We will collate, share 2027 election results, ADC tells INEC

…says agents will document polling-unit figures The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said it will independently document, collate and share polling-unit results with the public during the 2027 general elections, despite a warning by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the dissemination of privately collated results. Bolaji Abdullahi, National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, said in a statement on Thursday that the party would deploy its agents and structures to document results from polling units, verify the figures and make them available to the public, while recognising INEC’s statutory authority to declare official results and winners. The party’s position followed a warning by Joash Amupitan, INEC Chairman, against the sharing of privately collated election results. Abdullahi said the ADC’s decision was based on what it described as its constitutional right to collect and disseminate information, including election results. “We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said it will independently document, collate and share polling-unit results with the public during the 2027 general elections, despite a warning by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the dissemination of privately collated results. Bolaji Abdullahi, National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, said in a statement on Thursday that the party would deploy its agents and structures to document results from polling units, verify the figures and make them available to the public, while recognising INEC’s statutory authority to declare official results and winners. The party’s position followed a warning by Joash Amupitan, INEC Chairman, against the sharing of privately collated election results. Abdullahi said the ADC’s decision was based on what it described as its constitutional right to collect and disseminate information, including election results. “We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

Bolaji Abdullahi, National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, said in a statement on Thursday that the party would deploy its agents and structures to document results from polling units, verify the figures and make them available to the public, while recognising INEC’s statutory authority to declare official results and winners. The party’s position followed a warning by Joash Amupitan, INEC Chairman, against the sharing of privately collated election results. Abdullahi said the ADC’s decision was based on what it described as its constitutional right to collect and disseminate information, including election results. “We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

The party’s position followed a warning by Joash Amupitan, INEC Chairman, against the sharing of privately collated election results. Abdullahi said the ADC’s decision was based on what it described as its constitutional right to collect and disseminate information, including election results. “We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

Abdullahi said the ADC’s decision was based on what it described as its constitutional right to collect and disseminate information, including election results. “We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

“We are aware of our rights to freedom of expression under the Constitution. We are also aware of the limitations associated with those rights. “And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

“And we hold that our rights to collate and share election results are not abrogated by any of the limitation clauses,” the ADC said. The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

The party added: “The ADC will share our collated results with the public. Our agents will document results, our structures will collate them, and we will communicate verified figures to the public, clearly identifying their source and status.” Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

Read also: ADC vows to resist rigging, manipulation ahead of 2027 According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

According to the opposition party, INEC’s exclusive responsibility to make official declarations and announce election winners does not prevent citizens, political parties or their agents from collecting, collating and sharing election information. The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

The ADC said its planned publication of results would not amount to usurping INEC’s statutory powers, stressing that figures released by the party would be clearly identified as independently collated results rather than official declarations. The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share

The party maintained that access to and dissemination of election information remained an important part of citizens’ constitutional rights, particularly during the electoral process. Related News NABTEB, ICPC partner to strengthen anti-corruption measures FG plans school-based interventions to tackle child malnutrition across 774 LGAs NIDF achieves 472.22% returns in 9 years Share