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The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in its decision dated November 10, 2019, also confirmed Amnesty’s curious withdrawal from the case. ....
Twenty months after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deregistered 74 of the 91 political parties in the country, more than half of the parties that survived the electoral body’s hammer are docile and inactive, Daily Trust reports. No fewer than 15 of the remaining 18 parties are inactive and unpopular as they only exist on […] ....
The recurring sociopolitical and economic crises as well as insecurity challenges bedeviling the nation have been variously attributed to marginalization of certain regions in the scheme of things in the nation’s corporate existence. The clamour and agitations have gotten to a boiling point with the rise in demand for self-determination through secession and or separatism. For the agitators, if the country must remain united and enjoy relative peace and stability, then, the solution is restructuring through referendum. This has been the key demand of the agitators. Another demand which is also on the front burner is clamour for constitutional review which is crucial to restructuring. ....
The polity is twitching sequel to 17 Southern governors’ demand at their meeting last Monday in Lagos, that the South should be allowed to take a shot at the presidency in 2023. Tongues are wagging over the issue as many political bigwigs from the North see it as a way of shutting them out of the presidential race. Pundits have argued that zoning can only be guaranteed by political parties which field candidates for various political offices. While the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recognised and enshrined in its constitution that there shall be power rotation between the North and the South, the Constitution of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has no such provision. ....
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