The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said that the results and data of the 1999 and 2003 general elections in Nigeria were missing.

This was disclosed by INEC National Commissioner on Election and Party Monitoring, Prof. Anthonia Okosi-Simbina, at a one-day workshop to look at the proposed compendium of the results of 2007, 2011 and 2015 general elections organised by the Nigerian Institute Of Social And Economic Research in Ibadan, Oyo State.

She said: “We want people to get the statistics of the voters, the women, the men, artisans and the rural dwellers.

“If political parties follow the demographics, they will be able to know their targets during political campaigns. It will also help the government in the provision of essential things. It will also help INEC too.

“It was difficult to get that of 1999 and 2003; much of the data were not made available because it was scattered in various offices but the 2019 data was not like that because we had a better way of storing them and it’s online.

“The recommendation is that the results of elections should be released in a more organized manner.”

The commission, however, said the 2019 general election results were already online and not difficult to find.