The United Nations said yesterday that political parties and candidates aggrieved with the results of the presidential elections held last Saturday, February 25 should take it up legally and constitutionally.

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in New York, UN spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said Nigeria had a strong history of peaceful transition of power.

He said the UN had offered technical support to improve the process and use of technology in preparing for and managing the election to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, adding that the aid yielded “some” results.

Dujarric said although the UN did not play a role in observing the elections, he said it is common for tensions to arise whenever results do not sit well with the people.

Dujarric called for calm in the country, saying it would take a process to see desired results and added that the legal use of seeking solutions to the problems arising from the election results would play a role in stabilising the country.

Saying it is important that all stakeholders work for the better, for the stability of the country and use existing legal and constitutional channels to challenge if they so wish, any election results.

INEC had on Wednesday, declared Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. The Labour Party, LP, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have asked Yakubu Mahmood to resign as the INEC chair and demanded that the presidential election be conducted afresh.

The parties said the elections were a sham and a “rape of democracy”.