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🇳🇬 Nigeria Elections 2027

Your guide to the 2027 elections

Dates, every candidate on INEC’s final list, how to collect your PVC and how to vote — neutral and in one place.

🗳️ Presidential election · Saturday 16 January 2027 –days–hrs–mins
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📅 Key dates

  1. Presidential & National Assembly campaigns started
  2. Governorship & State Assembly campaigns started
  3. PVC collection started (ward centres, then INEC LGA offices)
  4. INEC publishes the official Register of Voters
  5. Presidential & National Assembly elections
  6. Governorship & State House of Assembly elections

Source: INEC’s revised timetable (February 2026). Campaigns must end 24 hours before each election day.

🏛️ Presidential candidates (18)

As published on INEC’s final list (12 September 2026), in alphabetical order of party.

AARufai Adekunle Omo-AjeRunning mate: Shehu Hussaini AACOmoyele SoworeRunning mate: Haruna Garba Magashi ADCAtiku AbubakarRunning mate: Rotimi Amaechi ADPAliyu Abbas-BinRunning mate: Chinazam Ike APCBola Ahmed TinubuRunning mate: Kashim Shettima APMOluseyi Abiodun MakindeRunning mate: Musa Lawal Daura APPKabiru YusufRunning mate: Peace Egobia Ofordile BPSunday AdenugaRunning mate: Usman Turaki Mustapha DLAMoses Olusoji AdebisiRunning mate: Nafisat Usaku Abubakar LPSunday Chibuzo OkerekeRunning mate: Hajja Bintu Konto NDCPeter Gregory ObiRunning mate: Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso NDPAda Elizabeth Fredrick OkworiRunning mate: Uchenna Anthony Chukwuemeka NRMNkem Esther OkerekeRunning mate: Nasir Muhammed Sulaiman PDPSandy Ojang OnorRunning mate: Umaru Babangida PRPDonald DukeRunning mate: Kabiru Rabiu SDPAdewole Ebenezer AdebayoRunning mate: Usman Muhammed Bugaje YPPPeter Ada AgadaRunning mate: Patience Ndidi Key ZLPDaniel Daberechukwu NwanyanwuRunning mate: Hassan Khalid

🏢 Governorship elections in 28 states

6 February 2027. Choose a state to see the candidates. State House of Assembly elections hold in all 36 states the same day.

AbiaAdamawaAkwa IbomBauchiBenueBornoCross RiverDeltaEbonyiEnuguGombeJigawaKadunaKanoKatsinaKebbiKwaraLagosNasarawaNigerOgunOyoPlateauRiversSokotoTarabaYobeZamfara

Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Ondo and Osun elect their governors on a different cycle.

🗳️ Will you vote?

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🪪 Voter guides

How to Check Your Voter Registration and Collect Your PVC for 2027 How to Vote in Nigeria: Election Day Step by Step (2027) Nigeria 2027 Elections Explained: Dates, Offices and How Winners Are Decided Elections 2027: How to Spot Fake Election News and Stay Safe

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