The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has already begun working on a strategy that
will ensure the success of elections in the country in 2019, an
official said.
Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,
told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that part of
the strategy had already been perfected, while the others were at
advanced stages.
Oyekanmi expressed optimism that
with the strategy that the INEC Chairman and his management team were
working on, the 2019 general elections would consolidate the successes
recorded in 2016.
“Work has started; our ICT
Department is bringing out a lot of innovations, because our Chairman
has promised that the success that technology has enable us to record in
2015 will be consolidated.
“There is no
time for experimentation as our chairman has always said. We are
leveraging on the success to now take things beyond.
“And
one of the innovations already introduced is simultaneous accreditation
and voting, which saves a lot of time and has proved to be very
successful.
“The Continuous Voters
Registration will commence very soon. It will be possible for people to
locate their cards (permanent Voter cards) and be able to retrieve
them.
“Those, who are transferring from one place to the other will also to be able to do that online.
“A
lot of structure are been put in place but at the right time Nigerians
will hear what the preparations are. There are some that cannot be
discussed because they are still in process.
“But
let me tell you from the first day that the chairman took over office,
efforts started towards 2019 general elections because it is a process
and you have to do one after the other.
“We are not going to wait; that we not be a wise thing to do. As we move along we are inventing new strategies.’’
Oyekanmi said that under Yakubu’s supervision, INEC had been able to discover ways of dealing with election challenges.
He
added that the commission would fall back on the experiences from
previous elections to successfully conduct future elections.
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