 現在                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ఇకార్టా మాయాచోటం సారంఘోచత్థాచాలుని తోటాచాచాదాటి మంచాకూటివానినిందందార్ మోటర్తోటింటికోటికోటాచితోటాటికోటిటాటానికోటిద� The two national assembly positions, Senate and House of Representatives, may be cancelled in Lagos and Nondo as a result of the protestation of the Labour Party. The Labour Party representatives in Lagos and Nondo states made a complaint that the logo of the party was according to their own independent examination on the presidential ballot paper but was missing on the Senate and House of Representatives ballot paper and given the dynamising that the Labour Party has garnered in recent times it would be a major electoral travesty. That also speaks to logistics so we have reasons to want to celebrate INEC but as a Nigerian who knows how these things sometimes play out, I want to be very circumspect and quickly rushing out to be singing kumbaya. I was going to ask them because that complaint came up, I think yesterday when someone, Labour Party chief ten on those state was complaining. And he will negotiate. Yeah so I'm just hearing that one now so that means the electoral act did not capture this. It captures it. That when there's no logo. Individibly. In fact there is a subsisting cut pronouncement on it. It is not peculiar to Nigeria. The elections in Berlin were recently cancelled and redone indeed the winner of the first round, the initial winner, the SDP mayor of Berlin ultimately lost her position because the election had to be redone as a result of logistical challenges like this. The constitutional court of Germany had to cancel that election because in their own case they had a couple of things including such a four-po. They had a marathon holding in the city on the day of the election so that caused a logistical problem. Added to that was the fact that when most people got to their polling booths election materials were not enough. And the German constitutional court had to cancel that election other for a rerun. And at the rerun somebody that won initially, so I'm sitting there now as somebody whose interest is not particular about the Lagos. You know it's general in Nigeria but Lagos has the largest. If it is true according to what was reported yesterday from the Labour Party chieftains in Lagos and on those days, that elections cannot subsist, cannot meet the integrity of the electoral act that automatically. Logistics, somebody won a reality show based on logistics. This is the point where you know there's a very popular saying, because it's looking like there's so much pressure on logistics but it's very important. But one of the things that Nika Gule had mentioned is that if you look at the electoral act of 2022, it makes provision for a reputation, I mean that election to be conducted especially when materials had not arrived. That's not usually the case prior to this time. Not when materials have not arrived. The inevitability of the use of beavers. Okay, so which is almost something to go by. Now I think that you need to understand the reason for logistics. Don't forget that time is of the essence. We live in Africa and time management is still part of it. So if you have an election, I want to take your mind back to why maybe we have dwelled on the issue of logistics, transportation having. We're hoping that at this point, you know the officials should be at the polling unit with these materials. So election can start. There's 40 to be at the polling unit from 7 open balloting for 830. So this is 752 and it's very critical that we have INEC, the polling unit, if not 100%. I mean there's no perfect system. But let's say, you know, 90, 95% of the polling unit with the officials and the materials ready. Because you would agree with me that sometimes people go to the polling unit to cast their votes. And if the officials are not there to get back to their homes and then you know the time for vote casting probably would just end by four. And most times you have extension, but you probably would have lost a lot of persons who are already tired and exhausted. So that's also another point of where people are disenfranchised because of the inability of the officials to show up on time. Time is very important and we can't take that out. But we haven't been very great and big on time management. I think that's it. We've seen improvements over the years on that, to be honest with you. Barring the fact that you alluded to a reported case of a broken down, a broken down, dilapidated INEC contractor's vehicle. INEC contractor's vehicle. Barring that, let's be very honest with ourselves, I want to believe that in most polling units this morning, the contractors, the logistics contractors would tick the bus rightly. I want to believe that. Hello, Ghidado. Okay, until he joins us, there are still other issues that we need to just look through. Vivas is good, everything about this election we are hoping will be. Okay, so I think we have Ghidado. Okay, Ghidado is back on there. Ghidado, good morning. Good morning, how are you? We're fine, we're fine. Just a state where you are and tell us what is going on right now. Actually, I'm at Mustafa Primary School, Yola, Adamao State. And people have already started joining youth and the INEC officials are here, they are setting up their desk. We have already pasted some of the IT materials unit 10, I mean unit 10 now. And you can see people behind me who have joined the queue. But they have not started accreditation yet. They are setting up their desk right now. When did the materials arrive at the polling unit that you are, the area 10 that you are talking about? They arrive around 8.20. 8.20, that's like an hour, 30 minutes or 20 minutes. 10 minutes before the official opening. Okay, they are still early as it is. Okay, so what is the general atmosphere like? The people, the excitement or the security consciousness or whatever it is that we need to know at this point? Can you hear us? Sorry, I'm on, somebody was calling my line. Yes, I can hear you now. Yes, so what is the security situation like? What is the general feel of the people about the elections? Just let us know how the people feel about it. Yes, the security personnel are here and only police officers are here. So both everything is calm. I didn't get that. The security personnel are dead. Yes, the network is a bit faint but I can hear you now. Okay, go on, there was a break somehow. So go on and tell us how the atmosphere is and how the people are receiving. The atmosphere is calm. Acting, yes. Can you hear me? The atmosphere is calm. Yes, I can hear you. How many security personnel are where you are? Only one. Okay, one recognizable one as it is. Okay, get out. One police officer. We are hoping that when more activities come you will be able to fill us in but we are glad to know that where you are is safe, where you are is calm and materials have arrived. We hope that you will fill us in when more things happen in your area. Yes, I will keep you updated. The materials have arrived only in one police unit. They have about three but the other police officers have not yet arrived. Within the primary school there are three police units. In one primary school? The only one has opened now and they have not started accreditation yet. Okay, let us know when it begins and when others arrive as well. Thank you very much, Ghidado. I don't want to jump in. We are here with someone. I don't want to jump in. Ghidado, do you say you are there with somebody that would like to talk to us? Wow, okay, let me look for the other people. So, Ghidado, maybe we connect with you. We will reconnect with you. Just make the findings if there is someone that needs to talk with us and we will reconnect with you for that. Okay, you will say. That stubborn lady logistic. Oh, that stubborn man. I don't want to be traumatized. I don't want to be quoted to be traumatized. That stubborn guy. Logistics, logistics, logistics. According to INEC, personnel, INEC personnel and materials ought to have arrived at polling units at about 7 a.m. Open ballot at 8.30. According to Ghidado, in one out of three polling units in a polling station, we usually have polling stations with a couple of polling units. In one out of three polling units in a polling station at that particular location, only one had personnel arrived and they arrived 10 minutes to the official time to open. Now, given what I was going to ask him, what I do want to jump in, given the routine that INEC had encouraged voters to subject their personnel to, they couldn't have done that in 10 minutes because INEC said they must show all the voting materials to be intact. They must show the beavers to have a zero number of registrants on it. Now, those rituals couldn't have been done under 10 minutes. But you know what, we have where we have and we are following this story. You see where we are now. I'm not just one that will tell you, I mean, I told you. No, I've always said that on issues of logistics, I keep an open mind. Keeping an open mind means that I will only analyze what has been factually reported to us. Fortunately, in this instance, I have somebody literally on this thing and reporting from that location, he told us one out of three polling units was in operation and he told us even the time that the INEC personnel arrived at that location and using what should be the standard to reconcile with the facts that he reported to us firsthand, we're seeing that logistics is a very stubborn guy. No, but it still speaks to the readiness, the preparedness and everything about INEC. Now, how would you rate the level of dissemination of information to the people? Because for instance, in this location that you're talking about, even the people that have gone there to vote may not even know that it is a right, it is a provision that they need to interrogate some of the activities of these electoral officers that are coming, show that the materials are here, show that the beavers is zero and all that. They may have just gone there to vote and they will not bother to look at those things. Do you think INEC and whatever relevant body else did enough to give the information that people need to the people that really needed? How much is enough of information in an environment that presents the functional inadequacies of a society like Nigeria where literacy level is relatively low? Indeed, functional literacy level. Not be to say be read alphabets and recognize one to ten. Not be on the educational, functional literacy level. So I'm sitting here thinking as you see liberal democracy is always beautified organically when the literacy level is functionally rich. So within the context of what we have, can I say INEC has not done enough? Maybe it's too early. It might just be too early. How can it be too early if these people maybe do not have the information? That should be the average because the gentleman reported fortunately to a major network from a location that presents the average paraphernalia of an average Nigerian polling unit in Nigeria that people are giving me sitting with you on this privileged seat. We came from Yola that ordinarily should be the average electoral portraiture of how balloting is done in Nigeria. Yola in Adamawa state. We came to one of the most sophisticated locals on the continent of Africa, Etiosa. A body of rich Africans, not only Nigerians, using the parameters HDI woman development index Etiosa presents from Ikoi to Etiosa presents one of the best HDIs you can imagine. Now at Etiosa and given the fact that this is Lagos, this is Lagos. This is Lagos. Given the fact that this is Lagos you can see the vulnerability, the operational vulnerability of IMEG because as at 844 the person giving all the live feed reports behind us we could see the yellow buses the yellow minibuses the yellow buses that we could see the yellow minibuses being on part of IMEG's material 844 Lagos they were supposed to Lagos Nigeria they were supposed to have been there from 7am by 830 all to have commenced operations direct operations to the people I'm sitting here now thinking and that was exactly the question you asked me before going before taking that footage or taking the report my sister, reality is reality anywhere in the world you function as an individual or a corporate entity in an ecosystem given the reality of that ecosystem the reality of an ecosystem is that the people who often run such buses minibuses you remember what society has done to them they are largely those who left behind they are largely because of the failure of leadership I'm not talking about political leadership I tell myself that's why when I look at the mirror the things I've seen where I've been fortunate to live is about living up to the building because we have left them so behind you want that kind of person to know the importance of time that's his mentality within the context of that reality what much could I not do we have a lot of work to do you and I most of all because those who are in political leadership if we check our contact list in this studio they are just one of our friends but the reality is that these are the people we need we are leading over we better be more innovative more creative and more value more value initiating than this buy and buy we want to follow like they do in the west where they already have a base but I'm wondering when Ainec was talking about training people and all that I never heard maybe I was the one who never heard them engaging these transporters and telling them what they need to do they talked to the leadership they signed the agreement they did everything but I doubt if I ever engage them and talk about the importance and everything that I need to follow you must have I guess that was even why they went beyond the law of contract after having signed contracts with the owners of those bosses they went beyond the law of contract to even engage them forces hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates