Why our votes need to count in Nigeria, By Alex Otti premiumtimesng.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from premiumtimesng.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the processes of the procurement of electronic voting machines over the delay in the passage of the Electoral Act amendment into law. A top official of the commission told Daily Trust on Thursday in Abuja that there is nothing the commission could do now as a major […]
It’s Unconstitutional To Subject Operation, Independence Of INEC To Another Agency
In the aftermath of the controversies that followed the 2019 general election and much later the off-cycle gubernatorial elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the intensity of the push by the electorate and various stakeholder groups interested in the nation’s electioneering process increased significantly. There seemed to be a consensus that the 2023 election cycle would not roll in without a fundamental review of the main electoral legislation, the Electoral Act 2010 that was last reviewed about 10 years ago by the 6th National Assembly. x
Attempts had been made to review the current Act in the period leading to the 2019 election but efforts of the 8th National Assembly, led by Senator Bukola Saraki, didn’t come to fruition. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on the eve of the election, refused assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, citing the be
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• Lagos, Ogun To Elect Chairmen, Councillors Today
• LASIEC Pledges Transparency As Police Warn Against Thuggery
• Court Declines Requests To Halt Lagos Poll
As voters troop out today in Lagos and Ogun states to elect their local council chairmen and councillors, Yiaga Africa has lamented the over bearing influence of state governors on the grassroots election.
Meanwhile, a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has declined the request by 11 political parties to halt today’s council elections in Lagos.
The presiding judge, Justice Akintayo Aluko, made the decision in a ruling delivered yesterday in Suit No FHC/L/CS/596/2021, which was filed by the Alliance of Social Democrats and 10 other political parties against Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the Lagos State government.