34 1.7 Elections and the aftermath thereof 38. Nigeria held its elections in April 2007, and the outcome was the transition from President Olusegun Obasanjo to His Excellency Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The new administration ushered in the following changes in the management and administrative structure of the APRM in the country: • Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe was designated SGF and APRM NFP, taking over from Chief Ufot G Ekaette. • Ambassador Tunji Olagunju was also appointed as the special adviser to the president of the streamlined NEPAD and APRM structures of the country. • Dr Gabriel Gundu remained as the APRM director and head of the National Secretariat. 39. One of the first steps taken by the new establishment was to expand the NWG to 240 members comprising: NGOs/CSOs (28 per cent), private-sector organisations (18 per cent), the media (10 per cent), professionals and organised labour (10 per cent), youth organisations (6 per cent), National Assembly political parties (8 per cent) and government (20 per cent). 40. The work of the NWG focused on the following: providing information and data, as these related to its special interests, for the work of the APRM; contributing inputs for the design of broad, strategic action plans for the APRM process; interfacing with missions from the APR Continental Secretariat; and assisting with the national sensitisation process. 41. The country also embarked on a nationwide validation of the CSAR, which included the following: • Hosting stakeholder workshops and serialising the executive summary of the CSAR in six Nigerian national dailies and weeklies, with e-mail and postal addresses supplied for receiving feedback opinions. • Printing and distributing 40 million copies of the simplified version of the executive summary of the CSAR in Nigeria’s main languages, namely Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and English (10 million copies each), for mass circulation, encouraging state governments to print and distribute copies in local languages and dialects, etc. • The reviewing of the report in each thematic area by a relevant, independent expert organisation in order to provide objective assessment and fill any possible gaps in the report. These organisations were: Wilson & Weizmann Associates (which dealt with democracy and good political governance); the Institute for Development Research (which dealt with economic governance and management); the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (which dealt with corporate governance); and the Centre for Advanced Social Science (which dealt with socioeconomic development). • Dispatching the expanded working group in four teams to 14 clustered centres, where all 36 states and the FCT participated actively. • Holding validation sessions with nonstakeholders in the FCT and Abuja, with the ministries, departments and agencies, and, finally, with the president, which sessions were attended by ministers, heads of parastatals and agencies, governors, chairpersons of local governments, and traditional rulers.