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Breaking: AAC Names Presidential Candidate Ahead of 2027 Election in Fresh Challenge to Nigeria’s Political Establishment
The 2027 electoral season just got more interesting. The African Action Congress, the opposition political platform founded by activist, journalist, and perennial thorn in the side of Nigeria’s political establishment Omoyele Sowore, has emerged from its internal processes with a presidential candidate ahead of the next general elections — a development that confirms the party’s determination to show up at the polls not as a footnote but as a credible voice for the millions of Nigerians who feel fundamentally unrepresented by the country’s dominant political structures. The emergence of a flagbearer at this stage, well ahead of the 2027 cycle, is a calculated move that puts the AAC in the conversation earlier than most and gives the party a face around which to begin building its campaign architecture.
The AAC has always been a party that occupies a unique and deliberately uncomfortable space in Nigerian politics. Built on the foundations of Sowore’s “Revolution Now” movement and shaped by a philosophy of radical accountability, youth-centred governance, and uncompromising opposition to what it describes as the recycling of failed leadership across the PDP and APC divide, the party speaks to a constituency that is real, growing, and increasingly impatient. These are Nigerians — many of them young, educated, and digitally connected — who turned out in force during the 2020 EndSARS protests, who have watched the cost of living spiral beyond reason under the current administration’s economic reforms, and who have grown deeply sceptical of the idea that meaningful change can come from within the existing political elite.
Whether the AAC’s newly emerged presidential candidate carries the profile, the reach, and the resources to translate that constituency into electoral outcomes is the central question that will define the next phase of the party’s journey. Nigerian presidential campaigns are enormously expensive, logistically gruelling, and require a national spread of structure and support that smaller parties have historically struggled to assemble in time. The AAC is aware of these challenges and has, in various public communications, argued that its path to relevance is built less on traditional political machinery and more on mass mobilisation, media presence, and the kind of principled consistency that it believes will ultimately outlast the transactional politics of its larger rivals.
Sowore’s own shadow looms large over this development, as it inevitably must. As the most visible face of the AAC and one of Nigeria’s most recognisable opposition voices — a man who has been arrested, detained, and persistently harassed by state actors without being silenced — his continued involvement in the party’s direction gives the candidacy announcement a weight that purely institutional announcements rarely carry. His brand is inseparable from the party’s identity, and that brand means something to a section of the Nigerian electorate that is hungry for authenticity in a political landscape where it is in desperately short supply.
The road to 2027 is long, the obstacles are many, and the odds, as they always are for third-party candidacies in Nigeria’s first-past-the-post system, are formidable. But the AAC has never appeared to be a party that measures success purely in electoral outcomes — it measures it in the pressure it applies, the conversations it forces, and the standard it holds up against which the ruling class must inevitably be judged. A presidential candidate is now in place. The campaign, in every sense of the word, has begun.
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has appointed Bashorun Akinwale Akinwole, popularly known as Wolekanle, as his new Chief of Staff following the resignation of his predecessor, Segun Ogunwuyi.
The appointment was announced on Monday, October 12, 2026, in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Musibau Babatunde. The new appointment takes immediate effect.
Akinwole previously served as chairman of the Oyo State Local Government Service Commission. He is a grassroots politician from Ogbomoso, the same hometown as Ogunwuyi.
Alongside the appointment, Makinde named Mrs Aderonke Adedayo as Director-General of the state’s Due Process Office. Adedayo, who currently serves as Special Adviser on General Intervention and Donor Agencies, will retain her existing position while taking on the additional responsibility.
The appointments followed Ogunwuyi’s resignation earlier on Monday. In his resignation letter, dated October 12, he said his decision took immediate effect and expressed gratitude to Makinde for the opportunity to serve the government and people of Oyo State.
Ogunwuyi, a former member of the Oyo State House of Assembly and the House of Representatives, did not publicly state any political disagreement as the reason for his resignation.
The departure comes amid the recent exits of several political appointees from the Makinde administration. However, no official reason linking Ogunwuyi’s resignation to the wider political developments has been established.
Governor Makinde congratulated the new appointees and urged them to discharge their responsibilities with loyalty, commitment and dedication to public service.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is scheduled to inaugurate the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The inauguration will take place at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, bringing together party leaders and other stakeholders to coordinate the ruling party’s campaign activities.
Former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, who serves as Director-General of the campaign council, disclosed the development on Friday after meeting with Tinubu at the Presidential Villa. He said the President had approved the proposed campaign timetable.
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma is the council’s secretary, while former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Betta Edu, is expected to play a key role in its women mobilisation directorate.
The campaign council is expected to coordinate the APC’s preparations for Tinubu’s re-election bid, including grassroots mobilisation, communication and engagement with voters across the country.
According to Yari, the campaign is scheduled to begin with a rally in Kaduna on October 24, before moving to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and Maiduguri, Borno State.
Ahead of the formal inauguration, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu and members of the women mobilisation team have reportedly begun grassroots engagement across the country.
The team has set a target of mobilising 40 million women’s votes for the Tinubu-Shettima ticket through outreach across communities and polling-unit structures in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The October 14 event is expected to formally activate the campaign council’s operations as the APC begins preparations for the 2027 presidential election.
Nigeria’s National Register of Voters has surpassed 103 million ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced.
INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, disclosed the latest figure on Monday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at a strategic workshop for media executives organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors in collaboration with the commission.
According to Amupitan, the increase followed the completion of the three-phase Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise and the final clean-up of the register using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).
The three phases of the CVR exercise produced a combined 10,772,421 new registrations.
The first phase, conducted between August 25 and December 10, 2025, recorded 2,611,266 registrations. The second phase, held from January 5 to April 17, 2026, produced 4,121,835 registrations, while the third phase, conducted from May 11 to July 26, recorded 3,867,997 registrations.
Amupitan said the newly registered voters were subjected to biometric verification, while the commission also completed the public display of the Preliminary Register to allow citizens to raise claims and objections.
Following the final ABIS clean-up, INEC said the national voter register had moved beyond the 103 million mark.
PVC Collection to Begin October 9
The INEC chairman also announced that nationwide collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will commence on Friday, October 9, 2026.
Newly produced PVCs are expected to be distributed to Local Government Area collection centres for eligible voters to collect.
The commission has also introduced printable PVC technology, which it says is designed to reduce the waiting period for voters who need new or replacement cards.
INEC said the technology was introduced in accordance with Section 18(1) of the Electoral Act 2026.
The commission has completed eight of the 14 major statutory activities on its timetable for the 2027 elections, according to Amupitan.
The latest voter register figure marks a significant increase from the 93,469,008 registered voters recorded for the 2023 general elections.
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