Individual
Per lawyer, to 31 May 2027
- The onboarding skill and your private dashboard
- A tab for every client, built from the public record
- Daily law, INEC and modes-of-defeat checks, each with a confidence light
- The help course
Day 22 does not exist.
Section 285(5) of the Constitution gives a petitioner 21 days from the declaration, and no tribunal can add a day. Petition Ready takes the method set out in Weaponising Elections and runs it as a private brief for every client you act for, refreshed each morning on your own Claude account.
From the book to the brief
The book explained how 2023 was fought. Petition Ready runs that method in 2027.
Weaponising Elections: The BVAS Battle and the Legislation of a Digital Coup traces how technology, law and power were used against the results process, and what counsel can do about it. Petition Ready is the working version for licensed lawyers: the same method, kept current as INEC and the courts move.
Not better elections. A continent that makes elections very difficult to weaponise.Weaponising Elections, closing chapter
What carried over from the book
The modes of defeatEach route by which an election case is lost, now tracked with a current status and the date it was last checked.
The clocksEvery statutory deadline stored as a rule and dated for each client from that client's own public dates.
The verification checklistThe post-election checks from the appendix, turned into dated actions for the 72 hours after polling.
The forensic doctrineWhat to ask for, from whom and when, so the evidence exists by day 21.
The law sinceThe Electoral Act 2026 and every ruling since the book went to press, checked each morning.
Most chambers still keep these clocks in a diary.
A diary holds the dates someone wrote down. It will not notice when INEC moves a poll, when a judgment closes a route, or when a junior counts from the wrong day, and election cases are unforgiving about all three.
- Pre-election
- 14 days to sue, 180 days for judgment, 60 days for each appeal. Winning the poll does not end the suit. s.285(9)–(12)
- Petition
- 21 days from the declaration to file. s.285(5)
- Tribunal
- Judgment within 180 days of filing. s.285(6)
- Appeal
- Heard and decided within 60 days of the tribunal's judgment. s.285(7)
Petition Ready stores each of those actions as a rule, a trigger plus a number of days. When a date moves, everything that depends on it moves with it, and the morning email tells you why.
Inside the brief
These are screens from the working brief, showing the three sample clients every new brief starts with until you add your own.
Petition Ready daily brief · Sample client A
Overview · clients at a glance
Sample client A · do next
Walk through ten views
The same views rebuilt on this page so you can click through them. Their dates are worked out live from today and the public timetable.
The Petition Clock
A free tool. Enter the date of the triggering event and it gives you the last days that s.285 allows. The brief does this arithmetic for every client, every morning, and grades every date it gives you.
Counted on the usual basis that the day of the event is excluded.
Two rules the brief never bends
Your client's confidences stay out
In the series, Ify keeps everything her client tells her in a red paper notebook, and the brief never sees it. That is the rule for every licensee. The brief works only from what INEC, the courts and the candidate have already made public, and it runs inside your own Claude account, so LegiShield never sees your clients.
ININEC lists and notices, IReV results, filed processes, judgments, gazettes and the deadlines you add yourself.
OUTInstructions, strategy, opinions, witness identities, unfiled evidence and fees.
Every side buys on the same terms
The licence is sold to petitioners and respondents, and to counsel for every party, at the same fixed fee. Before a result is declared, each client's tab shows the path if they win and the path if they lose, so you are ready for either. In the series, Ify and Sadiq use the same brief from opposite sides of one case.
Thirteen short explainers
From the free help course, "How the Petition Ready Daily Brief Works". Each video covers one thing in under a minute: a rule the brief keeps, a screen you will read, or a command you will run. The presenter, Dr. Haruna Obi, is an AI guide.
The brief keeps the calendar. You run the case.
It never advises a client, files, serves or appears. It never moves a date on its own either: it flags a possible change and you confirm it.
| Petition Ready | You, the licensed lawyer |
|---|---|
| Dates every action for every client from public rules | Check the dates and confirm any change |
| Watches the law, INEC notices and the modes of defeat each morning | Decide what a change means for each client |
| Prepares drafts from public facts, marked not for filing | Complete, settle, sign and file |
| Flags overdue commands and your own deadlines | Advise, appear and act |
"21 Days" · from 3 November
One case, followed twice a week
A small chambers in Ilorin, a pharmacist standing for the State House of Assembly for the first time, and counsel on the other side. Ify's old principal, Chief Olatunji, laughs at her "computer diary" in the first episode and buys a chambers licence by the last. The people are invented; the rules and dates are real. Tuesdays and Fridays at 07:41 on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, WhatsApp and email.
Coming up in Act I
Restricted · held by Silicon Gowns only
We don't talk about the Map.
That is all we will say about it in public. Almost.
It is a map of filings. Not the ones every chambers already knows.
It was built against the 2026 Act line by line, then checked against the cases.
It covers both sides of the aisle, and the institutions in between.
Much of it has never been argued in any reported case. Yet.
Some of it runs out before the first ballot is cast.
It exists nowhere else. It is not sold on its own, shown in demos or sent as a sample.
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Extract · redacted
Recorded for licensees
This briefing was recorded for licensees. Rule one is that it isn't shared. We are sharing twenty seconds of it, which tells you how seriously we take rule one, and how little twenty seconds tells you.
It shows how the Map works. It will not show you what is on it. Nor will we.
The rest of the briefing · licensees only
Silicon Gowns
A term first named in Weaponising Elections
The book's addendum named a new kind of lawyer: the Silicon Gown, who joins strategic law to cyber-forensic skill. Some stand as shields, some as spears, some as filters. Most counsel will still run 2027 the way they ran 2023. Silicon Gowns run it with a brief that never forgets a clock, and a map nobody else has.
- The Petition Ready licence, running in your own brief
- The Map, kept current inside that brief as the law moves
- A private conversation first. There is no public list and no application form.
"Silicon Gown" is the book's name for a way of practising. It is not a title, rank, accreditation or specialism, and it is not for use in advertising to clients. Practitioners discussed in the book are not licensees and do not endorse Petition Ready unless they say so.
The licence
A fixed fee for the 2027 cycle. It never shares in legal fees, and LegiShield has no say in what you charge your clients. Fees are quoted on enquiry.
Chambers
Tiered by number of lawyers
- The individual licence for each lawyer
- Dashboard links shared with co-counsel, and control over who receives them
- Juniors run the brief under your supervision
- Founding licensees onboard first and shape the release
Institutional
Party legal departments and NBA branches
- Seats for a legal department or a branch's members
- A hosted CPD session with a live demonstration
- The same terms for every party
You will need your own Claude account and a Google account; the brief works in Gmail, Sheets, Docs and Slides. Onboarding takes one session.
Questions counsel ask
Be ready before the result
The first poll is weeks away, and every client you take on brings their own clocks. Founding licensees are onboarded first, so their briefs are running before the first declaration.
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