YIAGA: Soldiers, Security Agencies, APC members deny Party Agents Access to Collation Centres

YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote 2019 Governorship/State Assembly Elections

Statement on Denial of Access to Results Collation Centres (As at 8:00pm, Saturday, 9th March 2019)
Election Rigging ALERT: YIAGA AFRICA Condemns plots by the military and party agents to compromise the results collation process
Reports reaching the YIAGA AFRICA Watching the Vote data centre reveals that WTV observers and other observer groups have been denied access to observe the result collation process in the following Local Government collation centres;
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State
Local Government Area Collation Centre
Perpetrator

Akwa Ibom
Uruan LGA Results Collation Centre
Military officers

Ukanafun LGA Results Collation Centre
Military officers

Ikot-Ikpene LGA Result Collation Centre
Military officers

Rivers
Eleme Result Collation Centre
Military officers

Asari – Toru LGA Result Collation Centre
APC members

Oyigbo LGA Result Collation Centre
Military officers

Gokana LGA Result Collation Centre
Military officers

Opobo / Nekoro LGA Result Collation Centre
Military officers

Zamfara
Tsafe LGA Result Collation Centres
Security agents

YIAGA AFRICA calls on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to as a matter of urgency ensure that access is granted to observer groups to observe the results collation process at the LGA and state level.

YIAGA AFRICA notes that the lack of transparency in the results collation process will undermine the integrity of the elections in those locations. YIAGA AFRICA calls on security agencies especially the military to refrain from interfering with the results collation process.

YIAGA AFRICA once again reiterates its earlier position that military interference with the electoral process is a fundamental breach of the Constitution of Nigeria and a threat to our electoral democracy.
Thank you.

Dr. Hussaini Abdu Chair, Watching The Vote Working Group

Samson Itodo Executive Director, YIAGA AFRICA