The INEC commissioner also urged political parties to comply strictly with the commission's guidelines for candidate nomination, noting that party officials had already been trained on the nomination process.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned political parties against waiting until the deadline to upload the particulars of their candidates for the 2027 general elections, stressing that parties would bear responsibility for any delays in the nomination process.
The commission disclosed that only nine registered political parties had so far collected the access codes required to complete and submit nomination forms through its online candidate nomination portal for the presidential and National Assembly elections.
Speaking in Abuja, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Voter Education and Publicity, Malam Mohammed Haruna, confirmed that the parties had collected the codes as of the close of business on Monday.
According to him, the parties are Accord (A), Action Alliance (AA), African Democratic Congress (ADC), All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party (LP), National Democratic Congress (NDC), National Democratic Party (NDP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), and Social Democratic Party (SDP).
