2015 Election: Presidential, National
Assembly results from Nigeria’s South South
inflated – Report
The results of the 2015 Nigeria’s Presidential and
National Assembly elections from the South-South
region of the country were probably inflated by
officials of Independent National Electoral Commission,
a report released by a civil society coalition, Transition
Monitoring Group, TMG, says.
TMG is Nigeria’s foremost election observation group.
The report titled “TMG Quick Count Report of the 2015
Presidential Election” was launched in Abuja on
Friday.
TMG said it deployed approximately 4,000 citizen
observers to carry out representative observation of
polling units across the 774 Local Government Areas.
Although the report showed that estimates by TMG’s
Quick Count correlated with official results finally
released by INEC, the group however said the number
of accredited voters was inflated during the collation
exercise, suggesting a way of creating room for inflated
results.
“In verifying the official results of the 2015
presidential election, the Quick Count estimates
strongly suggested that turnout was inflated during the
collation process in the South-South geopolitical zone,”
the report said.
“Quick Count estimates for the South-South geopolitical
zone was 40.6% (+/-4.5%) while the official result the
zone was as released at 55.9%. Thus official turnout
was likely inflated during the collation exercise by at
least 10.8%. The official results of the other five
geopolitical zones consistent with TMG’s Quick Count
estimates.”
Former President Goodluck Jonathan of Peoples
Democratic Party recorded sweeping victory in the
South-South, his base, while President Muhammadu
Buhari who was the candidate of All Progressives Congress swept poll
across in the North West, his zone.
But TMG said its estimates in the North West and the other zones, apart
from the South-South, ran consistent with INEC’s official release.
TMG said its observers reported on the poll, accreditation, voting,
counting processes and collected voting results at the polling units.
“At the heart of the Quick Count is a sophisticated database and text
messaging communication systems by highly trained data managers and
data clerks to ensure that complete and accurate data is received from all
observers and analysed … to form highly accurate estimates of the
overall poll conduct of the election, including party vote counts and voter
turnout,” TMG’s Program Manager, Lazarus Apir, explained.
The report said the deployment party agents by the APC to the polling
units in South-South and South-East was and 85% and 80% respectively.
But in the two regions, PDP deployed agents to 93% of the polling units.
The report showed that the APC perhaps deliberately de-emphasize focus
on the South-South and South-East, two strongholds of PDP,
concentrating on other zones where it deployed more agents to polling
units than PDP did.
Quick Count reported the presence of security personnel in 88% of the
polling units. But this was poor when compared with 94% security
presence across all polling units during the 2011 elections, TMG said.
By 11:30am of March 28, 2015, only 68% of the polling units had opened
for accreditation exercise and in 96% of the polling units no voter was
accredited without permanent voter’s card.
What counted as upside of Nigeria’s 2015 election widely acclaimed as
example for Africa, according to the Quick Count report, was that
observers reported there were no incidents of harassment against voters,
poll officials, party agents and observers during voting in 96% of the
polling units.
At 95% and 91%, respectively, of the polling units, APC and PDP agents
signed the result sheets (INEC Form EC8A).
In 91% of the polling units, results were publicly pasted. By regional
breakdown, results were publicly pasted in the North West, 93%; North
East, 96%; North Central, 92%; South West, 88%; South East, 90%; and
South South, 89%.
To improve Nigeria’s electoral process, TMG recommended that political
parties and candidates restrict their campaigns to Nigeria’s development
issues.
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What's these nonsense??

ok

This guys must be high on fermented garri.

This is not news to most political observers in Nigeria. We all know PDP rigged the presidential election in the south south. Good thing is, votes from other regions reflected properly who most Nigerians wanted and that effectively countered the rigging.

Nonsense.... The child voting in the north nko?

seunmsg:
This is not news to most political observers in Nigeria. We all know PDP rigged the presidential election in the south south. Good thing is, votes from other regions reflected properly who most Nigerians wanted and that effectively countered the rigging.

And Apc didn't inflate too? Or there were no under age voting in the north too?

So Apc didn't rig elections too? They better look for something to do because not all Nigerians are gullible like them.

See o. The moment i read north west was consistent, i knew it will be a bias report.