Politics

Contrary to assurances by the Abdulrahman Mohammed-led PDP National Caretaker Committee, the party’s national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, remained sealed on Monday. The committee had indicated that the office would reopen following engagements with electoral authorities and internal consultations. A PDP faction backed by FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, announced the planned reopening after INEC’s quarterly meeting with leaders of political parties. …

A Northern interest group, Arewa 100% Focus, has called on the National Assembly to consider the interests of Nigerians and adopt the electronic transmission of results in Nigeria’s Electoral Act Amendment. Its National President, Dr Abubakar Fakai, made the call on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the Electoral Act Amendment passed by the Senate last Wednesday. Although several provisions …

  The House of Representatives had passed its own version of the bill in December 2025, which differs markedly from that of the Senate. A potential act of subversion of the public good reared its head in the Senate’s rejection of the electronic transmission of election results in real time, from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) …

Fresh indications of reconciliation have emerged in Rivers State after President Bola Tinubu intervened in the lingering political crisis during a late-night meeting in Abuja. A source within the Villa told Vanguard that the President held talks with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike; Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara; and other key political stakeholders from the state. …

A rights activist, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has described Senate’s rejection of mandatory electronic transmission of election results as a step backward for Nigeria’s democracy. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos, Okei-Odumakin expressed concern about the Senate’s decision. Okei-Odumakin, the President of the Centre for Change, said that the decision was troubling. She …

The Senate will reconvene for an emergency plenary sitting on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 12:00 in spite of having earlier adjourned sittings until February 24. The development was formally conveyed in an official notice dated Feb. 8, 2026, signed by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, on the directive of the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. The notice …

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has expressed strong support for the real-time electronic transmission of election results ahead of the 2027 General Elections. The NSE President,Ali Rabiu, made this known while reacting to Senate’s rejection of the proposal of real-time electronic transmission of election results from polling units to INEC’s IReV portal mandatory. According to Rabiu, electronic transmission of …

Leaders of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), backed by former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, on Thursday attended the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) quarterly consultative meeting with political parties. Present at the meeting were the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and the Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. Although INEC has yet to make …

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, has urged political parties to intensify mobilisation of eligible voters across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ahead of the Feb. 21 Area Councils election. He said this on Thursday in Abuja during the commission’s regular quarterly consultative meeting with leaders of political parties ahead of the election. Amupitan advised party …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration. No justices dissented from the brief order denying the appeal without explanation, which is common on the court’s emergency docket. The justices had previously allowed Texas’ …