The Independent National Electoral Commission says it recorded over 1,689 court cases arising from the 2019 general election.
Mallam Mohammed Haruna, INEC National Electoral Commissioner in charge of Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa states disclosed this on Thursday in Lafia during the state level post-election review retreat.
Haruna explained that more than 890 of the cases were pre-election matters arising from conduct of political party primary elections, while 799 were election petitions at the various tribunals across the country.
According to him, the pre-election cases indicated that political parties needed to put their acts together in order to deepen the nation’s democratic process.
He also said that the cases before the election petitions tribunals showed that much still needed to be done to improve on the electoral process.
He said: “We are here to review what we did for this year’s general election with a view to improving on our subsequent outing.
“You will agree with me that any document is work in progress, you can never get it perfectly.”
He expressed optimism that from the review of the 2019 general election with inputs from the various stakeholders, subsequent elections would be better than the previous as noticeable pitfalls would be addressed.
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