In an interview with THEWILL on the decision of aggrieved candidates of parties to sue the Commission over the removal of their names in the published list of candidates for the Governorship and Assembly polls. He explained that the Commission did not disqualify candidates, but the political parties disqualified themselves by falling short of the Constitutional requirement, as affirmed by the Supreme Court judgement mandating them to submit a membership register that contains the names of their candidates.
The Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez, said 1,800 people had been arrested and more than 500 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters injured in Saturday's unrest, as authorities faced mounting questions over the scale of the violence and the ability of security forces to contain it.
Popular Nigerian gospel singer and minister, Olayemi Bayonile Bolaji, popularly known as Toluwanisings, has died hours after ministering at a worship programme in Ibadan, Oyo State, and months after surviving a road accident involving members of his band.