US Agency Denies Predicting Buhari Would Win 2019 Presidential Election

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has denied ever making a prediction that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria.

The body made this denial in a statement made available by PRNigeria, a Press Release distribution outfit on Wednesday.


A few Nigerian newspapers reported earlier this week that USIP made a prediction about the possible outcome of Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election, but the institute is saying it “never makes predictions about election outcomes and has not done so in this case.”

“The Institute’s work on elections is confined to helping nations avoid electoral violence,” the statement stressed.


“The erroneous news accounts misrepresent USIP’s recent 20-page report on the risks to a peaceful 2019 election in Nigeria.

“This study is based on interviews across the country with more than 200 Nigerian respondents—election administrators, political party representatives, security officials, civil society and youth groups, the media, traditional and religious leaders, prominent community figures, business people, academics and others.

“The USIP report noted that, in the interviews, “some respondents” discussed their own views of Nigerian public perceptions about an election outcome. A Nigerian news account mis-reported this passage as a USIP prediction of the outcome, and other Nigerian news organizations repeated the error.

“As USIP is a strictly nonpartisan institution, its work on elections focuses entirely on preventing violence,” ,” the statement explained.

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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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