According to Vanguard, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rejected the European Union’s Electoral Observer Mission’s report on the 2023 general elections on Sunday, calling the final report a product of a poorly done desk job that relied primarily on a few people.
The president stated that he believes the “jaundiced report,” based on the opinions of less than 50 observers, “was to simply sustain the same premature denunciatory stance contained in the EU’s preliminary report released in March.”
This was said in a statement by Mr. Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, titled “We reject the European Union’s conclusions on the 2023 general elections.”
In the statement, the President stated that major groups such as the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and even the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have praised the election’s conduct and outcome.
The statement reads, “We alerted the nation, a press statement, sometime in May, to a plan by a continental multilateral institution to stigmatise the 2023 general elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
“Although we omitted the organisation’s name from the aforementioned statement, we made it abundantly clear to Nigerians how this foreign organisation had been relentless in its attack on the legitimacy of the electoral process, the sovereignty of our nation, and our ability as a people to organise ourselves.
“We find it absurd and indefensible that in this day and age, any foreign body, regardless of hue, can still insist on using its own yardstick and evaluation as the only means to assess the legitimacy and transparency of our elections.
“We can categorically state to Nigerians and the rest of the world that we were aware of the European Union’s plots to maintain its largely unfounded bias and claims regarding the election results now that the organisation has submitted what it has asserted to be its final report on the elections.
“We vehemently reject, in full, any notion and suggestion from any organisation, group, or person remotely implying that the 2023 election was rigged.
“All non-partisan foreign and local observers, including the African Union, ECOWAS, Commonwealth Observer Mission, and the Nigerian Bar Association, have validated our earlier position that the technology-aided general elections in 2023 were the most transparent as well as the best organised elections since the return of civil rule in Nigeria.”
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