YIAGA AFRICA undertook the Watching The Vote project to provide Nigerian citizens, presidential candidates, political parties, civil society and INEC with independent information about whether the official results for the February 23, 2019 presidential election truly reflect the ballots cast at polling units. The YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote (WTV) is “Driven by Data –...

The mark of the New Year and the closeness of the 2019 General Elections are two issues that are constantly discussed simultaneously – as the hopes for the New Year come with hopes for an improvement in the standard of living for Nigerians regardless of who wins the 2019 Presidential, National Assembly, Gubernatorial, House of...

“These were not the elections Nigerians wanted; they were not the elections Nigerians expected; and, most importantly, they were not the elections Nigerians deserved. Our election commission must improve its capacity to deliver credible elections and our political parties must play according to the rules. Failure to do so could fundamentally threaten our democracy”. These...