The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, revealed on Monday that the 2022 Electoral Act will be amended to allow statutory delegates to participate in political parties’ primaries in the upcoming 2027 general election. This amendment, Akpabio noted, would address a significant oversight in the previous electoral law. Akpabio made the announcement during a meeting with the national leadership of …

A former President of the Senate, Ameh Ebute, on Monday, said the victory which the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recorded in Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State and its “giant strides” in recent times were indications that the 2027 general elections would be a walk in the park for the party. This was even as the party’s National Chairman, …

Former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday stated that the PDP G5 group will support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027 saying the group has no regret for supporting the president in the last poll The former governor made this known on Sunday at a luncheon hosted by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike …

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has given the lie to insinuations suggesting that he would contest against his boss, President Bola Tinubu, in the 2027 presidential election. The former Rivers State governor vowed that having worked for the emergence of  President Tinubu as the nation’s president, and having been made minister of the FCT, nothing would …

Ahead of the 2027 elections, the Senate is set to amend the Electoral Act to allow for diaspora voting, at least for presidential elections, to enable citizens, especially those on essential service abroad, to vote. The Senate in a communiqué issued at the end of its retreat in Ikot Ikpene, Akwa-Ibom State, also resolved to make electronic transmission of results mandatory …

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, a leader in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has canvassed a further reform of the Electoral Act that would address leadership recruitment for the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC). This, he believed, would and make nation’s  electoral umpire truly “independent” of  “external control and influence”. INEC was established by the 1999 Constitution …