PRELIMINARY PROCESS STATEMENT ON THE ANAMBRA 2017 GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION BY YIAGA
BY BENEDICT ODINAKA
As
part of struggle to ensure free and fair election in Anambra
governorship election, Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and
Advancement.(YIAGA) has organized a press briefing at Finotel Hotel,
Sunday 19th 2017. According to the chair YIAGA WTV Working group, Mr
Hussani Abdu (PHD), He said that this press briefing is the third in
series hosted by YIAGA WTV for the 2017 Anambra governorship election.
He said that this press briefing covers the preliminary findings about
the conduct of accreditation, voting, and counting of vote. "Although
YIAGA has received data from 243 of 250 (97%) sampled polling units and
currently has a stable estimates for the election outcome, it is the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that has the mandate to
announce election results" He emphasized .Mr Hussani Abdu went further
to say that as soon as the INEC releases the result and if it is
contrary to what the YIAGA has that they will expose it.
Speaking
at the press briefing the chair applauded the Anambrarians for thier
commitment to democratic process adding that there is the possibility of
determining the leadership of the State through peaceful, transparent
and credible elections. Meanwhile Mr Hussani said that Watching the
vote( WTV ) data is based on the the parallel vote tabulation (PVT)
methodology - the gold standard for citizen election observation. He
revealed that on Election day, WTV deployed 500 stationary observers to
representative statistical sample of 250 polling units and 29 mobile
observers in all 21 local government areas of Anambra state. According
to him these he said will enable YIAGA to to provide timely and accurate
information on the conduct of accreditation, voting, and counting as
well as to independently verify the official results for the Anambra
gubernatorial election as announced by INEC. He assured the press that
if the official reports of the INEC reflects the ballots cast at the
polling unit then YIAGA will confirm the outcome but if however the
result announced have been manipulated and do not match the the result
posted at polling units then, YIAGA will expose it. |
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