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Despite the declaration of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the 2023 presidential election, Yiaga Africa, a pro-democracy and election monitoring outfit has called faulted the results from Imo and Rivers States, saying they were inconsistent with its observation.

Addressing a press conference to collaborate or dispute the presidential election results released by INEC, Dr. Aisha Abdullahi and Samson Itodo, Executive Director, Yiaga Africa said: “The state-level presidential results for Imo and Rivers are inconsistent with Yiaga Africa WTV projections for both states.

“For Rivers, INEC announced 231,591 votes for the All Progressives Congress (APC) or 44.2 per cent; 175,071 for Labour Party (LP) or 33.4 per cent; and 88,468 for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or 16.9 per cent.

“This is in sharp contrast to the Yiaga Africa WTV estimates for Rivers which are: APC 21.7 per cent ± five per cent; for LP 50.8 per cent ±10.6 per cent; and for PDP 22.2 per cent ±6.5 per cent.

“For Imo, INEC announced 66,406 for APC or 14.2 per cent; 360,495 for LP or 77.1 per cent, and 30,234 for PDP or 6.5 per cent. Again, this is at variance with the Yiaga Africa WTV estimates for Imo which are: APC 5.1% ±2.3%; LP – 88.1 per cent ±3.8 per cent; and PDP 5.7 per cent ±2.3 per cent,” they said.

Yiaga Africa said that the position statement was based on reports from 1,454 to 1,507 (97%) sampled polling units in Nigeria.