Mohammed Shosanya
The Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu Support Group (AATSG) has faulted the final report of the European Union’s Election Observer Mission in respect of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
The group expressed this in statement signed by its National Chairman of the organisation, Otunba Abayomi Odunowo and made available to newsmen in Lagos.
The EU observers mission,the group,said,has misrepresented facts about the election outcome to serve some certain local and international interests.
The group wondered how a mission with barely 500 observers would adequately cover 176,460 polling units across the federation. AATSG as a group have executives in each of the 36 state plus Abuja, 774 LGs 8,813 wards, and 176,460 polling units across Nigeria.
AATSG had observers across the country with the use of HumanGenie app developed by AATSG and it had the capacity to record live the events across the 176,460 polling units which was uploaded directly to our platform on the cloud
“The structured of AATSG provided 12 National executives, 36 Zonal Executives, 222 State Executives, 4644 Local Government executives, 44,060, ward executives and 1,768, 460 polling units executives totaling 1,818,088.
“This team was fully deployed across every election polling both of Nigeria armed with the HumanGenie mobile app across the 176,460 polling units and we have verifiable data of what happened across Nigeria and the results confirmed what INEC declared after the elections
It described the final report as a mere aggregate of negative opinions garnered from opposition parties to paint the election in bad light.
It further stated that other election observers like the Africa Union and the Nigeria Bar Associations, NBA, score the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over 90% thereby giving credence to the emergence of President Bola Tinubu as the true winner of the presidential election.
The group warned the EU Observers to desist from painting the election bad, saying Nigerians are overwhelmingly supporting President Tinubu in his reform programmes to set the country on the path of development.
The statement reads in part: ” We totally condemn the final report of the European Union Observer Mission to the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. Their conclusions are based on hearsay and talking points of opposition parties.
“We observe that their report is at best a desk report because they didn’t deploy enough personnel to cover the entire country.A mission with inadequate personnel cannot in all honesty get unbiased information from 176,000 polling units on the day of the election.
“Our country is a big nation that’s why for any observer group to write any report that adequately capture happenings on the election day, you have to have the required huge personnel to deploy.It is our hope that when the next election cycle arrives, EU Mission will engage more personnel that will help them with better coverage of the country and will be more objective in writing their final report.
“We know there is no perfect election anywhere in the world but with the technology deployed by INEC for the last election, President Tinubu was rightfully declared the winner.And he has hit the ground running by putting in place policies that will ultimately put Nigeria back on the track of development.”.