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Political parties are moving at sharply different speeds to beat a fast approaching deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission for uploading candidates ahead of the 2027 general elections, with the ruling party and the leading opposition platforms reporting smooth progress even as smaller parties wrestle with the commission’s online portal. INEC has…
Barely a day after accepting a fresh role at the heart of Atiku Abubakar’s 2027 campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo has moved to douse the controversy that trailed his earlier rejection of Rotimi Amaechi as running mate, insisting that his objection was never personal and that the country’s electoral law, not internal politics, narrowed the field…
The Federal High Court has overhauled the way it handles disputes over party primaries and candidate nominations, issuing fresh Practice Directions that impose strict filing timelines, cap adjournments and open court registries on weekends, as the country edges toward the 2027 general elections. The Federal High Court (Pre-Election) Practice Directions, 2026, issued by the…
A fresh round of power struggles has broken out inside Nigeria’s major political parties as the Independent National Electoral Commission’s nomination portal opened for the 2027 general elections, with rival factions and state chapters fighting over who controls candidate uploads before the submission deadline. The flashpoint is the Peoples Democratic Party. The faction backed…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress is heading to the Federal High Court today to seek a stay of execution of the Lokoja ruling that stripped it of recognition, even as the party accuses the Independent National Electoral Commission of withholding the access code needed to upload its candidates for the 2027 general election. NDC National…
A standoff has emerged between the Independent National Electoral Commission and political parties over the issuance of access codes for uploading candidates’ particulars, just as the window for nominating presidential and National Assembly candidates for the 2027 general election opens. While the parties, with the exception of the BOOT party, said they had not…
Nigeria’s electoral umpire has not received a kobo of the funds budgeted for the 2027 general elections, even as it races against tight international procurement timelines to replace voting machines lost or damaged in previous polls. INEC National Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Mohammed Haruna, disclosed the funding gap on Thursday in Abuja…
The News Agency of Nigeria has entered a partnership to compile a single reference document profiling candidates for the 2027 general elections, in a move that lands just as the official race for tickets enters its decisive phase. NAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Novel Communication Limited in Abuja to produce a political…
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…
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…
