{"id":177041,"date":"2025-09-01T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:18:54","slug":"lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations","title":{"rendered":"LG Polls in Nigeria Nothing but Electoral Coronations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments\u2019 elections in Nigeria as electoral coronations.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of the organization, Samson Itodo, made this statement on Monday, while responding to questions during an interview on \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me reiterate a point that YIAGA Africa has made consistently. All the local government elections that held before the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment and after the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment were nothing but a travesty of electoral democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose elections, virtually all of them, ran foul of provisions of the law. In other words, they violated provisions of the Electoral Act, and if you challenge the legality of those elections in court, I doubt if all of them will meet the test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second point is the local government elections and what happens at the local government level is nothing but electoral coronation. They are not elections because the state electoral commissions are not given the independence to function. The operational independence is subject to the approval of the governor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments\u2019 elections in Nigeria as electoral coronations. The Executive Director of the organization, Samson Itodo, made this statement on Monday, while responding to questions during an interview on \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019, a programme on Channels Television. \u201cLet me reiterate a point that YIAGA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,11549],"class_list":["post-177041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-yiaga-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LG Polls in Nigeria Nothing but Electoral Coronations - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments\u2019 elections in Nigeria as electora ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LG Polls in Nigeria Nothing but Electoral Coronations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments\u2019 elections in Nigeria as electora ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-01T11:12:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-01T12:18:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756716555.707646.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"LG Polls in Nigeria Nothing but Electoral Coronations\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-01T11:12:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-01T12:18:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756716555.707646.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Yiaga Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lg-polls-in-nigeria-nothing-but-electoral-coronations\",\"name\":\"LG Polls in Nigeria Nothing but Electoral Coronations - 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