Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said only eight percent of voters rated the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections as poor.
Gatekeepers News reports that NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Lawal, said in a statement on Tuesday night that this was part of the findings in the interim report of the NBA Election Working Group.
The interim report was based on the information sent to the NBA 2023 Elections Situation Room by the NBA Election Observers from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
NBA President Yakubu Maikyau on January 12, constituted the NBA Election Working Group, chaired by Mrs Linda Rose Bala, the 1st Vice President of the NBA, with the mandate to form the NBA Observation Team and liaise with the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) for members of the Team to be accredited to observe the 2023 General Elections.
Lawal said generally, findings from the observation process “indicated that only a quarter of the electorate were excellently impressed with the conduct of the ballots (27.1%) while the majority of the voters (64.6%) were somewhat satisfied, only 8.2% rated the election poor or very poor.”
Gatekeepers News reports that INEC declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard-bearer Asiwaju Bola Tinubu winner of the presidential election after he polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his opponents; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
