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Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress has been re-elected to a second term in Ekiti State, defeating 13 challengers and becoming the first governor in the state’s history to retain power through immediate re-election. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Mr Oyebanji winner in the early hours of Sunday, June 21, 2026,…
A fresh legal challenge has emerged over the bench warrant issued against activist and African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore, with human rights lawyer Aloy Ejimakor urging the Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside the order on grounds that it breached the constitutional guarantee of fair hearing. Ejimakor, in a statement…
The Independent National Electoral Commission deployed sensitive materials on Thursday for the June 20, 2026, by-elections in Enugu, Nasarawa, Rivers, Ondo, Kebbi and Kano states, even as the police announced restrictions on movement across the affected constituencies. The polls will hold alongside the closely watched Ekiti State governorship election scheduled for the same Saturday….
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 Nigeria Democratic Congress has rolled out a binding anti-defection regime that compels every candidate seeking elective office on its platform to sign indemnity forms and swear affidavits surrendering their mandates if they abandon the party after winning. The party’s National Chairman, Senator Moses Cleopas Zuwoghe, unveiled the policy on Tuesday at an indemnity…
A Federal High Court ruling directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress and four other parties has triggered a wave of outrage from opposition figures, who cast the decision as a calculated assault on Nigeria’s multiparty democracy months before the 2027 general elections. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has said elections in the country are often manipulated because citizens fail to take ownership of the electoral process and defend their votes, declaring that the ballot will only count when voters are determined to make it count. The former Anambra State governor made the…
Thirty-three years after Nigerians voted in the historic June 12, 1993 presidential election, a civic group has warned that the very governance failures that vote sought to address remain unresolved and are deepening, even as the country marks another Democracy Day under the shadow of mass school abductions and a biting cost of living…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has blamed the failure of some National Assembly members to secure return tickets during party primaries on poor grassroots preparation, disclosing that several of his colleagues are battling hypertension over their political survival. Akpabio spoke on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Abuja at the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress…
National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has urged Nigerians to set aside regional sentiment in choosing leaders and to back candidates with competence, integrity and vision, declaring himself fully comfortable as a northerner supporting a southern presidential candidate. Baba-Ahmed made the call while featuring in the News Agency of Nigeria Personality…
