Nigeria rejects EU observer report on election outcome

The Nigerian presidency has expressed its “strongest” opposition to an assessment of the 2023 general elections by the European Union Electoral Observer Mission (EU-EOM), calling it a “jaundiced report” based on unfounded bias and claims.

In a statement on Sunday, the government labeled the EU-EOM final report a “product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few instances of skirmishes in less than 1000 polling units out of over 176,000 where Nigerians voted on election day.”

Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office late in May, after winning the presidential elections in February.

At a press conference last week in Abuja, the EU-EOM’s chief observer, Barry Andrews, said the West African country’s February presidential elections were marred by problems that undermined public trust in the electoral process. He proposed…