 Yaga Africa is civil society organization says the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC should include candidates' names and their pictures on ballot papers as it is done in Liberia. In a statement, Samsung Itodo, executive director of the organization said Yaga deployed an election study and observation mission to understudy the electoral governance architecture in Liberia between October 7 and 13. Itodo said during the elections, the team observed a firm commitment to transparency on the part of Liberia's National Electoral Commission in managing the results tallying process. He said at the polling places and tallying centers, the NEC officials prioritized the openness of the process over the speedy completion of the process. Yaga said INEC should commit to greater transparency in election administration through proactive disclosure of election information and consistent application of election rules and guidelines. To ensure transparency and openness in the management of the results, coalition or tallying process, the election officials, you know, meticulously enforced the counting and results tallying procedures. And in cases where objections and queries were raised by party agents and observers on matters relating to inconsistencies or computational issues, they were addressed promptly in the full view of everyone. Also, as part of observation, in addition to everything else that has been said, was also the role that the media played. You could see that they had a commitment to independence and fairness. And in the programs that were broadcast, which we were privileged to listen to on radio, we found that a number of them, you know, were very committed to peace, to fairness and to patriotism. The organization also recommended that INEC should review the format of ballot papers used in Nigeria elections to include photographs and names of candidates to improve the quality of electoral preferences and reduce invalidated votes. We're also recommending that INEC should review the format of a ballot papers used in Nigeria to include photographs and names of candidates to improve the quality of electoral preferences and reduce, you know, incidents of invalidated votes. But in addition to that, that the National Assembly also reviews the electoral law to address, you know, some ambiguities in the results collation and transmission process. INEC tries in other parts, but there is room for improvement that INEC can also learn. INEC cannot say it knows everything. Like the issue of the overblotted register, I believe that it is actually overblotted. INEC, like I said earlier, has to find another way whereby it can reduce the number of the people that are already dead that are on that register. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.