SDP’s Benue gov’ship candidate missing from INEC list, 12 cleared

Agbu Kefas, Emmanuel Bwacha, Abubakar Tutare among contenders By Femi Bolaji JALINGO — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of governorship and deputy-governorship candidates for the 2027 election in Taraba State, featuring contenders from 19 political parties. Among those listed is the incumbent governor, Agbu Kefas, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with Ibrahim Zainab Abubakar as his running mate. Former senator Emmanuel Bwacha is listed as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while former federal lawmaker Danjuma Usman Shiddi will contest on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Other governorship candidates on the list include Prof. Jerome Nyameh of Accord; Gago Magaji Bulus of the African Action Congress (AAC); Hamman Abubakar Mustapha of the Action Democratic Party (ADP); Bawa Ishaka Mohammed of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM); and Henry Haniel Banti of the Action Peoples Party (APP). Also listed are Kabiru Bala of the Boot Party (BP); Aboki Boyonga Stephen of the Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA); Yahaya Mohammed Sani of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC); Nuhu Abubakar Atta of the National Democratic Party (NDP); and Josiah Wukari Wasa of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP).

The remaining candidates are Sa’ad Hassan Abubakar of the Young Progressives Party (YPP); Bello Adamu of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP); Nathan Sanda of the Labour Party (LP); Uba Sani Abdullahi of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP); Yusuf Ali of the Social Democratic Party (SDP); and former senator Abubakar Umar Tutare of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The publication of the final list sets out the candidates cleared by INEC to contest the Taraba governorship election in 2027. The post INEC lists 19 governorship candidates for Taraba appeared first on Vanguard News.

…NDC candidate blames bureaucratic error By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has omitted the governorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) from its final list of eight candidates for the 2027 governorship election in Cross River State. The list, signed by the Commission’s Secretary, Mrs Rose Oriaran-Anthony, and obtained by Vanguard, was released on Saturday. However, John Upan Odey Jr, the NDC governorship candidate, has attributed his omission to what he described as a bureaucratic error by INEC, saying stakeholders would engage the commission on Monday to resolve the issue.

Odey Jr, who spoke to Vanguard on Sunday, said the omission was not peculiar to Cross River State, claiming that Kano and six other states were also affected. “The omission is a bureaucratic error by INEC, not peculiar to Cross River. Kano and six other states were also affected.

By Monday, INEC and stakeholders will engage to sort out the matter,” he said. The ADC governorship candidate, Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo, told Vanguard on the telephone that she would check the list and revert. The document, titled Final List of Candidates for the 2027 governorship election in Cross River State, contains the names of candidates and their running mates from eight political parties, but excludes the ADC and NDC candidates.