NigeriaDecides2023: Lessons INEC must learn from presidential, National Assembly elections
Days after what the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Mahmood Yakubu, had promised would be Nigeria’s best election, there are widespread claims that the polls instead did not meet the minimum standards for credibility.
Two major opposition candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party , have already initiated processes to challenge the outcome of the presidential election at the election petition court. They have rejected the declaration of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the President-elect.
“The election day process was fraught with widespread logistical challenges resulting in the late arrival of polling officials and late opening of polling units across the country particularly in South East and South-south geopolitical zones,”which deployed over 3,014 observers to 1,507 polling units in all 774 local government areas , in the 36 states and the FCT.
Despite the assurance of the CBN to provide cash to pay for logistics and the provision of PMS for election duty vehicles by the NNPCL, This has led to one of the biggest post-election conversations, which is whether or not the Electoral Act mandates the commission to collate results electronically. “ Electronically transmit or transfer the result of the Polling Unit, direct to the collation system as prescribed by the Commission. Use the BVAS to upload a scanned copy of the EC8A to the INEC Result Viewing Portal , as prescribed by the Commission. Take the BVAS and the original copy of each of the forms in tamper evident envelop to the Registration Area/Ward Collation Officer, in the company of Security Agents.
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