Nigerian presidential elections

London-based publication, Financial Times, has described the recently concluded 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections as badly flawed.

It argued, however, that some individual results did not pass the smell test, which it stated, “includes Obi’s ever-so narrow victory in Lagos state, where crowds had greeted him like a rock star.” It therefore advised that the next president must quickly remove the ruinously expensive fuel subsidy and rationalise the exchange rate system. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. Party goons invaded many polling stations in what appeared to be blatant acts of intimidation. It added that, “the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, had staked what remains of his tattered reputation on a clean contest. The London-based publication gave the advice in its editorial published yesterday.

Many candidates have good reason to feel the election was rigged against them. Some of them have already indicated that they will go to court.

Denying citizens access to their own money in the hope that politicians would not be able to bribe voters needs a lot of naivety to think it would be effective. The IReV component of the integrity test failed and therefore the credibility of the election was lost using the definition of the integrity test crafted by INEC itself. The Nigerian police needs to rise to the occasion and arrest actors who organised violence and electoral fraud because such behaviour continues to mar our elections due to lack of accountability. While citizens could not access cash from their banks and businesses, politicians could and did, even if there was less of it than was the norm. Many could not vote due to violence and ethnic profiling, late commencement of elections, malfunctioning of technology and lack of transport money to their polling units due to the naira scarcity. There are 93,469,008 registered voters in Nigeria but only 23,377,466 turned out to vote given a voter turnout of only about 27%, which continues the downward trend of voter engagement as apathy deepens. This transparency means everyone will be seeing the results as they come in and citizens, candidates and parties can crosscheck that the results on the portal reflect what was compiled at the polling unit. 2007 is also the main example in which the national leadership of the Electoral Commission was implicated in the organisation of electoral fraud. The fourth truth about the election is that voter suppression is the underlying reality. At the end of voting in each polling unit, the results would be counted in the presence of voters and written into the poster EC 60E, which will be pasted on the wall. Those dismissing the current election and calling for its cancellation are doing great disservice to the efforts made by political parties and citizens to disrupt the powers of incumbency and re-establish the truth of Nigeria’s electoral geography, as the victories by opposition parties in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, among others, show. …the leadership of INEC is guilty-as-charged for eroding the credibility of the election by proposing an integrity test for the elections – the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) and failing to deliver on it….

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has written to congratulate the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu for winning the keenly.

”We hope you will bring your years of experience and transformational leadership style to bear in governing the affairs of this great country. ”With this victory, you have proved the ‘doubting Thomases’ who believed you would only record marginal success in the geopolitical zones where your political party held sway wrong. ”Your emergence as the President-Elect marked another great milestone in the history of the country, and it also shows the huge level of confidence reposed in you by the people.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, ...

I tweeted this morning, thus: "This is the first time in my entire life that I am seeing people who came 2nd and 3rd in an exam both claiming they took first and then agreeing to protest together to the examiner to record that both of them took first, yet they are not seeing the contradiction in their actions.' We stand by that comment. "We are happy to see that the people have seen through their unpatriotic antics and rejected their attempts to set the country on fire. "Their protest walking out from the collation centre was not only childish but clearly a calculated attempt to rubbish the elections and impugn the integrity of the electoral umpire. "Going to court is part of the electoral process and it is the most decent, statesmanlike and civilised course of action to take. We are prepared to meet his challenge, no matter the nature of the challenge, anywhere and anytime. "We want to state again for the umpteenth time that Mr Obi didn't win the presidential election and could not have won under any circumstances. We have evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment in the South-East, especially of those who came out to vote for our party. "The manipulation and fraud that attended this election were unprecedented in the history of our nation. "It is my hope that the judiciary will redeem itself this time around and rise to society's expectation as the last hope. In addition, he said: "The 2023 presidential election presented our nation and its people the greatest opportunity for a reset. "It was also for this reason that I sacrificed my political aspiration and fought against the actualisation of Third Term. "My profound thanks go to the youths, 'Obidients' and support groups for your commitment and resilience for a better Nigeria.

The editorial argued that what Nigeria needed most was a clean election to reinforce the democratic principle of people choosing their leaders, but this did not ...

- “Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. The election — which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress — was badly mismanaged at best. - “What Nigeria needed above all was a clean election to reiterate the basic message of democracy: that a sovereign people can choose its leaders.

Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi said on Thursday he had won Saturday's election, called Bola Tinubu's victory fraudulent and promised to claim the ...

While neither generated the visible enthusiasm directed at Obi, both had powerful political machines and decades of networking behind them. The public is advised to ignore the reports," it said. "It is ... "We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians," he said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story He said the election was credible and the reported problems had had no impact on the overall outcome.

They are also seeking an order of the apex court “directing a holistic review of all results so far announced by INEC. By Emmanuella Ekele.

In the event the questions raised were determined in their favour, plaintiffs urged the apex court to then declare, “that the Federal Government of Nigeria, through INEC was bound to electronically transmit or transfer Polling Unit Results in Form EC8A using BVAS by uploading Scanned Copy of the said Unit Result to the Independent National Electoral Commission Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in the course of the General Elections held on the 25th of February, 2023 throughout the Federation in compliance with the provision of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the presidential election.” Sections 25 (1), (2) and 3; Sections 60 And 66 Of The Electoral Act, 2022. “Whether the failure of the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Defendant and INEC to electronically transmit or transfer Polling Unit Results in Form EC8A using BVAS by uploading Scanned Copy of the said Unit Result to the Independent National Electoral Commission Result Viewing Portal (IReV) after the counting and announcement of the Polling Units results on 25th of February, 2023, violates the provisions of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the presidential election. “Whether the entire results of the presidential election conducted on the 25th of February, 2023, as announced by the Chairman of INEC at the National Collation Centre, Abuja in flagrant provision of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the Presidential Election, were valid.” “Whether by virtue of the provisions of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the Presidential Election, the Federal Government of Nigeria through presiding officers of its executive body, Independent National Electoral Commission was bound to electronically transmit or transfer Polling Unit Results in Form EC8A using BVAS by uploading Scanned Copy of the said Unit Results to the Independent National Electoral Commission Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in the course of the General Elections held on the 25th of February, 2023 throughout the Federation. No date has been fixed for hearing. Amongst the issues raised for determination by the apex court were: Whether having regard to the provisions of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023 thereof, the electronic transmission of votes collated at polling units and the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the transmission of collated result is made mandatory. In addition, they are seeking “A declaration that the failure of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission to electronically transmit or transfer Polling Unit Results in Form EC8A using BVAS by uploading Scanned Copy of the said Unit Result to the Independent National Electoral Commission Result Viewing Portal (IReV) after the counting and announcement of the Polling Units results on 25th of February, 2023 in collusion, violates the provision of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the presidential election.” “A declaration that the fundamentally flawed electoral process through the non-uploading of the results of each of the 176,974 Polling Units nationwide, in respect of the presidential election and National Assembly Elections held on Saturday, 25th February 2023 were not in accordance with the provisions of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the presidential election.” According to the suit filed on February 28, by their lawyers, Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the agents and officials of the federal government and INEC, failed to transmit the collated result as prescribed by the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022; the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2022; and the INEC Manual for Election Officials requiring transmission of the results by the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in flagrant breach of the relevant provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022; the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023. They are seeking “A declaration that the entire results of the Presidential Election conducted on the 25th of February, 2023 announced by the Chairman of INEC at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, in flagrant violation of the provisions of Sections 25; 47(2); 60 (1), (2), (4) & (5); 62; 64(4)(a) & (b); 70; and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022, governing the 2023 nationwide general elections, particularly paragraphs 38 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022; and paragraphs 2.8.4; 2.9.0; and 2.9.1 of the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023, for the conduct of the Presidential Election, were invalid, null and void, and of no effect whatsoever. They predicated their case on the grounds that, “The collation of the national election results from the 36 States of the Federation, and that of the Federal Capital Territory, for the said 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections have not been carried out in compliance with the mandatory provisions of relevant sections of the Electoral Act, 2022; the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022, made pursuant to the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022; and the INEC Manual for Election Officials, 2023.”

Financial Times, a publication in London, UK, says Nigeria's recently concluded presidential election was flawed and mismanaged.

“Total turnout of 25mn votes in a country of 220mn people is unacceptably low. If official results are right, two-thirds of the 87mn people who lined up for hours to collect their voter registration cards failed to cast their ballot. The Financial Times witnessed armed men remove a presidential ballot box in Surulere, Lagos. The system to upload results from 177,000 polling stations stuttered, causing legitimate concerns of vote tampering during long delays,” the paper reads. “The election – which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress – was badly mismanaged at best. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote.

Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, on Friday, secured leave of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja to have access to all the sensitive ...

It will be recalled that INEC had declared Tinubu of the APC as the winner of the presidential poll, ahead of 17 other candidates that contested the election. They maintained that the requested documents would aid their petition against the outcome of the presidential contest that was declared in favour of the candidate of the APC, Tinubu. The candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, on Friday, secured leave of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, deployed for the conduct of the presidential election held on February 25.

Third-party candidate Peter Obi announced Thursday he would challenge the outcome of Nigeria's fiercely fought presidential elections after official results ...

Amid this atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, there have also been debates about what the Nigerian Constitution says about the role Abuja, ...

He noted this in a letter he wrote to the INEC this January. The debates surfaced after INEC, on Tuesday, announced that Peter Obi of Labour Party won the Abuja election by a vast margin, landing 281,717 votes. Amid this atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, there have also been debates about what the Nigerian Constitution says about the role Abuja, the country’s capital, plays in the presidential election.

The United States of America has congratulated Bola Ahmed Tinubu on being announced as the winner of the Nigerian Presidential Election which was held on the ...

While urging the government, security forces, political actors, and all citizens to respect the media’s critical role by refraining from any damaging acts against them and ensuring accountability for such acts when they do occur. We join other international observers in urging INEC to improve in the areas that need the most attention ahead of the March 11 gubernatorial elections.” Moreover, the US acknowledged the fact that there were many expressions of frustration from Nigerians, who said that the electoral process was not carried out properly, due to the supposed failure of the technical equipment which was introduced for the first time in Nigeria’s history of elections.

Bola Tinubu of the ruling party was declared the winner of the election in Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday.

Bola Tinubu of the ruling party was declared the winner of the election in Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday. Tinubu said on Wednesday the election was credible and that the reported problems had no impact on the overall outcome. Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi said on Thursday he had won Saturday's election, declared the official results fraudulent and promised to reclaim his mandate through legal means.

Nigerian President-Elect Bola Tinubu addresses supporters and the country after being declared the winner of the presidential election, in Abuja, Nigeria, ...

[victory speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N3PwWJPelE&t=12s) given shortly after he was declared the winner of the presidential contest, Tinubu appealed for reconciliation with his rivals and urged Nigerians to unite behind his incoming administration after a contentious campaign. Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, reported that Tinubu won a total of 8.8 million votes, compared to Abubakar’s 6.9 million and Obi’s 6.1 million. [presidential election](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/nigeria-election-politics-presidential-candidates-peter-obi-tinubu-abubakar/), in a ballot that was marred by violence, delayed voting, operational failures at polling stations and accusations of vote-rigging and other irregularities.

Human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has expressed disappointment over the conduct of Nigeria's presidential poll. "The presidential election of.

The statement said the electoral process has not gained any advantage from the robust efforts of well-meaning Nigerians, leading to the enactment of the Electoral Act, 2022. “Threat to voters, physical injury and even death in some cases, all indicate some form of deliberate design to compromise the electoral process of the last presidential election.” Adegboruwa said the constitution made it clear that sovereignty belongs to Nigerians, thus the legitimacy of any government belongs to the people through their votes.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, ...

I tweeted this morning, thus: ‘’This is the first time in my entire life that I am seeing people who came 2nd and 3rd in an exam both claiming they took first and then agreeing to protest together to the examiner to record that both of them took first, yet they are not seeing the contradiction in their actions.’ We stand by that comment. *The victory belongs to the security agencies who put their lives on the line and ensured the peaceful conduct of the election at all levels. “We are happy to see that the people have seen through their unpatriotic antics and rejected their attempts to set the country on fire. “Their protest walking out from the collation centre was not only childish but clearly a calculated attempt to rubbish the elections and impugn the integrity of the electoral umpire. We are prepared to meet his challenge, no matter the nature of the challenge, anywhere and anytime. “Going to court is part of the electoral process and it is the most decent, statesmanlike and civilised course of action to take. “We want to state again for the umpteenth time that Mr Obi didn’t win the presidential election and could not have won under any circumstances. We have evidence of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment in the South-East, especially of those who came out to vote for our party. That Obi won attests to the credibility of the election process. “The manipulation and fraud that attended this election were unprecedented in the history of our nation. “It is my hope that the judiciary will redeem itself this time around and rise to society’s expectation as the last hope. “It was also for this reason that I sacrificed my political aspiration and fought against the actualisation of Third Term.