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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Hello Board and Legal
Counsel,</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Good
that Omo spotted this. </span></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">It’s
a matter of applying the board election process adopted by the board
according to section 13.2 of the bylaws. </span></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><a href="https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process">https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process</a>
describes the process and section 9 spells out how to interpret the
results in the case there are more than one candidate and in the case
there is only one candidate. These two cases are addressed separately
and differently.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">It’s
important to hear from the Board and the Legal Counsel, as the
elections can be challenged.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Please
advise.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Regards.<br></span></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.08in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Boubakar</span></font></font></p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Omo Oaiya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net" target="_blank">Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Greetings All,</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking at the BoD election process and it seems to me that the recent e-mail from the Board Chair seeking nominations for vacant seats should not be extended to Western Africa. </div><div><br></div><div>The particular clause I am referring to is in 9.2 - <a href="https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process" target="_blank">https://afrinic.net/en/<wbr>community/elections/bod-<wbr>election/process</a></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><li><br class="m_-4659973576612295384Apple-interchange-newline">Elections will be closed as soon as the last member or proxy present in the meeting room casts his/her vote. Candidates with the highest number of votes in each category will be declared winners</li></ul></blockquote></div><div><div>I see from the list for West Africa that the candidate with the highest number of votes should have been declared winner and this is Dr Ousmane Tessa. (btw, Dr Adewale Adedokun needs his name spelt correctly)</div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><br><b>Western Africa - Seat 2</b></p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Dr Adelawe Abedekon - 43</p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Dr Ousmane Moussa Tessa - 56</p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">None of the above - 78</p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><i>Result: The seat is vacant</i></p><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>The results from the other regions are valid and supported by the following clause as they had one candidate. </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><ul><li>All open positions shall be subject to an election process even if there is only one candidate. In that event, if the option [none of the above] got more votes than the only candidate, then the seat shall be considered vacant and the Board will be requested to apply provisions of the Bylaws to temporarily fill the vacant seat. </li></ul></ul></blockquote><br></div><div>Can AfriNIC and the nomcom please clarify? We should not deprive Dr Tessa of a rightful win …. especially in the circumstances we find ourselves.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Omo</div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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