Presidential primary election: NDC announces date for commencement

The National Democratic Congress, NDC, has announced that its superior elections volition commence on May 28, 2026, arsenic the enactment moves to align with the timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The NDC acknowledged that it had to driblet its planned physics voting strategy for the primaries owed to clip constraints.

The laminitis and National Leader of the NDC, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, disclosed this successful a connection helium signed on Wednesday.

Dickson noted that the determination followed “many hours of discussions involving the National Chairman, statesmanlike campaigner Peter Obi, members of the National Working Committee, and the Selection Committee.”

The connection read: “After a briefing astatine the associated gathering of the Selection Committee and the Screening Committee, and considering the clip limitations, we decided that everyone who purchased Expression of Interest Forms would enactment successful the primaries successful their respective constituencies.”

The enactment clarified that lone palmy candidates would aboriginal proceed to the secretariat to implicit documentation, wage information fees, and fulfill different indispensable requirements.

The enactment besides announced that teams made u...