The Electoral Institute, Abuja on Friday said that it would use the Kogi and Bayelsa State governorship elections to correct all the wrongs
Dr. Saád Idris, Director-General of the institute said at a Policy Dialogue series tagged, “Dynamics of Delegation: Reforms in the Recruitment, Training and Deployment of Ad-hoc Election Personnel“ in Abuja that Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission , has been engaging with stakeholders since the last elections, to know what went wrong to improve on subsequent elections.
“The effort of the commission is clear, it has owned up to some things that it did not do right, so beginning from the Kogi and Bayelsa elections, you will see improvement.’’ Idris explained that the meeting was part of the mandate to organize a policy dialogue, to engage in dialogue for reforms, recruitment, training and deployment of ad-hoc staff.Earlier, Prof. Shola Omotola, lead speaker and lecturer, Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State called for expansion of the recruitment data base of adhoc staff to include ex-NYSC members, to guarantee continuity.
Omotola also said that there was need to guarantee their security as well as increase their remunerations for greater performance.
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