Just In: Military’s Active Participation Undermines Nigeria’s Polls
Reactions have continue to trail the out come of the Nigeria’s rescheduled general elections as observers adjudged it to be one of the polls with less negative reports in recent times. One of those with such opinion is the Centre for Transparency and Advocacy’s Situation Room. In a news conference in the Nigerian Capital Abuja, the CTA Executive Director, Faith Nwadishi said inspite of assurances by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, polls was still marred by challenges ranging from late arrival of materials, personnel, malfunctioning card readers, shortage of sensitive and non-sensitive materials, pockets of violence in some states resulting in killings and disruption of voting, missing names of registered voters from the electoral register and poor management of RACS on the polling day. Adding that, the logistical problems turned out to be logistical nightmare in many areas across the country