“Nigeria: Opposition contesting the results,”
“The incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari is the winner in most of the states where the election results had fallen into.”
“The main opposition party PDP, declare that all published results are manipulated.”
“in the past, both sides declared victory in the election in Nigeria.”
“Muhammadu Buhari is the winner in four of the five states where the electoral body Inec has announced the result. In the first of a total of 36 colonies that were counted finished, ekiti state, he received 57 percent of the votes cast.”
“in terms of number of votes in the first five provinces has Buhari 1 317 976 votes, compared with the opposition Atiku Abubakars 1 173 437.”
“Uche Secondus, the chairman of the Abubakars party, PDP, claims already now to valmyndighetens numbers is”
“According to Secondus manipulate and threaten the government’s seconded officials in several parts of the country.”
“– They are under pressure and the situation in which we find ourselves in is reminiscent of the military era, ” he says at a press conference.”
” We have never seen this in the past, to the presidential palace at the end of an election, send out security forces and ministers to all parts of the country to put pressure on the governors.”
“the APC has previously blamed the PDP for trying to manipulate the valmyndighetens work.”
“the Criticism from the outside world.”
“the EU and the united states is critical to the problems that arose during the nigerian presidential elections, which they believe may have resulted in negative consequences for democracy.”
“the Elections in Nigeria would actually have been 16 in February, but managed at the last moment up to a week after the election authority said they have had problems with materialleveranserna.”
“the Delay meant the likely voter participation and confidence in electoral authority fell, according to the american observers who were on the spot.”
“– It is very likely that such a late postponement had consequences for turnout, ” says John Tomaszewski, representatives of the u.s. National democratic institues and the International republican institute joint observer mission.”
“the EU election observers are critical of the agency’s problems with implementing the choice.”
“the African union observer mission on the other hand, concluded that the elections on the whole, went peacefully to.”
“The analysis is questioned, however, in the other direction. During Saturday killed 39 people in election-related violence, noted, for example, The situation room, representing 70 organisations from the nigerian civil society, on Sunday.”
“According to The situation room has the death toll at the previous elections certainly been higher, but usually occurs the violence only after the results have been presented.”
“the Umbrella organisation also stated that a total of 260 people have been killed in politically motivated violence since the election campaign kicked off in October.”
“Nigeria is located in west africa. The country has around 190 million people and is Africa’s most populous country. The three dominant ethnic groups are hausa-fulani, yoruba and igbo. The capital is Abuja.”
“the Country’s large oil reserves provide substantial income but, in general, Nigeria is a traditional development economics. Large parts of the population live on agriculture. In 2017, GDP per person in 1 969 dollars.”
“for many years, discord prevailed between the muslim northern Nigeria and the southern parts of the country, where most christians live.”
“in 1999, went to Nigeria from military rule to a civilian.”
“Source: Landguiden and world Bank.”
