Kanav Narayan Sahgal’s Post

🗳️ Looking Back to Move Forward: Lessons from the 2020 Ondo Election for 2024 Ahead of the November 16, 2024 elections, it’s valuable to revisit the 2020 Ondo State off-cycle governorship election, where peaceful conduct, issue-based campaigns, and improved election management by INEC set a positive example. With timely deployment and smooth operations even in remote areas, this election showed what’s achievable in Nigeria’s complex political landscape. While challenges remain, the Centre for Democracy and Development’s (CDD) report on Ondo 2020 offers insights for raising the bar in election standards. Let’s take these lessons forward into 2024 for stronger, more transparent elections. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dbDNYduu #OndoDecides2024 #Election2024 #LessonsFromOndo #Democracy #GoodGovernance

What are the gaps in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) that have made it difficult to have credible local government elections? How can these gaps be filled? These are the questions that our Executive Director Samson Itodo asks and answers in this opinion article, which also argues against the calls to abolish state independent electoral commissions in order to have credible local government elections. https://lnkd.in/dE_UDEts #lgelectionreforms

We need more than one nation and one election: good governance, honest and transparent politics, elections where vulgar amounts of money are not required, freebies camouflaged as bribes are not allowed, where youngsters can contest, and a law banning criminals and illiterates from contesting elections. My piece in rediff.com: https://lnkd.in/dCRAkV44

Given the historical trend of election petitions in Nigeria, the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo State (tomorrow) and Ondo State (16th November 2024) present a significant opportunity for the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria to take meaningful steps toward rebuilding public trust in the judiciary. To this end, we propose these three actionable recommendations to the President of the Court of Appeal to enhance transparency in the appointment of judges to the election petition tribunal. http://disq.us/t/4qrqq79

They will make you believe that there were no elections because they are dictators. But in reality, once the vote is done, and citizens have chosen their most popular leaders, the okupyers made a list and proceeded to arrest them. “tell me who your leaders are, and the next parliamentary session will be in jail” Read about it below, in the section called conduct: https://lnkd.in/dTYWnFuw

In her new piece, Sinem Adar analyzes the outcomes of Turkey's March 31 local elections—and what they mean for the future of President Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Turkey's domestic politics at large. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4c3wVMp

'DemoCRAZY' In 🇹🇬: The New Text Excludes The Power of the Masses/Citizenry in Elections Click on the link below for more details 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/d6fYihYS

Electoral Court of South Africa upholds the candidature of Jacob Zuma for the upcoming general elections in May 2024 Read More Here- https://lnkd.in/gtSma3Jj #ConstitutionofSouthAfrica #electiondisqualification #ElectoralCommission #ElectoralCourt #JacobZuma #PresidentofSouthAfrica #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricanGeneralElections #scconline #SCC #legalnews #legalknowledge #scctimes #legalblog #legalupdates #lawstudent #legalresearch #legalstudies #surestwaytolegalresearch #bringingyouthebestlegalnews

If there is no executive interference from the governors and there is administrative and financial autonomy that ensures that SIECs are well resourced, we will start to see a marked improvement in the conduct of local government elections. NILGEC is a misadventure. The National Assembly should assist SIECs to wrestle their administrative and financial autonomy from the governors by amending the relevant sections of the Nigerian Constitution to effect this.