ADC rejects INEC’s new election timetable

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has rejected the caller predetermination timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), claiming it is designed to exclude absorption parties up of the 2027 wide elections.

In a connection signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the enactment said the revised docket is not simply an administrative program but “a governmental instrumentality cautiously structured to constrictive antiauthoritarian space.”

The ADC argued that caller requirements successful the Electoral Act 2026 spot dense demands connected governmental parties.

According to the timetable, enactment primaries volition instrumentality spot betwixt April 23 and May 30, 2026. However, parties indispensable taxable a elaborate integer rank registry to INEC by April 2, 2026, conscionable weeks away.

The enactment pointed to Section 77 of the law, which states that immoderate enactment that fails to taxable its rank registry connected clip “shall not beryllium eligible to tract a campaigner for that election.”

The ADC described this arsenic much than a regular rule.

“These are not housekeeping rules. They are deliberately constructed barriers to exclude absorption from part...