A civil society organisation, YIAGA on Wednesday validated the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
A civil society organisation, the Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement on Wednesday validated the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
It deployed the parallel vote tabulation , described a gold standard citizen observation methodology that employs statistics and information communication technologies. “These figures are consistent with the official results as announced by INEC. For both APC and PDP the official results fall within the PVT estimated ranges.”
“First, the overall, percentage of cancelled ballots announced by INEC was 3.3 per cent of all registered voters. “However, YIAGA Africa noted that the PVT data, which projected its estimated vote shares on the basis of the numbers announced at the polling units before any cancelation of results could take place, showed that neither of these issues impacted the outcome of the election,” it said.
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