Electoral Reform Members Named
Bowing to pressure from local and international organizations over the need to reform the Nigerian electoral laws, President Musa Yar’Adua has named Justice Mohammed Uwais to lead twenty others to look into ways and means of correcting electoral laws that have produced controvercial elections in which President Yar’Adua himself is a product.
The membership of the electoral panel due for inauguration on August 28 2007 is as follows:
Name |
Title |
|
|---|---|---|
1 |
Mr. Justice Muhammed Lawal Uwais |
Chairman |
2 |
Rtd. Justice Godwin U. Ononiba |
Member |
3 |
Alhaji Ahmadu Kurfi |
Member |
4 |
Alhaji Musiliu Smith |
Member |
5 |
Mr. Olisa Agbakoba |
Member |
6 |
Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi |
Member |
7 |
Sheikh Ahmed Lemu |
Member |
8 |
Prof. Attahiru Jega |
Member |
9 |
Prof. Grace Alele Williams |
Member |
10 |
Chief (Mrs.) Toyin Olakunri |
Member |
11 |
Mr. Jibril Ibrahim |
Member |
12 |
Prof. Okon Uya |
Member |
13 |
Prof. Gambo Balaraba Abdullahi |
Member |
14 |
Mr. Ndanusa Alao |
Member |
15 |
Comrade John E. Odah |
Member |
16 |
Hajiya Dije Bala |
Member |
17 |
General Oladapo Popoola |
Member |
18 |
Barrister Festus Okoye |
Member |
19 |
Alhaji Aliyu Umar |
Member |
20 |
Mr. Abdurahim Ujo |
Member |
21 |
Barrister Steven Dike |
Member |