One of the accredited election observers for the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, the Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigeria (PUAN) and a coalition of civil society organisations, have said that Nigerians put much efforts for the success of the implementation of the Electoral Act 2022 and should allow the success of the elections to reflect on the people.
The Ambassador General of PUAN, Mr. Suleiman Dabas said this in Abuja at a press conference that Nigeria must find a professional and global acceptable standard or practice to address their grievance which is already provided by the Nigeria constitution and the electoral act 2022, after the declaration of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Mr Dabas pleaded with all Nigerians home and abroad not to take laws into their hands, but to use all available means as provided by the law to seek redress for all grievances.
He also urged stakeholders in the electoral process to talk to their supporters and agents to remain calm and ensure peace prevails in Nigeria.
The Ambassador General said the PUAN and other Civil Society groups have identified some of the challenges experienced during the last elections was the inability of INEC to upload election results at some polling units.
He also said that the ‘election result collation center’ was the ‘major problem’ during the last elections and that some of the challenges should be addressed before the governorship and states house of assembly elections.
He called on Nigerians to give the INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the commission a chance to redeem the situation.
He said, “Elections will always come and go, but we the people will remain.”
