Expecting a busy morning on the wires. Abubakar and Buhari are rejecting the result, while INEC Chief Iwu is declaring a victory for democratic process…
This from Nigeria’s ‘Punch’ this morning is a good indication of what the weeks to come have in store:
The International Republican Institute’s team of election observers has described the general election as a classic example of how the Nigerian government has failed its people.
Delivering its preliminary verdict on the governorship, state Assembly, Senate and Presidential elections at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday, the team of international observers said that the failure was systemic.
A member of the team and former United States Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes, Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, said, “The system failed the Nigerian people. The process failed the test of credibility. What we are talking about is that the system as designed did not work.
“This has nothing to do with the Nigerian people. It is a case of the government failing the people.”
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