President-elect: CSOs clash over INEC's declaration
•INEC must account for N305bn spent on polls —18 CSOs IT was a clash of interest in Abuja as two coalitions of Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, differed sharply on the credibility of penultimate Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections. Eighteen CSOs had earlier in the day marched on the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, demanding a probe of its election-budget funding which they put at N305 billion. Describing the election as a sham, the 18 CSOs rejected the results of the election which saw the presidential candidate of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned as President-elect. Their position was, however, countered by the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Tinubu/Shettima 2023, which described the election as the freest in the history of Nigeria's elections. N305bn Sham The 18 CSOs, led by Isiaku Nathaniel Balogun and Dada Olayinka Olabode, who took their protest to INEC headquarter...