Politics

Prof. Haruna Ayuba, Vice-Chancellor of Bingham University, Karu Nasarawa State, said that the burden of proof in election petition cases often posed significant challenges, delays, ambiguities, procedural hurdles and sometimes injustices in the electoral system. Ayuba said this at the 13th Inaugural Lecture delivered by Prof. Magdalyne Dura, Professor of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of …

The Presidency has dismissed Mr Peter Obi’s call for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, describing it as misplaced and based on what it called a selective interpretation of developments in Nigeria since 2023. This is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Presidential Spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, who said Obi’s position failed to reflect the country’s constitutional …

  The reproach of Mr Lifu’s judgment should not only end with the reprimand of the Court of Appeal. Nigeria’s democratic process received yet another jolt in the build-up to the 2027 general elections recently, with a Federal High Court, Abuja, judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister five political parties for purportedly failing to meet …

A civil society organisation (CSO), Yiaga Africa says the official results of Saturday’s Ekiti governorship election announced by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are consistent with its Process and Results Verification for Transparency (PRVT) estimates. The CSO made this known in its post-election news conference on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. The News Agency of Nigeria (BAN) reports that the news conference …

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate, Mr Dare Bejide, has rejected the Ekiti State election result. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, Bejide described the election as lacking credibility. He alleged tnat the exercise was conducted in “an atmosphere replica of a war zone”. The ADC candidate accused the ruling party of engaging in vote buying through money and food …

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, has appealed to Chief Bode George to rejoin the “party’s mainstream leadership structure” in order to reposition it ahead of 2027. Mr Hakeem Olalemi,State Organising Secretary of the faction, made the appeal in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in …

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti, Gov. Biodun Oyebanji, has emerged winner with 319,224 votes. Oyebanji defeated his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Wole Oluyede, who scored 40,543 vote Mrs Adenike Oladiji, INEC’s Chief Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, announced the …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has uploaded 2,048 results out of 2,445 polling units on its Result Viewing Portal as of 6:41pm on Saturday, representing 83.7 percent of total results from the Ekiti State governorship election. The figure represents a significant jump from the 35.5 percent uploaded barely 30 minutes earlier at 6:12pm, according to report by the PUNCH. Fourteen …

The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ekiti State, Dr Wole Oluyede, has alleged voter intimidation and expressed concerns over delays in the accreditation and voting process at his polling unit at Osaguru Hall, unit 6, ward 3, Ikere-Ekiti. Speaking with journalists after casting his vote, Oluyede described the pace of voting as unacceptable, claiming that only a …

Solicitors to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has written to INEC, demanding that the commission ceased all correspondents on electoral processes with impostors not recognised by subsisting judgments of the courts placed before it. The party made the demand on Saturday in Lagos in a letter addressed to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, with attention to the …