Zero-Rejection States in House and Senate
Elections
By
Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.
alukome@aol.com
May 1, 2003
The following 12 states can be regarded as “zero-rejection states” in that their
ENTIRE House and/or Senate returns had absolutely zero bad ballots, despite
their total number of votes of 5,953,221 in the House of Reps. (H) elections and
7,671,236 in the Senate (S) elections, both elections being held on the same
day?
Abia (H,S), Adamawa (H,S), Bauchi (H,S), Bayelsa (S), Borno (S),
Ebonyi (H), Enugu (H,S), Gombe (S), Imo (H,S), Lagos (S), Oyo (H)
and Sokoto (H,S).
And if there were zero-bad ballots in these two elections held on the same day,
same time and place, where then did at least 172,688 votes go in some of these
states?
Table 1 below shows the tally.
Interesting stuff ! 7.7 million people going to the polls - and not a single
bad ballot?
Interesting stuff that stretches credulity!
P.S. This is my last public observation on these elections, at least for a
while - until a lot more results are in for the April 12/April 19 elections, and
more corrections are made on INEC's website. No comments from this end will be
made on upcoming Saturday May 3 elections into the State assemblies.
Let democracy march on!
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TABLE 1: Tally of Zero-Rejection States
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Name of Senate House Diff.
State # Votes #Votes in Votes
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Abia 304,545 442,061 **
Adamawa 793,288 739,449 53,839
Bauchi 1,162,275 1,114,991 47,284
Bayelsa 398,924 * **
Borno 886,742 * 8,867
Ebonyi * 459,546 16,190
Enugu 614,614 821,076 **
Gombe 578,583 * **
Imo 817,851 778,925 38,926
Lagos 1,434,730 * **
Oyo * 922,722 2,349
Sokoto 679,684 674,451 5,233
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Total Votes 7,671,236 5,953,221 172,688
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*Note 1:
In the House elections (April 12):
Bayelsa had 210 rejections in a ballot size of 336,066
Borno had 4,913 rejections in a ballot size of 877,875
Gombe had 5,220 rejections in a ballot size of 419,462
Lagos had 59,475 rejections in a ballot size of 1,397,650
In the Senate elections (April 12):
Ebonyi had 17,086 rejections in a ballot size of 475,736
Oyo had 41,134 rejections in a ballot size of 920,373
** Note 2
Calculations of differences in votes are only for states with all election
results in. Otherwise, differences replaced by **.
Not all Senate results are in for Bayelsa, Enugu and Gombe (1 of 3
constituencies each remaining).
Not all House results are in for Abia (1 of 8 remaining), Bayelsa (2 of 5
remaining), Enugu (2 of 8 remaining), Gombe (3 of 6 remaining) and Lagos (2 of
24 remaining).
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