SERAP Seeks Reform In INEC To Promote Voters' Rights

Yakubu, to seek constitutional and legal reforms that would promote voter’s rights, free, fair and honest elections.

These suggestions are contained in an open letter dated October 28, 2023 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare. SERAP also maintained that the continuing resistance by politicians to bring the country’s electoral legal rules up to date with modern technology, and make the use of technology mandatory in the nation’s electoral process is entirely inconsistent and incompatible with Nigerians’ right to effectively participate in their own government.

“Nigerian politicians have little incentive to pursue genuine constitutional and legal reforms that would improve the exercise by Nigerians of their right to participation in the electoral process and in the mechanisms of government.

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SERAP writes INEC, seeks recognition of right to vote securelySocio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to use the mandates of INEC to pursue constitutional and legal reforms that would ensure explicitly recognize Nigerians’ right to vote and to vote securely in free, fair and honest...
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