A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said last year’s Electoral Act is the best “we have had as a country”. He said there was room for improvement. Jega, a professor of political science at Bayero University in Kano (BUK), spoke at a citizens’ town hall on electoral reforms organised by the election …

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 …

Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the Electoral Act (2022), which he said encouraged free and fair elections and supported his election as governor last 16th July. At a meeting with President Buhari at the State House in Abuja on Friday, Adeleke said: “I am a beneficiary of the new Electoral law you …

Like the Senate did on Tuesday, the House of Representatives is set to amend the Electoral Act, 2022. The lower chamber of the National Assembly has fixed Wednesday for plenary session to rejig the Act signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 25th February. In a statement on Tuesday, the Clerk of the House, Yahaya Danzaria said the lawmakers would convene …

The Senate on Tuesday altered the Electoral Act and provided for the participation of statutory delegates in the conventions, congresses or meetings of political parties in Nigeria. The expeditious consideration followed the suspension of relevant Senate Rules to pave the way for the first, second and third readings of the bill same day. Titled, “A bill for an Act to …

The National Assembly may have begun the move to enforce Section 84(12) of the Electoral (Amended) Act 2022 which bars appointed members of the executive arm of government from contesting or voting in any party primary. If enforced, many Ministers, state Commissioners and other non-elected aides at all level of government will not be able to pursue their ambition of …