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Written by Jacob Segun Olatunji, Abuja Friday, 12 August 2011

THE chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on Thursday, disclosed that the commission was ready to consolidate on its achievement in the last voter registration and April general election.

He added that it was also ready to work towards emerging as a first rate election management body (EMD) in the world.

Professor Jega said this in Abuja, while declaring open a post-election retreat for the head of departments, operations, ICT, training and legal services of the commision, organised by INEC, in collaboration with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

“We have a commitment as a commission that we want to make INEC one of the best EMDs in the world. It is possible to do so. All it requires really is for us to keep on doing our best and keep on minimising the obstacles to our work in terms of conditions of service and conditions of work, and to keep on improving the working environment and learning good practices and putting them into good use. We are committed to do that,” he said.

Speaking on the last election and voter registration, he said, “when we were preparing for the voter registration and elections, there was tremendous sceptism, mostly by Nigerians and friends of Nigeria, particularly development partners, adding that we were resilient and we all worked very hard. Now we can all sit back and be happy with what we have done.”