Acting Chairman of the commission, Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari told Foreign Defence Attaches, who were at the INEC headquarters on Monday, that the commission is already working with the National Assembly to review the Act for improved electoral system.
The Electoral Act was last reviewed in 2010 but Mrs. Zakari, who observed that election laws are not static, but dynamic, expressed the need to bring the law to the realities of the time.
“We will continuously try to improve the electoral process through legal reviews.
“You have to keep on improving on them especially when something comes up, like the issue of diaspora voting, the issue of electronic voting.
“These are issues that require review and we will keep on recommending to the national assembly for these reviews,” she said.
Zakari listed other challenges confronting the commission in carrying out its functions to include electoral violence, lack of internal democracy among political parties and difficulties in monitoring political parties’ election finances.
The acting chairman said that INEC was already working on necessary measures to mitigate the challenges by introducing modern technologies, including the Permanent Voters Cards to the electoral process.
