Mahmoud Yakubu, chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission is the most
improved public institution in Nigeria.
He made the claim at the 2019
post-election review session with second batch of electoral officers (EOs) from
17 states, held in Abuja on Wednesday.
Yakubu said the commission should
be rated highly when compared with its counterparts across West Africa, given
its area of wide coverage and “staff dedication” to duty.
“Whenever I compare what we have
done with what my colleagues elsewhere have done, I sometimes say we are many
countries in West Africa rolled into one,” he said.
“Given the size of our voter
registration, our population, one can conveniently say, if you look at what
happened in our elections from 1999 to date, I have no doubt in my mind that
INEC is the most improved public service institution in Nigeria.
“We have offices in all the local
government areas (LGAs). Tell me one agency which has offices in LGAs and the
staff work as hard as our EOs and staff at the LGA levels?
“We have everything to be very
proud of, but however, we never rest on the understanding that we have done
very well and we are doing very well. We are convinced that we can do more.
“Therefore, the purpose of this
interactive meeting is for us to explore ways and means by which we can improve
the system even more.”
Yakubu pledged that the
commission would not loose the experience it had gathered over the year on
improving electoral process.
He advised the electoral officers
to share their experiences to help improve on the country’s electoral process.
“So, feel free to make
suggestions, observations, comments on how we can make the system even better,”
he said.
“This is our meeting we should
open up better where we need to work even harder to make the electoral process
what it should be.”
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