National Unity Forum (NUF), a civil society group, has commended Mahmud Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), over the conduct of the 2023 general election.
During a rally in Abuja on Sunday, the group led by Godwin Meliga, its national coordinator, said the 2023 general election showed tremendous improvement over previous polls held in the country.
Addressing journalists during the rally, Meliga noted that INEC was able to douse the tense situation in the country with the manner it conducted the election.
“There’s nowhere in the world where elections will be 100 percent perfect,” he said.
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“Nigeria is a growing democracy. We are coming from the Professor Maurice Iwu era. There’s no election that will hold and people will not protest against it, especially those who lost.
“But whatever happens, we believe that the current INEC chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu has brought a lot of innovations into the commission.
“The fact that INEC was obviously above board in the discharge of its mandate during the last general elections helped to a great extent in disarming all those nursing sinister intentions for the country, including all those who may wish to capitalize on the outbreak of widespread electoral violence to achieve their narrow destabilisation agenda for Nigeria.”
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Meliga said the forum would continue to collaborate with INEC and the national assembly to strengthen the country’s electoral laws and the democratic process.
He asked Nigerians to pray for President Bola Tinubu, the 36 state governors and all others in leadership positions as they make efforts to address the economic challenges in the country.
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