A group of Nigerians under the auspices of the Coalition of Civil Society Organisation and Political Parties for Good Governance (CCSOPPGG), yesterday stormed the office of the European Union in Abuja to protest against its report on the 2023 presidential election which took place on the 25th of February.
The protesters, who were sighted with several placards carrying different inscriptions on Thursday, matched through the Central Area to the European Union’s headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory.
The EU had earlier in its report faulted the 2023 general elections stating violence, killing and vote buying as some of the factors for its criticism.
The peaceful march terminated at the headquarters of the EU where leaders of the group addressed officials of the union.
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With a promise from an EU official to relay the message of the protesters to the Union, the group took their leave.
Also, recall that the Federal Government had on on Sunday evening, rejected in totality the EU’s report on the 2023 general elections, describing the conclusions of the EU Electoral Observer Mission as ‘jaundiced’.
‘We urge the EU and other foreign interests to be objective in all their assessments of the internal affairs of our country and allow Nigeria to breathe,’ Dele Alake, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy said in a statement.
Former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyam has earlier come down hard on the union stressing that the report by the EU on the 2023 general elections cannot delegitimise President Bola Tinubu’s government.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that last Monday, the EU submitted its final report on the 2023 general elections to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.