The National Conference on Tuesday unanimously agreed that president, governor, lawmaker removed from office based on the decision of the court on fraudulent election must lose all privileges attached to that office.
The Conference also accepted the proposal for the introduction of electronic voting system after the 2015 general elections.
It also agreed to the recommendation that government should make efforts to demilitarize elections.
These decisions were based on the recommendations of the Conference Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters headed by the duo of Senator Iyorchia Ayu and Senator Ken Nnamani, both former Presidents of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Another resolution was that if a candidate is disqualified by the court for not meeting the required qualification for contesting an election, or in situation where such a person is elected and the court orders him to vacate the office, the candidate with the second highest number of votes should be declared winner.
This recommendation, according to the delegates, is to avoid waste of public funds to repeat elections consequent upon removal of disqualified candidate.
On the appointment of chairman for the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Conference accepted the recommendation of the Justice Mohammed Uwais Report regarding the manner of appointing the INEC chairman.
It also called for the scrapping of the States Independent Electoral Commission and its functions should be transferred to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Delegates also agreed that appeals from judgments in pre-election matters to the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court should be filed within 21 days from the date the judgment of the lower court is delivered.
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