{"id":10995,"date":"2026-04-03T06:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:27:05","slug":"2027-kwankwaso-warns-inec-against-imposing-single-candidacy-on-nigerians-amid-adc-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/2027-kwankwaso-warns-inec-against-imposing-single-candidacy-on-nigerians-amid-adc-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Kwankwaso Warns INEC Against Imposing Single Candidacy on Nigerians Amid ADC Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>A former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that it cannot impose a single candidate on Nigerians in the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso said this in a statement posted on his verified X account.<\/p>\n<p>He advised INEC to allow citizens to freely choose their leaders, no matter the political parties they run under.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-_bound=\"1\" data-_defined=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"COr28q2F0ZMDFWgrBgAdRlUBtA\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"placeholder\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"container\">\n<div data-ad-curtain=\"curtain\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cToday, I joined leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and other committed democrats at a world press conference to strongly condemn the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC\u2019s brazen and unacceptable partisanship,\u201d Kwankwaso wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fully endorse the position of the gathering: In 2027, Nigerians must be allowed to freely choose their leaders from a diverse range of political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe electoral umpire has no right to impose a single candidacy on Africa\u2019s largest and most vibrant democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-bot\" class=\"left\">\n<div id=\"mvp-prev-next-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-post-wrap right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-next-cont left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-cont-out left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-next-cont-in\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mvp-cont-read-wrap\">\n<div id=\"mvp-related-posts\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that it cannot impose a single candidate on Nigerians in the 2027 elections. Kwankwaso said this in a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10997,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions\/10997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}