The INEC has stated that a presidential candidate who received 21% of the votes should not be declared the winner.
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has urged Nigeria to reconsider its current political system, which has led to acrimonious outcomes.
Fayemi, who was a former Minister of Solid Minerals, emphasized the need for an alternative politics that would allow for a proportional representation of the party that won 37% of the votes.
He suggested that the current system would not be sustainable if the party won 100% of the votes and took 100% of the spoils.
Fayemi also emphasized the need for a run-off arrangement to eliminate candidates and pick a winner after a few rounds if no one scored above 50% in the first round.
Nigeria currently operates a federal constitutional system that allows anyone who scored the most votes from the scores of candidates to be president. President Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of the February 25 exercise with only 36.6% of the votes, while his main rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), scored 29.4% and 25.4%, respectively.