By Daniel Dauda,Jos


Plateau state civil society organizations(CSO) and Coalition of Domestic Observers deployed to Plateau for the 2019 elections duty, ranked the state as the most peaceful and orderly across Nigeria.

"We adjudged Plateau state to be the most peaceful and orderly state in Nigeria during the 2019 general elections.

"We concluded that the elections were fair, peaceful and orderly.We  commend INEC, CSOs, security agencies, the media, observers groups, religious groups, traditional institutions, political parties and other stakeholders for their conduct during the elections."

Addressing newsmen in Jos ,the spokesman of the group Godwin Okoko said we observed the elections across the nine local government areas where the supplementary elections were held and our members stationed in all the 40 polling units where the elections were held and in the 12 Registration Areas Centers (RACs) and local government areas results collation center.

" As a group we observed that the early arrival of security personnel , their was early commencement of accreditation and voting by eligible voters , smart card readers in all polling units visited and from our stationed observers."

Counting and collation of results were done transparently, peacefully and orderly and final results were pasted on the wall/ designated areas in the polling units visited and where we had stationed observers,there were also heavy presence of security personnel and less presence of armed soldiers.

There was also improve turnout of women eligible voters in most polling units.

"We appeal to all winners in the 2019 general elections especially in Plateau to be magnanimous in victory towards ensuring a better , greater secured , peaceful and develop Nigeria , we call on eligible voters to participate in future elections and all other form of electoral process , We call on all elected to ensure the provision of good governance and democratic dividends and for those dissatisfied with the outcome of election results to follow peaceful legal and constitutional means to seek redress ."

The group further called on INEC to immediately commence all processes of improving the electoral processes .


"We commend the good people of Plateau state, we commend the state government for providing peaceful enabling environments for peaceful conducts of the elections ." Looking added.

The observers commend the good people of Plateau, residents and eligible voters for conducting themselves peacefully and orderly during the supplementary elections.