Voting begins throughout Nigerians at 8am today as voters return to the polls to elect state governors and legislators as well as chairmen and councillors for the six Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Councils.

UNITED States Congressman, Gerald Connolly, has bemoaned manipulation of elections in Nigeria, killings in Syria and the situation in Venezuela which he said were not getting adequate media attention compared to controversial remarks by a new congresswoman.

Activities of saboteurs were largely responsible for the observed pitfalls of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the last elections.

With the conduct of  February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections and the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the next stage of battle and permutations would be who becomes number three citizen of the country. 

Former Senate Minority Leader, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, withdrew the suit he filed to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  from issuing Certificate of Return to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chris Ekpenyong, who defeated him in the February 23 Senatorial election.

GOVERNOR Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has called on military personnel  deployed to the states of the South South not to pander to the dictates of politicians.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Friday, declined to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from participating in Saturday’s governorship election, following allegation that he tendered forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. 

Amidst pressure to buck the tide of a bandwagon, voters across the country go to the polls today to elect 29 governors and 991 members of the State Houses of Assembly in all 36 states of the country.

As a journalist, one is apprehensive covering Nigeria’s elections for several reasons because rather than being seen as a festival of some sorts, Nigeria’s General Elections are more like battle  royale. So, when we conduct elections, we actually go to war. In short, for Nigerians, nay Africans, it would appear that election is war, not by other means, but in the literal sense of the word.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has lashed out at   Governor Seriake Dickson for setting up what it described as a “strange judicial commission” on electoral violence with its  members as clear targets.