EU Report On Nigeria’s 2023 Elections Reliable – Atiku’s Aide

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign has described the report of the European Union Election Monitoring Group on the 2023 general elections which concluded that the last election was fraught with irregularities and failed to meet the minimum standard of credibility, as credible.

Mr. Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communications to the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said this in a statement, in Abuja, late on Sunday.

He took a swipe at the Spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu for trying to discredit the EU’s report.

Shaibu noted that “even the dead” knew that the last election lacked credibility and even the Independent National Electoral Commission had been unable to explain why nearly five months after the election, it had refused to upload the full result on its result viewing portal.

He said, “Even primary school children who did not vote know that INEC failed woefully and that Tinubu rigged the last election.

“The Presidential election held on February 25, 2023 and yet as of July 2, 2023, the result of the Presidential election has not been fully uploaded. This is despite the fact that this election was the most expensive in the history of West Africa.

“How can an election in which the full results have not been fully uploaded after nearly five months be described as credible by any sane human being?”

He described as nonsensical Alake’s claim that the EU was a meddlesome interloper for discrediting the poll.

Shaibu said it was hypocritical of the Nigerian government to receive millions of dollars from the EU as election fund and then turn around to claim that the EU has no right to make comments on the election.