The UK Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in a joint statement posted on www.uk.gov, said “there are disturbing indications that the collation process – where the votes are finally counted – may be subject to deliberate political interference.”
Warning politicians not to undermine the independence of INEC, they said their observations so far showed that there had been no evidence of systemic manipulation of the process.
According to them, any plot to change the results would contravene the letter and spirit of the Abuja Accord, to which both major parties committed themselves.
