Ahead of the 2023 general election, a coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has called on presidential candidates, including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party and other political office seekers to declare their assets.
The CSOs also called on the National Assembly to oversee the full operational independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 elections and yield to numerous calls for transparency regarding its budget and auditing of its finances.
The CSOs include Accountability Lab Nigeria, Connected Development (CODE), Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project (SERAP), Budgit, Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), PLSI, Yiaga Africa, and Enough is Enough (EIE).
They added that the call for asset declaration has becomes imperative to…
