Nigeria, Sept. 17 -- A former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has advised Commonwealth member-nations to adopt a grading system for elections towards improving the quality of elections, promoting democracy and strengthening institutions.

According to a statement on Tuesday by his spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze, the former Nigerian leader gave the advise at a special virtual high level panel which focused on 40 years of Commonwealth's election observation experience.

Mr Jonathan advised the 53-member nation body to develop a 'democracy marker' which is a bench-marking system of election reporting to serve as a scoring formula for measuring compliance to identified democracy standards within the Commonwealth.

He said: "I associate my...