Reply #26: Nigeria: INEC to establish institute for electoral administration [View All]

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• Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006
As part of conscious efforts to conduct credible and acceptable elections in the country, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu said his organisation has established an Electoral Institute to train election administrators

Prof. Iwu disclosed that the first batch of the students for the Diploma Programme of the institute, who would be trained at the University of Ibadan, would soon take-off to set the stage for the production of competent election administrators.

The chairman dropped the hint yesterday when he led other senior officials of the body on a courtesy call on Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili at Government House, Port Harcourt.

The chairman said that INEC would begin the first phase of the preparations for 2007 elections in the country with the commencement of electronic voters’ registration exercise expected to begin soon with the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, before extending to other parts of the country.

Professor Iwu said INEC was bringing to Nigeria an electronic voters’ registration system with special features that would make it impossible to falsify, adulterate or impersonate, as the voters’ card would carry the photograph and fingerprints of the bearer.

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