Author: Centre for Nigeria Progress

For over two decades, Nigeria’s so-called legacy political parties, the PDP, APC, and their familiar rotating cast, have enjoyed something most political movements can only dream of: state establishment support, access to legal heavyweight, and a deep understanding of the federal government structure. They have experienced officials. They have institutional memory. They have legal teams …

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Justice M. G. Umar How INEC confused the power to organise elections with the power to reorganise political parties, and why the Federal High Court was quite right to say so. There is a particular species of institutional overreach that is not born of malice or corruption, but of something far more pedestrian: the sincere …

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Hope Uzodimma and Sim Fubara There are few things more educational than Nigerian politics. You may attend Harvard, Oxford, or the Nigerian Law School, but none will teach constitutional flexibility quite like the APC governorship primaries in Rivers State. For years, Nigerians were told that the APC had reached a gentleman’s agreement: all sitting governors …

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