The former Chairman of INEC said this on Monday in Abuja while delivering the 50th anniversary lecture of the NYSC.
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The hope of ninety three million, four hundred and sixty nine thousand and eight registered Nigerian voters must not be shattered because of an economic miscalculation by Nigeria’s apex bank, Central Bank of Nigeria.
The incoming party is coming to rescue the country from pervasive misrule and unprecedented impunity in politics.
It’s true that the life of a nation is not necessarily measured in biological age. But most might agree that if potential, that hackneyed word so often ascribed to Nigeria, was a child, it should have come of age at 61.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the personalities that form the roundtable are elderstateman Alhaji Bashir Tofa, former INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Ms Naja’atu Tijjani, member of Police Service Commission and others.
The last time new polling units were defined in Nigeria was 25 years ago by the defunct National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, as INEC was then known. At the time the country had on the voters’ register, 50 million voters
The coalition under the umbrella of the Nigeria Working Group on Peace building and Governance made the call in a communiqué following a convening of civil society actors meeting on Friday in Abuja.
Jega gave the advise while reviewing a book titled: “Curbing Electoral Spending” launched by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission on Monday in Abuja.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said that Nigerians need more enlightenment on the core functions of members of the National Assembly.
Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, has called for consolidation of electoral reform processes to deepen electoral democracy and to avoid a slide back to not too credible elections in Nigeria.
Jega made the call in an in-house monthly publication of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday.
Jonathan, who flew the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party, had while the results of the election were still being announced by the then Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, conceded defeat and congratulated Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
Jega made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at an international conference with “Democracy and Disinformation: How Fake News Threatens our Freedom and Democracy in Nigeria’’ as theme.
He attributed the situation to “politicians’ autocracy’’, saying that democracy was not thriving in Nigeria because of the autocratic nature of politicians, “who obviously were connected to military rule.
Jega said this at a public lecture organised by the University of Lagos Muslim Community in honour of the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Rahamon Bello, on Thursday in Lagos.
Jega also proposes a review of the revenue allocation formula and realignment of the derivation principle, including “some elements of resource control”.
Absent were former Presidents Shehu Shagari, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who earlier in the day appeared at the Code of Conduct Tribunal was also absent
Other awardees along with Jega were the first female Speaker of the US House of Representatives and currently its Democrat Caucus Leader, Hon. Nancy Pelosi; and Chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Republican Hon. Ed Royce. The ceremony, on September 29, 2015, was the sixth of the annual award whereby IFES singles out a US Democrat, a Republican and an International Awardee to be honoured for contributions to global growth of democracy.
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