The North has made its choice with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari for another four years. The difference between Buhari’s votes and those of Atiku Abubakar is 3,928,869. Out of that figure, the South West’s contribution is 259,780. What percentage is that? The three zones in the North contributed more than 80 percent of […]
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HELP,HELP,A COMPROMISED INEC IS MURDERING NIGERIA’S HARD EARNED DEMOCRACY. BY CHIEF MIKE OZEKHOME,SAN,OFR,FCIArb,Ph.D The announcement by INEC,that the Osun state election conducted on Saturday,22nd September2018,was inconclusive and the fixing of 27th of September for a so called rerun,is a dangerous subversion and travesty of the electoral process,a blow to our hard earned constitutional democracy and […]
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it would not use incident forms in the 2019 general election, adding that it will also reduce human involvement in result collation through the introduction of satellite technology in a bid to maintain its neutrality as an electoral umpire. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated the importance of debates among candidates running for political offices in 2019. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this while delivering a speech titled, ‘The role of media in the Nigerian electoral process,’ at the 69th General Assembly of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria in […]
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”All the ills of democracy can only be cured by more democracy” (Alfred Smith -1873-1944) Democracy, by isochronal and intertextual condensing, including but not limited to Jeffersonian, Lincolnian and Grecian normative standard is the political doctrine that recognizes the institutionalization of liberal structures of governance that enfranchises and gives the people the rights to elect […]
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The Senate has threatened to boycott plenary unless the Independent National Electoral Commission conducts rerun elections in Rivers and Anambra states to fill their vacant seats in the National Assembly before December 10. The Senate’s resolution asking INEC to conduct the rerun polls not later than December 10 was reached on Wednesday, following a motion […]
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Former aide to Ahmed Tinubu, Segun Ayobolu, who is currently for The Nation newspaper, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of negating the change mantra the party stands for. Ayobolu, Tinubu’s Chief Press Secretary and Special Adviser on Information and Strategy on Health to Raji Fashola the immediate past governor of Lagos on said Buhari’s five […]
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