Commission Clears 10 Parties For Niger Council Elections

Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC) has cleared 10 governmental parties and 71 chairmanship candidates to enactment successful the November 1, 2025 Local authorities Council predetermination successful the state.

The committee besides recruited 10,000 ad-hoc unit for the electoral exercise.

The president of NSIEC, Engr. Mohammed Jibrin Imam, told LEADERSHIP successful an interrogation connected Thursday successful Minna that 69 vice chairmanship candidates were besides cleared for the exercise. He nevertheless said 2 vice chairmanship candidates were not cleared.

He besides disclosed that a full of 654 councillorship candidates would enactment successful the election.
Imam reiterated that the committee was committed to the behaviour of free, just and credible predetermination successful the 25 section authorities areas of the state

Giving a breakdown of parties and candidates who were cleared for the polls, the NSIEC president disclosed that APC had 25 chairmanship candidates and vice chairmanship candidates each.He added that the enactment besides had 274 councillorship candidates.

He said the PDP had 24 chairmanship candidates, 23 vice chairmanship candidates and 240 councillorship candidates. The SDP has 16 chairmanship candidates portion Zenith Labour Party has lone 2 councillorship candidates.

He disclosed that the NNPP campy that submitted candidates for the predetermination was not recognised by INEC portion the INEC-recognised campy did not behaviour superior and couldn’t taxable immoderate campaigner for the election.
Imam said that each is acceptable for the scheduled exercise, noting that 14 retired of 15 stages has astir been completed and that logistics arrangements is being enactment successful place.

He disclosed that implicit 10,000 ad-hoc unit person been recruited for the behaviour of the workout with their logistics and information covered

On predetermination successful insecurity prone areas, the umpire said the committee was liaising with information agencies successful the authorities for information coverages to guarantee hitch escaped elections.