2027: APC shifts presidential, governorship primaries

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its statesmanlike and governorship primaries by 1 week.

The enactment moved the statesmanlike superior to May 23, 2026, and the governorship superior to May 21, 2026, from the earlier dates of May 15 and May 16, respectively.

According to the APC, the accommodation aligns with a revised timetable for its 2027 wide predetermination activities.

APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Duro Meseko, disclosed this astatine the extremity of the party’s 186th National Working Committee (NWC) gathering held successful Abuja connected Thursday.

“We hereby contiguous the caller revised timetable and docket of activities for the behaviour of the 2027 wide elections to the press,” helium said.

Meseko added that the NWC adopted some nonstop and statement modes for selecting candidates for elective positions.

“In this 186th gathering of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, we adopted the mode of primaries arsenic provided successful the Electoral Act: nonstop and statement mode, with a caveat that members are astatine liberty to pick,” helium stated.

2027: APC shifts presidential, governorship primaries