A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs), called the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, has expressed worry over the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) delay in collating the Osun governorship election result.
The Convener of the Situation Room, Mr Clement Nwankwo in a statement on Sunday said there was need for INEC to change the trend on collation of results and use of electronic method.
Nwankwo also expressed concern that the result collation took place mostly at night.
It would be recalled that INEC had declared the Saturday election inconclusive following the low margin between the leading political party in the poll and the runner’s up.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had scored 254, 698 to lead the All Progressive Congress (APC) which polled 254, 345.
“On collation of results, Situation Room is concerned that the process of collation is delayed and appears to happen mostly at night.
“This is when the political parties, candidates, observers and other election stakeholders may have depleted away from observation of the process, especially with fears of insecurity.” (NAN)
