There is a familiar paradox at the heart of modern governance: when foundational institutions founder, they rarely promise simple competence. Instead, they promise technology. Consider Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission…
In every democracy, an electoral commission survives on one essential asset: public trust. Once citizens begin to question the neutrality, competence, or integrity of the institution responsible for conducting elections…
In the modern democracy, the electoral umpire is expected to be a figure of clinical, almost monastic neutrality. The “I“ in INEC – Independent – is supposed to be a…
Nigeria’s democracy is currently navigating a strange, litigious twilight zone. In a landscape where the ballot box should be the ultimate arbiter of power, the courtroom has emerged as the…
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is faltering under the weight of its own inadequacies. Tasked with safeguarding the nation’s democratic process, INEC has instead become synonymous with logistical failures,…