Election Observation: Civil Society Organisations Vow To Speak What They See - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 14, 2019
A coalition of no fewer than seventy Civil SocietyOrganisations, under the auspices of the Nigeria Civil Society SituationRoom, says it will report facts in the tomorrow’s general elections.
The Situation Room, which is one of the Independent NationalElectoral Commission, INEC accredited observers for this year’s polls, vowed tospeak what it sees.
The Convener of the group, Clement Nwankwo, gave theassurance at a press briefing to unveil the Election Situation Room of thecoalition for Februaty 16 and March 2 elections inAbuja. He said the group would keep an eye on INEC’s collation process whichare often the subject of controversy.
According to Nwankwo, there are over 800 thousand wardsacross the country and the target is to cover each of these wards to providefair knowledge of what has happened with the collation process at that stage.He noted that though this was an era of fake news, he assured that the groupwould not report what it had not verified.
INEC’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, assured that theelectoral umpire would be open and transparent throughout the exercise. Accordingto Okoye, INEC is good to go in relation to these particular elections.