By Gbenga Davies
Electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is leveraging to improve on the just concluded 2023 General Election has held a Three Day Retreat.
The engagement meeting was with various stakeholders that participated in the 2023 General Election that includes the Residents Electoral Commissioners in Lagos.
The meeting which was presided by the Chairman of the Commission Prof. Mahmood Yakubu for the 3days meet with Media Executives,Executive Secretaries and also Residents Electoral Commissioners inother to implement their recommendations in the Electoral Act.
The Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in his address said today marks the end of internal and external consultations of the 2023 general elections,which they are concluding with the Residents Electoral Commissioners who are responsible for the management of the State Offices Nationwide.
He said,the Commission will look at the issues raised,opinion expressed, recommendations offered and lessons learnt to comeup with a detailed reports,highlighting the areas that require administrative action by the commission which will be implemented in earnest however if they require ammendment to the electoral act will be harvested and be presented to the National Assembly for consideration,while some of the lessons learnt in the last election will be implemented in the forthcoming offcyle Governorship election in Bayelsa,Imo,and Kogi State.
The Supervising National Commissioner and Chairman Electoral Planning Monitoring Committee Mr.Sam Olumekun said the 2023 General Election accomplished successes in different areas including among others, the deployment of Bimodel voter accreditation system BVAS to eliminate multiple voting, logistics arrangement for the conduct of the election and many others.
He then commended the Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu for the tremendous efforts made in conducting good election in 2023 not withstanding the rough political terrain characterized by misinformation and all sorts of distraction.
Chief Technical Adviser to Chairman INEC Prof. Bolade Eyinla who spoke through the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman Mr.Rotimi Oyekanmi while speaking on the objectives and expectation of the retreat said the meeting is to listen to the RECS and to provide opportunities for more learning and experience sharing on issues and challenges associated in the conduct of the election. It will also enable them share various experiences before,during and after the election and to learn practices in election management and administration and to generate knowledge through the documentation for pure experiences as professional election manager.
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