Sentences with phrase «conduct free and fair election»

Do the right thing and conduct a free and fair election.»

«We express confidence in the ability of INEC to conduct free and fair election in Anambra, but find it nauseating when some political desperadoes and urchins arrogate to themselves powers they do not have.

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Chris Ngige has expressed his lack of confidence on INEC to conduct a free and fair election...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the last - minute petition, which questions whether the electoral commission and its chairman will be able to conduct a free and fair election on Thursday.

The Chairman of commission, Justice Ayotunde Phillips made this known in a statement by Mr Dapo Olatunde, has expressed the resolve of the commission to conduct a free and fair election on Saturday.

She equally expressed the resolve of the commission to conduct a free and fair election on Saturday.

We strengthened INEC because without a strong and independent electoral body you can not conduct a free and fair election.

«The board is fully persuaded that you have served your country, Nigeria, meritoriously, conducted a free and fair election, in which you lost and yet conceded defeat, a development seeing by many in the continent as historical.

From there, we will conduct free and fair elections in which votes will actually count, where the loser will embrace the winner and vice versa, and where at the end of the election, there will be no need to set up election tribunals.

While pledging to conduct free and fair elections in the state, Agboke informed that INEC in the state was working to ensure that no case of underage voting or foreigner is allowed to register in the continuous voter registration in the state.

Wike said, «The most dangerous threat to the unity of the country is not the agitations by different ethnic groups, but the inability of INEC to conduct free and fair elections.

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct free and fair elections remains the most potent threat to Nigeria's unity.

Following viral reports and images of some underage persons thumb - printing ballot papers in Kano council election, DAILY POST had reported that Nigerians took to social media to express worries over the competence of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct free and fair elections in 2019.

Certainly, the state government used force to harass and intimidate our people and I am ashamed that they are claiming to have conducted a free and fair election.

Not exact matches

«From the above therefore, we, as one of the INEC accredited CSOs hereby affirm that the conduct of the Osun West Senatorial by - election won by the PDP candidate, Mr. Ademola Adeleke was transparent, free, fair and credible.

The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Kenneth Mozia (SAN), who supervised the opening of the forms, assured the aspirants and members of the NBA that his committee would do its best in conducting not just a free, fair and credible election but one that would serve as a model for future elections in the country and beyond.

The sum total of all these is that one unqualified achievement of Nigeria's democracy - the fact that INEC has conducted reasonably free and fair elections since 2011 in which the will of voters was freely offered resulting in opposition victories, especially in the 2015 presidential elections, is now endangered.

That is why it is good to have everything in place so that the elections will be conducted free and fair and in a very transparent manner.

Orji reiterated the commitment of the commission to conduct a free, fair, credible and acceptable election to the people of the state and urged the voters to participate effectively in the election.

«Some of the observers are already seeing the APC led federal government as incapable and lacking the capacity to conduct a free, fair and credible election in a State as small as Bayelsa.

The mission of INEC is to serve as an independent and effective Electoral Management Board committed to the conduct of free, fair and credible elections for sustainable democracy in Nigeria.

ECONEC was created in response to the commitment by ECOWAS leaders to conduct credible, free, fair and peaceful elections consistent with international best practices for strengthening democratic processes and good governance.

He also expressed the commission's readiness to conduct credible, free and fair elections in the state.

The INEC Chairman told the RECs that as an election management body, the conduct of free, fair and credible elections was the Commission's most important mandate.

Prof. Yakubu also told the RECs that the Commission's important responsibility «is the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.»

Tat stated that the interest of U.S was to ensure that a free and fair election is being conducted in order to set a higher standard in organisation of election in the country.

«You need the cooperation of the EC to conduct the election in a free and fair manner, and so it's not only the personal responsibility of the president, it's also the duty of all these agencies and the duty of every single Ghanaian who is a stakeholder in the elections.

Besides, Governor Ambode urged Nigerians to keep alive the principles of June 12 by upholding democratic values and culture especially by participating in democratic processes such as voters» registration exercise, voting for candidates of choice during election and avoiding any act that could disrupt peaceful conduct of free, fair and credible election.

The president who stressed that he can't afford to fail Nigerians in future elections charged the new INEC helmsman to make the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria his priority.

«We advised political parties to play by the rules, because we will ensure that we deliver free, fair and credible election, which is now a minimum benchmark for INEC in any election we conduct», he said.

In his speech, the KADSIECOM Electoral Officer, Zaria, Malam Ibrahim Usman - Birnin - Gwari, said the mission of the commission was to conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable local government elections.

Describing the bye - election as credible, free and fair, the ENSIEC Chairman commended the electorate and the security agencies for the peaceful conduct of the exercise, adding that the winners will be issued with the Certificate of Return, accordingly.

«The South - West in addition wanted the elections to be organised and conducted by regional / zonal electoral commissions in order to have free, fair and credible elections.

Addressing a press conference in Enugu, the political parties in a statement signed by their state chairmen, congratulated the ENSIEC for the peaceful, free and fair conduct of the elections across the 260 electoral wards of the state.

Earlier, Mrs. Markussen said that her team was at the Commission for deliberations on areas where the EU could further assist the Commission towards the conduct of a free and fair 2019 general election.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

According to her, the role of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) like INEC in a democracy «is to conduct free, fair and credible elections as well as provide an enabling environment for all eligible citizens irrespective of sex, creed or tribe to exercise their constitutional rights and privileges to vote and be voted for during periodic elections.»

The current plan seeks to build on the successes of the preceding Plan to consolidate the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

Each component is tied to specific objectives aimed at sustaining democracy and ensuring the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.

He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, to remain steadfast as they conduct the remaining rerun elections so as to ensure a free, fair and credible election.

The Coalition for Free, Fair and Transparent Elections is calling on the Electoral Commission to, as a matter urgency, disclose to Ghanaians, within three weeks, its budget and audited reports, for the conduct of the general and parliamentary elections it conducted in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, Elections is calling on the Electoral Commission to, as a matter urgency, disclose to Ghanaians, within three weeks, its budget and audited reports, for the conduct of the general and parliamentary elections it conducted in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, elections it conducted in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.

As a result of this, there was no election conducted under such situation that could be proper, free and fair.

The REC expressed the commission's readiness to conduct a free, fair and credible governorship election on Saturday, saying that INEC had complied with all electoral Acts on the election.

Our freedoms have been curtailed in one way or other because of the security situation and so we need to double our steps to ensure that the next election which is crucial to Ghanaians are conducted in a free and fair manner.»

According to the Chairman, elections are generally resource consuming: time, energy and of course funds and it is only through the budget that INEC can discharge its mandate of conducting free, fair and credible elections.

His words: «The 1993 MKO Abiola vs. Bashir Tofa election, conducted exactly 20 years ago today, is popularly termed the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria.

The last election that was conducted in Akwa Ibom State and contested in court was free and fair and Mr. Udom Emmanuel through the PDP won convincingly.

Mr Amissah - Arthur assured that all the agencies of government are making sure that the country conducts «free and fair elections,» indicating that is what Ghanaians want because the country «has become a model for true democracy in Africa».

In a statement signed by its Chairman and the Executive Chairman of Enugu East of Local Government Area, Hon. Prince Cornelius Nnaji, the Association described the allegations by Ezea as baseless, false, misleading, and a calculated attempt to discredit the integrity of the PDP and competence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in conducting transparent, peaceful and free and fair elections in the state.

The Democratic legislator, Kenneth Jenkins, provided letters to Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore and Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe asking their offices to «conduct an investigation into a scheme to defraud the public, which deprived the citizens of a free, fair and honest election for Clarkstown Supervisor this past November.»