CDD, in an Election Analysis Centre (EAC) brief, which was released ahead of the polls, said insecurity, fuel scarcity, new monetary policy of the apex bank and other issues may pose challenges for the conduct of elections.
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Prof. Adele Jinadu, Chairman, Centre for Democracy and Development, Election Analysis Centre, made this known.
This was part of the preliminary report of the CDD on the election, which was presented to newsmen on Saturday.
The Centre for Democracy and Development on Saturday condemned attacks on ad hoc staff, media, observers and other electoral participants during the supplementary polls.
The Election Analysis Centre of the Centre for Democracy and Development has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to affirm to Nigerians that sensitive materials are safe.
The Centre for Democracy and Development on Tuesday organized a town hall meeting to sensitise communities ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency to forgiveness, reconciliation and reintegration of repentant insurgents into the society.
Centre for Democracy and Development has called on the people of Osun State to refrain from acts that may plunge the state into crisis following INEC’s declaration of the Saturday’s governorship election inconclusive.
The CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, who was on ground in Ekiti, told NAN in a telephone interview that although there were cases of ballot boxes snatching in some areas, INEC did not declare results from the affected polling units.
The Buhari Media Organization in a statement signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Austin Braimoh and Cassidy Madueke, said among other things, the error in the poll falls far below globally acceptable threshold.
The opinion poll, according to the Director of the CDD, Idayat Hassan, was commissioned to assess Nigerians’ rating of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration after three years in office.
Aminu Idris, Director, Election and Party Monitoring, INEC, gave the assurance at the Debate on “Increasing number of political parties in Nigeria and access to ballot in 2019’’ on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement on Wednesday.
Shehu was reacting to a recent report by the Centre for Democracy and Development, which claimed that Buhari had only achieved one out of his 222 tracked electoral promises, representing 0.5 per cent of the promises
The CDD, in a statement by its Director, Jibrin Ibrahim, said that if the leadership of ECOWAS does not act fast, through military intervention, the crisis may degenerate beyond repairs