The Presidency filed a response to EU: 2023 Elections Lacked Transparency, Trust In INEC Severely Damaged

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

WE REJECT EUROPEAN UNION'S CONCLUSIONS ON 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS

Sometimes in May, we alerted the nation, through a press statement, to the plan by a continental multi-lateral institution to discredit the 2023 general elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The main target was the presidential election, clearly and fairly won by the then candidate of All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

While we did not mention the name of the organisation in the said statement, we made it abundantly clear to Nigerians how this foreign institution had been unrelenting in its assault on the credibility of the electoral process, the sovereignty of our country and on our ability as a people to organise ourselves. We find it preposterous and unconscionable that in this day and age, any foreign organisation of whatever hue can continue to insist on its own yardstick and assessment as the only way to determine the credibility and transparency of our elections.

Now that the organisation has submitted what it claimed to be its final report on the elections, we can now categorically let Nigerians and the entire world know that we were not unaware of the machinations of the European Union to sustain its, largely, unfounded bias and claims on the election outcomes.

For emphasis, we want to reiterate that the 2023 general elections, most especially the presidential election, won by President Bola Tinubu/All Progressives Congress, were credible, peaceful, free, fair and the best organised general elections in Nigeria since 1999.

There is no substantial evidence provided by the European Union or any foreign and local organisation that is viable enough to impeach the integrity of the 2023 election outcomes.

It is worth restating that the limitation of EU final assessment and conclusions on our elections was made very bare in the text of the press conference addressed by the Head of its Electoral Observation Mission, Barry Andrews. While addressing journalists in Abuja on the so-called final report, Andrews noted that EU-EOM monitored the pre-election and post-election processes in Nigeria from January 11 to April 11, 2023 as an INEC accredited election monitoring group. Within this period, EU-EOM observed the elections through 11 Abuja-based analysts, and 40 election observers spread across 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. With the level of personnel deployed, which was barely an average of one person per state, we wonder how EU-EOM independently monitored election in over 176,000 polling units across Nigeria.

We would like to know and even ask EU, how it reached the conclusions in the submitted final report with the very limited coverage of the elections by their observers who, without doubt, relied more on rumours, hearsay, cocktails of prejudiced and uninformed social media commentaries and opposition talking heads.

We are convinced that what EU-EOM called final report on our recent elections is a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few instances of skirmishes in less than 1000 polling units out of over 176,000 where Nigerians voted on election day.

We have many reasons to believe the jaundiced report, based on the views of fewer than 50 observers, was to merely sustain the same premature denunciatory stance contained in EU's preliminary report released in March.

We strongly reject, in its entirety, any notion and idea from any organisation, group and individual remotely suggesting that the 2023 election was fraudulent.

Our earlier position that the technology-aided 2023 general elections were the most transparent and best organised elections since the return of civil rule in Nigeria has been validated by all non-partisan foreign and local observers such are the African Union, ECOWAS, Commonwealth Observer Mission and the Nigerian Bar Association.

Unlike EU-EOM that deployed fewer than 50 observers, the Nigerian Bar Association that sent out over 1000 observers spread across the entire country for same election gave a more holistic and accurate assessment of the elections in their own report.

NBA, an organisation of eminent lawyers and an important voice within the civic space, reported that 91.8 per cent of Nigerians rated the conduct of the national and state elections as credible and satisfactory. Any election that over 90% of the citizens considered transparent should be celebrated anywhere in the world.

It is heart-warming that INEC, through its National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Mr. Festus Okoye, has come out to defend the integrity of the election it conducted by rejecting the false narratives in the EU report.

It is also gratifying that the electoral umpire, as an institution that is open to learning and continuous improvements, has also committed to taking on board more ideas, innovation and reforms that will further enhance the integrity and credibility of our electoral process.

As a country, we have put the elections behind us. President Tinubu is facing the arduous task of nation-building, while those who have reasons to challenge the process continue to do so through the courts.  In just one month in office, Nigerians appear satisfied with the decisive leadership of President Tinubu and the manner he is redirecting the country to the path of fiscal sustainability and socio-economic reforms. We urge the EU and other foreign interests to be objective in all their assessments of the internal affairs of our country and allow Nigeria to breathe.

Dele Alake

Special Adviser to the President

(Special Duties, Communications and Strategy)

July 2, 2023

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Body language of a drug trafficker.

The spirit of Lai Lai Mohammed still controlling APC with their lies.

Before nko... We are not expecting the administration that benefited from the impunity to accept it.

How would you accept, when you personally orchestrated, perpetuated and benefited fron the fraudulent criminal presidential election?

The fact that you are unconstitutional is a bone on your throat.
We are eagerly and confidently waiting for our constitutional president and authentic winners of the 2023 elections to take their place and take us to the new Nigeria.

Only criminals would fault the EU declaration on the presidential election.

Nigeria as of today is " sheep without shepherd"

Funny people

Can they mind their business.

I will take them serious when they write a report to America, since Trump is still claiming till date that his own election was stolen too.

No one expects a Notorious narcotic drug trafficker engaging in criminal state capture to accept that the electoral heist he personally orchestrated was fraudulent

It is only Yar Adua, may his soul rest in peace that personally accepted that the election that brought him in was fraudulent and will ensure that INEC Nigeria conducts a more credible election

Nigerians has elected a leader that will not dance to their tones so they must discredit the outcome… is not new…
They should face their problem…

Haha...thief

This one go gree say na rubbish election before? fortunately the truth can never be hidden and is out

Criminals

. He knew he rigged himself in. He's only deceiving his followers as usual by saying this

Unitl Nigerians are ready to have free and fair elections, we will never have free and fair elections in this country.

TemplarLandry:
Like I said earlier, foreign blocs like European Union should desist from pokenosing into our internal affairs. We no longer need your loans. You want to criticize us, do it constructively.

The last elections were free and fair compared to previous ones, only glitch was the real-time upload some people have been whining about.

We Nigerians reject EU's lopsided report.

The day you people( Buhari, Tinubu and APC supporters stop going to the EU and foreign nations to beg them for loans, to get good medical care and do holidays, that is when they will stop pokenosing into you people's matter.

I am beginning to suspect Tinubu was a policeman in his previous identity...

Policeman go see white e go say that thing na red - African China

Truthday:
Eu should face France that has burnt into ashes and Ukraine thats burning . You have enough problem to deal with in Europe. Leave Nigeria alone. Or do you need more slaves to kill ?

Same mad Europe that killed 7 million Jews

Same Europe that causes WW1 & ww2.

Same Europe that enslaved Africa and the world.

Same Europe that killed the entire archipelago in Australia from 100% to 3.6% and replaced them with Australia.

Same Europe that invaded Libya, with the highest GDP into civil war for over 10years till date

Same Europe that invaded north America Killin native American into extinction ad replaced them with USA.

Same Europe that caused arpathied in South Africa and want to kill all blacks if not people like Nelson Mandela

Same Europe that stole new Zealand and replaced them with whites.

Same Europe that's a cancer to the world invading dozens of nations. Nazis

Oga you people invited them to come and observe the election and they are telling the world what they observed, are you not the ones who want approval from them, they have given you the approval with their report and you are complaining, next time don't invite them for approval and come back and be complaining....

Eu should face France that has burnt into ashes and Ukraine thats burning . You have enough problem to deal with in Europe. Leave Nigeria alone. Or do you need more slaves to kill ?

Same mad Europe that killed 7 million Jews

Same Europe that causes WW1 & ww2.

Same Europe that enslaved Africa and the world.

Same Europe that killed the entire archipelago in Australia from 100% to 3.6% and replaced them with Australia.

Same Europe that invaded Libya, with the highest GDP into civil war for over 10years till date

Same Europe that invaded north America Killin native American into extinction ad replaced them with USA.

Same Europe that caused arpathied in South Africa and want to kill all blacks if not people like Nelson Mandela

Same Europe that stole new Zealand and replaced them with whites.

Same Europe that's a cancer to the world invading dozens of nations. Nazis

Balablu , e go reach everybody

fergie001:
The Presidency filed a response to EU: 2023 Elections Lacked Transparency, Trust In INEC Severely Damaged

Can you be a judge in your own case?

Coming from a man who said political power is not served in a restaurant but it is snatched and run away with .......Well you succeeded in steal and snatching it then it remains to run away with it now ......I wish you all the best in your running away with it Mr snatcher

Damnnn niggar

Transparent kill you there

TemplarLandry:
Like I said earlier, foreign blocs like European Union should desist from pokenosing into our internal affairs. We no longer need your loans. You want to criticize us, do it constructively.

The last elections were free and fair compared to previous ones, only glitch was the real-time upload some people have been whining about.

We Nigerians reject EU's lopsided report.

You mean the rigged election result that even inec had to announce by 4am in the night.First time a result will be announced when Nigerians were sleeping

TemplarLandry:
Like I said earlier, foreign blocs like European Union should desist from pokenosing into our internal affairs. We no longer need your loans. You want to criticize us, do it constructively.

The last elections were free and fair compared to previous ones, only glitch was the real-time upload some people have been whining about.

We Nigerians reject EU's lopsided report.

same EU your leaders ran to for medical treatment? I learned your president just returned from France via UK. Same people you no longer need because you were told the truth. Dey play

He was shock about the whole thing,he told inec chairman to take it small small,but the gready fool was so arrogant to listen, now look at.inec chairman resting why Tinubu is been giving question he doesn't even know how it happened

Zombies can now cry a bucket full of salty tears for this revelation by the EU. Stoopid motherfuckers

fergie001:
The Presidency filed a response to EU: 2023 Elections Lacked Transparency, Trust In INEC Severely Damaged

T for Tinubu, T for Thief, T for Tout