[afnog] [members-discuss] Update on the AFRINIC Board Election 2025

[Amin Dayekh]

So if they did not have much time, according to a timeline they already
set, we have to live with that?

Brilliant bro !

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bro in your publication, just remember to indicate if there were other
> qualified candidates or not. When 2 or very few candidates exists that
> meets the requirement, eliminating to remain a sole candidate should not be
> a core goal of nomcom
>
> I am not a fan of a single candidate but if there were no other applicants
> that meets the basic nomination requirements then there will be nothing to
> slate other than the sole candidate which is fine.
>
> As I said in the past, one of the critical role of nomcom is to produce a
> competitive slate..I want to assume there were no other qualified
> candidates for that region and considering that this current nomcom did not
> have so much time on their hands to attempt lengthy extensions we live with
> what we have.
>
> Regards
>
> ----
> Sent from my mobile
> kindly excuse typos
>
> On Thu, 11 Sept 2025, 1:58 pm Noah, <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
>> Well
>>
>> The 2022 Board Election which were stopped through a court order.
>>
>> While reading that affidavit, there were a number of complaints and one
>> of them was that; the NOMCOM for which I was Chair, had slated only one
>> Candidate for the North African Seat. That Candidate was Prof.Habib.
>>
>> I will make be publishing the same at different forums to form part of an
>> interesting case study.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Noah
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Sept 2025, 1:51 pm Amin Dayekh, <admin at megamore.ng> wrote:
>>
>>> Well Done!
>>>
>>> I think at a certain point in time, back in 2022, when there was a slate
>>> of candidates, the NomCom was discriminated for slating one candidate. What
>>> changed now?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM AFRINIC Communication via
>>> Members-Discuss <members-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Resource and Community Members,
>>>>
>>>> We are writing to inform you that there will be no election for Board
>>>> Seat 1 (Northern Africa region), as only one suitable candidate has been
>>>> retained by the Nomination Committee. Consequently, there being only one
>>>> candidate for the one (1) seat to be filled for the Northern Africa region,
>>>> the said candidate will be declared elected on 12 September 2025.
>>>>
>>>> [On behalf of Nomcom 2025]
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