Obi's supporters will place people at polling units and follow materials and results through to collation. It is legal, it is the correct response to 2023, and it is an enormous logistical undertaking.

The First Lady has unveiled a national community food bank for the South East alongside an ICT experience centre. Food banks are good things. A country needing one at national scale is telling you something.

Legislative by-elections eight days from now. They decide very little in themselves and they are the closest thing to a rehearsal anybody gets before 2027.

Atiku's 2023 running mate, speaking in Delta, says he understood the election was lost before it was announced. It lands in the same week Peter Obi claims he actually won it.

The federal government has begun the process of decriminalising attempted suicide. A person in crisis currently risks arrest for surviving, which is the opposite of what the situation needs.

A dual transmission system for 2027, with results sent by two independent routes. It is the most technically specific thing any candidate has said about elections this year.

Legislative engagements halted over xenophobic attacks. It is one of the few responses available to a parliament, and it costs the people it is aimed at almost nothing.

Record allocations to the states, shared out in a currency worth far less than it was. Both sides of this argument are quoting real figures, which is what makes it the most useful economic row in Nigeria right now.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu's phrase, and 160 trucks ordered to go with it. Waste collection is the most visible test of whether a megacity's basic services work, and Lagos has just conceded that its own do not.

Nine local government areas are targeted for IDP voting arrangements ahead of 2027. It is the least glamorous election story of the week and it decides whether tens of thousands of people vote at all.

He told Arise TV he won the last presidential election and has evidence the former INEC chairman worked against him. Sahara Reporters ran the claim. One outlet noted he did not produce it.

The NDC candidate would retain Tinubu's floating exchange rate while calling the old subsidy regime corrupted. Naming a policy of your opponent's that you would not reverse is rare in a Nigerian campaign.

Festus Keyamo criticised the blockade and told Nigerians to reject campaign violence at the ballot box. A ruling-party minister defending an opposition candidate's access is worth more than the usual statement.

The commission has published the party's modified logo and updated its leadership listing, naming Cleopas Moses Zuwoghe as national chairman. A party needed a judge to get its own name shown correctly.

The party's secretariat in Emohua was attacked and campaign materials destroyed. Election violence in Nigeria does not begin on election day, and Rivers has a longer history of it than most.

Nigeria's democracy is at risk without political party reform, according to Senator Arise. Donald Duke went further in the same week and called the whole thing a facade. The diagnosis is converging.

The APC Consensus Aspirants Forum says it will set aside personal ambitions and turn its structures over to the 2027 campaign. Consensus arrangements buy peace at a price that is usually paid later.

Reporting has collected statements from senior ruling-party figures described as threatening or intimidating toward voters. INEC has just published the penalties. The two stories belong together.

The Nigerian Diaspora Movement Group says lobbying against President Tinubu in Washington misrepresents Nigeria abroad. Foreign lobbying by Nigerian politicians is old, bipartisan and almost never disclosed at home.

The 2023 Labour Party running mate says Obi and Atiku cannot replace Tinubu. Peter Obi's new party answered with a personal insult rather than an argument, which tells you where the opposition actually is.