Former President Goodluck Jonathan advocates for electoral reform in Nigeria to deepen democracy, accountability, and inclusion.<\/p>\n
Jonathan who made this declaration at Arise TV on Wednesday, said that although Nigeria has made tremendous progress since her return to democracy in 1999, the electoral system still faces significant challenges, and must be reformed to better reflect the will of the people and the principles of justice, accountability and inclusion if the nation is truly committed to democracy.<\/p>\n
He noted that to deepen democracy,\u00a0 the establishment of the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties\u00a0to address the growing crisis of political party indiscipline because parties are the foundation of any democracy.<\/p>\n
Other suggestions include :reforming the process for the appointment of the national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commisson (INEC) through independent screening and nomination mechanism, comprising representatives from the judiciary, civil society, academia, and professional bodies and\u00a0\u00a0ensuring that all post-election disputes are resolved before swearing-in of the President and Governors.<\/p>\n
Represented by the Executive Director of Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, Ms Ann Iyonu, Jonathan\u00a0 canvassed the views during a crucial dialogue and launching of the National Action Plan for Electoral Reform in Nigeria organised by the Executive Director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi.<\/p>\n
He commanded Amadi saying the work he is doing is not only critical for the health of the nation\u2019s political system, but also a patriotic service to Nigeria and future generations.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cNigeria has made notable progress since our return to democratic rule, but we must acknowledge that our electoral system still faces significant challenges.<\/p>\n
“If we are truly committed to democracy, we must be bold enough to reform the process to better reflect the will of the people and the principles of justice, account<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout prejudice to what is contained in your report, I wish to put forward some ideas, I believe, can help deepen our democratic processes and safeguard the legitimacy of our elections.”<\/p>\n
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan advocates for electoral reform in Nigeria to deepen democracy, accountability, and inclusion. Jonathan who made this declaration at Arise TV on Wednesday, said that although Nigeria has made tremendous progress since her return to democracy in 1999, the electoral system still faces significant challenges, and must be reformed to better reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1056,4308,135,1809,292,4309,3678],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-accountability","tag-deepen","tag-democracy","tag-democratic","tag-inclusion","tag-processes","tag-safeguard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}