U.S John Kerry And UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond Issued Joint Statement On Nigeria Election.

Philip Hammond and John Kerry

Nigerians are not the only people suspicious of the elections. The elections results collation is delayed and so far since Saturday only hand full results has been announced. Clearly they might be some hidden agenda to distort the wish of the people. Something is fundamentally wrong. In the light of this, the US and UK have issued a joint statement on the state of the election through their respective foreign secretary. They suspects there might be interference with the collation of results just like many of us.



"Our governments welcome the largely peaceful vote on March 28. The Nigerian people have shown a commendable determination to register their vote and choose their leaders.

So far, we have seen no evidence of systemic manipulation of the process. But there are disturbing indications that the collation process—where the votes are finally counted—may be subject to deliberate political interference. This would contravene the letter and spirit of the Abuja Accord, to which both major parties committed themselves.

The Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom would be very concerned by any attempts to undermine the independence of the Electoral Commission (INEC), or its Chairman, Prof. Jega; or in any way distort the expressed will of the Nigerian people."