 And every Democrat who is committed to the advancement of Nigeria's democracy must discourage every attempt by politicians and political parties to resort to self-help. This was a submission of an independent monitoring group under the ages of Forum of Election Observers Group during the presentation of the 2023 Governorship Election Report. The group called on aggrieved individuals and parties to explore legal opportunities available to seek redress rather than encouraging any form of action that could undermine the country's democracy. Branded automated tele-machine ATM cards preloaded with money were being used to induce voters and influence their choices during the election. There is no doubt, however, that last Saturday's election was a test for democracy as it presented an opportunity for other people to consolidate on the gains of the previous elections and deepen our democratic transition. Although INEC introduced reforms to deepen electoral integrity and citizen participation, the election witnessed some of the shortcomings that were seen during the 2050 presidential election. We believe strongly that INEC must improve its capacity to deliver credible elections and political parties must play according to the rules as failure to do so could undermine Nigeria's democracy. Failure to do better in governance at this point in time will spell doom for whoever is coming out from his party come 2027 and so he should not see the challenge and the protest now as an attack on him per se but should see it as a mercenary for him to think and know why am I being challenged am I not done better have I not done good in the past okay let me now re-engineer myself and to see how I can do better for the Goonsteep people elections even though there were incidences a few very few you know polling stations across the state was largely peaceful free and fair to the extent that while we have had to wait for four or five days in some other states to have INEC announcing winners of this election this was never in the case the states like Lagos will do you know or you are some other states in the south way. Speaking on the outcome of the governorship election in Ogun state the group advised Governor Dakwa Ibyodo to see the protest which has greeted his reelection as a challenge for better performance in government.