Selecting the Right Leader to forge on with the plan for Kogi State
The Independent National Electoral Commission has scheduled the Kogi state Governorship elections to hold on the 12th of November 2019. Elections in Kogi State are peculiar, because of the Ethno-religious nature of Kogi politics. The major ethnic groups in the state are Igala, Ebira, and Okun. The Igala people are the most populous in the […]
#NigeriaDecides2019: Lessons for the 3rd Force
The presidential elections in Nigeria has come and gone. As a significant majority of the electorate expected, it was a two-party race notwithstanding the fact that there were over 70 registered political parties contesting the presidential elections. The supposed ‘third force’ challenge to the ruling parties was next to non-existent in the larger scheme of […]
Voters Apathy and its effects on Nigerian society.
According to Iyayi, the third wave of democratization in the 1990’s led to the conduct of elections in many developing nations/countries. To a very large extent, elections and electoral processes shape the face of the bourgeois modern state. Elections provide the medium by which the different interest groups within the bourgeois nation state can take […]
INEC Opens Citizens’ Contact Centre
As we prepared for the 2011 April General Elections, INEC Chairman, Professor A. Jega, was very open to the use of ICT to increase INEC’s accessibility. A team of EiE volunteers helped set up INEC’s Twitter and Facebook accounts and manned them during the elections. For the 2015 General Elections, Professor Jega has extended this […]