Month: March 2023

IDEAs Episode 124 Paul James of YIAGA on the State Elections

IDEAs 24th March 2023 … Paul James of YIAGA on the State Elections Chukwudi Ezugwu introduced today’s guest, Paul James, the Manager of YIAGA Africa’s Elections Programme, who would be discussing last Saturday’s State elections, and looking at the Integrity and Ethics of the electoral umpire, and the lessons to be carried forward. Ayo Obe…

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IDEAs Episode 123 Ene Obi on the pre State Elections Environment

Today’s guest was Ene Obi, Convener of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, and after Sandra Ezekwesili had kicked off the programme, Ayo Obe said that although we could not be sure that this was the last election in this cycle, since anything could happen. 

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IDEAs Episode 122 – Integrity Pressure Points In Nigeria’s Electoral Process

IDEAs 10th March 2023 … Sandra Ezekwesili Introduced the programme, saying that today, the discussion would be about the Integrity pressure points in Nigeria’s electoral process.  She started by asking Ayo Obe what was meant by Integrity in the electoral process? Ayo said that Integrity in the electoral process meant issues about whether the procedures…

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IDEAs Episode 121 – 3rd March 2023YIAGA’s Samson Itodo on the National Elections

Ayo welcomed Samson Itodo, the Executive Director of YIAGA, to the programme and referred to YIAGA’s Press Statement on the 2023 Presidential elections.  She said that looking at the Report and the election, she wanted to distinguish between the actual voting process and the Integrity of that – because the ‘I’ in IDEAs is for Integrity, while the other side is Accountability (the ‘A’ in IDEAs).

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