2027 election timetable: INEC bows to pressure from political parties, makes adjustments

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has made immoderate adjustments successful the revised clip and docket of activities for the 2027 wide election.

INEC made the determination pursuing its gathering with governmental parties connected Tuesday, 24th March 2026, wherever concerns were raised connected the timeline for the submission of governmental parties’ registry of members nether the revised timetable for the wide election, primitively fixed for 1st April 2026 to 21st April 2026.

The Commission, astatine the said meeting, agreed to set the play for the submission of the governmental parties’ Registers of Members to align the 21 days prescribed by Section 77(4) of the Electoral Act, 2026, with the existent dates fixed by governmental parties themselves.

“Political parties are accordingly informed that they are escaped to hole the dates of their primaries wrong the approved play from the 23rd of April 2026 to the 30th of May 2026. It is imperative that parties adhere to this timeline to guarantee a creaseless electoral process,” a connection signed by Mohammed Kudu Haruna,

National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee said, “The registry of enactment members indispensable beryllium submitted to INEC...