2027 presidency: Why we’re but to take away Atiku, Amaechi's names from candidates' listing – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has defined why the names of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his operating mate, Chibuike Amaechi, stay on its portal because the African Democratic Congress, ADC, candidates for the 2027 presidential election.

The clarification follows a judgement by the Federal High Court in Abuja, which nullified the management of the ADC faction led by David Mark and the method that produced Atiku because the social gathering’s presidential candidate.

DAILY POST reported that Justice Peter Odo Lifu, who presided over the case, dominated that the method by which Mark emerged because the ADC National Chairman was illegal.

The ruling additional affected different ADC candidates searching for elective positions within the 2027 normal elections.

Justice Lifu additionally directed INEC to not recognise selections taken on the social gathering’s 99th National Executive Committee assembly held on July 27, 2025.

However, talking throughout a press briefing on the fee’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday, INEC Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, mentioned the fee had but to obtain the Certified True Copy, CTC, of the judgement.

Amupitan defined that INEC couldn’t act on info circulating on social media with out acquiring the courtroom’s official ruling.

He mentioned, “We have not received the Certified True Copy of the ruling.”

The INEC chairman additional acknowledged, “We do not carry out action based on what we see on social media.”