Presidenial Election on Valentine's Day

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, a number of Nigeria’s pro-democracy activists and U.S. policymakers will on Monday converge on Washington DC to review Nigeria’s electoral process and hammer out ways of making the forthcoming elections in the country fair and credible.

The programme, tagged “Nigeria Election Forum” is put together by the Washington-based think-thank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] in conjunction with Ford Foundation to discuss the state of preparations and the challenges ahead of the forthcoming elections in Africa’s most populous country.

A statement by the CSIS said the series, which is bringing together relevant Nigerian officials, civil society activists, opinion leaders and policymakers, will discuss the best ways of making the coming elections “peaceful, credible and free.”

Elections in Nigeria have been bedeviled by corruption, large-scale rigging and violence since the return of civil rule in 1999.

The next general election will hold in February 2015, according to a recently released calendar by INEC.

According to the timetable, presidential election will hold on Valentine’s’ day, February 14, 2015, alongside elections into the National Assembly – Senate and House of Representatives.

Governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections will hold 14 days later on February 28, 2015, the electoral agency says.
The governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun have also been fixed for June 21 and August 9, 2014, respectively.

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