Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for the immediate release of the Guinea-Bissau presidential election results.
Jonathan made the call in Abuja during an interview with journalists, noting that announcing the result would demonstrate integrity while withholding it undermines democracy in West Africa.
He insisted that the African Union and ECOWAS have access to the authentic results and must publish them.
The former Bayelsa governor said the situation in Guinea-Bissau deeply troubled him because he had invested significant effort in supporting the country’s return to democratic governance.
Jonathan recalled the country’s long-standing instability and his efforts as Nigeria’s president to help stabilise it.
Guinea-Bissau military officers took “total control” of the country on Wednesday, suspending the nation’s electoral process and closing its borders, days after presidential and legislative elections.
A day after the coup, the military named the chief of staff of the army, General Horta N’Tam, as the country’s new leader for one year.
