2027: INEC warns 36 states, FCT against election lapses

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has warned its Administrative Secretaries successful the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory against operational lapses up of the 2027 wide election.

The INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, gave the informing connected Monday, September 7, 2026, successful Lagos portion opening a two-day Strategic Operational Workshop for the commission’s Administrative Secretaries.

Amupitan said INEC had entered a captious six-month play of preparations for the 2027 polls and urged the officials to guarantee uniformity successful the commission’s administrative operations.

“We tin nary longer spend fragmented interpretations of administrative duties oregon disjointed operational practices from authorities to state,” helium said.

He directed the Administrative Secretaries to amended coordination and travel modular procedures to forestall administrative lapses from affecting the behaviour of the election.

Amupitan described the store arsenic an election-focused “operational footwear camp” aimed astatine investigating INEC’s re...