2027: Amupitan sets Osun election as gold standard, flags November nationwide mock accreditation

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has described the Commission’s behaviour of the Osun State governorship predetermination arsenic a benchmark successful electoral administration.

He besides announced that a nationwide mock accreditation workout would beryllium conducted successful November 2026 to measure the Commission’s preparedness for the 2027 General Election.

Amupitan stated this connected Friday, August 21, 2026, successful Abuja during abstracted courtesy visits by Mr David Sproule, Chargé d’Affaires of the Canadian High Commission to Nigeria, and Mr Moritz Sprenker, Country Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, KAS, to the Commission’s headquarters.

The INEC Chairman said the Osun election, conducted connected Saturday, August 15, 2026, demonstrated the interaction of administrative readying and technological reliability.

According to him, 3,556 retired of 3,763 polling units successful the state, representing 94.5 per cent, were operational for accreditation and voting by 8:30 a.m.

He attribut...