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Uwais Blames NASS For Non-establishment of Electoral Offences Commission

Former Chief Justice Of Nigeria, Justice Mohammadu Uwais, has blamed the National Assembly for failing to establish the Electoral Offences Commission as recommended in the … Continue reading Uwais Blames NASS For Non-establishment of Electoral Offences Commission


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Electoral offencesFormer Chief Justice Of Nigeria, Justice Mohammadu Uwais, has blamed the National Assembly for failing to establish the Electoral Offences Commission as recommended in the Electoral Reform Committee report.

Justice Uwais said that he was saddened over a claim by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it has been able to prosecute only 200 electoral offenders out of over a thousand cases of electoral offences charged in the last elections.

The former Chief Justice spoke at a gathering where INEC and several stakeholders in the Nigerian polity bore their minds on the current situation in the electoral system.

Many other questions on issues of security, Internally Displaced Persons and sale of the Permanent Voters Card in some areas were also brought up by Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lai Mohammed.

He said that the party rejects the Temporary Voters Card as an option in the forthcoming elctions.

An INEC National Commissioner, Professor Lai Olurode, assured the gathering of the commission’s determination and readiness to conduct credible elections in February 2015.

He said that the ballot boxes which have started to arrive would have been distributed by February 14.

INEC equally disclosed that it would reveal in five days, the methodology to be employed to ensure eligible voters in the troubled north are not disenfranchised.