A new report by Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI), a non-governmental organisation that advances good governance and democratic rights, has revealed that most lawsuits relating to elections are from the southern part of the country.
It observed that since 2015, all the states that have accepted governorship election results on the first ballot are from the North.
Team Lead, Bukola Idowu, made the observation during the presentation of the report titled, ‘Election Tribunal Monitoring Project (ETMP)’, yesterday in Abuja.
Conducted by KDI with support from International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the study noted the judiciary’s pivotal role in Nigeria’s election dispute resolution (EDR) process by monitoring the Election Petitions Tribunals’ (EPTs) adherence to legal frameworks all the way to the Supreme Court.
Noting that the judiciary is constantly inundated with electoral disputes, the report recommended the establishment of a standing and specialised court that should handle pre- and post-election dispute resolution and electoral offence.
The document revealed that 1,209 petitions were filed by candidates and political parties after the 2023 general elections.
