AUDA/NEPAD: AU thumbs up Buhari on professional peer review process

The African Union Country Review Mission for Nigeria has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving Nigeria’s second peer review report of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
 
Lead panelist of the mission, Dr. Janneh Abdoulie, gave the appraisal in Abuja at the weekend during a Civil Society Organisation CSO/APRM interaction on the country’s self assessment report on the ongoing second review of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, organised by AUDA/NEPAD Nigeria and facilitated by the Women in Politics Forum (WIPF).
 
The APRM is an instrument voluntarily acceded to by AU member states as an African self-monitoring mechanism. The assessment process is on the ongoing peer review of member states of African Union Development Agency and New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA/NEPAD), across the continent.
 
Abdoulie described the review process in Nigeria as “very professional, transparent and impartial”, while stressing the importance of an assessment of Nigeria.
 
“It is important that we do this assessment and we just want to salute Nigeria for what we’ve seen so far. The degree of inclusiveness has been very high and it has been an amazing process,” he said.
 
In her address, the national coordinator AUDA/NEPAD, Princess Gloria Akobundu, commended Nigerians for their contributions to the successful outcome of the report approved by the President.
She said the review will address economic challenges, good governance, food sufficiency, health challenge, security as well as political activities in Nigeria.
 
“We are here to inform you that the AU team is here in the country and also to inform you that we are set for validation exercise and this exercise will take us across the six geopolitical zones of the country. There is no way we can carry out such exercise without the respected groups of CSO’s,” Akobundu said.

In her remarks, national president of the WIPF, Ebere Ifendu, noted that women inclusion in politics is yet to be achieved, stressing that women have done everything required to be carried along in leadership and governance yet no meaningful growth has been achieved in this regard.