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Nigerian Elections: When ‘invalid votes’ become ‘Third Force’

10.22a.m Polling Unit 013, Ward 4, Ibiono Ibom Western, accreditation and voting is about to commence. Voters are lining up, ready to cast their vote.As Nigerians prepared last year for the ongoing general elections, some political leaders mooted the idea of forming a political party that presents the voters an alternative to the two establishment parties, the ruling All Progressives and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party .

But Mr Obasanjo soon abandoned the project and endorsed the candidature of his estranged former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, after the latter won the presidential primary of the PDP in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The APC won the election with 15,191,847 votes, while the PDP emerged runner up with 11,262,978 votes. The other 71 parties polled only three percent of the total votes cast in the election, their combined total way below the total of invalid votes.

The figure dropped at the 2015 presidential election, when 844,519 votes were rejected as invalid out of the 29,432,083 votes cast. They urged government, the electoral commission and political parties to do more enlightenment campaigns for voters on the voting process.

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