2027: Parties scramble to meet INEC’s uploading deadline

Political parties in Nigeria are scrambling to finish up the upload of candidates on the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

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INEC have already set July 11 as deadline for the exercise.

However, a host of the parties are having challenges and may not meet the deadline.

Although, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and African Democratic Congress, ADC, among others, told Vanguard, yesterday, that they were able to upload their candidates on INEC portal, some others said they could not accomplish the task with ease, expressing regret over the adoption of the method by the electoral umpire. Onlinenews subscription

Apart from issues with the portal, a host of the parties are yet to conclude selection of running mates for their governorship candidates and some are still resolving nagging issues arising from the primaries.