2023: NILDS ever ready for training of nation’s lawmakers ― DG

The Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman, has declared, on Monday, that the institute is ever ready for the training of states and federal lawmakers after any general elections.

Professor Sulaiman who stated this to journalists at the sideline of the Capacity-Building Workshop for Non-Academic Staffers of the Institute held in Abuja said such challenge is what the Institute is created to confront from time to time in terms of training.

“As the 2023 general elections are approaching, there is the high possibility of high turnover of Federal lawmakers at the National Assembly as it has been the case since 2003, which NILDS is well prepared for in terms of capacity building training for newly elected lawmakers.

“Such high turnovers have never been a challenge to NILDS at any time since it is a body fundamentally saddled with the responsibility of training key players in the legislative arm of government “, he said .

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He, however, posited that the periodic high turnovers will gradually fizzle out in subsequent elections after the 2023 one as the practice of democracy gets more rooted in the country, especially with provisions of the 2022 electoral Act.

At the Capacity-Building Workshop being held for non-academic staff of the Institute, Professor Sulaiman said as trainers, need to be well-trained as well since nobody can give what he or she doesn’t have.

“The academic staff of the Institute, had their own training last year and the one being held for non-academic staff today is the first of its kind in the Institute.

“This is different from overseas training from which 90 per cent of staff of the institute has benefitted,” he explained

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in his remarks at the capacity-building workshop, commended NILDS for living up to its mandate as far as training for lawmakers, their aides, staffers of the National Assembly and the Institute are concerned.

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2023: NILDS ever ready for training of nation’s lawmakers ― DG