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A civil society organization, YIAGA Africa, on Tuesday called for the restructuring of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to enhance the

The National Assembly says it is committed to ensuring timely amendment of the Electoral Act, to enhance transparency, and accountability in the electoral processes. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said this at the citizens’ townhall on electoral reforms organised by Yiaga Africa in collaboration with the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Electoral Matters

“He said the process of appointing the INEC Chairman and other officers must be transparent while elections must be somewhat self-declaratory through the use of electronic transmission of results in order for Nigerians to know the winner even before the conclusion of the process,” he stated.

Election monitoring group, Yiaga Africa has blamed the unsuccessful attempt by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to clean up Nigeria’s voters register on the inability of the National Population Commission (NPC) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to produce reliable data’s of deceased persons and persons who have permanently relocated out of the country. […]

Itodo said that the discussion would be centred around how to clean up the voter register because the 93.4 million registered voters had not reflected the true state of things. | Pulse Nigeria