The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) received high marks from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for how it conducted the recently concluded presidential and national assembly elections.
Yakubu Maikyau, president of the NBA, stated on Channels TV on Saturday that INEC delivered the elections successfully despite obstacles.
I’ll just say that the elections were successful. Maikyau stated, “Those who came out were happy to express their franchise.”
There were definitely difficulties. There were a few violations, some of which were actual electoral violations, but overall, I will give INEC a score of somewhere between 78 and 80 percent for how well it carried out these elections.
That will earn an A on each test. Nevertheless, everything that transpired is something we will not overlook.
“For that reason we are counseling and exhorting INEC and prescribing to INEC that in those areas where we saw slips in the political race hung on the 25th February 2023, purposeful endeavors should be taken to ensure that those omissions didn’t happen again in the decisions that are coming up on the eleventh Walk since when these failures occurred, it affected on the certainty of general society all the while.”
In the past, the NBA’s Abuja branch suggested that INEC implement online voting nationwide.
In an interview with NAN on Thursday, Precious Nwadimuya, chairperson of the Abuja branch, stated that online voting would eliminate electoral violence and voter suppression.