The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) says the February 25, 2023, presidential and National Assembly elections were well conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The NBA scored INEC 80 per cent for its handling of the elections.

The president of the association, Yakubu Maikyau, who made this known while speaking on Channels Television on Saturday, said: “I will say that the elections went well. Those who came out were happy to express their franchise.

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“There were challenges, definitely. There were some infractions, some of them actually constituted electoral offences but on the whole, I will score INEC as having performed maybe about 78, 80 per cent in the delivery of these elections.”

The NBA President, however, enjoined INEC to intensify efforts and ensure that the lapses witnessed during the presidential and National Assembly elections are not repeated during the governorship and State Assembly polls.

“That is why we are admonishing and advising INEC and recommending to INEC that in those areas where we saw lapses in the election held on the 25th February 2023, deliberate efforts must be taken to make sure that those lapses did not occur again in the elections that are coming up on the 11th March because when these lapses happened, it impacted on the confidence of the public in the process,” Maikyau added.

The Star