{"id":236971,"date":"2026-06-21T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-ruling-party-has-not-released-final-list-of-senatorial-candidates-for-2027-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:39:58","slug":"nigerias-ruling-party-has-not-released-final-list-of-senatorial-candidates-for-2027-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-ruling-party-has-not-released-final-list-of-senatorial-candidates-for-2027-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Ruling Party Has Not Released Final List of Senatorial Candidates for 2027 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Nigeria&#8217;s ruling party has not released final list of senatorial candidates for 2027 elections<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A list circulating online claims to show All Progressives Congress senatorial candidates cleared for NIgeria&#8217;s 2027 elections. But the party says the list is fake and that it has not published any final list of candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nigeria&#8217;s next general election is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inecnigeria.org\/revised-timetable-and-schedule-of-activities-for-the-2027-general-elections-and-rescheduling-of-osun-state-governorship-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set for 16 January 2027<\/a>, with political parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inecnigeria.org\/revised-timetable-and-schedule-of-activities-for-the-2027-general-elections-and-rescheduling-of-osun-state-governorship-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required to conclude<\/a> their primaries by 30 May 2026, under the electoral timetable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s ruling party has not released final list of senatorial candidates for 2027 elections IN SHORT: A list circulating online claims to show All Progressives Congress senatorial candidates cleared for NIgeria&#8217;s 2027 elections. But the party says the list is fake and that it has not published any final list of candidates. Nigeria&#8217;s next general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9085,821,6038,8987,257,393,5761,7024,6499,7870,11861,254],"class_list":["post-236971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidates","tag-elections","tag-final","tag-list","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-party","tag-released","tag-ruling","tag-senatorial","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}