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Nine political parties have collected their official web access codes from the Independent National Electoral Commission. The All Progressives Congress, the African Democratic Congress, and the Labour Party lead the first batch of collectors. These codes grant access to the dedicated online candidate nomination portal. The development marks the official commencement of the electronic phase…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress says it has uploaded the name of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s nomination portal, even as the party fights a Federal High Court ruling that voided the order behind its registration. The party’s National Leader, Senator Seriake Dickson, who represents Bayelsa West, disclosed this…
The Independent National Electoral Commission is locked in a bitter dispute with political parties over portal access codes for candidate nominations. Opposition groups claim the commission is using technical delays to compromise the 2027 election timeline. Electoral officials insist that access tokens will only go to legitimate party executives. This digital bottleneck threatens to disrupt…
Prominent leaders of the National Democratic Coalition have fiercely rejected historical claims made by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. The pro-democracy veterans, Colonel Tony Nyiam and Chief Ayo Opadokun, dismissed assertions published in the general’s new autobiography, Call of Duty. Abdulsalami claimed that NADECO figures privately lobbied him in 1998 to extend military…
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has chosen to file a no-case submission in his criminal trial for alleged wiretapping. His defence lawyer, Paul Erokoro, announced the decision before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. The move followed an announcement by the Department of State Services that it had concluded its prosecution. State…
Voters across Ekiti State are heading to the polls today to elect a governor for the next four years in a highly anticipated off-cycle election. The contest has effectively narrowed to a high-stakes duel between the incumbent, Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress, and Dr Wole Oluyede of the Peoples Democratic Party. While…
Barely 14 of every 100 registered voters in Nigeria’s capital turned up for the February 2026 Federal Capital Territory council elections, a turnout so thin that some polling units recorded a single ballot. The figure has hardened a worry that now shadows the Independent National Electoral Commission as it prepares for the 2027 general…
The 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, has challenged the federal government to provide an explicit accounting of its massive debt pile. Obi raised the alarm on Tuesday over the national debt profile, which he claimed has soared to approximately 200 trillion naira under the current administration. The opposition leader argued…
Former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has revealed that he would have persuaded Peter Obi to step aside for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2027 presidential race if Atiku had backed the Labour Party ticket during the 2023 election. Speaking on Channels Television’s Inside Sources, Baba-Ahmed argued that Atiku missed…
The Federal High Court in Abuja commenced an accelerated hearing today in a high-stakes legal battle challenging the legitimacy of the African Democratic Congress leadership under former Senate President David Mark. Justice Peter Lifu activated the fast-track trial schedule following explicit directives from the Supreme Court to resolve the internal party crisis expeditiously. The plaintiff,…
