What do you believe is the single most important factor driving up the cost of living in Nigeria?

If not well managed, the issue could snowball into an unpalatable situation that could throw the state into chaos.

Nigeria’s ruling party, the APC won its first big electoral test since Bola Tinubu became President last year, despite the dire state of the country’s economy.

In Edo, which had previously been in the hands of the opposition PDP, Senator Monday Okpebholo defeated the PDP’s Asue Ighodalo with 291,667 votes against 247,274 for Ighodalo.

However, the PDP complained of fraud and vowed to challenge the result in court and the current problem started when the PDP got an order from the election tribunal to inspect the materials used for the governorship election, including the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, on October 9.

The first attempt by the PDP and its candidate, Ighodalo, to begin the inspection through its legal team led by Olusegun Jolaawo (SAN) on October 7 failed. According to Jolaawo, the legal team was told it would be contacted by INEC when the materials and BVAS were ready, which he said, was not what they (members of the legal team) expected when they got to the INEC office.

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