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One hundred days is a very short time for any meaningful assessment of governance. But if an administrator hits the ground running from the first day in office, reasonable milestones can be identified within the period. Prior to his inauguration as Governor of Delta State, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori was perceived by a section of the populace as incompetent. This perception was not unconnected to the tag of ‘street credibility’ attached to him during the campaigns...

Election petition tribunals across Nigeria have so far dismissed at least nine senators, House of Representatives members, and National Assembly members. The court has dismissed members of the opposition PDP, NNPP, and Labour Party as well as the ruling APC. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was instructed to revoke the lawmakers’ Certificate of Return after the tribunals dismissed them. In other instances, the courts ruled the elections were invalid and ordered a repeat within...

Dennis Idahosa was declared the winner of the February 25 Ovia Federal Constituency election by the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin City, which dismissed two petitions for lack of merit and incompetence. The petitioners, Barr Omosede Igbinedion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Epele Asemota of the Labour Party (LP), each independently petitioned the court to contest Idahosa’s victory. Asemota and Igbenedion had accused INEC of conducting the election in...

Paul Nnamchi (LP-Enugu State), a representative, has disagreed with the decision of the National Assembly Election Tribunal’s three-person panel that declared his election to be invalid. He was fired from the NASS by the tribunal on Friday, and Cornelius Nnaji, the PDP candidate, was pronounced the winner. This was said in a statement made by Nnamchi shortly after the verdict through his media advisor, Mr. Sam Nwanze. The ruling “does not conform to the provisions...