By Emmanuel Daudu, Abuja
The Chairman, Domak Group international, Dr. Kingsley Azonobi on Saturday the 25th of February, 2023 headed the Abuja team of forum observers under the balcony of International Police Chaplain Sustainable Development Law Enforcement Inc. USA.
Dr. Kingsley Azonobi while addressing the team ahead of the exercise charged them with upholding the ethics of foreign electoral observers, stating that observers’ roles in ensuring credible elections can’t be over-emphasized as he stressed that a peaceful approach to issues, civil method of resolving civic disputes and polemics either between electorates and officials conducting the elections, electorates, and security operatives or between electorates base on uncoordinated crowd or challenges electorates go through in the process of vote casting or whatever, is a sure way to solving issues of such.
Speaking further, he cautioned observers to strictly report issues seen and always try to be objective while filing reports after the exercise.
Kingsley who manned the Garki, Maitama, and Mppape areas of Abuja alongside a few members of the team visited over 60 polling units.
At the end of the voting exercise, while addressing the press, he has this to say, “This is one of the most credible elections we have witnessed since the inception of democracy in Nigeria. Kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari for making this a reality.
“We have visited lots of polling units, and we are glad to tell the whole world that Nigeria has set a standard to be followed by other African Countries.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has done overwhelmingly well, and I am glad to say to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, you have shown capacity and have discharged accordingly. Nigerians are proud of you”, he added.
However, he cautioned INEC staff at the polling units to ensure that results are imputed correctly to avoid issues while collating results at the central collation center.
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