23-member committee under former CJN Mohammed Uwais. Key recommendations: independent INEC appointment by NJC, prosecution of electoral offenders by an Electoral Offences Commission, proportional representation. Partially implemented via the Electoral Act 2010 and the 4th Constitutional Alteration; the prosecution and PR recommendations were not adopted.
Yar'Adua2008· Status: Partial· Chapter II · Law
Justice Uwais Electoral Reform Committee
Chaired by former CJN Mohammed Uwais. Recommendations partially implemented via Electoral Act 2010 and 4th Alteration.
Sources
- · Justice Uwais Electoral Reform Committee Report (2008)
What it cost — political & economic reality
The political and economic reality
Nigeria in 2008: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.
President · Fourth Republic
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
2007–2010· PDP
National reality
Niger Delta amnesty programme (2009). Yar'Adua became gravely ill in late 2009; the Doctrine of Necessity (Feb 2010) made Goodluck Jonathan Acting President. Yar'Adua died 5 May 2010.
Crises of the period
- Yar'Adua medical absence + cabal
- Niger Delta amnesty negotiations
- Boko Haram founding violence (Maiduguri 2009)
GDP (World Bank)
$166 bn (2007) → $369 bn (2010, post-rebasing trajectory)
Cabinet (selected portfolios)
- Education
Igwe Aja-Nwachuku; Dr. Sam Egwu
Source: Federal Gazette 2007–10
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Redline
Wikipedia is never a source.