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COMMUNIQUE
The Post Election
meeting of FOSIECON which held on the 4th to 5th of August 2004.
At a two day meeting of the Forum held at Ibro Hotel, Abuja on
Wednesday August 4 andThursday August 5, 2004, members critically
examined the reports of the March 27, 2004. Local Government
Election submitted by the various State Independent Electoral
Commissions as well as those from Independent Observers.
After due perusal
of these reports, the Forum thanked the various Local and International
Observers for their interest and objective Reports sent to the State
Independent Electoral
Commissions.
Based on the
content of these Reports, the Forum congratulates all State Independent
Electoral Commissions who have conducted the Local Government Elections
for a job well done.
Every
human activity undergoes the process of improvement. No electoral
process is perfect but all electoral process improves through experience.
In other words, improvement of electoral process does not come as
an event but evolves through a process.
It is in this
light that the Forum totally condemns the inciting Report of the
Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) in the Punch Newspapers of Monday
August 2, 2004. That Report is malicious, premeditated and lacked
every known scientific logic.
TMG seems to
be agents of national destabilization in the way they carryout their
activities.
TMG should realize
that every institution is what they are through repeated performance
of their functions. Excellency is not an act but a habit.
They should
be more patriotic and give our democracy a chance to survive.
The Forum encourages
the SIECs that have not conducted their LG elections and those who
are to conduct bye-elections to do so without further delay.
The Forum thanked
International Foundation of Election Systems (IFES) for all the
assistance rendered through the training of personnel and the provision
of educational materials and urged them not to relent.
It was unanimously
agreed that all SIECs should use this post election period to embark
on aggressive training in order to correct avoidable errors noticed
in the past elections.
Hon. Justice James-Omo Agege CJ (rtd)
National Chairman, FOSIECON
REGULAR NATIONAL MEETING
The Forum holds her regular Chairmen meetings on
3rd and 4th of August, 2005 in Abuja, The Federal Capital Territory.
A letter released from the National Secretariat says delegates from
all 36 states of the Federation are expected to arrive Abuja on
the 2nd of August, 2005 for the meeting.
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