The counting ended Sunday evening in Nigeria. Now the results are to be collected from all offices locally and forwarded to the Electoral Commission in Abuja. This collection at the national level will resume this Monday at 11 a.m. and we will have to be patient before obtaining clear results.
Once again, the Electoral Commission fell behind, very late, this Sunday. The first national results were due to be announced as early as noon – but INEC eventually pushed back the start of the exercise to late Sunday afternoon.
In the end, the results of only one state out of the 36 in Nigeria were revealed before the suspension of the collection which will resume this Monday morning: one of the smallest in their immense country. Ekiti State, in the South West. In terms of electoral mass, this represents barely more than 1% of registered voters. According to the Electoral Commission, in this Yoruba territory, the candidate of the ruling party, the APC, Bola Tinubu, himself a Yoruba, comes first, ahead of opponent Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labor Party. In fourth position, Rabiu Kwankwasso, of the NNPP.
The opponent Atiku Abubakar, which is the sixth participation in a presidential election, called on the Electoral Commission to publish the results as soon as possible. Believing that governors were trying to compromise the process at the local level. As for the Labor Party of Peter Obihe accused INEC of refusing to report results from Lagos State and Delta, citing pressure from the ruling party.
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” Peter Obi does not say that to please his base, nor to derive any political advantage from it, he says what happened on the groundanalyzes Nnamdi Anekwe-Chive, researcher at CHIVE GPS, an intelligence and security office based in Lagos, joined by Christina Okello of the Africa editorial staff. Because, if the election officials had uploaded the results on time, many states would have tabulated their results and would already be on their way to the federal capital of Abuja to drop them off at the national tabulation centre.
But they didn’t.
It creates frustration, especially in southern Nigeria and among young people. They feel that this election is rigged to favor the ruling party. In Port-Harcourt and Lagos, there were acts of violence against voters and the biometric system was manipulated in places.
Peter Obi may attempt to challenge certain aspects of the election in order to strengthen the democratic process, but the judiciary has been unable to issue a major judgment on a presidential election in Nigeria since 1999, and in general justice n isn’t very fair with the people who come before her. »
All this is disappointing for Nigerian voters, who were promised much more fluidity and speed – thanks to the use of new technologies. But the electronic transmission of the results, which was to secure the vote, often proved impossible. As for the site on which these were to be published in real time to make the vote credible, it was not working on Sunday.
The continuation therefore this Monday, at the end of the morning.
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