{"id":76684,"date":"2025-10-14T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76684"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:39:27","slug":"adc-warns-nass-against-plan-to-shift-2027-elections-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/14\/adc-warns-nass-against-plan-to-shift-2027-elections-to-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Warns NASS Against Plan to Shift 2027 Elections to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has cautioned the National Assembly against plans to amend the Electoral Act and conduct the 2027 general elections in November 2026, warning that such a move could disrupt governance and national development.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the proposal would \u201cshorten the effective period for governance, push the nation into a perpetual campaign mode, and hinder long-term development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that advancing the polls by six months would leave little room for governance before political campaigns dominate the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution lies in strengthening institutions, enforcing tribunal timelines, and improving the judiciary and INEC\u2019s capacity not shifting election dates,\u201d Abdullahi stated.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that Nigeria \u201ccannot afford a democracy where government campaigns for two years and governs for two.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has cautioned the National Assembly against plans to amend the Electoral Act and conduct the 2027 general elections in November 2026, warning that such a move could disrupt governance and national development. In a statement on Tuesday, the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76686,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76684\/revisions\/76686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}