Tag: Electoral Reforms

Electoral Reforms: INEC to phase-out PVCs, plans Diaspora voting

Aminu Imam
INEC to phase out

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC,) says it would soon present to the joint committees of the 10th Senate and House of Representatives on Electoral Matters eight items of electoral reforms for consideration. Chairperson of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this on Thursday, during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Commission in Abuja, said the eight items are part of the 142 identified recommendations from the report of the 2023 general elections. He said 86 of the 142 recommendations require administrative action by INEC, which prompted…

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Electoral Reforms: “Whittle-down powers of State Govs.” – PRP urges Tinubu

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to first admit that the system that enthroned him was flawed and therefore should reform it to especially whittle down the powers of the President and State governors. National Chairman of the Party, Falalu Bello, who made the call on Wednesday evening, while addressing the media at the Party headquarters in Abuja, said the president and governors are too powerful, such that they do whatever they want and tend to undermine democracy. According to him, Nigeria’s democracy is threatened under…

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2023: Labour, youth group raise concerns over delay in electoral reforms

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Youth Initiative Advocacy for Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) have expressed concerns that about two and a half years to the 2023 general elections, the needed electoral reforms are yet to be concluded by the 9th National Assembly, even as they called for urgent reforms. This was the crux of a roundtable discussion organised by the NLC on Wednesday to ensure a smooth electoral system that will be marked by accountability and integrity in order to avoid the sloppy process of the 2019 election…

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