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Mission 4c: Introducing CCTV and Body Cameras in Voting Centres

Fellow Nigerian, though revolutionary, the Electronic Voting System is not foolproof. It is vulnerable to attack: It could be hacked, corrupted, manipulated or it may as well malfunction. No doubt by now, election riggers are perfecting ways to corrupt the newly introduced voting system. However, no matter how sinister the riggers intentions are, the introduction of cameras in polling centres will unveil the plans and provide transparent backup details.

Introducing Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) and body cameras in polling centres will further authenticate poll results. If cameras are placed in polling booths overlooking the ballot boxes during voting, then citizens will have a first-hand account of the voting process.

The cameras overlooking the ballot boxes will be recording and may be streaming live to Nigerians the number of votes each candidate or party is getting. That will eliminate any form of result sheets manipulations thereafter at the collation centres because the results will have been in the public domain.

Furthermore, these cameras will help deter troublemakers: touts and thugs who intend to vote multiple times, as well as those who want to make trouble or snatch ballot boxes. They will then know that they will be identified.

Additionally, body cameras, worn by security personnel, will not only monitor the voting process but also the conduct of the electoral and security officials. Revealing collusion, if any, between security men, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and any candidate or political party.

In case of any legal dispute, camera footages from the CCTV cameras overseeing the voting process as well as the body cameras, worn by security and electoral agents, will help judges in making the right decisions in court as they oversee electoral and security misconducts.

The RevNig Movement will provide digital video recorders (DVR) for each polling unit across Nigeria in future elections. With a projection of more than 20 million supporters, RevNig will achieve this goal if each one of us donates as little as 50 cents.

No matter how much we spend in monitoring elections, it is not wasted. It is entirely justified because it is where the ruination of Nigeria starts. It is where we give opportunities to irresponsible leaders to rig and ruin our country. That is where the fight against corruption and misgovernance must start.

Fellow Nigerian, with your support we will sanitise our nation’s electoral system. We will eliminate electoral malpractice. We will relax the threat of war in every election cycle. We will silence bad election losers who make the country ungovernable by inciting hate, fuelling ethnic, religious or regional divisions.

With joint efforts, we will make Nigeria’s electoral system the envy of the world.

Please endeavor to join us now!

Mission 4d: Using Electronic Electoral Databases to Checkmate Crooks

Determining and Finding Credible Nigerians to Lead

Voters’ Checklist: Screening and Choosing Nigerian Leaders

Virtues of a Revolutionary Leader: Leaders Nigeria Need Today

Mission 4d: Using Electronic Electoral Databases to Checkmate Crooks

Fellow Nigerian, an added way to checkmate our corrupted electoral system is by scrutinising voters’ database. Card readers may be a good way of verifying the authenticity of a voter, but it will not recognise malpractices such as ghost, underage or foreign voters.

To counter these deficiencies of card readers, the RevNig Movement (RevNig) is urging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant access to the Electronic Electoral Databases to designated groups- Groups that will continually scrutinise the database, examining who is on the list and the number of voters in parts of the country.

By making the voters’ list available, INEC will enable watchdog organisations like RevNig as well as investigative journalists and the civil society to detect any irregularities such as the inflation of votes as well as underage, foreign and ghost voters within a community. That is possible because members of a community know themselves–age groups, schoolmates and the likes know each other; therefore, impersonators who claim to come from a particular community will be detected quickly.

Furthermore, the Electronic Electoral Databases will serve in conducting opinion polls such that candidates, as well as citizens, will know the leading candidates before election day. If a candidate who was not leading in opinion poll becomes the winner of an election, then the unexpected result will call for concern and further scrutiny. As a consequence, these opinion polls will reduce tension as candidates and electorates will have a premonition of the outcome of results beforehand.

This knowledge will reduce incidences of violence. Then It will be difficult for a candidate, who is far behind in opinion polls, and who eventually loses an election, to fuel ethnic, religious or other discords. That will turn “bad losers” into “gallant losers”, waiting to fight another day.

Supporters, volunteers and representatives of RevNig in each voting unit will be conducting opinion polls within their locality based on the voters’ list provided by INEC. For those online, surveys will be carried out on this website.

We urge Nigerians to join the RevNig Movement so we can sanitise our electoral processes and elect credible leaders that will serve us. Remember,

“Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.”–Thomas Jefferson.

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Determining and Finding Credible Nigerians to Lead

Voters’ Checklist: Screening and Choosing Nigerian Leaders

Virtues of a Revolutionary Leader: Leaders Nigeria Need Today

Determining and Finding Credible Nigerians to Lead

Fellow Nigerian, the governance of Nigeria is not the birthright of the Obasanjos, the Buharis or any other arm of the ruling class that has been destroying Nigeria since Independence. As citizens of Nigerian, the everyday Nigerian must have the same right to govern as any other citizen of this nation.

Democracy is defined as the government of, by, and for the people. It is the people’s government. Not until we, the everyday Nigerian, take our destinies in our hands, we will continue to be damned by a cabal of rulers who have redefined democracy as the government of, by, and for the ruling gang and their acolytes. Government by a set of criminals who are worse than the colonial masters that handed over the baton of exploitation to them.

Experience is said to be the best teacher. There is nobody better experienced than ordinary Nigerians that are taunted by the misrule of our so-called leaders. They are the ones that are best experienced to fix our problems, and they are the ones we must be looking forward to serving us.

For example, an every day Nigerian whose children attend public schools and go to government hospitals for medical assistance will know more about the problems of education and healthcare respectively than those who send their children abroad for education and medical treatment.

Furthermore, a commoner who patronises public services is more likely to be told by his children that schools are on strike yet again, that they did not study because their teacher did not come to school, that there was no chalk to teach them, or that the classroom roof fell on them. Same applies to the dysfunctional healthcare system in Nigeria where the commoner is a regular. He/she will know more about the problems of our hospitals than those who go or send their children abroad to treat common malaria.

Fellow Nigerian, never again must we be deceived by the ruse called experience. Experience may be a veritable criterion in selecting leaders in other parts of the world, but in Nigerian, Leaders are only experienced in the stealing and sharing of our national wealth amongst themselves. Added to this is their expertise in election rigging and coup plotting. Since independence, their experience has destroyed all sectors of the Nigerian society. We do not need that type of experience.

On this note, we call on the professionals in our midst – teachers, doctors, engineers, economists, scientists, information technologists and the likes, it is time to come out of reclusion and join the revolution. The RevNig Movement (RevNig) is providing Nigerians with a platform to act–A platform to raise money and gather support. You need not be rich before you aspire for elective positions.

We call also on the less educated people in our communities that are endowed with leadership qualities. It is time to sign up for a better Nigeria. Leadership is not the exclusive preserve of those who have destroyed the nation since Independence. No matter the side of the divide you are – educated or not –, it is time to join hands to bring peace and prosperity back to Nigerians. We must not lay back while our country is being destroyed by leaders of today.

Finally, RevNig is calling on aspiring political office holders to each set up an online platform where they will reach out to Nigerians. They must also endeavour to join the RevNig Movement. In togetherness, we will elect men of honour that will move the nation forward–not backward. Remember,

“Everybody can serve because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have college degrees. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”–Martin Luther King Jr.

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Voters’ Checklist: Screening and Choosing Nigerian Leaders

Virtues of a Revolutionary Leader: Leaders Nigeria Need Today

Voters Checklist: Screening and Choosing Nigerian Leaders

Fellow Nigerian, the power to make Nigeria a better country lies in our hands–the people, and if we utilise this power appropriately, we will have a nation of your dream: a peaceful and prosperous country.

We must never again let any politician read us the same old script of empty promises – provision of good roads, potable water supply, regular electricity and the likes. These promises are not the first concerns we must consider when choosing Nigerian leaders, we must consider their character and ideals of those making these commitments. It is time we took our destinies in our arms and do the screening of candidates by ourselves.

The people are the masters.

As masters who want to elect servants and messengers to serve us, we must seek answers to the following questions.

1. Nigerians must ask candidates if they consent to the four primary missions of the RevNigeria Movement(RevNig). Especially ideas like fixing the corrupted electoral system and revolutionising the fight against corruption in Nigeria.

2. We must ask candidates if they own websites/blogs or any other platform where electorates can know more about them. A medium where voters can access information like candidates’ educational qualification, health status, assets declaration, past positions held as well as their opinions on national, subregional, regional, and international issues, including social, religious, and moral issues.
This demand will discourage hoodlums such as certificate forgers, false assets declarants and the likes from attempting to contest for positions of authority because the authenticity of this information will be proven by watchdog organisations and the civil society before elections.

3. Cutting Wastages: The everyday Nigerian should be asking candidates how they intend to reduce the bloated cost of running the government as a result of politicians’ exotic lifestyles.

That is, if they and their associates are ready to be paid as proposed by RevNig: that the highest paid Nigerian must not earn more than ten times the minimum wage. It is a just call which a responsive leader must embrace.

Also, we must know if they will do away with presidential/private jets as well as exotic cars and fly the Nigerian carrier and ride on Nigerian made vehicles.

4. We must demand to know from those vying to be legislatures if they are ready to ease laws such as the freedom of information and the recall vote or to enact legislation like independent candidacy, voting rights for Nigerians abroad, part-time parliamentarians, and the scrapping of the Senate.

Write down the answers each candidate gives, compare results and nominate who you think is the best-qualified candidate. Express your opinion at the RevNig’s nomination polls and go out and vote the chosen one on election day. The nomination poll will be conducted on this site.

Fellow Nigerian, when you ask these questions or make these demands when choosing Nigerian leaders, there will be no doubt that the candidate you nominate will be the best to serve your interest.

Be sure to join the movement.

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Virtues of a Revolutionary Leader: Leaders Nigeria Need Today

Nigeria needs men and women of honour who are ready to make genuine sacrifices. Revolutionary leaders who subscribe to the ideals of the RevNig Movement (RevNig). Virtuous leaders that possess the following character traits:

Transparent and Truthful Leaders

Leaders who will have nothing to hide about themselves. Who will display information such as educational qualification, health status, tax report and assets declaration publicly on their websites/blogs for Nigerians to vet, approve, or disapprove.

This simple act of transparency will save us all the troubles we experienced during Yaradua’s and now Buhari’s health saga. They lied to us about their health conditions. This openness will also help screen candidates’ educational qualifications properly. We must recall how Buhari’s certificate became a topic of discussion in 2015. Same goes for a whole lot of other politicians who go about with questionable educational qualifications, false tax report and fake assets declaration.

Furthermore, this information will help screen out dubious leaders–If you say you are what you are, Nigerians will have time to investigate you. There always are classmates, doctors, co-workers or business partners at a time in your life who will approve or disprove your claims. It will be difficult to lie.

Revolutionary Leaders Who Will Fly, Ride, Wear, Eat and Drink Nigeria

A president who will do away with presidential jets and travel on the national carrier (Nigeria Air) like leaders of Italy, Britain, Japan and the likes from the developed world who use their nation’s domestic airlines or military jets to travel.

A president who will sell all presidential jets and channel the proceeds into reviving or supporting the national carrier.

A president, governor, ministers, parliamentarians and the likes who will dump not only their jets but also their exotic cars and ride in made in Nigeria vehicles.

These sacrifices will save the billions of taxpayers’ money wasted in purchasing and maintaining the many presidential and private jets in the fleet of the president and governors.

These sacrifices will also boost patronage for Nigerian car manufacturers along with giving employment to the many unemployed Nigerian youths.

Similarly, we need leaders who will wear made in Nigeria clothes, eat made in Nigeria foods, and drink made in Nigeria drinks and beverages to publicise locally produced products. This act of patronage will encourage local manufacturers of these commodities.

Leaders Who Will Cut Waste to the Barest Minimum

Revolutionary leaders who will go into government houses and cut wastefulness to the barest minimum. Cutting down on the number of staffs, personal assistants, security apparatus and personnel, the number of cars in their convoys, and the number of parties held at the government houses.

Parliamentarians who will make groundbreaking laws

Parliamentarians who are ready to champion, pass or ease legislations like the recall votes, part-time membership of parliament, the scrapping of the Senate, voting right for Nigerians in the diaspora, independent candidacy and the freedom of information in their first 100 days.

Leaders Who Will Change the Unjust Salary Structure
Leaders who will either serve without pay or peg their salaries at ratio 10:1 as proposed by RevNig. The highest paid worker must not earn more than ten times the least paid government employee.

The above sacrifices will save Nigeria hundreds of billions of naira. One may ask, where do we find such revolutionary leaders in Nigeria today? They are out there. Please read on….

Determining and Finding credible Nigerians to Lead

Voters’ Checklist: Screening and Choosing Nigerian Leaders

Mission 4a: Making Sure Eligible Nigerians Register to Vote

Mission 4b: Making Sure Your Votes Count

Mission 4c: Introducing CCTV and Body Cameras in Voting Centres

Mission 4d: Using Electronic Electoral Databases to Checkmate Crooks