I don’t agree that the admittedly flawed 2023 presidential election should be cancelled as requested by some people. Decapitation is not the right cure for a nagging headache. In spite of its imperfections, the rule of law is still the most civilised way of resolving any dispute known to man. So, no matter how aggrieved Read More…
Notwithstanding the party’s triumph, Pastor Dayo Ekong, the chairman of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State, declared on Monday that the party would continue to challenge the outcomes of the presidential and national assembly elections in court. At the conclusion of the state’s compilation of results from Saturday’s Presidential election in Lagos State, Ekong Read More…
AFTER the presidential election on Saturday, February 25, 2023, the rains came down in Abuja. No, they were not pitiful tears even when Nigeria, an otherwise prosperous country has been reduced to a beggarly state. Rather, they were rains cleansing the country, starting with a thorough wash of the county’s seat of government to prepare Read More…
More than 24 hours after the presidential and national assembly elections in Lagos State began on Saturday, not a single result from any of the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) has been sent to the State Collation Centre. At the official opening of the centre for final collation of election results in Lagos State at Read More…
Applicants are urged to pick up their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the deadline of January 29. The INEC in Lagos State announced on Tuesday that it had received the final batch of PVCs in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos, Mr. Adebisi Ajayi, the INEC’s administrative secretary for Lagos State, revealed this. Read More…
Kenyan presidential contender Raila Odinga’s claims of massive vote rigging in the just concluded presidential elections have been dashed with judicial finality. On Monday the Kenyan Supreme Court upheld the Aug. 9 election of William Ruto as president in a unanimous decision. Chief Justice Martha Koome in a scathing judgement that swept aside opposition leader Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election result has come to stay. The commission gave the clarification in a statement titled: “Clarification on Electronic Transmission of Election Result” signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Sunday. Okoye Read More…
To what extent does the last presidential election in Kenya foreshadow what is likely to happen in Nigeria in 2023? I am not one to draw undue parallels, knowing as I do that there are different intervening variables and sub-texts which may render a blanket generalisation sterile. However, there are many similarities that signpost the Read More…
There is a massive movement led by the youths to register for the 2023 general elections. It is like a battle cry by those who are clearly qualified to vote in the elections rather than the underage and foreigners who are imported to vote. The cry is ‘Get your PVC (Permanent Voters Card) and vote’. Even Read More…
Ahead of future elections, while awaiting the Nigerian President’s assent to the newly passed electoral bill, some experts in law, security and politics will converge in Lagos on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 to discuss election challenges. The experts will be discussing these challenges and aim to proffer solutions at the 14th Annual Security Conference Read More…
