#NigeriaDecides2023: CDD highlights factors that undermined presidential, governorship elections
It also noted how vote-buying and trading characterised the governorship elections in many states.
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It also noted how vote-buying and trading characterised the governorship elections in many states.
Vote buying remains a challenge in Nigeria’s electoral process, the centre says.
The CDD tasks INEC to learn lessons from the presidential election.
The CDD says inadequate security presence contributed to attacks recorded during the governorship and state houses of assembly elections.
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has said that widespread vote-buying and violence marred the governorship and state assembly elections across Nigeria on Saturday. In the brief statement signed by the Chair of the CDD Election Analysis Centre (EAC), Professor Adele Jinadu and Director, Idayat Hassan, the Centre said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fared better in the area of logistics deployment, leading to the prompt arrival of poll officials for the commencement of the elections.