The leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has called on United Nations agencies and other international stakeholders to help deepen Nigeria’s democracy.
NNPP national vice chairman, Prince Onu Nwaeze, stated this while receiving a team from the Office of Internal Oversight Services for the United Nations Secretariat at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.
“The evaluation and observation of the democratic process is a very serious issue that requires every serious political conscious organisation to listen and suggest ways of deepening our democracy. Our democracy has shifted from being nascent to full-fledged democracy and sharing ideas and experiences from United Nations agencies like yours have gathered from other developed countries will help developing nations like Nigeria to deepen our democracy,” Nwaeze said.
Leader of the three-member team, Yuen Ching Ho, said they are in Nigeria as part of their oversight duty in the West Africa and the Sahel on peace and security concerns. She said they were at the NNPP secretariat to get the party leadership’s feedback on their engagements with UN agencies.
“Our office has the responsibility of providing oversight for different UN programmes, activities and offices with the aim of serving accountability and lessons learned in the processes. So our focus is on the work and the support of UN and how well they have addressed the need of the government in countries they work in,” she said.
She added that they were in Nigeria this week to meet with important stakeholders such as the NNPP to find out how the party has engaged with UN agencies on election related matters and the challenges the party has faced.
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