The Chairman of TMG, Mr Ibrahim Zikirullahi, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
He said that the organisation would intervene in the forthcoming state elections and the 2015 general elections.
“The intervention will be in the area of using systematic election observation and quick count.
“Deployment of quick count methodology will make it possible for TMG to inform Nigerian citizens on the quality of the elections,” he said.
Zikirullahi said that the group would verify official election results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He said that the systematic approach would remove any form of uncertainty on the outcome of elections by independently verifying election results to increase public confidence in elections.
The TMG chairman said that the approach would reduce political violence.
He said that the collected and analysed data would offer objective basis for improvements and peaceful redress.
Zikirullahi said that the group was working to strengthen democracy and good governance in Nigeria.
He said that TMG was a coalition of over 400 civil society groups founded in 1998 with the objective of promoting the development and practice of democratic values and democratic institutions.
The chairman said that TMG had observed and issued reports on all national elections since the beginning of the current democracy.
He said that the group was working hand-in-hand with INEC, as an agency, on the technical level in term of observation and monitoring.
“TMG and INEC is a family. On the technical level, we do training together and we are accredited before the election.
“Nigeria is moving; the method of election rigging is changing, but people are also becoming more enlightened on free and fair elections,” he said. (NAN)
