Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Ambassador Derek Mitchell and Dr. Department of State Stacey Abrams, American political leader, lawyer, and voting rights activist Dana White, former Assistant to the U.S. Department of State Constance Berry Newman, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the U.S. She was joined by Ambassador Mark Green, President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former administrator of the United States Agency for International Development Ambassador Johnnie Carson, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the U.S. Joyce Banda, former President of the Republic of Malawi. The 40-person delegation, with members from 20 countries, was led by Her Excellency Dr.
African Union observers noted “isolated incidents of violence.” The preliminary statement offered by the international observation mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) pointed out some of the anomalies that prevailed during the elections. There were ballot box snatchings, intimidation of voters to vote against their consciences, intimidation of the electoral staffs that were forced to announce rigged election results, vote buying, vote manipulation, physical violence and a host of other electoral malpractices that marred the electoral process.įoreign observers pointed to a lack of transparency and operational failures. According to local and international eye-witnesses, there were glaring evidences of late arrival of electoral officers and electoral materials to polling units – which disenfranchised many voters after they got tired of waiting for hours. Nigeria’s presidential election of Saturday, 25 February, was widely said to be flawed.
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