The Presidency has observed, with dismay, the increasing number of billboards in some cities promoting the 2027 campaign for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Worth noting is that some of these billboards with pictures of the President and his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, emblazoned on them are springing up in Abuja and Kano in particular. While …

The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) has scheduled fresh local government elections for Saturday, 9 August 2025, following the nullification of the previous polls by the Supreme Court. Announcing the new date on Wednesday during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt, RSIEC Chairman, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd.) explained that the decision was in compliance with last Friday’s Supreme Court …

Former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, has claimed that elections in Nigeria can be bought by politicians with enough money, alleging that key institutions, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, the police, and the army, can be influenced. Udenwa made this assertion while speaking on Edmund Obilo’s State Affairs podcast, where he lamented the role of money in Nigeria’s …

The House of Representatives has proposed an open-secret ballot system for the election of presiding officers for the federal and state legislatures. The proposals are contained in two bills sighted by Daily Trust, which are before the Constitution Review Committee headed by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu. The bills sponsored by Rep. Mansur Manu Soro seek the alteration …

Ad hoc staff recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission  (INEC) for the 1 November governorship election in Ondo State have accused the commission of failing to pay their allowances, 22 days after the poll. The workers, numbering over 17,000, expressed frustration over the delayed payments despite promises made by INEC to disburse their allowances shortly after the election. One …

Ghana counted ballots on Saturday after a tight election with the ruling party’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia trying to shake off anger over economic woes and rebuff a challenge by opposition party candidate ex-president John Mahama. Ghana’s struggling economy dominated the election, after the west Africa gold and cacao producer went through a debt default, high inflation and negotiations for …

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Bamidele Akingboye and the deputy governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Hon Dayo Awude, have rejected the results by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declaring Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa, as the Governor- Elect. Aiyedatiwa, who was the candidate of the All Progressive Congress was declared winner of the last Saturday’s governorship election …

The candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Myson Nejo has condemned the conduct of the just-concluded Ondo State governorship election, alleging that the election was characterised by vote trading. He attributed his loss in the election to his refusal to trade votes for money. Nejo, who stated this on Sunday, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said that despite …

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has won the Ondo State governorship election. He emerged victorious in all the 18 Local Government Areas polling 366,781 votes as against 117,845 votes recorded by his closest rival, Chief Agboola Ajayi, who flew the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party. Ajayi was Deputy Governor to the now late …

One of the civil society group that monitored the Ondo State governorship election, Yiaga Africa, has described the process as largely peaceful and orderly. According to the group, although there were some cases of attempted vote buying, that did not cast a dark cloud on the outcome of the exercise. “So far the process is commendable, we went round and …