2007 Nigerian general election

==Reactions==
===Domestic===
[[Tom Ikimi|Ikimi]] and [[Amusu]], the representatives of the AC and the ANPP  at the INEC Collation Centre in Abuja, denounced the results announced by the INEC Chairman. According to Ikimi, "In states like Edo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Akwa Ibom etc., we know that the elections did not start even as late as 5 pm. The results collated showed that over 80 percent of the votes being counted in favour of the PDP and they are totally flawed.<ref name="thenationonlineng.net">{{Cite web|title=A grandstanding ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo|url=https://thenationonlineng.net/grandstanding-ex-president-olusegun-obasanjo/|date=2018-04-07|website=Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> In most of the states, only the Resident Electoral Commissioners and the PDP Agents signed the results. We have been here since yesterday (Sunday) to observe this collation and we only collated eleven states and the INEC Chairman just rushed down to declare the results and declare Umaru Yar’Adua as the winner."<ref name="Results"/>

According to Ikimi, "The result sheets we viewed so far was not signed by any of our agents at the state level. They were only signed by Resident Electoral Commissioners and only the PDP agents."<ref name="Results"/>

Also, Admiral Lanre Amusu who represented the ANPP at the INEC collation centre concurred what Chief Tom Ikimi said. "I am in total agreement with what Chief Ikimi has just said. Only results from 13 states and they were collated and signed by the Resident Electoral Commissioners in the States and the PDP Agents. Our agents did not sign these results."<ref name="Results"/>

The national chairman of the [[Democratic People's Alliance|Democratic Peoples Alliance]] (DPA), Chief [[Olu Falae]], with leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Action Congress (AC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), National Advance Party (NAP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP), has called for the setting up of an Interim National Government to conduct credible elections in the country. Falae explained that the country needed an ING to guard against the emergence of the military on the political scene.<ref>Yinka Oladoyinbo, Akure and Taiwo Adisa,  [http://www.tribune.com.ng/25042007/news/news3.html "Falae, 6 other opposition leaders want ING proclaimed"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070530161806/http://www.tribune.com.ng/25042007/news/news3.html |date=2007-05-30 }}, ''Nigerian Tribune'', 25 April 2007.</ref>

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation claimed that the INEC deliberately left 70 percent of the ballot papers in a warehouse in [[Johannesburg|Johannesburg, South Africa]]. They claimed that the contractors could have freighted the entire 200-ton consignment into the country three days before the election (Thursday) but the INEC told them to bring only 30 percent of the ballot papers.<ref>Andy Ekugo, [http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=76488 "INEC Abandoned Ballot Papers in S/Africa -Atiku"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154811/http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=76488 |date=2007-09-30 }}, ''This Day'' (Nigeria), 26 April 2007.</ref>

Nigeria's Nobel laureate [[Wole Soyinka]] said the West should deny entry visas to election commissioner Maurice Iwu for his "complicity in the fraudulent elections.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2007-04-27|title=Soyinka urges new Nigeria polls|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6600945.stm|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref>" He said he has heard of the financial prudence and moral uprightness of Yar'Adua. "I wish he [Yar'Adua] would carry his decency even further by publicly renouncing this poisoned chalice to say: 'I'm not a receiver of stolen goods'."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6600945.stm "Soyinka urges new Nigeria polls"], BBC News, 27 April 2007.</ref>

===International===
A spokesman for the [[United States Department of State]] said it was "deeply troubled" by election polls, calling them "flawed", and said it hoped the political parties would resolve any differences over the election through peaceful, constitutional means.<ref name=Huge/>

"Nigeria has once again failed to rise to the occasion.... Size isn't enough.... It is a failed giant," said prominent [[Ghanaian people|Ghanaian]] economist [[Nii Moi Thompson]]. He compared its elections to [[2005 Liberian general election|those of Liberia in 2005]], saying, "Even Liberia, which is coming out of war, had more credible elections than Nigeria."<ref name="clay">Pascal Fletcher, [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20070424223012889C546506 "Polls show Africa's 'giant' has clay feet"], Reuters (''IOL''), 24 April 2007.</ref>

"There is the saying: 'How goes Nigeria, so goes the rest of Africa', to have this widespread abuse of the democratic initiative certainly doesn't do Africa any good," said Scott Baker, a professor at [[Champlain College]] in the US city of [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], [[Vermont]].<ref name="thenationonlineng.net"/> "How can Nigeria sit at the meetings of the [[African Union]] [[African Peer Review Mechanism]] or [[Economic Community of West African States|ECOWAS]] and talk about other people's elections?" he asked.<ref name="clay"/>