INEC begins preparations for 2015 elections

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on Tuesday, disclosed that the commission had commenced preparations for the successful conduct of the 2015 general election.


Professor Jega, who disclosed this while receiving the final report of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) on the April 2011 general election in Abuja, said that the action became necessary in order to address all the lapses noticed during the elections and to meet the aspirations of Nigerians for credible elections.

This is coming just as the mission called for the amendment of the Nigerian constitution ahead of the 2015 general election to address squarely all the identified loopholes in the last general election to improve the electoral process in the country.

According to the chief observer of the EU EOM, Mr Alojz Peterle, who spoke while presenting the reports to the INEC chairman and the press in Abuja, the constitution should be amended to introduce transparent, inclusive and accountable system so that the INEC’s chairperson, INEC’s national commissioners and resident electoral commissioners would be nominated and appointed through an independent process.
Mr Peterle, who disclosed that this would go a long way to address the current arrangement where the appointments were being done by the president, said that the appointment could be handled by the National Judicial Council, National Assembly or by an adhoc committee.

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