Introduction Yiaga Africa Watching The Vote (WTV) started its pre-election observation in March 2022 and has released four reports on the state of preparedness, political campaigns, and security threats in the 2022 Ekiti governorship elections. From a Yiaga Africa perspective, the forthcoming June 18th governorship election presents an opportunity to assess the operational implications of...
Yiaga Africa has urged citizen observers to imbibe the core value of integrity, accountability and transparency during their responsibility as election observers ahead of the Ekiti State Governorship election. Board member of Yiaga Africa’s Watching The Vote (WTV), Ezenwa Nwagwu said this on Thursday, during his visit to various election day observation training centers across...
Yiaga Africa calls on INEC to extend the CVR exercise by three weeks Calls for investigation of allegations of bribery and non-deployment of personnel in some Registration Centers Commends INEC for deploying additional 209 machines to Kano, Lagos and five states in the Southeast 1. As part of efforts to provide independent oversight of the...
11 days to the Ekiti Governorship Election: Voter Inducement Persists while questions remain around the allocation of Voters to new Polling Units lingers Introduction In exactly 11 days’ time, the residents of Ekiti State will go out to vote in what is likely to be another highly competitive election. The election will be the first...
Yiaga Africa has vowed to collaborate with Civil Society Organisations in Osun State to promote electoral transparency ahead of the July 16th Governorship election in the state. The Organisations’s head of elections project, Paul James said this during an engagement with Civil Society Organisations tagged Parallel Vote Tabulation academy on Wednesday in Osogbo, Osun State....
Yiaga Africa has urged the Citizens of Ekiti State not to devalue their citizenship to mere tokenism in form of gift items and money from politicians ahead of the June 18th Governorship elections in Ekiti State. The quality of citizenship is being debased by the exchange of votes for money or gift items, thus citizens must...
Executive Summary The 2022 Ekiti State gubernatorial election will take place on June 18, 2022, to elect a new Governor for Ekiti State. The primaries were conducted between January 4 to 29, 2022 where the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party nominated Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji in a direct primary on January 27 while the People’s...
“the membership of the National Assembly is an investment because most of us sold our houses to get to the Senate… the maturity is there but it is the ability to recoup whatever you spent legitimately that is the problem” – Adolphus Wabara, Former Senate President. “for political parties, the sale of nomination forms is...
Ahead of the Ekiti Governorship elections scheduled to hold on 18th June 2022, Yiaga Africa through its Watching The Vote project has kicked-off a citizens engagement program on radio to encourage conversations on informed citizens participation in the upcoming elections. The Radio program tagged “WatchingTheVote Hour” is hosted on Fresh FM 106.9 Ekiti, every Wednesday...
As part of its effort to promote a peaceful, credible and citizens-driven elections in Osun State, Yiaga Africa has paid advocacy visits to key election stakeholders in the state in a bid to build collaborations to improve citizens participation. During the advocacy led by Yiaga Africa’s Board and Management, the team visited the Osun State...
