No Election Took Place In South East And South-South, Prof. Sagay Says

Sahara Reporters

12 May 2011

No Election Took Place In South East And South-South, Prof. Sagay Says

By SaharaReporters, New York

A well known constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Professor Itse Sagay, has dismissed reports that the 2011 elections were credible, free and fair. 

He also rejected the reports of both local and foreign electoral observers, declaring that there were no real elections in the South East and South-South geopolitical zones of the country.

Speaking yesterday at the University of Lagos, Faculty of Law Roundtable Series on the 2011 Election: Implications for Development and Citizens Participation”, Prof. Sagay asserted that the elections in the two zones were marred by multiple registration, gross irregularities and monumental fraud.