The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has sent his congratulatory messages to Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) on their re-election, stressing that it is a triumph for Nigeria’s democracy.
In a statement released on Tuesday morning, he said; ‘I am excited by the cheering news of the resounding re-election of Governors Makinde, Mohammed and Sanwo-Olu. I am pleased to express the most sincere fraternal congratulations. I look forward to us consolidating the bonds of brotherhood and friendship between our States and peoples’.
He went on to call on the governors to use the election for their second tenure in office to continue to create a better life, and prosperity for all their people.
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In another report, European Union (EU) has said the governorship and state House of Assembly elections were fraught with massive voter apathy, multiple incidents of thuggery, intimidation, vote-buying, interruption of polling in various locations with 21 people killed across the country.
Chief Observer of European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria, Barry Andrews, stated this, yesterday, in Abuja, while giving the EU’s second preliminary statement on the election.
He also knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its poor conduct of the polls.
He said Nigerians have a great appetite for democracy and were keen to engage in various civic activities, but lamented that in large parts of the country, their expectations were not met during the presidential and National Assembly polls.
Andrews said public confidence and trust in INEC were severely damaged on February 25 due to lack of transparency and operational failures in the conduct of the polls.
Andrews lamented that up until the postponement of the governorship and state assembly elections, INEC continued to abstain from providing information, limiting its communication to a few press releases and ceremonial statements and hence, failed to address public grievances and rebuild confidence in the electoral process.