One of the major challenges facing democracy and development in Nigeria is the weakness of the electoral process at the local level. Since the return of the current democratic dispensation in 1999, powerful state governors have tended to stifle the democratic process at the grassroots level through various acts of impunity, including the refusal to conduct periodic elections. The electorate have therefore become disempowered and removed from the process of democratic decision making. However, the state of democracy at the local government level, experienced a shot in the arm with the Supreme Court verdict of July 2024, which mandated all states to conduct Local Government elections. With the rush by the states to conduct local government elections, without which funds for Local Government Councils will be withheld, the quality and integrity of the polls in several states were marred and ultimately compromised through the imposition of candidates, the declaration of false and uncollated results. Popular participation in these elections were undermined by the general lack of citizens access to information about key aspects of the electoral process.