{"id":80113,"date":"2021-09-08T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=80113"},"modified":"2021-09-08T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:13:59","slug":"el-rufai-i-have-restored-democracy-at-lg-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/08\/el-rufai-i-have-restored-democracy-at-lg-level\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai: I have restored democracy at LG level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that his administration has restored democracy at the local government level.<\/p>\n<p>According to El-Rufai,\u00a0his government was determined to accept the outcome of the recently conducted LG election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC), El-Rufai\u2019s party, won 15 chairmanship positions out of 17 in the election that was held on September 4.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the other two. Election in four LGAs was postponed to September 25 because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/08\/we-have-been-compromising-economic-progress-to-fight-insecurity-says-pantami\/\">security<\/a> concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the outcome of the election on Tuesday, el-Rufai said Kaduna has shown that there is no obstacle to the use of electronic voting in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commend the people of Kaduna State for showing, for the second time, that there is no obstacle to the successful adoption of electronic voting technology in Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, the people of Kaduna State have repeated the conclusive argument first made in 2018 for our country as a whole to fully automate the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters in Kaduna state first made history on 12th May 2018 when they cast their ballots on electronic voting machines to elect chairmen and councillors for the 23 local government councils in our state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the participation of our people that has placed Kaduna state as the first in Nigeria to use electronic voting, the first subnational in Africa to do so and has also positioned Nigeria as only the second country in Africa after Namibia to use the technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaduna State is proudly upholding a new chapter in elections in Nigeria, using electronic voting technology, championed by a government that is determined to respect the outcome, win or lose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that his administration has restored democracy at the local government level. 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