…Wike rules out PDP’s presidential candidate challenging Tinubu
Indications have emerged that despite spending huge sums of money to purchase both the expression of Interest and Nomination forms, over 1400 candidates of the Tanimu Turaki-led faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), have been shut out of 2027 general elections as group loyal to Nyesom Wike, on Sunday, celebrated the successful upload of their candidates’ list on the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC’s platform
Abdulrahman Mohammed, the PDP National Chairman, in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, announced that the party had successfully uploaded the list on INEC’s portal
Recall that INEC had fixed 6:00 p.m. of July 11, 2026, as the deadline for political parties to upload the nomination forms of their Presidential and National Assembly candidates on its online nomination portal.
” I am pleased to inform all PDP members and Nigerians that our great Party, under my leadership, has successfully uploaded the names of our Presidential Candidate, his Running Mate, and our National Assembly candidates onto the INEC Candidate Nomination Portal”, he said.