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Dr Hussaini Abdu, Chair, YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote made this known at a news conference on the group’s Statement on the 2019 Presidential Election Results in Abuja.
He said that the deployment to a statistical sample of polling units enabled YIAGA AFRICA to independently project the vote shares that each candidate should have received within a narrow range.“YIAGA AFRICA’s findings show that for the presidential election the All Progressive Congress should receive between 50.0 per cent and 55.8 per cent of the vote.
Abdu said that INEC’s official results for turnout and rejected ballots were also generally consistent with YIAGA AFRICA WTV estimates. He said that as in past elections, logistical challenges faced by INEC resulted in widespread late opening of polling units and malfeasance by political parties compromised the ability of citizens to vote.
He said that other states were Nasarawa 9.5 per cent, Akwa Ibom 8.5 per cent, Cross River 8.0 per cent, Plateau 5.7 per cent, Kogi 5.2 per cent, Benue 4.9 per cent, and Kaduna 4.7 per cent. He said that the overall number of registered voters as announced dropped by 1,659,959 voters for a total of 82,344,125 registered voters.
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