Tag: Elections

FCT elections expose practical limitations of real-time result transmission ―Amupitan, INEC chair

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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the February 21 Federal Capital Territory area council election exposed the practical limits of relying on real-time electronic result transmission in Nigeria. Speaking at the 2026 Electoral Act Townhall in Abuja on Sunday, INEC Chairman Prof. Joash Amupitan explained that the challenges were not primarily technological. “From my […]

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The Recent Elections in FCT, Kano and Rivers, By Reuben Abati

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The elections, held over the weekend, Saturday, February 21, were interesting for the obvious reason that they were clearly the litmus test cases for the Electoral Act, 2026 which was signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday, February 18, 2026. The President had promised last week that we were “all going to […]

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45 Days that Changed Elections in Africa?, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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An unlikely coincidence of elections in over a period of 45 days period from the middle of September to the end of October 2025 has cast a new light on the state of democratic governance in Africa and now threatens to unscramble the ritual hollowness that has become the fate of elections on the continent […]

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Elections: Nigeria must go back to Justice Uwais, By Sonala Olumhense

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I confess that last Wednesday, I feared I may be a masochist.  I do not know what else one diagnoses after he spent most of 10 hours listening to the Presidential Election Petitions Court. I mean, I had other things to do, and I should have moved on to them the moment I learned that […]

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It makes no sense to swear in people when their elections are being challenged in court ―Onaiyekan

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Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said that it does not make sense to swear in people into office when their electoral victories are being challenged in court. Onaiyekan shared this thought during an interview with Channels TV on Thursday, April 4. Onaiyekan said: “There are cases in […]

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Elections: Lessons from Oyo to Nigeria, By Lasisi Olagunju

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“The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter derision and dismissal of a life-and-death warning. And the soothsayer replies “Ay, Caesar; but not gone.” And truly, they were not gone. The 2023 elections should be over by now but they are not. There are people everywhere mocking poets and prophets. Clouds […]

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Elections and The Trial of Hope, By Monday Philips Ekpe

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Nigerians must not lose their sense of expectancy in the face of electoral disappointments. Last Monday, a friend sent me videos of some Nigerians tearing their international passports into shreds. My response to her was spontaneous: “Clinical depression may have set it. So, so sad. Well, I don’t have another passport/country yet, so I won’t […]

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Nigeria: Beyond The Elections, By Reuben Abati

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Nigerians looked forward to their just concluded State elections – Gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly – held on Saturday March 18, with fervent hope that their expectations would be met. They had managed to survive the Presidential and National Assembly elections of February 25 which resulted in controversy, protests, and two of the major […]

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17 feared killed in Lagos, Rivers, Delta, A’Ibom, others in gov and state assembly elections

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At least 17 people were killed in various acts of electoral violence in Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Cross River, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Osun, and Benue states as violence, apathy, and disenfranchisement of voters marred Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections. Explaining the low turnout of the voters, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party […]

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Two elections show that what we have is not democracy but agberocracy ―Apostle Suleman (Video)

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Nigerian Pastor, Apostle Johnson Suleman has said that the two elections recently conducted in Nigeria have proven that the Permanent Voters Card (PVC) used to cast votes during elections is useless. The clergyman stated this while preaching in his church today March 19. He mentioned that Nigeria is not in any way practicing democracy but […]

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INEC postpones governorship and state assembly elections

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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reached a decision to postpone the governorship and state assembly elections. The elections, initially scheduled to hold on March 11, has now been postponed to March 18, 2023. The postponement is due to the inability of the commission to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System […]

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Police recover 18 firearms, 203 arrests, record 185 incidents from election violence of Feb. 25

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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, has disclosed that police recorded and responded to 185 major incidents after it arrested 203 electoral offenders during the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Baba also noted that the cases are currently at various stages of investigation at the Nigeria Police Electoral […]

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Any observer group that says INEC did well in the elections is a Yahoo Yahoo observer ―Activist Mma Odi says

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Activist, Mma Odi, has said that any observer group that scores INEC high in the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly election is a Yahoo-Yahoo observer and an enemy of Nigeria. Speaking on AriseTV Sunday afternoon, Oma said: “Any observer group that says INEC performed well with any grammer they used on […]

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Oduduwa Nation agitators amassing weapons to disrupt elections in Southwest —IGP Usman Baba claims

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Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has warned that some separatist agitators under the aegis of Oduduwa Nation are amassing weapons in an attempt to disrupt the February 25 and March 11 general elections in the Southwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The IGP disclosed this during a meeting with strategic police managers at […]

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2023: Before the Elections, By Reuben Abati

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This certainly promises to be an interesting year for Africa where a total of 24 general, legislative and local elections would take place in the course of the year in Republics of Benin, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Sudan, […]

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INEC Polling Units and The Future of Elections, By Reuben Abati

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Some of the major challenges bedevilling the electoral process in Nigeria, and thus abbreviating the integrity of democracy in the country include over the years: lack of access to polling units, the location of polling units in problematic parts, overcrowding, conflict, violence, the designation of places like shrines, mosques, churches and private residences as polling […]

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Elections and Meaningless Campaign Slogans, By Magnus Onyibe

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Sloganeering and symbolism are very effective and critical tools used by marketing experts to attract and retain the attention of their targeted audience. They are conceived with a view to ingraining messages into the memories of targeted audience through its catchy or clever appellation.   As such, it is not by sheer happenstance that the most […]

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