The clock is ticking, and for once, it is not an imaginary legislative deadline invented to justify emergency lawmaking.
February 2026 is real, fixed, and unforgiving. By then, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must issue the Notice of Election for the 2027 general elections, a
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