Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) commissioned this study with support from the European Union under its EU-SDGN project in Nigeria, for the purpose of developing a framework for legislative oversight of elections during pandemics and related public health emergencies in Nigeria. The proposed framework recognizes that despite the constraints imposed by pandemics and related public health emergencies, there is need to ensure safe voting while holding elections that substantially reflect and approximate the will of the people. The proposed legislative oversight framework envisages the need for the Legislature to adopt pandemic-sensitive legislation, guidelines and procedures that make the electoral process safe, participatory, and inclusive. The framework also envisages how legislative oversight can go on unimpeded by the conditions created by public health emergencies. The development of this framework therefore recognizes the strategic importance of the National Assembly as an elected representative body, with the task of promoting horizontal and vertical accountability, and to serve as a bulwark against the overbearing power of the executive which could be foisted by pandemic conditions.
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