{"id":135254,"date":"2022-01-16T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=135254"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:04:19","slug":"yakubu-inec-does-more-than-conducting-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/16\/yakubu-inec-does-more-than-conducting-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakubu: INEC does more than conducting elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concerns over what it described as huge responsibilities involved in conducting elections in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">The electoral body also observed that\u00a0conducting elections in Nigeria was similar to holding one in the entire West African region.<\/p>\n<p data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a bulletin circulated by the commission on Saturday, the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu stated these when the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dasuki Arabi, led a team from the BPSR on a courtesy visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/pdp-speaks-on-osun-2022-election-asks-inec-to-conduct-credible-election\/\">INEC<\/a> Headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, there were a very few agencies in Nigeria like INEC, considering the kind of extensive responsibilities being performed by the commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yakubu said, \u201cThis is the only agency in Nigeria that is saddled with the constitutional responsibility of doing so much for our elections and our democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are doing more than managing elections; we are more or less managing our entire democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSome of the responsibilities that we perform are actually responsibilities that so many other agencies in other countries perform. But here we do everything.<\/p>\n<p data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe size and complexities of the country provides the context of what we do. The number of registered voters in the other 14 countries in the West African sub-region put together is 11 million less than the number of registered voters in Nigeria. So, anytime we conduct elections, it is like conducting elections in the whole of West Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">The INEC chairman expressed the commission\u2019s preparedness to collaborate with other agencies, including the BPSR, to deepen democracy and improve the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking earlier, Arabi commended INEC for doing a lot in terms of electoral reforms, adding that the commission stood out among leading agencies in terms of reforms in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arabi said the BPSR had been monitoring what INEC had been doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cAfter the 2015 general elections, we produced a book that we called \u2018Lessons of Nigerian Elections 1923-2015; but the attention and the emphasis was on 2015 elections where we saw something dramatic, where a sitting government lost election and peacefully handed over to a new government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-7d27179\" data-amp-original-style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe think it is important that we celebrate public servants, you and your colleagues and all of you that handle these elections that brought us to where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concerns over what it described as huge responsibilities involved in conducting elections in Nigeria. 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