The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ) said its ongoing review of the 2019 elections was to determine areas requiring improvement for 2023.
Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education, in Kaduna said the review would enable the Commission to determine areas requiring legislative action before the 2023 elections.
He said that INEC would work with the National Assembly (NASS) to get good legislative framework that will lead to the conduct of better elections in 2023.
“What we normally do after every election is to start preparing for next election.
“We have finished what we call first state level review of the 2019 election, we have also done the review of the election with our electoral officers.
“This week we are going to review the election with political parties, civil society organisations and other stakeholders.
“Next week, we are moving to Lagos State and have a review with our administrative secretaries and our Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC).
“We are going to harvest and document all these reviews, look at the recommendations that have legislative flavour and work with the leadership of NASS to make sure we get good legislative framework that will lead us to conduct good election in 2023.
“So we are getting ready, there is significant lessons arising from 2019 election, we are taking all this on board by starting our own reviews,” he said.
Okoye added that the Commission was also reviewing the reports of local and international observers on the 2019 elections.
“We are looking at those reports critically, the ones that are positive we are going to take the positive massage along with us and consolidate on them, the negative aspect of their reports we are going to look on them and also harvest what we believe are harvestable.
(NAN)