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The final 48 hours before Saturday’s Osun governorship election have shifted attention from campaign promises to a more troubling question: how much violence has the state actually recorded, and can voters safely participate in the poll? The Accord Party says at least 29 people have been killed in incidents it links to the political…
Christopher Imumolen, factional national chairman of the Accord Party and its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has withdrawn from the 2027 presidential contest and declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a second term, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, and circulated by the News Agency of…
Barely three weeks to the Osun State governorship election, an armed attack on officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Odo Otin Local Government Area has sharpened concerns over security and the credibility of the electoral process in the state. The Osun State Police Command confirmed that about ten suspected hoodlums…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has extended an unusual invitation ahead of one of the most closely watched elections in the country this year, asking the European Union to send observers to monitor the August 15 governorship poll in the state. The appeal, coming barely a month to the vote, signals both the…
A single ruling from the Federal High Court in Abuja has reopened one of the most delicate questions in Nigeria’s democracy: whether the state can lawfully shut down a political party, and if so, on whose terms. Justice Peter Lifu’s order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to strike five parties off its register…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has fixed July 7 for the hearing of an appeal challenging the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, Accord Party and three other opposition platforms, pushing back a politically charged case that has gripped the country barely months before the 2027 general election. The three-member panel, led by Justice…
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…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister five political parties for failing to meet the constitutional and electoral performance thresholds required under Nigerian law. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment on Monday in a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former…
A faction of the Accord Party has selected Professor Christopher Imumolen as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general election through a consensus process at a special national convention in Lagos. The announcement was made in a statement by the faction National Secretary, Mallam Muktar Abdullah. Delegates from the 36 states and the Federal Capital…
Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and wounded Ashimiyu Ajibola the Chairman of the Accord Party in Osogbo Local Government Area of Osun State in the MDS area of the state capital late on Wednesday. The victim sustained gunshot injuries but survived and is receiving treatment in hospital. The Osun State Police Command confirmed the…
