These activities are consistent with ECONEC's mandate of providing support and advocate for its members, promotion of credible elections and good governance, and the encouragement of gradual harmonisation of electoral laws and best practices through experience - sharing, and peer - learning of good practices
in electoral matters in the region.
Stuart Wilks - Heeg has previously received funding for research or consultancy on
electoral matters from the UK Electoral Commission and the UK Cabinet Office.
Though the NDC snubbed an earlier debate organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) over the same issue, Koku Anyidoho said «the reason for which we decided not to participate in the debate is specifically because we said we will prefer to use the EC's forum because the EC is the constitutionally constituted body to look
into electoral matters.»
Orbih explained that the PDP had approached the court to challenge the power of the state assembly to amend the electoral law, even as he alleged the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission did not comply with the relevant section of the 1999 Constitution
on electoral matters.
Only last Friday, hoodlums violently attacked a High Court in Rivers state with guns, in a bid to stop the judiciary from making pronouncements on
an electoral matter.
By doing so the Supreme Court has sent a clear message to the public and the Electoral Commission that
electoral matters are so important that they will ignore even grave technical slips and do substantial justice in such cases.
But he wondered if he had the power to force a governor on
an electoral matter.