The dual citizenship allegation is the latest in the series of controversies surrounding the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu. While his critics claim it is enough to bar him from the presidency based on Section 137 of the Constitution, his supporters think otherwise. Alex Enumah examines the constitutional implications For the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, there is ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress, APC’s, candidate, Akarachi Amadi (28), as the winner of Saturday’s supplementary election for the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency. The APC candidate received the most votes, according to the results announced by the federal constituency returning officer, Prof. Boniface Okoro, at the collation center for ...

Introduction On 6th February 2023, the Supreme Court of Nigeria divided public and legal opinion after it delivered its judgment in the case of APC v. Bashir Sheriff & Ors.1 The judgment came as a shock to many Nigerians who rightly or wrongly felt that the Supreme Court failed to do justice in the case, which many ...

    Once an electoral institution fails the neutrality and objectivity tests, public trust is broken and voters disengage from participating in civic life. Nothing is more disempowering and demotivating than having a partisan and partial electoral umpire manage multiparty elections. It strips the elected government of the political authority required to legitimise its rule. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Saturday, April 15 for conclusion of the Governorship elections in Adamawa and Kebbi States hitherto declared inconclusive. The Commission also said all National and Assembly elections declared inconclusive will also be concluded on the same day. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekunmi said this ...

A group of Ogun indigenes on Thursday called for the suspension of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, for allegedly doctoring and rigging the result of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The group, under the aegis of the Ogun Assembly of Patriots International, also ...

Some protesters stormed the national assembly in Abuja yesterday over the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. The protesters carried placards with the inscriptions such as ‘Save our Democracy’, “INEC + Corruption, Politicians are killing our Democracy,” and “INEC killing the Nigerian Democracy.” Some of the women protesters were crying and cursing. This is coming ...

As the curtain falls on the time frame for filing of petitions against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, the presidential candidates of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Action Alliance (AA), Solomon Okangbuan; and Allied People’s Movement (APM), Chichi Ojei, have filed for the nullification ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has admitted that it awarded the printing of some sensitive materials for the 2023 elections to Binani Printing Press Limited. According to Sahara Reporters, the company is owned by a sitting Senator and a governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state, Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed. ...

    Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN and President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has restated a position he has maintained before now that “… the NBA has no candidate in this election and would never have a candidate in any election; it is not a political party, has no affiliation with any political ...

Recently, I have been getting calls from journalists and reporters requesting me to give them a summarized update on the ongoing INEC/ presidential election saga, they always end it by asking me what I think could likely be the outcome of the case in the election petition tribunal and I will sincerely answer them that ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been ordered by the Federal High Court of Abuja to permit the use of Temporary Voter Cards (TVC) in the March 18 Governorship and Assembly elections. The decision was made by Justice Obiora Egwuatu in a lawsuit brought by two Nigerians who felt they had been wronged ...

The governorship and House of Assembly elections will not hold on Saturday. It has been shifted to March 18, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced last night. This followed yesterday’s rejection by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) of the request by Mr. Peter Obi and his Labour Party (LP) to restrain INEC from ...

The Court of Appeal in Lagos has granted permission to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to reconfigure the Bimordal Voters Accreditation BVAS for the Saturday, March 11 governorship and state house of assembly elections. INEC had approached the court for permission to reconfigure the machines that were used for the February 25, 2023 presidential ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Tuesday, issued Certificates of Return to winners of the February 25, 2023 senatorial election. The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, presented the certificates to the senators-elect at the National Collation Centre, Abuja. Yakubu had, on Saturday, said winners were declared for 423 legislative seats, indicating that supplementary elections would ...

The last presidential and National Assembly election was as crucial to our democracy as it was controversial. A lot was riding on it, delivering more drama than anticipated. Our present reality is that going by the posturing of key political gladiators, the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have triggered direct judicial intervention as  the ...