The acting chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hajia Amina Bala Zakari, has said one key issue that poses security challenges to election in the country is the absence of internal democracy within political parties.
She stated this during a courtesy call by participants of the National Security Training Seminar of the Defence Intelligence College.
Zakari also reiterated the commissions’ desire to ensure the success of the 2015 General Elections is sustained by forging more ties with the security agencies in the country.
She explained that the commission had a standing committee on security known as the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Security, which fashioned out the security strategies for the success of the polls.
The acting chairman emphasised that one of the threats to electoral security was the lack of internal democracy among political parties in Nigeria, adding that this had led to numerous court cases on party primaries, pointing towards substitution of candidates, which, in turn, heated up the polity.
She also revealed that the commission had begun putting measures in place to effectively track campaign funding through training of its relevant officers, adding that the challenges that came with campaign funding were not insurmountable.