INEC<\/a>, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this known in Abuja, at a meeting with Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities.<\/p>\nYakubu said that for 2023 general elections collation of results would take place in 8,809 Registration Areas or Wards, 774 Local Government Areas, 36 States and the FCT that required returning officers for each constituency.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut together, we will engage 23,258 personnel as Collation and Returning Officers. It is for this reason that this meeting is of crucial.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need the support of our universities to source the requisite number of suitably academic staff of impeccable integrity who must also understand that this is a call to national service.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs in previous elections, we have requested each University for a specified number and category of academic staff as contained in my letter to the vice chancellors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI must warn that staff who are card carrying members or have participated in partisan politics should not be nominated.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimilarly, those who may not be involved in partisan politics but are known to have obvious political leanings should not be nominated.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, those who have been convicted of electoral malpractice must be excluded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakubu said that INEC would carefully scrutinise the list which must be submitted confidentially in the manner prescribed by the commission in his letter to the Vice Chancellors.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike all election duty personnel, each collation and returning officer will swear to an oath of neutrality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakubu commended partnership of Nigerian Universities to conduct of elections in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He said that without the involvement of the tertiary institutions, especially the universities, INEC would find it extremely difficult to conduct credible elections.<\/p>\n
He said while INEC make use of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members as ad hoc staff for elections it make use of academic staff members as election collation and retuning officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the various collation and declaration centres, the Commission draws the required Collation and Returning Officers from the academic staff of our universities, including the Vice Chancellors who serve as Returning Officers for Governorship election and State Collation Officers for Presidential election.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn spite of a few challenges, this happy partnership has further enhanced the transparency and credibility of the elections in Nigeria as well as public confidence in the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe commission wishes to sustain this partnership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, represented by Deputy Executive Secretary of the NUC, Chris Maiyaki commended INEC for its confidence in the Nigeria university system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like to appreciate INEC for always recorgnising this constituency. Why haven they gone to the civil service proper? Why not to the union? Why not to the bankers?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this underscore the importance, the trust that the nation has in the university system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope this meeting will turn out to be a productive and fruitful one and at the end of the day as the international community and the nation expect, this elections like previous ones will also come to pass and we will have course to glorify God that Nigeria rose to the occasion,\u201d Rasheed said.<\/p>\n
Also, the Chairman, Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Lilian Salami pledged that the academic staff deliver their best in the national assignment.<\/p>\n
Salami who is also the Vice-Chancellor, University of Benin, said if Nigeria is to be celebrated among comity of nations the academic staff must play their role effectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is because not only are we training the man power for this nation but that we are also building characters and we of course, are persons of good characters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect that in any role that we are given, I can almost vouch that because we have through come out stronger and that we will deliver to this nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of this exercise, we will be proud to have contributed our quota to the development of this country,\u201d Salami said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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