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President Bola Tinubu’s three week European leave has arrived at a politically significant moment, with the 2027 presidential campaign already underway and the constitutional question of how presidential powers are handled during a vacation once again relevant to public scrutiny. Tinubu left Abuja on Sunday, August 30, for a three week annual leave, with London,…
Adebayo Adelabu’s decision to abandon any internal appeal or court challenge over the All Progressives Congress governorship nomination in Oyo State has removed one immediate threat to the party’s unity, but it has not erased the political questions raised by the contest. The former Minister of Power announced on August 27 that he would no…
Barely 48 hours after President Bola Tinubu unveiled the team meant to drive his re-election, the opposition has opened an early line of attack, with the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Kwankwaso, faulting the composition of the All Progressives Congress campaign structure and urging its Director-General to step aside. In…
Atiku Abubakar has placed insecurity and the removed petrol subsidy at the centre of his 2027 campaign, promising a rapid security overhaul in his first 100 days in office and vowing to reverse one of President Bola Tinubu’s signature economic reforms, a stance that has already provoked firm pushback from the Federal Government. Speaking…
Governor Ademola Adeleke’s closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday has drawn intense political attention, coming only five days after his re-election and at the very moment national alliances are being rearranged for the 2027 general elections. Adeleke arrived at the State House at about 5:20pm…
Nigeria’s 2027 general election campaign season formally opened on Wednesday, a day after presidential candidates, party leaders and diplomatic missions gathered in Abuja to sign the first National Peace Accord of the electoral cycle, with the European Union using the occasion to reaffirm that it backs no party or candidate in the contest. The…
Nigeria’s 2027 general election entered its most consequential phase on Wednesday, with the official commencement of presidential and National Assembly campaigns coinciding with a National Peace Accord signed a day earlier by candidates who remain divided over whether the pact can actually restrain the violence that has already trailed the electoral cycle. Under the…
The re-election of Governor Ademola Adeleke in Saturday’s Osun State governorship poll has become the latest flashpoint in a growing conversation about what Nigeria’s 2027 general elections should look like, with a prominent aide to the Ooni of Ife urging President Bola Tinubu to replicate what he called the Osun standard nationwide. The Independent…
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the Department of State Services to arrest and prosecute Islamic cleric Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, in one of the strongest institutional responses yet to a viral video in which he described Christians as infidels and urged Muslims to use…
A frontline rights group wants Nigeria’s top politicians to expose their personal wealth ahead of 2027. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project challenged President Bola Tinubu and opposition leaders to disclose their assets. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi lead a nineteen-candidate list facing the voluntary challenge. SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare issued the demand in…