POLITICS

Monday, 04 December 2023 04:45

Nigeria’s electoral system so corrupt that ‘it's impossible for honest people to contest polls’ - Babangida Aliyu

Babangida Aliyu, a former governor of Niger state, says Nigeria’s corrupt electoral system has made it impossible for honest people to contest elections. Aliyu spoke on Saturday at the annual lecture and general meeting of the Kaduna state chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). The former governor said delegates for primary elections see the nomination process as an avenue to make money. “One of the issues that may erode the confidence in our system is in our election and electoral system, to the extent that some prominent Nigerians are questioning whether democracy is workable in Nigeria,” he…

Thursday, 23 November 2023 05:13

Confusion as appeal court’s CTC judgment affirms Kano gov’s election, yet sacks him

There was confusion in Kano State on Tuesday with the emergence of a Certified True Copy of the Court of Appeal judgment on the state gvernorship election. While the widely reported verdict of the court last Friday indicated that the appelate court upheld the decision of the petition tribunal sacking Governor Abba Yusuf, the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isa-Dederi, argued that CTC of the judgment showed that Yusuf’s Victory at the poll was affirmed by the appeal court. Isa-Dederi disclosed this while addressing a press conference Tuesday night. He said as indicated in the written judgment, the…

Thursday, 23 November 2023 05:12

Protest breaks out in Kano over Appeal Court ruling sacking governor

Protesters on Wednesday trooped out on the streets of Kano over the judgment which sacked Governor Abba Yusuf. The police tried hard to disperse the protesters who chanted: “We Want Justice.” The lower court had declared 165,663 votes of Yusuf, who contested under the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), invalid on the grounds that they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Last week, an Appeal Court panel had upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023. The governor’s votes were then reduced to 853,939…

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 04:49

3 or 4 judges shouldn’t be able to upturn votes of millions of Nigerians who elected govs, others - Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted verdicts of the Nigerians judges on the electoral disputes, saying three to five judges should not overturn decisions made by millions of voters during an election. Obasanjo described the powers vested in the hands of a few judges as “totally unacceptable.” The former President spoke in wake of the ongoing judgements of the Court of Appeal on the electoral disputes arising from 2023 elections in Nigeria. Only last week, three governors were sacked in separate judgements delivered by the judges of the Court of Appeal. The affected governors are, Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State,…

Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:37

Liberal democracy isn’t working in Africa because it produces ‘government of a few people over all the people’ - Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says democracy has not been working as a system of government in Africa because it was “forced” on the continent. Obasanjo stated this on Monday in Abeokuta in his address at a high-level consultation on “Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy for Africa.” The former president said the Western style of democracy has failed in Africa because it does not take into consideration the views of the majority of the people. He described Western Liberal Democracy as a “government of a few people over all the people or population”. ”These few people are representatives of only some of…

Monday, 20 November 2023 04:42

Nigerians say country sliding to one-party state as Appeal Court sacks 3 govs in opposition within 4 days

Criticisms have trailed the sacking of Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State by the Court of Appeal, triggering reactions that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was at work to run one-party system in Nigeria. The sacking of Mutfwang was the third experience of the opposition in four days. Last week, Iliya Damagum, Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), raised the alarm that there was a plot to overturn the will of the people as expressed during the general elections. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Damagum alleged that there was a design by the…

Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:04

Liberia George Weah concedes defeat to ex-VP Boakai in hotly contested presidential elections

Liberia President George Weah on Friday conceded election defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight race, ending a presidency marred by graft allegations but helping to ensure a smooth transition of power in the once volatile African nation. Boakai, 78, a former vice president who lost to Weah in the 2017 election, led with 50.9% of the vote over Weah's 49.1%, with nearly all the votes counted, the country's elections commission said on Friday. The result marks a stark turnaround from 2017, when global soccer legend Weah, buoyed by a wave of hope, trounced Boakai with 62 percent…

Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:44

PDP’s Diri wins second term as Bayelsa governor

Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has been declared winner of the Saturday, November 11 governorship election. According to the State Returning Officer, Faruq Kuta, Diri, having polled the highest number of votes and met the conditions specified in the Electoral Act, was declared winner of the election. Diri, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was declared as the duly elected governor of the state after polling a total of 175,196 to defeat his closest rival and former minister of Petroleum Resources and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva, of the All progressives Congress (APC), who garnered…

Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:43

Conduct of Imo, Kogi, Bayelsa polls by INEC a threat to Nigeria’s democracy – Situation Room

Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room has expressed disappointment with the conduct of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states, describing it as a major setback in the nation’s democratic development. In a statement on Monday in Abuja, Situation Room said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not show that it had learned from the challenges it faced in conducting the general elections eight months ago. “These elections represent a major setback in Nigeria’s democratic development,” it said in statement signed by its convener, Yunusa Ya’u, and co-conveners, Mimidoo Achakpa and Franklin Oloniju. The group said “the…

Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:42

INEC’s credibility further eroded by conduct of off-cycle elections - Yiaga Africa

Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation (CSO), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) missed an opportunity to rebuild citizens’ trust in Nigeria’s electoral process. On Saturday, off-season polls took place in Bayelsa, Kogi, and Imo states. Briefing journalists in Abuja on Monday, Samson Itodo, Yiaga’s executive director, said: “These off-cycle elections were to test the commitment of key democratic institutions such as INEC, security agencies and the executive to restore public confidence in the electoral process”. “Yiaga Africa is concerned about the continuous decline in the quality of our elections and the penchant to lower the integrity standards of…

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Monday, 13 November 2023 04:52

INEC declares APC’s Uzodimma, Ododo winners of Imo, Kogi gov elections; Bayelsa pending

Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party on Sunday cried foul as Governor Hope Uzodimma, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was declared winner of Saturday’s governorship poll in Imo State by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The electoral body affirmed Uzodimma’s re-election, having won in all the 27 local government areas of the state. The governor clinched a second term in office after scoring a total of 540,008 votes, the commission stated. In Kogi, the candidate of the APC, Usman Ododo, was declared the winner of the election with 446,237 votes. Announcing the result late Sunday night, the state…

Monday, 13 November 2023 04:52

It’s waste of time going to court to contest Kogi’s rigged election, runner-up candidate says

Governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi State, Murtala Ajaka, has alleged irregularities in Saturday’s election. Ajaka said he won’t challenge the outcome of the poll in court if he loses as it would be a waste of time. Speaking on Channels TV’s ‘The 2023 Verdict: Off-Cycle Elections,’ Ajaka had claimed that the election was rigged with the support of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). “In the whole of the five local governments in central, the whole of the five local governments in central, there was no election anywhere. They wrote results. Result sheets were given to…

Sunday, 12 November 2023 04:51

INEC suffers no ‘glitch’, uploads Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo gov election results speedily to IReV

Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) is speedily uploading polling unit results from Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states on to its IReV portal for public view. IReV portal is an online platform where the Indepdent National Electoral Commission (INEC) uploads real time the photographic copies of the result sheets from various polling units as soon as recording is concluded. Designated officers of INEC at the various polling units are expected, as soon as recording and signing of the result sheets are completed, to take the photographs of the results documents with the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines…

Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:46

Imo, Bayelsa, Kogi voters elect their governors today

After months of campaigns and preparations by the various stakeholders, voters in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states will on Saturday (today) elect their new governors. In the three states, Independent National Electoral Commission announced that 5,169,692 voters collected their permanent voter cards out of the 5,409,438 registered voters in the three states. In Bayelsa State, data on INEC’s website indicated that there are 1,056,862 registered voters, out of which 1,017,613 collected their PVCs, while 39,249 PVCs remained uncollected. In Imo State, there are 2,419,922 registered voters, out of which 2,318,919 collected their PVCs, while 101,003 PVCs have not been collected.…

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