The National Assembly on Thursday lauded the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on the successful conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections which took place last Saturday.
It said that this had shown the entire world that “democracy has come to stay in Nigeria.”
It however advised the commission to urgently address all the challenges identified during the polls ahead of the second phase involving governorship and states’ House of Assemblies, slated for April 11 to ensure hitch-free polls.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Andy Uba, and his House of Representative counterpart, Jerry Manwe, who conveyed the position of the NASS to the Commission during a courtesy call to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, in Abuja on Thursday, declared that they were in the commission to express their happiness and commendation about the success recorded by INEC in the conduct of the polls.
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