Nigeria's presidential election results contested, credibility questioned
(MENAFN) The preliminary results of Nigeria's highly contested presidential election, released on Tuesday by the electoral commission, show Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, in the lead. Tinubu has secured over 6 million votes, ahead of his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, who has received over 4 million votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who has garnered over 3 million votes. However, opposition parties have rejected the results, alleging that the electoral body breached the law on procedures for collating, uploading, and releasing the results.
So far, the results from 22 out of Nigeria's 36 states have been counted, and there is significant anxiety across the country regarding the credibility of the outcome. The election was marred by reports of violence, ballot theft, late arrival of voting materials, and the failure of accreditation machines, raising concerns about the transparency and fairness of the process.
In response to the allegations of electoral malpractice, Dino Malaye, a representative of the People’s Democratic Party at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Collation Center in Abuja, accused the electoral body of breaching the 2023 electoral law. Malaye cited the manual collation of results, as opposed to uploading them to the INEC server from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), as a violation of the law.
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