The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO Renewal Group has said that Nigeria’s democracy is evolving, hence the need for continued support and diplomatic ties with the international community to sustain it and better the citizens’ lives. The group, which described the 25th February presidential election as the “freest, fairest, and most credible election so far in the country”, expressed confidence in …

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday disagreed fiercely over the outcome of the 2023 presidential polls. While the PDP described the victory of the rival party and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as an “electoral heist that must not be allowed to stand”, the APC countered that its presidential flag bearer’s …

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 …

One read with bewilderment, even a sense of dark foreboding, the statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo the other day calling for the cancellation “of all elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test” during the Saturday (25 February) presidential elections. We have always known Chief Obasanjo to harbour anti-democratic proclivities. But never did one anticipate this effrontery, …

Our people say at the death of an elephant, various types of knives are brandished. Such has been the case while the country waited with bated breath to know its new President. Not a few people have gone to town with their own interpretation of Section 134 (1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. For ease of reference, I …