A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government to jettison its plans to post military officers to polling stations across the country for the March 28 and April 11, 2015 general elections.
Justice Ibrahim Buba ruled that the use of military for the polls is “unconstitutional and undemocratic.”
Some Nigerians, especially those from the opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, are against the use of soldiers for elections following the alleged involvement of the military to rig the 2014 Ekiti governorship election, which produced Ayo Fayose as governor, displacing Kayode Fayemi, who was then the incumbent governor.
A former secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Temitope Aluko on Sunday exposed how the military was allegedly used to rig the 2014 Ekiti State governor election that produced Ayo Fayose of the PDP as winner. Aluko, who was the Chief Returning Officer and…
Governor Nyesom Wike has accused his opponent in the Rivers State governorship election in April 2015, Dakuku Peterside of killing an aide to his (Wike) Chief of Staff, Chukwuemeka Woke. Wike, while addressing journalist on Sunday, said Dakuku, who is the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety…
A coalition of civil society organisations under the auspices of Democracy Watch Nigeria has called on INEC to reject the results from areas where elections did not hold. The coalition, representing various groups accredited by INEC as Observers for the Bayelsa election, made this call on Thursday, 21st November, 2019…
