For many Nigerians, electing a leader of unquestionable legitimacy — one chosen through free and fair elections, unmarred by violence…
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Before Nigeria’s presidential elections last year, legislator Alhassan Doguwa told raucous supporters what would happen to those who did not…
“Why would a presidential candidate have secret meetings with soldiers 14 days before the election?” the post thread read. “Is this meeting part of the wider agenda to disrupt the elections, destabilise the country, set us on fire, incite chaos and violence, provoke a coup d’etat…?”
We know where the Nigerian government stands. Despite the challenges encountered along the way, “the 2023 General Election can be considered as the best planned and most credible election since 1999,” the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wrote in the concluding sentences of its more than 500-page report.