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

[Seun Ojedeji]

Well brilliance is a subject of perception, what is brilliant to you may
not be to me and vice versa.

Regards

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Sent from my mobile
kindly excuse typos

On Thu, 11 Sept 2025, 3:53 pm Amin Dayekh, <admin at megamore.ng> wrote:

> 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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