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The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has again been asked to drop all trumped-up charges against a human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore who has been facing treason charges since 2019 without committing any offence. The Nigerian Human Rights Community (NIRCO), which made the call in a statement issued on Thursday, asked President Tinubu not to sustain the "obnoxious principle" that portrays the Nigerian state on a vengeance mission against an individual under his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.

The Nigerian Human Rights Community, NIHRCO, has called for the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in local government elections across the country. The group asserted that it might require special funds for State Independent Electoral Commissions to enable the institution to develop the technology that would broaden popular participation, ensure real-time transmission of results and take local government elections to a higher level.

The group said INEC needs to improve on provision of more polling units and employment or more ad hoc staff to speed up the process.

The Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) says the results of the elections conducted in Ekiti state “expressed the will of the people.”

The Nigerian Human Rights Community, (NHRC), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), says direct primary is the best for picking candidates by political parties in the country.