INEC begins implementation of recommendations from 2023 general elections

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According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, it has started putting some of the suggestions put up by interested parties in the general elections of 2023 into practice.

This was said by INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Tuesday in Abuja during the first visit of Gautier Mignot, the newly appointed European Union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS.

He said that INEC has already started reviewing its planning resources for upcoming elections, including the Election Project Plan and the Strategic Plan.

Yakubu stated that numerous national and international institutions and groups accredited to witness the elections had provided reports to the commission since the general elections of 2023.

He mentioned that the parties involved, such as the Election Observation Mission of the European Union,  EU-EOM, had issued 23 recommendations in all, eight of which the commission had to follow through on.

According to Yakubu, 15 of the suggestions also called for the legislature, the executive branch, the judiciary, and other stakeholders like political parties, the media, civil society groups, and faith-based organisations to take action.

“The eight specific recommendations for INEC relate to the dissemination of the commission’s regulations and guidelines for elections, training of election duty staff, and deployment of electoral technology.

“Other areas include the result management process, continuous registration of voters, cleaning up of the voters’ register, participation of marginalised groups in the electoral process, and voting by internally displaced persons, IDPs.

“On our part, the commission undertook an extensive internal and external review of the 2023 general elections, involving the participation of our own officials and stakeholders across the board.

“We produced a 524-page main report and a 74-page review report containing 142 recommendations. The two reports have already been uploaded to our website,” he said.

The chairman of INEC also stated that the commission had started putting some of the recommendations into practice that just needed administrative action.

“For instance, in some of the off-cycle, re-run, and bye-elections conducted since the general elections, there has been an improvement in the quality of training for ad hoc staff, including the deployment of more BVAS machines for this purpose,” he said.

Yakubu further emphasised how much better the BVAS devices’ fingerprint or facial authentication systems now work for voter accreditation.

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