The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has condemned the exorbitant nomination fees demanded by State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) for local government polls, describing it as a violation of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2022. The council spoke on Saturday ahead of local government polls in several states, including Kaduna, Kano, and Jigawa. IPAC’s National Chairman, Yusuf Mamman Dantalle, slammed …

Ahead of the governorship primaries in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States, the Labour Party has reduced nomination fee from N25 million to N15 million. In a series of tweets Monday, spokesperson for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, had out over the N25 million governorship nomination fee, describing it as exorbitant. Highlighting Article 8(h) of the party’s constitution, he …