TOP NEWS Interrogating INEC’s shift on party primaries Was the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) working hand in gloves with the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) to wrong-foot the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party Leo Sobechi, Deputy Politics Editor, Abuja
INEC bows to pressure, extends deadline for party primaries Gregory-Page Nwakunor (Lagos), Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Collins Olayinka (Abuja) and Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja)
Primaries: Confusion trails Buhari, governors meeting as APC adjusts timetable Adamu Abuh and Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja)
Presidential ticket: Consensus plot unsettling APC, PDP Leo Sobechi, Deputy Politics Editor, Adamu Abuh and John Akubo, Abuja
INEC restates June 3 deadline for primaries as Osinbajo, Bakare, Amosun pick nomination forms Adamu Abuh, Sodiq Omolaoye, Ernest Nzor (Abuja) and Kehinde Olatunji (Lagos)
Police ban political campaigns at Gombe, Kwara prayer grounds Mansur Aramide (Gombe) and Abiodun Fagbemi (Ilorin)
Imo Attack: INEC establishes contact with two missing staff, confirms one dead Charles Ogugbuaja, Owerri
CVR: INEC uncovers 1.3m invalid registrations, to prosecute culpable officials Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja)