The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commissioned a study group to survey critical issues and challenges on the conduct of the elections.
According to a statement on Thursday by the director, Information and Voter Education (IVEC), Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC said it is interested in a more scientific approach to the assessment of issues and challenges faced in the conduct of the 2019 general elections.
The statement said the survey would be conducted under the auspices of The Electoral Institute (TEI) with Professor S. S. Muhammad of Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto as lead resource person.
It stated that the survey which would take about a month beginning from field work, to data analysis and final presentation of report of findings to the Commission was ‘’designed to interrogate issues that are pertinent to successful strategic planning, implementation and execution of INEC’s activities in the conduct of the 2019 General Elections’’.
The director general of the TEI, Dr Sa’ad Idris Umar, said the objectives of the Survey was ‘’to generate empirical facts from the perspectives of Nigerians on issues that have impacted on the conduct of the 2019 general elections’’.
On the methodology workshop which held on Wednesday at TEI Virtual Library, Dr Sa’ad said ‘’the workshop was aimed at training field agents that will be engaged in the process of collection of vital information and data on the subject matter’’.
Earlier in a remark, the chairman, Board of Electoral Institute, Prince Adedeji Solomon Shoyebi, represented by National Commissioner and Member of the Board of TEI, Dr Mohammed Mustafa Lecky, advised the Field Agents and the Resource Person ‘’to ensure proper sample selection as this is imperative to good and objective outcome’’.
The lead resource person had urged members of his team ‘to ‘’commit themselves in carrying out a credible field work that will ensure an acceptable and empirically variable result’’.
