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Previous reports on Nigerian general elections by the EU-EOM showed that Nigeria has made some improvements in addressing electoral issues, but there are still some institutional problems that could lead to similar problems in the future.
Currently, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ranks among the 45 oldest presidents among 187 presidents of countries in the United Nations, going by the recent Pew research.
It is not uncommon for election results to be disputed if there is a perception that the process was unfair. In such cases, the electoral laws provide for aggrieved parties to seek redress through the electoral tribunals and the courts.
Further analysis showed that 15 states do not have a single female elected lawmaker in the just concluded state houses of assembly elections.
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Despite INEC’s efforts to organise a hitch-free general election, several flaws manifested on the election day. First, was the late arrival of electoral officials in some polling units, insufficiency of election materials, inability of some electoral officials to operate the BVAS machine, to mention but a few, were visible.
The petitioner said the second respondent, Bola Tinubu, must be disqualified on the grounds of his trial at the US court on drug dealing, which led to his forfeiture of $460,000.
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The dissident groups had stated that elections would not occur in the region and threatened to deal with anyone who attempted to flout this rule by voting.
The organisation deployed its Election Portal, Dataphyte Election Portal (DEP) to report live election incidents and results from the country’s 174 local governments.
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The REC said that INEC would not allow the missing gadgets to be used for the elections, assuring that election results would be uploaded in real time after the voting process.
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There were reported cases of opposition intimidation in Lagos, with several voters prevented from getting to their polling units. Ethnic profiling was also commonplace, and many polling units were invaded and attacked, with voters chased away.
In the Nigerian political system, governors pick their successors who will follow in their footsteps and protect them when out of power. Opposition governors often expose the previous governments of different political parties and sometimes lie about, belittle or deride their achievements, according to analysts.
