Since he reluctantly assented to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which allows the transmission of election results from the polling units after intense pressure, President Muhammadu Buhari has been assuring us of his willingness to allow the 2023 general elections to be free and fair. However, his habit of taking measures to tamper with the […]

The Muhammadu Buhari presidency has been the most media-unfriendly government since the return of our democracy in 1999. It has done everything possible to constrict the media and democratic space and deprive Nigerians of their right to free speech and media freedom as stipulated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended). […]

WE are strong advocates for an independent investigative and prosecutorial body to deal exclusively on electoral offenders. We have also pushed for the establishment of a tribunal in the likeness of the Election Petition Tribunal, to try electoral offenders, including violators of the law in pursuit of their cases at the Election Petition Tribunals. We […]

The arrest and detention of Nigerian music superstar, Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe, popularly known as “Kizz Daniel” in Tanzania, should be a lesson to all our celebrities, including musicians, actors and other artistes that if the law in Nigerian can be bent in deference to their stardom, the same does not apply in other more serious […]

THOUGH the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, swiftly issued a statement last Sunday affirming that “electronic transmission of results has come to stay”, the confusion as to the continued role of “manual collation” of results in our electoral management under the recently amended Electoral Act remains. Festus Okoye, INEC’s Chairman of the Information and Voter […]