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Nigeria vote generally credible despite issues: observers

Voting in Nigeria’s general election was broadly credible despite widespread logistical challenges, domestic and foreign observers said in preliminary findings released on Monday. Nigeria’s Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), set up in the late 1990s to coincide with the end of military rule, said Saturday’s election “afforded Nigerians a credible opportunity to exercise their right to vote”.

Presidential poll: PDP wining in Plateau

Presidential results are trickling in from local government areas of Plateau state. So far, out of the 17 local government areas, 13 have brought in their results and at the time of this report, results were expected from four local government areas (Jos North, Kanam, Wase and Qua’an Pan).

Upholding democratic tenets

MAN has an insatiable and venomously gluttonous appetite for power. Power is authority, prerogative, jurisdiction, force and domination. When political power is given to a man, he uses it autocratically and sadistically to oppress the people and perpetuate himself in office. Hence, in contemporary times there is a disastrous rise of misplaced power. Indeed, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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