1. Introduction: Owing to several scholarly studies in recent times in various parts of the world including Nigeria, triggers/causes of election and post election human and material violence have substantially been linked to the electoral commissions or bodies that organized such polls. In the Republic of Ivory Coast, for instance, the immediate causes of 2010 post election violence were traced to the country's electoral commission that controversially annulled poll results in seven strategic polling areas of the North to favour then incumbent Laurent Gbagbo. In USA, the denial of voting rights to Blacks and Hispanics has given rise to age-long scientific/demographic rigging in the country, leading to tensions, several protests and lawsuits. Gladly, this age-long injustice is now being frontally addressed. Nigeria is presently faced with similar challenges courtesy of its Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It has been empirically established that the referenced electoral commissions contribute 60% causes of electoral violence leaving 30% to political authorities and politicians and 10% to the electorates.................
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chidi opara reports: Open Letter: Intersociety Drags INE... Ref: Intersociety/001/01/015/Foreign Missions/ABJ/NG 1. The United Nations Secretary General C/O The UN Special Representative in Nigeria The UN... | |||||||
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