While the Nigerians United for Democracy wrote that the “victory truly belongs to the Nigerian people”, Dr. Kayode Fayemi said “it is victory for democracy, it is victory for Nigeria and Nigerians”. Governor Ayo Fayose, in a manner of exceptional cunningness was not left out as he made sure he was the first to send a congratulatory message to the man he had said would die in office. To him, “Nigerians and democracy won
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Accordingly, it said it has become necessary to reassure all citizens that the Armed Forces of Nigeria remains committed to its duty in working to ensure the sustenance of peace, law, order and stability in the country before, during and after the forthcoming elections
Among other aims, the centre was established to strengthen national debate, improve governance and encourage Nigerians to take an active role in the country’s leadership
The governor, who made the call while hosting the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, at the Lagos House, Marina, noted that it is the responsibility of the military to defend and support democracy to grow once any society has moved to embrace it as its system of government
Mark made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja at a special Church service at St. Mulumba’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Apo, Abuja, to mark this year’s Democracy Day
The Governors of Adamawa and Yobe States, Alhaji Murtala Nyako and Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, who were reacting to the calls by Clark and Akpabio for President Goodluck Jonathan to declare full scale emergency rule in the three North East states where partial emergency rule is in force, said it was unfortunate that both men, who are beneficiaries of the country’s democratic rule, could advocate such
The governor has turned the rod of democracy on the people of Oyo State, who, through the ballot, gave him their mandate to rule and manage their collective resources
This might sound strange because that was two nights before the 2007 Presidential Elections, and we were about to lose. It was my first, and only, run in a general election for president, and I knew it would be a heavy loss
In the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006, Hamas won 74 seats to the ruling-Fatah’s 45, becoming able to establish a Hamas majority government. The British Conservative head of the European Parliament’s monitoring team, Edward McMillan-Scott described the polls as “extremely professional, in line with international standards, free, transparent and without violence
This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Tambuwal’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, to commemorate the Democracy Day in Nigeria
He said this starts from the primaries of political parties where candidates for the general election are elected
First, to be sure, in all democratic settings it is sacrilegious to question the procedure of an election in which one took part after the result of the election, particularly when the procedure is not known to have violated the Constitution of the association or of any known democratic norm. It is therefore extremely childish, and irrationally so, that some people who claim to be governors can openly identify with the irrational rejection of the result of the NGF Election