The Centre for Democracy Development (CDD) West Africa has outlined its plans for Nigeria’s upcoming elections.
Development Diaries reports that it made this known in a post on its official Twitter handle, explaining that the CDD Election Analysis Centre (CDDEAC) will closely monitor the elections.
The civil society organisation (CSO) revealed that it will deploy over 4,000 trained and accredited observers as well as data clerks, fact-checkers, and social media monitors across polling units and collation centres across the country to closely observe the polls.
The #CDDEAC will issue statements, along with periodic updates of events as the elections unfold, which will be widely disseminated across social and traditional media platforms for the information of election stakeholders and the public. #NigeriDecides2023
— CDD West Africa (@CDDWestAfrica) February 23, 2023
It also noted that CDDEAC will provide preliminary and timely updates on the opening of polls, accreditation of voters, voting and compliance with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) guidelines.
‘However, it is important to note that it will make no pronouncement on the outcome of the election until INEC announces the final vote tallies and declares a winner’, it added in the post.
Nigerians will on Saturday, 25 February, head to the polls to elect the country’s next president and federal lawmakers, and return to the polls on 11 March for the state-level elections.
This will be the seventh in the series of general elections since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999.
Photo source: INEC
