As part of the activities ensure a free and fair elections in Nigeria, the U. K. Department for international Development (DFID) funded a one day seminar for Action Aid Nigeria (AAN), as part of her special project and intervention programming for violence-free electoral process.
Gbenro Olajuyigbe, of Action Aid Nigeria and program coordinator, “Strengthening Action Against Electoral Violence in Nigerian” called on electoral process stakeholders (Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Political Parties, Education Observers, Judiciary, Security Agencies and the Media) to recognize their vital votes in electoral process and reposition themselves to discharge their respective function as outlined in the Electoral Acts, to support and realize a free, fair and violence-free electoral process.
The session on “reducing the risk of electoral violence in elections, exposed the participants to an understanding of the risk factors that fuel electorate violence, as well as, an appreciation of analysis mechanism for the prevention and control of electoral violence, practical issues that have in the past contributed to electoral violence were exposed to the participants by Gbenro Olajuyigbe of the AAN.
Major Issues in electoral Violence in Nigerian was an interactive session led by Otive Igbuzor, executive Director, African center for leadership, strategy and Development (Center LSD).
Igbuzor’s training session enable participants to understand previous trend and roles stakeholders played with respect to elections, democracy and governance since 1959 in Nigeria, also highlighted was the problems of previous elections, previous forms of electoral violence, as well as cause of electoral violence.
In the cause of the session and as the participants got engaged in participatory engagement, other issues like, mastering trends of electoral process in Nigeria, Practical issues of electoral Violence in election, managing electoral violence and lessons learnt from bye elections in Nigeria were issues of highlight participants discussed.
Highlight of the event was the stakeholder’s group discussions, which was an opportunity for the stakeholders to brain-storm on what they will do to end electoral violence in Nigeria in partnership with INEC, after their break-away group discussion, each group shared their ideas and viewpoint with all present.
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