The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says no group has formally applied to register a new political party. Speaking with The Nation on Monday, INEC’s national commissioner and chairman of the information and voter education committee, Sam Olumekun said the commission has only letters of intent and not formal applications. ‘The truth is that we have so many letters of …

The Senate President, Godwill Akpabio, in Akwa Ibom State on Friday, said that there will be no political party in the state come 2027 general election. This is as he stated that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) umbrella has been torn into shreds and can no longer protect the people. Akpabio who represents Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District at …

The Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), West Africa, a leading CSR and sustainability advocacy organisation in the sub-region, has called on political parties in Ghana, especially the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to embrace and place sustainability at the forefront of their agendas as Ghanaians prepare to vote in a highly …

President of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Imo State chapter, Charles Okere, has said there has not been serious preparations from political parties to show their preparedness for the 21 September council polls. Okere while speaking to journalists from Ngor Okpala extraction maintained that parties were yet to show their preparedness for the polls. He called on …

Nigeria’s three main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP) – are in turmoil. They have been infested by little foxes that threaten to damage and, potentially, destroy them. I know that discipline is not a virtue of political parties in a presidential system. In Nigeria’s own version, however, …

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Moguno, gave the appeal on Tuesday during the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security. Specifically, Yakubu implored political parties, candidates, and their supporters to see the election as a contest, not war. The Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security meeting gets …

The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised concern over the invitation of its Director of New Media, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode by the Police while he was being investigated by the Department of State Services (DSS). Fani-Kayode was a guest of the DSS on Monday in respect of what its Public Relations Officer, Dr Peter Afunanya …

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday issued an interim injunction stopping the Federal Government from extending the 10 February deadline for the phaseout of the old Naira notes. The court ruled on an application by four political parties – Action Alliance (AA), Action Peoples Party (APP), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), and National Rescue Movement (NRM). …

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi has charged political parties to shun electoral violence by acting within the dictates of the Electoral Act 2022 in the forthcoming general election. Alabi made the statement during an event tagged “Stakeholders Meeting on Election Security”, organised by the Lagos State Police Command in the Ikeja area of the state. The stakeholders’ …