The formation, whose candidate enjoys great support among young people, denounces several irregularities in the vote on Saturday
Nigeria began recounting votes for the most contested general election in recent history at 6pm today, hours late, after a day of massive technical glitches that created long queues and prevented thousands of citizens from taking part to take. The chaos was such that by the closing time of some polling stations the identification machines that allowed access to the polling stations had not yet arrived, so that the vote had to be postponed until today.
Because of these and other irregularities, the PvdA has announced that it will appeal the result to the courts. His candidate, Peter Obi, has stormed the ongoing campaign over youth support and threatens to break the dominance of the two main Nigerian parties, the All Progressives Party (APP), to which current President Muhammadu belongs. the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The first is represented on this occasion by the former governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu and the second by the former president Atiku Abubakar.
Obi has sparked enthusiasm among a youth demanding a turning point in the face of growing insecurity and poverty in the country, Africa’s most populous country and top oil producer. But his party believes that the results will be manipulated. The party’s secretary-general denounced that the formation had significant support in most of the country’s northern region, but voters were prevented from participating, who were “violently persecuted” and expelled from polling stations. In other cases, according to a statement, ballot papers or ballot boxes have been destroyed.
Another of his complaints is that the Independent National Electoral Commission (CNEI) staff did not arrive at the centers or arrived very late “to frustrate party supporters who were exhausted from waiting”.
Adding to the confusion, suspected terrorists from the jihadist armed group Boko Haram stormed the city of Goza on Saturday, injuring at least five people.
Source: La Verdad
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