2027 Nigeria Elections: Candidates, Timetable & News

Nigeria’s next general elections are due in 2027, when voters choose the President, the National Assembly and, in most states, governors and state assemblies. This page is Politics Nigeria’s running tracker of the contest and updates automatically as new stories are published.

The contenders

  • APC — President Bola Tinubu seeking a second term, with Kashim Shettima retained as running mate.
  • ADC coalition — the African Democratic Congress, the platform of Atiku Abubakar and other opposition figures.
  • NDC — the Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso camp.
  • Others — declared and rumoured candidates, including governors and former ministers.

Key resources: the 2027 candidate lists

What we are tracking

  • INEC‘s timetable — party primaries, candidate lists and deadlines.
  • Defections and endorsements — who is moving between parties and who is backing whom.
  • The warm-up contests — off-cycle governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun, and National Assembly bye-elections.
  • Party legal battles — registration, deregistration and leadership cases in the courts.

Latest 2027 election coverage

Older stories: 2027 elections tag archive.

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