The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has inaugurated a commitee to review its current strategic plan as well as produce project plan for future elections, including 2023
The 17 members 2017-2021 Strategic Plan and 2022-2026 Strategic Plan Committee was chaired by Air Vice Marshall Ahmed Muazu (retired), INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Committee on Planning, Monitoring and Strategy.
Inaugurating the Committee in Abuja on Monday,lNEC Chairman,Pro, Mahmoud Yakubu, said the Comission’s decision was basically, to review the Commission’s strategic plan and to produce election project plan for the 2023 general election
He said it would also” help the commission to identify all events,programmes and actions that needed to be implemented before the 2023 general election .
” It will also help us to track the off season governoship elections taking place between this year 2021 and 2023 to ensure that these elections are also properly implemented.
Yakubu recalled that the inaugurated commitee was the third of it’s kind in the history of INEC since the beginning of the era of deliberate planning for elections.
He said” The Commission believes that we cannot approach election management on an ad -hoc basis but rather,we must deliberately plan for elections.
“So the Commission produce a strategic plan to cover the period of 2012 to 2016. Then we reviewed the plan to cover the period 2017-2021. Now we are reviewing the plan again,to cover the period 2022-2026.
According to the INEC Chair, the Commission has released the timetable and schedule of activities for the Anambra governoship election taking place in November.
He said that both the strategic plan and the election plan would help the commission for prroper the two off-season elections next year in Ekiti and Osun state adding that it would enable INEC”
monitor all the processes through the commission’s management system platforms.”
The commitee was given 10 point terms of reference and 40 days to submit its report.
Members include National Commissioners,Prof.Okechukwu Ibeanu,Dr Adekunle Ogunmola, and two Resident Electoral Commissioners of Lagos and Adamawa states.
Other members include eight directors, technical commitee members and two consultants.
