Yar’Adua, Mark charge senators on electoral reform – The Guardian
November 11, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
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.
Iwu lists five challenges to 2011 elections – Daily Trust
August 27, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, yesterday listed five challenges that the nation must overcome if the 2011 general elections must be successful.
Speaking when he hosted senior journalists and when he received a delegation of senior executive course particiapants of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Abuja, Iwu listed the absence of internal democracy among the country’s political parties as one of the five major challenges ahead of the 2011 general elections.
