Yar’Adua, Mark charge senators on electoral reform – The Guardian
November 11, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday urged the 2009 Senators’ Retreat in Enugu to be focused on the issue of getting Nigeria’s electoral system right.
The Senate President, David Mark, spoke in a similar vein, decrying calls for removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof, Maurice Iwu, as unnecessary as it would not solve the nation’s electoral problems.
Yar’Adua and Mark spoke at the opening of the yearly All Senators’ Retreat in Abuja.
But the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), which yesterday also reviewed the state of the nation, concluded that Nigeria has gone 40 years backward under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) owing to the alleged negligence and self-centredness of the ruling political grouping.
