Serbia celebrates historic election win for student-backed movement
Celebrations erupted across Belgrade as Serbia’s student-backed movement claimed a major victory over Aleksandar Vucic’s long-standing ruling party. The result follows nearly two years of protests after a railway station collapse in Novi Sad killed 16 people in 2024.
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu goes into the January 16, 2027 presidential election with 31 governors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, as well as three from the “opposition”, a run of off-season victories and an opposition split across multiple platforms. He faces Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, and Seyi Makinde of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- AHEAD of next year’s elections, the National leadership of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has already predicted an overwhelming victory for its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. According to the NDC, the 2023 election already demonstrated Obi’s clear electoral strength across the North-Central, where he carried Plateau, Nasarawa, and the FCT, stressing that Nigerians are ready to look past incumbency and deliver a decisive mandate for Peter Obi and the NDC.
As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 polls, the use of artificial intelligence in the electoral process has prompted questions about integrity and institutional readiness. Can Nigerians trust their democratic processes?
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has thrown his weight behind the Rainbow Coalition led by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike, saying that he will back any coalition that supports President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in the 2027 general elections. Eno, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the APC after his defection from the PDP in June 2025, said the two parties had agreed to support Tinubu, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and himself in the 2027 general elections.
Both the Coalition and Labor argue this election is the most consequential in the Victoria's history, but it's lacking stand-out moments or generation-defining policies.
TThree-phase elections planned, sensitive polling stations to get additional security, says Anil Chandra Punetha