2027: INEC announces date to release final list of Gov, Assembly candidates

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it volition people the last database of candidates contesting the 2027 governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections connected Saturday, October 10, 2026.

In a station connected X connected Wednesday, the committee said its chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, made the revelation during a satellite property league successful Abuja connected Tuesday.

It said the work would people an important signifier successful its preparations for the 2027 wide elections, with governmental parties expected to person their candidates formally confirmed for the state-level contests.

The electoral assemblage besides provided updates connected the fig of governmental parties that had submitted candidates, the elector register, Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), predetermination exertion and funding.

According to INEC, 21 of the 22 registered governmental parties nominated candidates for the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.

The parties submitted 936 governorship and lawman governorship candidates and 9,692 candidates for assorted State House of Assembly seats.

The committee had earlier published the idiosyncratic particulars of the nominated candidates arsenic required nether t...