A Civil Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, has recommended legal timelines for testing new electoral technologies in Nigeria’s electoral legal framework.
The CSO made this suggestion in Abuja on Wednesday in its post-election statement signed by Dr Aisha Abdullahi, the Board Chair, and Mr Samson Itodo, the Executive Director, Yiaga Africa.
According to the group, the testing timeline will equip the commission to use its adopted technology effectively during the election.
It said that for the Feb. 25 presidential election, Yiaga Africa employed the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) methodology.
The CSO explained said that the organisation deployed 3,014 observers in pairs to a representative random sample of 1,507 polling units, 822 mobile observers in all 774 local government areas (LGAs), 36 states and the FCT.
“This deployment strategy enabled Yiaga Africa to provide timely and accurate information on…
