LAGOS—BURDENED Elders, a group of eminent Nigerians and elder statesmen led by Professor Anya O. Anya and Dr Christopher Kolade, yesterday, looked at the state of the nation, and the toxic tone of the 2019 electioneering campaigns and returned a grim verdict: The nation is bleeding profusely… and approaching a frontier it has never seen before.’’
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Nigeria must pass 7 basic tests of credible polls
The campaign for next month’s presidential election officially started on November 18 last year. Yet, to date, beyond the glossy manifesto booklets and the propaganda blitzes that followed their launches, few Nigerians really know the issues the candidates are canvassing. Their ideas are not ventilated on the campaign trail or scrutinised by the media. Nothing is heard about presidential debates, the sine qua non of any serious presidential contest.
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2019 POLLS: Hold all Stakeholders accountable Okowa challenges media
AS count down to the general elections continues, Delta State Governor Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has challenged the media to guarantee sustainable democracy by partnering with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure credible elections that will be acceptable to Nigerians.
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INEC drags EFCC, ICPC into 2019 polls
DISTURBED by the incidents of vote-buying that tainted recent elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared its readiness to collaborate with the security agencies to stop the emerging trend.
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Bangladesh party says hundreds of supporters held before polls
Bangladesh’s opposition party Sunday said nearly 2,000 of its supporters have been arrested on trumped-up charges in a crackdown aimed at derailing its campaign just weeks from a general election. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is seeking to unseat Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on December 30, said at least 1,972 party officials and grassroots campaigners […]
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2019: The world expects credible polls from Nigeria – US Ambassador
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, has asked Nigerian Government and its people to do all within their powers to deliver a credible polls next year as the world expects nothig but a rancour-free result that will deepen democracy in the country.
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Polls open for elections in Brazil
polls ope for elections in Brazil Brazilians are heading to the polls to choose the country’s president and members of the lower house of Congress, Senate, as well as governors and lawmakers in all 27 states. The front-runner for the highest position is Jair Bolsonaro from the Social Liberal Party who has been dubbed ‘the
2019: Falana, INEC, TMG list threats to credible polls
SOME critical stakeholders including the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, identified insecurity, paucity of funds, hate speech, legal framework, lack of internal democracy in political parties and vote-buying among others as threats to the 2019 general polls.
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Uproar as Senators, Reps seek declaration of June 12 polls results
President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to recognise Chief Moshood Abiola’s position in the evolution of the country’s democracy rebounded in the two chambers of the National Assembly yesterday with legislators applauding his decision but questioning his procedure.
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