Abuja — A former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mohammed Uwais, has expressed regrets that recommendations of the report of the 22-member electoral reform committee that he chaired in 2007 were killed by political interests.
Speaking at a dialogue on the review of the Electoral Law and Process, organised by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, (PLAC), Uwais observed that instead of implementing the recommendations of his committee fully, the Federal Government opted to "pick and choose" what it wanted.
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