The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented its reports of the 2019 General election and the Commission’s retreat and stakeholder engagements on review of the 2019 General Election.

Ekwi Ajide of our Abuja Bureau reports that the Report of the 2019 General Election is presented in thirteen chapters covering the major issues associated with the conduct of the election including the vision, mission, opportunities and challenges of the Commission upon its inauguration on 9th November 2015.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu said that the election was contested by twenty four thousand, three hundred and fifty three candidates nominated by ninety one political parties for one thousand, five hundred and fifty eight constituencies and with a voter population of eighty four million, four thousand and eighty four, spread across one hundred and nineteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy three polling units and fifty seven thousand and twenty three voting points across the country.

According to the chairman, the report shows that the commission engaged a total of eight hundred and twenty one thousand, six hundred and eighty-six adhoc staff for the election and accredited seventy one thousand, two hundred and fifty six domestic and international observers as well as eleven thousand, two hundred and fifty domestic and international journalists for the election.

He said that at the end of the election, the Commission constituted two Committees each headed by National Commissioners, Barrister Festus Okoye, Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, IVEC, saddled with the responsibility of producing the official account of the conduct of the 2019 General Election and Dr. Muhammed Lecky, Chairman of the Planning, Monitoring and Strategy Committee, PMSC, charged with the responsibility of producing a report on the review of the election based on the outcome of the Commission’s Retreats and Stakeholder Engagements.

Professor Yakubu expressed the hope that making the two reports public would promote a better understanding of the issues and challenges associated with the conduct of the 2019 General Election and serve as important resource materials for research and the promotion of a broader national discourse on the necessary reforms required for the continued delivery of peaceful, free, fair, credible, inclusive and safe elections in Nigeria.

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