…As INEC Clears 409 Candidates
•C’River Parades Only Eight Candidates
…APC, ADP Field Candidates In All 28 States
Akwa Ibom State leads other states with 20 candidates contesting for the governorship of the state in the 2027 election, as the Independent Najtional Electoral Commission released the final list of candidates for the election.
The governorship election would be held in 28 states across the country as the remaining eight states had their governorship election scattered due to the outcome of litigations that followed the conduct of governorship elections in Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Ondo and Osun states.
Taraba and Rivers states followed closely with 19 governorship candidates apiece while 18 candidates are contesting for governor in Delta and Adamawa states.
In Sokoto, Plateau, Lagos and Kano states, 17 governorship candidates are slugging it out for the certificate of occupancy of the government houses of the respective states.
Sixteen candidates are contending for the governorship slots in Oyo, Kaduna, Gombe, Enugu and Bauchi states.
For Zamfara, Abia and Niger states, 15 candidates are battling for the sole slots in the three states respectively.
While 14 candidates are battling to occupy the Kebbi State Government House in the forthcoming election, 13 candidates are in the race in Yobe, Ogun, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Borno states.
In Kwara, Ebonyi and Benue states, it is battle royale among 12 candidates.
Katsina State has 11 candidates angling to occupy its Government House come May 29, 2027 while Cross River State has just eight candidates in the fray for the governorship of the state.
21 parties are participating in the governorship election across 28 states where governorship elections are scheduled to take place, but not all the 21 parties presented candidates in all the states.
21 participating parties include the Accord, the Action Alliance, the African Alliance Congress, the African Democratic Congress, the All Peoples Party, the All Progressives Congress, the Allied People’s Movement, the African Democratic Party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the Booth Party, the Democratic Leadership Alliance and the Labour Party.
Others are the Nigeria Democratic Congress, the National Rescue Movement, the National Democratic Party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, the Peoples Democratic Party, the Peoples Redemption Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Young Progressives Party and the Zenith Labour Party.
Of the 21 parties, only the ruling party, the APC and the ADP are presenting candidates for governorship in all the 28 states where the governorship election is taking place.
Closely following behind the two parties are the ADC with 27 and the PDP, the LP and the APP with 25 candidates respectively.
The SDP is next with 24 candidates while the DLA is next with 23 candidates. The APM and the youngest party in Nigeria, the NDC, are contesting for governorship in 22 states.
Other parties presenting candidates for the governorship election are the ZLP – 20; the NRM – 19; the NDP – 18; the APGA – 17; the PRP – 17; the NNPP – 16; the AAC – 15; the A – 14; the YPP – 14; the AA – 12 and at the bottom of the pile is the Booth Party with 9 candidates.
The ages of the 37 of the 409 governorship candidates range between 35 and 39 listed across several states while the general age range for all 409 is between 35 and 66 years.
