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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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Former Lagos Governor Ambode Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara In Nigerian politics, there are elections, there are constitutions, and then there are godfathers. The first two exist largely for television and newspaper headlines. The third is where the real power often lives.When Akinwunmi Ambode was politically executed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, many treated …
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