August 29, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is still learning from the recently conducted Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, ahead of the 2023 general election.
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, made this known in Abuja at the Yiaga Africa Post-election Roundtable and Public Presentation of Final Report on the Observation of the 2022 Ekiti and Osun Governorship Elections.
Yakubu, represented by Mr. Festus Okoye , INEC Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, said the commission would continue to listen and learn valuable lessons from those who observed the governorship elections.
He said, “I want to seize this opportunity to assure Nigerians that this present commission will be bold and courageous in prosecuting the 2023 general elections.
“We will continue to harvest lessons from the Edo, Ondo, Anambra, Ekiti and the Osun governorship elections in shaping the way we approach the 2023 general election.
”We are going to harvest all the good practices, we are also going to look at some of those issues we did not do so well and we will improve on them.
“Our assurance is that this commission will not lower the bar and we are going to continue to upload polling unit results to our INEC results viewing portal. This commission will not depart from it.”
Yakubu said that citizens would be involved at every inch of the process in terms of knowing what is going on at the various polling units through INEC,s processes and procedures.
He added the commission would continue to also manage the results collation process transparently.
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