—– Deploys 31 Long Term Observers Ahead of the July 16th Osun Governorship election, Yiaga Africa has trained and deployed 31 Watching the Vote (WTV) Long Term Observers (LTOs) across all 30 Local Government Areas in the state to observe and provide information on the level of preparations and other pre-election activities by all election’s...
Civil Society Organisations in Ekiti state have made a commitment to mobilise first time voters to participate in the upcoming Governorship elections on June 18th in the State. The commitment was extracted from the representative CSO leaders in the state during the Parallel Vote Tabulation Academy organised by Yiaga Africa in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital...
Ahead of the July 16th Governorship Election in Osun state, Yiaga Africa has called on journalists in Osun state to eschew sensationalism in their elections reportage in order not to put fear in the minds of the electorate and to avoid overheating the polity. The call was made by Yiaga Africa’s Board member, Ezenwa Nwagwu,...
The data of newly registered voters released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is, to say the least, surprisingly low for a Continuous Voters Registration exercise that kicked off ten months ago; June 2021 to be precise. According to the commission, as at 14th January 2022, over two million five hundred thousand Nigerians completed...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Yiaga Africa has trained citizen observers to observe the upcoming political party primaries for the major political parties who will be contesting in the elections. The training is aimed to prepare Watching The Vote (WTV) observers for the comprehensive observation 2023 per-election activities which kicked off with the political...
As part of its pre-election activities and advocacy for a credible, peaceful and citizens’ driven governorship elections in Ekiti State, Yiaga Africa has called on leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists and media cohort in the state to ensure fair, accurate and objective reportage of the upcoming Governorship election. This was revealed during a...
Ekiti Governorship elections 2022 will be the first major election to be conducted using the newly signed Electoral Act 2022 which provides an opportunity for an assessment of the implementation of the new Act. While political party primaries had been concluded before the law was signed, the election day procedure will be guided by provisions...
Ahead of the June 18th, 2022, Ekiti State Governorship elections, Yiaga Africa has kicked off advocacy visits to major election stakeholders in a bid to build collaborations and drive for credible and peaceful elections in the state. The aim of the advocacy visits is to share Yiaga Africa’s Watching The Vote election observation plan for...
Yiaga Africa WTV team during an advocacy visit to Commissioner of Police in Ekiti The Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State, CP Tunde Mobayo has said that the Nigerian Police Force has no option but to collaborate with Civil Society Organisations like Yiaga Africa. According to him, it is due to the level of work...
Joint Civil Society Statement upon Signing of the Electoral Bill, 2022 into Law by President Muhammadu Buhari, on 25 February, 2022. 25 February, 2022 Today, Friday, 25th February 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Electoral Bill 2022 into Law, marking a huge milestone in Nigerian’s quest to consolidate electoral democracy. The new Electoral Act, 2022...
