‘It’s For Tinubu’ – ADC Rejects Revised 2027 Election Timetable Released By INEC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has rejected the new 2027 election timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The ADC, in a statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the revised timetable was craftily designed to hand advantage to President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The party argued that the revised timetable does not provide a level playing field as it has given the incumbent administration a one-year-head start.

The ADC also rejected the 2026 electoral act, arguing that it was put together to serve President Tinubu’s automatic self-succession project.

Abdullahi submitted that the ADC rejected both the revised timetable and amended electoral act because they were designed to achieve a pre-determined end of handing power back to the incumbent government.

According to the ADC, “What has been presented as a routine administrative schedule of the upcoming general elections, is in fact, a political instrument carefully structured to narrow democratic space and strengthen the hand of the incumbent administration ahead of the 2027 general elections.

“Democratic competition is based on a level-playing field that does not give any advantage to the contestants. A system where one party takes advantage of incumbency to give itself a one-year head-start on a requirement that other parties only became aware of when it is almost too late is a rigged and corrupt system.

“The ADC has joined other opposition political parties to reject the corrupted Electoral Act 2026. This INEC time-table, which is based on the said law therefore stands equally rejected for the same reason that, put together, they appear designed to serve President Tinubu’s automatic self-succession project.

“Let it be clear: ADC will not do anything that will appear to confer legitimacy on a fraudulent system. We are reviewing our options, and will make this known in the coming days.

“We call on civil society, democratic stakeholders, and patriotic Nigerians across party lines to scrutinize this timetable and join us in demanding fairness, because no democracy can endure if the rules that govern it are written to suit pre-determined outcomes.”