The observers said although the elections showed the commitment of Nigerians to democracy, it also exposed enduring systemic weaknesses and therefore signal a need for further legal and operational reforms to enhance transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability.
on Tuesday presented its final report on the last Nigerian general elections highlighting six priority areas.
A delegation of the European Parliament joined the EU EOM for the observation of the presidential and National Assembly elections. The areas, he said include removing ambiguities in the law; establishing a publicly accountable selection process for INEC members, and ensuring real-time publication of and access to election results.
He added that shortcomings in law and electoral administration hindered the conduct of well-run and inclusive elections and damaged trust in INEC. Ensuring real-time publication of and access to election results: Protect the free expression of the will of the voter and integrity of elections by establishing a robust, transparent, and easily verifiable results processing system with clear rules. These include uploading polling unit results from the polling unit only and in real time, at each level of collation results forms to be uploaded in real time, and all forms to be published in an easily trackable and scrapable database format.
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