Introduction YIAGA AFRICA #WatchingTheVote (WTV) is observing the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti state. YIAGA WTV deployed 500 carefully trained stationary observers and 24 mobile observers in all the 16 local government areas (LGAs) in Ekiti state. YIAGA AFRICA also deployed 16 collation centre observers to each of the LGA collation centres and the state…
YIAGA AFRICA is excited to receive National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Charge of South-West Nigeria, Prince Adedeji Solomon Soyebi at #WatchingTheVote (WTV) Data Centre in Ado-Ekiti. The National Commissioner in charge who oversees the Ekiti Governorship Elections visited the data centre to see for himself preparation of WTV team. The…
YIAGA Africa today presented its #WatchingTheVote (WTV) project and deployment plans for the Saturday, July 14, Ekiti state gubernatorial election. On Election Day, YIAGA Africa will employ the parallel vote tabulation (PVT) methodology – the gold standard for citizen observation. WTV will deploy 500 stationary observers to a representative statistical sample of 250 polling units…
YIAGA AFRICA today released its third report on the pre-election environment in Ekiti State as part of the Watching the Vote Pre-Election Observation or PREO project. The report summarizes findings from 24 long-term observers who have been deployed in all 16 Local Government Areas of Ekiti State since May 25 to gather systematic information on…
Ahead of the July 14th Governorship Elections in Ekiti State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said, the commitment of election observers will add value to the credibility of the electoral process. The Commission’s Public relations officer IN Ekiti State, Taiwo Gbadegesin said this on Wednesday while addressing YIAGA Africa’s WatchingTheVote Master trainers in…
Security remains a very important aspect of elections as it determines the safety of Election materials, Officials, Electorates and every other election stakeholder. As a matter of fact, Elections may not happen without adequate security of all election stakeholders before, during and after the elections. To ensure successful deployment of observers and effective all-round security…
It may have started over two decades ago somewhere in the Philippines when the National Citizen Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) decided to deploy observers to polling units, the Parallel Vote Tabulation election is fast becoming in the norm in parts of Africa and Nigeria.. The PVT team which consisted of citizen’s observers successfully revealed…
Ahead of the 2019 General Elections, YIAGA AFRICA’s WatchingTheVote (WTV) has concluded plans to train 48 recruited State Focal Points (SFP) representing the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory on the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT); a special election day observation methodology that deploys statistics and information and communication technology to systematically observe the election.…
YIAGA Africa’s WatchingTheVote has held a media round table discussion with the journalists in Ekiti state.
