By Chris Ochayi

ABUJA— The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, yesterday, challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to emulate the Brazilian Election Management on the seamless general elections it organised on October 4.

National Publicity Secretary of CNPP, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, in a statement, tasked the electoral umpire to study the procedure, processes, mechanisms and technology adopted by the Brazilian Election Management for a successful conduct of the poll.

The statement read: “Brazi-lian Election Management conducted the 4 October general elections for the presidency, state governors, National Congress and state legislators all in one day.

“In the said election, more than 80 percent of Brazilian 142,822,046 registered voters voted, registering the highest voter turnout in any liberal democracy in recent times.

“Our interest was elicited because the results were out in less 48 hours and no election tribunal was set up

“All the presidential candidates concurred for the October 26 runoff between Dilma Rousseff of Workers Party and Aecio Neves of Party of Brazilian Social Democracy.”