I am not aware of any I am not aware of any polling any polling agents from any political party that have come up to say they put a gun on his head to sign a fake result that was entered into the high next record Austin thank you Austin thank you but take it easy okay and I feel like Austin is being very dishonest and I get I get you and there are lots of people in Nigeria that are like Austin but the truth is this particular election is quite different because we saw everything it's just like when we witness answers live but then people came out and told us those videos were doctored now we saw where results were being uploaded and what was even uploaded online you could see that the results have been tampered now whether labor party won got more numbers or APC got more numbers or PDP got more numbers that's not the bone of contention the bone of contention right now is the fact that we were promised free and fair election we were promised that all the results from the polling unit you see let me tell I want to address Austin right okay we have Loma from Abia State but I wanted to address Austin Loma please join the conversation Loma you're live Good evening my friend Good evening Yeah Loma from Abia State Go ahead We are not feeling anything I make a quality to spread our mind I make support of note from the polling unit It's quite unfortunate I don't have to pay for him again because it's time to live up to expectation so postponing the election does not make us happy even we here we are afraid that people will come out fully unless we decide who I and our team decide to say let's go and try our best because we came out enthusiastically to vote at the end of the day I decided to collect things manually and somebody is just saying if somebody was not on your head why are you why did you only decide to vote to resolve why don't you calm down Thank you Loma I was going to quickly say to to it was Austin that the thing is honestly speaking I've said this thing several times on this table I don't have a problem whoever wins the election you know consign me honestly because whether we like it or not we have somebody here what we have a problem with and I need you to understand it clearly if INEC had done the writing and transmitted those results at the polling unit and the result came out the way it is nobody will be fighting INEC even the people that lost the election will not contend it the problem has always been it's not at the polling unit that what's it called rigging or whatever happens rigging happens at that collision where you begin to inflate figures where did you see 18,000 voters where did you see 100,000 voters do you understand those are where you inflate figures and it's unfair for you to say that an election that was not done appropriately the way it was promised to be delivered are you still saying that it was a free and credible election I'm sorry even though I mean see the thing is I don't have anything to gain I don't have anything to lose from any government nobody's my friend you understand but I'm just saying to you that what worries me is the kind of what's called foundation we're laying for the children that are coming ahead I have kids for goodness sake let's be seen to have integrity for goodness sake I mean like it doesn't cost us anything if we had transmitted that result at the polling unit and it came out the way it is now nobody I tell you nobody would have contested that result so that is where the issue is it has never been that people are saying that oh this particular party should have won no to the right thing and whoever loses you take it with your full chest so let me talk about how I feel and how people around me feel so when I first saw the news about the postponement I felt very uneasy and that's because I smelled something very fishy and that's the thing everybody's not suspecting me you won't blame me because I mean look at what happened the past few weeks I don't trust INEC and if you're going to postpone I don't know what you're going to do you keep talking about reconfiguring the beavers fine do what you need to do but one thing I want to say is I want to encourage everybody not to give up hope this is the time to actually come out if you didn't come out during the presidential election and you have your PVC this is the time for you to come out because we need to actually show them that we have the numbers and we believe that we're going to take this country back thank you you wanted to say something to the gentleman that called from Benin City I think you've met a generation that has chosen to rewrite the rules every generation in every society writes the rules I say something first to respond to you where you talked about the spread and the political mathematics you need to arrive at the victory where they said we had no votes you had an Okada rider win house of reps my brother Austin please go and check that your school of thought you go to Platteau State we won decisively Nassarawa State we won decisively so when you start talking now come back to Lagos which you can equally call the lions then given in fact there were a 7 month old political party structuralist 4 people in the room tweeting to beat political juggernauts excuse me I tend to twist those words and a party that had basically not the kind of war chest we're used to seeing politicians have so something is happening with our politics we're going in the right direction so there are a lot of people like Austin that want the politics of the old politics of ganamos go we're saying no we reject it and we want different so again I'm sorry you're disappointed but many of us Nigerians are very excited about what we're going to do our very proud generation you know the thing is for me honestly speaking I'm actually excited about what is happening nothing consigned me apart but you see the excitement for me look at how Babaji Jesong Wulu has been going everywhere drinking ice cream doing all those things going to the hospital like I'm in shock he went to computer village he's almost matching his major computer which is body ball rules bible you understand because PDP is non-existence in this campaign so that's to tell you that somebody is doing something right that's why they're keeping them on their toes so if you were a Nigerian you should be excited about the times that we're in because it's the time that Dan says okay you know what it's no longer business as usual they are actually there is a structure that can checkmate some of this political what's it called mediocrity that we have been seeing in the past so that is what we should be excited about that is what I am excited about regardless of who wins at the end of the day it is the fact that people have woken up and people are now seeing that okay yes there's actually something that can be done in this way and the manner it should be done appropriately you know that's what I'm excited about you know I called my dad few days ago and I was talking to him about the election and I asked him how do you feel he said my daughter that what happened this time around I've never seen that kind of thing before and he feels like the youth might be demotivated and he's like you know what as for I and my family we'll go out to vote and I hope that the youth will come out to vote and that in Manaree is about 65 years old thank you can you remember what he went through in his time absolutely let me take his leave from from Leckie yeah go ahead good evening good evening go ahead quickly your life my take in all this is that there is an ongoing war between darkness and light and the light is winning whether we like it or not the light is winning light must overcome darkness I was really impressed by the turnout of Nigerian youth on the 25th of February when we went there to vote it was like carnival but the light, the darkness could not allow us we were more than 2000 youths that gathered together to vote it was all fun but they blocked my pooling unit one 1000 plus the other one around 1000 at the end of the day we went back home without voting we went back home happy without voting looking and watching at what Nigeria is turning into for them this issue of the scheduled election is a failure of INEG INEG an organization that has been empowered giving all that is necessary required for them to do what is needful what they refuse to do that I want to draw and before I draw it's not issue of being a professor whatever you answer that man Yakuubu has fought against Nigerians on board he has fought against Nigerians that are yet on board that's the only thing I will say and at the proper time at the right time Nigerians will take him back in his generation thank you so much this election is a common trade that can do the math it's not so complicated but let's quickly take comments Adiola will come to you quickly I have a comment here my name is Tomilola I greet you all in the studio I already knew it will be postponed but anyways we will still go out to vote in masses we will shock them all as well thank you good evening my dear beautiful sisters election postponement how do people feel according to my beautiful sister there was no reason to postpone this election unless APC and INEC have something off their sleeves and have plans to rig again if they can rig before and get away with it then they can do it again Peter Obi won the presidential election but was never given the chance thanks to APC and INEC due to their desperation on Saturday the 18th of March if someone else wins will APC and INEC agree and accept defeat the APC and INEC are very bad losers God will help us all in Jesus name my name is Daniel Elo Diola okay so this says the postponement is the right action for now all of these are political gimmicks my advice is to let Nigerians be patient it will be alright soon from bad age of Mike and then there is another one it says Nigerians have known INEC ways for inflating vote numbers therefore Nigerians are ready now to protect their votes so it's interesting I like that last comment because somebody just sent a message and says majority of Nigerians are from the north and we have spoken to number one you see this is the thing that we are talking about you see when I hear issues like this do the northernans vote the answer is yes no doubt they are the most vocal when it comes to voting they are very very involved and active but do we also have cases of underage voting and mass the answer is yes do you understand do we have cases of inflated numbers the answer we saw videos of somebody thumbprinting no even multiple thumbprint all those figures came from the north the fact that you have land mass does not translate that you have people mass you know so that's why me I am calling personally for a census in this country the reason politicians are avoiding census is because they want to continue to use it during elections to say oh 10 billion people voted when maybe in that place that location maybe they only had about 100 million or even 1 million right they would say 10 billion people voted I'm just saying to you but let me give you the final words I'll add a few things so happy women's today by the way yesterday lovely women are here something I observed during the 25th elections women participated at the polls women defended votes I even had a very violent encounter at the collation center where a woman was attacked at my polling unit women stayed and counted women brought duplicate sheets even during the campaign so a lot of candidates I did not have money I can talk about attack chief from Lekki here I can talk about the women used their money printed posters so for the first time in history of Nigerian politics women dominated at the polls now there's civics and there's business in politics you wake up to elect leaders that would formulate policies that would give you good governance and there are people that politics for them is business you talk about votes from the north that's another thesis I'll probably come back some other to talk about but what are you going to poor rural communities they call it a PVC it's not only a PVC it's also a verification card it's a very touchy subject but I'm going to be very careful as I talk about it people that have PVC in rural communities that's the only form of ID card they have so when you look at these elections that just happened many of them were not paid to vote so they never came out to vote so because politics of business because you had a cash scarcity was eliminated you now saw an even playing field you're looking at the votes in Anambra and the votes in Kano you're looking at the votes in Katina and the votes in Krosi when you say yourself where are the votes two million votes that we often see and it all evaporated did those people move to Mexico they moved to Argentina so I think something good is happening with our politics but then again you talk about politics of numbers and how presidents emerged were very confident Peter OB won the elections we will go back to court to again perhaps audit the election results if you take your time go into the IRF audit yourself with many citizens have been doing you'll find him leading but then again we would trash that out at the courts and you know that came out I'm proud of you guys inspire me I'm not a politician by the way I'm just an active ordinary citizen hoping for change in my country absolutely on that note thank you so much I can't even have fun with you we need to bring you back more often you made you know you made the conversation sweet and you know easy to handle but thank you so much thank you and I want to say to people that these things are real my fuck my mother actually mistakenly flew to Lagos with my father's we had to ship it back to him we said you're not leaving this country bring back my butterscotch a lot of us actually stood my sister voted at 3 30 a.m. we counted the vote at 5 a.m. I mean we stood till 10 30 a.m. from the previous day to make sure that they included so this was a breath of fresh air this 25th election so I just I just hope that we can actually make a difference right we can have but thank you ladies thank you Diola thank you Jennifer and Lara and thank you so much gentlemen Anki it was nice really having you here okay so please ensure you follow us across all our social media handles it's at Weshaw Africa you can interact with us further drop a comment or more importantly follow all our engagements on social media like share and invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation if you missed our quote for today here it is again no nation can be great without leaders with vision focus conscience integrity empathy and common sense any leader without the six points will easily plunge a nation into backwardness poverty insecurity destruction of lives and property we'll see you guys tomorrow at 8 p.m. as we bring another great conversation