The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) says the party has candidates in all states for the 2027 general election.
Speaking with TheCable on Monday evening, Osa Director, NDC
national publicity secretary, said claims that the party is not fielding
candidates in some states are false.
Earlier on Monday, Okoi Obono-Obla, a former presidential
adviser, said the NDC is facing a major electoral setback ahead of the January
15, 2027, general election.
Obono-Obla, in a post, said the opposition party failed to
field governorship candidates in 11 states, covering 233 LGAs across the
country.
He said the provisional list of governorship candidates
released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) indicated that
the party did not feed candidates in Cross River, Borno, Ebonyi, Katsina,
Kebbi, Niger, Plateau, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara and Akwa Ibom.
The ex-presidential aide said the 233 affected LGAs
represent about 30.1 percent of 774 LGAs in Nigeria.
He said the development could weaken the party’s grassroots
mobilisation and polling-unit coverage as it prepares for a presidential
election.
Obono-Obla said the NDC filed candidates for about 70
percent of the national assembly positions, leaving approximately 141 federal
constituencies without candidates for the house of representatives.
“On August 29, 2026, INEC displayed provisional governorship
candidates. By August 31, field checks confirmed NDC has no candidate in 11
states,” Obono-Obla said.
“NDC filed only 70 percent of national assembly which is 328
of 469.
According to the ex-presidential aide, about 141 federal
constituencies will have no NDC logo on January 15.
“To win President, you need 25% in 24 states. With 11 states
having no structure (233 LGAs), you must get 25% in states where you have no
coordinators.
“NDC enters the triple election of Jan 15, 2027, with 233
LGAs (30.1% of Nigeria) and 141 federal constituencies blank.
“The failure of 2026 filing cannot be cured by substitution.
It will cost 4-6 million votes on Jan 15 – not from lack of popularity, but
from lack of ballot presence and agent coverage.”
‘WE USED PLACEHOLDERS’
However, the NDC spokesperson told TheCable that the party
has placeholders in Katsina and Niger, insisting that it has candidates across all the states.
Director added that John Odey remains the party’s
governorship candidate in Cross River state.
“Those are all lies from the pit of hell. If the All
Progressives Congress (APC) want to win the election, they don’t have to win
the election through propaganda that they cannot defend,” he said.
“In the least situation of some of these cases, we have
placeholders. You don’t have to lie about that. The electoral body has allowed
for that,” he said.
According to him, the controversy should be settled by
INEC’s official records rather than reports by partisan politicians.
“If you say we don’t have candidates, let him prove that we
don’t have candidates. I’m telling you that we have candidates in all the
states. Some of the states, we have placeholders,” he said.
He said evidence showing that the NDC does not have
candidates and placeholders in the constituencies mentioned should be
presented.
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