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2027: INEC Chairman Charges Staff to ‘Confront Election Frontally’

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2026

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash O. Amupitan, SAN, has charged electoral officers and heads of departments in the Southwest to approach the 2027 General Election with greater commitment, discipline and preparedness. Amupitan gave the charge in

COLUMNS

The 2027 Elections And The Fuel Subsidy Debate

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde  The race to Aso Rock in the 2027 presidential election formally took off on August 19, when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lifted the ban on political campaigns by candidates seeking to occupy the number one office in the land. This follows a revised timetable passed by the electoral umpire in […]

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2027 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2026

By Hassan Gimba Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma Gandhi. This was first written on 22/10/2018 with the headline for 2019 and then repeated in 2023 with minor adjustments, and […]

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Obi Vows to Defend His 2027 Mandate

Daily Dispatch September 4, 2026

…. Rejects Repeat of IREV Glitches Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has declared that he is prepared to defend his votes in the 2027 general elections, urging his supporters to remain vigilant throughout the electoral process. Obi, who spoke while addressing supporters ahead of the 2027 elections, said he would not […]

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Backstory of Osun Poll, and What’s Next for Adeleke

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2026

By Azu Ishiekwene The money that politicians didn’t spend in Osun during the August 15 governorship election was the money they didn’t have and couldn’t steal. All kinds of figures have been bandied about, in hundreds of millions and billions. It’s difficult to say if these are over- or underestimations. But damn, it was some […]

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Where is Professor Amupitan?

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2026

By Garba Shehu I don’t know him, and we never met.I have no reason to wish to meet him, either. When they nominated him as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nation received the shocking disclosure of his 2020 legal brief to the international community in which he claimed that the […]