The Chairman, Senate Committee on Electoral Matters, Sen. Sharafadeen Alli, has said that the joint committee of the 10th National Assembly on electoral matters is working assiduosly to improve the nation’s electoral process.
A statement signed by the Special Adviser to Alli on Media, Akeem Abas, quoted the Senator as saying this while featuring on a Channels Television programme, ‘Sunrise Daily.’
The last general election, the politician said, was better than previous elections. The statement read that he said there were significant improvements on the electoral process.
It stated that the lawmaker lauded the 9th National Assembly under the leadership of Sen. Ahmed Lawan for passing the 2022 Electoral law which allowed the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
It added that the Electoral Act 2022 brought significant improvements to the voting process and other electoral matters.
“We will work assiduously to ensure improvement on the technology deployed for the electoral process and guidelines already in place,” it read.
According to the statement, efforts would be made to ensure the BVAS machine store data. It added that INEC would be mandated to upload results on the portal in the coming elections.
“We were in Lagos some days back for a retreat. By the 28 of this month, we are having another town hall meeting here in Abuja to ensure people bare their mind on the electoral laws.
“We, in the 10th Senate will ensure laws are made to have positive impacts on the electoral process and our people. We want to ensure that by next year, we would have made lots of improvements,” it read.
It quoted Alli as saying that pre-election matters must be concluded before elections, while election matters are concluded before swearing-in.
It stated that majority of Nigerians and INEC itself wants the commission unbundled in terms of functions, while matters concerning electoral process would be looked into to allow for more transparency in our electoral system.
“We still have issues on election across the world. If we can improve the electoral process to get 90 per cent perfection, then we are good for it,” it stated.
Lauding the patriotism displayed by Liberians during the last elections in their country, it urged Nigerians to emulate the attitude as they look forward to a greater country.
