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Amid speculation that the general election scheduled for next year January may turn out to be a sham following very weak preparations, the Independent Electoral Commission has announced the nation will hold presidential elections on January 22, 2011.
Nigerians in the Diaspora are calling on the Federal government to retain its earlier position on the issue of Nigerians in the Diaspora voting in the next year’s election. The former INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu said late last year that arrangements were on for trial elections in about three countries across the world including United Kingdom and America in 2011.
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has sent a shivering message to the People’s Democratic Party that come 2011 election, it would unseat the ruling party from government.
Senators on Tuesday approved N87.7 billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), smoothening the way for the compilation of a new voters register for next year’s elections.
I do not envy the INEC leadership owing to its obligation to conduct free, fair and credible general elections in 2011 within a very short time. This task is very Herculean mindful of what it entails to prepare and do so in Nigeria. And the adoption of our usual fire-brigade approach towards this will surely be counter-productive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will require ?55.1 billion to organise a “substantially more credible” voters register ahead of the 2011 general election.
If the Action Congress and its new coalition partners stick to their plans, the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, will fly the flag of the new Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 presidential election.
(Okoye’s Challenge #1 to Jega) The first for him has to do with the voters’ register because no credible election can be conducted in this country without a credible voters’ register. The moment there is a problem with the voters’ register, there is already a problem. The existing voters’ register is not credible and the people believe it cannot produce credible election. He has to determine whether within the time available, it possible to have a new voters’ register.
…And finally, the Chairman of the nation’s Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) Professor Maurice Iwu has been ordered to proceed on a pre-disengagement leave, a red car signal that he would be deposed of his position soon.
While the nation’s ruler ship is meandering in uncertainties and Acting President Goodluck Jonathans is still consolidating his power base without much expected change from Yar’Adua’s texture of ruling in the light of some old Ministers still emerging in his new team, the nation’s citizens abroad have signalled their intentions to take an important part in the next general election.
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