SOME QUOTES FROM THE EU ELECTION OBSERVER REPORT RELEASED TODAY:

On page 3 in its Executive Summary:

According to the EU report, “positively the elections were competitive, parties were overall able to campaign and civil society enhanced accountability “



INEC made a number of improvements, including making electoral participation more accessible through simplified voting procedures. INEC made efforts to strengthen electoral integrity by issuing regulations making smart card readers mandatory.

On page 4

The elections were competitive with a large number of candidates for all seats although competition was primarily between the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party.

Parties and candidates were overall able to campaign, with freedoms of assembly, expression and movement broadly respected

Page 5
EU EOM media monitoring over 46 days showed federal government-owned Radio’s commitment to balanced election coverage

Positively in almost all observations Party agents received copies of the results forms.
The national collation Centre for the presidential election was open to party agents and observers, and was continuously televised

Again on page 37
The national collation Centre for the presidential results was open to party agents, observers and the media with each state’s results projected on a large screen. There was continuous live television coverage and the media published the results as announced by INEC, thereby increasing access to results information.

Page 41 under section RESULTS AND STAKEHOLDER REACTION
EU SAID:
YIAGA Africa announced that the results were consistent with its parallel vote tabulation that INDEPENDENTLY projected the results based on a sample of 1,515 polling units. The two leading parties won 96.8% of the valid votes between them