The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has absolved the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission from allegations of gross underage voting in the last local government election in the state. Recall that the national chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, set up a special panel to investigate the allegations of electoral malpractice in the state. The chairman...
Two weeks after the transmission of the amended Electoral Act to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent, the presidency has intensified efforts to defeat the plan by the National Assembly to override the anticipated presidential veto of the Act. The lobby is intended to ensure that the required two-thirds majority votes of the 469 federal lawmakers,...
A top member of the APC, Chief Anike Nwoga, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Enugu challenging the bill passed by the National Assembly which changed the sequence of the 2019 elections. Nwoga, who is the Zonal Vice Chairman of APC in Enugu East Senatorial District, filed the suit on Friday,...
YIAGA Africa’s WatchingTheVote Trained on Open Election Data INEC must meet Increased Registration Demand by Citizens – YIAGA AFRICA How Politicians Pose Threat to Nigeria’s Electoral Democracy Over 350 people Turn out for the WatchingTheVote Election Dialogue Series Download WatchingTheVote February 2018 Newsletter here
Show me a Nigerian Politician who would rather lose a credible election than win in a flawed process – Moshood Isah Last week, Thursday 22nd February to be precise; the media was awash with revelation made by erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Professor Attahiru Jega that, “the desperation and recklessness of...
